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": ["Irish cyber-attack: Hackers bail out Irish health service for free - BBC News", "Big cats seized from park belonging to Tiger King couple - BBC News", "Leonard Blavatnik named UK's richest person with £23bn fortune - BBC News", "Covid: Stillbirth and prematurity risks may be higher in pregnancy - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Spain to lift restrictions for UK and Japanese travellers - BBC News", "Windrush victims still waiting for compensation - watchdog - BBC News", "Covid-19: Sewage testing ramped up in England - BBC News", "Wolves: Nuno Espirito Santo to leave after four years as manager - BBC Sport", "Timeline: Martin Bashir's actions from Diana interview to Dyson report - BBC News", "US PGA Championship: Rory McIlroy struggles at Kiawah Island as Corey Conners leads - BBC Sport", "UK makes free-trade offer to Australia despite farmers' fears - BBC News", "Covid now 18th leading cause of death in Wales - BBC News", "Jeremy Paxman receiving treatment for Parkinson's disease - BBC News", "As it happened: Signs of rise in Covid infections in England - ONS - BBC News", "Heathrow Airport to open terminal for 'red list' arrivals - BBC News", "Newborn baby found dead in Willenhall canal - BBC News", "Whipsnade Zoo: Brown bears shot dead after enclosure escape - BBC News", "Wales weather: Flood warnings as heavy rain and winds hit - BBC News", "Contaminated blood inquiry: 'I want their voices to be heard' - Hancock - BBC News", "BBC's deceit over Diana interview worsened my parents' relationship - William - BBC News", "Lady Gaga had a 'psychotic break' after sexual assault left her pregnant - BBC News", "Higher plastic bag charge comes into force in England - BBC News", "Shocking footage as Swansea 'yobs' set cars on fire in Mayhill - BBC News", "BBC 'deceit': What next for the corporation? - BBC News", "Diana interview: Whistleblower wants apology from BBC bosses - BBC News", "Parkrun resumption delayed after fewer than half of venues approved return - BBC Sport", "Martin Bashir inquiry: Diana, the reporter and the BBC - BBC News", "Martin Bashir Diana interview: BBC boss Tim Davie accepts 'multiple serious failures' - BBC News", "BBC failures contributed to Diana’s 'fear, paranoia and isolation' - BBC News", "Gaza-Israel conflict: Israel defends strategy as death toll mounts - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza: The Thai farm workers coming under attack - BBC News", "Noel Clarke: Sky and Vertigo scrap Bulletproof - BBC News", "Covid-19: Bolton battles with India variant and vaccine hesitancy - BBC News", "Hamas: The Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Levels to be reviewed - BBC News", "Retail sales soar 9.2% in April as shops reopen - BBC News", "Israel-Palestinian conflict: Life in the Gaza Strip - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Glasgow stays in level 3 as Moray moves to level 2 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Glasgow becomes only Scottish area in level 3 - BBC News", "Schools set to lose £118m funding for poor pupils - BBC News", "Martin Bashir: Ex-BBC News boss 'didn't know' Bashir forged statements - BBC News", "Mayhill: Swansea rioters injure seven police officers - BBC News", "Covid-19 vaccine booking opens for 25-29 group in NI - BBC News", "What can Cornwall learn from Wally’s Welsh trip? - BBC News", "Olympics will go ahead even under a state of emergency - IOC - BBC Sport", "Prince Harry says heavy drinking masked pain of mum Diana's death - BBC News", "Wally the walrus: Arctic animal spotted for first time in Cornwall - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza: How the ceasefire fared on its first day - BBC News", "£1bn UK-India trade deals will create 6,000 UK jobs, says PM - BBC News", "Hillary Clinton warns of 'huge consequences' in Afghan US troop withdrawal - BBC News", "Apple faces Epic Games in court - BBC News", "Covid-19: Limit on mourners in England lifted from 17 May - BBC News", "River Thames rescuer joins Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole bravery award calls - BBC News", "Vax Live: Prince Harry makes vaccine plea at concert in LA - BBC News", "Internet: 'Equal society means broadband access for all' - BBC News", "Gender recognition certificate cost cut to £5 - BBC News", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran treatment 'amounts to torture', says Dominic Raab - BBC News", "Covid: UK sending 1,000 more ventilators to India - BBC News", "Hospitality bosses lose court battle over indoor opening - BBC News", "European Super League: Premier League brings in new owners' rule to stop repeat - BBC Sport", "Bid to lure ospreys to new nest after chainsaw attack - BBC News", "Covid: Packed pilot festival brings the good times back - for one night - BBC News", "World Snooker Championship final: Mark Selby wins fourth world title - BBC Sport", "Senior Tory says PM should resign if he has broken ministerial code - BBC News", "Fed up villagers in Michaelston-y-Fedw install ultrafast broadband - BBC News", "Israel crush: British man named among victims - BBC News", "Ospreys: Llyn Brenig nest platform rebuilt after chainsaw attack - BBC News", "BBC Young Musician: Percussionist Fang Zhang wins - BBC News", "Covid: Some foreign travel opening up on 17 May - Boris Johnson - BBC News", "G7: Rich states want to send 40m more girls to school - BBC News", "Restaurants struggle to find staff ahead of reopening - BBC News", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK and Iran in talks over debt but 'unlinked' to case - BBC News", "Manchester United protest: Arrest over 'hostility' towards police - BBC News", "Wales weather: Wind and rain causes disruption - BBC News", "Covid: Germany's Oktoberfest cancelled for the second time - BBC News", "Mitt Romney loudly booed at Utah Republican convention - BBC News", "India Covid pandemic: Delhi calls for army help amid crisis - BBC News", "Senedd election: Candidates told to prioritise all Wales' homeless - BBC News", "Stephen Doughty: MP sorry for asking constituent for diazepam - BBC News", "Rome Colosseum: Italy unveils plan for new floor with gladiator’s view - BBC News", "Billie Eilish: Sexual misconduct is everywhere - BBC News", "Asian hate crime in UK increases during pandemic - BBC News", "Covid: 1m plus rule could end from 21 June, says Johnson - BBC News", "Manchester United protests: Emotions have been simmering for 16 years - BBC Sport", "Covid passports: How do they work around the world? - BBC News", "As it happened: PM signals end of one-metre rule in England from 21 June - BBC News", "Child sexual abuse: Four held in German-led raid on huge network - BBC News", "Powys man gets broadband via satellite over Africa - BBC News", "Australia's India ban criticised as 'racist' rights breach - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Why some mosques are closed to women during Ramadan - BBC News", "Wales election: Boris Johnson accuses Labour of 'going for separatism' - BBC News", "Covid: 'A fifth' of hospitality sector jobs lost in 2020 - BBC News", "India elections: Modi party defeated in West Bengal battleground - BBC News", "School protests force U-turn after sick pupil banned from wearing cap - BBC News", "Covid: Indian variant surge tackled as restrictions ease in parts of UK - BBC News", "In pictures: Lockdown eases in parts of the UK - BBC News", "IPL: Australian cricketers caught by India ban fly home - BBC News", "US general reflects on Afghanistan departure - BBC News", "PSNI recruitment 'a challenge' in working class areas of Northern Ireland - BBC News", "Covid vaccines have saved 11,700 lives and 33,000 hospital admissions - BBC News", "Edwin Poots to consult with the DUP over first minister - BBC News", "Firms call for more help after 'haemorrhaging cash' - BBC News", "Two killed as seats collapse at synagogue in West Bank - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Glasgow level 3 restrictions could be extended - BBC News", "New emergency text alerts to be trialled - BBC News", "'Many more arrests' to follow Rangers crowd trouble - BBC News", "Princess Diana: BBC postpones Panorama film on interview with Martin Bashir - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Met Police officers investigated over case file access - BBC News", "Jake Paul investigated over suspected driving on protected turtle beach - BBC News", "Portugal: No decision yet on UK holiday travel - BBC News", "Doug Beattie is elected new leader of Ulster Unionist Party - BBC News", "Anthony Joshua v Tyson Fury: Deontay Wilder arbitration casts doubt over Saudi Arabia bout - BBC Sport", "Indian Covid variant: How much faster does it spread? - BBC News", "Train derails and explodes into flames - BBC News", "Heysham explosion: Child dies and four adults injured in Lancashire blast - BBC News", "Fred West: Excavation work to begin in search for Mary Bastholm - BBC News", "Andrew Lloyd Webber says Covid vaccine refusers are 'selfish' - BBC News", "Pembrokeshire school bus crash: Car driver dies and 17 children hurt - BBC News", "As it happened: Diplomacy fails to halt Israel-Gaza fighting - BBC News", "Covid: More than 6,000 vaccinated in Bolton over variant - BBC News", "Bill Gates left Microsoft amid affair investigation - BBC News", "Four men arrested in anti-Semitism video investigation - BBC News", "Anti-Semitism surge deeply disturbing - Robert Jenrick - BBC News", "Ariana Grande marries Dalton Gomez in 'intimate' ceremony - BBC News", "Houston tiger: Animal missing for a week located - BBC News", "Covid: Indoor eating and drinking in Wales back on menu - BBC News", "Brexit: UK proposes new Irish Sea food checks from October - BBC News", "Covid: Had the jab and feeling bad? Why does it happen? - BBC News", "Russia spy chief suggests West behind SolarWinds cyber-attack - BBC News", "Covid: Indian variant cases in 86 council areas - Hancock - BBC News", "Babes in the Wood: Killer's ex-girlfriend guilty of perjury - BBC News", "Campaign launched to mark Queen's Platinum Jubilee - BBC News", "UK plastic waste being dumped and burned in Turkey, says Greenpeace - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Wales passes milestone as two million get jab - BBC News", "Women's Champions League final: Chelsea 0-4 Barcelona - BBC Sport", "Frankie Morris: Search for missing Anglesey teen continues - BBC News", "Covid: Surge testing in Bedford due to Indian variant - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Concern over rising cases in Glasgow - BBC News", "No 10 seeks to cancel county court debt judgement against Boris Johnson - BBC News", "HS2 high-speed rail project begins underground tunnel - BBC News", "Champions League final: Portugal set to host final rather than Wembley - BBC Sport", "Portugal: No decision yet on UK holiday travel - BBC News", "Amazon set to hire 75,000 workers in US and Canada - BBC News", "Covid vaccines: Mixing increases reports of mild side-effects - BBC News", "Blackpool lightning strike: Family tribute to Jordan Banks - BBC News", "Jo Cox: Murdered MP's sister plans to stand in Batley and Spen - BBC News", "On The Beach pulls all summer holidays from sale - BBC News", "Indian variant: Second jabs could be brought forward to tackle rise - BBC News", "Champions League final moved to Porto and 12,000 Chelsea and Manchester City fans can attend - BBC Sport", "Winchcombe meteorite to go on public display - BBC News", "Chrissy Teigen sorry for bullying Courtney Stodden on Twitter - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza: BBC reporters' reaction on the ground - BBC News", "County court order against Boris Johnson struck out - BBC News", "Police officer who stole drug dealers' cash jailed - BBC News", "MDMA could help trauma survivors face painful memories - BBC News", "Sir Alex Ferguson: Former Man Utd manager 'grateful' for extra years after brain haemorrhage - BBC Sport", "Julia James: Callum Wheeler in court over PCSO murder - BBC News", "Trains reintroduced after safety checks prompted by cracks - BBC News", "As it happened: Indian Covid variant being carefully monitored amid UK rise - BBC News", "Fishmongers' Hall: MI5 did not see Usman Khan as threat - BBC News", "Courts could punish paedophiles on intent not harm - BBC News", "Hamas: The Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza - BBC News", "Manchester United v Liverpool: Hundreds of fans in anti-Glazer protest at Old Trafford - BBC Sport", "David Cameron to face MPs over Greensill lobbying - BBC News", "Howard Beckett: Patel laws 'disgusting' says union boss after Labour suspension - BBC News", "Covid: £13.5bn needed to help pupils catch up, report says - BBC News", "Why Jerusalem matters - BBC News", "Covid: Lessons to be learned from spring 2022 public inquiry - PM - BBC News", "Fred West police begin cellar search for Mary Bastholm - BBC News", "Covid: Boris Johnson 'anxious' about Indian variant - BBC News", "Wales election: New health and education ministers in reshuffle - BBC News", "David Cameron: I was paid far more at Greensill than as PM - BBC News", "Uyghur imams targeted in China's Xinjiang crackdown - BBC News", "St Paul's Cathedral could close without tourism cash - BBC News", "Mary Beard's retirement present to fund students - BBC News", "Scottish Greens MSP Alison Johnstone to be new presiding officer - BBC News", "Universal credit fraud and error at new high - BBC News", "Friends reunion premiere date and celebrity guests announced - BBC News", "Wastewater is 'polluting rivers with microplastic' - BBC News", "BT vows to give 5m more homes fast broadband - BBC News", "PM 'apologises for events in Ballymurphy' in 1971 - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza: Netanyahu says operation against Hamas will continue - BBC News", "Dragons' Den confirms youngest-ever Dragon - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza violence: The strength and limitations of Hamas' arsenal - BBC News", "Greensill: David Cameron quizzed by MPs over lobbying row - BBC News", "Boris Johnson's lawyers confident of cancelling court judgement - BBC News", "Police release men from immigration van blocking Glasgow street - BBC News", "Agoraphobic mum-to-be can be forced to hospital for birth, court rules - BBC News", "Covid vaccines have saved 11,700 lives and 33,000 hospital admissions - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Glasgow outbreak 'relatively contained' - BBC News", "Kings Norton abandoned baby: E-fit to find George's mum - BBC News", "Radovan Karadzic: Ex-Bosnian Serb leader to be sent to UK prison - BBC News", "Crime drops by 8% during year of lockdowns, says ONS - BBC News", "Travel firms warned over summer holiday refunds - BBC News", "Covid: Biden hails 'great day' as he sheds mask in Oval Office - BBC News", "Premier League TV rights: Broadcasters agree to roll over existing deal - BBC Sport", "Israel-Palestinians: Old grievances fuel new fighting - BBC News", "'Keep spending on transport ready for return to work', says adviser - BBC News", "Ovarian cancer: Setback as major screening trial fails to save lives - BBC News", "Racism: Woman angry over abuse and police response - BBC News", "Labour MP quits front bench over interfering in sexual harassment case - BBC News", "Covid: Nearly two thirds of people in Wales have antibodies - BBC News", "Covid: Blackburn council clarifies position on over-18s vaccines - BBC News", "Tory win in Hartlepool provides setback for Labour - BBC News", "Poplar fire: London tower block blaze leaves two men in hospital - BBC News", "Stormy Daniels: US election officials drop Trump hush money probe - BBC News", "Jarryd Hayne: Ex-Rugby League player jailed for 2018 sex assault - BBC News", "Julia James: Police don't know weapon used to kill PCSO - BBC News", "Japan extends Covid-19 restrictions as Olympics draw nearer - BBC News", "Spy bosses warn of cyber-attacks on smart cities - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Vaccination of younger adults in Moray accelerated - BBC News", "Under 40s to be offered alternative to AZ vaccine - BBC News", "Big Chinese rocket segment set to fall to Earth - BBC News", "Plastic bag charge to double to 10p in all shops in England - BBC News", "Scottish election results 2021: When will we know the results? - BBC News", "Some lessons so far from the elections - BBC News", "PM: India coronavirus variant must be 'handled carefully' - BBC News", "Pregnant women struggling to get Covid vaccine, Stella Creasy says - BBC News", "As it happened: Welsh election results - BBC News", "Noel Clarke: BBC shocked by allegations of harassment on Doctor Who set - BBC News", "Covid travel rules: 'Green list' countries to be revealed - BBC News", "Brazil: At least 25 killed in Rio de Janeiro shootout - BBC News", "Arsenal 0-0 Villarreal (Agg: 1-2): Gunners' European hopes ended by old boss Emery - BBC Sport", "Elections 2021: Labour has lost trust of working people - Sir Keir Starmer - BBC News", "Cutting methane gas 'crucial for climate fight' - BBC News", "Covid: Poor pupils fall further behind in maths - BBC News", "Belly Mujinga: Inquest to be held into 'virus cough attack' death - BBC News", "Philippines Covid surge throws country into disarray - BBC News", "Wales election candidate missed-off ballot after 'printing error' - BBC News", "Covid: Many female athletes 'may walk away' after pandemic - BBC News", "SNP win election one seat short of majority - BBC News", "Brazil violence: Rio police accused by residents of abuses in raid - BBC News", "2021 elections: What are the results in my area? - BBC News", "Elections 2021: How to follow the results on the BBC - BBC News", "Julia James: Police appeal to man in PCSO murder hunt photo - BBC News", "Train named after Great Escape hero who 'inspired Steve McQueen' - BBC News", "Green list countries: New rules for England revealed - BBC News", "Elections results 2021: Conservatives make gains on English councils - BBC News", "Covid: 12 countries on England's travel green list - BBC News", "Harry and Meghan share birthday picture of Archie - BBC News", "India's Covid pandemic: Girl, 5, separated from family by Australia restrictions - BBC News", "Elections 2021: Conservatives hail historic Labour defeat in Hartlepool by-election - BBC News", "Holiday costs to jump in summer, warns travel boss - BBC News", "Scottish election 2021: Liberal Party member suspended over Yousaf confrontation - BBC News", "Twitter adds 'tip jar' to pay for good tweeting - BBC News", "India's Covid crisis: Rural hospitals unable to cope as virus spreads - BBC News", "Turner Prize honours art collectives who 'inspire change' - BBC News", "Covid: Travel firms reject 'overly cautious' green list - BBC News", "Scottish election 2021: SNP hopes of majority remain on a knife edge - BBC News", "Barrymore pool death: Stuart Lubbock's father says 'truth will come out' - BBC News", "Rare fish set for return to River Severn breeding grounds - BBC News", "Covid-19: Concern over India variant and holiday costs could jump - BBC News", "Covid: Royal Bolton Hospital taking 'urgent action' over virus - BBC News", "BBC to review editorial policies and Martin Bashir hiring - BBC News", "Government borrowing fell in April as UK reopened - BBC News", "Manchester Arena Inquiry: Paramedic tells of bomb scene - BBC News", "US issues Japan travel warning weeks before Olympics - BBC News", "Man left schoolgirl to die on hill in freezing weather - BBC News", "Covid: No local lockdowns, say public health directors - BBC News", "Babes in the Wood victim's mum wants Martin Bashir inquiry - BBC News", "Sri Lanka navy rescue crew following chemical fire on cargo ship - BBC News", "Roman Protasevich: Belarus dissident seized from Ryanair plane - BBC News", "Emma Faulds murder: Former prison officer Ross Willox found guilty - BBC News", "Sasha Johnson: Black Lives Matter activist shot in London - BBC News", "Off-road bikers in Ebbw Vale cause safety fears over cut fences - BBC News", "Australia to shut embassy in Afghanistan over violence fears - BBC News", "Covid: Half of appointments missed at Glasgow mass vaccine hub - BBC News", "Max Mosley: Privacy campaigner and ex-motorsport boss dies at 81 - BBC News", "BBC to publish report on Bashir rehiring next week - BBC News", "UK tourism spending 'worth just half of pre-pandemic level' - BBC News", "Lidl ordered to stop selling gin brand lookalike - BBC News", "England name provisional Euro 2020 squad: Ben White, Ben Godfrey, Aaron Ramsdale and Sam Johnstone in - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: 'Cautious optimism' despite rising Covid numbers - BBC News", "Covid-19: First man to get jab William Shakespeare dies of unrelated illness - BBC News", "Former Royal Marine makes a stand against anti-social behaviour - BBC News", "Tata Steel to continue salaries for Covid victims' families in India - BBC News", "Rocco Morabito: Italian fugitive arrested in Brazil - BBC News", "'Cocaine' found off Hastings and Newhaven 'worth £80m' - BBC News", "Tasmanian devils born on Australian mainland after 3,000 years - BBC News", "Nadia Whittome MP: I'm taking time off with PTSD - BBC News", "Man died 16 hours after 999 call for ambulance in Llandegla - BBC News", "Dead children washed up on Libya beach, says charity - BBC News", "Damiano David: Eurovision winner cleared of drug use by broadcaster - BBC News", "NI surgical services must not be 'stood down again' - BBC News", "Elliot Page: Actor wins praise for sharing swimming shorts image after top surgery - BBC News", "Covid: Government backtracks over local travel advice after confusion - BBC News", "Carey Mulligan criticises government delay to charity aid - BBC News", "Covid: Councils urged to allow England Parkrun events to resume - BBC News", "Covid: Surge tests in Kirklees after 'chaotic' Covid advice - BBC News", "Heysham explosion: Cut gas pipe caused fatal blast, say police - BBC News", "Corby stabbing: Three arrested after Rayon Pennycook killed - BBC News", "As it happened: George Floyd: Biden praises family after White House meeting - BBC News", "Covid: 'Grave concern' over future of swimming pools - BBC News", "Teachers 'struggle to deal with classroom sexual abuse' - BBC News", "Sasha Johnson: Black Lives Matter activist shot by group of men - BBC News", "Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns - BBC News", "Belarus journalist's family fear torture after plane arrest - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: FM says Covid case numbers increasing - BBC News", "'Dangerous' home teeth-whitening kits sold online - BBC News", "Tories close probe into Delyn MP Rob Roberts' 'unacceptable' conduct - BBC News", "Eight arrests in Royal Mail text scam investigation - BBC News", "Covid: Surge testing widens as England passes jab milestone - BBC News", "Mayhill: Clean-up starts after riots 'like a war zone' - BBC News", "Scottish Cup final: St Johnstone 1-0 Hibernian - Perth side complete domestic cup double - BBC Sport", "Covid: India tells social media firms to remove 'India variant' from content - BBC News", "Covid-19: Sewage testing ramped up in England - BBC News", "Snowdonia litter-bugs asked: 'Why did you litter our mountains?' - BBC News", "Mark Walters: No-one spoke about the racist abuse - BBC News", "Timeline: Martin Bashir's actions from Diana interview to Dyson report - BBC News", "Snowdonia litter-bugs asked: 'Why did you litter our mountains?' - BBC News", "China's Zhurong rover takes first drive on Mars - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Government considers digital vaccine certificates - BBC News", "UK makes free-trade offer to Australia despite farmers' fears - BBC News", "Eurovision 2021: As it happened - BBC News", "Jeremy Paxman receiving treatment for Parkinson's disease - BBC News", "Heathrow Airport to open terminal for 'red list' arrivals - BBC News", "Whipsnade Zoo: Brown bears shot dead after enclosure escape - BBC News", "Covid vaccination certificates hit by security glitch - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: 32 and 33-year-olds in England now invited to book - BBC News", "Virgin Galactic rocket plane flies to edge of space - BBC News", "Nigerian army chief Ibrahim Attahiru killed in air crash - BBC News", "Israel-Palestinian conflict: Eyes on peace options as Gaza truce holds - BBC News", "BBC 'deceit': What next for the corporation? - BBC News", "Martin Bashir inquiry: Diana, the reporter and the BBC - BBC News", "Mayhill: 'Enhanced' police patrols after officers hurt in riot - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Vaccine certificates for those travelling abroad - BBC News", "McDonald's: Animal rights group blockades depots, activists say - BBC News", "Mount Nyiragongo: DR Congo residents flee as volcano erupts - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 50m vaccine doses given in England - BBC News", "Prince William: Scotland holds my happiest and saddest memories - BBC News", "Mayhill rioters attacked police van - BBC News", "Behind the scenes of Glastonbury's live-stream concert - BBC News", "Martin Bashir: Ex-BBC News boss 'didn't know' Bashir forged statements - BBC News", "Mayhill: Four arrests after Swansea disorder - BBC News", "Mayhill: Swansea rioters injure seven police officers - BBC News", "Olympics will go ahead even under a state of emergency - IOC - BBC Sport", "Covid: Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs work against Indian variant - study - BBC News", "'Did weak wi-fi password lead the police to our door?' - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza: BBC reporters' reaction on the ground - BBC News", "Agoraphobic mum-to-be can be forced to hospital for birth, court rules - BBC News", "Howard Beckett: Patel laws 'disgusting' says union boss after Labour suspension - BBC News", "Covid: £13.5bn needed to help pupils catch up, report says - BBC News", "Indian variant: What's causing the spike in Bolton? - BBC News", "Covid vaccines have saved 11,700 lives and 33,000 hospital admissions - BBC News", "Gupta empire facing UK fraud probe over Greensill - BBC News", "Woman Sitting Near a Window: Pablo Picasso work sells for $100m - BBC News", "Portugal: No decision yet on UK holiday travel - BBC News", "Covid: Second jabs to be given sooner amid variant concerns - BBC News", "Transgender teen Andi shares his journey - BBC News", "Covid: Indian variant could disrupt 21 June easing, PM says - BBC News", "Parents seek second inquest into baby's hospital death - BBC News", "David Cameron: I was paid far more at Greensill than as PM - BBC News", "Mary Beard's retirement present to fund students - BBC News", "Indian Covid variant: How much faster does it spread? - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza: Strike collapses building during live BBC report - BBC News", "Covid: Wales lockdown rules being eased - BBC News", "Covid: Biden hails 'great day' as he sheds mask in Oval Office - BBC News", "Cyber attack 'most significant on Irish state' - BBC News", "Dartmouth: WW1 submarine wreck given protection - BBC News", "Friends reunion premiere date and celebrity guests announced - BBC News", "MPs urge Boris Johnson to deliver on social care reform vow - BBC News", "Indian variant: Second jabs could be brought forward to tackle rise - BBC News", "Israel Gaza violence: Clashes spread to West Bank - BBC News", "Hamas: The Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza - BBC News", "Formula 1: Turkish Grand Prix cancelled and replaced by second Austrian race - BBC Sport", "Covid Indian variant: Pupils keep face masks in parts of North West - BBC News", "Martin Bashir: BBC religion editor leaves the corporation - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza: Netanyahu says operation against Hamas will continue - BBC News", "Amazon set to hire 10,000 UK workers - BBC News", "Reality TV's Stephen Bear charged with sharing sexual images - BBC News", "Winchcombe meteorite to go on public display - BBC News", "Edwin Poots is elected DUP leader - BBC News", "Sunshine on Leith actor Kevin Guthrie jailed for three years for sex attack - BBC News", "Prince Harry: I want to break cycle of pain for my children - BBC News", "Covid: Self-isolation 'hitting pupils' exam assessments' - BBC News", "Covid: Delay child vaccinations and share jabs with Covax, says WHO - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Glasgow case rate rises as levels decision due - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Glasgow and Moray to remain under level 3 restrictions - BBC News", "SNP holds Airdrie and Shotts seat in by-election - BBC News", "Covid: Call for pub rules to be lifted as ministers meet - BBC News", "Julia James: Man charged with murder of PCSO - BBC News", "Elections 2021: As it happened - final results as counting ends - BBC News", "Boris Johnson facing probe over funding of 2019 holiday - BBC News", "Nurse Lucy Letby appears in court in baby murders case - BBC News", "Coronavirus updates: As it happened: England's pubs and restaurants to reopen indoors - BBC News", "Actor sues TikTok for using her voice in viral tool - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon tells PM referendum is case of 'when - not if' - BBC News", "Extinction Rebellion trial delayed as accused glues hand to table - BBC News", "Labour: Messy reshuffle knocks Sir Keir Starmer's authority - BBC News", "Champions League final: Portugal set to host final rather than Wembley - BBC Sport", "'Fear of missing out' fuels record house prices in April - BBC News", "Labour reshuffle: Anneliese Dodds out in Starmer's post-election reshuffle - BBC News", "Nasa craft carrying 4.5bn-year-old asteroid dust begins long trek home - BBC News", "Fulham 0-2 Burnley: Cottagers relegated to Championship - BBC Sport", "Queen's Speech: Boris Johnson promises post-Covid skills overhaul - BBC News", "Gemma Chan worries for family as she backs anti-Asian hate crime charity - BBC News", "Thousands recruited to front UK firms in 'tax dodge' - BBC News", "New Zealand: At least four injured in supermarket stabbing - BBC News", "Mental health: Can you tell if someone is struggling? - BBC News", "Conversion therapy ban: Campaigners dismayed over delay - BBC News", "Doug Beattie declares bid to be next UUP leader - BBC News", "Rescue operation to help whale stranded in Thames - BBC News", "Face masks no longer required in classrooms - BBC News", "Scottish election 2021: Key points on the Holyrood vote - BBC News", "River Thames whale: Stranded baby minke is put down - BBC News", "Rail disruption set to continue after train cracks found - BBC News", "Mental health: Can you tell if someone is struggling? - BBC News", "Car insurance: 170,000 claims linked to 'crash for cash' gangs - BBC News", "HSBC to pilot Zoom-free Friday afternoons - BBC News", "Queen recalls effort behind junior lifeguard award - BBC News", "Lockdown: Boris Johnson to announce 17 May changes for England - BBC News", "Kabul attack: Families bury schoolchildren of blast that killed dozens - BBC News", "Constitutional clash is coming... but not yet - BBC News", "Maria Jane Rawlings: Murder charge over mum found dead near hospital - BBC News", "Elections 2021: Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner sacked as party chair - BBC News", "Martin Lewis and Sir Richard Branson's names most used by scammers - BBC News", "Social care needs fixing now, council leaders tell chancellor - BBC News", "Scottish election 2021: The numbers behind the result - BBC News", "Scottish independence court battle played down - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Expert urges caution over hugs as lockdown eases - BBC News", "Investigation launched after newborn baby found dead in canal - BBC News", "Zero Covid deaths for England, Scotland and NI - BBC News", "Scottish election 2021: Results in maps and charts - BBC News", "Elections 2021: Tues 05 May - 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are eased in England, Scotland and Wales.", "It comes as the government faces fresh criticism for failing to support Australians stranded in India.", "General Scott Miller tells the BBC support to Afghan forces will continue ahead of the Nato pull-out.", "Spotlight looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed tensions over policing in NI.", "Most deaths prevented were in the over-80s, and far fewer over-75s went to hospital, an analysis found.", "The next DUP leader says he wants a smooth transition and will deal with the issue \"practically\".", "Despite lockdown easing, businesses say they need more support to manage the impact of the last year.", "The structure at a partially built synagogue near Jerusalem had been packed for a religious festival.", "Cases have continued to rise and neighbouring East Renfrewshire has overtaken Moray for new infections.", "A warning system will tested to advise people in areas affected by floods, fires, terror attacks or industrial incidents.", "Five police officers were injured and 28 people arrested as trouble flared in Glasgow city centre.", "The investigative film has been delayed over a “significant duty of care issue”, the broadcaster says.", "Officers who access records without a legitimate reason could be breaking the law, the Met says.", "Some Puerto Rico beaches are protected as endangered turtles nest in the sand.", "The country has yet to decide whether it will allow holiday visits as it extends state of calamity.", "The MLA and former Army captain was the only candidate for the Ulster Unionist Party leadership.", "Tyson Fury is ordered to fight Deontay Wilder for a third time, casting doubt over a proposed August fight with Anthony Joshua.", "With some scientists suggesting it could spread 50% faster, England's easing of rules is in jeopardy.", "The freight train was carrying highly flammable fertiliser and nearby residents have been evacuated.", "Two-year-old George Hinds died in the explosion, which happened in the early hours of Sunday.", "Police say there is enough evidence to look for human remains in the search for Mary Bastholm, 15.", "Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber says people who refuse the Covid vaccine are selfish.", "Two of the 17 children hurt in Monday morning's school bus crash were taken to hospital.", "There has been no let up to the worst violence in years despite widespread calls for a ceasefire.", "Thousands of people got jabs in Bolton over the weekend as the town battles the Indian variant.", "Microsoft has said that it investigated Mr Gates' attempt in 2000 \"to initiate an intimate relationship\".", "Police arrest four men in connection with a video appearing to show anti-Semitic abuse shouted from a car.", "It comes after four men were arrested in connection with a video appearing to show anti-Semitic abuse.", "The 27-year-old US singer ties the knot with property agent Dalton Gomez in California.", "Viral footage posted last week showed the animal roaming around a Houston neighbourhood.", "Cinemas, galleries and museums are also among those reopening as Wales eased Covid restrictions.", "The details are contained in a roadmap shared with the EU, which has been seen by the BBC.", "I've had my jabs - but did they work? Coping with a dodgy immune system and the Covid vaccine.", "Sergei Naryshkin speaks to the BBC in a rare interview about 2020's SolarWinds cyber-attack in the US.", "It's not just Bolton and Blackburn, says the health secretary, as he urges people to get vaccinated.", "Jennifer Johnson faces jail after being convicted of lying in Russell Bishop's 1987 trial.", "People across the UK are encouraged to \"plant a tree for the Jubilee\" to mark the Queen's 70-year reign.", "Greenpeace says it found plastic waste from UK supermarkets dumped and burned at numerous sites.", "A total of 2,019,160 people have now had their first dose, figures by Public Health Wales show.", "Chelsea concede four goals in the first 36 minutes as Barcelona blow them away to win the Women's Champions League final.", "Three people were arrested on Saturday in connection with Frankie Morris's disappearance on 2 May.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock urges everybody in the town to \"exercise caution\" and get tested.", "The case rate in the city is now above one of the key benchmarks for the move to level two", "The claim - made against the PM over an alleged unpaid debt of £535 - is without merit, says Downing Street.", "At 170m long, \"Florence\" is the largest ever tunnelling machine to be used on a UK rail project.", "Portugal is set to host the Champions League final after Uefa failed to receive the guarantees of exemptions it wants if it is to move the game to Wembley.", "The country has yet to decide whether it will allow holiday visits as it extends state of calamity.", "The online retail giant is hiring extra staff to meet growing demand as the pandemic continues.", "Researchers are still analysing whether injecting two different vaccines leads to better protection.", "Nine-year-old Jordan Banks was \"the brightest star\" and \"our everything\", his family says.", "Kim Leadbeater announces her intention to stand for election in Jo Cox's former constituency.", "The online travel agent will not be selling summer holidays due to Covid uncertainty.", "Local restrictions have also not been ruled out in areas worst affected by the Indian variant.", "The Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City on 29 May is switched to Portugal from Turkey.", "A chunk of priceless space rock that fell on the UK will showcase at the Natural History Museum.", "TV personality Courtney Stodden accepts her apology but questions its sincerity.", "Violence in Gaza and Israel shows no sign of abating amid rocket fire, air strikes and civil unrest.", "Downing Street succeeds in striking out a claim for a £535 debt it described as being \"without merit\".", "Kashif Mahmood seized hundreds of thousands of pounds for a crime gang controlled from Dubai.", "Usually thought of as a party drug, a trial suggests it helps people with post-traumatic stress disorder.", "Sir Alex Ferguson says he is \"grateful for the three years extra\" he feels he has had after surviving a brain haemorrhage in 2018.", "Callum Wheeler, 21, from Aylesham, is accused of murdering community support officer Julia James.", "There has been disruption since Saturday after the issue was found on some Hitachi Class 800s.", "There are concerns the variant may be more transmissible and infectious than the UK variant.", "MI5 was considering winding down its investigation into Usman Khan days before he killed two people, an inquest hears.", "Under the plans judges could treat offenders caught in stings the same as those who harm real children.", "Hamas is a militant Palestinian Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip.", "Hundreds of Manchester United fans protest against the club's owners while the team and Liverpool arrive at Old Trafford for a Premier League fixture.", "The former prime minister will be asked about his messages to ministers on behalf of the finance firm.", "Unite leadership contender Howard Beckett apologises for tweet about home secretary but stands by criticism.", "The Education Policy Institute also calls for a longer school day and summer activities.", "The city's importance explained, as the controversial US embassy move to the city goes ahead.", "The state will be \"under the microscope\", Boris Johnson says, as Labour urges an earlier start date.", "Archaeologists will dismantle a fireplace in a cafe basement in the search for Mary Bastholm.", "UK cases of the variant have more than doubled in the past week, says Public Health England.", "Eluned Morgan is named health minister with Jeremy Miles at education in Welsh government reshuffle.", "But the ex-prime minister insists he was not just motivated by money when he lobbied ministers.", "China has targeted Muslim religious leaders, according to a new report, charging many with extremism.", "The world-famous cathedral has seen its finances devastated by the pandemic.", "Historian and TV presenter is paying for scholarships to widen access to classics beyond \"posh\" people.", "Alison Johnstone was elected to the politically neutral role as MSPs returned to Holyrood after the election.", "Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions show £8.4bn was lost in 2020-21.", "The much-anticipated special will see the original cast and celebrities reflect on the series.", "\"Frequent releases\" of sewage create microplastic hotspots in UK rivers.", "The telecoms giant says its new full-fibre investment strategy could create up to 7,000 jobs.", "On Tuesday, an inquest found that 10 people shot in west Belfast in 1971 were innocent.", "Health officials in Gaza say 188 Palestinians have died since Monday, while Israel reports 10 dead.", "Entrepreneur and author Steven Bartlett, 28, is to join the BBC business investment show.", "The militant group possesses thousands of missiles of varying ranges that it can fire towards Israel.", "The ex-PM is asked about his contact with government ministers when he was an adviser to Greensill Capital.", "A county-court order against the PM for a debt of £535 was over a claim of defamation, it has emerged.", "Ch Supt Mark Sutherland says the pair had to be let go to protect safety and public health.", "The 21-year-old has an \"overwhelming\" fear of going out and wanted a home birth, the court heard.", "Most deaths prevented were in the over-80s, and far fewer over-75s went to hospital, an analysis found.", "National clinical director Prof Jason Leitch is hopeful the city will be able to move to level two restrictions.", "Baby George was only a few hours old when he was found wrapped in a blanket at a park in April.", "The 75-year-old was convicted in 2016 of genocide during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.", "A 26% fall in theft offences drove a reduction in crime recorded by police in England and Wales.", "Companies will be breaking the law if they delay or refuse refunds, warns the competition watchdog.", "The president removes his mask in the Oval Office as the new health guidance is announced.", "The Premier League agrees to roll over its existing television deal with broadcasters for a further three years.", "Failure to tackle deep-seated issues meant fresh violence between the two sides was a matter of time.", "The government should \"hold their nerve\" on public transport spending, a government adviser says.", "Hugely disappointing results mean ovarian cancer screening remains more than a decade away.", "Gabriela Tavares, 19, says racial abuse in a pub has left her \"in a complete mess\".", "Labour's Kate Hollern was accused of trying to \"scare\" Tory MP Andrew Bridgen away from helping complainant.", "The impact of vaccinations can be seen in estimates of people with antibody protection against Covid.", "A council in Lancashire changes its stance after saying all over-18s would get a Covid vaccine.", "The Conservatives romped home in Hartlepool - what will be the consequences for Keir Starmer and Labour?", "London Fire Brigade said 38 adults and four children were evacuated from the 19-storey building.", "The former president faced investigation over a payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.", "Former Rugby League player Jarryd Hayne is jailed for more than five years for the 2018 attack.", "Kent's chief constable says police still have no motive or suspect for the murder of Julia James.", "Officials have extended the state of emergency in several regions until the end of the month.", "Councils are being advised on how to protect infrastructure and citizens' data.", "Appointments will start being given from Saturday to adults over 18, amid a surge in cases in the area.", "Link to rare blood clots leads to shift in vaccination programme for younger age groups.", "Tracking radars are following closely the gradual fall to Earth of a large Chinese rocket vehicle.", "The price rise for single-use bags will be extended to all businesses in England from 21 May.", "Scots have cast their votes, but they will not be counted until Friday and Saturday - when will the outcome be known?", "A larger-than-usual round of results is leaving politicians with plenty to ponder, reports Laura Kuenssberg.", "Health officials have elevated one version of the India virus to a \"variant of concern\".", "Clinics often cannot guarantee women can get the vaccine type required when booking an appointment.", "Results and reaction as all but eight of the 60 Senedd seats are declared on Friday.", "The Guardian newspaper reports that five women allege he sexually harassed them on the Doctor Who set.", "England’s list of “green countries”, with fewest restrictions, is expected to be released later.", "The shootout took place during a police operation in a favela in the Brazilian city.", "Arsenal's Europa League hopes are dashed as Villarreal seal a semi-final victory that almost certainly ends the Gunners' unbroken 25-season run of appearing in European competition.", "Sir Keir Starmer says he takes \"full responsibility\" for Labour's vote collapse in Hartlepool.", "Reducing methane emissions needs to play a much more important role in tackling global warming.", "The gap between poor pupils and their classmates is unlikely to narrow without intervention, researchers say.", "A coroner has said there is reason to suspect Belly Mujinga's death may have been \"unnatural\".", "A second Covid surge is putting renewed pressure on the country's healthcare and economy.", "Independent candidate Michelle Brown calls the \"printing error\" an \"affront to democracy\".", "Elite sports women struggled with access to equipment and financial difficulties, an academic says.", "Nicola Sturgeon's party secures 64 seats at Holyrood with the Scottish Conservatives coming second on 31.", "Residents of a Rio de Janeiro slum accuse police of violence and abuses in a raid that left 28 dead.", "National elections in Scotland and Wales and local elections in England took place on 6 May 2021.", "Find out how to keep up to date with live election results on TV, radio, online and on social media.", "The man is the \"key to unlocking what happened\" to police support officer Julia James, police say.", "Wing Cdr Ken Rees is said to have inspired Steve McQueen's character in the classic film.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announces a green list of countries deemed safe for travel from England.", "Labour loses seats to Boris Johnson's party, but leader Sir Keir Starmer promises a fightback.", "People can travel to places including Portugal, Israel and Gibraltar without quarantining on return.", "The son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who live in California, turns two today.", "Drisya and Dilin have not seen their daughter for 17 months due to Australia's Covid border closures.", "Sir Keir Starmer promises to fix Labour's trust problem after constituency elects its first Tory MP.", "Travel will be more expensive as airlines cannot afford to bring many planes back into service.", "The man had been questioning SNP MSP Humza Yousaf about events in Pakistan at a count.", "Twitter launches a new payment feature for good tweets - but it comes with privacy concerns.", "We uncover the conditions that patients face in health centres unequipped for a crisis like Covid.", "After a year of closed galleries, the 2021 nominees are all groups who have all \"inspired change\".", "The UK will be \"left behind\" if other countries open up travel more quickly, the industry says.", "The party gains a seat from Labour and two from the Conservatives but misses out on other key targets.", "The ailing father of Stuart Lubbock, who died in 2001, says he has \"done his best\" for his son.", "One of the UK's rarest fish is set to benefit from a conservation project to unlock the River Severn.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Royal Bolton Hospital says it has experienced one of its busiest ever days amid a surge in patients.", "A review is announced after the inquiry into the 1995 BBC interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.", "Despite the fall, borrowing was still the second highest on record for April as Covid spending continues.", "A paramedic at the Manchester attack had to take a step back to gain an \"overall grip\" of the incident.", "It comes amid heightened scrutiny and pressure to call off the Tokyo Olympics due to be held soon.", "Mhari O'Neill is thought to have died from hypothermia and intoxication after being abandoned by Ewan Fulton.", "The joint statement from the health bosses says there are no restrictions on travel in or out of each of their areas.", "Journalist Martin Bashir took Karen Hadaway's clothing and did not return them, her mother says.", "All 23 members of the Singaporean X-Press Pearl's crew were evacuated.", "A profile of the blogger whose arrest made world headlines when his plane was diverted to Minsk.", "Ross Willox killed Emma Faulds in his South Ayrshire home then dumped her naked body in the Galloway Forest.", "Sasha Johnson has been described as a \"powerful voice\" who has always campaigned for black people.", "Farmers fear escaped sheep could cause a crash as vandalised fences allow them to get on to roads.", "Canberra cites an \"uncertain security environment\", as the pull-out of international troops proceeds.", "The BBC has learned a \"considerable\" number of no shows were recorded this weekend at Glasgow's Hydro.", "The president of the FIA governing body from 1993 to 2009 was also a prominent privacy campaigner.", "The director general says there is \"no doubt\" recruiting Martin Bashir in 2016 was a \"big mistake\".", "The sector is set for a slow recovery from the pandemic, with foreign visitors still staying away.", "The supermarket chain is told its rebranded bottles are too similar to premium brand Hendrick's.", "Uncapped Ben White, Ben Godfrey, Sam Johnstone and Aaron Ramsdale are named in England's 33-man provisional Euro 2020 squad.", "Nicola Sturgeon says there are \"signs for cautious optimism\" despite a rise in cases across the country.", "Bill Shakespeare's death was unrelated to the jab and his friend urges others to get vaccinated.", "Sean Ivey fought back at youths plaguing his village but then saw his home burnt down.", "The announcement came as deaths linked to the coronavirus in India passed 300,000.", "Rocco Morabito, who has been wanted since the 1990s, escaped from a prison in Uruguay in 2019.", "The National Crime Agency said the haul weighed 960kg - a \"significant\" loss to those involved.", "Conservationists introduced the species back into a sanctuary north of Sydney in late 2020.", "Nadia Whittome hopes speaking out will enable others to be more open about their mental health.", "Joseph Edge's wife dialled 999 after being concerned about his low blood pressure, inquest hears.", "Photos reportedly show the bodies of people who tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.", "A test clears Måneskin's lead singer of drug use during the competition's grand final.", "A 10-step Royal College of Surgeons report calls for investment, surgery plans and Covid-light sites.", "The trans actor previously described top surgery, where breast tissue is removed, as \"life-saving\".", "Restrictions are not being imposed on Indian variant-affected areas, the government says.", "The government had agreed to pay War Child £500,000 but has since delayed the funding.", "The organisation has delayed its reopening of 5k running events until 26 June over land permissions.", "New guidance was not discussed with local leaders, according to West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin.", "Two-year-old George Hinds died in the explosion in Heysham, Lancashire, on 16 May.", "A 15-year-old boy is one of three arrested as part of a murder inquiry which is moving \"at pace\".", "The US president paid tribute to their fight for justice, one year after the murder of their brother.", "One in 10 pools may never open again after the financial damage of the pandemic, Swim Wales says.", "Teachers say they are not equipped to deal with peer-on-peer sexual abuse, as they have had no training.", "The Met Police says there was \"nothing to suggest\" that Sasha Johnson had been \"targeted\".", "A bill which further eases some of the loosest gun laws in the US is set to be approved.", "The father of an activist who was detained after his flight was diverted tells the BBC he is \"really afraid\".", "Nicola Sturgeon is giving an update on the latest developments on the coronavirus situation in Scotland.", "Some may contain illegal levels of a bleaching chemical that can burn gums and cause tooth loss.", "Delyn's Rob Roberts, who invited an intern to \"fool around\", faces no further action from party.", "One man is charged following dawn raids in London, Coventry, Birmingham and Essex.", "Parts of London and the north-east begin surge testing as England passes 50m Covid jabs.", "\"What happened is neither reflective of Mayhill nor Swansea\" say council as community lead clear-up.", "St Johnstone edge Hibernian to lift the Scottish Cup for a second time and complete a domestic cup double in the greatest season in the club's history.", "Platforms are told to take down all content that refers to an \"Indian variant\" of the coronavirus.", "Programme to test wastewater for the virus that causes Covid now covers two-thirds of England's population.", "A national park is asking litter-bugs to say anonymously why they did not take their rubbish home.", "Former Rangers star says no-one spoke to him about the racism he suffered when he played in Scotland.", "An inquiry into Martin Bashir’s interview with Princess Diana in 1995 concludes that he acted in a “deceitful” way.", "A national park is asking litter-bugs to say anonymously why they did not take their rubbish home.", "China is now the second country after the US to operate a rover on the Red Planet.", "Health minister Jeane Freeman says they are looking at how the documents might be used - and in what circumstances.", "The UK offers to phase out import taxes over 15 years, as UK farmers warn they could go bust.", "Italy's Måneskin is this year's winner but the UK's James Newman came last with zero points.", "The former Newsnight presenter says his symptoms are mild and that he plans to continue working.", "The airport faced criticism after arrivals from countries with a high Covid risk were made to queue with other passengers.", "The two animals made their way into a neighbouring enclosure across a tree that fell in high winds.", "The flaw could allow people to edit personal details on vaccination status certificates after downloading them.", "People will get texts inviting them to book, as areas hit by the Indian variant look to jab over-18s.", "Sir Richard Branson's spaceplane completes the first of three key test flights above New Mexico.", "The incident happened as the plane was trying to land in bad weather in Kaduna state, the military says.", "Mediators try to cement the truce, as Israel and Palestinian militants take stock of an 11-day conflict.", "How will fallout from the the Martin Bashir inquiry affect the BBC's future?", "The full story of how the BBC's Martin Bashir got his 1995 interview with Princess Diana - and what happened next.", "Cars were burnt out and house windows smashed as 200 people ran riot in an area of Swansea.", "People travelling to foreign countries which require a record of vaccination status can download a certificate from an NHS portal.", "Animal Rebellion says it is stopping restaurant supplies from leaving four UK distribution centres.", "Thousands flee the city of Goma as nearby Mount Nyiragongo throws huge lava fountains into the air.", "The health secretary hails the milestone as 32 and 33-year-olds are offered the jab.", "The Duke of Cambridge says his connection with the country \"will forever run deep\" in a speech.", "The van was targeted after police responded to calls of violent behaviour in Swansea on Thursday.", "The five-hour show stars Jorja Smith, Coldplay and Haim - all playing to a deserted Worthy Farm.", "The former director of news did not answer whether Lord Hall, BBC director general at the time, sanctioned re-hiring Martin Bashir.", "Three men and a 16-year-old boy have been arrested on suspicion of unlawful violence.", "One man spoke of how a \"mob\" turned on him, throwing bricks at his family and their home in Swansea.", "This summer's Olympics will go ahead even if Tokyo remains in a state of a emergency, says IOC vice-president John Coates.", "They are effective against symptomatic disease but protection is low after only one dose, a study says.", "A young family had their computers and phones seized after, it seems, their router was hacked.", "Violence in Gaza and Israel shows no sign of abating amid rocket fire, air strikes and civil unrest.", "The 21-year-old has an \"overwhelming\" fear of going out and wanted a home birth, the court heard.", "Unite leadership contender Howard Beckett apologises for tweet about home secretary but stands by criticism.", "The Education Policy Institute also calls for a longer school day and summer activities.", "The town has seen a sharp spike in Covid cases - driven by the emergence of the Indian variant.", "Most deaths prevented were in the over-80s, and far fewer over-75s went to hospital, an analysis found.", "The group run by Liberty Steel owner Sanjeev Gupta is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.", "Woman Sitting Near a Window (Marie-Therese) sold for $103.4m (£73.5m) on Thursday in New York.", "The country has yet to decide whether it will allow holiday visits as it extends state of calamity.", "The Indian Covid variant \"could pose a serious disruption to our progress,\" Boris Johnson warns.", "Discover the story behind a viral video as Andi comes out, starts college and celebrates life as a trans teen.", "Second jabs for the over-50s and clinically vulnerable will be given sooner to ease concerns, PM says.", "The original inquest found Hayden Nguyen died of natural causes, despite the hospital admitting errors.", "But the ex-prime minister insists he was not just motivated by money when he lobbied ministers.", "Historian and TV presenter is paying for scholarships to widen access to classics beyond \"posh\" people.", "With some scientists suggesting it could spread 50% faster, England's easing of rules is in jeopardy.", "BBC producer Adnan Elbursh was broadcasting live from Gaza City when a building behind him was hit.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford announces changes to the regulations.", "The president removes his mask in the Oval Office as the new health guidance is announced.", "Irish health chiefs temporarily shut down its IT system which severely impacted some services.", "Historic England says the contents of a submarine used in World War One must remain in place.", "The much-anticipated special will see the original cast and celebrities reflect on the series.", "It comes after the Queen's Speech failed to give detailed proposals for the new system.", "Local restrictions have also not been ruled out in areas worst affected by the Indian variant.", "Palestinians and the Israeli security forces clash during protests in the occupied West Bank.", "Hamas is a militant Palestinian Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip.", "The Turkish Grand Prix is cancelled just two weeks after it was put on the Formula 1 calendar and replaced by a second race in Austria.", "Pupils in parts of north-west England continue wearing face masks in school amid variant concerns.", "The corporation said he was leaving his post due to ongoing health issues.", "Health officials in Gaza say 188 Palestinians have died since Monday, while Israel reports 10 dead.", "The tech giant is tightening its grip on retail as the coronavirus pandemic continues.", "The 31-year-old, who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, is due in court in July.", "A chunk of priceless space rock that fell on the UK will showcase at the Natural History Museum.", "The NI agriculture minister will succeed Arlene Foster as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.", "Kevin Guthrie is sentenced to three years for the assault on a woman in a flat in Glasgow.", "The Duke of Sussex compares his life to a mixture of the film the Truman Show and being in a zoo.", "One mother says her son has \"suffered very badly\" and it is affecting his mental health.", "Wealthier nations should instead donate more vaccines to low-income countries, the health body says.", "The city overtakes Moray as having the highest rate of infection as Scotland prepares to move to level two on Monday.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made the announcement as cases continued to increase in Glasgow.", "Anum Qaisar-Javed wins the by-election for the SNP after holding off a challenge from Scottish Labour.", "Mark Drakeford returns to work after his Welsh election win to consider easing lockdown rules.", "A 21-year-old man is due in court charged with the murder of the police community support officer.", "A handful of results from the bumper set of elections held last week are still to be declared.", "The MPs' standards watchdog is looking into whether costs of the trip have been correctly declared.", "Lucy Letby is accused of killing eight infants while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital.", "Guidance on hugging will also change, but people should consider others' vulnerabilities, the PM says.", "Bev Standing’s voice is used on the social-media platform's text-to-speech feature.", "Scotland's first minister has spoken to Boris Johnson for the first time since the SNP's election victory.", "The trial of six people over a protest at a newspaper printing works is held up on its first day.", "These shake-ups are not necessarily noticed by the public, but they matter to parties and Parliament.", "Portugal is set to host the Champions League final after Uefa failed to receive the guarantees of exemptions it wants if it is to move the game to Wembley.", "Average house prices have climbed almost £20,000 in the last year, hitting a record high in April.", "Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds is replaced by Rachel Reeves as Sir Keir Starmer changes his top team.", "Scientists believe the dust sample may provide clues on the formation of the Solar System.", "Fulham are relegated from the Premier League after a defeat by Burnley at Craven Cottage that secures the Clarets' survival.", "Adults will be offered \"lifelong\" training loans under measures being announced in the Queen's Speech.", "The Humans star says her Chinese parents are among those who have faced verbal abuse.", "Tens of thousands of companies are being set up with Filipino directors to benefit from UK tax relief.", "The motive behind the attack is unclear but there is no indication it was a domestic terror event.", "Coronavirus has affected many people in different ways - how would you react if someone needed support?", "Campaigners are dismayed as the government announces a consultation before the practice is banned.", "It comes after Steve Aiken, who has resigned as leader, said the party was \"not breaking through\".", "The whale, believed to be a baby Minke, was spotted in Richmond Lock yesterday evening and has since been moved.", "Face coverings will not be needed in England's secondary classrooms from 17 May, says the prime minister.", "After two days of counting here are some of the key outcomes of the Holyrood 2021 vote.", "The juvenile minke whale had become stuck against a river wall in south-west London.", "Rail firms GWR and LNER warn of issues on long-distance routes after cracks were found on some trains.", "Coronavirus has affected many people in different ways - how would you react if someone needed support?", "Villagers are advised to be vigilant about Bradford and Birmingham, where scam hotspots are located.", "The trial comes in an effort to tackle stress caused by working from home during the pandemic.", "Her Majesty, 95, learns during a video call that her achievement some 80 years ago was historic.", "Hugging is also on the cards, as the PM is due to confirm a relaxation of restrictions in England from 17 May.", "Most of the victims of Saturday's blasts which killed more than 60 near a Kabul school were girls.", "It might be \"when\" not \"if\" for indyref2 but Nicola Sturgeon wants to see support for independence running higher.", "A 20-year-old man is due to appear in custody at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.", "Angela Rayner has also been removed as campaign coordinator following Labour's poor election results.", "The pair are the celebrities whose faces appear in more fake endorsement scams than anyone else, cyber agency says.", "Tuesday's Queens Speech is the time to act on social care reform, says cross-party group.", "What are the facts and figures which tell the story of the Scottish Parliament election results?", "UK minister Michael Gove tells the BBC's Andrew Marr that his government would not go to court to stop a second Scottish independence referendum.", "Embraces should be selective, short, and avoid face-to-face contact, says Sage member Prof Cath Noakes.", "The Met Police has urged the baby's mother to seek medical assistance by dialling 999.", "Wales announces four fatalities as UK chief medical officers lower the Covid alert level.", "The picture across Scotland as the SNP win a fourth consecutive victory in the Scottish Parliament.", "Voters go to the polls on Thursday in elections across England, Scotland and Wales.", "The deals will create new jobs in the health and tech sectors, Boris Johnson says.", "A cleaner for HSBC bank walked out after 35 years, leaving a note that has gone viral on Twitter.", "The end of the US deployment could play into the Taliban's hands, warns the former secretary of state.", "Riyad Mahrez scores twice as Manchester City seal an aggregate win over Paris St-Germain to reach their first European final in 51 years.", "An arrest was made in March as part of the inquiry into the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001.", "She says she hopes her story about the special father-son bond will resonate with others.", "Experts tell the BBC that delays in decision-making worsened the crisis of India's second wave.", "The UK is \"likely to be on a steady course now out of this pandemic\", Prof Neil Ferguson says.", "The front of a property was destroyed in a blast which left residents trapped in a row of houses.", "The world's biggest jeweller says it will no longer use mined diamonds in a bid to become more sustainable.", "Parties are campaigning with just two days to go before the Welsh Parliament election.", "Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, who died trying to save a woman, deserves recognition, his fellow rescuer says.", "Arlene Foster believes the DUP is no longer the party she joined, say sources close to her.", "Ministers pledged in September to slash the application fee after deciding against wider reforms.", "The Indian Premier League is suspended after an increase in coronavirus cases among players.", "A metro overpass partially collapses in Mexico City leaving at least 23 people dead.", "Throw-away Covid face coverings could be polluting the environment with heavy metals and plastic.", "The High Court has ruled in favour of the government in a battle over indoor reopening dates in England.", "Following rival Cineworld, Odeon plans to reopen sites with new safety measures in place.", "The five leaders of Scotland's larger parties went head-to-head in the final TV debate of the Holyrood election.", "Both parents, not just the father, will now be named on marriage certificates in England and Wales.", "Mark Selby claims his fourth World Championship title with an 18-15 victory over Shaun Murphy at a sold-out Crucible Theatre.", "Two train carriages plunged to the ground when an elevated metro line collapsed.", "", "Company's vice-chairman Greg Abel will take over, but Mr Buffett has no plans to step aside.", "Many in Varanasi are asking where their MP - India's prime minister - is in their hour of need.", "Marcel Stellman, who has died aged 96, was also a record producer and lyricist.", "Some venues may have to limit their opening hours after more than one in ten hospitality workers left the sector.", "The service encourages customers to sell back furniture they no longer need in return for vouchers to spend in-store.", "Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots and MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson are bidding to succeed Arlene Foster.", "Julia James's daughter asked people to pay their respects to her from their doorsteps.", "Hospitals in India's capitals are full and facing shortages of oxygen as Covid cases surge.", "The new system means people receiving debt advice can be shielded from interest and charges.", "Questions mount over the safety record of a Mexico City metro line after a deadly overpass collapse.", "As it happened - today's highlights from the campaign trail in Wales.", "A man is charged with throwing fireworks and using threatening behaviour near the team's hotel.", "As well as social distancing, the PM also suggested there could be some relaxation of foreign travel rules on 17 May.", "Eric Ohene-Adjei was the \"most caring human being\" say family of Cardiff Covid victim.", "The actor says he stands by the women who have accused his former co-star of sexual harassment.", "The meeting comes as G7 nations hold their first in-person talks in two years, amid Covid rules.", "How one Mexican police chief tried to clean up the local force and establish order.", "EU leaders will discuss rules for travel while UK ministers say an announcement will come \"shortly\".", "The Oxford study used data from more than 430,000 young people, gathered over 28 years.", "Dalian Atkinson was Tasered for six times longer than standard by PC Benjamin Monk, a court is told.", "The head of the industry's trade group tells MPs 660,000 jobs were lost before the latest lockdown.", "The script was part of an auction of 600 items belonging to Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse.", "Prof Stephen Hawking's scientific papers and personal possessions to be saved for the nation.", "The move gives the US tech giant the chance to expand the library of movies available on its streaming service.", "There are fears forced marriages could rise as Covid-related travel restrictions are eased.", "Royal Bolton Hospital says it has experienced one of its busiest ever days amid a surge in patients.", "Five males, aged between 17 and 28, are arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.", "Goalkeeper David de Gea sees a penalty saved in an epic shootout as Villarreal beat Manchester United to win the Europa League.", "A paramedic at the Manchester attack had to take a step back to gain an \"overall grip\" of the incident.", "France joins Austria and Germany in introducing restrictions due to the spread of the Indian variant.", "Results from a UK experiment could help clear a hurdle to achieving commercial fusion power.", "Journalist Martin Bashir took Karen Hadaway's clothing and did not return them, her mother says.", "Former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings says care homes lacked tests and protection.", "Boris Johnson's former aide says the PM is \"unfit for the job\" over his handling of the pandemic.", "Rollout continues, with anyone in their 30s now able to get vaccinated in England.", "The singer didn't get a single point in Rotterdam, leaving the United Kingdom bottom of the pile.", "A legal challenge over a delay in commissioning services is taking place at Belfast's High Court.", "It is the first time a company has been legally bound by the Paris climate accord, campaigners say.", "Party co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, and fellow MSP Ross Greer, breached the regulations in an Edinburgh pub.", "Bill Shakespeare's death was unrelated to the jab and his friend urges others to get vaccinated.", "Just 28 people have been convicted in Wales since sales were banned in 2016, figures show.", "Holidaymakers from UK areas with higher Covid rates should be prepared, the first minister says.", "Conservationists introduced the species back into a sanctuary north of Sydney in late 2020.", "It came as Brexit disrupted trade with the EU and the pandemic boosted demand for Chinese goods.", "British subscription site OnlyFans is failing to prevent underage users from selling and appearing in explicit videos, a BBC investigation has found.", "It was \"a terrible mistake\" not to explain his Durham lockdown journey, PM's ex aide says.", "A profile of Boris Johnson's former right-hand-man, who has turned into his chief tormentor.", "No 10 will try to brush off the ex-aide's claims but they reveal an administration scrambling on many fronts.", "The gable end of a house in Christchurch, Dorset, collapses as a man walks along the street.", "Overhauling water tariffs could help struggling families, the Consumer Council for Water says.", "Industry warns people to delay home improvement due to shortage of cement, electric components, timber and steel.", "Boris Johnson's ex-adviser will be answering questions about the government's handling of the pandemic.", "The teacher can return to the school after showing pupils a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad.", "Photos reportedly show the bodies of people who tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.", "Boris Johnson's former aide told MPs he tried to create a \"structure\" around the PM to stop \"extremely bad decisions\".", "Two ex-police officers and a force solicitor are acquitted of perverting the course of justice.", "The Ombudsman will look at how the PSNI dealt with a BLM protest compared to Bobby Storey's funeral.", "The trans actor previously described top surgery, where breast tissue is removed, as \"life-saving\".", "Restrictions are not being imposed on Indian variant-affected areas, the government says.", "The government had agreed to pay War Child £500,000 but has since delayed the funding.", "The housing charity says around a third of British adults do not have safe or secure accommodation.", "New guidance was not discussed with local leaders, according to West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin.", "The actor has been granted joint custody of his children with Angelina Jolie after a court battle.", "A 15-year-old boy is one of three arrested as part of a murder inquiry which is moving \"at pace\".", "The US author of the best-selling children's classic passed away last Sunday, his family said.", "Minister says rules could change as a Tory MP who sexually harassed an employee faces suspension.", "Wales has seen the biggest house price growth in the UK, up by an average of 11% in the past year.", "A £401m government investment will see routes electrified and new stations for Leeds and Exeter.", "The store chain has reported big losses for last year as the pandemic took its toll on clothing sales.", "A software engineer tells BBC's Panorama about installing the system in police stations in Xinjiang.", "Ministers have backtracked over travel advice for eight areas that left bank holiday plans in disarray.", "The US president spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as violence continues.", "\"Public order officers suddenly turned up and we were locked in,\" said one resident.", "Pupils wearing caps and hoodies gather outside a school in support of Ella Goodwin on Monday.", "Older farmers in England will be paid to retire under a government scheme.", "The record number provides the clearest indication yet of the scale of the problem in 2020.", "They're still too expensive and there are not enough charging points, a report warns.", "Images from the day, as coronavirus rules are eased in England, Scotland and Wales.", "Oxford vaccine leader Prof Andrew Pollard says adults in poorer countries should be protected first.", "Graham McGill evaded justice for decades - but will now serve at least 14 years for murdering Mary McLaughlin.", "A warning system will tested to advise people in areas affected by floods, fires, terror attacks or industrial incidents.", "The tech giant says its \"dermatology assist\" tool can recognise 288 different skin ailments.", "Israel's military is preparing for more strikes on Hamas’s tunnel network in Gaza, a spokesman says.", "Police searching for Mary Bastholm will examine six areas of a Gloucester cafe she worked at.", "DUP leader-designate Edwin Poots says he would \"assume\" it may happen to him at some stage.", "But Rock Feilding-Mellen - who oversaw the tower's refurbishment - failed to engage with fire safety issues.", "The presenter has hosted BBC Two's Strictly Come Dancing spin-off since 2011.", "Jenny McGee says NHS workers are not getting the pay or respect they deserve from the government.", "Group promoting disability inclusion in business says firms should target disabled people's spending.", "A student petition calls it \"ridiculous\" as some UK universities keep lectures online for next term.", "Matt Hancock is urging anyone who is unsure about having a Covid jab to \"look at the situation in Bolton\".", "Labour accuse the government of a \"sell-out\" amid reports of a Cabinet rift over free trade deal.", "With some scientists suggesting it could spread 50% faster, England's easing of rules is in jeopardy.", "Police say there is enough evidence to look for human remains in the search for Mary Bastholm, 15.", "Two of the 17 children hurt in Monday morning's school bus crash were taken to hospital.", "Thousands of people got jabs in Bolton over the weekend as the town battles the Indian variant.", "The filing shows he and his wife earned $607,336 last year, compared with $985,223 a year earlier.", "Microsoft has said that it investigated Mr Gates' attempt in 2000 \"to initiate an intimate relationship\".", "BBC Panorama finds dozens of reports into concerns over hospital services have not been made public.", "The uniformed police officer was filmed at a Palestine solidarity demonstration on Saturday.", "Boris Johnson says \"we’ll know a lot more in a few days time\", amid concern over the Indian variant.", "The European Medicines Agency ruling could help the EU's Covid vaccine rollout.", "People are being urged \"not to become complacent\" as cases increase from 11 to 25 in a week.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Boris Johnson says not to go but some travel firms are refusing refunds for those destinations.", "Police arrested four men in connection with a video appearing to show anti-Semitic abuse shouted from a car.", "The 27-year-old US singer ties the knot with property agent Dalton Gomez in California.", "A ferocious bombardment aims to hobble Hamas's capabilities, but civilians are also in harm's way.", "The PM's ex-adviser posts tweets calling the handling of the pandemic \"part disaster, part non-existent\".", "Former QPR youth player Kiyan Prince is added to Fifa 21 to mark the 15th anniversary of his death.", "Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson says \"the time is right to step away from the rigours of top-flight Premier League football\".", "Travellers who booked ahead for 2021 or had holidays moved are finding they cannot claim money back.", "The jobs market is showing \"early signs of recovery\" as unemployment rate falls, official figures show.", "Sergei Naryshkin speaks to the BBC in a rare interview about 2020's SolarWinds cyber-attack in the US.", "Grodin, who was best known for roles in Midnight Run and Beethoven, died of cancer, his son says.", "It's not just Bolton and Blackburn, says the health secretary, as he urges people to get vaccinated.", "Jennifer Johnson faces jail after being convicted of lying in Russell Bishop's 1987 trial.", "The Oxford Vaccine Group chief questions why children in some richer countries are getting the jab now.", "The study looked at approximately 1,000 factories that make the raw materials for single-use products.", "The charity Oxfam says the millions spent on superyachts could instead vaccinate entire countries.", "PM Pedro Sánchez vows to restore order as migrants wade and swim into Ceuta from Morocco.", "The London-born model had said in a 2017 interview that she hoped to have a child.", "Health officials confirm the landmark is passed less than six months since the vaccination programme began.", "Labour is swept aside in several former council strongholds but does better in mayoral races.", "The Conservatives romped home in Hartlepool - what will be the consequences for Keir Starmer and Labour?", "The former president faced investigation over a payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.", "Nicola Sturgeon will take part - but tells Boris Johnson another referendum is a \"matter of when - not if\".", "Police investigating the community support officer's death are given more time to question a man.", "The Greater Manchester Mayor is the bookmakers' favourite to become the next Labour leader.", "Given the successful rollout of the vaccination programme, we are now in a much healthier place.", "Scots have cast their votes, but they will not be counted until Friday and Saturday - when will the outcome be known?", "A larger-than-usual round of results is leaving politicians with plenty to ponder, reports Laura Kuenssberg.", "The attack took place as the students - thought to be mainly girls - were leaving the Kabul school.", "Labour's Steve Rotheram, who was elected as the area's first metro mayor in 2017, retains his post.", "Results and reaction as all but eight of the 60 Senedd seats are declared on Friday.", "The Guardian newspaper reports that five women allege he sexually harassed them on the Doctor Who set.", "As Labour celebrates victory in the Senedd election, these key maps and charts show how it happened.", "Kaukab Stewart of the SNP and Pam Gosal of the Conservatives both win Scottish Parliament seats.", "The key results and moments from the first day of counting in the Holyrood election.", "The French president spoke out after the US backed a proposal to waive patents on Covid-19 vaccines.", "A second Covid surge is putting renewed pressure on the country's healthcare and economy.", "Nicola Sturgeon's party secures 64 seats at Holyrood with the Scottish Conservatives coming second on 31.", "The former first minister set up the Alba party in March and had hoped to win a seat at Holyrood.", "National elections in Scotland and Wales and local elections in England took place on 6 May 2021.", "Rail firms GWR and LNER warn of issues on long-distance routes after cracks were found on some trains.", "Residents of a Rio de Janeiro slum accuse police of violence and abuses in a raid that left 28 dead.", "Mark Drakeford is set to stay as first minister after Labour won the most Senedd election seats.", "The Labour candidate promises to \"build bridges\" with the government in his victory speech.", "Find out how to keep up to date with live election results on TV, radio, online and on social media.", "Sergio Aguero misses penalty as Chelsea ensure Manchester City must wait to wrap up the Premier League title by fighting back to win at Etihad Stadium.", "At least 163 Palestinians and six Israeli police are injured as rising tensions erupt into violence.", "Prince Misuzulu is now expected to lead the Zulu nation of about 11 million people in South Africa.", "The Tory incumbent beats Labour's Liam Byrne to retain the position he has held for four years.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announces a green list of countries deemed safe for travel from England.", "Angela Rayner has also been removed as campaign coordinator following Labour's poor election results.", "Lewis Hamilton takes a 100th career pole position by edging out Red Bull's Max Verstappen in qualifying at the Spanish Grand Prix.", "Labour loses seats to Boris Johnson's party, but leader Sir Keir Starmer promises a fightback.", "In the fight between Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon, there can only be one winner.", "The Scottish Conservatives say they will oppose plans for indyref2 after winning 31 seats at Holyrood.", "It is contacting former workers potentially caught up in the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.", "Find out the results in your area in the Holyrood election.", "The man had been questioning SNP MSP Humza Yousaf about events in Pakistan at a count.", "Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus defend their plans for a European Super League in the face of \"threats\" from Uefa.", "The UK will be \"left behind\" if other countries open up travel more quickly, the industry says.", "The party gains a seat from Labour and two from the Conservatives but misses out on other key targets.", "New rules permit quarantine-free travel to just 12 countries, including Gibraltar, from 17 May.", "Some complementary medicines result in marginal weight loss but do not benefit health, study suggests.", "The ailing father of Stuart Lubbock, who died in 2001, says he has \"done his best\" for his son.", "Results and reaction after of the 60 Senedd seats were declared.", "The SNP won 64 seats in the Scottish Parliament - one more than last time but one short of a majority.", "It is understood frustration with his leadership has been growing across all levels of the party.", "Riyad Mahrez scores twice as Manchester City seal an aggregate win over Paris St-Germain to reach their first European final in 51 years.", "Former Test bowler Stuart MacGill was abducted and released in an alleged gang kidnapping last month.", "Travellers returning from \"red list\" countries say they can't afford the UK's quarantine fees.", "Three small children and two staff members die in the attack in a small town in the southern region.", "Olympian Duncan Goodhew calls for focus on water safety after lessons were lost during the pandemic.", "A father and an Oxford student seek a High Court hearing to require age verification on porn sites.", "A judge grants the rest of her claim against the Mail on Sunday for printing her letter to her dad.", "The UK and other nations should divert surplus vaccines to places where Covid is surging, an envoy says.", "Campaigning in the biggest test of opinion since the general election is in its final day.", "Environmental groups suspect a prince from Austria killed the brown bear while hunting in Romania.", "Mayra Zulfiqar had been threatened by two different men, documents seen by the BBC show.", "The actor says he stands by the women who have accused his former co-star of sexual harassment.", "Millions of votes on Thursday's elections will provide a jigsaw of results but creating a pattern will prove more complex.", "Chelsea defeat Real Madrid to set up an all-English Champions League final against Manchester City on 29 May in Istanbul.", "Covid deaths were only recorded in 12 of Scotland's 32 local authorities last week, figures reveal.", "Parties battled to win hearts and minds on the last day of the election campaign in Wales.", "The rate drops for mothers of every measured race and ethnicity, and in nearly every age group.", "A young child buried in a cave 78,000 years ago is the earliest known funeral in Africa.", "Almost £30m of government funding will fast-track vaccines that fight new variants of coronavirus.", "Joao Vale de Almeida will be immune from taxation or prosecution, as with officials from sovereign nations.", "The department store will disappear from high streets on 15 May after more than two centuries.", "", "Julia James's dog, a Jack Russell named Toby, was found next to her body, police say.", "South Africa's Zulu nation awaits a decision on who will succeed the queen, who died last week.", "The peer and ex-MP will instead use his position in Parliament to \"advance the cause of the union\".", "The former president releases a new website after his social media ban earlier this year.", "Thursday's votes mark the first test for parties since the 2019 general election and the pandemic.", "The Amazon.com founder will launch people into space on his New Shepard vehicle on 20 July.", "Rachel Elwell says she is facing bankruptcy after losing money to a scammer.", "Bristol University student Olisa Odukwe, 20, was last seen leaving his home in the city on Saturday.", "The UK is \"likely to be on a steady course now out of this pandemic\", Prof Neil Ferguson says.", "The online retailer said full-year sales jumped 41% as the pandemic boosted demand for loungewear.", "Overall, the number of adults who feel depressed has doubled since before the pandemic.", "Home fitness equipment firm recalls Tread and Tread+ machines after six-year-old child pulled under treadmill.", "It is \"unacceptable\" some care home providers are not following government guidance, a new report says.", "BBC Wales political editor Felicity Evans on how the pandemic has shaken up the race to lead Wales.", "The service encourages customers to sell back furniture they no longer need in return for vouchers to spend in-store.", "A cloud of flammable gas the size of 26 Olympic swimming pools leaked from a cracked pipe in May 2017.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Covid-19 and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The accountancy giant is the latest firm to introduce hybrid working after lockdown.", "There were 211 coronavirus patients in hospital beds on Tuesday - and only three in critical care.", "The event will include a broadcast of the opening of the British Normandy Memorial in France.", "Nadhim Zahawi says clinical trials will be looking at what mix of jabs offers most protection.", "Experts tell the BBC that delays in decision-making worsened the crisis of India's second wave.", "Staff are being encouraged to return to office-based working when Covid restrictions are lifted.", "Almost 40 UK companies say proposed laws could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon region.", "He appeared in a Levi's advert in 1985 and had a top five hit with Each Time You Break My Heart.", "Voters go to the polls on Thursday in elections across England, Scotland and Wales.", "The trial hears former Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson was Tasered, kicked and hit with a baton.", "Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots and MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson are bidding to succeed Arlene Foster.", "Police believe the item was placed on the bird's head deliberately and could have proved fatal.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening.", "The students stepped forward to help chaperone women home after a hoax rape post on social media.", "The UK government reacts to a French threat to cut electricity supplies to Jersey.", "The foreign minister - who met Home Secretary Priti Patel on Tuesday - will carry out meetings virtually.", "Boris Johnson's former aide says the PM is \"unfit for the job\" over his handling of the pandemic.", "Gina Ingles and four-year-old Milo Ingles-Bailey died in a fire after a row over drugs debts.", "The health secretary is also grilled over the testing of patients discharged from hospitals to care homes.", "Air France and Austrian Airlines routes to Moscow are halted as Russia rejects new flight plans.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says it is \"critical\" to monitor the link between cases and hospitalisations.", "The actor has been granted joint custody of his children with Angelina Jolie after a court battle.", "The rail firm failed to engage properly with a member of the public who had to sell their home, a report says.", "Prof Stephen Hawking's scientific papers and personal possessions to be saved for the nation.", "Inspectors find dedicated and hard-working staff administering thousands of jabs at the sites.", "Trade minister Greg Hands says UK farmers should \"be positive, not fearful\" of Australia agreement.", "British subscription site OnlyFans is failing to prevent underage users from selling and appearing in explicit videos, a BBC investigation has found.", "Two rare celestial events have coincided as the Moon appears larger during a lunar eclipse.", "It was \"a terrible mistake\" not to explain his Durham lockdown journey, PM's ex aide says.", "The mother of Sofia Sapega, who was arrested when her flight was grounded in Minsk, speaks to the BBC.", "As Western pressure grows, Alexander Lukashenko says his country's critics are \"strangling\" Belarus.", "Jack Black and Miranda Cosgrove lead tributes to the musician, who was killed in a traffic accident.", "A profile of Boris Johnson's former right-hand-man, who has turned into his chief tormentor.", "A legal challenge over a delay in commissioning services is taking place at Belfast's High Court.", "No 10 will try to brush off the ex-aide's claims but they reveal an administration scrambling on many fronts.", "The health secretary denies claims he misled the PM at the start of the pandemic about testing.", "But Boris Johnson says he sees nothing \"currently in the data\" to suggest unlocking will have to be delayed.", "Gloucestershire Police has been searching a cafe cellar for suspected victim Mary Bastholm.", "The US author of the best-selling children's classic passed away last Sunday, his family said.", "Sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were found dead in a park in Wembley last June.", "It's a year since businesses made racial diversity pledges following George Floyd’s death - so what has changed?", "It's increasingly likely that a key temperature limit will be reached in one of the next five years.", "Goalkeeper David de Gea sees a penalty saved in an epic shootout as Villarreal beat Manchester United to win the Europa League.", "Matt Hancock says he gets up each day and asks \"what must do I to protect life?\" as that is the job of the health secretary.", "The ex-chief adviser accused the government of causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.", "Venues will need to limit groups to a maximum of six people from six households.", "A warning on NatWest's banking app warns customers to beware of cryptocurrency scams.", "France joins Austria and Germany in introducing restrictions due to the spread of the Indian variant.", "Tiger Woods says \"walking on my own\" is his number one priority as he continues to recover from the multiple leg injuries he sustained in a car crash.", "The BBC's Angus Crawford joins police as they look for vulnerable young people involved in county lines.", "Commons leader says MP should be \"honourable\" and quit as he is suspended for sexual misconduct.", "The most detailed map of dark matter in the Universe is puzzling physicists.", "Lisa Shaw's family say the 44-year-old fell seriously ill days after having the AstraZeneca jab.", "It follows a report from the spending watchdog that found thousands were still waiting on payments.", "The Ombudsman will look at how the PSNI dealt with a BLM protest compared to Bobby Storey's funeral.", "The online rental platform said on Thursday it was \"in the best interest of public health\".", "MPs and Lords will examine the issue, estimated to have affected 250,000 unmarried women over 30 years.", "A number of senior party figures walked out before the new leader made his speech.", "Only one of 19-month-old Carson's parents can go with him to appointments due to Covid rules.", "Two female passengers crawled out of the boot during the traffic stop in North Yorkshire.", "Travellers with Ryanair and EasyJet were told they could not fly because they had taken the wrong PCR test.", "Prof Catherine Heymans says she wants to use the title to encourage people to develop passion for science.", "Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford says he has received \"at least 70 racial slurs\" on social media following the Europa League final loss to Villarreal.", "Scottish Labour leader says families are \"still fighting for truth and justice\" over infections at flagship hospital.", "Mark Drakeford returns to work after his Welsh election win to consider easing lockdown rules.", "The WHO says the B.1.617 mutation spreads more easily than other variants and requires further study.", "Portugal is set to host the Champions League final after Uefa failed to receive the guarantees of exemptions it wants if it is to move the game to Wembley.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the changes will come into effect in most of the country from Monday.", "The boy, who was taking part in a football coaching session, was taken to hospital but did not survive.", "More than 400 knives are seized as part of an operation to reduce violence in London.", "People will be allowed to meet indoors again, initially in groups of up to six from three households, and they will be allowed to hug.", "The Prince of Wales references the loss of his father in a message to Muslims to mark Eid.", "Police looking for suspected murder victim Mary Bastholm are deciding how much of the site to dig up.", "Callum Wheeler, 21, from Aylesham, has appeared in court charged with Julia James's murder.", "Evidence is being gathered in Wales on secondary school pupils continuing to wear masks.", "The UK's Brexit Minister Lord Frost says the current NI Protocol cannot be sustainable for long.", "The best data yet on the deepest points in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern oceans.", "Labour's deputy leader says she believes in the party leader \"100%\" after being moved to a new role.", "Campaigners are dismayed as the government announces a consultation before the practice is banned.", "Manchester City win a third Premier League title in four years after closest challengers Manchester United lose to Leicester City.", "People will be able to use the app for travel - but only if they have received two vaccine doses.", "UK singer Dua Lipa won two awards and gave a message to PM Boris Johnson, at the in-person event.", "Jonathon Seed withdrew from the Police and Crime Commissioner election due to a driving conviction.", "Boosting jobs and skills are key Queen's Speech priorities - but social care funding is not included.", "DJs and dancers share their experiences of the \"big energy\" at the first club night since lockdown.", "The sandwich chain will open cafes in some supermarkets in a bid to reach more people working from home.", "Boris Johnson presented government plans for new laws which Labour leader Keir Starmer said lacked urgency and ambition", "The trial of six people over a protest at a newspaper printing works is held up on its first day.", "Swansea City and Newport County's home play-off legs will be the first Welsh major sporting events with fans in more than a year.", "It comes after Steve Aiken, who has resigned as leader, said the party was \"not breaking through\".", "Queen Elizabeth ll opens Parliament, setting out the government's plans.", "The juvenile minke whale had become stuck against a river wall in south-west London.", "The monarch attended the State Opening of Parliament, a month after the death of her husband.", "Football, cricket, festivals and theatrical events are among test events welcoming back audiences.", "Legal action in the UK seeks compensation from Apple for high prices from a lack of competition.", "A 21-year-old man is due in court charged with the murder of the police community support officer.", "In the Queen's Speech debate the PM tells MPs it will be set up within this parliamentary session.", "Adults will be offered \"lifelong\" training loans under measures being announced in the Queen's Speech.", "The Scottish Qualifications Authority tells schools they must investigate malpractice and penalise candidates.", "A love of Cornwall is a must for this job and people who suffer from sea sickness need not apply.", "Jonathan Seed was elected as Swindon and Wiltshire PCC, but he was ineligible to stand for the role.", "A look at the background to the events of 1971 in west Belfast and bereaved families' search for truth.", "David Cameron and his staff sent ministers and officials 45 messages in less than four months.", "European and US markets fall amid worries that inflation is set to pick up.", "Mark Drakeford is set to stay as first minister after Labour won the most Senedd election seats.", "Villagers are advised to be vigilant about Bradford and Birmingham, where scam hotspots are located.", "A charity, which has helped more than 500 dogs, hopes to raise £250,000.", "It is the first time Boris Johnson has put a timeframe on when an inquiry into the pandemic will be held.", "Yat-Sen Chang attacked female students while working in London between 2009 and 2016.", "Local authorities say at least eight people have bee killed in the Russian city of Kazan and many more hurt.", "One licensee says some businesses are \"desperate\" with bank accounts running dry.", "All the latest news and reaction to an inquest into the deaths of 10 people in west Belfast in 1971.", "Violence in Gaza and Israel shows no sign of abating amid rocket fire, air strikes and civil unrest.", "Thousands marched from Ibrox Stadium to celebrate Scottish title triumph after club and police urged crowds to disperse.", "Many of the intended passengers on the repatriation flight were barred after positive Covid tests.", "A major US chain acts after a customer pulled a gun in a fight over the collectible trading cards.", "The bank insists no customers will be out of pocket as it works to fix problems accessing accounts.", "Rangers end the Scottish Premiership season unbeaten with a comfortable win over Aberdeen as they officially lift the Scottish title for the 55th time.", "A report says 45% of the world's supply of a key panel component is obtained by a system of coercion.", "Doctors face action for speaking about work concerns before, during and after Covid, a union says.", "But the number of people helped by the funding \"will only scratch the surface\", charity Crisis warns.", "In at least one case a child was kept on a coach for four days, waiting to join his family.", "As bars, pubs and restaurants prepare to welcome customers back indoors, some will not reopen at all.", "The company says seeing Prince Louis on the saddle was a \"very pleasant surprise\".", "Second jabs for the over-50s and clinically vulnerable will be given sooner to ease concerns, PM says.", "Dubai is the world's busiest airport and its boss says vaccine passports will get us flying again.", "Ceremony at the Cenotaph marks exact moment the charity was formed a century ago at 09:00 BST.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made the announcement as cases continued to increase in Glasgow.", "The bank says all of its services are now working as normal and promises \"no one will be out of pocket\".", "With some scientists suggesting it could spread 50% faster, England's easing of rules is in jeopardy.", "BBC producer Adnan Elbursh was broadcasting live from Gaza City when a building behind him was hit.", "It means adults regardless of income, will be given money to cover essential living costs.", "Andy Murray will not play at the French Open and will instead focus on preparing for the grass-court season.", "The nest platform at Lyn Brenig on the Conwy/Denbighshire border was rebuilt after the attack.", "A warning was given before the tower block, which housed news outlets, was destroyed.", "More than two-thirds of the adult population has been reached by the vaccination programme.", "Palestinians and the Israeli security forces clash during protests in the occupied West Bank.", "Hamas is a militant Palestinian Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip.", "Airport bosses say they are \"shocked\" by the violence, which broke out on Friday morning.", "As fighting escalates, the social network has become a platform for airing grievances.", "Eligible people in areas where the Indian virus variant is spreading are urged to get vaccinated.", "Labour calls for an investigation into a letter from Priti Patel, saying she did \"a favour to her friend\".", "The DUP's new leader decided against speaking to the media - so here's what we would have asked him.", "People are being asked to take a cautious approach when restrictions ease further on Monday.", "Pupils in parts of north-west England continue wearing face masks in school amid variant concerns.", "Health officials in Gaza say 188 Palestinians have died since Monday, while Israel reports 10 dead.", "The Israeli military says the Iron Dome is intercepting about 90% of the rockets fired from Gaza.", "Alex Scott describes her pride and excitement at taking over as the new presenter of Football Focus.", "Leicester City lift the FA Cup for the first time as Youri Tielemans' stunning long-range goal earns victory over Chelsea at Wembley.", "Two tourism bodies are concerned about rules on visitors arriving from the Common Travel Area.", "The NI agriculture minister will succeed Arlene Foster as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.", "A charity says urgent reform is needed to stop people going without support.", "A UK task force arrived in the West African country last year as part of a UN peacekeeping mission.", "The six-wheeled robot has made the hazardous descent to the surface of the Red Planet, China announces.", "Wealthier nations should instead donate more vaccines to low-income countries, the health body says.", "The corporation said he was leaving his post due to ongoing health issues.", "After 240 years of trading, Debenhams's remaining stores are welcoming customers for the last time.", "Organisers urge the UK government to help end the fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants.", "Colleagues and listeners remember a \"true professional\" known for her humour and infectious laugh.", "People coming to the country without a visa or immigration status will need a permit, the government says.", "Phil Mickelson becomes the oldest man to win a major as he claims the US PGA Championship to win a sixth major title.", "Sasha Johnson has been described as a \"powerful voice\" who has always campaigned for black people.", "Platforms are told to take down all content that refers to an \"Indian variant\" of the coronavirus.", "Health chief urges people to get their second jab, as more than 760,000 doses are given in a day.", "Kim Leadbeater is Labour's by-election candidate in Batley and Spen - her sister's old seat.", "The woman, thought to be aged in her 20s, was wounded in Peckham in the early hours.", "Morale among supporters of Gaza's armed groups remains intact after the 11-day conflict with Israel.", "The home secretary rejects a claim by ex-aide Dominic Cummings that ministers wanted the virus to spread.", "Animal Rebellion formed blockades at four different depots to stop lorries from leaving.", "James Wolffe QC and Alison Di Rollo QC say they will remain in post until replacements are appointed.", "With Priti Patel MP, Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Dr Jenny Harries and Dame Esther Rantzen.", "The flaw could allow people to edit personal details on vaccination status certificates after downloading them.", "Sir Richard Branson's spaceplane completes the first of three key test flights above New Mexico.", "Mediators try to cement the truce, as Israel and Palestinian militants take stock of an 11-day conflict.", "Police were called to reports of a stabbing but Dean Bennett died after being flown to hospital.", "Morale among supporters of Gaza's armed groups remains intact after the 11-day conflict with Israel.", "Freezing rain and winds hit a long-distance race in a mountainous tourist site in China.", "Awards are set up to honour Saroj Lal one of the first Asian women to teach in a Scottish primary school.", "Ernestine Kabuo says she was unable to carry her husband as she fled a volcanic eruption in DR Congo.", "Police are helping farmers in north Wales to use technology to tackle thefts and scams.", "Thousands flee the city of Goma as nearby Mount Nyiragongo throws huge lava fountains into the air.", "The Duke of Cambridge says his connection with the country \"will forever run deep\" in a speech.", "The Equality and Human Rights Commission says the LGTB group's scheme is not \"best value for money\".", "First pictures have emerged after the cable car fell on a mountain in northern Italy.", "Three men and a 16-year-old boy have been arrested on suspicion of unlawful violence.", "Gift cards and bonuses are being used to fill vacancies as the hospitality sector emerges from lockdown.", "The lead singer of the winning Italian band Måneskin dismisses online speculation about cocaine use.", "Metal bars were also recovered after armed police were called to reports of youths with weapons.", "Trials suggest dogs could contribute to efforts to prevent the spread of Covid at mass gatherings.", "Swansea City will battle Brentford for a place in the Premier League after a tense 1-1 draw with Barnsley gives them a 2-1 aggregate victory in the Championship play-off semi-final.", "The UK has now delivered more than 60m vaccines, after 762,361 were given on Saturday.", "They are effective against symptomatic disease but protection is low after only one dose, a study says.", "A total of seven people have now been arrested after violence erupted on Thursday.", "A young family had their computers and phones seized after, it seems, their router was hacked.", "Dukakis was a celebrated stage actress before winning fame on screen in 80s hits like Moonstruck.", "DJs and dancers share their experiences of the \"big energy\" at the first club night since lockdown.", "Joseph Parker recovers from being knocked down in the opening 10 seconds to beat Derek Chisora on points.", "The government says the \"tough decision\" to reduce its contributions by 60% was due to the pandemic.", "PC Benjamin Kemp also used CS spray after unsuccessfully trying to handcuff the teenager.", "What did Welsh party leaders say in Thursday's BBC Wales TV election debate?", "The Florida measure will fine companies that violate the rules up to $250,000 per day.", "A year on from the peak of the pandemic, care home staff recall how the death rate almost trebled.", "The group in Hampshire says it is \"by far and away the biggest change\" in its 30-year history.", "Severn Trent says the mass of oil, grease and \"unflushable\" items could take until June to clear.", "The famous cake was battered and deep fried by a Lanarkshire chip shop owner as a trade-up to the traditional Mars bar.", "The situation continues to worsen as it reports more than 400,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day.", "Property values in less densely-populated areas have risen faster than elsewhere, the Resolution Foundation says.", "Ministers believe the contact-tracing app has prevented 600,000 cases of the disease in England and Wales.", "The actor denies any sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing and no police investigation has begun.", "Jobs, independence and debt feature in the parties' campaigns ahead of Thursday's election.", "BBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams brands those responsible as \"morons\".", "Nasa is so pleased with the success of the Ingenuity helicopter, it is extending its mission.", "The PM's attitude to facts is based not on what's real, but what he wants there and then, say sources.", "A photo of the fourth in line to the throne, taken by her mother, is released to mark the day.", "Celebrity chef Matt Pritchard rows the Atlantic Ocean in a four-man crew's charity challenge.", "The rules will be relaxed in England - allowing for day trips without 14 days' quarantine afterwards.", "The actor tells Oprah Winfrey transitioning made him \"feel comfortable in my body for the first time\".", "More than 13m adults have strongest level of protection against Covid as 42-year-olds invited for vaccine.", "The PM's attitude to facts is based not on what's real, but what he wants there and then, say sources.", "It would see an online book of remembrance installed in a new structure at the cathedral.", "One officer was knocked out and another was also punched at the premises in County Tyrone.", "Australia makes it temporarily illegal to return from India, which is being ravaged by Covid-19.", "People from an Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi background suffered more, the Lancet study shows.", "Over a quarter of 2021's music festivals have been scrapped but organisers say others are under threat.", "A 16-year-old boy is among five people held in a series of raids across England and Wales.", "Mourners continue laying flowers in Aylesham, including tributes from the family of Julia James.", "Offensive slogans were painted on the baby memorial and other graves in Dunfermline cemetery.", "The actor denies wrongdoing but says some of his actions \"affected people in ways I did not intend\".", "\"I'm not a doctor,\" the US podcast host said, after suggesting young people could pass on vaccines.", "At least 11 people are dead and scores hurt after a violent storm hit eastern China on Friday evening.", "Violence flares in some countries where rallies to mark Labour Day are held despite Covid-19 rules.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday.", "Labour is swept aside in several former council strongholds but does better in mayoral races.", "Results and reaction after of the 60 Senedd seats were declared.", "Footage shows a man wielding a knife in front of shoppers inside the famous department store.", "Nicola Sturgeon will take part - but tells Boris Johnson another referendum is a \"matter of when - not if\".", "How the pandemic cannabis boom led to chaos on the Navajo Nation, pitting two minorities against each other.", "Scotland's first minister has spoken to Boris Johnson for the first time since the SNP's election victory.", "Police investigating the community support officer's death are given more time to question a man.", "Welsh election result allows Mark Drakeford's government to work with parties on \"case-by-case basis\".", "These shake-ups are not necessarily noticed by the public, but they matter to parties and Parliament.", "Calls to shadow ministers are starting hours after news of a Labour post-election shake-up broke.", "Given the successful rollout of the vaccination programme, we are now in a much healthier place.", "Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds is replaced by Rachel Reeves as Sir Keir Starmer changes his top team.", "The attack took place as the students - thought to be mainly girls - were leaving the Kabul school.", "Natasha Asghar hopes to inspire others and said the Senedd should reflect \"more diverse communities\".", "All the latest news about London elections 2021 from the BBC", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer reshuffles his shadow cabinet after the party's poor election results.", "Manchester United guarantee a Premier League top-four finish with a victory over Aston Villa that ensures rivals Manchester City must wait to seal title.", "The burger chain says it is planning to open 400 outlets, creating around 12,000 jobs over several years.", "Are the party's gains in Thursday's polls a flash in the pan or the start of something bigger, asks Chris Mason.", "Labour's fortunes in Wales seem a world away from its troubles in England, what's going on?", "The whale, believed to be a baby Minke, was spotted in Richmond Lock yesterday evening and has since been moved.", "After two days of counting here are some of the key outcomes of the Holyrood 2021 vote.", "The former first minister set up the Alba party in March and had hoped to win a seat at Holyrood.", "Winning candidates in the four force areas are named as parties still mull over the Senedd results.", "Rail firms GWR and LNER warn of issues on long-distance routes after cracks were found on some trains.", "National elections in Scotland and Wales and local elections in England took place on 6 May 2021.", "Mark Drakeford is set to stay as first minister after Labour won the most Senedd election seats.", "Find out how to keep up to date with live election results on TV, radio, online and on social media.", "The Labour candidate promises to \"build bridges\" with the government in his victory speech.", "Most of the victims of Saturday's blasts which killed more than 60 near a Kabul school were girls.", "The Tory incumbent beats Labour's Liam Byrne to retain the position he has held for four years.", "Angela Rayner has also been removed as campaign coordinator following Labour's poor election results.", "In the fight between Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon, there can only be one winner.", "Sir Keir Starmer promises to fix Labour's trust problem after constituency elects its first Tory MP.", "Israeli police fired water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse Palestinian protesters, some of whom threw projectiles at police.", "A Conservative spokesperson confirms Jonathon Seed will not take up the post if he wins the election.", "UK minister Michael Gove tells the BBC's Andrew Marr that his government would not go to court to stop a second Scottish independence referendum.", "Researchers believe the nine unlucky individuals may have been hunted and killed by hyenas.", "Embraces should be selective, short, and avoid face-to-face contact, says Sage member Prof Cath Noakes.", "The Met Police has urged the baby's mother to seek medical assistance by dialling 999.", "The Cabinet Office Minister says \"all being well\" restrictions will be relaxed on 17 May.", "Some complementary medicines result in marginal weight loss but do not benefit health, study suggests.", "The Queen's cousin denies he has close ties to Vladimir Putin after an undercover investigation.", "The SNP won 64 seats in the Scottish Parliament - one more than last time but one short of a majority.", "The picture across Scotland as the SNP win a fourth consecutive victory in the Scottish Parliament.", "They're still too expensive and there are not enough charging points, a report warns.", "Jennifer Johnson lied in court to protect Russell Bishop after he murdered two nine-year-old girls.", "A behavioural code makes it harder for working-class mandarins to reach the top, report says.", "Health officials hope the event will increase public confidence in getting the vaccination.", "Psychologists warn teachers' grades could be influenced by students' personality rather than ability.", "Were arrivals from Pakistan and Bangladesh three times more likely to have Covid than those from India?", "DUP leader-designate Edwin Poots says he would \"assume\" it may happen to him at some stage.", "The US president tells Benjamin Netanyahu he wants a \"significant\" move towards a ceasefire.", "The emergence of the Indian variant makes vaccinations \"even more important\", Matt Hancock says.", "The New York attorney general's investigation of the Trump Organisation is \"no longer purely civil\".", "Survivors of the crash described it as \"like being inside a washing machine\", an inquest hears.", "Defeated in the election, Trump will soon become a private citizen again. A legal storm awaits him.", "Boris Johnson says not to go but some travel firms are refusing refunds for those destinations.", "They recommend reopening borders for countries with low Covid rates - a list will be agreed this week.", "Seeing defendants face-to-face in court causes unnecessary stress, the victims' commissioner says.", "Manager Sam Allardyce will leave West Brom at the end of the season, the club confirm.", "Average UK house prices soared by 10.2% over the year to March 2021, the highest annual growth rate for 14 years", "Companies House threatens to dissolve Gwyneth Paltrow's firm in the UK over an accounts filing row.", "The price of Bitcoin fell below $34,000 for the first time in three months after China imposed fresh curbs.", "\"Public order officers suddenly turned up and we were locked in,\" said one resident.", "Buckingham Palace says the Royal Family is \"delighted\" with the news, following her wedding in 2020.", "About 80 people were evacuated because of flooding related to mine works in south Wales in January.", "Police said a masked man was filmed deliberately setting fire to three vehicles at the home of Peter Lawwell.", "Jenny McGee says NHS workers are not getting the pay or respect they deserve from the government.", "Boris Johnson tells MPs he is sorry for the handling of investigations into the 10 deaths in 1971.", "Publication of the report into Daniel Morgan's unsolved murder is held up by a Home Office review.", "Earlier US President Biden told Netanyahu he expected a \"significant de-escalation\" on Wednesday.", "BBC Panorama finds dozens of reports into concerns over hospital services have not been made public.", "Joseph Blount told the Wall Street Journal that he authorised the payment following the cyber-attack.", "The PM's ex-adviser posts tweets calling the handling of the pandemic \"part disaster, part non-existent\".", "The award-winning actor says he was ashamed to make the condition public, but now \"it's time\".", "The findings will help scientific advisers decide if re-vaccinating people in the autumn is necessary.", "Ministers failed to prepare for a threat on the scale of the pandemic, the spending watchdog says.", "Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp likens the victory at Burnley to winning \"a semi-final\" that takes them to Sunday's \"final\" against Crystal Palace and the chance to seal a top-four finish.", "Health officials confirm the landmark is passed less than six months since the vaccination programme began.", "\"Today is a day I'm so happy to share more of my life with you all,\" the US singer tells fans.", "A police officer denies murder and manslaughter, after ex-Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson died.", "Inflation in the UK rose by 1.5% in the year to April, compared with 0.7% in March.", "Boris Johnson faced questions about government travel advice and the Indian variant of coronavirus.", "The Senedd could expand from 60 to up to 90 members, which could cost £12m more a year.", "Ian Blackford attacks a proposed Australian trade deal, but the PM says it is a \"massive opportunity\".", "The Speaker of the House said heads of state should not attend the Games due to human rights abuses.", "Organisers hope to stage a one-day event, after cancelling this summer's main festival.", "A woman says a lack of basic information about her mother's death has left her feeling \"numb\".", "Boris Johnson says \"we’ll know a lot more in a few days time\", amid concern over the Indian variant.", "The deaths occurred before 30 April, when almost three million people had received at least a first dose.", "People travelling to foreign countries which require a record of vaccination status can download a certificate from an NHS portal.", "A team of experts is excavating the cellar of a cafe in the search for missing Mary Bastholm.", "Grodin, who was best known for roles in Midnight Run and Beethoven, died of cancer, his son says.", "The health secretary urges everyone to get vaccinated on 19 May, as UK cases of the Indian variant reach almost 3,000.", "An \"unrelenting focus\" must be placed on NI waiting lists, leading academic says.", "Older farmers in England will be paid to retire under a government scheme.", "Oxford vaccine leader Prof Andrew Pollard says adults in poorer countries should be protected first.", "Ministers have been urged to act on a pledge to extend the benefit to co-habiting couples.", "The first minister unveils her revamped cabinet team, with several new faces being appointed to key roles.", "Steve Clarke springs a surprise by including uncapped trio Billy Gilmour, Nathan Patterson and David Turnbull in Scotland's 26-man squad for Euro 2020.", "The uniformed police officer was filmed at a Palestine solidarity demonstration on Saturday.", "A Thai man describes what it is like working in southern Israel when militants in Gaza fire rockets.", "A pre-recorded performance will be used instead after a member of Daði og Gagnamagnið tests positive.", "Women who had the breast implants say they are delighted by the \"victory\" after 10 years fighting for justice.", "UK holidaymakers are reportedly double-booking breaks this summer to make sure they don't miss out.", "PM Pedro Sánchez vows to restore order as migrants wade and swim into Ceuta from Morocco.", "The Met Office issued a yellow 'be aware' warning as the unseasonal weather affected travel on key routes.", "New York's major theatres have been closed since March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "Travellers returning from \"red list\" countries say they can't afford the UK's quarantine fees.", "The price rise for single-use bags will be extended to all businesses in England from 21 May.", "Clinics often cannot guarantee women can get the vaccine type required when booking an appointment.", "A father and an Oxford student seek a High Court hearing to require age verification on porn sites.", "Halima Cissé, 25, gave birth to nonuplets at a clinic in Morocco in an \"extremely rare\" case.", "Arsenal's Europa League hopes are dashed as Villarreal seal a semi-final victory that almost certainly ends the Gunners' unbroken 25-season run of appearing in European competition.", "Environmental groups suspect a prince from Austria killed the brown bear while hunting in Romania.", "A privacy campaign says it is \"shocking\" the details can be obtained through the website in England.", "Chelsea defeat Real Madrid to set up an all-English Champions League final against Manchester City on 29 May in Istanbul.", "The economy is set to enjoy its strongest growth in more than 70 years as Covid-19 restrictions lift.", "The UK's dominant services sector rebounded in April as lockdown restrictions were eased.", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "The rate drops for mothers of every measured race and ethnicity, and in nearly every age group.", "Reducing methane emissions needs to play a much more important role in tackling global warming.", "The gap between poor pupils and their classmates is unlikely to narrow without intervention, researchers say.", "The \"blind box\" craze sees people order a box containing a mystery animal that is sent in the post.", "It is the longest period Scotland has seen no Covid deaths following a positive test since September.", "Research by Which? looked at a selection of older routers still being used by customers.", "Elite sports women struggled with access to equipment and financial difficulties, an academic says.", "The son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who live in California, turns two today.", "Mayra Zulfiqar asked for protection in Pakistan less than two weeks before she died, the BBC learns.", "Last year, deaths rose from March onwards and were mostly related to long-term drinking problems.", "The latest on the French protest over Jersey's fishing licence system.", "Economy expected to grow by 7.25% in 2021 as lockdown restrictions are eased, says Bank of England.", "The Amazon.com founder will launch people into space on his New Shepard vehicle on 20 July.", "The Grammy Award-winning song was copied from an unknown US rapper, he claims in court documents.", "The rocket concept chosen by Nasa to land astronauts on the Moon completes an impressive test flight.", "Covid-19 restrictions forced the 85-year-old Lake District Ski Club to close during the winter.", "Scots have cast their votes, but they will not be counted until Friday and Saturday - when will the outcome be known?", "The shootout took place during a police operation in a favela in the Brazilian city.", "The Levi's model, actor and singer's biggest hit single was co-written by the queen of pop.", "Police believe James Gibbons was stabbed to death when he went to the aid of another man.", "Find out how to keep up to date with live election results on TV, radio, online and on social media.", "The accountancy giant is the latest firm to introduce hybrid working after lockdown.", "Travel will be more expensive as airlines cannot afford to bring many planes back into service.", "The government says it is \"pleased\" French vessels have left but the Royal Navy remains on standby.", "Crimestoppers appeal for information to help find the person responsible for Julia James' murder.", "The social media platform will prompt users to review \"potentially harmful or offensive\" replies.", "Health officials have elevated one version of the India virus to a \"variant of concern\".", "The region has an infection rate that is four times the Scotland-wide level, officials warn.", "Police believe the item was placed on the bird's head deliberately and could have proved fatal.", "The party gains a seat from Labour and two from the Conservatives but misses out on other key targets.", "The UK government reacts to a French threat to cut electricity supplies to Jersey.", "President Alexander Lukashenko has kept Belarus in an iron grip, but protests have intensified.", "The dad of a 14-year-old who died after being found at school tells an inquest his son was bullied.", "Two-year-old George Hinds died in the explosion in Heysham, Lancashire, on 16 May.", "A profile of the blogger whose arrest made world headlines when his plane was diverted to Minsk.", "People in overcrowded homes will be offered alternative accommodation in a bid to improve compliance.", "At least 10% of every country's population should be vaccinated by September, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says.", "Phil Mickelson becomes the oldest man to win a major as he claims the US PGA Championship to win a sixth major title.", "Sasha Johnson has been described as a \"powerful voice\" who has always campaigned for black people.", "Kim Leadbeater is Labour's by-election candidate in Batley and Spen - her sister's old seat.", "Health chief urges people to get their second jab, as more than 760,000 doses are given in a day.", "Fiame Naomi Mata'afa holds makeshift swearing-in ceremony in a tent after opponent locks the doors.", "It is exactly 100 years since voters went to the polls across the newly-created state.", "The struggling steel-maker says the move will allow it to pay back one of its main creditors in full.", "The home secretary rejects a claim by ex-aide Dominic Cummings that ministers wanted the virus to spread.", "The nuptials reportedly took place at the same time as India's official death toll passed 300,000.", "The chain, which has seen huge losses in the pandemic, says film fans have flocked back to its cinemas.", "The BBC has learned a \"considerable\" number of no shows were recorded this weekend at Glasgow's Hydro.", "Energy regulator Ofgem has approved funding for infrastructure needed to support more charging points.", "The president of the FIA governing body from 1993 to 2009 was also a prominent privacy campaigner.", "James Wolffe QC and Alison Di Rollo QC say they will remain in post until replacements are appointed.", "A review is announced after the inquiry into the 1995 BBC interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.", "One man is charged following dawn raids in London, Coventry, Birmingham and Essex.", "Carwyn Jones defends his record in power after being announced as chair of a climate charity.", "Teachers say they are not equipped to deal with peer-on-peer sexual abuse, as they have had no training.", "Socks and a TV box coloured red and white are treated as opposition protests in Belarus.", "India took less than a month to record its last 100,000 deaths but experts warn the toll is much higher.", "Roman Protasevich was removed from an EU-bound jet when it was forced to land in Minsk.", "A test clears Måneskin's lead singer of drug use during the competition's grand final.", "Cases of the so-called Indian variant are rising, the chief medical officer for Wales has warned.", "The helpline, set up to tackle harassment in education settings, has made 65 referrals to other agencies.", "Mhari O'Neill is thought to have died from hypothermia and intoxication after being abandoned by Ewan Fulton.", "Ernestine Kabuo says she was unable to carry her husband as she fled a volcanic eruption in DR Congo.", "The father of an activist who was detained after his flight was diverted tells the BBC he is \"really afraid\".", "The Equality and Human Rights Commission says the LGTB group's scheme is not \"best value for money\".", "First pictures have emerged after the cable car fell on a mountain in northern Italy.", "Gift cards and bonuses are being used to fill vacancies as the hospitality sector emerges from lockdown.", "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said it appears there were KGB security agents on the flight.", "Trials suggest dogs could contribute to efforts to prevent the spread of Covid at mass gatherings.", "The lead singer of the winning Italian band Måneskin dismisses online speculation about cocaine use.", "Councils fund places at the specialist school in Hackney for pupils with autism and behavioural issues.", "Paul Farrell has been linked to at least 500 instances of child abuse over 35 years.", "Ethan Powell's father says he is \"disgusted\" by people who rioted after his son's vigil.", "The case rate in the city is now above one of the key benchmarks for the move to level two", "There are calls for more support for adoptees - as social media searches for birth families rise.", "Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill say ministers will discuss restrictions when they meet on Thursday.", "Government inspector Max Caller says staff at Liverpool City Council felt intimidated to speak out.", "An inquest found that 10 people killed in west Belfast in an Army operation in 1971 were innocent.", "The boy, named locally as Jordan Banks, was taking part in a football coaching session in Blackpool.", "The city's importance explained, as the controversial US embassy move to the city goes ahead.", "Benjamin Recio-Nugent is due to be released soon after serving half his sentence for raping a woman.", "Inspectors found Dyfed-Powys Police failed to record thousands of crimes, despite a previous warning.", "Researchers gathered data on violence-related injuries from 133 NHS centres in England and Wales.", "The state will be \"under the microscope\", Boris Johnson says, as Labour urges an earlier start date.", "Labour's deputy leader says she believes in the party leader \"100%\" after being moved to a new role.", "The claim - made against the PM over an alleged unpaid debt of £535 - is without merit, says Downing Street.", "\"As great as this show is, and as fun as it is, it's just not a challenge any more,\" she explains.", "Universities in England could face fines if they fail to protect free speech on campus under new legislation.", "Portugal is set to host the Champions League final after Uefa failed to receive the guarantees of exemptions it wants if it is to move the game to Wembley.", "A wide-ranging plan to improve welfare also enshrines in law that animals can experience emotions.", "The cost of renting in some UK cities - particularly London - has fallen prompting a rise in demand.", "Researchers are still analysing whether injecting two different vaccines leads to better protection.", "One of the few clues to the soldier's identity is a scrap of paper with the name Keller Len Scott written on it.", "The boy, who was taking part in a football coaching session, was taken to hospital but did not survive.", "The 75-year-old was convicted in 2016 of genocide during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.", "Boris Johnson announces an independent inquiry looking into coronavirus in the UK will start next spring.", "All the latest news and reaction to an inquest into the deaths of 10 people in west Belfast in 1971.", "Nine-year-old Jordan Banks was \"the brightest star\" and \"our everything\", his family says.", "He worked with Hitchcock, played tennis with Chaplin and made his final film with Judd Apatow.", "Kim Leadbeater announces her intention to stand for election in Jo Cox's former constituency.", "Manchester City win a third Premier League title in four years after closest challengers Manchester United lose to Leicester City.", "A love of Cornwall is a must for this job and people who suffer from sea sickness need not apply.", "Militants fired missiles towards the Israeli city of Tel Aviv in retaliation after a tower block in Gaza collapsed in an Israeli air strike.", "Under the plans judges could treat offenders caught in stings the same as those who harm real children.", "Pub and cafe owners in Bolton are apprehensive about reopening amid a rise in the Indian variant.", "A look at the background to the events of 1971 in west Belfast and bereaved families' search for truth.", "The online travel agent will not be selling summer holidays due to Covid uncertainty.", "Fans say they loved seeing live music again, but weren't so keen on the pre-taped performances.", "Jonathan Seed was elected as Swindon and Wiltshire PCC, but he was ineligible to stand for the role.", "On Tuesday, an inquest found that 10 people shot in west Belfast in 1971 were innocent.", "Contingency plans are being made to divert passengers to other UK airports or EU hubs due to border queues.", "Ofsted cannot conduct an impartial review into allegations of sex abuse in schools, a teaching union says.", "Fundraising is due to start in June on the anniversary of the Forces' Sweetheart's death aged 103.", "Hugely disappointing results mean ovarian cancer screening remains more than a decade away.", "The number of Covid patients in hospital in Wales again reaches record low levels for the pandemic.", "Police looking for suspected murder victim Mary Bastholm are deciding how much of the site to dig up.", "UK singer Dua Lipa won two awards and gave a message to PM Boris Johnson, at the in-person event.", "It is the first time Boris Johnson has put a timeframe on when an inquiry into the pandemic will be held.", "As the UK returns to normal, there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful, despite the variants.", "Pregnant women will be directed to centres offering Pfizer and Moderna vaccines when booking.", "Boosting jobs and skills are key Queen's Speech priorities - but social care funding is not included.", "Yat-Sen Chang attacked female students while working in London between 2009 and 2016.", "Some petrol stations run out of fuel in the US southeast as the Colonial Pipeline remains shut.", "Police say the girl was sexually exploited in West Yorkshire between 2003 and 2010.", "Anti-military activists in the town armed themselves following protests against the February coup.", "Thousands marched from Ibrox Stadium to celebrate Scottish title triumph after club and police urged crowds to disperse.", "John Kerry told the BBC technologies that don't yet exist will play a huge role in stabilising the climate.", "Spotlight looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed tensions over policing in NI.", "The next DUP leader says he wants a smooth transition and will deal with the issue \"practically\".", "Five-year-old Patrick Hovarth and his brother, Fabricio, who is eight, were last seen on Friday evening.", "Despite lockdown easing, businesses say they need more support to manage the impact of the last year.", "The structure at a partially built synagogue near Jerusalem had been packed for a religious festival.", "Cases have continued to rise and neighbouring East Renfrewshire has overtaken Moray for new infections.", "Tyson Fury says his all-British world heavyweight title showdown with Anthony Joshua will take place in Saudi Arabia on 14 August.", "Five police officers were injured and 28 people arrested as trouble flared in Glasgow city centre.", "The investigative film has been delayed over a “significant duty of care issue”, the broadcaster says.", "Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi and ex-parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani register for the June vote.", "As bars, pubs and restaurants prepare to welcome customers back indoors, some will not reopen at all.", "Dubai is the world's busiest airport and its boss says vaccine passports will get us flying again.", "Players from dozens of Sunday league teams pay tribute to Jordan Banks, who died on Tuesday.", "The bank says all of its services are now working as normal and promises \"no one will be out of pocket\".", "Two-year-old George Hinds died in the explosion, which happened in the early hours of Sunday.", "With some scientists suggesting it could spread 50% faster, England's easing of rules is in jeopardy.", "Police arrest four men in connection with a video appearing to show anti-Semitic abuse shouted from a car.", "The mother of a tram crash victim says she will never be whole again after the 2016 tragedy.", "It means adults regardless of income, will be given money to cover essential living costs.", "Andy Murray will not play at the French Open and will instead focus on preparing for the grass-court season.", "More than two-thirds of the adult population has been reached by the vaccination programme.", "Viral footage posted last week showed the animal roaming around a Houston neighbourhood.", "The Hollywood star made the gesture to help out a football club raising cash for the community.", "Airport bosses say they are \"shocked\" by the violence, which broke out on Friday morning.", "Eligible people in areas where the Indian virus variant is spreading are urged to get vaccinated.", "The DUP's new leader decided against speaking to the media - so here's what we would have asked him.", "I've had my jabs - but did they work? 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disappearance on 2 May.", "The health secretary defends his role in helping a former Tory minister to secure a PPE deal.", "Organisers urge the UK government to help end the fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants.", "Frantisek \"Frankie\" Morris, 18, was last seen near the Vaynol Arms, Pentir, Gwynedd, on 2 May.", "A behavioural code makes it harder for working-class mandarins to reach the top, report says.", "Max and Keira's Law presumes all adults in England as potential organ donors unless they opt out.", "Psychologists warn teachers' grades could be influenced by students' personality rather than ability.", "A \"Fat Controller\" figure should lead operations, says the man tasked with improving the railways.", "The transport secretary says people should only go to amber countries in \"exceptional circumstances\".", "The US president tells Benjamin Netanyahu he wants a \"significant\" move towards a ceasefire.", "The emergence of the Indian variant makes vaccinations \"even more important\", Matt Hancock says.", "Campaigners say Cecil Rhodes represented white supremacy and was steeped in colonialism and racism.", "Aya Hachem, 19, was \"in the wrong place at the wrong time' when she was killed, a court hears.", "Manager Sam Allardyce will leave West Brom at the end of the season, the club confirm.", "Find out more about what it is like to live in the Gaza Strip, from the economy to education, health and water.", "The price of Bitcoin fell below $34,000 for the first time in three months after China imposed fresh curbs.", "The first day of the ceasefire saw clashes at a Jerusalem mosque, but no more attacks by air.", "Police said a masked man was filmed deliberately setting fire to three vehicles at the home of Peter Lawwell.", "The US also waives sanctions on a Putin ally who leads the firm behind the Nord Stream 2 project.", "Parents Beth and Dan Wankiewicz are looking for answers over the death of their son Clay last year.", "PC Benjamin Monk said he \"thought we had had it\" when he discharged a Taser at Dalian Atkinson.", "Boris Johnson tells MPs he is sorry for the handling of investigations into the 10 deaths in 1971.", "Flu and pneumonia have even now overtaken Covid-19 as a cause of death in Wales.", "Several councils did not receive up-to-date Covid data for almost three weeks, the BBC learns.", "An investigation is launched after the child was found by a passer-by in a nature reserve.", "Gangs were seen rolling cars down a hill in Swansea and police warned local people to stay indoors.", "Thousands of people died after being given infected blood products during the 70s and 80s.", "It is feared thousands of women who had faulty PIP breast implants may have to pay back compensation.", "The BBC's director general Tim Davie says Lord Dyson's report on Martin Bashir is a \"very difficult read\".", "Netflix wants to build a film set for its hit series near ancient woodland on Crown Estate land.", "Joseph Blount told the Wall Street Journal that he authorised the payment following the cyber-attack.", "After a second dose, cases are about 90% lower than among unvaccinated people, Public Health England data finds.", "The award-winning actor says he was ashamed to make the condition public, but now \"it's time\".", "The findings will help scientific advisers decide if re-vaccinating people in the autumn is necessary.", "The true number of offences committed by Paul Farrell is probably \"in the thousands\", a court hears.", "The corporation said he was leaving his post due to ongoing health issues.", "Lords warn Boris Johnson's pledge will leave deprived areas \"short-changed\" if not focused correctly.", "An expert panel rules ex-Hartlepool MP Mike Hill would have faced sanctions if he had not quit.", "The overall risks remain low for pregnant women but coronavirus may increase stillbirths, a study suggests.", "Calls to reform the system are growing amid anger over rising fares and poor punctuality.", "The investigative film has been delayed over a “significant duty of care issue”, the broadcaster says.", "Thirty-five Republicans sided with Democrats to back an inquiry into the invasion of Congress.", "A two-day stop in the UK has ignited speculation that the tech mogul is looking for factory sites.", "Former barrister John Smyth violently beat boys who attended Christian summer camps in the 1970s and 80s.", "He was best-known for his popular dark fantasy creation Berserk, which debuted as a series in 1989.", "Train operators bring back 90% of pre-Covid service but safety measures mean a different look.", "A woman says a lack of basic information about her mother's death has left her feeling \"numb\".", "Oriel College initially backed the removal but has backtracked blaming costs and other issues.", "The full story of how the BBC's Martin Bashir got his 1995 interview with Princess Diana - and what happened next.", "Princess Diana was failed not just by Martin Bashir but also by leaders at the BBC, says Prince William.", "Pupils who became eligible between October 2020 and January 2021 will not now be counted until October 2021.", "Early indications show uptake for bookings is high among the age group, the Department of Health says.", "The weekly case rate has reached 118.3, with Glasgow on 112.1, according to Public Health Scotland.", "An \"unrelenting focus\" must be placed on NI waiting lists, leading academic says.", "The £100m recovery plan aims to rebuild services and reduce waiting times.", "Martin Bashir's 1995 interview was obtained using fake documents and then not properly investigated, an inquiry finds.", "Officials seized 68 tigers, lions, hybrids and a jaguar, citing violations of animal welfare laws.", "Emily Lewis was on a sightseeing trip in Southampton Water when the boat crashed, an accident report says.", "The 38-year-old pays tribute to those involved in the rollout after getting his jab on Tuesday.", "Ministers have been urged to act on a pledge to extend the benefit to co-habiting couples.", "Single-use plastic carrier bags in English shops now cost 10p, twice the previous price.", "The prince speaks of \"indescribable sadness\" caused by his mother's interview with Martin Bashir.", "Student ranger Kieran Munns says the 1,500kg female was only protecting her calves when she ran at him full-force.", "The government should \"hold their nerve\" on public transport spending, a government adviser says.", "A Thai man describes what it is like working in southern Israel when militants in Gaza fire rockets.", "David Pryde became unwell at his home but was saved by a first responder and his kit.", "Women who had the breast implants say they are delighted by the \"victory\" after 10 years fighting for justice.", "Charles Cartwright dug up a hoard of Roman and Viking jewellery taken in a burglary four years ago.", "French breast implants caused a health scare across Europe and South America last year due to a high risk of rupturing in 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Nor will any such ransom be paid,\" he told Irish broadcaster RTÉ.\n\n\"It came as a surprise to us. Our technical team are currently testing the tool. The initial responses are positive.\"\n\nIn the USA, a warning has been issued by the FBI about Conti targeting networks belonging to authorities there.\n\nIt said it had identified at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks targeting \"US healthcare and first responder networks\".\n\nMore than 400 organisations have been targeted by Conti worldwide, of which more than 290 are based in the US, according to the FBI.\n\n\"Conti typically steals victims' files and encrypts the servers and workstations in an effort to force a ransom payment from the victim.\n\n\"If the ransom is not paid, the stolen data is sold or published to a public site controlled by the Conti actors,\" it added.\n\nThe FBI said that recent ransom demands have been as high as $25m (£21m).\n\nIt's not unprecedented for ransomware criminals to give away their decryption tools for free.\n\nSome of these gangs operate by a flimsy code of \"ethics\", stating they don't intend to endanger lives.\n\nIn one case, criminals accidentally took a hospital offline; reports suggest the hackers gave the hospital a decryptor for free when they realised their mistake.\n\nThen again, there are ransomware operators who don't care and are presumably delighted to watch chaos unfold as they extort money from their victims.\n\nHundreds of health care facilities in the US alone were attacked in 2020.\n\nWe don't know what the motivation for the Conti gang is here.\n\nThey clearly knew they were attacking a health service, and spent days trying to secure a ransom payment for the decryptor.\n\nPerhaps they were under pressure from law enforcement or other hackers to rein it in.\n\nOr perhaps, faced with a wall of silence from the Irish government, they gave up.\n\nWhat's telling is that the criminals are still hoping to get their payday by threatening to publish private data online.\n\nA decryption key is a piece of data that can be used to reverse the damage done by ransomware.\n\nRansomware groups usually encrypt data on victims networks scrambling files to make them unusable without the decryption key.\n\nThe Irish government says the tool could get hospitals and the health care system back to normal sooner than the process of rebuilding their IT from scratch.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health was attacked last Thursday, with a similar attack on the HSE last Friday.\n\nOn Thursday, the head of the HSE, Paul Reid, described the impact of the cyber-attack as \"catastrophic\" and \"stomach-churning\".\n\nThe HSE has secured a High Court order preventing the Russia-based hackers - or any individual or business - from sharing, processing, or selling the information.\n\nThe court injunction also applies to social media platforms such as Twitter, Google, and Facebook and therefore limits the gang's scope for disseminating the information.\n\nThe HSE said all elements of health services were affected, including major disruption to radiotherapy services.\n\nIt said it was working to treat all urgent radiation patients in private hospitals.\n\nThere have been cancellations across all outpatient services, with colonoscopies down by as much as 80% and chemotherapy and daily elective procedures down by 50%.", "Two tigers rescued from the Tiger King zoo live at a sanctuary in Colorado\n\nFederal officials have seized 68 big cats from Jeff and Lauren Lowe, stars of the hit Netflix show Tiger King.\n\nOn Thursday, the US Justice Department announced they had confiscated the exotic animals from the couple's Tiger King Park in Oklahoma.\n\nOfficials have inspected the zoo three times since December 2020 and have issued multiple citations for failure to properly care for the animals.\n\nSeven lions, 46 tigers, 15 lion-tiger hybrids, and one jaguar were recovered.\n\nThe Lowes are both accused of violating US laws on endangered species and animal welfare.\n\nDuring government inspections, they were repeatedly cited \"for failing to provide the animals with adequate or timely veterinary care, appropriate nutrition, and shelter that protects them from inclement weather and is of sufficient size to allow them to engage in normal behaviour\", according to a news release from the Justice Department.\n\nThe couple were found to be in contempt after failing to follow court orders to hire a qualified veterinarian to ensure that the cats could receive levels of care required under the Animal Welfare Act.\n\nMany of the animals were found to have bone disorders due to calcium deficiency from eating boneless and ground meat, officials say.\n\nIn a federal affidavit, officials said the Lowes harassed government workers during inspections, with Mrs Lowe at one point threatening to kill a wildlife official.\n\n\"The statement was especially intimidating because their former Tiger King business partner is serving a prison sentence for hiring a hit man to assassinate a business rival in another state,\" the charging document states.\n\nMr Lowe is the former business partner of Joe Exotic, star of the hit show.\n\nExotic, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is currently serving a 22-year sentence for his involvement in a contract killing plot and animal abuse.", "Sir Leonard Blavatnik and wife Emily Appelson at the Grammy Awards in 2018.\n\nSir Leonard Blavatnik has topped the latest Sunday Times Rich List, having seen his fortune swell to £23bn.\n\nThe Ukranian-born oil and media magnate, who also owns Warner Music, saw his wealth surge by £7.2bn during the year.\n\nHe took the title from Sir James Dyson, whose wealth rose by only £100m to £16.3bn, leaving him in fourth place.\n\nThere are now a record 171 billionaires in UK, with their wealth rising 21.7% during the pandemic to £597.2bn.\n\nMr Blavatnik made his fortune in Russia where he owned stakes worth billions of pounds in companies selling metal and oil. He is a notoriously-private man, and holds both US and UK citizenship.\n\nHis wealth was boosted by the proceeds of a £1.37bn stake in Warner, which he received when it listed on the stock market in the US last year.\n\n\"The fact many of the super-rich grew so much wealthier at a time when thousands of us have buried loved ones and millions of us worried for our livelihoods makes this a very unsettling boom,\" said Robert Watts, compiler of the annual index of the country's wealthiest residents.\n\n\"The global pandemic created lucrative opportunities for many online retailers, social networking apps and computer games tycoons.\"\n\nProperty investor brothers David and Simon Reuben were in second place after their fortune grew by £5.46bn to £21.46bn.\n\nSri and Gopi Hinduja, who run the Mumbai-based conglomerate Hinduja Group, took third spot after their wealth rose by £1bn.\n\nSteel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, in fifth place, saw the biggest rise in wealth of any billionaire in the past 12 months, with gains of around £7.9bn, largely based on the rise in value of his ArcelorMittal steel-making business.\n\nChelsea owner Roman Abramovich was in eighth position after his fortune rose by £1.9bn to £12.1bn.\n\nThe total of 171 billionaires in the latest Rich List is higher than the previous record of 151 set in 2019.\n\nThe study found the richest 250 people in the UK this year are worth £658.1bn, up from £565.7bn last year, a rise of 16.3%.\n\nThere are also more entrepreneurs behind unicorns - start-up businesses with a valuation higher than $1bn - to be found in the Rich List than before.\n\nThey include Farfetch, the luxury online fashion retailer, whose founder Jose Neves is a new entry at 82 in this year's Rich List with a £2bn fortune.\n\nAlex Chesterman, founder of online car dealing service Cazoo makes his first appearance at 215th with an estimated worth of £750m.\n\n\"The valuations of many rich listers' companies have soared over the past year - especially the pack of tech businesses known as unicorns,\" said Mr Watts.\n\n\"I worry about the strength of the foundations. No-one wants to see a re-run of the dotcom boom-and-bust of 20 years ago.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times does not just track how much money the mega-wealthy have accumulated each year. It also monitors how much of their fortune they give to charity.\n\nManchester United striker Marcus Rashford became the youngest person ever to top the paper's giving list, which is calculated by ranking the amount donated or raised relative to a person's overall wealth.\n\nThe 23-year old was behind a high-profile campaign calling for children who are eligible for free school meals to be fed during coronavirus lockdowns. He was estimated to have raised £20m to support the scheme, more than the £16m he is thought to be worth.", "A large UK study suggests having coronavirus around the time of birth may increase the chance of stillbirths and premature births - although the overall risks remain low.\n\nScientists say while most pregnancies are not affected, their findings should encourage pregnant women to have jabs as soon as they are eligible.\n\nThe majority are offered vaccines when they are rolled out to their age group.\n\nThe study appears in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.\n\nThe research, led by the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit, looked at data involving more than 340,000 women who gave birth in England between the end of May 2020 and January 2021.\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\nAll women were tested for the virus when they were admitted for births - whether they had symptoms or not.\n\nResearchers say a higher risk of stillbirth and prematurity, as well as a greater chance of having a Caesarean section, remained even once factors such as the mother's age, ethnicity, socio-economic background and common health conditions were taken into account.\n\nBabies born to women who tested positive were more likely to need special neonatal intensive care because they were born early and needed more support - rather than being infected with coronavirus itself.\n\nProfessor Asma Khalil, co-author of the paper, said it was important for women and healthcare workers to be aware of the potential risks.\n\nShe added: \"This study is the largest yet in England to describe the pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women who had tested positive for Covid-19 around the time of birth.\n\n\"While it is reassuring that the overall increases in the rate of stillbirth and pre-term birth remain low, this study does show that the risk of stillbirth or premature birth may be increased in women who have the infection around the time of birth.\n\n\"This highlights the importance of Covid-19 vaccination for pregnant women; it reduces the risk not just to themselves, but also to their babies.\"\n\nDr Mary Ross-Davie, from the Royal College of Midwives, agreed that vaccination was key in protecting people from the virus.\n\nShe added: \"While the increased risk of a stillbirth or pre-term birth remains low when women have Covid-19 in pregnancy, the important message here is that pregnant women, like all of us, should continue to take precautions to reduce their chances of exposure to the virus.\n\n\"This includes continuing social distancing, hand-washing and mask-wearing,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British tourists going to Spain will still have to quarantine on their return\n\nSpain has said it is officially lifting restrictions for UK travellers from Monday, when a decree takes effect.\n\nThe government says the UK and Japan will be on a list of countries whose residents are able to avoid restrictions on non-essential travel to the EU. They will not need a PCR test.\n\nUK tourists going to Spain will still have to quarantine on their return.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany announced that anyone arriving from the UK would have to quarantine for two weeks.\n\nThe German public health institute said the decision was related to the Indian Covid-19 variant, which is responsible for the majority of new cases in parts of England and is believed to spread more quickly.\n\nThe UK government still strongly advises against non-essential travel to most other EU countries, including Germany and Spain.\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said: \"We've been clear people shouldn't be travelling to amber list [nations] for the purpose of holidays. Our advice hasn't changed. We will keep the green list under review… and will add countries where possible.\"\n\nPortugal is the main destination on the UK's short \"green\" list of countries that are free of the quarantine requirement. Under the UK's traffic light system, people are advised to avoid amber and red countries, where the Covid risk is greater.\n\nThe EU is currently deciding on an expanded \"white list\" of countries whose citizens can enter the EU freely.\n\nOnly seven, with very low Covid infection rates, are on the list now. Those countries are: Australia, Israel, New Zealand, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand.\n\nThe BBC has been told a final EU decision on expanding the list has been delayed for another two weeks.\n\nTourism in Portugal and Spain relies heavily on British visitors in the summer, and travellers from England, Scotland and Wales began flying to Portugal last Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holidaying Brits touch down in Portugal: 'It feels unreal'\n\nSpain will allow people from other non-EU countries who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 to enter the country from 7 June, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said. They will include US citizens.\n\nMr Sánchez said the lifting of these curbs should allow Spain's summer tourism to reach 30-40% of 2019 levels.\n\nThe EU has decided that visitors should be allowed to come from countries with an incidence rate of below 75 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder those terms, UK travellers would be eligible but there are ongoing concerns about the Indian Covid-19 variant.\n\nSome EU countries are hesitating over the UK, as they want to see how the surge of British cases related to the Indian variant plays out.\n\nEU envoys have also recommended that non-essential travel should be allowed from outside the EU for people who have been fully vaccinated. However, they say it should be up to member states to decide on measures they impose, such as Covid tests or quarantine.\n\nOn Thursday EU politicians agreed on the technicalities of an EU Digital Covid Certificate - essentially a health passport for EU citizens to travel inside the 27-nation bloc. It will show a traveller's vaccination record.\n\nThe EU has been racing to get the certificate ready for summer tourism, as countries emerging from months of lockdown are desperate to revive their hospitality industries.\n\nThe EU certificate is now \"well on track to be ready end of June, as planned,\" an official statement said.\n\nCurrently UK citizens travelling to amber list countries - that is, most of the EU - can face unexpected border obstacles, despite completing the formalities.\n\nLis Nixon from Oxfordshire told the BBC on Thursday that she was turned away at the Iberia desk at Heathrow, despite having an urgent family reason to visit Spain. Her son, daughter-in-law and grandson live in Estella, Spain, and needed her there, she said.\n\n\"The woman at the desk said I needed authorisation from the Spanish consulate. There's nothing in all of the government advice that says I need to do that. When I try phoning the consulate, it says the mailbox is full. The phone number says you need to book an appointment, so you just go round in circles.\n\n\"So, I couldn't get through this morning. The woman at the airport said they'd been only having this problem with UK passport holders,\" she said.\n\nAre you planning a trip to Spain? 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.", "Victims of the Windrush scandal continue to face long waits in receiving compensation, a report by the spending watchdog has found.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said the Windrush Compensation Scheme is yet to meet its aim of paying claimants quickly.\n\nNAO head Gareth Davies said the scheme was rolled out before it was ready for claims, causing long waits for victims.\n\nThe Home Office said it will work hard to ensure payments are made faster.\n\nThe scheme was launched by the Home Office in April 2019 to offer payments to people, mainly from the Caribbean, who came to the UK legally but did not have the documents to prove their right to remain.\n\nIn 2018, it emerged that many had lost homes, jobs and access to welfare benefits and NHS services - while some were wrongly detained and even deported.\n\nThe payments are intended to compensate victims for things such as loss of earnings, periods of detention and the impact that the scandal had on their lives.\n\nAccording to the report, when the Home Office started the scheme, it estimated it could pay out between £120m and £310m to 15,000 people based on information from its immigration systems and the 2011 census.\n\nIn October 2019, the department reduced the amount it expected to pay to between £60m and £260m to 11,500 people, the NAO said.\n\nBut the watchdog found that it takes an average of 154 staff hours to process a case through to payment being approved - which it says is \"considerably longer\" than the 30 hours the Home Office initially estimated when the scheme began.\n\nIts analysis also found half of cases were \"returned to caseworkers for further work\" but \"some claims have proceeded to payment without errors being identified\".\n\nBy March this year, the NAO said the Home Office knew of six overpayments, totalling £38,292. The watchdog said it had found further errors and inconsistencies in how caseworkers calculated compensation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glenda Ceasar explains her compensation bid over the Windrush scandal.\n\nIn March, the Home Office \"had a budget of £15.8m to run the scheme, and spent £8.1m, of which £6.3m has been spent on staff\", the NAO said.\n\nIt found the department had \"considerably fewer staff than it expected to need\" but conceded that claim numbers had been \"much lower than expected\".\n\nThe Home Office originally said it needed 125 full-time caseworkers, it added, but when the scheme launched it had six full-time staff in post.\n\nLast month, the department told the NAO it needed 51 full-time caseworkers and had 53 in post. It is said to be considering hiring 10 more caseworkers before the end of June.\n\nIn December, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the minimum payment awarded to victims would rise from £250 to £10,000, and the maximum from £10,000 to £100,000.\n\nShe also said the figure would be higher still in \"exceptional\" circumstances, with money coming through quicker than before.\n\nMeanwhile, just 19% of those thought to be eligible for compensation have come forward, the NAO found, with 2,163 claims received on Home Office systems by the end of March.\n\nOf these, 1,732 were from individuals, 313 were from family members and 118 claims were from the estates of those who are deceased.\n\nBy the same date, £14.3m had been paid to 633 people, but some of these could get further payments, the report said, with £11.6m of this paid since the policy changes it announced in December.\n\nHuman rights lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie says delays to compensation payments are unacceptable\n\nCampaigners have raised concerns about the low number of compensation payments to victims, and lawyers have called the delays unacceptable.\n\n\"People are taking a year, 18 months, to even get their first offers,\" Jacqueline McKenzie, a human rights lawyer, told the BBC. \"So it says something is very, very wrong.\"\n\nHome Office figures released to the BBC's Westminster Hour programme in November last year revealed that at least nine people died before receiving money applied for through the scheme.\n\nGareth Davies, head of the NAO, said: \"The Windrush Compensation Scheme was rolled out before it was ready to receive applications and two years after it was launched people are still facing long waits to receive their final compensation payment.\"\n\nHe said since December last year, the Home Office had \"made some progress\" but it needed to \"sustain its efforts to improve the scheme to ensure it fairly compensates members of the Windrush generation in acknowledgement of the suffering it has caused them\".\n\nYvette Cooper, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said it was \"completely unacceptable that the vast majority of those affected still haven't received a penny in compensation\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Home Office said it is \"determined to put right the terrible injustices faced by the Windrush generation by successive governments\" and is in the process of hiring more caseworkers, adding: \"We know there is more to do and will continue to work hard to ensure payments are made faster and the awards offered are greater.\"\n\nThe Windrush generation are people who arrived in the UK between 1948 and 1971 from the Caribbean.\n\nThey were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971, but thousands were children who had travelled on their parents' passports - so could not prove they had the right to live in the country.", "Samples are being collected at wastewater treatment plants and sent to a central lab for analysis\n\nThe government has ramped up its programme to analyse wastewater for early signs of coronavirus.\n\nThe sewage-testing programme now covers two-thirds of England's population.\n\nScientists discovered early in the pandemic that genetic fragments of the virus could be detected in sewage.\n\nSamples are now being are taken at wastewater treatment plants and sent to a new lab in Exeter that is dedicated to analysing wastewater.\n\nThe genetic 'signature' of the coronavirus can be detected in a sample of wastewater\n\nThe programme has supported the detection of local outbreaks or the presence of variants of concern, which it can link to specific communities via the sewage treatment network.\n\nDr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, described it as \"an additional detection system\" for Covid-19. \"It is enabling us to respond more effectively to outbreaks and better protect citizens.\"\n\nAnd since it can cause infections without any symptoms, Dr Harries added that it \"helps us understand where it may be circulating undetected\".\n\nEarlier this week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that the approach was being used to monitor the Indian variant of the virus and to track its spread.\n\nBecause the testing is at a community level, it has helped guide some local councils to direct their testing and public health guidance. Luton Borough Council, after seeing an increase in cases of the coronavirus, used the information from wastewater testing to \"understand where to put additional activity\".\n\n\"It's particularly useful to see where we have the variants so we can target our testing,\" said Luton's director of public health, Lucy Hubber.\n\nProf Andrew Singer, from the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, played a key role in the scientific effort to establish this wastewater-based epidemiology effort in the UK.\n\n\"The scale of the programme that has been created in the past year is truly remarkable,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Well over 500 locations are being monitored for coronavirus, and many of them sampled at least four days a week, thereby generating an enormous amount of data on the prevalence of the virus across the UK.\n\n\"And this will live on in a post-Covid world by searching for other pathogens in wastewater, like influenza, so that makes this programme one of the few silver linings from the pandemic.\"", "Wolves: Nuno Espirito Santo to leave after four years as manager Last updated on .From the section Wolves\n\nNuno managed Valencia and Porto before taking over at Wolves Manager Nuno Espirito Santo will leave Wolves at the end of the season by mutual agreement. The 47-year-old Portuguese, who left Porto to take charge in 2017, won the Championship title in his first season. Wolves finished seventh in the Premier League in the past two seasons, and in September Nuno signed a three-year contract extension to 2023. \"We achieved our goals, we did it with passion and we did it together,\" he said. Wolves are 12th heading into the final game of the season at home to Manchester United on Sunday. \"Since the first day we arrived at Compton [training ground], our ambition was to make a positive change and push this football club forward,\" said Nuno. \"I am proud to say that we did that every single day. \"Sunday will be a very emotional day but I am so happy that the fans will be back in Molineux and we can share one last special moment together, as one pack.\"\n• None What next for Wolves and Nuno? From the Championship to European quarter-finals Nuno led Wolves to the quarter-finals of the Europa League in their second season in the Premier League Under Nuno, Wolves collected 99 points on their way to the Championship title in 2017-18, finishing nine points clear of second-placed Cardiff with 30 wins from 46 games. They continued to impress in the top flight with their slick, attacking football. Wolves went on to win their Europa League qualifiers to secure a place in the group stage - and a return to European football for the first time in 39 years. Despite starting their season earlier that most sides and playing 59 games in all competitions, they again finished seventh in the Premier League while reaching the Europa League quarter-finals. Under Nuno and aided by the influence of agent Jorge Mendes, Wolves signed several Portuguese players, including Joao Moutinho, Diogo Jota, Ruben Neves and Fabio Silva. \"Nuno has brought us some incredibly special moments at Wolves that will never be forgotten but every chapter comes to an end,\" said Wolves chairman Jeff Shi. \"His loyalty and dedication over the last four years has been immeasurable and we cannot thank him enough for the progress he has made for Wolves. \"Sunday was already going to be a very special day, welcoming our supporters back for the first time in more than a year, but it will also now be a fitting goodbye for someone who will forever remain an important part of Wolves history.\" Analysis - 'Some thought Nuno had taken Wolves as far as he could' The shock of Nuno's departure comes more from the timing rather than the fact it is actually happening. It has been clear all season he has not found it easy working in a pandemic, away from his family and trying to find answers to unexpected problems on the pitch. There was concern he might walk away at the end of last season, but the club funded an expensive rebuilding exercise, partly through the sale of Diogo Jota to Liverpool. That was supposed to usher in a more expansive style of play compared to that which had taken the club to successive seventh-placed finishes. It didn't work. Switches between the trusted three-man back-line to a four, inconsistency in midfield and the horrendous, season-ending injury for Raul Jimenez all combined to create a disappointing campaign that led to grumbles from many Wolves fans that Nuno had taken the team as far as he could. That judgement seems harsh. In the past 60 years, Wolves have only finished above their present 12th spot in the top flight on seven occasions - and two of them were the past two seasons under Nuno. Given chief executive Laurie Dalrymple and director of football Kevin Thelwell have already gone, Wolves will have lost three major figures in their rise from the Championship to the Europa League quarter-finals in the space of two years. Chairman Jeff Shi now has a major task on his hands but, given the influence of agent Jorge Mendes at Molineux, don't be surprised if there is a familiarity of nationality at least about Nuno's successor.\n• None What goes on in the Premier League captains' WhatsApp group?\n• None The simple home workout that is proven to boost your brain power", "Martin Bashir asks Matt Wiessler, a freelance designer, to make fake bank statements purporting to show payments to Earl Spencer’s former head of security from the intelligence services. These statements are subsequently shown to the earl in September. The Dyson report exonerated Mr Wiessler as being “entirely reputable”.\n\nA meeting between Earl Spencer and Martin Bashir. Earl Spencer says Mr Bashir showed him a second set of bank statements purporting to show payments from the intelligence services into the accounts of the private secretaries of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Lord Dyson says it is likely that Martin Bashir created these statements himself.\n\nEarl Spencer introduces Martin Bashir to Princess Diana. It is the first in a series of meetings between the reporter and the princess before the interview is conducted on 5 November 1995\n\nMartin Bashir’s Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales is broadcast. In the UK, 23 million people watch it.\n\nAfter watching the interview, Matt Wiessler tells the series producer of Panorama he is concerned the fake bank statements may have played a role in obtaining the interview by deception. Managers talk to Martin Bashir and ask him to provide evidence that the fake statements were not shown to Princess Diana.\n\nPrincess Diana writes a note saying: “I was not shown any documents nor given any information by Martin Bashir that I was not already aware of”.\n\nMartin Bashir admits to BBC bosses that he had lied to them when he claimed previously that he had not shown the fake bank statements to anybody.\n\nTim Suter, head of BBC weekly current affairs programmes, sends a note to Martin Bashir - agreed by Tony Hall, head of news and current affairs. It says Mr Bashir’s dealings with Princess Diana in securing the interview were “absolutely straight and fair” but that his use of some material in the early preparation of the programme was in breach of BBC guidelines and justified a reprimand.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday publishes an article questioning whether Martin Bashir had intended to show the fake statements to Earl Spencer. In response to the Mail’s publication of the fake documents, the BBC issues a statement saying the documents were “never connected in any way to the Panorama on Princess Diana”. But growing suggestions in the press that the interview had been obtained by deception lead Tony Hall to open a full inquiry.\n\nTony Hall meets Martin Bashir who cannot explain why he commissioned the fake statements or why he showed them to Earl Spencer. The earl is not contacted as part of the inquiry.\n\nTony Hall reports to BBC governors that Martin Bashir commissioned fake statements because “he wasn't thinking\" adding \"I believe he is, even with this lapse, an honest and honourable man. He is contrite.” Martin Bashir stayed at the BBC until 1998 when he left to join ITV.\n\nThe BBC turns down a Freedom of Information request from journalists (making a programme for Channel 4) for documents about the BBC investigation into Mr Bashir’s interview, on the grounds that it no longer holds the material. In 2020, a repeat request from programme makers at Channel 4, is given several pages of details. The BBC says: “We apologise… that the answer you received was inaccurate.”\n\nMartin Bashir returns to the BBC as religious affairs correspondent. He is subsequently made religion editor. At this time, Tony Hall is director general of the BBC.\n\nAround the 25th anniversary of the Panorama interview programme, the BBC commissions an independent investigation into the affair – under former Supreme Court Justice Lord Dyson - after receiving a letter from Earl Spencer saying the forged bank statements had been used to secure the interview with his sister.\n\nMartin Bashir steps down from his role as the BBC’s religion editor due to ill health.\n\nDyson report is published, describing Martin Bashir as “unreliable\", \"devious\" and \"dishonest\". It also described Tony Hall’s investigation as \"flawed and woefully ineffective”.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-5 -3 B Koepka (US), K Bradley (US), V Hovland (Nor), A Wise (US), S Horsfield (Eng), C Davis (Aus); -2 C Morikawa (US), M Laird (Sco), C Tringale (US)\n\nRory McIlroy faltered on his return to Kiawah Island's Ocean Course as Corey Conners moved into a two-shot lead on day one of the US PGA Championship.\n\nMcIlroy won the last time the event was staged at the South Carolina venue in 2012 but signed for a three-over 75.\n\nCanadian Conners edged clear at the top with an impressive five-under-par 67.\n\nEngland's Sam Horsfield and former world number one Brooks Koepka are part of a six-strong chasing pack who sit two off the 29-year-old's early pace.\n\nNorway's Viktor Hovland, Australia's Cam Davis and Americans Keegan Bradley and Aaron Wise are also at three under.\n\nScotland's Martin Laird, one of the early starters, held top spot heading to the 17th tee but carded successive bogeys and sits one further back.\n\nDefending champion Collin Morikawa looked set to join the group on three under but bogeyed his final hole to also finish at two under on a breezy opening day.\n• None Relive day one of the PGA Championship\n\nConners' best major finish before this year was joint 64th at the 2019 PGA Championship, but he finished in a share of eighth at the Masters last month and now leads at Kiawah Island.\n\nThe world number 39 was three under through seven and he atoned for his only bogey of the day at nine with a birdie at 11 and then emerged from the group gathered at three under par with successive birdies on the 15th and 16th holes.\n\nHorsfield, making his debut at the tournament, is within touching distance after a 69 that featured five birdies and two bogeys.\n\n\"To be playing well in a major is fun, it's a new thing for me, to play against the best guys in the world is the best thing you can do,\" said the 24-year-old, who also watched a birdie putt on the last lip out.\n\nAlongside the Englishman is Koepka, who said before the tournament he was up to six months away from full fitness following surgery on 16 March to deal with a knee cap dislocation and ligament damage.\n\nThat appeared to ring true as the four-time major champion made a double-bogey start, but he immediately pulled one of those shots back and further birdies either side of a bogey saw the American hit the turn at level par.\n\nThe 2018 and 2019 winner added three birdies on his back nine to join 23-year-old Hovland, who cancelled out an opening bogey with a birdie on the second before adding three more in a terrific round, in the early clubhouse lead.\n\nAnother former champion Bradley claimed his only major at the PGA Championship a decade ago and had just one bogey on a card that included four birdies as he signed for a 69.\n\nScotland's Laird strung together four successive birdies to lead at four under par with two to play, but back-to-back bogeys saw the 38-year-old head into the clubhouse at two under.\n\nPaul Casey was also piecing together a promising round as he moved to three under but the Englishman was pegged back by a bogey-bogey finish to end the day one under par.\n\n\"I'd have taken one under at the start of the day because this is one of the most difficult golf courses I have ever played. It has my respect,\" said Casey.\n\n\"They are one of the best [putting] surfaces we have experienced in major championship golf, they are incredibly true. The ball does not deviate, they barely leave a mark.\"\n\nCompatriot Tyrrell Hatton birdied his final hole, the ninth, to also finish at one under after a round that included four birdies and three bogeys, alongside Tom Lewis.\n\nLee Westwood would have joined them but for a double bogey on the notoriously tricky 223-yard par three 17th, which left the 48-year-old at one over instead.\n\nJustin Rose had a costly double bogey at 15, his only dropped shots of the day, to finish at level par, while Ian Poulter was two under through seven before a run of five dropped shots in five holes eventually saw the Englishman sign for a two-over 74.\n\nTommy Fleetwood had a triple bogey on the 15th and a bogey-bogey finish as he ended four over.\n\nNorthern Ireland's McIlroy started with a bogey at the 10th after leaking his opening drive into water but followed that with successive birdies, and was unlucky to see an eagle putt lip out. He hit the turn at level par after another dropped shot on the 608-yard par-five 16th.\n\nMcIlroy won here the last time Kiawah Island hosted the event but said he did not feel that would give him an advantage nine years on.\n\nHe did arrive in South Carolina as the favourite, however, after ending a 19-month winless streak with victory at Quail Hollow two weeks ago and having seemingly corrected his swing troubles after recruiting coach Pete Cowen.\n\nBack-to-back bogeys followed after the turn and another at five, his 14th, saw the 32-year-old slide to three over par before sinking a 12-foot birdie putt on the next.\n\nBut there was further trouble for McIlroy when his drive on the par-five sixth found a tuft of long grass in one of the wasteland areas to the left and that resulted in another dropped shot as he signed for a 75.\n\nBig-hitting US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, who said he planned to \"unleash the beast\" in a bid to tame the longest course in major championship history, stuttered to the turn with four successive bogeys after edging to two under through three holes.\n\nThe world number five traded a birdie and a bogey after the turn but made two birdies on his way in to post a level-par 72.\n\nJordan Spieth needs the PGA Championship to become just the sixth player to complete the career Grand Slam by winning all four majors.\n\nThe American carded an opening one-over 73 in which he bogeyed the 18th.\n\nNone of the world's top three broke par, with Dustin Johnson finishing four over, Jon Rahm level par and Justin Thomas three over.\n\nMeanwhile, Europe Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington, who teamed up with Paul McGinley to win the 1997 World Cup for Ireland at this venue, kept himself in the mix with an eagle at 11 on his way to a one-under-par 71.\n\nPhil Mickelson, who at the age of 50 is a year older than 2008 winner Harrington, also remains in contention after an entertaining 70 that included six birdies and four bogeys.\n• None What goes on in the Premier League captains' WhatsApp group?\n• None Just One More Thing: The simple home workout that is proven to boost your brain power", "Australia's mining industry is a major driver of exports to the UK\n\nThe UK has offered trade deal terms to Australia under which both countries would phase out taxes on imports over 15 years.\n\nThe cabinet was reportedly split on what terms to propose, amid concerns UK beef and lamb farmers could be undercut by larger Australian producers.\n\nBut the dispute was apparently resolved after Boris Johnson pushed for unity.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss formally made the UK offer to her Australian counterpart on Friday.\n\nIf accepted, it would also lead to quotas - limits - on tax-free trade between the two countries to be phased out.\n\nThe National Farmers' Union (NFU) has warned that freeing up the UK-Australian trade in meat will lead to hundreds of British cow and sheep breeders going out of business.\n\nMinisters are keen to strike as many trade deals as possible following Brexit, and Ms Truss wants one in place with Australia by the time the UK hosts the G7 summit - of leading economies - in June.\n\nBut she had reportedly been at odds with Environment Secretary George Eustice over the possible impact on farmers of removing import taxes, called tariffs, that are normally paid to the government.\n\nWith these differences seemingly resolved at a Downing Street meeting chaired by the prime minister on Thursday, Ms Truss put the UK's terms for a deal to Australian counterpart Dan Tehan at an online meeting on Friday.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Portsmouth, Mr Johnson said: \"We are certainly looking at doing free trade deals around the world.\n\n\"They present a fantastic opportunity for our farmers, for businesses of all kinds, for our manufacturers. We should see these new openings not as threats but as opportunities.\"\n\nMr Tehan said he was \"confident\" of reaching an agreement with the UK by early June, having had \"very positive discussions\" with Ms Truss, the news.com.au website reported.\n\nFarmers have raised concerns over competition from larger-scale Australian operators\n\nIn 2019-20, trade in goods and services between Australia and the UK was valued at £20.1bn, and both sides are hoping to expand this amount considerably.\n\nCurrently, metals, wine and machines form the biggest goods exports from Australia to the UK, while Australia's main UK imports are cars, medicines and alcoholic drinks.\n\nTrade in meat between the two countries is small, with 0.15% of all Australian beef exports going to the UK and 14% of sheep meat imports to the UK coming from Australia.\n\nNFU president Minette Batters said removing tariffs on these products would \"have a massive impact\" on British farms, which would be unable to compete, in terms of scale, with Australia's vast cattle and sheep stations.\n\nShe added: \"We continue to maintain that a tariff-free trade deal with Australia will jeopardise our own farming industry and will cause the demise of many, many beef and sheep farms throughout the UK. This is true whether tariffs are dropped immediately or in 15 years' time.\"\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments have both urged Mr Johnson to ensure UK farmers are not left exposed.\n\nAnd Northern Ireland's agriculture minister, Edwin Poots, said he was \"strongly opposed\" to ending tariffs and quotas.\n\nBut Conservative MP Neil Parish, chairman of the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said UK farmers could succeed in the beef market by exporting more \"higher-end\" cuts, such as sirloin, to Australia.\n\nA Department for International Trade spokesperson said: \"Any deal we sign with Australia will include protections for the agriculture industry and will not undercut UK farmers or compromise our high standards.\n\n\"Typically, any tariff liberalisation is staged over time, with safeguards built in. We will continue to work with the industry, keeping them involved throughout the process and helping it capture the full benefits of trade.\"\n\nAre you a farmer in the UK? What are your thoughts on a free-trade deal? 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 now been overtaken by flu and pneumonia as a cause of death in Wales, latest mortality analysis shows.\n\nFor six of the past 13 months, Covid-19 was the biggest cause of death in Wales but in April it was the 18th leading cause.\n\nThere were 35 deaths due to Covid in April - 1.4% of all deaths, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showed.\n\nThis was also the largest month-on-month fall since the pandemic began.\n\nIt was a 81.5% fall compared to March.\n\nThe age standardised mortality rate was 12.6 deaths per 100,000 - the lowest since last September.\n\nHeart disease, dementia/Alzheimer's disease and strokes are the biggest causes of death - while even flu and pneumonia have now overtaken Covid, although this is still two-thirds lower than the five-year average.\n\nAbout 92% of communities across Wales experienced no deaths due to Covid at all in April.\n\nOnly Holyhead on Anglesey - with two deaths - had more than one.\n\nAnd there is one community remaining which has had no Covid deaths at all through the pandemic - Llandudno Junction South and Llasanffraid Glan Conwy.\n\nCovid accounted for 19% of all deaths in the first four months of 2021 but this was at the peak of the pandemic at the start of the year and it has shown a dramatic decline since.\n\nIt was responsible for 6.3% of all registered deaths in March; it was 22.2% in February and 35.2% in January.\n\nSeparate figures earlier this week showed so-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, are now below the five-year average for the 10th successive week.\n\nThe number of deaths involving Covid-19 was five in the latest week - the lowest total since early September.\n\nThese accounted for 0.9% of all deaths, according to the ONS.\n\nThe trend has been for a steady decline and is 92% fewer Covid deaths than registered two months ago.\n\nDuring the latest week, up to 7 May, there were no deaths in 17 out of Wales' local authority areas, including across the Aneurin Bevan, Cardiff and Vale, Hywel Dda and Powys health board areas.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paxman said his symptoms were mild and that he was receiving \"excellent\" treatment\n\nBroadcaster Jeremy Paxman has revealed he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.\n\nThe former Newsnight presenter said he was receiving \"excellent\" treatment and that his symptoms are \"currently mild\".\n\n\"I plan to continue broadcasting and writing for as long as they'll have me,\" he said.\n\nThe 71-year-old has hosted University Challenge since 1994 and is renowned for his fiercely inquisitorial interviewing style.\n\nBorn in Leeds in 1950, the presenter joined Newsnight in 1989 and remained with BBC Two's nightly bulletin until June 2014.\n\nIn recent years he has presented documentaries about the British Empire and Winston Churchill.\n\nPaxman said he would be making no further comment and had written about his diagnosis for the June edition of Saga magazine.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Olympics will go ahead 'even if Tokyo still in state of emergency'\n\nThe Olympic Games will go ahead even if Tokyo remains in a state of emergency due to the pandemic, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee says. Tokyo is one of nine prefectures of Japan to be under emergency measures, which will stay in place until at least 31 May. John Coates, the chair of the IOC's coordination commission, says this will not affect the Games - even if the capital is still under the measures by the time they open on 23 July. \"We've successfully seen five sports hold their test events during the state of emergency,\" he says. \"All of the plans that we have in place to protect the safety and security of athletes and the people of Japan are based around the worst possible circumstances, so the answer (to whether a Games could take place during a state of emergency) is absolutely yes.\" The Japanese government has called on Games organisers to further reduce the number of overseas visitors, insisting that only those essential to the operation of the event come into the country. Overseas spectators have already been barred, and a decision on how many - if any - Japanese fans can attend will be taken next month.", "Heathrow Airport will open a dedicated terminal for passengers arriving from countries with a high risk of Covid.\n\nThe decision follows criticism of the airport and the government after arrivals from red list countries were made to queue with other passengers.\n\nBut from 1 June, those travelling from red list countries will transit through Terminal Three, which has been closed for the past year.\n\nThey will then travel to a hotel where they will quarantine for 10 days.\n\nIt comes as the volume of passengers travelling through the airport is expected to increase after 12 countries were added to the government's green list, meaning travellers would not ordinarily be required to isolate on return.\n\nThe vast majority of countries are on the amber list, meaning travellers must isolate at home on their return. The government advises against non-essential travel to those on the list.\n\nHeathrow said opening of a dedicated terminal for those arriving from countries on the red list, who must isolate in a government-organised hotel on arrival, would be \"logistically very challenging\".\n\n\"Our hope is that it will enable Border Force to carry out its duties more efficiently as passenger volumes increase in line with the green list.\"\n\nThe airport said the arrival terminal for those landing from countries on the red list would eventually be moved to Terminal Four and that the arrangement was likely to be in place for some time.\n\n\"Red list routes will likely be a feature of UK travel for the foreseeable future as countries vaccinate their populations at different rates.\n\n\"We're adapting Heathrow to this longer-term reality by initially opening a dedicated arrivals facility in Terminal 3 from June 1st for red list passengers arriving on direct flights,\" Heathrow said in a statement.\n\nEngland's traffic light list will be reviewed every three weeks, and countries can be moved at short notice. There are similar rules for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Spain said it would lift restrictions for UK travellers from Monday. But those planning to holiday in Spain while it remains on the amber list would be doing so against the advice of the government.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said: \"We've been clear people shouldn't be travelling to amber list [nations] for the purpose of holidays. Our advice hasn't changed. We will keep the green list under review… and will add countries where possible.\"\n\nPortugal is the main destination on the UK's short \"green\" list of countries that are free of the quarantine requirement. Under the UK's traffic light system, people are advised to avoid amber and red countries, where the Covid risk is greater.\n\nThe EU is currently deciding on an expanded \"white list\" of countries whose citizens can enter the EU freely.\n\nThe BBC has been told a final EU decision on expanding the list has been delayed for another two weeks.", "The baby was found in a waterway in Rough Wood Country Park, in Willenhall\n\nThe body of a baby boy has been discovered in a canal, police said.\n\nA passer-by spotted the child in a waterway in Rough Wood Country Park, Willenhall, at about 13:00 BST on Thursday, said West Midlands Police.\n\nOfficers are seeking the child's mother, who they said may need urgent medical attention.\n\n\"We're now investigating these very sad circumstances to understand exactly what has happened and if anyone has come to harm,\" the force said.\n\nPeople were stopped from entering the park while inquiries took place\n\nDet Insp Wes Martin added: \"This is a tragic investigation and our priority is to now find the baby boy's mum to make sure she is OK.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with information to get in touch.\n\nThe nature reserve was sealed off as investigations got under way.\n\nSpeculation could hinder the investigation, police said\n\nThe force urged the public not to speculate on the \"distressing\" incident, and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nThe discovery comes less than a month after a baby, thought to be only a few hours old, was found by a dog walker in an abandoned park in Birmingham.\n\nNamed George by hospital staff, he was found on 22 April at The Mounds in Kings Norton.\n\nHe is now doing well with foster carers, police said, but the search for his mother is continuing.\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.", "Two brown bears escaped their enclosure following high winds on Friday\n\nTwo brown bears have been shot and killed after escaping from a zoo enclosure.\n\nWhipsnade Zoo in Dunstable said the animals were euthanised by zookeepers on Friday, after using a fallen tree to get into a neighbouring enclosure.\n\nThe zoo's chief curator, Malcolm Fitzpatrick, said the two female bears, named Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, had attacked a male boar.\n\nHe said it had been \"an incredibly upsetting and difficult day\".\n\n\"As brown bears are strong and dangerous predators, our first priority is safety,\" he said.\n\n\"We must quickly make decisions informed by our experience and expertise to protect our people, guests and our other animals.\"\n\nThe zoo said tranquilisers would have taken too long to take effect on the bears\n\nMr Fitzpatrick said zookeepers \"agreed the only option was to euthanise the bears,\" adding: \"When there's an immediate threat to human life, the decision is made for you.\"\n\nHe said tranquilisers could not be used, as they would have taken 20 minutes to take effect, \"during which time the animals can become unpredictable and aggressive as adrenaline is coursing through them\".\n\nThe boar enclosure has a low fence, which the bears could have escaped over, something the zoo called \"a risk we couldn't take\".\n\nA third brown bear called Cinderella, which had not left her enclosure, was called to an indoor den and secured. The fallen tree was then removed.\n\nMr Fitzpatrick said there would be a full investigation into the incident.\n\nHe added: \"This situation is something we train to deal with through regular, rigorous drills - but one that we always hope we'll never have to face.\n\n\"I'm devastated by the outcome of this morning's incident, but I'm confident that our actions prevented any further loss of life.\"\n\nThe boar was treated by a vet and remains under observation.\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.", "Strong winds hit coastal areas on Thursday and are continuing to cause problems\n\nSnowdonia was the wettest place in the UK on Friday, as nearly two dozen flood alerts were put in place following downpours.\n\nGusts of 71mph (115km/h) were also recorded at Capel Curig, where more than 4in (106mm) of rain fell in 36 hours.\n\nA weather warning for wind issued by the Met Office was in place until 21:00 BST on Friday.\n\nIn Bridgend a family described seeing the roof blow off a house.\n\nConditions on the M48 Severn Bridge have eased, with restrictions lifted.\n\nWindspeeds of 68mph (115km/h) were recorded on Mumbles Head in Swansea earlier on Friday.\n\nSeveral areas of south and mid Wales had been affected by power outages, according to Western Power Distribution.\n\nMore than 1,000 properties in Rhondda Cynon Taf, more than 300 on the Gower Peninsula and nearly 300 in northern Cardiff were left without electricity earlier - but power has been restored in most areas of Wales.\n\nA family in Bridgend described how they felt \"panic\" when they saw their roof blow off their home.\n\nThe fire service was called when a roof was blown off at Park Street in Bridgend\n\nPhillip Dyke and Gaelle Stephan saw the roof blow off their home in Bridgend\n\n\"We called the fire brigade and within about an hour the roof came past our window and landed on the street,\" said Phillip Dyke, who lives with his partner Gaelle and their 11-month-old baby.\n\n\"It was like something from a film.\"\n\nMs Stephan said she was in \"disbelief\" as she saw the top of building come off, like it was \"not really real.\"\n\nIt comes after a surfer had to be rescued after getting into difficulty off Anglesey on Thursday.\n\nGusts of more than 70mph were recorded in some parts of Wales\n\nTrain services across south Wales are also disrupted, with lines closed and trains delayed.\n\nFlooding also meant services were suspended on the Conwy Valley line in north Wales between Llanrwst and Blaenau Ffestiniog.\n\nIn Ceredigion, the A487 between Cardigan and Penbryn was closed in both direction on Friday evening due to fallen trees.\n\nIn addition to flood alerts across Wales, Natural Resources Wales has also issued a full flood warning for the Lower Dee Valley in north-east Wales.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Su Gorman’s husband Steve was diagnosed with hepatitis C 21 years after first receiving contaminated blood products\n\nThe health secretary has acknowledged the pain and suffering of victims of the contaminated blood scandal, saying the government would pay compensation if recommended to.\n\nMatt Hancock was facing questions at a public inquiry into what's been called the worst NHS treatment disaster.\n\nAround 3,000 people died after being given blood products containing HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nMr Hancock said he wanted \"to make sure their voices are heard\".\n\nAnd he said the government would pay compensation if the inquiry decided it should.\n\nCurrently, victims and families get financial support but have not been compensated for loss of earnings, care costs and other lifetime losses.\n\nMinisters announced a public inquiry in 2017 after decades of campaigning by victims and their families.\n\nNearly 5,000 people with the blood disorder haemophilia were infected with potentially fatal viruses after being given a clotting agent called Factor VIII.\n\nMuch of the drug was imported from the US, where prisoners and other at-risk groups were often paid to donate the plasma used to make it.\n\nVictims included dozens of young haemophiliacs at a boarding school in Hampshire who died after contracting HIV as a result.\n\nTens of thousands more victims may have been exposed to viral hepatitis through blood transfusions after an operation or childbirth.\n\nFactor VIII was often imported from the US in the 1970s and 1980s\n\nFamilies of victims of the scandal have long fought for annual support payments to be increased and full compensation to be paid.\n\nIn March ministers said that families in England who lost relatives as a result of the scandal will receive the same support payments as those in other parts of the UK.\n\nTreasury minister Penny Mordaunt said bereaved partners would automatically get a £10,000 lump sum.\n\nBut campaigners say some families have been excluded from the scheme, including children who lost parents to HIV at the time.\n\nThe UK government has now said that full compensation could be paid in the future, depending on the outcome of the inquiry.\n\nThat is likely to pave the way for much larger payments covering lifetime loss of earnings and ongoing care costs.\n\nMinisters have appointed the retired barrister Sir Robert Francis to carry out a study looking at different options for compensation, and to report back with recommendations, before the inquiry publishes its conclusions.\n\n\"This is a huge move but if they decide to base compensation on what the inquiry decides, that gives them another two or three years before they have to find a penny,\" said Su Gorman, whose husband Steve Dymond died aged 62 in December 2018 of organ failure linked to hepatitis C.\n\n\"If they really wanted to pay compensation, they could find a way of doing it which would not prejudge the inquiry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video statements were played at the start of the public inquiry in September 2018\n\nThe public inquiry, led by Sir Brian Langstaff, has been examining the circumstances surrounded the contaminated blood scandal since 2018.\n\nHundreds of people who were infected with HIV and hepatitis C or their family members have already given evidence, with hearings held at sites across the UK.\n\nThe inquiry is examining how and why the infections occurred, what was known at the time about the risks of the treatments, and whether patients were given sufficient warnings about the dangers involved.\n\nEvidence hearings are scheduled to continue into next year with a final report likely to be published in 2022 or 2023.\n\nA book of remembrance for haemophiliacs who died in the contaminated blood scandal is displayed at St Botolph's Church in the City of London\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"The infected blood tragedy should never have happened. The ongoing public inquiry was set up to establish the truth and give individuals and families the answers they rightly deserve.\n\n\"We've always been clear that those who have been affected by this tragedy should be supported by a fair and transparent support scheme focused on their welfare, providing some security and consistency.\n\n\"The government has listened to the call for parity of support across UK and in March announced a package for the whole of the UK which will bring greater uniformity to the four National support schemes.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Diana was failed not just by Martin Bashir but by leaders at the BBC, says Prince William\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has blamed BBC failings over its interview with his mother for fuelling her paranoia and worsening his parents' relationship.\n\nAfter an inquiry found the BBC fell below its standards, Prince William said he was \"most saddened\" Diana never learned she had been deceived.\n\nHe said his mother was failed \"not just by a rogue reporter\" but by BBC bosses.\n\nThe Met Police said it will assess the new report, after previously deciding against a criminal investigation.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex blamed a toxic media culture for his mother's death.\n\nIn his separate statement, Prince Harry said that the \"ripple effect of a culture of exploitation and unethical practices\" ultimately took his mother's life.\n\nHe expressed concern such practices \"are still widespread today\", adding that it was \"bigger than one outlet, one network or one publication\".\n\n\"Our mother lost her life because of this, and nothing has changed. By protecting her legacy, we protect everyone, and uphold the dignity with which she lived her life,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC has written to apologise to Princes William and Harry, as well as the Prince of Wales and Diana's brother Earl Spencer.\n\nMatt Wiessler, the graphic designer who first raised concerns about the fake documents used to secure the interview and who was later denied work by the BBC, told Radio 4's Today programme that an apology sent to him at 22:00 BST on Thursday was \"too little, too late\".\n\nHe criticised Lord Hall, who led an internal investigation at the time, and then BBC director-general Lord Birt for not apologising to him in person.\n\nIt's hard to overstate the strength of feeling expressed by William.\n\nNot just about Martin Bashir, but with the whole BBC, whom he thinks entirely failed to investigate the matter and covered up elements that were not to its liking.\n\nNote, there was no talk of drawing a line under this, there was no talk of this being a long time ago.\n\nInstead, he effectively accuses the BBC of driving his parents towards divorce and playing some part in the events that led towards his mother's death.\n\nHarry too, issued a statement, not as angry, not so pointed, instead referring, as he has before, to a \"culture of exploitation and unethical practices\".\n\nIn the past, of course, it's been Harry that's been so angry with the media, William appeared to have made his peace with it, but the second in line to the throne has launched a visceral attack on the BBC, a sign of his deep hurt and deep dismay.\n\nThe independent inquiry - by retired judge Lord Dyson - found that interviewer Martin Bashir acted in a \"deceitful\" way and faked documents to obtain his interview.\n\nThe BBC's 1996 probe led by then-head of News and Current Affairs Lord Hall into initial complaints about what happened was \"woefully ineffective\", it added.\n\nPrince William said the interview made a \"major contribution to making my parents' relationship worse\", adding it has \"since hurt countless others\".\n\n\"But what saddens me most, is that if the BBC had properly investigated the complaints and concerns first raised in 1995, my mother would have known that she had been deceived,\" he said.\n\n\"She was failed not just by a rogue reporter, but by leaders at the BBC who looked the other way rather than asking the tough questions.\"\n\nLord Dyson found that Bashir deceived Earl Spencer into introducing the journalist to his sister by showing him forged bank statements that falsely suggested individuals were being paid for keeping the princess under surveillance.\n\nPrince William said that, in his view, the deceitful way the interview was obtained \"substantially influenced what my mother said\" in response to Bashir.\n\nHe said the original Panorama interview programme had \"no legitimacy\" and should never be aired again.\n\nPrinces William (centre) and Harry (right) were children when the BBC interview was aired\n\n\"It effectively established a false narrative which, for over a quarter of a century, has been commercialised by the BBC and others,\" he said.\n\nBashir said mocking up the documents \"was a stupid thing to do\" and he regretted it, but said they had no bearing on Diana's decision to be interviewed.\n\nA note written by Diana, published in the report for the first time, said she had no regrets about the broadcast and Bashir did not show her the faked documents. It was taken by the BBC as evidence for Bashir's claims.\n\nBut Lord Dyson said the BBC should have considered the possibility that the documents were shown to her brother, Earl Spencer, and used indirectly to gain access to the princess.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the inquiry's \"devastating\" findings into the \"unfounded and wrong\" actions of senior figures at the BBC meant the government would have to consider whether the corporation's governance should be reformed.\n\nThe independent inquiry was commissioned by the BBC last year, after Earl Spencer went public with allegations about how the interview was obtained.\n\nIts findings were published on Thursday.\n\nThe earl told a new documentary by BBC Panorama: \"Well, the irony is that I met Martin Bashir on the 31st of August 1995 - because exactly two years later she died, and I do draw a line between the two events.\"\n\nHe said it was \"quite clear\" from when he introduced Bashir to Diana in September 1995 that \"everyone was going to be made untrustworthy, and I think that Diana did lose trust in really key people\".\n\nPatrick Jephson - Diana's former private secretary - said the interview \"destroyed remaining links with Buckingham Palace\" and left her vulnerable to \"people who didn't have her best interests at heart\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earl Spencer recalls introducing his sister to Martin Bashir in September 1995\n\nMr Wiessler said this inquiry should have been held in 1996 when he first raised the alarm and said there was still a culture that \"the little people\" and whistleblowers did not need to be addressed.\n\nHe said it was not a \"fitting response for the 25 years I've been waiting for people to stop calling me a forger and a leaker\".\n\nCalling for senior BBC figures at time to apologise to him in person, he said: \"Nobody has come forward. It's just weak, calculating, and quite honestly after 25 years it's nasty what they are doing - to this day.\"\n\nFormer BBC producer Mark Killick said he was told he was being removed from Panorama after raising concerns about the faked documents because \"we only want loyal people on the programme\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the report was a \"good start\" but said the BBC had created a \"culture of fear\" that may have contributed to subsequent scandals. The current leadership must make it clear that staff can \"speak truth to power without fear of losing their jobs\", he said.\n\nBashir's interview with Princess Diana for a special edition of Panorama was a huge scoop for the BBC. In it, she famously said: \"There were three of us in this marriage,\" - referring to her husband's affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.\n\nIt was the first time a serving royal had spoken so openly about life in the Royal Family - viewers saw her speak about her unhappy marriage to Prince Charles, their affairs, and her bulimia.\n\nBashir, 58, is one of the UK's best known journalists, and also made headlines for his 2003 interview with pop star Michael Jackson.\n\nLast week he left the BBC, citing ongoing health issues. He had been the corporation's religion correspondent and editor since 2016.\n\nIn a statement, Lord Hall said he was wrong to give Bashir the \"benefit of the doubt\" at the time in the internal investigation which cleared Bashir, Panorama and BBC News of wrongdoing.\n\nHe added that throughout his 35-year career at the BBC he \"always acted in ways I believe were fair, impartial and with the public interest front and centre\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's director general Tim Davie accepts the organisation's \"multiple serious failures\"\n\nThe BBC's current director general, Tim Davie, said: \"Although the report states that Diana, Princess of Wales, was keen on the idea of an interview with the BBC, it is clear that the process for securing the interview fell far short of what audiences have a right to expect.\n\n\"We are very sorry for this. Lord Dyson has identified clear failings.\"\n\nHe added that the BBC should have \"made greater effort to get to the bottom of what happened at the time and been more transparent about what it knew\".\n\nIt is understood that in a letter sent by Mr Davie to Prince Charles, the director-general apologised for Bashir's \"lurid and untrue claims\" about the prince, members of his staff and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe letter said the BBC accepts that Bashir made the claims \"intending to play on the princess's fears, in order to arouse her interest in him, and without concern for the impact on those he maligned\".\n\nA Panorama investigation into the interview - delayed from last week - was shown on Thursday evening on BBC One, within hours of Lord Dyson's findings being published.", "Lady Gaga said she was still suffering from the effects of her assault when she won an Oscar for A Star Is Born in 2019\n\nLady Gaga has revealed she suffered a breakdown as a result of sexual assault that led to pregnancy.\n\nThe star was 19 when she was raped by a male music producer, who had threatened to burn her music if she did not take her clothes off.\n\nShe says her alleged rapist then \"dropped me off pregnant on a corner... because I was vomiting and sick\".\n\nYears later, she had \"a total psychotic break\" and was in an \"ultra state of paranoia\" as a result of the trauma.\n\nGaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, was speaking on the first episode of Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry's new Apple TV+ series, The Me You Can't See, which tackles the stigma around mental health.\n\nShe broke down in tears as she described her assault, which took place in her early days in the music industry.\n\n\"I was 19 years old, and I was working in the business, and a producer said to me, 'Take your clothes off,'\" she recalled. \"I said no and I left, and they told me they were going to burn all of my music. And they didn't stop.\n\n\"They didn't stop asking me, and I just froze and I... I don't even remember.\"\n\nNow 35, the singer said she would never name her attacker.\n\n\"I understand this #MeToo movement, I understand that some people feel really comfortable with this, and I do not,\" she continued. \"I do not ever want to face that person again.\"\n\nGaga first discussed her rape in 2014, and addressed it in songs such as Swine and 'Til It Happens To You - which soundtracked The Hunting Ground, a documentary about sexual assault on US college campuses; and was nominated for an Oscar in 2016.\n\nShe said her breakdown came years later - and was still going on when she accepted her Oscar for A Star Is Born in 2019.\n\nIt began when she was admitted to hospital for acute pain and numbness, and was surprised to be sent to see a psychiatrist.\n\n\"I [couldn't] feel my own body,\" she recalled. \"First I felt full-on pain, then I felt numb, and then I was sick for weeks after.\n\n\"I realised that it was the same pain that I felt when the person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner, at my parents' house, because I was vomiting and sick. Because I had been being abused, and I was locked away in a studio for months.\"\n\nThe star added that trauma had changed her as a person, and would never leave her.\n\n\"I had a total psychotic break and, for a couple years, I was not the same girl. The way that I feel when I feel pain was how I felt after I was raped.\n\n\"I've had so many MRIs and scans where they don't find nothing. But your body remembers.\"\n\nIt took her two and a half years to recover, she said, but \"getting triggered once\" is enough for her slip back into feelings of physical and emotional pain.\n\nHowever, she ended on a hopeful note, saying that, after years of effort, she had \"learned all the ways to pull myself out of it. It all started to slowly change.\"\n\nGaga is one of a number of well-known faces to take part in The Me You Can't See, including Glenn Close, Olympic boxer Virginia Fuchs and celebrity chef Rashad Armstead, as well as Winfrey and the Duke of Sussex.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The cost of a single-use plastic carrier bag in English shops has gone up from 5p to 10p.\n\nAll stores, big and small, have to apply the charge from Friday. Until now, smaller retailers were exempt.\n\nThe original 5p levy was introduced in England in 2015. Since then, the use of the bags has declined by more than 95%.\n\nCampaign group Friends of the Earth urged the government to go even further, saying the bags were part of a bigger plastic problem.\n\nThe group welcomed the scheme, but said it still had \"significant shortcomings\".\n\nCampaigners said the charge should be extended to paper carrier bags, while so-called \"bags for life\", which are designed to be reused but contain greater amounts of plastic, were posing a \"growing problem\".\n\n\"It seems that many plastic 'bags for life' are being used just once and not reused for the bag's lifetime, as is their purpose,\" said the group's plastics campaigner, Camilla Zerr.\n\n\"If ministers want to get to the root of this problem, they need to take a tougher stand against all single-use plastics.\"\n\nThe environmental group's warning has already been heeded by supermarkets including Morrisons and the Co-op, which have discontinued the sale of plastic bags for life.\n\nFriends of the Earth said the government's forthcoming Environment Bill should include \"legally binding targets\" to phase out the use of all unnecessary single-use plastic products.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family of the inventor of the plastic carrier bag says they were supposed to help protect the planet\n\nThe average person in England now buys just four single-use carrier bags a year from the main supermarkets, compared with 140 in 2014.\n\nBy extending the charge to all retailers, the government hopes the use of single-use carrier bags will fall by 70-80% in small and medium-sized businesses.\n\nEnvironment minister Rebecca Pow said: \"Everyone wants to play their part in reducing the scourge of plastic waste that blights our environment and oceans.\n\n\"The 5p bag charge has been hugely successful, but we can go further.\"\n\nShe added that the new higher charge in England would \"support the ambitious action\" the UK has already taken in its fight against plastic, \"as we build back greener\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Disturbing' social media footage of cars being set on fire in Swansea\n\nGangs of \"yobs\" have been setting fire to cars and rolling them down a hill in Swansea in \"disturbing\" footage circulating on social media.\n\nSouth Wales Police said they attended \"large scale disorder\" in the Mayhill area of the city on Thursday evening.\n\nWelsh Parliament member Tom Giffard called the scenes \"disturbing\" as officers asked the public \"to disperse and leave the area\".\n\nOfficers believe the \"disorder\" on Waun-wen Road started as a vigil to a local person who recently died.\n\n\"What is believed to have started as a vigil to a recently deceased local resident has escalated into violence, criminal damage and a wanton disregard for public safety,\" Supt Tim Morgan said.\n\nThe \"disturbing\" scenes captured on social media happened on Waun-Wen Road in Swansea\n\nOne local resident, who did not want to be named, told the BBC the disturbance \"all started with some fireworks at around 7.30pm\".\n\n\"Police initially turned up and got out of the van to try to stop what was happening,\" he said.\n\nWhat police describe as \"large scale disorder\" started at about 19:30 BST on Thursday\n\n\"But they got pelted with rocks and then they got back in the van and left.\n\n\"We were trapped in the house with two young kids. They were really scared so I put them at the back of the house.\"\n\nSome residents have said they are leaving the area for the night as they fear a repeat\n\n\"There were loads of teenagers and they were rolling a car down the street and setting cars on fire.\n\n\"We're getting out of here tonight now and going to stay elsewhere with family just in case they come back.\"\n\nSwansea council leader Rob Stewart said the situation was \"completely unacceptable and inexcusable.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Giffard MS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Our thoughts are with the residents who have had to put up with this utterly despicable behaviour in our community,\" he said.\n\nOne family on Waun-wen Road said their 90-year-old mother had her windows smashed and was being evacuated - but did not want to be identified as they did not \"want to be targeted.\"\n\nOfficers have urged anyone involved to leave the scene \"immediately\" and said that \"those involved can expect to face robust action\".\n\n\"Post-incident investigations will also aim to identify all those concerned,\" added Supt Morgan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Simon Hart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have a number of officers at the scene working to de-escalate the situation as quickly as possible and allow other emergency service colleagues to attend to calls in the area.\n\nHe asked residents to stay indoors \"while the matter is brought to a safe conclusion.\"\n\nThe wreckage of burnt out cars litter Waun-wen Road in Mayhill\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and added: \"A tough night for the police dealing with such reckless behaviour. No excuses, police right to robustly respond.\"\n\nLocal resident Tyler Thomas has set up an online fundraising page to help the people affected by what is being described as the \"Mayhill riot\".\n\nMore than a dozen police vehicles and fire engines were on standby outside Townhill Police Station in case the violence erupted again.", "Tony Hall arriving to take up the post of BBC director general in 2013\n\nThis is a crisis that goes to the heart of the BBC's DNA - the values of integrity and fairness that underpin its reputation around the world.\n\nThe deceit may go back a quarter of a century, but there are unanswered questions that carry huge jeopardy for the corporation today.\n\nIn his first speech after taking over as director general after the Jimmy Savile scandal, Lord Hall addressed the culture of the BBC.\n\n\"No organisation as big as this one can avoid making mistakes,\" he said.\n\n\"But I want to ensure that when we do make mistakes, they are caused by trying to serve our viewers, not by looking after ourselves.\n\n\"And when we do make mistakes - and we will - let's own up to them quickly, learn from them and move on.\"\n\nBut Lord Dyson's report suggests the corporation's values and principles were parked to protect its corporate reputation.\n\nThe BBC used its press office to deflect difficult questions, the kind of institutional cover-up its own journalists seek to expose.\n\nThe corporation stands accused of hostility to staff who sought to blow the whistle on Martin Bashir's lies.\n\nFormer BBC graphic designer, Matt Wiessler, says he has only just received an apology\n\nThe graphic designer Matt Wiessler, who was commissioned by Bashir to create mocked-up bank statements, has long claimed he was made the scapegoat for the scandal.\n\n\"There is this culture within the BBC, that the little people... we don't really need to be addressed,\" he said.\n\nToday he said he had received the \"absolute minimum\" apology from BBC bosses - in a letter which arrived late last night.\n\n\"Only under duress do we get some sort of apology and some sort of acknowledgement,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC said on Friday that there had been \"radical change\" to its whistleblowing procedures over the past 25 years, and they had \"changed out of all recognition\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We now have a thorough and industry-leading whistleblowing scheme which provides clear and independent routes to raise concerns and, if necessary, direct access for whistleblowers to a non-executive director on the BBC board.\"\n\nAnother question the BBC must answer is why Martin Bashir was re-hired by the BBC as religious affairs correspondent in 2016.\n\nLord Hall was director general at the time and had intimate knowledge of Bashir's behaviour.\n\nThe BBC's head of newsgathering, Jonathan Munro, said at the time: \"Martin's track record in enterprising journalism is well-known and respected in the industry and amongst our audiences.\"\n\nIn the years before his re-appointment, Bashir was forced to apologise twice for making controversial remarks while employed by US news networks.\n\nOn one occasion, speaking to the Asian-American Journalists Association, he said: \"I am happy to be in the midst of so many Asian babes.\"\n\nIn 2013, he resigned from MSNBC following disparaging remarks on air about the former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.\n\nThe corporation's religion and ethics review in 2017, led by Lord Hall, promoted Mr Bashir to Religion Editor.\n\nThe BBC said this was part of its aim to \"raise our game across all output\".\n\nLord Dyson said yesterday that the decision to re-hire him was not closely related enough to his terms of reference, for him to investigate or reach any conclusions.\n\nA BBC spokesman said the post was filled after a competitive interview process: \"We now of course have the Dyson report. We didn't have it then.\"\n\nThe former head of news at Channel 4, Dorothy Byrne, last night called the appointment \"obscene\" and called for an inquiry into how it happened.\n\nQuestions have also been raised about how the BBC is governed.\n\nFormer BBC chairman and broadcasting executive Lord Grade has suggested an independent body of journalists should oversee standards at BBC News.\n\n\"There has got to be a serious governance structural change inside the BBC,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there has to be an editorial board of independent outside specialist non-conflicted journalistic people who can hold BBC journalism to account.\"\n\nThe Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has said the BBC's failings are serious enough for the government to consider taking action: \"Clearly the wider issues of governance and the way things are run now need to be looked at.\"\n\nThe BBC, which has changed its system of governance twice since the mid-1990s, said reviews were built into the existing system and one would take place as part of the current royal charter.\n\n\"But of course,\" it said in a statement, \"there is much to reflect on\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graphic designer Matt Wiessler: \"The important people are being covered up\"\n\nThe whistleblower who first warned the BBC about the faked documents at the heart of the Princess Diana interview controversy has said he wants an apology from bosses at the time.\n\nMatt Wiessler said a letter sent on Thursday night was \"too little, too late\".\n\nThe graphic designer mocked up fake bank statements in 1995 at the request of Panorama interviewer Martin Bashir.\n\nBut he did not know what they would be used for until after the broadcast.\n\nFollowing a highly critical inquiry into how the interview was secured, Mr Wiessler told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the BBC had only done the \"absolute minimum\" to acknowledge how badly he had been treated.\n\nHe said: \"I just feel that there is this culture within the BBC that the little people - me being the whistleblower - that we don't really need to be addressed.\n\n\"Only under duress do we get some sort of apology and some sort of acknowledgement.\"\n\nMr Wiessler said he wanted \"to have real people come forward and speak to me\", including an apology from senior figures at the BBC in 1995.\n\n\"They know who they are and they didn't do anything to help people like me,\" he said.\n\nHe said a personal apology should come from figures such as Lord Hall, who as head of news and current affairs at the time led a flawed internal inquiry into the incident, and the then-director general, Lord Birt.\n\n\"It is a sign of strength if you come forward and you admit to having done something wrong. Nobody has come forward,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just really weak, calculating, and quite honestly, after 25 years, it's nasty what they are doing to this day.\"\n\nMr Weissler also told the BBC he wanted to meet current director-general Tim Davie as he feels the involvement of important figures is \"being covered up\".\n\nFake bank statements deceived Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer into believing people had his sister under surveillance\n\nMr Wiessler was in his final weeks as a BBC employee before starting his own company when he was asked to urgently mock up some bank statements by Bashir in August or September 1995.\n\nThe Panorama reporter provided the details without mentioning any connection to Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThese were then used to lend credibility to Bashir's false claims in meetings with Diana's brother Earl Spencer that the princess was under surveillance and being conspired against by royal aides - helping the BBC interviewer to win her trust.\n\nMr Wiessler says he only realised the connection between the documents he mocked up and the interview after it was broadcast and he approached BBC bosses the next month.\n\nResponding to Bashir saying he was still proud of the interview, Mr Wiessler accused him and BBC management of \"arrogance\" that continues to the present day.\n\nMr Wiessler said he would speak to his lawyer about compensation after the fallout from his whistleblowing meant the BBC would no longer work with him.\n\n\"We were never aware that there was a decree out that no-one should work for me or my company,\" he said. But eventually the lack of work caused him to fall out with his business partner and for the company to fold, Mr Wiessler added.\n\nA former Panorama producer who also raised concerns about how the interview had been secured, Mark Killick, said Lord Dyson's inquiry demonstrated that Martin Bashir was a \"dishonest reporter\" who \"lied and lied\".\n\n\"It says the BBC investigation in 1996 was incompetent, it says the BBC ran a smear campaign against some of its own employees, and it ultimately says the BBC covered it all up as well,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAfter he raised his concerns about the documents with a BBC lawyer, and was told to discuss the issue with management, he was \"let go\" from Panorama after 10 years on the programme.\n\n\"I was told we only want loyal people on the programme,\" he said.\n\nThat response was part of a \"culture of fear\" established by senior managers which may have contributed to subsequent scandals at the BBC, Mr Killick said.\n\n\"Many people, both on the Princess Diana side of the line and in the BBC, had their reputations destroyed by a smear campaign authorised by BBC senior management, and many of them lost their jobs,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not quite sure that a generic apology in the form of a press statement by the BBC is anything like adequate.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nParkrun will not resume on 5 June after fewer than half of its venues approved the return of the 5km runs.\n\nThe community event was suspended in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOrganisers need a significant number of landowners to give permission for races to return to avoid overcrowding at the mass participation event.\n\nParkrunUK says it hopes to resume all 5k events across England on 26 June, with a decision to be made on 11 June.\n\n\"Although more than 250 events do have landowner permission to return, this falls far short of the critical mass needed to prevent overwhelming those that have been given the go ahead,\" a statement read.\n\n\"Opening a small subset of Parkruns is not viable.\"\n\nIt added that a number of landowners had \"responded positively\" to resuming at a later date.\n\nCulture secretary Oliver Dowden, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and World Athletics president Lord Coe have backed the return of the event.\n\nThere are 729 different locations across the UK holding the weekly events and more than three million registered runners.", "Twenty-five years ago, the BBC's Panorama programme landed a scoop rivals the world over wanted - an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales. Her son and heir to the throne, Prince William, has now launched an unprecedented attack on the corporation over that interview.\n\nThe programme, which attracted a UK audience of 23m, was a career-defining moment for reporter Martin Bashir.\n\nBut after accusations resurfaced last autumn that Bashir misled the princess to gain her trust, the BBC established an inquiry led by the former Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson. That inquiry has judged Bashir to be \"unreliable\", \"devious\" and \"dishonest.\"\n\nBashir was investigated by the BBC at the time by Tony Hall, who went on to become the BBC's director general. Hall found that Bashir was \"honest\" and an \"honourable man\". Dyson has condemned Hall's inquiry as \"flawed\" and \"woefully ineffective\".\n\nUntil now, the full story behind the scoop has remained hidden for a quarter of a century.\n\nThe interview became one of the 20th Century's seminal TV events. As the separated wife of the future king, Princess Diana spoke of adultery, palace plotting, mental and physical illness, and how Prince Charles was unfit for the job.\n\n\"Do you really think a campaign was being waged against you?\" Martin Bashir asked Princess Diana, having spent the preceding weeks amplifying the alarm bells in her head about just such a campaign. He claimed uniquely placed sources were telling him about dirty tricks by journalists, royal courtiers, the intelligence services, and even her friends.\n\nI worked on Panorama in 1995, and I had heard the rumours that Bashir had used deception to land his scoop, but nothing more. The details only began to resurface last autumn, on the 25th anniversary of the interview. The BBC released to ITV and Channel 4 some of the information journalists had been seeking for years.\n\nAt the same time, Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer disclosed that he'd kept contemporaneous notes of his meetings with Bashir, and the claims he made.\n\nLord Dyson's report represents the BBC's formal response to the allegations against Martin Bashir and the failure of Tony Hall's 1996 inquiry to get to the bottom of this affair.\n\nHowever, so serious were last autumn's renewed allegations of misconduct that the current Panorama team decided this needed to be investigated by the programme itself to restore public trust in Panorama's journalism and independence.\n\nWe've talked to almost all the witnesses who have given evidence to Lord Dyson and many more besides, including detailed testimony from Earl Spencer.\n\nLike Lord Dyson, we have also seen internal BBC documents that not only show Bashir repeatedly lied, but also acknowledge that there was a serious breach of journalistic ethics and BBC rules. And yet the BBC management board was told by Hall that he was certain Bashir had not set out to deceive, while Hall's note intended for the corporation's governing body said he was an \"honest and honourable man\".\n\nLord Dyson says: \"What Mr Bashir did was not an impulsive act done in the spur of the moment. It was carefully planned… What he did was devious and dishonest.\"\n\nThe story begins with Bashir's plan to persuade Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer that among journalists covering the \"War of the Waleses\", he had access to high-level sources with the inside story of a broad conspiracy against him and his sister.\n\nOn 24 August 1995, Bashir left a telephone message with one of Spencer's assistants: \"Not seeking interview or info\", just \"15 minutes of time to talk\". He then sent a BBC headed letter claiming to have spent the \"past three months investigating press behaviour\". In fact, Bashir had spent much of that time working on other Panorama programmes. However, his letter intimated that a dogged investigation had unearthed something big about press intrusion into the Spencer family.\n\n\"I simply [want] to share some information which I believe, may be of interest,\" he wrote, calculating Spencer would bite knowing that he had had his own battles with the media. With no response, Bashir called again on 29 August. Spencer said he could meet him in London at 18:00 for a quick drink.\n\nOn the face of it, the suddenness of Spencer's invitation to a meeting may well have taken Bashir by surprise. In order to ingratiate himself with Earl Spencer to gain access to his sister, the reporter intended to show Spencer - falsely - that his former head of security, ex-soldier, Alan Waller, was being paid regularly by Rupert Murdoch's News international and the intelligence services to spy on the Spencer family. However, Bashir didn't show this to Spencer at their first brief meeting - presumably because he hadn't yet created the \"information\".\n\nLord Dyson said he could not be certain about the precise date when this \"information\" was created. However, our own investigation suggests this happened immediately after Bashir's introductory drink with Spencer.\n\nSpencer had agreed to continue their conversation at his country estate, Althorp, two days later at 11:30 on 31 August.\n\nTo help prepare the \"information\", Bashir made an urgent call to a former colleague, Matt Wiessler, begging him to drop everything for a job that couldn't wait. The graphic designer doesn't recall the exact date except that it was at the junction of August and September. Wiessler's business partner at the time told me that Bashir called him first and remembers it being around the time of the Notting Hill Carnival, which in 1995 ended on 28 August. He says that because Bashir wanted a rushed overnight job, he couldn't do it and suggested he call Wiessler instead.\n\nBoth Wiessler and his business partner are also clear that the call came after hours. Since Spencer's diary shows he had his first meeting with Bashir on the evening of the 29th, the evidence points to Bashir having called Wiessler soon after his drink with Spencer.\n\nWiessler says Bashir came to his flat and dictated from his notebook details of what he said were two of Alan Waller's bank statements, which he claimed to have seen - £4,000 from News International on 8 March 1994, and £6,500 from a Jersey-based company called \"Penfolds Consultants\" on 4 June. Bashir didn't mention the story he was working on was about Princess Diana, only that it \"could lead to something big\" in relation to \"surveillance by MI5 or MI6\".\n\nThe designer assumed that Bashir had actually seen Waller's original bank statements. He told Bashir the job of recreating them would take all night. Wiessler says that since Bashir was due to fly somewhere the following morning, he instructed him to courier the graphics to him at Heathrow at 07:00. Presumably Bashir wanted them ready for his trip to Althorp first thing on the 31st.\n\nSpencer's note of that meeting shows that Bashir mentioned \"payments\" to Waller, which he said were regular: \"8/3/94 £4K News International £4K quarterly\" and \"4/6/94 £6.5K Penfolds, 4 payments\". \"Penfolds Consultants\", said Bashir, was a Jersey-based front company for the intelligence services.\n\nWhat had really hooked Spencer, however, was another false claim by Bashir - that the private secretary of Prince Charles, Commander Richard Aylard, was conspiring against Diana. Spencer's notes show Bashir having claimed that Aylard had been handed secretly recorded conversations and, in an apparent reference to the possibility of divorce, told journalist Jonathan Dimbleby: \"We are in the end game. Shit or bust.\"\n\nSpencer says this knocked him sideways so he called Panorama editor Steve Hewlett. Although Spencer didn't list Bashir's claims to Hewlett, he did ask him if he could be trusted. Hewlett, according to Spencer, assured him that Bashir was \"one of my best\".\n\nOn 14 September, Bashir and Spencer met again at Althorp. Bashir now ramped up his allegations: Diana's own private secretary Commander Patrick Jephson was said to be in cahoots with Aylard. Bashir produced what Spencer describes as a folded A4-sized sheet of paper purporting to show sizeable payments to both Aylard and Jephson from the intelligence services to monitor Princess Diana's movements.\n\nIn evidence to Lord Dyson, Bashir categorically denies he showed any such document to Spencer. However, Spencer noted the following comment from Bashir: \"Patrick Jephson was a gd friend of Aylard + had business connections until 1992. Non exec director of company that Aylard was on board of Financial investment co. Jephson cashed in shared +resigned in 1992.\"\n\nThis echoed Diana's well-publicised fears of a conspiracy by her estranged husband's camp at St James's Palace to discredit her.\n\nBecause Spencer could make no sense of such alleged treachery, he thought his sister should hear all this directly from Bashir, so he telephoned her to suggest that she should meet Bashir. \"Darling Carlos,\" she replied in an affectionate note shown for the first time to Panorama. Using their childhood names for each other, the note said: \"I so appreciated the contents of our telephone call this morning - it all makes complete sense to what is going on around me at this present time. 'They' underestimate the Spencer strength! Lots of luv from Duch x\"\n\nBy 1995 Diana, had come to fear she had enemies in high places and was already vulnerable and unsettled. \"I think that she was looking for reasons as to why things were as they were,\" Spencer told me.\n\nOn 19 September, Spencer introduced Bashir to Diana. During this meeting, Spencer noted some 30 claims which he attributes to Bashir, including Jephson's alleged plots against her: \"Jephson - dangerous: money. Left offshore a/c in March 1994\".\n\nBy the end of the meeting, Spencer told me he had become highly sceptical. \"I warned Diana that his stories didn't add up and apologised to her... and she said, 'Oh, don't worry, Carlos. It's nice to see you. It doesn't matter at all.' And I thought that was the last time I'd hear from or about Martin Bashir.\"\n\nBashir has claimed that most of the comments noted down by Spencer came from Diana, but Lord Dyson finds: \"I am satisfied that Mr Bashir said most, if not all, of the things that are recorded in Earl Spencer's notes.\"\n\nThe reporter gave a very different account of his dealings with Earl Spencer - and in particular the claims attributed to him - in his evidence to Lord Dyson. He denied he had said many of the things attributed to him by Earl Spencer. Despite the findings of Lord Dyson, he still stands by his account.\n\nFor Diana that encounter was just the start of numerous meetings with Bashir. As Lord Dyson says, by late summer 1995, she was \"keen on the idea of a television interview\".\n\nOn 16 September 1995, Princess Diana and Prince Charles joined Prince William for his first day at Eton College\n\nHowever, friends who met her in the run-up to the Panorama interview on 5 November observed a marked change. They were regarded as no longer trustworthy, including Jephson. \"From Martin Bashir's perspective, I was the obstacle that had to be removed,\" he told me. \"Because there was a fair chance that if I advised against her giving the interview to him that she wouldn't do it.\"\n\nDiana's friend Rosa Monckton has written that everyone knew something was wrong \"but none of us could put a finger on it\".\n\nOn 30 October, the day after Diana had secretly confirmed the interview with Bashir, she met her lawyer Lord Mishcon and described to him a series of lurid plots which she said had been hatched against her.\n\nAsked to identify her sources Diana replied only that they were \"reliable\" and included GCHQ.\n\nPrincess Diana photographed with her then private secretary Patrick Jephson\n\nIs it a coincidence that among the top-level sources, Bashir would later claim to BBC management that he had met while \"investigating\" the dirty tricks campaign against Diana, was a member of GCHQ? It was, however, unheard of for a serving intelligence officer to disclose intercepts (even assuming that Diana's communications were being intercepted, which itself seems highly dubious) to a journalist.\n\nThe key question about the BBC for both our inquiry and Lord Dyson's was: How did Bashir's machinations elude the corporation's most senior executives, all of whom had been editors and journalists for whom the first rule is to cast a sceptical eye over anything that doesn't seem to add up?\n\nThe first alarm bell that should have warned BBC management something was wrong rang in December 1995, a month after the sensational interview had been broadcast. Designer Wiessler approached current affairs bosses Tim Gardam and Tim Suter and told them that he had been unwittingly drawn into forging bank statements by Bashir.\n\nWiessler - who says he only realised a connection between the fake documents and the interview after it was broadcast - told them he had previously approached the then Panorama editor Steve Hewlett, who had assured him there was nothing to worry about. Hewlett died of cancer in 2017, and having worked closely with him, the idea that he might have colluded with Bashir in using fake bank statements is - to me - unthinkable. And nothing I have seen suggests that Hewlett did. Nonetheless, were he alive, Lord Dyson would have sought his answer to some searching questions.\n\nWhy, for example, having been first alerted to the fake bank statements shortly after transmission, had Hewlett not reported this to management?\n\nThe evidence suggests that Hewlett first learned about the fake bank statements after Wiessler faxed them to Panorama producer Mark Killick with whom he had previously worked. Killick instantly recognised the name \"Penfolds Consultants\" because the company had featured in two previous Panoramas he and Bashir had made about the business affairs of former England football manager Terry Venables. Why, puzzled Killick, should Penfolds be involved with paying an ex-employee of Earl Spencer?\n\nKillick confronted Bashir with the bank statements in the BBC canteen. The meeting was brief and acrimonious, with Bashir telling Killick it was none of his concern.\n\nKillick, along with two colleagues - former Panorama deputy editor Harry Dean and Panorama reporter Tom Mangold - went to see Hewlett on 4 December. All three also recall the editor saying it was none of their business. Dean asked him if he knew about the bank statements, and Hewlett said he couldn't remember. But as Killick left, he suggested Hewlett talk to Spencer. Despite Spencer later calling Hewlett, we have seen no evidence that either Hewlett or anyone from BBC management did ever check Bashir's version of events against Spencer's. Lord Dyson is especially critical of this failure. He says the investigation carried out by Tony Hall and Anne Sloman, a former radio current affairs producer who later became the BBC's chief political adviser, was \"flawed and woefully ineffective\".\n\nLord Dyson said it \"would have been substantially changed if they had bothered to speak to Earl Spencer\".\n\nDean recalls that Hewlett later assured him that the information on the bank statements was true. He told Dean that Venables had given up his interest in Penfolds and the name appearing in the fake bank statements was merely coincidental. That assurance seems likely to have come from Bashir himself.\n\nAt the Panorama Christmas party, former producer Peter Molloy recalls Wiessler looking very shaken as he arrived. Wiessler told Molloy his flat had been broken into, and the only thing missing appeared to be two disks containing the bank statements. When Wiessler reported his concerns to BBC management, it became clear that Hewlett had not told his line manager Tim Gardam anything about Bashir having faked bank statements. \"Tim was angry but sensible about it,\" recalled colleague Tim Suter in 2001. Hewlett told them there'd been \"nothing underhand in getting the Diana interview\".\n\nBashir was then questioned by Gardam, Hewlett and Suter. He assured them the bank statements hadn't been shown to Diana or anyone else. They couldn't have been used to persuade the princess to give an interview, he said, because the source of the information in them had been Diana herself.\n\nHowever, a note by Tim Gardam of this meeting, shows Gardam was still puzzled - why had Bashir gone to the trouble and expense of creating such authentic looking documents? He asked Bashir to seek an assurance from the Princess in writing that she'd not been shown them. The following day, a handwritten letter arrived from Kensington Palace: \"I can confirm that I was not (not is underlined twice) put under any undue pressure to give my interview. I was not shown any documents nor given any information by Martin Bashir that I was not already aware of. I was perfectly happy with the interview and I stand by it.\"\n\nDiana's letter put to rest any doubts management had that she'd been tricked or coerced. The BBC's greatest ever scoop, was safe. For now.\n\nWhat had been missed, however, was a big clue that Bashir was lying.\n\nBashir had already told Gardam in November that his first contact with Princess Diana had been in late September. This was mentioned in a \"record of events\" note by Gardam for Tony Hall. However, Gardam had also been told by Matt Wiessler that he had created the bank statements in late August/early September, some three weeks earlier.\n\nAlthough both Hewlett and BBC management had been made aware of both dates, neither appear to have spotted the obvious conflict that Diana couldn't have been Bashir's source because she and Bashir were yet to be in contact. When we highlighted this discrepancy over dates to Gardam, he acknowledged he hadn't spotted it: \"Had I done so, I would have questioned Martin Bashir about it.\" His focus, he explained, had been on Wiessler's allegation that \"the documents had been shown to the Princess of Wales in order to persuade her to give an interview\".\n\nBashir may have calculated that by naming Diana as his confidential source, BBC management would feel inhibited about checking this with her. And they never did.\n\nHe also deflected suspicion by admitting that he falsely inserted the name \"Penfolds Consultants\" as one of the two companies supposedly paying Spencer's ex-employee Alan Waller. His excuse? Although Diana had supposedly told him Waller was being paid by an intelligence services front company to spy on the Spencers, she hadn't known the name. All she had known, said Bashir, was that the company was based in Jersey. So he'd just inserted a dummy name because he knew Penfolds was based in Jersey.\n\nIn truth, Bashir must have realised he would never get away with passing off Penfolds as real because it had featured in his previous Panoramas. What Hewlett made of Bashir's volte-face over Penfolds given the former editor's earlier assurances to a sceptical Harry Dean is unclear. In Gardam's note of his interview with Bashir, he makes no reference to having been told about this contradiction which suggests Hewlett never told him.\n\nAsked by Gardam why he had compiled the graphics in the first place, Bashir said it was simply to record and file the information - an implausible reason for getting a graphic designer to work all night, paying him £250 of licence fee payers' money and getting the documents couriered to Heathrow, when jotting down the details in his notebook would have sufficed.\n\nNonetheless, however improbable this may seem today, Diana's letter appears to have reassured management. \"All could now relax for Christmas,\" said Suter at the time. \"We had had a scare, but we had got through it.\" But for Earl Spencer, the letter doesn't exonerate the BBC. \"Diana is dealing from a position of having been lied to. She didn't know that the whole obtaining of the interview was based on a series of falsehoods that led to her being vulnerable to this,\" he told me.\n\nHowever, if management thought that was the end of it, they were mistaken. On 21 March, the Mail on Sunday told Spencer they were investigating how Martin Bashir had been introduced to his sister and secured his scoop interview. In order to convince Spencer of his credentials, the newspaper alleged that Bashir had shown him bogus security service documents about bugging phones at Kensington Palace. Clearly the Mail were on to something, but were wrong about the content of the documents.\n\nDistrustful of the tabloid press, Spencer called the BBC to find out more. Spencer was put on to Hewlett and told him he had introduced Bashir to Diana \"on 19 September on the back of extremely serious allegations he had made, against various newspapers, named journalists, named senior figures at St James's Palace, and unnamed figures in the secret service\".\n\nHewlett now had a golden opportunity to question the Earl about Bashir's allegations and crucially whether he'd been shown bank statements since, unlike Spencer, Hewlett knew they were fake. It's not clear that Hewlett did ask Spencer about either point. Nonetheless, since the Mail on Sunday had mentioned forgeries, Gardam instructed Hewlett to question Bashir about this again.\n\nAgain, Bashir insisted he had not shown his forgeries to anyone, including Spencer.\n\nOn 23 March, Gardam was telephoned and doorstepped by the Mail on Sunday, so he telephoned Bashir: Had he shown the documents to Spencer? Again, Bashir denied this to both Gardam and Hewlett. Unconvinced, that afternoon, Gardam sought another assurance. Fearing imminent publication, Bashir caved in, finally admitting that he had. It had taken four attempts since December to get the truth out of Bashir.\n\nA furious Gardam warned Bashir the BBC would have to consider its position.\n\nGardam was days away from leaving the BBC. He wrote a handover note setting out all of Bashir's lies. It also records Tony Hall as having agreed with Gardam that since Bashir had \"misled us and… appeared to have acted unethically and in breach of the guidelines\" the corporation should conduct a \"full inquiry\".\n\nBut what transpired could hardly be described as a \"full inquiry\" and was compounded by misleading statements.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday had withheld publication, but by April 1996 had firmed up their story and published Bashir's fake documents. Approved by both Hall and Hewlett, the BBC issued a statement saying the documents were \"never connected in any way to the Panorama on Princess Diana\". Yet by now both knew that Bashir had admitted showing the statements to Spencer. They also knew that in a written statement, Bashir had admitted showing the documents to Spencer in order to \"foster\" his relationship with him. Therefore the documents manifestly were \"connected to the Panorama on Princess Diana\".\n\nIn fact, Lord Dyson finds that the way the BBC handled its public statements as a whole in this matter \"fell short of its high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark\".\n\nAs Anne Sloman, who had taken over as Gardam's temporary replacement, and Hall carried out their \"full inquiry\", they never appear to have worked out that Bashir's central claim - Diana was Bashir's source for the information in the fake graphics - was a lie.\n\nLike Gardam in December, neither Hall nor Sloman appear to have spotted that Diana couldn't have been Bashir's source because they hadn't met when Bashir commissioned Wiessler to do the graphics. But no such comparison appears to have been made. Lord Dyson does not hold BBC management culpable for not spotting the discrepancy in dates. He does, however, find that ahead of Bashir's first meeting with Diana on 19 September, it is \"inconceivable\" that he was \"locked in a relationship\" such that she would have been his source for the information in the graphics.\n\nThe Hall-Sloman investigation did draw up a chronology of events, which we've seen, but its focus was more about leaks from Panorama to newspapers than Bashir. Its chosen starting point was late October shortly before transmission, not late August/early September which is when management had already been told that Bashir had commissioned the graphics. Nor at any point did it say Bashir had lied.\n\nThe chronology reflected what Sloman appears to have thought about Panorama - \"a viper's nest\" seething with jealous rivalries was how she later described the atmosphere to the late Richard Lindley, himself a former Panorama reporter, for his book \"Panorama: Fifty Years of Pride and Paranoia\" published in 2002. \"All felt they had a God given right to leak to the press\" said Sloman.\n\nEarl Spencer and his wife, Karen, at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, May 2018\n\nHad Earl Spencer spoken out, his notes would have blown apart Bashir's story - and the BBC would have been confronted with one of its biggest crises. However, Spencer told me the reason he didn't was because he didn't know the BBC had launched an inquiry and Princess Diana's Panorama interview was \"seen as very controversial. And if I had gone against it while she was alive, then I didn't want to be seen to be undermining her in any way.\"\n\nMoreover, at the time, Spencer didn't know the information in the bank accounts was entirely fake, or that Bashir had told the BBC his sister was the source.\n\nAlso, the Mail on Sunday revelation quite quickly ceased to have traction. BBC press briefings that \"jealous colleagues\" were behind the paper's story had distracted from its allegation about Bashir's subterfuge, Spencer wasn't talking, and management hoped he never would. \"The Diana story is now dead, unless Spencer talks. There's no indication that he will,\" wrote Anne Sloman in an internal BBC management document a fortnight after the Mail on Sunday story.\n\nBashir had already put Diana off limits for questioning by claiming her as his source for the \"exact\" payment sums to her brother's former head of security Alan Waller. Now in conversations with management, Bashir did the same to her brother claiming it was Earl Spencer himself who was his source for Waller's bank account details - something he'd not previously mentioned.\n\nBashir had changed his story again but it seems not to have rung any alarm bells. Spencer only learned last autumn that Bashir had accused him of misusing private information and categorically denies there is any truth to it. In anger he contacted the BBC urging they hold an independent inquiry - hence Lord Dyson.\n\n\"In a credibility contest between Earl Spencer and Mr Bashir, Earl Spencer wins convincingly,\" says the former Supreme Court judge.\n\nIn Lindley's history of Panorama, Anne Sloman is quoted as saying Bashir was interviewed by Hall \"at length\", with Hall at one end of her \"grand desk\" in Broadcasting House, Bashir at the other. \"Certainly, Bashir had forged these documents. It was a stupid thing to do - it didn't get him the interview. Why he did it, God only knows.\"\n\nTo those of a more curious disposition, the circumstantial evidence pointed in only one direction: that these documents were Bashir's way of getting his foot in the door of the Spencer family. That is also the finding of Lord Dyson, who says: \"I conclude that Mr Bashir showed the fake statements to Earl Spencer before there was any contact between Princess Diana and himself.\"\n\nOn 25 April 1996, Hall reported the results of his \"personal investigation\" into Bashir to the BBC's governors, at the time the body appointed to regulate the corporation. A statement written by Hall for the governors' meeting quotes him as saying that Bashir's explanation for having commissioned the graphics was simply because \"he wasn't thinking\". Then came Hall's exoneration: \"I believe he is, even with this lapse, an honest and honourable man. He is contrite.\"\n\nHall's statement made no mention of what he already knew by that point, that Bashir had shown the fake documents to Spencer and had repeatedly lied to his editor and to senior management. At the same time, Hall refers to \"TRUST\" (which Hall spelled out in capital letters) and \"straight dealing\" as \"paramount\" BBC values.\n\nWhile Hall's statement to the governors criticised Bashir for having been \"incautious and unwise\", he assured his fellow managers he was \"certain there had been no question of Bashir trying to mislead or do anything improper with the document\" - implying nothing improper had taken place.\n\nLord Dyson comments: \"To dismiss his actions as no more than a mistake, unwise and foolish did not do justice to the seriousness of what he had done.\"\n\nAn internal document faxed three days before the board of governors meeting shows that management seem to have privately acknowledged Bashir had been in breach of journalistic ethics and BBC rules: \"Management will have to decide what action if any to take privately or publicly about Bashir, what to do about his contract and how long he should stay on Panorama.\"\n\nLord Hall told Panorama Bashir was given a \"severe reprimand\" and was placed under \"close supervision\". It is true on 4 April 1996, Tim Suter wrote a letter addressed to Bashir saying the creation of the graphics \"was in breach of BBC's guidelines on straight dealing… compounded by your failure to inform the head of department of the use made of this material when directly questioned by him. You should be in no doubt of the seriousness with which we view this nor of the reprimand that this letter represents.\"\n\nHowever, Lord Dyson finds that the letter was probably not sent to Bashir and further, that there is no record of a reprimand on his employment records. Panorama's then deputy editor Clive Edwards told me he was \"unaware of any supervisory order on Martin\".\n\n\"It is difficult to imagine how any such order could have been in force but not known to me as deputy editor, since I would have been the person to supervise such an order.\"\n\nBashir remained with the BBC until 1998, when he left to join ITV.\n\nThe most senior managers responsible for BBC journalism appear to have swallowed a whale of a story, and in a 2005 interview for the BBC's Arena documentary series to celebrate the scoop's 10-year anniversary, Tony Hall unwittingly explained why: \"Martin is the sort of interviewer who works very hard at getting into your confidence.\"\n\nIt seems to have worked on everyone - despite Tim Gardam's parting note to his management colleagues emphasising the need for the BBC to get to \"the entire\" truth of what Bashir had been up to.\n\nFor the anonymous BBC leakers without whom we would never have known about Bashir's dishonesty there was only excoriation - briefed against by the BBC to the newspapers as \"jealous colleagues\" and referred to in an internal management document as \"troublemakers.\" Because of \"this sordid saga\", says the document \"we can either go the formal disciplinary route, which needs proof and may be messy or pick off the troublemakers one by one with a stiff warning and ensure they are found work elsewhere as speedily as is practicable\".\n\nThe only named whistleblower Matt Wiessler would never again get any BBC work, Hall assured the governors. Wiessler paid a heavy price - his freelance graphics business eventually collapsed so he left London and in his own words became \"a bit of a drifter… I tried lots of other things, but at heart I was always a television current affairs guy. Hall called Martin, a 'good and honourable man'. I want him to reverse that because I'm the good and honourable man in this.\"\n\nIn response to Dyson, the BBC offered a \"full and unconditional apology\" and said it would be writing to \"a number of individuals involved\".\n\nWiessler says the least the BBC could do is include him in that list.\n\nPrincess Diana visited Argentina, shortly after the BBC interview was broadcast\n\nIn overall charge of the BBC at the time was director general John Birt. He says the revelation that the BBC \"harboured a rogue reporter on Panorama who fabricated an elaborate, detailed but wholly false account of his dealings with Earl Spencer and Princess Diana\" is a \"shocking blot on the BBC's enduring commitment to honest journalism; and it is a matter of the greatest regret that it has taken 25 years for the full truth to emerge. As the director general at the time, I offer my deep apologies to Earl Spencer and to all others affected.\"\n\nLord Dyson has little to say about how BBC governance was undermined by Hall's \"woefully ineffective\" investigation.\n\nOur own investigation sheds some light on this, however.\n\nLindley's book on 50 years of Panorama quotes Sloman as saying that she, Hall and Birt had a 90-minute meeting about Bashir but it doesn't go into detail as to what transpired. Lindley's widow let me search her attic for his original notes. I found that Sloman told Lindley: \"We concluded that faking documents had been going on as a general practice\" and that \"our business creates monsters… never did Birt express interest in covering his own back… Birt wanted to get to the bottom of the matter.\"\n\nI understand Birt has no recollection of any such meeting, but that he thinks his reference to wanting to \"get to the bottom of the matter\" refers to a meeting immediately after the Mail on Sunday revelations. What briefing Birt may have been given on the results of Hall's investigation before the boards of governors and boards of management is unclear, except that Birt is said not to have been told that Bashir had repeatedly lied. In fact, no evidence of Bashir having lied is mentioned in any of the documents written by Hall or Sloman that have surfaced.\n\nHowever, Lord Hall told Panorama that he was \"open and transparent with the director general and with colleagues on the board of management and I believe I gave them all the key facts... throughout I discharged my responsibilities in good faith\". For his part, Lord Dyson finds that Hall \"presented these facts to both the board of management and the board of governors as if they were uncontroversial\".\n\nLord Dyson continues: \"And yet he knew (but did not tell the board) that they derived from Mr Bashir's uncorroborated version of the facts and that Mr Bashir had lied on three occasions on a matter of considerable importance.\"\n\nIn a statement, Lord Hall said: \"I accept that our investigation 25 years ago into how Panorama secured the interview with Princess Diana fell well short of what was required. In hindsight, there were further steps we could and should have taken following complaints about Martin Bashir's conduct.\"\n\nHe said he was \"wrong\" to give Martin Bashir the \"benefit of doubt, basing that judgement as I did on what appeared to be deep remorse on his part\".\n\nMartin Bashir said in a statement that he had apologised then, and did so again now for asking for bank statements to be \"mocked up\".\n\nBut he reiterated that \"the bank statements had no bearing whatsoever on the personal choice by Princess Diana to take part in the interview\".\n\nHe said Lord Dyson had accepted that the princess would \"probably have agreed to be interviewed without what he describes as my 'intervention'\".\n\nAnd he said he was \"immensely proud\" of the interview, in which Princess Diana \"courageously\" talked through the difficulties she faced. He said in it, she \"helped address the silence and stigma that surrounded mental health issues all those years ago. She led the way in addressing so many of these issues.\"\n\nThe least that can be said is that Bashir tried to con everyone. Others may say Bashir told management what they too readily wanted to hear - to spare the corporation the ignominy of undermining a truly global scoop. In 2016, Bashir was rehired by the BBC as religious affairs correspondent. The announcement referred to his \"track record in enterprising journalism\" and previous experience on \"BBC religion and ethics programmes.\"\n\nHe resigned as the BBC's editor of religion before the publication of the Dyson report.\n\nThe last word must go to Panorama's editor at the time, Steve Hewlett. He too was interviewed for the BBC Arena documentary marking the 10th anniversary of Bashir's scoop. I understand Hewlett agreed to be interviewed provided he wasn't asked specifically about the forged bank statements. Instead, he was asked how Bashir met Diana.\n\nArena didn't broadcast his answer and the BBC refused to release it to us. However, we obtained a transcript which shows the normally sure-footed Hewlett seeming to stumble: \"I'm sure he told me he was going to see her… look, he's a journalist, he does his business, I don't follow him around all day, so you know, I've got a show to run… what, precisely… how he did it, to be honest I don't know.\"\n\nIf this was Hewlett's way of saying he hadn't known all the strokes Bashir had pulled before transmission, that is very likely to be true. I and others knew Hewlett to be an ethical journalist.\n\nHe continued: \"You know… he's an operator, so he manages relationships very cleverly. I don't mean…dishonestly, but he manages them cleverly.\"\n\nWas Hewlett really still convinced by 2005 that Bashir had \"managed\" his relationship with Diana \"very cleverly\" but not \"dishonestly\"?\n\nThe idea that Hewlett hadn't yet suspected that Bashir got to Diana by deceiving Spencer sits uneasily with his careful editorial eye.\n\nYet, however Bashir got his scoop, it was undeniably real and Princess Diana was, by several accounts, intent on telling her side in the War of the Waleses. At the same time, the reporter to whom Hewlett had entrusted this assignment turned out to be \"rogue\" confronting him with an acute dilemma. Did Hewlett reconcile this by deciding the authenticity of the scoop trumped an otherwise tainted process? I pose this as a question, not an allegation, because Hewlett is no longer here to answer for himself. Yet it seems he was troubled by something.\n\nIt is 2004, a late-night bar in Sydney. By chance Hewlett has bumped into a colleague Phil Craig, who had just produced a documentary about Princess Diana. They talk and they drink. Having previously worked on Panorama, Craig knew a little of the rumours. \"We were coming at this from different sides,\" he recalls \"so with Steve there was a sense of 'let's talk it all through'. I came away that night with the very strong impression that he thought there was a chance that one day the Bashir story would cause everybody a lot more trouble, that there was more to come out about the background to the interview, that there was something that hadn't gone away and was still lurking in the shadows.\"\n\nThat \"something\" turns out to be a timebomb about public trust that the BBC tried to defuse 25 years ago, but left it ticking. That bomb has now detonated.", "The BBC's director general has described the corporation's failures around Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Princess Diana as \"very, very serious\".\n\nAn independent inquiry by Lord Dyson, a former senior judge, found that the journalist Martin Bashir deceived the princess and her brother, Earl Spencer, and then lied about his actions to BBC managers.\n\n\"If you're an organisation that cares about truthful, honest journalism and proper practice, I think it's a very difficult read,\" Tim Davie said.", "The \"deceitful\" way the BBC secured an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, \"substantially influenced\" its content, Prince William has said.\n\n\"It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC's failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation,\" he said.\n\n\"She was failed not just by a rogue reporter but by leaders at the BBC who looked the other way.\"\n\n\"It is my firm view that this Panorama programme holds no legitimacy and should never be aired again,\" he said.\n\nRead more: BBC's deceit to Diana damaged my parents - William", "Israeli air strikes have pounded Gaza for more than a week\n\nAs international outrage mounts over the number of civilians being killed in Gaza, Israel is trying to explain its actions.\n\nIn a flurry of briefings, senior military officials have been describing the objectives and timeline of an operation one of them said \"might stay like this for a while\".\n\nFirst, some numbers: Israel says it has hit 820 different targets in the first week of action, some of them repeatedly.\n\nThat compares with 180 targets in Gaza during the whole of last year (a reminder that for all the ferocity of the past week, this is a long-running war).\n\nIn return, Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants have fired more than 3,150 rockets. In 2019, by comparison, a total of 2,045 rocket launches were recorded (another reminder).\n\nIsrael's operation \"Guardian of the Walls\" began with attacks on Hamas tunnels close to the border fence with Israel. Defence of Israel's nearby communities, some of which are within a few hundred metres of the fence, was a top priority.\n\nNext came everything associated with missiles - including launchers, manufacturing centres - closely followed by an all-out assault on Hamas's entire military infrastructure, including hundreds of miles of underground tunnels Israel's military calls \"the Metro\".\n\nWhen this phase began, with a ferocious bombardment on Thursday night, terrified civilians fled, fearing an imminent ground invasion.\n\nIsrael has amassed artillery at the border with Gaza raising fears of a ground offensive\n\nIt's been during this crucial phase, described by Israeli officials as the centrepiece of the operation, that the number of Palestinians killed started to rise dramatically.\n\nA word, here, about who those people are. It's the subject of sharply differing narratives.\n\nJonathan Conricus, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), says at least 130 of the close to 200 Palestinians killed so far have been combatants. He says this is \"the most conservative estimate\".\n\nThis is obviously at variance with figures from the Palestinian health ministry, which in Gaza is controlled by Hamas. It says almost 100 of the dead are women and children, but never talks about fighters.\n\nIsrael admits that civilians are caught up in the violence, but lays the blame squarely at the feet of Hamas, which it says is guilty of cynically operating in and around the blameless citizens of Gaza.\n\nThe fate of the 11-storey al-Jalaa tower is a case in point. Home to the local offices of al-Jazeera and Associated Press news agency, it was also, Israel says, bristling with Hamas offices and equipment.\n\nThe journalists were warned that an attack was coming and given an hour to get out before the building was levelled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Gaza tower block housing news outlets destroyed in an Israeli strike\n\nIsrael insisted it had no choice but to attack the building and said the fact that no-one was killed was an example of the lengths to which its military will go to avoid civilian casualties.\n\nA senior commander had words of advice for the media. \"In Gaza, don't rent your office next to Hamas. It's a very bad idea.\"\n\nThe assault on the \"Metro\" presents other problems.\n\nEarly on Sunday morning, a series of devastating air strikes on Gaza's al-Rimal neighbourhood brought three residential buildings crashing to the ground, killing 42 people. It was the deadliest single attack so far.\n\nThe strike on Gaza's al-Rimal district reduced residential buildings to piles of rubble\n\nAgain, Israel blames Hamas and what one officer called \"this crazy underground infrastructure\".\n\nThe buildings were not the target, he insisted. It was the Metro. But when part of the tunnel network collapsed, nearby foundations collapsed too.\n\n\"That was very unfortunate,\" the officer said. \"We're trying to learn what happened.\"\n\nOn Monday morning, Gazans woke up to find craters in some of the strip's busiest roads. Naturally, they assumed their civilian infrastructure was now being attacked.\n\nNot so, Israel said. Again, it was all about the tunnels.\n\nAnd there's the problem. How do you fight a war in one of the poorest, most densely populated places on earth, against an enemy who uses this to his advantage? How do you defend your own population from harm when almost everything you do affects innocent civilians?", "Two Thai men working on a farm near Israel’s border with Gaza were killed on Tuesday by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants.\n\nAnother Thai farm worker, Aryae Aryi, told the BBC what it's like working under near-constant threat of attack.\n\nVideo produced by BBC Thai's Issariya Praithongyaem, edited by Kaona Pongpipat and with footage from Aryae Aryi.", "Sky has confirmed that it will no longer go ahead with any more series of its police drama, Bulletproof.\n\nThe decision comes after the star and co-creator, Noel Clarke, was accused by 20 women of sexual harassment and bullying.\n\nClarke has denied any criminal or sexual wrongdoing.\n\nA spokesperson for Vertigo Films, the production company behind Bulletproof also confirmed it would no longer back the drama.\n\nIt would not comment on the investigation it had launched after the accusations against Clarke were reported by The Guardian newspaper earlier this month.\n\nSeries four, which would star Clarke and Ashley Walters, had been commissioned but had yet to start filming.\n\nThe production company All3Media, which had backed Clarke's own company Unstoppable said their investigations into the allegations are still ongoing.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In the past week there's been a huge drive to vaccinate people living in Bolton, as coronavirus cases linked to the Indian variant continue to rise there.\n\nHealth officials are particularly targeting those eligible for the jab, but have yet to come forward.\n\nBBC correspondent, Ed Thomas, has been hearing from residents in the town.\n\nWhere is the Indian variant and how is it spreading?", "Hamas was formed in 1988 after the outbreak of the first Palestinian uprising\n\nHamas is the largest of several Palestinian militant Islamist groups.\n\nIts name is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, originating as it did in 1988 after the beginning of the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Under its charter, it is committed to the destruction of Israel.\n\nHamas originally had a dual purpose of carrying out an armed struggle against Israel - led by its military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades - and delivering social welfare programmes.\n\nHamas set up the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades to pursue its political goals militarily\n\nBut since 2005, when Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza, Hamas has also engaged in the Palestinian political process. It won the legislative elections in 2006, before reinforcing its power in Gaza the following year by ousting the rival Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas.\n\nSince then, militants in Gaza have fought four major conflicts with Israel, which along with Egypt has maintained a blockade on the strip to isolate Hamas and to pressure it to stop attacks.\n\nHamas as a whole, or in some cases its military wing, is designated a terrorist group by Israel, the United States, European Union and United Kingdom, as well as other powers.\n\nHamas came to prominence after the first intifada as the main Palestinian group opposed to the Oslo peace accords signed in the early 1990s between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the body representing most Palestinians.\n\nDespite numerous Israeli operations against it and clampdowns by the Palestinian Authority (the main governing body of the Palestinians) Hamas found it had an effective power of veto over the process by launching suicide attacks.\n\nHamas has carried out multiple deadly bus bombings in Israel\n\nIt carried out multiple bus bombings, killing scores of Israelis, and stepped up its attacks after Israel assassinated its chief bomb maker Yahya Ayyash in December 1995.\n\nThe bombings were widely blamed for turning Israelis off the peace process and bringing Benjamin Netanyahu - a staunch opponent of the Oslo accords - to power in 1996.\n\nIn the post-Oslo world, most particularly following the failure of US President Bill Clinton's Camp David summit in 2000 and the second intifada which followed shortly thereafter, Hamas gained power and influence as Israel clamped down on the Palestinian Authority, which it accused of sponsoring deadly attacks.\n\nHamas organised clinics and schools, which served Palestinians who felt let down by the corrupt and inefficient Palestinian Authority, dominated by the Fatah faction.\n\nHamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli missile strike in 2004\n\nMany Palestinians cheered the wave of Hamas suicide attacks in the first years of the second intifada. They saw \"martyrdom\" operations as avenging their own losses and Israel's settlement-building in the West Bank, territory wanted by Palestinians for a future state of their own.\n\nIn March and April 2004, Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and his successor Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi were assassinated in Israeli missile strikes in Gaza.\n\nThe death of Fatah leader Yasser Arafat that November saw the Palestinian Authority newly led by Mahmoud Abbas, who viewed Hamas rocket-fire as counter-productive.\n\nIsmail Haniyeh (L), seen here with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is the overall leader of Hamas\n\nWhen Hamas scored a landslide victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006, the stage was set for a bitter power-struggle with Fatah.\n\nHamas resisted all efforts to get it to sign up to previous Palestinian agreements with Israel, as well as to recognise Israel's legitimacy and to renounce violence.\n\nHamas's charter defines historic Palestine - including present-day Israel - as Islamic land and it rules out any permanent peace with the Jewish state.\n\nThe document also repeatedly makes attacks on Jews as a people, drawing charges that the movement is anti-Semitic.\n\nIn 2017, Hamas produced a new policy document that softened some of its stated positions and used more measured language.\n\nThere was no recognition of Israel, but it did formally accept the creation of an interim Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - what are known as pre-1967 lines.\n\nThe document also stresses that Hamas's struggle is not with Jews but with \"occupying Zionist aggressors\". Israel said the group was \"attempting to fool the world\".\n\nAs a result, the new Hamas-led government was subjected to tough economic and diplomatic sanctions by Israel and its allies in the West.\n\nAfter Hamas ousted forces loyal to Fatah from Gaza in 2007, Israel tightened its blockade on the territory, and Palestinian rocket-fire and Israeli air strikes continued. Egypt also closed its border crossing with Gaza and has only opened it intermittently since.\n\nHamas wrested control of Gaza from forces loyal to Palestinian Abbas during a bloody conflict in 2007\n\nIsrael holds Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from the strip, and the two sides have been in a constant state of conflict ranging from deadly incidents around the border to full-scale hostilities.\n\nThe deadliest round, in 2014, saw at least 2,251 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians, killed during 50 days of fighting. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed.\n\nMost recently, an 11-day conflict in May 2021 killed at least 256 people in Gaza and 13 in Israel before it ended with an Egyptian-brokered truce.\n\nYears of rocket-fire from Gaza has been a major security issue for Israel\n\nRepeated attempts at reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah have failed, and the first Palestinian elections for 15 years, in which Hamas was due to compete, were called off by President Abbas in April 2021.\n\nMeanwhile, the humanitarian situation for the two million Palestinians in Gaza has deteriorated. The strip's economy has collapsed, and there are shortages of water, electricity and medicine.", "A decision is expected to be announced on Friday about whether the Covid restriction levels in Glasgow, East Renfrewshire and Moray will change.\n\nGlasgow is currently in level three, with the Scottish government expected to announce whether it can move down to level two.\n\nThe city's infection rate has been accelerating, so it could remain in level three.\n\nIt may be joined by East Renfrewshire, where case numbers are also on the up.\n\nEast Renfrewshire only moved down to level two on Monday, as restrictions across much of the country were eased.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We should remember that it's data that should be driving this, not dates.\n\n\"And while it is painful to move backwards, what we've seen, for example in Moray, is that actually early action in holding it brought the numbers down so they can be released earlier.\"\n\nEast Renfrewshire moved into level two this week, allowing hospitality venues to serve alcohol inside until 22:30\n\nHer University of Edinburgh colleague, Prof Linda Bauld, expects Moray to drop to level two, Glasgow to remain at level three and said there was a \"real possibility\" East Renfrewshire will move up to level three.\n\nShe also told the programme she was concerned about current levels in Clackmannanshire, East Dunbartonshire, Midlothian, North Lanarkshire and Fife.\n\nEarlier this week, with the exception of Glasgow and Moray, mainland Scotland moved to level two. Most of the islands moved to level one.\n\nMoray had been kept in level three over concerns about its infection rate, and surge testing was brought in as the vaccination roll-out was widened to include younger adults.\n\nThe infection rate in the area is now decelerating, leading to speculation it may be allowed to move into level two.\n\nAccording to official statistics published on Thursday, the weekly case rate in Moray had fallen to 36.5 per 100,000.\n\nIn East Renfrewshire it had reached 118.3 by 17 May - meaning the infection rate had overtaken Glasgow's, which was 112.1 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nGlasgow's outbreak is concentrated in the south side of the city, where levels of infection appear to be much higher.\n\nCovid cases across Scotland have been rising over the last few weeks, with fears the surge in Glasgow is being driven by the Indian variant.\n\nThe strain is thought to spread more easily than the Kent variant that caused the winter spike in infections, and has been found in pockets across the UK.\n\nThis will be the first coronavirus briefing since the new cabinet was revealed, with the first minister being accompanied by her new health secretary, Humza Yousaf.\n\nThe decisions for today are not as stark or difficult as some that have been taken in St Andrew's House - but they are uncomfortable.\n\nThe situation in Glasgow is improving - but it's likely the city will be held at level three. We might be told this is for another week before the next review, but realistically this situation may last for another two or three weeks.\n\nThe decision for Moray is fairly easy. People there hope to be placed in level two as the situation improves, and that looks likely.\n\nThe toughest one is East Renfrewshire. The case rate is high (118 per 100,000) but the small council area means the actual case numbers are relatively low, as Professor Linda Bauld pointed out this morning.\n\nIf they do go back up to level three, remember the area only entered level two on Monday. It's this yo-yo effect that ministers wanted to avoid.\n\nWhat happens here will be a significant decision. It sets the precedent for what might happen around Scotland as we start to live with the disease as the vaccination programme progresses.\n\nUnder level three restrictions, groups of six people from two households can meet in cafés, pubs and restaurants. However, alcohol can only be served outdoors.\n\nAnd six people from six households can meet outside. But, you cannot visit people in their homes.\n\nUnder level two restrictions, which East Renfrewshire is currently in, pubs and restaurants are allowed to serve alcohol inside until 22:30, and limited numbers of people can socialise indoors.\n\nSocial distancing during meetings indoors or in private gardens is no longer required in levels one and two.\n\nCinemas, theatres, concert halls, music venues, comedy clubs and bingo halls can reopen with restrictions.\n\nThe infection rate is a key indicator of which restriction level an area should be in, with upwards of 50 cases per 100,000 seen as a threshold for level three.\n\nThe weekly case rate is one factor that will be considered, but others include the ability of the local NHS to cope.\n\nScotland's national clinical director said a decision was yet to be made on what would happen to Glasgow and East Renfrewshire.\n\nProf Jason Leitch said public health officials would give First Minister Nicola Sturgeon further advice on Friday morning, before a cabinet meeting where a final decision would be made.\n\nIt will be followed by a Scottish government briefing, which will be broadcast live at 12:15.\n\nProf Leitch said: \"Glasgow continues to accelerate, East Renfrewshire continues to accelerate - but they are slightly different pandemics, as is Moray. Moray is decelerating.\n\n\"Glasgow... you could say is beginning to slow, the acceleration is beginning to slow - but certainly not out of the woods. And that means... everybody who lives here has to follow the rules... and we can hopefully turn a corner.\"\n\nQuestioned about why businesses were still operating under restrictions, Prof Leitch told Radio Scotland that experts could not be sure where transmission was happening. The only thing that could be said for certain was that it was transmitted when people mixed.\n\n\"When you decide you're going to restrict, we have to make that judgement somewhere. Level three does allow a lot of relaxation. A lot more people meeting indoors and out.\n\n\"Level two is a massive because it allows people in each others' homes, and that's why we're nervous about it.\"\n\nThere are difficult decisions to be made by government ministers on restrictions. A wide variety of factors will help them to decide.\n\nWeekly case rates per 100,000 of the population are an important measure. But in areas with lower populations you will see bigger fluctuations. A small rise in cases linked to a known source, like a school or a factory, could push that figure up quite rapidly.\n\nThe percentage of tests that come back positive is also useful. The seven-day positivity rate for the whole of Scotland is 1.5%. In Glasgow city where there has been a huge expansion of testing, it is still only 4%. In East Renfrewshire, another area of concern, it is 4.1%.\n\nOne of the most important factors for officials to take into account is what is driving the infections. Can they identify sources and put in place measures? Or is there sustained community transmission? That was why Moray was held in level 3.\n\nGeography, population density, community response will all be taken into account, as will the capacity of hospitals to cope with any rise in cases.\n\nThe biggest unknown at this time is what will happen to the new B1617.2 variant, first identified in India and believed to be behind the outbreak in Glasgow's Southside. Public health figures show that confirmed cases of this variant have gone from 35 to 136 in one week. Scientists say it is more infectious but just how much is not yet known.\n\nThe expectation is that vaccines will hold up but it's too early to say for sure.", "A surge in spending on clothes helped to boost retail sales last month, as lockdown measures eased and non-essential shops reopened.\n\nRetail sales jumped 9.2% in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, with sales of clothing soaring by nearly 70% compared with March.\n\nSales overall were more than 10% higher than pre-pandemic levels, although online sales dipped.\n\nThe Capital Economics chief UK economist said the April data \"showed that households were particularly keen to update their wardrobes\".\n\nFurther evidence of the rebound in the UK economy came in a separate survey, an IHS/Markit Purchasing Managers' Index, which suggested that activity among private business during May has expanded at the fastest pace for more than two decades.\n\nRetailers such as clothing and furniture stores, which the government classed as non-essential, reopened to shoppers in England on 12 April after shutting in early January.\n\nAled Jones, head of retail at Lloyds Bank, said: \"Fashion retailers [were] the ultimate beneficiaries of beer gardens reopening and the 'rule of six' night out returning.\"\n\nSilvia Rindone, EY UK & Ireland retail leader, said April had seen \"significant pent-up consumer demand\".\n\n\"With consumers keen to return to the in-store shopping experience and indulge in retail therapy, we saw a sales boost across most categories.\"\n\nThe reopening of non-essential shops led to a boost for many small businesses.\n\nDelia Prudence, owner of The Art Room, an art supplies shop in Scarborough, said: \"We were expecting to be busy in April but not that busy.\n\n\"The tills were ringing non-stop. One customer even came in with a bottle of Prosecco to celebrate us reopening.\"\n\nIndustry body the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that April had given \"a welcome boost for thousands of retailers in England and Wales\" due to pent up demand.\n\n\"Improved weather during April meant greater sales of fashion, particularly in outerwear and knitwear, as the public renewed their wardrobe and made plans to meet friends and family outdoors,\" said BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson.\n\nHowever, she said that while the figures were \"a step in the right direction\", demand \"remains fragile\".\n\n\"Footfall is still down by 40% on the pre-pandemic period, and there are still 530,000 people who work in retail still on furlough,\" she said, adding that the end of the full business rates relief in England \"poses a significant threat to retailers\".\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that there were signs that sales might rise further in May.\n\nHowever, he predicted that the recovery in household spending \"will stall as it approaches its pre-Covid level later this year\".\n\nThe winding-up of the furlough scheme at the end of September is likely to trigger a renewed fall in employment, while rising inflation will push down real wages, he said.\n\nIn addition, the end of the stamp-duty holiday on 30 September will probably lead to a \"sharp decline\" in housing market activity, leading to less demand for \"big-ticket\" household goods.\n\nThe latest survey of private sector businesses from IHS Markit/CIPS found the recent rebound continuing strongly as lockdown restrictions are eased.\n\nIts \"flash\" - or preliminary - Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 62.0 in May, up from 60.7 in April. A figure above 50 indicates expansion.\n\nThe figure was the highest since the survey began in January 1998 and reflected \"strong contributions\" from both the manufacturing and services sectors.\n\n\"The UK is enjoying an unprecedented growth spurt as the economy reopens,\" said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit,\n\n\"Factory orders are surging at a record pace as global demand for goods continues to revive, and the service sector is reporting near-record growth as the opening up of the economy allows more businesses to trade.\"\n\nHowever, the recent economic rebound has raised fears that inflation could pick up. The PMI survey found that cost pressures were at a 13-year high, leading firms to raise their prices.\n\n\"A direct consequence of demand running ahead of supply was a steep rise in prices, hinting strongly that consumer price inflation has much further to rise after lifting to 1.5% in April,\" Mr Williamson said.", "Home to about two million people, Gaza is 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide, an enclave bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Israel and Egypt.\n\nTensions between Gaza and Israel have recently escalated into the worst violence for several years and led the UN to warn of \"a full-scale war\".\n\nOriginally occupied by Egypt, Gaza was captured by Israel during the 1967 Middle East war. Israel withdrew its troops and around 7,000 settlers in 2005.\n\nIt is under the control of the militant Islamist group Hamas, which ejected forces loyal to the then governing Palestinian Authority (PA) after a violent rift in 2007.\n\nSince then, Israel and Egypt have restricted the movement of goods and people in and out in what they say are security measures against militants.\n\nHamas and Israel fought a brief conflict in 2014, and in May 2021 hostilities between the two sides broke out again.\n\nMany buildings have been destroyed in the recent violence\n\nThe Gaza fighting began after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem that culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. On 10 May Hamas began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes. Exchanges intensified and hostilities quickly escalated into the worst violence between Israel and Gaza since 2014.\n\nPower cuts are an everyday occurrence in Gaza. Before the latest upsurge in fighting, households in Gaza were receiving power on eight-hour rotations.\n\nPower cuts in Gaza disrupt almost all aspects of daily life\n\nThe latest violence is said to have damaged power lines and disrupted fuel supplies. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), most homes are now receiving power for only three-four hours per day.\n\nThe Strip gets most of its power from Israel together with further contributions from Gaza's only power plant and a small amount from Egypt.\n\nBoth the Gaza Power Plant (GPP) and many people's individual generators depend on diesel fuel, but supplies brought in via Israel are frequently blocked causing more disruption.\n\nSince Hamas came to power in Gaza in 2007, Egypt has largely kept its border with Gaza closed.\n\nLast year additional restrictions were imposed to try to restrict the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe Rafah crossing into Egypt and the Erez crossing into Israel were both shut on about 240 days and opened on only 125 in 2020, according to Ocha figures.\n\nEgypt has largely kept its border with Gaza closed since 2007\n\nIn 2019 about 78,000 people left Gaza via the Rafah crossing but in 2020 that fell to 25,000.\n\nIn the north, crossings into Israel at Erez also fell dramatically in 2020 - partly due to pandemic restrictions. This year about 8,000 people have left Gaza via the Erez crossing, most of them patients or people accompanying them for medical care in Israel.\n\nUntil the latest violence, traffic had begun to pick up again. Some aid convoys have since been allowed through, but otherwise crossings have remained shut.\n\nAbout 80% of the population of Gaza depends on international aid, according to the UN, and about one million people rely on daily food aid.\n\nThe blockade imposed by Israel has severely impacted movements in and out of the Strip and the ability to trade.\n\nTunnels were dug under the Egyptian border to bring in all kinds of goods and weapons\n\nTo try to get round the blockade, Hamas has built a network of tunnels which it uses to bring goods into the Strip and also as its underground command centre. Israel says tunnels are also used by militants to move around out of sight and are being targeted by air strikes.\n\nCoronavirus has also had an impact on the local economy, but it was just beginning to show signs of recovery, according to the World Bank, when the fighting broke out.\n\nGaza has one of the highest population densities in the world. According to the UN, almost 600,000 refugees in Gaza are living in eight crowded camps.\n\nOn average there are more than 5,700 people per square kilometre - very similar to the density of population in London - but that figure rises to more than 9,000 in Gaza City.\n\nIsrael declared a buffer zone along the border in 2014 to protect itself from rocket attacks and infiltrations by militants. The zone reduced the amount of land available for people to live or farm on.\n\nThe UN estimated about 140,000 houses were damaged or destroyed in the 2014 violence and it has since supported almost 90,000 families with help to rebuild their homes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rushdi Abualouf This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOcha says several hundred homes have been severely damaged in the latest fighting, but it will take some time to reveal the full extent of the damage.\n\nGaza's public health system is in a precarious state due to various reasons. Ocha says Israel and Egypt's blockade, lower health expenditure from the West Bank-based PA and internal political conflict between the PA - which has responsibility for healthcare in the Palestinian territories - and Hamas are all to blame.\n\nThe UN helps out by running 22 healthcare facilities. But a number of hospitals and clinics were damaged or destroyed in previous conflicts with Israel.\n\nPatients from Gaza needing treatment in West Bank or East Jerusalem hospitals must first get requests approved by the PA and then exit passes approved by the Israeli government - in 2019, the approval rate for patient applications to leave the Gaza Strip was 65%.\n\nOver the last few months, the health situation has been exacerbated by coronavirus.\n\nIn April, a spike in cases saw almost 3,000 a day in Gaza. There have been more than 104,000 cases since the start of the pandemic and more than 946 people have died with the virus.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the border restrictions are not only limiting access to life-saving treatment for victims of the hostilities, but they are also hampering the coronavirus response.\n\nThe WHO says it is affecting the \"critical\" vaccination programme and increases the risk of spreading the virus as people seek refuge with relatives or in emergency shelters.\n\nMore than a million people in Gaza are classed as \"moderately-to-severely food insecure\", according to the UN, despite many receiving some form of food aid.\n\nBorder crossings have been opened to allow aid convoys through, but shelling has caused some disruption to deliveries.\n\nIsraeli restrictions on access to agricultural land and fishing have reduced the amount of food Gazans can produce themselves.\n\nThey are not allowed to farm in the Israeli-declared buffer zone - 1.5km (0.9 miles) wide on the Gaza side of the border - and this has led to a loss in production of an estimated 75,000 tonnes of produce a year.\n\nIsrael imposes a fishing limit meaning Gazans can only fish within a certain distance of the shore. The UN says if the limit were lifted, fishing could provide employment and a cheap source of protein for the people of Gaza.\n\nAfter the latest upsurge in violence, Israel temporarily banned any fishing from the Gaza Strip. Over the years it has set varying limits on the fishing zone, disrupting the livelihoods of about 5,000 fishermen and related workers.\n\nMost people in Gaza suffer from a shortage of water. Tap water is salty and polluted and is not fit for drinking.\n\nWhile most Gazan households are on a piped water network, Ocha says families received water for only six-eight hours every four days in 2017 due to insufficient power. This has been reduced still further by the latest attacks.\n\nThe World Health Organization set the minimum requirement for daily water needs at 100 litres per head - to cover drinking, washing, cooking and bathing. In Gaza average consumption is about 88 litres.\n\nSewage is another problem. Although 78% of households are connected to public sewage networks, treatment plants are overloaded. Ocha says more than a hundred million litres of partially treated and raw sewage is pumped into the Mediterranean daily.\n\nA new wastewater treatment plant came into operation at the beginning of 2021 to help deal with the problem.\n\nMany children attend schools run by the UN and many of them are acting as places of shelter for people who have fled the latest shelling.\n\nAccording to the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, 64% of its 275 schools run a \"double shift\" system, with one school of students in the morning and another in the afternoon.\n\nMany people are taking refuge in UN schools from the latest shelling\n\nAn average class size was around 41 pupils in 2019.\n\nThe literacy rate for those aged 15-19 is now 99% - it has steadily increased over the past few years.\n\nAlthough only about 66% of pupils stay on at high school to complete upper secondary or the equivalent of sixth form.\n\nGaza has one of the world's youngest populations, with almost 65% of the population under 25 years old, according to the CIA Factbook.\n\nAn Ocha report from 2020 said youth unemployment was running at 70%, partly as a result of the pandemic.\n\nCorrection 28 July 2020: A previous version of this story has been amended to make clear that the Gaza Strip is still controlled by Hamas, and not the Palestinian Authority.", "Viruses regularly change and mutate. There are now several different strains of the coronavirus known as variants.\n\nThey all have technical names but are often become known by the location where they are first located. So we have heard of the Brazil, South Africa and UK variant. That \"UK variant\" has also been called the Kent variant.\n\nThe Indian variant's full name is B.1.617.2. It is thought to spread more easily - and there are particular clusters in north-west England and in London, as well as evidence of a surge in Glasgow.\n\nHowever, Health secretary Humza Yousaf told the press conference said that the reason the Scottish government is calling it the \"April 02 variant\" was to avoid stigmatising communities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We've not turned the corner in Glasgow yet'\n\nGlasgow is remaining under level three Covid restrictions for at least a further week amid concern over rising number of cases.\n\nBut Moray has now been downgraded from level three to level two - with all of Scotland's other areas remaining in their current levels.\n\nThis includes East Renfrewshire, which now has the second highest number of cases per head of population.\n\nIt means Glasgow is the only area under level three restrictions.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said cases were continuing to rise in Glasgow despite \"extensive public health measures\" being deployed across the city, including enhanced testing and vaccination in the areas with the highest rates of Covid.\n\nThese have been particularly targeted in the G41 and G42 postcode areas in the southside of the city.\n\nAnd she said public health experts were \"fairly certain\" that the increase was being driven by the so-called Indian variant of the virus.\n\nThe latest figures show that the rate of positive cases has continued to rise in Glasgow, to 122.6 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThe city's rate is once again the highest in Scotland, after briefly being surpassed by East Renfrewshire.\n\nAnd while some of the rise in confirmed cases can be attributed to increased testing in Glasgow, the positivity rate has also increased over the past week from 3.1% to 4%.\n\nThe first minister said: \"We don't think that we have turned the corner in Glasgow yet.\n\n\"We are confident the major public health interventions under way will be effective and they will bring the virus back under control, but our judgement is that they need a bit longer to do that.\n\n\"We also think we need a bit more time to be more confident than we are just now that vaccination will stop the rising case numbers today becoming sharply rising hospital and severe illness numbers a couple of weeks from now\".\n\nHowever, there was better news for Moray - which had been the only other area of the country in level three of Scotland's five-tier system of restrictions.\n\nIt will be moving down to level two from midnight on Friday after the infection rate fell from 98 new cases per 100,000 to just 34 over the past week.\n\nAnd East Renfrewshire will remain in level two despite having seen an average of 116 new cases per 100,000 people over the past week.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this was because the overall number of cases in East Renfrewshire - which borders Glasgow - was significantly smaller than its larger neighbour, with only 17 on Thursday compared with 166 in Glasgow.\n\nAnd she said many more of the cases in East Renfrewshire could be traced to specific household clusters than in Glasgow.\n\nThe first minister said it was felt that specific targeted measures would help to keep Covid rates in the area under control, and urged residents to co-operate with the increased testing and vaccination that had been put in place.\n\nBusinesses in East Renfrewshire had feared they would be moved to tougher level three restrictions\n\nShe went on to announce new travel restrictions in response to \"particularly serious outbreaks\" of the Indian variant in England.\n\nIt means restrictions on travel between Scotland and three local authority areas - Bedford, Bolton and Blackburn and Darwen - will be imposed from Monday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was hoped these restrictions would not be in place for long, but said they were necessary to help \"reduce the risk that any more of this new variant comes into Scotland while we are trying to deal with outbreaks of it we have right now\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the Scottish government was \"moving too slowly\" in easing restrictions in parts of the country where the virus was under control.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We fully support a swift and decisive response, just as we saw in Moray recently, when a Covid outbreak occurs.\n\n\"But we must now move to a more targeted approach that diverts resources to areas where the virus is spreading, while allowing the rest of the country to move on.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said it was \"devastating news\" for businesses and employees in Glasgow that they would be remaining in level three.\n\nHe added: \"The best way to confront the challenge is to make sure we are seeing what happened in Moray happen in Glasgow.\n\n\"let's have a mass roll-out of PCR testing and rapidly accessible vaccinations so that we can bring the case load down and have a consistency across the country.\"\n\nA further 414 new coronavirus cases have been recorded across the country in the past 24 hours - but no deaths.\n\nThere were 81 people in hospital on Thursday with recently confirmed Covid-19, down two from the previous day, and of these four people were in intensive care, down one from the day before.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was 1.9%, up from 1.6% the previous day, while the R number - essentially the transmission rate for the virus - is now thought to be between 0.9 and 1.2 rather than last week's range of between 0.8 and 1.\n\nSo far 3,082,251 people in Scotland have received the first dose of a Covid vaccination.\n\nUnder level three restrictions, groups of six people from two households can meet in cafés, pubs and restaurants. However, alcohol can only be served outdoors.\n\nAnd six people from six households can meet outside. But, you cannot visit people in their homes.\n\nUnder level two restrictions, which East Renfrewshire is currently in, pubs and restaurants are allowed to serve alcohol inside until 22:30, and limited numbers of people can socialise indoors.\n\nSocial distancing during meetings indoors or in private gardens is no longer required in levels one and two.\n\nCinemas, theatres, concert halls, music venues, comedy clubs and bingo halls can reopen with restrictions.", "Schools in England could lose £118m funding for poor pupils this year, the Local Government Association says.\n\nThe education department is bringing forward the annual date for counting those eligible for the pupil premium, which it says will help plan budgets.\n\nPupils who have become eligible between October 2020 and January 2021 will not now be counted until October 2021.\n\nThe government said a typical school will see \"an increase in its pupil premium allocations\" this year.\n\nAn LGA survey suggests the new move will add up to a loss of about £93m for primary schools and £25m for secondary schools.\n\nOn average, each local authority area will lose about £600,000 in primary-school pupil-premium funding alone, it estimates, based on responses from 72 out of 151 councils in England.\n\nThe money - £1,345 a year for primary pupils and £955 for secondary - pays for academic support for poorer pupils.\n\nAnd nearly 62% of schools have at least five pupils who have become eligible between October 2020 and January 2021, a previous survey, by the National Association of Head Teachers, indicates.\n\n\"Pupil premium is vital to support the government's levelling-up agenda and education recovery plans,\" Teresa Heritage, vice-chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said.\n\n\"It is imperative that the government ensures that no school loses out in receiving this vital funding this year and that no child is left behind.\"\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders General Secretary Geoff Barton said the LGA's analysis laid bare \"the scale of the funding black hole left by the government's inexplicable decision to push ahead with a change to the way pupil-premium funding is calculated, at the height of the pandemic\".\n\n\"It was clear from the outset that school budgets would be negatively impacted because the pandemic has particularly badly affected disadvantaged families and has meant the number of children qualifying for pupil premium has grown significantly.\n\n\"Excluding those who qualified for funding between October 2020 and January 2021 has left schools counting the cost.\n\n\"The government is very keen to promote its levelling up and education recovery agendas and one way it can easily demonstrate its commitment is by ensuring schools are recompensed for the pupil-premium funding they have been so cruelly denied.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Pupil premium funding is expected to increase to more than £2.5 billion next year, and per-pupil rates are unchanged - so a typical school will see an increase in its pupil premium allocations this year compared to last.\n\n\"We have provided a £14 billion increase in school funding over three years - the biggest uplift in a decade - and school leaders can target our ambitious recovery funding, worth £1.7 billion, towards supporting disadvantaged pupils.\"", "The BBC's former director of news has said the responsibility for re-hiring Martin Bashir \"sits with me\".\n\nJames Harding did not answer whether Lord Hall, BBC director general at the time, sanctioned re-hiring Martin Bashir in 2016.\n\nIt comes after the BBC made an \"unconditional apology\" over the way the BBC secured an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, more than 20 years ago.\n\nThe independent inquiry - by retired judge Lord Dyson - found that interviewer Martin Bashir acted in a \"deceitful\" way and faked documents to obtain his interview.\n\nThe BBC's 1996 probe led by then-head of News and Current Affairs Lord Hall into initial complaints about what happened was \"woefully ineffective\", it added.\n\nJames Harding, who left the BBC in 2018, said if he had known Bashir forged bank statements \"he wouldn't have got the job\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rioters 'smashed through my windows and door'\n\nSeven police officers were injured when rioters threw bricks at houses and torched cars in Swansea.\n\nA major clean-up is under way after cars were burnt out and windows smashed during the violence in the Mayhill area on Thursday.\n\nFamilies spoke of being trapped in houses, with police \"pelted with rocks\" as they tried to break up the violence.\n\nSouth Wales Police said seven officers suffered minor injuries when they were hit by missiles.\n\nThe force's Chief Constable Jeremy Vaughan said he would \"stop at nothing to find\" those responsible.\n\nOfficers said they were using CCTV and social media footage to identify those responsible and urged people to send in any photos or videos.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the scenes were \"disgraceful\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the scenes were \"completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated anywhere in Wales\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the scenes were \"disgraceful\" and thanked \"brave officers for bringing it under control.\"\n\n\"Police have my backing to take robust action against those involved,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlun Michael, South Wales police commissioner, said Thursday's events were \"unusual and extreme\".\n\n\"Things developed very quickly and in a totally unacceptable manner last night and it's very important that we understand what's happened to make sure that it doesn't happen again,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I'm packing up, I'm not willing to live in fear,\" says Mayhill resident after riot\n\nThe force's response has been criticised by some residents who said they were faced by violent \"yobs\" outside their homes with no-one coming to their aid.\n\nBut South Wales Police said its response was \"immediate and officers trained to deal with public order incidents were deployed to the scene\".\n\nOfficers believe the disorder in Waun-Wen Road, which saw groups roll a car down the middle of the street into a burning car, started as a vigil for 19-year-old Ethan Powell who collapsed and died suddenly on Wednesday.\n\nAdam Romain says he stood behind his front door hoping no-one would try and get into his house where his children were \"terrified\"\n\nAdam Romain said he feared a \"mob\" would enter his home and attack his family when he tried to stop them setting fire to his car.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales he was out making deliveries when he got a panicked phone call from his girlfriend and could hear his children screaming in the background.\n\n\"I went back as quickly as I could, I drove up to my house, literally into a riot,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had to ride his motorbike through the middle of \"about 100 lads\" throwing bricks.\n\nMr Romain stood at the window, smashed in the riot, where his baby's cot is placed\n\nMr Romain said he tried to stop a car being set on fire but was set upon.\n\n\"The bricks were starting to be lobbed at me and my house... my children were in the house, my girlfriend was in the back screaming, scared for their lives.\n\n\"I was standing at the front, hoping, praying, that they wouldn't come inside the house.\n\n\"They were coming to the front door, lobbing these bricks, straight through the glass door, straight at me - they had no fear whatsoever,\" he said.\n\nMr Romain said he rang police three times, but was told \"we already know about the incident\" and no-one came to help.\n\nMr Romain said only last month a van was rolled down the hill and smashed into his neighbours' van and his car.\n\nIn the aftermath people took to the streets to help with the clean up, and photographers captured the burnt out cars\n\nHe filmed the rioters on a helmet camera, capturing the faces of many of the culprits, and said he would share the footage with the force.\n\nVolunteers helped with the clean-up on Friday morning, sweeping up burnt plastic and broken glass\n\nAll that's left of the cars are their charred remains with melted plastic, broken glass, and molten metal on Waun-Wen Road.\n\nThe clean-up operation got under way at just after 07:00 with council workers arriving to clean up the mess.\n\nA glazier firm arrived to look at homes which have several smashed windows.\n\nThere's a lot of anger about what happened.\n\nA lot of people are upset that this was meant to be a vigil for a young local lad who died recently.\n\nPeople are angry that children were terrified after seeing this happen. They are upset it was just too dangerous for the police and fire service to attend or stay at the scene because of the crowds here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe council said it was continuing to support residents and has also now installed temporary concrete blocks on Waun-Wen Road to replace bollards that were damaged during the disorder.\n\nCouncil area co-ordinator Bethan McGregor said: \"What happened last night is not a true reflection of the Mayhill and Waun Wen community.\n\n\"This is a close-knit community where the vast majority of people care about one-another, as the amount of residents helping the council with the clean-up operation today has shown.\"\n\nConcrete blocks have been placed on the street - but one resident says these were requested in February\n\nDespite being a \"lovely\" community, vehicles had been rolled down the hill in a similar fashion \"at least twice\" in the past three years, according to Sam Bennett, a community campaigner from the area.\n\nMr Bennett told Radio Wales residents had written to the council to request concrete blocks on the street back in February.\n\nHe added residents \"don't have the confidence that something is going to be done anymore and that's why they're choosing to move\".\n\nOwen Pillai, who works with young people in Swansea, said \"outrage and disgust\" was an understandable reaction to the \"inexcusable behaviour\" but added he could see why the riot had broken out.\n\nHe called on authorities to realise \"we all play a part in this\".\n\nMr Pillai told BBC Radio Wales: \"This is the result of decades and decades of a multifaceted undermining of resources, societal breakdown, generations of unemployment - you can't look at it in isolation unfortunately.\"\n\nThe community was thanked for helping those in need during the violence\n\nHe said it was \"a scientific fact young people want to engage in risky behaviour\", and argued a lack of access to positive activities like sport could lead to problems.\n\nMr Pillai added: \"We need to channel huge amounts of resource into listening, looking at restorative practice, involving these young people rather than just locking them away - they need to confront the reality of what they have done.\"", "More than a million people in Northern Ireland have received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine\n\nPeople aged from 25 to 29 years are now eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine from Thursday.\n\nIt is the latest expansion of Northern Ireland's vaccination programme.\n\nAppointments are available to book online at the Health and Social Care booking website and by telephone on 0300 200 7813.\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) said vaccine supplies remain limited and there will be about 20,000 slots available weekly.\n\nThe limit is to help manage the availability of the Pfizer vaccine after regulators said under 40s should be given an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine, the DoH said.\n\nHowever anyone in that age group can still make an informed decision to have AstraZeneca.\n\nEarlier this week it was reported that more than one million people in Northern Ireland have received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nNI Health Minister Robin Swann said the announcement for the 25-29 age group was \"welcome news\" and \"further testament to the successful delivery of the vaccination programme in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"Vaccination is vital in helping us move through this pandemic and there is no doubt that there are people in Northern Ireland alive today because they have been vaccinated,\" he said.\n\n\"Next week we will see further easing of restrictions with the re-opening of licensed and unlicensed premises indoors, the remainder of tourist accommodation and the further relaxation to the rules over visiting indoors.\n\n\"This has been made possible because of the success of the vaccination programme and the majority of people acting on the public health advice.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, it was announced that surge testing and jabs would be expanded to six new areas of concern in England to combat the spread of the Indian Covid variant.\n\nEarlier this week, it was reported there had been a slight increase in the number of Indian variant cases in Northern Ireland to 16.\n\nMr Swann added:\"I know there are some younger people that think they don't need the vaccine but we have seen what this virus can do and with variants now in the mix we all need to protect ourselves and those around us.\"\n\nChief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said that by getting the vaccine, people were protecting \"not only\" themselves, but family and friends.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccine effort ramped up with the opening of a mass vaccination centre at the SSE Arena in Belfast in March\n\nThe Department of Health said that in line with the latest Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advice, \"anyone under the age of 40 can book their vaccination at a trust centre in order to receive the Pfizer-BioTech vaccine\".\n\nIt said for anyone under 40 who wishes \"to make an informed decision to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine there are slots available at the SSE Arena and at participating community pharmacies\".\n\nThe department said people making bookings \"are asked to be patient, as demand for appointments is expected to be strong\".\n\nIt said the \"ongoing roll-out of the vaccination programme will continue to be dependent on the availability of vaccine supplies\".", "Linda Compton and her daughter Amy watched over Wally the whole time he was in Tenby\n\nWales has said goodbye to Wally the walrus, but as he goes words of advice have been sent to his new Cornish home.\n\nThe Arctic Walrus has been spotted near Padstow, after the tusked-tourist spent weeks sunbathing in Pembrokeshire.\n\nAnimal lovers in Tenby had pleaded with people to stop getting dangerously close to Wally to pose for selfies.\n\nBut Wally's presence spent also paid dividends for local businesses, who have created a range of memorabilia to remember the marine mammal's visit.\n\nDozens of people though, were recorded causing the animal distress, which the RSPCA said could constitute a criminal offence.\n\nLinda Compton and her daughter Amy spent six weeks watching over Wally, monitoring him for up to 14 hours a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did Wally the walrus ended up in Wales?\n\nLinda said that 99% of onlookers were fine, \"but you've got 1% who want to push it and get that bit too close\".\n\nThe pair, who live in nearby Carew, Pembrokeshire, volunteer with Welsh Marine Life Rescue (WMLR) and tirelessly guarded the walrus, after it appeared in the Welsh coastal town in March, from unwanted attention.\n\nLinda, a 59-year-old learning support assistant, told BBC Wales she had seen people trying to swim, paddleboard, kayak, jet ski and even sail up to Wally to pose for selfies.\n\nOne woman even told her two children to swim out to Wally while others have flown drones just feet above the marine mammal's head, she said.\n\nPeople used various methods of getting close to Wally - sometimes dangerously close\n\nAmy, a trampoline instructor who is unable to work because of lockdown, recorded incidents on camera which were initially passed on to Tenby's harbour master.\n\nIn total, the 22-year-old estimates she took more than 20,000 images of Wally.\n\nThe pair contacted the RSPCA before they began dealing directly with Dyfed-Powys Police earlier this month.\n\nThe force told BBC Wales it had received reports from the WMLR and \"inquiries are ongoing\".\n\nWhen confronting onlookers, Linda said she and Amy would first try to \"warn them off\", but \"unfortunately we get the abuse - but everything is filmed and sent to the authorities\".\n\nShe warned people that getting too close to the creature could put them in danger.\n\n\"He's a very powerful animal,\" she said.\n\n\"He's an unknown entity. We don't know how he would actually react to somebody going that close.\"\n\nLinda revealed that when challenged about getting too close to Wally, some people reacted abusively\n\nWhile a minority of people have distressed the walrus, Linda explained that \"99% of the people have been amazing. They just want the experience to see a walrus in our waters\".\n\nNow that Wally has moved on, Tenby no longer has its local celebrity, but Linda said \"it's been great for the town since Wally's been here\".\n\n\"After the difficult times of Covid and lockdown Wally appearing here has just been fantastic,\" she added.\n\nThis view was shared by many of the towns small businesses - who rely almost solely on the 4.2m visitors who flock to the area each year, according to Visit Pembrokeshire.\n\nJohn Mather, who owns The Nook gift shop, said: \"It's just been great after the difficult times of Covid and lockdown Wally appearing here has just been fantastic.\"\n\nJust a few days after Wally arrived in March, one of Mr Mather's suppliers suggested making cushions featuring a walrus.\n\nHe agreed and when they \"flew off the shelves\" he immediately ordered more.\n\nWally's arrival has been great for Tenby's tourism industry with him featuring on postcards, cushions and even beer\n\nHe and other shops have since branched out into postcards, pictures, mugs and T-shirts, which all feature Wally.\n\nHe told BBC Wales: \"We've had people coming here from all over the country just solely to see the walrus.\n\n\"And then coming and visiting our shops which has been fantastic.\n\n\"It's good for the whole town. People come, they stay here, they're eating in the restaurants, they're using the takeaways - it's really good.\"\n\nAs well as memorabilia, Wally's fame has led to Tenby's Harbwr brewery to name a beer in his honour.\n\nTamar's Tusk also pays tribute to the Tamar class of lifeboat which the town's RNLI station uses.", "This summer's Olympics will go ahead even if Tokyo remains in a state of a emergency, says International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates.\n\nJapan's capital is one of nine prefectures under a state of emergency until 31 May at the earliest because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt was brought in because of a rise in cases, which has since started to fall.\n\n\"We've successfully seen five sports hold their test events during the state of emergency,\" Coates said.\n\n\"All of the plans that we have in place to protect the safety and security of athletes and the people of Japan are based around the worst possible circumstances, so the answer [to whether the Games could take place during a state of emergency] is absolutely yes.\n\n\"The advice we have got from the World Health Organisation and all of the scientific advice, is that all the measures we have outlined in the playbook, all those measures are satisfactory to ensure a safe and secure Games in terms of health, and that's whether there is a state of emergency or not.\"\n\nRecent polls in Japan have shown nearly 70% of the population do not want the Olympics, which starts on 23 July, to go ahead.\n\nJapan has long insisted there was no question the Games, which should have taken place last summer, would be held and will be safe.\n\nAsked about the negative opinion polls, Coates added: \"There may well be a correlation between some of these percentages and the low percentages so far of people in Japan who have been vaccinated.\n\n\"I'm expecting that as the number of vaccinations increase that there will be better polls and public opinion will improve, but if it doesn't we just have to make sure that we get on with our job and our job is make sure these Games are safe for all participants and all of the people of Japan.\"\n\nThe British Olympic Association has confirmed that all British athletes and support staff will be fully vaccinated before they head to Tokyo.\n\nThe organisation said in a statement: \"The UK Government has confirmed that, through an agreement between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Pfizer BioNtech, Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes and support staff will be fully vaccinated ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, based on the unique position of having to travel to Japan to go about their work.\n\n\"The agreement means the vaccines will be obtained directly from Pfizer, and will not impact current supplies for the British public.\"\n\nIt appears pretty clear from what John Coates said that any cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics is not going to come from the International Olympic Committee.\n\nTokyo is currently under a state of emergency because of a large rise in Covid infections. The Japanese government has begun vaccinating the elderly - but so far only about 5% have received a first dose.\n\nThere is now very little time to vaccinate Japan's 36 million pensioners before the Games open on 23 July.\n• None What goes on in the Premier League captains' WhatsApp group?\n• None Just One More Thing: The simple home workout that is proven to boost your brain power", "The Duke of Sussex has said he was willing to drink and take drugs to try to cope with his mother's death.\n\nHe has also spoken about his family's unwillingness to talk about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and how he was expected to \"suffer\" in silence.\n\nPrince Harry was talking to US talk show host Oprah Winfrey in their new streaming series on mental health.\n\nHe also talked about anxiety and panic attacks, his \"biggest regret\" and his experience of his mother's funeral.\n\nPrincess Diana died in a car crash while being pursued by photographers in Paris in August 1997.\n\nSpeaking to Winfrey for the Apple TV+ series The Me You Can't See, Harry described being aged 28 to 32 as \"a nightmare time in my life\", in which he had panic attacks and severe anxiety.\n\n\"I was just all over the place mentally,\" he said.\n\n\"Every time I put a suit on and tie on... having to do the role, and go, 'right, game face,' look in the mirror and say, 'let's go'. Before I even left the house I was pouring with sweat. I was in fight or flight mode.\"\n\nHe added: \"I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling.\"\n\nHe said he would drink a week's worth of alcohol on a Friday or Saturday night, \"not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something\".\n\nThe duke also told Winfrey his family did not talk about his mother's death and expected him to deal with the resulting press attention and mental distress.\n\nHe said: \"My father used to say to me when I was younger, he used to say to both William and I: 'Well it was like that for me so it's going to be like that for you.'\n\n\"That doesn't make sense. Just because you suffered doesn't mean that your kids have to suffer, in fact quite the opposite - if you suffered, do everything you can to make sure that whatever negative experiences you had, that you can make it right for your kids.\"\n\nPrincess Diana's funeral was nine days before Harry's 13th birthday\n\nPrince Harry famously walked behind his mother's coffin at her funeral, alongside his brother, father, uncle and grandfather.\n\n\"For me the thing I remember the most was the sound of the horses' hooves going along the Mall,\" he said.\n\n\"It was like I was outside of my body and just walking along doing what was expected of me. Showing one-tenth of the emotion that everybody else was showing: this was my mum - you never even met her.\"\n\nIn addition to his own unhappiness, Harry told Winfrey about his anger and regret at the way his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, was treated by sections of the media.\n\n\"My biggest regret is not making more of a stance earlier on in my relationship with my wife, calling out the racism when I did,\" he said.\n\n\"My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone that wasn't white - and now look what's happened.\n\n\"You want to talk about history repeating itself? They're not gonna stop until she dies.\"\n\nTalking about his mother, Prince Harry said he \"no doubt\" she would be \"incredibly proud\" of him for living the life she would have wanted and added that one of his son Archie's first words was \"grandma\".\n\n\"I got a photo up in his nursery and it was one of the first words that he said, apart from 'mama', 'papa' it was then 'grandma', Grandma Diana,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the sweetest thing, but at the same time it makes me really sad, because she should be here.\"\n\nPrince Harry and his wife, Meghan, being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey earlier this year\n\nThe prince, 36, has campaigned for discussions around mental health to be normalised, and started speaking in detail about his personal experiences recently.\n\nIn March, he and his wife Meghan were interviewed by Winfrey about their life in the Royal Family, and its impact on their mental health.\n\nAnd on a podcast last week, Prince Harry said he was determined to \"break the cycle of pain\" of his upbringing when parenting his own children, and shared that he had gone to therapy.\n\nThe duke said the happiest time of his life was his 10 years in the Army, as there was no \"special treatment\" for him.\n\nHe left the Army aged 30, and met his wife-to-be Meghan on a blind date a year later.\n\nThe duke said family members previously told him \"just play the game and your life will be easier\".\n\n\"But I've got a hell of a lot of my mum in me,\" he said. \"I feel as though I am outside of the system - but I'm still stuck there. The only way to free yourself and break out is to tell the truth.\"\n\nThe streaming series sees Prince Harry, Winfrey, Lady Gaga, Glenn Close and others tell their own stories about mental health and wellbeing.\n\nIt was first announced in April 2019, almost a year before Harry and Meghan announced they were stepping back as senior royals in January 2020.", "Cornwall Wildlife Trust said the sighting off Padstow on Wednesday was the first of a walrus, an Arctic animal, in the area\n\nA walrus has been spotted off the coast of Cornwall for the first time.\n\nCornwall Wildlife Trust said the sighting of the Arctic animal off Padstow was \"absolutely a first\".\n\nIt is thought to be the same walrus that was spotted in Pembrokeshire earlier this year who has become known as Wally.\n\nNathaniel Barry, who saw the walrus on a sea safari on Wednesday, said: \"I've always wanted to see them but they are usually nowhere near Cornwall.\"\n\nSea safari crewman Nathaniel Barry said he was in shock when he saw the walrus\n\nMr Barry said the skipper first thought it was a grey seal: \"It popped up maybe 10m (30ft) away from us and the first thing I saw were these tusks.\n\n\"I was just in shock. It's the first time I believe that anyone in Cornwall has seen a walrus.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why has a walrus ended up in Wales?\n\nHe believes it is the same walrus as the animal, dubbed Wally, which was spotted in Wales.\n\n\"The likelihood of seeing one walrus down here is remote so the likelihood of seeing two is a lot less,\" he said.\n\n\"The tusks were also the same size, it was amazing.\n\n\"These past 12 hours have been like a dream, I was as excited as the customers.\"\n\nAbby Crosby, a marine conservation officer from Cornwall Wildlife Trust, said: \"It's absolutely a first and I'm amazed by this sighting.\n\n\"It's wonderful to hear he's on our coastline.\"\n\nPeople are urged to steer clear of the mammal\n\nIt follows the sighting of killer whales off Cornwall for the first time in more than ten years earlier this month.\n\nCornwall saw another Arctic resident, a bowhead whale, in 2016.\n\nThe walrus is thought to have swum off towards Tintagel, but sightseers are urged to steer clear.\n\n\"Marine disturbance is a massive problem in Cornwall,\" said Ms Crosby.\n\n\"We need to leave him in peace so he does not come to harm which happens when they come into contact with humans.\"\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.", "We need to rebuild lives in Gaza, says UN\n\nThe UN agency for Palestinian refugees - known as UNRWA - has announced a list of priorities as it switches from an emergency response to recovery in Gaza. According to AFP news agency, UNRWA's chief in Gaza, Matthias Schmale, told reporters about is three priorities in the wake of the conflict: finding and supporting those who are homeless; assessing the damage; and helping to rebuild the lives of a \"terrified, traumatised population\". Mr Schmale also expressed concern about the Covid pandemic in Gaza. The second wave there had begun to calm before the fighting erupted. \"Many of us are very worried that... we may have in fact seen the beginning of the third wave because of course precautionary measures and so on were not adhered to,\" he said. But while he said he felt an \"enormous sense of relief\" at the ceasefire, he added that the truce felt \"fragile\". \"I am convinced after being here three and a half years that we will be back in a war if the underlying causes are not addressed,\" he said.", "Mr Johnson previously met with the Prime Minister of India at the 2019 G7 summit\n\nThe prime minister has announced new trade and investment deals with India worth £1bn.\n\nIt includes more than £533m of new investment from India into the UK, which is expected to create about 6,000 jobs.\n\nDowning Street said the new partnership would \"pave the way\" for a future UK-India Free Trade Agreement.\n\n\"The economic links between our countries make our people stronger and safer,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nThe deal, announced ahead of a virtual meeting with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, includes a £240m investment by the Serum Institute of India, which will support clinical trials, research and possibly the manufacturing of vaccines.\n\nSerum has already started phase one trials in the UK of a one-dose nasal vaccine for coronavirus, in partnership with Codagenix.\n\nIndian investment deals will create 1,000 new UK jobs each at health and tech firms Infosys, HCL Technologies and Mphasis.\n\nSome 667 UK jobs will be created at Q-Rich Creations, 500 jobs at Wipro and 465 at 12 Agro.\n\n\"Each and every one of the more than 6,500 jobs we have announced today will help families and communities build back from coronavirus and boost the British and Indian economies,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nTrade Secretary Liz Truss told the BBC that the jobs would be created \"within the next year or so\".\n\nShe said those commitments were \"very different\" from a free-trade deal, which the two governments will start negotiating on this autumn. Discussions will include lowering tariff barriers and new agreements on \"digital and data\".\n\nThe announcement on 6,000 jobs \"is really the tip of an iceberg\" Ms Truss said.\n\nTrade between the UK and India is worth about £23bn per year, and the government hopes to double that by 2030.\n\n\"What we need to do is get the huge tariffs removed on products like whisky, which is over 100%; cars, which is over 100% - that is where the real opportunities lie for us,\" she said.\n\nThe do that, the UK is likely to have to relax immigration rules between India and the UK, Ms Truss added.\n\n\"We've already made significant steps in improving the immigration regime with the post-study work visa. We've seen a massive rise in Indian students coming to the UK.\"\n\n\"Business mobility is a key part of trade. Particularly as the UK and India are both very strong in services, you need to make sure you're able to get your professionals over to the country,\" Ms Truss added.\n\nIn recent years, the UK has sold more to Belgium or Sweden than India. But the government hopes that closer ties with one of the most populous and fastest-growing major economies could have huge long-term potential - especially as tensions with China mount.\n\nIt believes that this announcement, which boosts access to India for producers of British fruit and medical devices - and means investment in the UK from India's vaccine producers - is just a taste of what could be achieved.\n\nBut economists warn that getting a full deal with Delhi that lowers tariff and non-tariff barriers won't be easy. India is likely, for example, to want UK entry visa requirements for its workers and students to be eased.\n\nAttempts by the European Union, Australia and New Zealand to strike free trade deals with India have all stalled.\n\nBut as that nation grapples with the economic damage caused by the pandemic and the rising threat from China, it may now take a more pragmatic approach to brokering an agreement.\n\nMeanwhile, British businesses have secured export deals with India worth more than £446m, which are expected to create more than 400 British jobs.\n\nThey include a £200m deal involving CMR Surgical, which will create 100 new UK jobs.\n\nThe company's next-generation 'Versius' surgical robotic system - which helps surgeons perform minimal access surgery - will be rolled out to hospitals in India.\n\nTrade between the UK and India is already worth around £23bn a year, supporting more than half a million jobs, according to the government.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"In the decade ahead, with the help of new partnership signed today and a comprehensive free trade agreement, we will double the value of our trading partnership with India and take the relationship between our two countries to new highs.\"\n\nTrade body the CBI said the updated trade partnership \"shows the world the strength of our relationship\".\n\nCBI president Lord Bilimoria said the talks would \"unlock opportunities for businesses, boost job creation and growth across the country\".\n\nMr Johnson had been forced to cancel a planned visit to Delhi as it battles with a brutal second wave of coronavirus cases.\n\nThe visit was designed to foster closer ties between the two countries and had first been scheduled for January.\n\nIt was delayed after the UK's higher wave of Covid infections over winter.\n\nA four-day trip was scheduled for April before being cut back to just one day in Delhi, before being postponed indefinitely last month, with India subsequently added to the UK's travel \"red list\".\n\nOn Monday, authorities in Delhi called for help from the army. The government wants it to run Covid care facilities and intensive care units.\n\nAcross India, case numbers since the start of the outbreak are closing in on 20 million.\n\nIn response to India's coronavirus surge, the British Asian Trust has raised more than £1.6m in the last week through its emergency appeal.", "Hillary Clinton said the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan could lead to the \"resumption of activities by terrorist groups\"\n\nFormer US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned of \"huge consequences\" of President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan.\n\nMrs Clinton told CNN there was a risk the Taliban - the Islamist group ousted in 2001 by the US-led invasion - could retake control.\n\nThe US aims to complete the withdrawal by 11 September.\n\nHowever, the Taliban have been carrying out more attacks.\n\n\"This is what we call a wicked problem,\" Mrs Clinton told CNN. \"There are consequences both foreseen and unintended of staying and of leaving,\" she said.\n\nMrs Clinton, like Mr Biden a Democrat, was a strong supporter of the US intervention in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.\n\nMr Biden wants to complete the withdrawal by the 20th anniversary of the attacks later this year.\n\nAt least 2,500 US troops are currently deployed as part of the 9,600-strong Nato Afghan mission.\n\nThe president said the US pull-out was justified as American forces had ensured that the country could no longer be a base for foreign jihadists to plot against the West.\n\nAsked about the president's decision by CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, Mrs Clinton said, \"Our government has to focus on two huge consequences\", notably the resumption of activities by extremist groups and a subsequent outpouring of refugees from Afghanistan.\n\nShe said the potential collapse of the Afghan government and a possible takeover by the Taliban could result in a new civil war.\n\nMrs Clinton said it was also important to protect the \"many thousands of Afghans\" who had worked with the US and Nato during the conflict, and said a large visa programme should be set up to provide for any refugees.\n\nThe remaining US troops in Afghanistan began formally withdrawing on 1 May, amid escalating violence.\n\nAfghan security forces are on high alert for reprisal attacks.\n\nOn Monday, Afghan officials said at least seven soldiers had been killed in a Taliban attack on a military outpost in the south-western Farah province.\n\nThey said militants had blown up the post after digging a tunnel for about 400m (1312ft) to access it from a nearby house. One soldier had been captured by the insurgents, they said. Other reports put the Afghan army casualties much higher.\n\nThis 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\nSpeaking at a press conference in London on Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration was \"very focused on a deliberate, safe and orderly\" withdrawal of troops, but that the US would continue to assist the Afghan government.\n\n\"Even as our forces are pulling out of Afghanistan, we are not withdrawing - we are not disengaging,\" he said, adding that if US troops were attacked before leaving the country, \"decisive action\" would be taken.\n\nHillary Clinton represents the view of foreign-policy experts: The US should show its strength and deploy its military. Her criticism of Biden's plan reflects this sensibility.\n\nHer criticism matters, in part because so many in the foreign-policy establishment, both Democrats and Republicans, agree with her. Condoleezza Rice, who served as secretary of state under President George W Bush, has also warned about the risks of withdrawing troops, and the threat of terrorism.\n\nYet liberals, such as Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, do not think the troops should be there. Nor do many Americans. A 2019 Gallup poll showed 58% of Democrats think the war in Afghanistan has made the US less safe from terrorism.\n\nClinton's views are important, but Biden has the support of many Americans. Plus, he's the president, and has made his decision. His views are the ones that matter now, not hers.\n\nAs vice-president to Barack Obama, Mr Biden frequently opposed a large US presence in Afghanistan.\n\nHe has said that the US will continue to support Afghan government forces - and encourage peace negotiations with the rebel Taliban leaders. However, correspondents say that may not be enough to ensure stability in the region.\n\nLast year, then-President Donald Trump - who was keen for US troops to return home and criticised US military interventions for being costly and ineffective - set in motion a full US withdrawal from Afghanistan by 1 May this year.\n\nThe US then started withdrawing troops after the Taliban promised to stop carrying out attacks on international forces and \"soft targets\", and said it would not allow al-Qaeda or other militants to operate in areas it controls.\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\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\n• None US starts withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Epic Games v Apple: What is going on?\n\nAfter months of hype and warring words, Epic Games is finally getting its day in court with Apple.\n\nThe trial began on Monday - and is one of the most important in Apple's history.\n\nApple boss Tim Cook will be giving evidence, the first time he's given testimony at a trial.\n\nAt stake is the future of the App Store and the amount it charges developers - a wildly lucrative money spinner for the company.\n\nThe trial got off to a slightly chaotic start. The public hearing failed at first to mute those who were listening in via phone call, meaning calls from fans for the return of Fortnite to mobiles were accidentally broadcast.\n\nThe storm began in August last year, when Epic Games laid a trap for Apple.\n\nIts hit game Fortnite implemented its own in-app payment - bypassing Apple's 30% charges.\n\nBut Epic Games was waiting for just that.\n\nIt slapped Apple with a 65-page lawsuit - and had even prepared a high production video, a spoof of Apple's iconic 1984 advert for the Apple Mac.\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 Fortnite 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\nEpic Games has for years claimed the charges imposed on it by Apple are extortionate.\n\nTheir argument is simple: that Apple's control over the App Store is anti-competitive.\n\nIt believes that developers should be able to make apps for smartphones without having to pay large sums to Apple (and to Google for Google Play purchases).\n\nSpotify, Match and Tile are just a few of the many companies that have also claimed Apple's charges are unfair.\n\nApple is estimated to have made hundreds of millions of dollars from Fortnite alone in charges.\n\nEpic Games' big argument is: if they don't want to pay, then where else do they go to sell their products?\n\nFortnite's new payment option led to the game being kicked off the App Store\n\nApple's App Store and Google's Google Play are the dominant global app stores, outside China.\n\nEpic Games has tried to sell Fortnite away from these two stores. It tried to \"sideload\" the app on Android phones - to try and avoid Google's own 30% charge. However, not enough people downloaded it away from Google Play.\n\nEpic Games' reluctant conclusion: if you want to make games for smartphones you have to be on either the App Store or Google Play.\n\nBut unwilling to lie down and accept the charges - which it calls an \"Apple Tax\" - Epic Games decided to sue Apple instead.\n\nWorryingly for Apple, many of its App Store critics come from across the political divide.\n\nIn a Senate hearing two weeks ago, Apple's Chief Compliance Officer Kyle Andeer was grilled by lawmakers. Politicians of all stripes - usually so divided on policy - were united in their attacks on Apple.\n\nDemocrats Amy Klobuchar and Richard Blumenthal and Republicans Mike Lee and Josh Hawley all took up similar lines of questioning.\n\nSenator Klobuchar said that Apple's App Store was a \"literal monopoly\".\n\nAnd on Friday the European Union announced that it was charging Apple for its behaviour on the App Store.\n\nThe key question the judge will have to answer is whether Apple's App Store is an \"essential facility\", a sort of public utility that no one company should control.\n\n\"Everybody knows that Apple is in charge of what should be public rights of way. It would be easiest if the judge just rules in favour of Epic [Games], that would fix it,\" he says.\n\nApple can afford good lawyers though. So what's Apple's defence?\n\nFirstly, Apple says it invented the App Store and as a private company it can charge what it wants.\n\nIt also says the 30% charge to developers is the industry standard for gaming, and competes not just with Google Play but with Microsoft, Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo.\n\n\"In terms of the actual split, 70/30 is pretty standard across the board. One of the things that really stands out about Epic Games' argument is that they have no complaint whatsoever. It's all very hand wavy, and very much a PR argument, not a legal one.\"\n\nApple also says that its payment system is fair to smaller developers. It says 83% of apps and 76% of games on the App Store are free - developers pay no commission.\n\nAnd they say that although their top rate charge is 30%, most developers pay no more than 15% in charges.\n\nApple argues it also oversees an App Store vetting process, making sure the Apple ecosystem isn't compromised by dodgy apps. That costs money.\n\nHowever it's thought the amount that Apple spends on this process is a tiny fraction of the amount it receives from developers. Critics like Matt Stoller also question how effective Apple's vetting procedures are.\n\n\"There are all sorts of apps that have scams that Apple doesn't catch. So their arguments about safety and security are sort of nonsense,\" he says.\n\nSo what are Apple's chances? John Gruber thinks they're good.\n\n\"I do think that on legal grounds, Apple is in a very good position. But the risk is very high because [if they lost] it would disrupt the whole business model of the app store\".\n\nMatt Stoller says that antitrust cases are notoriously hard to predict.\n\n\"Antitrust law, as it's practiced in the US, is a complete mess. So we have no idea. The law basically depends on what the judge had for breakfast.\"\n\nThe trial is expected to conclude in the last week of May. However, even if Apple wins, the fight over how Apple runs its App Store will rage on.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "More than 30 people will be able to mourn their loved ones at funerals in England from 17 May, under plans announced by the government.\n\nAs part of the next step of easing lockdown restrictions, ministers are set to remove the 30-person legal limit a month earlier than planned.\n\nThis means any number of mourners will be able to gather as long as the venue can comply with social distancing.\n\nEngland's next lockdown easing, stage three, is due no earlier than 17 May.\n\nDuring the pandemic, many have been forced to watch funerals from home over live-streams, making grieving harder. And those able to attend have had to do without handshakes and hugs.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said people have made \"huge sacrifices\" - nowhere more apparent than in the \"deeply painful\" restrictions on funerals.\n\nLike so many others, the Queen had to sit alone as she bid farewell to her husband\n\nAt the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral service last month, the Queen had to sit alone in the chapel in Windsor.\n\nOnly 30 people, most of them the duke's closest family, were able to attend, in line with coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDeborah Smith, from the National Association of Funeral Directors, said she was \"very pleased\" at the planned change.\n\nAlthough some venues may not have the space to increase numbers much because of social distancing, she said \"it does mean that those larger venues can now start welcoming more mourners\".\n\n\"It just gives that little bit of choice for families who do have lots of family members and lots of close friends, that they can choose a venue that is a little bit larger.\"\n\nMr Jenrick said he would work with faith leaders and funeral home managers to introduce new arrangements to continue to keep people safe once the limit has been lifted.\n\nIn Scotland, up to 50 people can go to a funeral, with plans to extend that to 100 from 7 June. Neither Wales nor Northern Ireland has a limit on numbers, but venues can set restrictions.\n\nIn other developments, MPs are warning that curbs on foreign holidays should be kept in place to protect the UK from Covid variants.\n\nThe ban on foreign holidays is expected to be lifted for people in England from 17 May, but a cross-party group of MPs say current restrictions should be continued beyond that date.\n\nThey want the government to \"discourage all international leisure travel\", saying new variants could lead to more lockdowns and further deaths.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on coronavirus described airport arrival halls as \"a breeding ground for infection\".\n\nLib Dem MP Layla Moran, who chairs the APPG, said urgent measures were needed to better detect fake Covid test certificates, reduce overcrowding in arrival halls, and separate those arriving from countries classed as higher risk.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We introduced robust border controls to stop coronavirus variants in their tracks and every essential check we've introduced for arrivals has strengthened our defences against new mutations.\"\n\nThey said the new \"traffic-light\" system, where red is the riskiest for Covid and green the safest, would allow them to manage the risk from imported cases by varying restrictions depending on the risk of travel from a specific location.\n\nMeanwhile in Wales, two households who form a \"bubble\" are now able to meet and hug indoors. The bubble can also include someone who lives on their own.\n\nGyms, leisure centres and community centres have reopened, with exercise classes for up to 15 adults allowed. Children's indoor activities including scout groups can also meet again.\n\nThese changes had been timetabled for later in the year but were brought forward because the number of cases in Wales remains low.\n\nThe seven-day rolling case rate in Wales stands at 10.8 per 100,000 people, the lowest rate since 1 September last year.\n\nIn the UK as a whole, a further 1,671 cases were reported on Sunday, and there were 14 more deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.", "Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole has been described as a hero by family and friends\n\nA man who died trying to save a drowning woman should get a medal for bravery, a fellow rescuer has said.\n\nJoaquin Garcia and Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewol went into the River Thames at London Bridge after hearing a scream at about midnight on 24 April.\n\nThe woman and Mr Garcia were rescued by the coastguard. Mr Olubunmi-Adewol's body was found six hours later.\n\nMr Garcia said he would \"totally support\" calls for the 20-year-old to be awarded the George Cross.\n\nHe said he backed \"the campaign that there is for Jimi to take a medal for his honour and his braveness\".\n\n\"I think he deserves that.\n\n\"I think it would be really good for the family as well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joaquin Garcia joined Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole in jumping into the River Thames to save a drowning woman\n\nHe said he had been walking nearby when he saw Mr Olubunmi-Adewol - who was known as Jimi - pointing into the river and shouting \"she's there, she's there\".\n\nHe said the 20-year-old asked him if he was going to jump, and after he said he was, \"Jimi started to count and said 'let's do it'.\n\n\"I couldn't think on it, so I just jumped... and that's the last time I saw Jimi.\"\n\nAfter being pulled from the water, Mr Garcia called his parents in Spain while in hospital.\n\nHe said he did not hear what his mother said as she was crying, but his father had said he was \"very good for being like you are\", before adding: \"Don't do it again\".\n\nFlowers were left near the spot where the two men entered the river\n\nThe City of London Police have asked the Royal Humane Society to put Mr Olubunmi-Adewol forward for an award for his \"bravery and selfless actions\".\n\nAlmost 150,00 people have also signed an online petition for a plaque to be put on London Bridge, recognising what he did.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry spoke to a crowd of fully vaccinated guests at the Vax Live concert in Los Angeles\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has called for vaccines to be \"distributed to everyone everywhere\" at a star-studded charity concert in Los Angeles.\n\nPrince Harry appeared alongside dozens of celebrities at the Vax Live event, a charity performance in aid of the international Covid vaccination effort.\n\nHosted by the singer Selena Gomez, the concert - to be aired on Saturday - featured performances from artists Jennifer Lopez and Foo Fighters.\n\nAddressing thousands of fully vaccinated guests at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Prince Harry praised the efforts of front line workers during the pandemic.\n\n\"Tonight is a celebration of each of you here, the vaccinated frontline workers in the audience and the millions of frontline heroes around the world,\" he said.\n\nSelena Gomez hosted the event, calling for \"doses and dollars\" to go to the world's poorest countries\n\n\"You spent the last year battling courageously and selflessly to protect us all. You served and sacrificed, put yourselves in harm's way, and acted with bravery, knowing the costs. We owe you an incredible debt of gratitude. Thank you.\"\n\nIt was the duke's first public appearance since the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Philip on 17 April. His wife the Duchess of Sussex, who is pregnant, stayed at home.\n\nThe couple are campaign chairs of Vax Live, organised by anti-poverty group Global Citizen.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden also appeared at the concert in a pre-recorded video.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden appeared in a video message\n\nPresident Biden said he was \"working with leaders around the world to share more vaccines and boost production\".\n\nThe singer Selena Gomez hosted the event, calling for \"doses and dollars\" to go to the world's poorest countries.\n\nRock band Foo Fighters were joined by surprise guest Brian Johnson of AC/DC for a rendition of the Australian band's hit Back in Black.\n\nAnd actress and singer Jennifer Lopez was joined on stage by her mother to sing Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline.\n\nJennifer Lopez was joined by her mother at the Vax Live event\n\nOther celebrity guests, including Ben Affleck, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel and Sean Penn, all called for equal access to vaccines around the world, or vaccine equity.\n\nOther video messages came from Pope Francis, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nIn his address Prince Harry called on people to come together and commit to their \"shared humanity\".\n\n\"The vaccine must be distributed to everyone everywhere,\" the Duke said.\n\nFoo Fighters' Dave Grohl performed Back in Black with Brian Johnson of AC/DC\n\n\"We cannot rest or truly recover until there is fair distribution to every corner of the world. The mission in front of us is one we cannot afford to fail at and that's what tonight is about.\"\n\nPrince Harry also voiced support for India, which is in the midst of a Covid crisis which has overwhelmed hospitals.\n\n\"Tonight, we stand in solidarity with the millions of families across India, who are battling a devastating second wave,\" he said.\n\n\"The virus does not respect borders, and access to the vaccine cannot be determined by geography.\"\n\nVax Live is calling on governments to commit to vaccine equity by donating doses and resources.\n\nThe event raised $53.8 million (£38.8 million) for Covax, which is working to to ensure vaccines are shared fairly among all nations, rich and poor. Organisers said it was enough to help purchase almost 10.3 million vaccine doses.\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\nThe concert will stream on YouTube, along with American television networks, on 8 May at midnight GMT.\n\nLast year, Global Citizen partnered with the World Health Organization 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 pandemic has highlighted the need for broadband for even simple things such as staying in contact with friends\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has highlighted large inequalities in society.\n\nOne that Helen Tinsley would like to see tackled is the digital divide.\n\nHelen, who is retired and from Cardiff, sees the impact on children, jobseekers, older people, as well as people in different parts of the country.\n\nAhead of the Senedd elections, we asked what people would change and Helen wants broadband for everyone.\n\nDuring the pandemic, a lot of focus has been placed on providing laptops and internet access to allow children in deprived areas to be educated from home.\n\nHowever, Helen believes this is just the tip of the iceberg, and it is an issue affecting people in every age group.\n\n\"It's not just schoolchildren, it's now important that everyone has broadband,\" she said.\n\n\"Twenty years ago, if someone had said it's important everyone has access to the web, many would have laughed and thought 'what will we use that for?'\"\n\nAfter problems, villagers in Michaelston-y-Fedw installed their own ultrafast broadband - which they claim to be the fastest in Wales\n\nPeople have gone to great lengths to secure access, with villagers in \"not spot\" Michaelston-y-Fedw, which lies between Newport and Cardiff, installing their own ultrafast broadband.\n\nProf Christopher Spry, who lives in Heol Senni in the Brecon Beacons, also had to pay to get his internet from a satellite 22,000 miles above Africa because of poor connection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: How to get visitors on to your home wi-fi easily\n\nHelen believes there are many other reasons people are deprived access - children because their parents are not able to pay for it, while older people may not have the technical know-how or understanding of the digital world to get online.\n\n\"Many can't afford it and are being left behind. It is a barrier to them progressing,\" she added.\n\nShe has let relatives sit in her garden to log on to her wi-fi so they are not using up their limited phone data, and believes sharing passwords with family members and friends could be a way of helping those on budgets or who cannot afford their own connections.\n\nHelen said: \"Maybe we should consider letting neighbours have access to our password if they are people you trust. Everyone can play their part that way.\n\n\"Some have no data on their phones and that they do have quickly runs out. The cost is so problematic for so many people.\"\n\nHowever, some experts warn against the widespread sharing of wi-fi passwords due to the increased security risks.\n\nIssues Helen has seen people struggle with due to limited internet access include them not being to apply for a driver's licence online or accessing their finances through online banking.\n\n\"For some surgeries, you are seeing a system where you have to access appointments online,\" Helen added.\n\n\"If you can't get online, you can't get an appointment.\"\n\nProf Christopher Spry has used a satellite over Africa to get internet to his Powys home in the Senni Valley\n\nAnother issue that became important as people shielded indoors during the pandemic was online shopping.\n\nHelen believes it is important all older people are able to book deliveries with supermarkets, and also, working-age people are able to browse, and apply for, jobs.\n\nShe said: \"Now we are seeing the impact on the poorest in society.\n\n\"I'm not sure how you can potentially fund it, but it's getting more and more important that we have equal access.\n\n\"The person who invented the world-wide web wanted it for everyone, with no barriers. This world we live in, everything is digitalised, so that needs to be the case now more than ever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in a rural village describe how a poor internet connection affects their lives\n\nBut Helen does not just see it as a problem dividing the better off and the poor, but also those in different parts of Wales, with it a geographical as well as digital divide.\n\nShe wants people in every county of Wales, from cities to rural, in the north and the south to have equal access.\n\n\"It's unfair if they don't,\" she said.\n\n\"As we have seen lately, if you're working remotely, it is so important.\"\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\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.", "The fee to apply for a gender recognition certificate has been cut to £5, the government has announced.\n\nMinisters pledged in September to slash the cost of legally changing gender from £140 after deciding against wider reforms.\n\nWomen and Equalities Minister Liz Truss said the reduction removed a \"barrier\" for transgender people.\n\nWhile cost has been cited as an obstacle to applying, some LGBT groups say more work is needed.\n\nThe BBC revealed last month that the cost would be reduced to single figures from early May.\n\nA consultation was set up in 2018 to explore potential reforms to the way transgender people can apply for a gender recognition certificate (GRC) 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.\n\nThe government estimates there are between 200,000 and 500,000 transgender people in the UK, although the actual figure is not known.\n\nA total of 5,871 full GRCs have been granted since 2005, according to the latest official figures.\n\nIn September 2020, following a highly charged debate about the potential impact of changing the law, the government announced it would not fundamentally reform the process.\n\nAt the time, Ms Truss said there were \"proper checks and balances in the system\" - but pledged to make applying \"kinder and more straightforward\", including reducing the fee.\n\nIn a statement after the reduction came into force, Ms Truss said: \"As we build back better, we want transgender people to be free to live and to prosper in modern Britain.\"\n\n\"In the National LGBT Survey, 34% of transgender people told us that the cost of applying for a certificate was holding them back from doing so,\" Ms Truss said.\n\n\"Today we have removed that barrier, and I am proud that we have made the process of getting a certificate fairer, simpler and much more affordable.\"\n\nGovernment sources have previously told BBC News that making the service completely free would take longer because it would require primary legislation.\n\nThe government has also said it is working \"at speed\" to move the application process online.\n\nHowever, some LGBT charities have called for more fundamental reform.\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\nNancy Kelley, chief executive of Stonewall, said reducing the cost and streamlining the application process were not substitutes for \"meaningful reform to the Gender Recognition Act\".", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been unable to leave Iran since she was first held in 2016\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said Iran's treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe \"amounts to torture\" - the strongest language the UK government has used to date.\n\nIn a BBC interview, Mr Raab said Tehran was using her in \"a cat-and-mouse game\" for diplomatic leverage, after she was sentenced to prison again.\n\nHe also said he believed she was being held illegally under international law.\n\nThe 42-year-old British-Iranian mother has been held in Iran since 2016.\n\nFollowing the foreign secretary's interview, an anonymous official cited on Iranian state TV suggested the UK had paid a £400m debt to free her - but the Foreign Office insisted its position was unchanged.\n\nIt said Iran has made the claim before, without Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe having been released. A Foreign Office spokesman said it continued \"to explore options to resolve\" the case and would not comment further while \"legal discussions\" were ongoing.\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said the family had not been updated but welcomed the signals from Tehran over the long-running dispute as \"a good sign\".\n\n\"My instinct is that it is actually a sign we are in the middle of negotiations rather than at the end of them,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But we will keep our fingers crossed - for ourselves, and all the other families caught up in this.\"\n\nThe wife of Anoosheh Ashoori, another British-Iranian serving a 10-year sentence in Iran, said she feared her husband had been forgotten. Sherry Izadi says he is being held in a prison cell with 15 other people and is suffering from Covid symptoms.\n\n\"We sincerely hope any deal includes all dual nationals, who deserve the same treatment,\" she said. \"This is a window of opportunity for the government to make a deal and, if they miss this opportunity, I'm worried he's going to rot in jail.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker from West Hampstead, served a five-year sentence for spying charges, which she has always denied, before being convicted of propaganda against the regime and sentenced to a further year in jail and one-year travel ban last month.\n\nHer husband maintains she is being used as a bargaining chip by Tehran in a dispute with the UK over an unpaid debt from the 1970s related to a military contract, and as leverage in talks over the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Raab said: \"Nazanin is held unlawfully, in my view, as a matter of international law. I think she's being treated in the most abusive, tortuous way.\n\n\"I think it amounts to torture the way she's being treated.\"\n\nHe said there was an \"obligation on Iran to release her immediately and without condition\".\n\nAsked if she was being held hostage, Mr Raab said it was difficult to argue against that characterisation.\n\n\"It is clear that she is subjected to a cat-and-mouse game that the Iranians, or certainly part of the Iranian system, engage with and they try and use her for leverage on the UK.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said her imprisonment was \"not solely\" about the debt owed by the UK for failing to deliver tanks to Iran.\n\n\"We've said that debt is something we want to have resolved,\" he said.\n\nBut he said the wider context of the forthcoming elections in Iran, which will vote in a successor to President Hassan Rouhani, and the talks in Vienna over the nuclear deal were more significant issues.\n\nMr Ratcliffe, who has not seen his wife since 2016, welcomed the foreign secretary's remarks about torture, saying they set down a \"rhetorical and legal red line\".\n\n\"This has weight in international law. All states, including Iran, have an obligation to prohibit torture,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You can't un-torture Nazanin but the government can make sure this is not happening to others.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe has not seen his wife for more than five years\n\nA medical assessment carried out for the human rights charity Redress found Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had post-traumatic stress disorder from her treatment in Iranian prisons and the uncertainty about her fate.\n\nShe was released in March due to the coronavirus crisis and has been living under house arrest. She has not yet been taken back to prison and plans to appeal against the latest conviction.\n\nHer daughter, Gabriella, was with her mother when she was arrested and returned to the UK in 2019 to begin school.\n\nThe six-year-old has not yet been told about her mother's latest prison sentence, with Mr Ratcliffe saying he felt it would be better to wait until she has to return to jail before breaking the news.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: The British government would \"co-operate closely with counterparts in India\"\n\nA further 1,000 ventilators will be sent to help coronavirus-hit India, the UK government has announced.\n\nAs India continues to report soaring infections and record deaths, the UK's chief medical and scientific officers have also spoken with their counterparts there to offer advice.\n\nThe latest assistance is on top of a package of support announced last week.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The UK will always be there for India in its time of need.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am deeply moved by the surge of support the British people have provided to the people of India and am pleased the UK government has been able to play our part in providing life-saving assistance.\"\n\nNo 10 said Mr Johnson will hold a virtual meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to discuss deepening cooperation between the UK and India\n\nIndia recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began - 3,689 - and has become the first country to register more than 400,000 new cases in a single day.\n\nMr Modi met his health minister on Sunday morning to review the crisis.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab earlier said the UK would \"look very carefully\" at any request for vaccines from India.\n\nSome five million Oxford-AstraZeneca doses, manufactured in India and destined for the UK, have been held there while safety checks are carried out.\n\nOne scientific adviser to the government, Prof Peter Openshaw, suggested it would be appropriate to allow India to use these doses.\n\nMr Raab told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The Indian relationship is very important to us and we'd obviously want to co-operate very closely together.\"\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the UK \"can and should do more\" to help India.\n\nShe told Sky News: \"There are long and deep ties between us and India, which mean that we should step up and provide more equipment, more support.\"\n\nBritain's Indian communities, businesses and charities have led appeals for emergency oxygen and donations, as many hospitals in India see supplies run low.\n\nThe government announced last week it would send 200 ventilators, 495 oxygen concentrators and three oxygen generation units - with the first shipment arriving on Tuesday.\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser Chris Whitty and the chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance spoke to colleagues in India to provide \"advice, insight and expertise\", the government said.\n\nDowning Street confirmed NHS England will also establish a clinical advisory group led by its chief people officer Prerana Issar to support India's Covid response.", "Hospitality bosses have lost a legal challenge for a faster reopening for indoor dining in England.\n\nThe High Court ruled in favour of the government after a case was brought by Punch Taverns founder Hugh Osmond, and Sacha Lord, the night-time economy adviser for Greater Manchester.\n\nPubs and restaurants were allowed to reopen - but only outdoors - on 12 April, along with non-essential shops.\n\nMr Lord said they were disappointed by the outcome.\n\nMr Lord and Mr Osmond argued there was no justification or scientific basis for hospitality to be kept closed for five weeks, after retailers in England were allowed to serve customers indoors from mid-April.\n\nMr Lord said: \"While this fight has always been an uphill battle... we are pleased that the case has shone a light on the hospitality sector and the unfair and unequal guidance within the recovery roadmap.\"\n\n\"Despite the outcome, we will continue to hold the government to account and demand evidence-based decisions, rather than those drafted without detailed analysis or based on bias or whim.\"\n\nThe government has insisted the lockdown easing must be cautious if it is to be irreversible, adding that it will driven by \"data and not dates\".\n\nA date - 17 May - has been set as the next stage for relaxing restrictions in England.\n\nPubs, cafes and restaurants will be able to serve customers indoors.\n\nIn Scotland, pubs and restaurants are already allowed to open indoors until 20:00 - but alcohol can only be served to those seated outside.\n\nIt is hoped venues in Wales will be able to open indoors on 17 May. In Northern Ireland, hospitality may reopen on 24 May.\n\nThe hospitality bosses pointed to recent findings by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which suggested that the hospitality sector was associated with a relatively low risk of Covid-19 transmission, although it was slightly higher than leisure and retail.\n\nIn statement, the two men also expressed disappointment that the call for faster reopening dates was described as \"academic\".\n\nMr Osmond, a former director of Pizza Express, said: \"This case is not 'academic' for an industry that is losing £200m every day it remains closed, for the over three million people who work in our industry, or for the tens of thousands of businesses, suppliers, landlords and contractors forced into bankruptcy by Government measures.\"\n\nThe sector has been one of the worst-affected by coronavirus shutdowns.\n\nTrade body UK Hospitality warned recently that about that £2bn in rent is owed by hospitality businesses with 40% of premises still currently negotiating over unpaid rent with landlords.\n\nAbout 20 to 30% are still in talks over how to settle debts from 2020 lockdowns, it said, calling for the government to step in as a ban on evictions for commercial tenants and business rates holidays end.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Our roadmap sets out a cautious approach to easing restrictions, based on the best scientific evidence available at the time. We published a full range of scientific papers alongside it, on 22 February.\"\n\n\"It is widely acknowledged that the risk of transmission outdoors is significantly less than indoors, which is why businesses have already been able to open in some outdoor settings, ahead of indoor hospitality later this month,\" they said.\n\nThey added that the government has provided support to the sector through schemes such as the Restart Grant scheme, the furlough scheme and VAT cuts.\n\nAbout 750,000 business in \"hospitality and other sectors\" had benefitted from business rates relief, they said.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Premier League is to bring in a new owners' charter to stop future attempts to join a breakaway Super League.\n\nIt follows Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham agreeing to join the failed European Super League last month.\n\nAll owners will have to sign up to the new rule \"committing them to the core principles\" of the league with breaches punished by \"significant\" sanctions.\n\nThe Football Association said an inquiry into the six clubs has started.\n• None There must be consequences for the six ESL clubs - ex-Premier League chief\n\n\"The actions of a few clubs cannot be allowed to create such division and disruption,\" the Premier League said.\n\n\"We are determined to establish the truth of what happened and hold those clubs accountable for their decisions and actions.\"\n\nThe Football Association added: \"We wrote to all of the clubs to formally request all relevant information and evidence regarding their participation.\n\n\"Once we have the required information, we will consider what appropriate steps to take.\"\n\nThe Super League proposal, which also included some of Europe's biggest clubs, collapsed within 72 hours after widespread criticism from fans, players and governing bodies and politicians.\n\nThere have been various calls for sanctions against the clubs, including points deductions, relegation and bans from European competitions.\n\nThe executives at the six clubs involved in the collapsed breakaway have been forced to resign from advisory roles at the Premier League.\n\nMost of the clubs apologised and Manchester United's executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward resigned.\n\nIn its statement the Premier League said it would also introduce \"additional rules and regulation to ensure the principles of the Premier League and open competition are protected\".\n\nBoth the FA and the English top-flight said it is seeking help from the government to bring in legislation to protect the football pyramid and \"the integrity of the football community\".\n\n\"The events of the last two weeks have challenged the foundations and resolve of English football,\" the Premier League said.\n\n\"These measures are designed to stop the threat of breakaway leagues in the future.\"\n\nThe Premier League also said it \"recognises the strength of feeling\" among fans but urged protests to remain peaceful.\n\nIt follows the protest by Manchester United fans on Sunday which resulted in two police officers being injured and caused the club's match against Liverpool to be postponed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV captured the moment a vandal took a chainsaw to the platform\n\nConservationists hope a pair of ospreys will nest at a new site after their platform was cut down with a chainsaw.\n\nA decoy egg has also been placed on the nest as the female had laid an egg a day before the attack at Llyn Brenig, which borders Conwy and Denbighshire.\n\nBBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams said it was \"environmental vandalism of the worst kind\".\n\nCCTV cameras recorded the moment the platform was cut down and North Wales Police branded it a \"disgusting act\".\n\nIn a tweet, Rob Taylor, rural crime team manager for North Wales Police, said the force was \"pulling the stops out to try and catch the person or persons responsible for this\".\n\n\"The whole team are absolutely devastated by it and I'm sure the whole community are as well,\" he added.\n\n\"Believe me, they will receive the full force of the law.\"\n\nOspreys lay eggs in the second half of April\n\nThere are five pairs of ospreys in Wales and the birds and their eggs are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act which makes it an offence to interfere with them or their nest.\n\nAccording to the RSPB, the female osprey lays two or three eggs between one and three daily intervals in the second half of April, and incubates them for 37 days per egg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Wildlife Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams told Sunday's BBC Breakfast he hoped the birds would attempt to nest again as it was early in the season.\n\n\"What we're hoping is that by putting a dummy egg in a nearby nest, then the female will be induced to head over there and lay two, maybe even three eggs again,\" he said.\n\n\"If she leaves two eggs there and incubates those successfully, we'll be delighted, although that doesn't take away from this idiotic act of vandalism.\"\n\nThe osprey breeding support project began in 2013 at Llyn Brenig\n\nBrenig Osprey Project, a partnership with Welsh Water and North Wales Wildlife Trust, thanked the public for support following the attack on Friday night.\n\nIn a Facebook post, it said its \"priority has been to protect the birds\" and, on Saturday, it had cleared another platform the ospreys had been \"scouting out\" and had added the decoy egg.\n\n\"Our hope is that they will relocate to it within days,\" it said.\n\n\"The female may well even be ready to lay, and we think we've given her a good option.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Around 5,000 fans packed into a big top in Liverpool with no masks or social distancing\n\nA pilot concert in Liverpool on Sunday saw the largest number of people to have legally crammed into such a small space in the UK since the start of the pandemic. They had a euphoric night - but a lot is riding on its success.\n\nIt's a sight that has existed only in fond, fading memories for the past 13 months, and has sometimes seemed destined to be consigned to the carefree pre-Covid age - 5,000 closely-packed music fans dancing and jumping, and singing in unison at the top of their lungs.\n\nNo masks. No social distancing. No rule of six. No risk of fines.\n\nJust having a good time with your mates, drinking beer from cardboard pint pots, queuing up for Portaloos, getting rained on - and listening to live music in a melee of strangers who are hearing, seeing and feeling the same things as you.\n\nJust like old times. And hopefully like times still to come.\n\nSunday's mini-festival in Liverpool's Sefton Park was one of the government's official trial events to research how large gatherings can safely take place again.\n\nAll ticket holders had to take a supervised lateral flow test at one of four testing centres in the city the day before, and were only allowed in if the test was negative.\n\nThey were also strongly encouraged to take more sensitive PCR tests on the day of the show and to do so again five days later, on Friday. That will be crucial to working out whether there was any spread of the virus.\n\nScientists are also studying other factors like audience movement and interaction, ventilation, duration, catering and alcohol consumption. Mysterious people with clipboards wandered around making notes.\n\nIt's all with the aim of working out how summer music festivals can go ahead after 21 June, when stage four of the government reopening roadmap will, in theory, see the end of restrictions on social contact.\n\nWhen the gates to the Sefton Park site opened at 4:30pm on Sunday, the first fans came in - ripping off their face masks with \"a sigh of relief\", as one put it.\n\nAt 5.30, before any of the bands had started, an already sizeable crowd was in front of the stage, where a DJ was spinning indie anthems. They weren't just shoulder to shoulder, but on each other's shoulders, arms aloft, cardboard pints flying as the chorus to Common People kicked in.\n\nBy 6:30, a girl was being sick on the grass next to the Filthy Vegan food van.\n\nIn the big top, the first act was on stage - Liverpool singer-songwriter Zuzu. \"Hello!\" she said, and the stimulation-starved crowd roared as if she had scored the winning goal in the Merseyside derby.\n\nLocal singer Zuzu, first on the bill, received a rapturous reception\n\n\"It was just unreal,\" she said of the experience afterwards. \"It felt like jumping out of an aeroplane. My heart was going in a big way.\n\n\"It was incredibly emotional. I tried to keep it together on stage. But during the last song I choked up, and when I came off stage, I'm not even ashamed to admit that I cried. I fully cried. It was amazing.\"\n\nThe crowd was even more pumped up by the time the headliners, chart-topping indie band Blossoms, arrived two hours later.\n\nThe pilot was supposed to test a \"normal\" gig, but the amount of pent-up energy that was released, and steam that was let off, meant the atmosphere was more heightened than was ever normal in previous years.\n\nBlossoms singer Tom Ogden had the word \"Love\" written across the front of his piano\n\n\"It was way better than normal,\" said one fan, Aneesa Habib, 19, afterwards.\n\n\"It was so crazy being back surrounded by people,\" said her friend Joby Mathew, 20. \"It was incredible. To be in the middle of everyone, just moving around, you feel like you're part of something bigger than yourself.\"\n\nFestivalgoer Jack Young, 21, said being at an event with no restrictions was \"like a weight had been lifted off everyone's shoulders\".\n\nAnother called Chloe said: \"It was nice to be in the moment. You felt alive again. We need more. I've missed it a lot.\"\n\nAlex Druce, 26, said it was like having \"a flashback to two years ago\". He added: \"It was like reverting back to the way things used to be. We've basically been like a caged animal for about two years, haven't we?\"\n\nSome concertgoers did admit they had been anxious about being in a crowd again after so long. The testing process largely proved reassuring, and its success will help determine whether we see scenes like this again soon.\n\nSunday's six-hour show followed two nightclub pilot events, which were attended by 3,000 people per night in the city on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe live music trial was staged by Reading, Leeds and Latitude promoters Festival Republic.\n\n\"We've worked really hard to do everything right behind the scenes - all the testing - to create an atmosphere that didn't feel sterile and didn't feel as though you were in a test or a pilot show or an experiment,\" managing director Melvin Benn said.\n\n\"And we've created an atmosphere that people will remember from 2019. People will think, this is what they have been missing.\"\n\nSome festivals, such as Glastonbury, have already been cancelled for this summer, while others are hanging in the balance. \"There's an awful lot of festivals riding on the success of this,\" Benn said.\n\n\"That's huge economically, but it's huge from an emotional point of view, from a human wellbeing point of view. I've seen people break down here with the emotion of seeing people again, and I fear that if we don't bring that back, that isolation that a lot of people are living through will just become unbearable.\"\n\nThe fate of the forthcoming festival season does not just hinge on being able to prove that individual events can be safe.\n\nOrganisers are also calling on the government to provide insurance in case there's another Covid spike and festivals have to be cancelled at short notice, after spending large sums on preparations.\n\n\"The truth is, unless the government provide it, there's real vulnerability for the rest of the summer,\" Benn said.\n\nHe invited arts minister Caroline Dinenage to see the set-up of the Sefton Park pilot for herself. Speaking on site, she said the insurance idea was \"still on the table\" and was \"with the Treasury\", adding: \"If we can do it, we'd like to.\"\n\nReading and Leeds, the biggest events left in this summer's calendar, are sold out. Asked whether they could happen without government insurance, Benn shrugged and gave no comment.\n\nOn stage, as Blossoms struck the opening chords of their final song Charlemagne, someone in the crowd lit a flare, more people climbed onto friends' shoulders, and more arms were raised in the air.\n\n\"We'll see you again soon,\" singer Tom Ogden promised as the tune finished, leaving the crowd to file out of the tent, and back to reality.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nWatch the best shots as Mark Selby beat Shaun Murphy to win the snooker World Championship Mark Selby claimed his fourth World Championship title with an 18-15 victory over Shaun Murphy at a sold-out Crucible Theatre. Selby, who led 14-11 prior to the final session, is now three Crucible crowns off Stephen Hendry's record of seven. Runs of 66, 68 and a superb 120 helped him break Murphy's resistance in a high-quality encounter. Selby, 37, collects £500,000 in prize money and moves up to second in the world behind Judd Trump. Having been perched at the top of the world rankings during the period in which he claimed three world titles in four years, Selby's dominance once looked unquestionable. And while those days appeared to have gone, his return to form under Chris Henry, who also coaches Murphy, and the quality of his all-round game suggests he is more than capable of continuing to win snooker's biggest prizes. Now level with Scotland's John Higgins on four, only Hendry (seven), Ronnie O'Sullivan, Steve Davis and Ray Reardon (all six) have won more world titles than Selby in the modern era. And while he is now likely to turn his attention to usurping Trump, Selby's 20th major ranking title also cements his place among the greats in Triple Crown events - equalling Higgins' tally of nine, placing him behind only Davis, Hendry and O'Sullivan. \"To win it once against Ronnie O'Sullivan for the first time was a dream come true - to win it four times is something I could only have dreamed of,\" Selby said on BBC Two. \"Every time you get to a world final you always try your hardest - it's such a tough tournament to get there and you never know whether it's going to be your last. \"My aim is to get back to world number one. You still have goals in your career. I'm going in the right direction.\" With the coach of both players Henry an intrigued spectator, Selby had earlier maintained his control of the match in Monday afternoon's session. 'The Crucible roar like never before!' - capacity crowd for final 'Life has been difficult' - Murphy thanks capacity Crucible crowd The concluding sessions of the Championship marked a notable sporting milestone with a capacity crowd returning to a major UK sporting event for the first time since March 2020. And as well as adding a semblance of normality, the 980 fans brought a return of the Crucible roar and added to the nervous tension, particularly when Murphy threatened an improbable comeback - turning thoughts towards a first final-frame decider since Peter Ebdon's 18-17 win over Hendry in 2002 - with back-to-back centuries. With Selby on the verge of victory at 17-13, Murphy clawed himself back to 17-15 with a superb show of under-pressure potting, but a missed red down the left cushion when well placed ended his hopes of adding to his 2005 title. Watch the conclusion to an entertaining last frame at the World Snooker Championship \"Mark is super-granite, unfortunately for me,\" Murphy said on BBC Two. \"I started well but he went into super-hard mode. He broke me last night with that three-frame lead which was a tough lead to give him in a match of this calibre. \"Life has been difficult for everybody over the last 12 months but I want to say a very deep and personal thank you for every one of you who has bought a ticket over the last 17 days. \"Sport is nothing without fans and we've been thrilled to have everyone back and a full house tonight. It's been very tough for me this year with the travel restrictions but you've brought me back.\" As well as the consolation of a runners-up cheque worth £200,000 and a £15,000 prize for the tournament's top break of 144 in his second-round clash with Yan Bingtao, Murphy can leave Sheffield with his head held high. Elaine Murphy had expressed her pride in her husband in a BBC interview earlier on Monday and those sentiments are likely to be shared by fans who were delighted by the raw emotion he showed at times as well as his attacking style. Was this the best shot of the World Championship? Sign up to My Sport to follow snooker news on the BBC app.\n• None This Time with Alan Partridge is back: Stream his second series on iPlayer now", "Boris Johnson campaigned alongside Mr Ross in the 2019 general election, visiting a distillery in Moray\n\nBoris Johnson should resign if he is found to have broken government rules over his flat renovations, the Scottish Conservative leader has said.\n\nDouglas Ross told the BBC that people expected the highest standards of those in the highest office of the land.\n\nBut the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, insisted the prime minister had followed the rules and the newspaper stories were \"gossip\".\n\nLabour said people needed to know who the prime minister was beholden to.\n\nMr Johnson has insisted he paid for a refurbishment of the Downing Street flat himself, but there are still questions over whether the costs were initially covered by party donors.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Electoral Commission - the watchdog overseeing political finances - announced an investigation into the Conservative Party's compliance with laws on political donations, having said there were \"reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence or offences may have occurred\".\n\nThe government's top civil servant Simon Case and the prime minister's newly appointed adviser on ministers' interests Lord Geidt are also looking into the issue.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr whether Mr Johnson should resign if he was found to have broken the ministerial code, Mr Ross said \"of course\".\n\nBut he added he would wait for the answers from the three separate investigations that are taking place.\n\nMr Ross has previously called on Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister and leader of the SNP, to step down after a majority of MSPs on a committee accused her of misleading their inquiry into the Scottish government's handling of sexual harassment complaints made against former First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab said he would not \"speculate\" on the three reviews into the work on the prime minister's flat\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr he would not \"speculate on what the outcome of the various different reviews are\".\n\n\"I think the right thing for me to do is respect the integrity of those reviews and let them run their course rather than commenting on what may or may not be found at the end of it,\" he added.\n\nHe added he trusted the Electoral Commission \"to look at these things in the right way\".\n\nMr Raab also told Sky's Sophy Ridge the prime minister would \"engage fully\" with inquiries into who initially paid for the Downing Street renovations.\n\nAnd he said he had \"no idea\" whether Conservative donors were asked to help pay for the prime minister's childcare costs.\n\nThe Sunday Times has reported that supporters of the party had been asked to foot the bill for a nanny for Mr Johnson's son.\n\nThe foreign secretary dismissed the report as \"tittle tattle\", telling Sky News: \"I can't comment on every little bit of gossip that's in the newspapers.\"\n\nResponding to the story, Downing Street said: \"The prime minister has covered the cost of all childcare.\"\n\nAlso appearing on Sky News, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"We need to know who the prime minister is beholden to, we need to know what he has promised in return.\"\n\n\"There's an arrogance at the heart of this that he seems to believe that we don't deserve to know the truth about what goes on in government.\"\n\nThe prime minister has also received criticism from the former Commons Speaker John Bercow.\n\nMr Bercow, who stepped down from the role in 2019, frequently clashed with the prime minister when he was Speaker of the House of Commons\n\nTalking to BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, Mr Bercow said of the flat row: \"First of all we don't know who paid the initial bill because the prime minister and his acolytes persisted with the refrain that he ended up picking up the bill.\n\n\"That is both true and irrelevant - we know that, we've heard it, we've got it... the point is who initially did so creating either the fact or the appearance of indebtedness and an obligation on the prime minister in the future.\"\n\nHe also accused the prime minister of demonstrating \"an insouciant, a flippant, a casual disregard for the accuracy of what he says\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster deputy leader Kirsten Oswald said Mr Johnson should publish his bank statements and all relevant documents relating to the flat renovations and donor-funded income and expenditure \"to ensure full transparency and assist inquiries and criminal investigations\".\n\nLorna Slater, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, has said she believes the UK political system is \"broken\" and politicians should be held accountable for their decisions in the midst of the pandemic and the climate crisis.\n\nScottish Lib Dem MP Christine Jardine said the prime minister was being \"rightly scrutinised\" but the SNP was not in a position to criticise, following the inquiry into the Scottish government's handling of complaints made against Alex Salmond.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Villagers decided to take matters into their own hands\n\nIn a small, leafy village midway between two cities, an internet revolution has been taking place.\n\nMichaelston-y-Fedw might be just 10 miles from Cardiff city centre and a short drive from Newport but it has always been a world away when it comes to its broadband access.\n\nIts low internet speed of 4Mbps meant it was a proper \"not spot\" where young people could not watch YouTube, the local pub struggled to take card payments and downloading a film was nearly impossible.\n\nSo fed up locals decided to take matters into their own hands and install their own ultrafast broadband.\n\nDave Schofield (second from left) and some of the other volunteers with the fibre optic cables they are laying\n\nThe local pub, village hall and church have just been connected and by autumn about 175 homes in the area will have upload and download speeds of 1Gbps - or 1,000 Mbps - some of the fastest internet speeds in the UK.\n\nWhen you drive along the lanes leading to the village, large banners proudly proclaim: \"Fastest Village in Wales.\"\n\nIt's a huge deal for its 300 residents.\n\nMeg Cope is studying journalism at university but says is unable to upload her work at home\n\nMeg Cope, 21, says her house has the slowest broadband in the village because it's at the end of the current copper line - and it's affecting her studies at Cardiff University.\n\n\"The internet is so important for my university work - I read a lot of articles and journals so I have to go into uni to download them and then come home to read them,\" she said.\n\n\"It makes me feel like I'm behind with my degree. Its's so frustrating.\n\n\"Just going online for social media, I have to use 3G and I end up using all my data and have to buy more.\"\n\nCaroline Hill and Ben Langman - with their puppy Alfie - have welcomed the new broadband\n\nBanners around the village proudly show its new status\n\nCaroline Hill and Ben Langman, who have been running the Cefn Mably Arms for the past 21 months, said the slow speeds had been hurting their business.\n\n\"It affected everything. As soon as someone came into the pub and their phone connected with the wi-fi, it would crash our debit card machine,\" said Ben.\n\n\"Trying to pay our 26 staff was difficult as it's all online banking these days. A few years ago you could do your ordering over the phone, now it's all online... It was so hard.\"\n\nBut that's all changed as the pub has just been connected to the new ultrafast Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband.\n\n\"Now you can come along and download the whole Star Wars trilogy in three minutes,\" laughed Ben.\n\nMichaelston-y-Fedw is surrounded by rolling fields and hills\n\nThey all have Dave Schofield to thank for dragging the village into the 21st Century.\n\nHe and a team of about 30 volunteers - all local villagers - decided that because nobody else was sorting out their problem, they would do it themselves.\n\nHe mentioned the idea at a village meeting, not thinking anybody would be enthusiastic, but he said everyone jumped on board.\n\nThey set up their own not for profit Community Interest Company and raised £150,000 by asking local people to buy shares in the project.\n\nThey then went about applying for every grant they could, including to the Welsh Government and Access Broadband Cymru, which offers vouchers to homes in areas that are not set to benefit from BT's Superfast Cymru project.\n\nSimilar schemes have been undertaken in England, but for Wales it was a first.\n\nFarmers and landowners readily gave permission for trenches to be dug to lay the fibre optic cables - that are thinner than a human hair - from a hub to people's homes and businesses.\n\nDigging started in the winter and volunteers hope to finish by the autumn\n\nAnd residents swotted up on the technology, pooled their skills and received training on how to lay the infrastructure.\n\nLocal contractors use machinery to dig across farmland to people's driveways. It's then up to each home owner to dig trenches to carry the fibres into their own homes, with others stepping in to help those who can't manage the work.\n\nIt has become a full time job for many of the volunteers.\n\n\"We started digging on 21 February this year when the ground was frozen solid,\" said Dave, 52, who's lived in the village for eight years.\n\n\"A few weeks later we were snowed in for three days and then we had torrential rain.\n\n\"So it's not been easy but we were all determined. And it's brought the whole community together.\"\n\nDavid Walford has been helping to dig the trenches\n\nDavid Walford, 21, stepped up to do the groundwork, digging trenches in the many fields that surround Michaelston-y-Fedw.\n\n\"I've got a drone and I take loads of videos but I've never been able to upload them. There'd be no hope of doing anything like that,\" he said.\n\n\"For the last three days I've been coming down to the village hall to finally upload all my videos to YouTube. It's amazing - you don't realise how painful it was before.\"\n\nFor many of the villagers, the project has not just been about improving internet access - it's also been about improving community relationships.\n\nJim and Carina Dunk have loved making new friends as they work on the project\n\nJim Dunk, 71, has had a home in the village for 41 years but because he was in the Merchant Navy, he travelled the world and used it only as a base.\n\n\"This is why the project meant so much to me,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the place I came back to - but apart from the village pub, I didn't know many other people. Now, I've met just about everybody as I'm one of the people who's put the routers into all the houses.\"\n\nHis wife Carina, who does the fibre splicing, added: \"In a very short space of time we've got to know a lot of people very well.\n\n\"Sometimes we're spending eight hours a day together. Before this, Jim was playing golf four times a week - now he's lucky if he gets there once. But he loves it.\"\n\nThe local church is also proud of its new internet speed\n\nThey still have much work to do. The popular Cefn Mably Farm Park will also be connected as part of the project - but first the team will have to get the wires across a river.\n\n\"We'll just use a directional drill to do it,\" added Dave - a phrase he no doubt didn't think he'd be using this time last year.\n\nThe people power behind the project has impressed many of the locals.\n\nSaskia Barnett can't wait to try her faster internet speeds at home\n\n\"They're all so clever doing it,\" said Saskia Barnett, 22, who has lived in the village all her life.\n\n\"It's such a great idea and will really make a difference for people living here.\n\n\"When you're a teenager growing up here it's really hard... My brother and I would have to time when we'd go online - when he was playing on his Xbox I wouldn't be able to watch Netflix on my laptop.\"\n\n\"Our house has just gone over to the new router. It's not up and running yet but it will be so much better. It will be so good.\"", "A British man who died in a crush at a Jewish festival in Israel was in the country to study, a family spokesman said.\n\nMoshe Bergman, from Manchester, was among 45 people killed after becoming trapped in a crowded alley on Friday.\n\nThe 24-year-old had been studying in Israel, where he lived with his wife.\n\nSpeaking on the family's behalf, Rabbi Arnold Saunders said they \"went through hell hearing rumours that he was dead, then alive, then dead\".\n\nMr Bergman had been married for about 18 months, he added.\n\nSome 150 people were also injured at the Lag B'Omer festival, near Mount Meron in northern Israel, when they became trapped in an overcrowded passageway.\n\n\"When we heard the general news [about the crush], it was bad enough because this is one of our most joyous days in our whole calendar and Meron is the focal point of it all,\" said Mr Saunders, who also represents Kersal on Salford City Council.\n\n\"The community is definitely shocked. They've rallied around the family tremendously and given them as much support as they can.\"\n\nMr Bergman's family, who live in Salford, are travelling to Israel.\n\nThe annual Lag B'Omer festival is usually marked with prayers and celebrations\n\nThe work of identifying the dead was paused for 24 hours on Friday evening to mark the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest. Funerals resumed after sunset on Saturday.\n\nThe families of those buried are beginning their week-long wakes, known in Jewish tradition as sitting shiva.\n\nNearly 100,000 mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews attended the event, which takes place at one of the holiest Jewish sites in Israel.\n\nThe Queen, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and British faith leaders sent condolences following the disaster.\n\nPrayers are also being said in synagogues for the bereaved and the injured.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV captured the moment a vandal took a chainsaw to the platform\n\nExtra security measures may be brought in to protect ospreys after their nest site was cut down with a chainsaw.\n\nConservationists replaced a platform destroyed on Friday at Llyn Brenig, which borders Conwy and Denbighshire.\n\nAn existing platform was opened to the birds on Saturday but the original platform has now been replaced.\n\nStaff at Brenig Osprey Project say they will establish what security measures can be put in place if the birds decide to use one of the platforms.\n\nThere are five pairs of ospreys in Wales and the birds and their eggs are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act which makes it an offence to interfere with them or their nest.\n\nCCTV cameras recorded the moment the platform was deliberately cut down.\n\nIt has been branded a \"disgusting act\" by Rob Taylor, rural crime team manager for North Wales Police.\n\nAn egg had been laid in the nest a day before the platform was destroyed\n\nThe female had laid an egg a day before the nest was destroyed so a decoy egg was put on a second nesting platform which was reopened by conservationists on Saturday.\n\nThe project team, which is a partnership with site owners Welsh Water and North Wales Wildlife Trust, said Sunday was spent constructing a further platform.\n\nIt has since been erected at the site of the original nest in the reservoir.\n\n\"The aim is to give the birds a choice of two nest sites, including something as close as possible to their original,\" they said in a Facebook update.\n\n\"Once it becomes clear which, if either, nest site the birds choose, we will establish what security measures can be put in place to protect them.\"\n\nAccording to the RSPB, female osprey lay two or three eggs between one and three daily intervals in the second half of April, and incubates them for 37 days per egg.\n\nOn Sunday, BBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams said people would be \"delighted\" if the birds were still able to breed this season, \"although that doesn't take away from this idiotic act of vandalism\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 17-year-old impressed judges with his tour-de-force performance of Prism Rhapsody\n\nTeenage percussionist Fang Zhang has been named BBC Young Musician of 2020.\n\nThe 17-year-old took the title with a virtuoso performance of Keiko Abe's marimba concerto Prism Rhapsody, which required him to play with six mallets simultaneously.\n\nHis playing \"elicited a kaleidoscope of colours and expression\" that \"deeply moved the jury\", said Angela Dixon, who chaired the judging panel.\n\nZhang's victory came a year late, after the 2020 contest was delayed by Covid.\n\nThe Chinese-born musician said he was \"honoured and delighted\" to take the title, adding he felt \"so lucky considering the talent of the other finalists\".\n\nPrevious Young Musician winners include celebrated classical musicians such as cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and violinist Nicola Benedetti.\n\nThe delayed 2020 final was held under Covid-safe conditions at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.\n\nEach of the three finalists played a full concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductor Mark Wigglesworth.\n\nZhang's competition came from 18-year-old French horn player Annemarie Federle and 19-year old oboist Ewan Millar.\n\nWigglesworth said he was impressed by all three contestants, who had \"shown a tremendous passion and determination to maintain their commitment to the competition across a year of uncertain silence\".\n\n\"They play with humility and respect but daring and personality too, encouraging all who hear them to look forward to more positive times ahead,\" he added.\n\nZhang was born in China's Henan province and has recently been studying at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester.\n\nHe has been performing around the world since he was 11 and is a member of the China Youth Percussion Orchestra.\n\nAs well as the marimba, he plays snare drum timpani and vibraphone, and has won competitions including the China Youth Percussion Competition, the New York International Percussion Competition and the Tokyo International Percussion Competition.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has indicated there will be some \"opening up\" of foreign travel on 17 May - but said it was important to be cautious.\n\nMore details are expected this week to confirm when and how international travel will restart in England.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, the PM said \"we'll be saying more as soon as we can\" but \"we have got to be very, very tough\".\n\nHe also said there was a \"good chance\" of the one-metre plus social distancing rule being scrapped on 21 June.\n\nHe stressed any decision on changing the rules was dependent on the data.\n\nOn Monday, Public Health England reported 1,649 new cases alongside a single death within 28 days of a positive test across the UK.\n\nThe recorded number of daily deaths is often lower at weekends and on bank holidays due to delays in reporting.\n\nFifty million doses of coronavirus vaccine had now been administered across the UK, Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed.\n\nMr Johnson was speaking after a group of MPs called on the government to keep travel rules in place beyond mid-May.\n\nThe all-party parliamentary group on coronavirus said arrival halls in airports risked becoming a \"breeding ground\" for the virus.\n\nThe group of more than 60 MPs and peers said the government should discourage people from travelling abroad unless it was essential.\n\nForeign holidays are currently banned, but a traffic light system of rules is going to be introduced with countries classed as green, amber or red.\n\nTravellers to green countries will not need to isolate on their return, but they will need to take a Covid test.\n\nArrivals from amber countries will need to quarantine, while red-list countries have the strictest rules, with only UK or Irish nationals allowed to return and they must pay to stay in a government quarantine hotel.\n\nFurther details are expected this week, after the government said it will \"set out by early May\" how countries will be categorised.\n\nMr Johnson was asked about holidays during a visit to Hartlepool, Teesside, and said experts were currently assessing which countries were safe.\n\n\"But I do think that it's important to be cautious in this,\" he said.\n\n\"We do want to do some opening up on 17 May but I don't think the people of this country want to see an influx of disease from anywhere else.\n\n\"I certainly don't and we have got to be very, very tough and have got to be as cautious as we can whilst we continue to open up.\"\n\nAsked whether people should be planning their summer holidays, Mr Johnson said: \"We'll be saying more as soon as we can.\n\n\"I think that there will be some openings up on the 17th but we have got to be cautious, we have got to be sensible, we have got to make sure we don't see the virus coming back in.\"\n\nHe added that \"we have got a good chance of being able to dispense with the one-metre plus from 21 June\" - but it was dependant on the data.\n\nMany in the travel industry are hopeful for holidays this summer, while countries such as Spain, France, Greece, Portugal and Cyprus are preparing to open to tourists.\n\nThe European Commission has also recommended opening up to travellers who have received both doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe boss of Thomas Cook earlier told the BBC he expected many popular destinations, particularly in Europe, to be open to UK holidaymakers this summer as they were making \"great progress\".\n\n\"When the holidays proper start at the end of June, we are expecting most of the countries that the UK goes on holiday to - Europe particularly - to be open,\" said Alan French.\n\n\"We are expecting Portugal, Spain, Greece, Croatia and so forth to be open; it would be nice if Turkey was open.\"\n\nMr French also said his company had noticed many people were booking holidays as larger groups since they had not seen their families and friends in such a long time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. EU plans for a 'vaccine passport' to allow travel\n\nThe first ministers of Scotland and Wales have previously argued that 17 May would be too early for foreign holidays to resume, and no date has yet been set for rules to be relaxed. Northern Ireland's executive has not said anything about when it expects to make an announcement.\n\nBut a representative from the travel industry in Scotland has said any plan needs to be agreed between the four nations.\n\n\"There's no way it's going to work [with] Scotland operating a different system to England when you can freely travel across the border and fly out of an English airport - and that's exactly what will happen,\" said Alan Glen, from the Scottish Passenger Agents Association.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he will \"wait and see\" what the government announces, but said: \"We need to be very careful.\"\n\n\"What we can't have is a repeat of last summer, where the lists were chopping and changing on a daily or even weekly basis,\" he said.\n\nAccording to the all-party group of MPs who want the government to slow down with the reopening of foreign travel, airports should be made safer to make sure arrival halls have enough space for social distancing and to separate travellers coming from higher-risk countries.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, who chairs the group of MPs , said \"the model we have right now has too many holes [and] is too risky\".\n\n\"It is staggering that the government is even contemplating encouraging overseas holidays when airports are already struggling to keep the virus and new variants at bay,\" she said.\n\nThe group also wants stricter checks on Covid test certificates, after the trade union representing border staff said officials spot around 100 fake Covid test certificates a day.\n\nThis 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\nA government spokesperson said the traffic light system would allow the UK to manage the risk from different countries.\n\n\"We introduced robust border controls to stop coronavirus variants in their tracks and every essential check we've introduced for arrivals has strengthened our defences against new mutations.\"\n\nThe next stage of England's lockdown easing is expected in a fortnight, on 17 May. As well as the possibility of international travel, people will be able to meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors, while six people or two households can meet indoors.", "The G7 group of nations is to agree a new target of sending 40 million more girls from low and middle income countries to school within five years.\n\nForeign ministers will use a London summit to commit to helping women in developing countries with a $15bn (£10.8bn) two-year package of support.\n\nAt their first in-person meeting for two years, they will also agree to help 20 million more girls read by age 10.\n\nHe added that the new targets would help ensure 12 years of continuous education for young women and transform \"the fortunes not just of individuals, but whole communities and nations\".\n\nCharities have welcomed the pledge - but said it was at odds with the UK's decision to cut its overseas aid spending.\n\nThe UK government announced last year it would cut UK aid spending from 0.7% of national income to 0.5% - a reduction of more than £4bn. It has yet to confirm which programmes will be affected.\n\n\"We know the reality of these aid cuts,\" said Gwen Hines from Save the Children. \"Life-changing, life-saving support [is] being pulled from families in the middle of a pandemic from schooling, medicine and food.\n\n\"I just don't see how that is global leadership at a time when the UK is hosting the G7 summit.\"\n\nThe UK holds the rotating presidency of the G7 group, which also includes the US, France, Germany, Canada, Japan and Italy, and will host a summit of leaders in Cornwall next month.\n\nMr Raab will meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken later to discuss trade, Iran and China, as part of a three-day meeting of G7 foreign ministers in London.\n\nThe collective agreement on girls' education, which will be formally signed on Wednesday and also includes the EU, aims to put \"gender equality at the heart of global co-operation to build back better\" from Covid, the government said.\n\nWomen make up more than two-thirds of the world's 796 million illiterate people, according to the United Nations.\n\nThe UN said 39% of girls in rural areas attend secondary school worldwide - fewer than rural boys (45%), urban girls (59%) and urban boys (60%).\n\nIt was estimated that, before the pandemic worsened education outcomes, 90% of children in low income countries were unable to read a simple text by age 10.\n\nAs part of the funding, there will be renewed support for women-led businesses, and for products or services that particularly benefit women and support their empowerment.\n\nThe government said the G7 nations would also \"recommit to collective action to defend and protect sexual and reproductive health and rights for all\" and \"scale up gender-based violence prevention and elimination\".\n\nThe G7 announcement comes amid criticism over the UK's cut to aid spending. The Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) has been accused of going back on a promise to continue funding for UN family planning projects aimed at helping women and girls.\n\nThe UN Population Fund - which helps provide contraceptives and maternal health care for millions of women - said the UK pledged £154m for its projects, but then said it would instead receive about £23m.\n\nIt has also been criticised for the timing of a planned cut in bilateral funding for clean water and sanitation projects.\n\nAnnette Zera, who works for an education charity helping girls working as domestic servants in Bangladesh, said the aid authorities \"have just let us down\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that their project \"is going to have to stop\" because it will no longer receive the grant it expected.\n\nForeign Office minister James Cleverly said \"there will always be, sadly, individual projects we are not able to support\".\n\n\"We are experiencing a once in a 300-year - the worst in 300 years - economic contraction as a direct result of coronavirus,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme as he defended the cuts. \"We have to make the decisions in keeping with those economic circumstances.\"\n\nHe said the UK remained one of the world's leading aid donors and that the reduction in aid spending to 0.5% of national income would be \"temporary\".", "Bars and restaurants are struggling to recruit enough staff and some may not be able to fully reopen in May, after thousands of workers left the sector.\n\nVenue owners say they are expecting huge demand from customers, but staff shortages may mean they have to limit opening hours.\n\nFigures suggest more than one in ten UK hospitality workers left the industry in the last year.\n\nRecruitment site Caterer.com said the pandemic and Brexit were to blame.\n\nSome have managed to find alternative employment, but a high proportion may have left the UK altogether, the recruiter said.\n\nSo, although many hospitality workers were laid off during the last 12 months, restaurateurs are now finding it hard to fill places.\n\nCelebrity chef Michael Caines is one of those finding recruitment difficult.\n\nHe operates two restaurants on the Cornish coast and a hotel in Exmouth. A beach bar and restaurant in Exmouth is also due to open.\n\nHe is currently trying to hire 20 new staff members across the group.\n\n\"Without question, recruitment is a challenge,\" he said.\n\n\"All of the businesses are extremely busy. For the next three, four months our hotel is completely booked up, so we're desperately trying to recruit enough staff.\"\n\nMr Caines said Brexit and the pandemic have led European workers to leave and not return, but he said another problem is the number of workers still on furlough.\n\nWhile they are waiting to return to work they are less willing to switch employers.\n\n\"A lot of people feel very concerned about leaving a job where they qualify for furlough to take the new job where they wouldn't qualify for furlough if there was another lockdown,\" he explained.\n\n\"So there's a bit of nervousness from an employee's point of view.\"\n\nMr Caines is hoping roles will be more easily filled when students break up from college and university and start looking for summer work.\n\nRestaurants and bars have been allowed to serve food and drink outdoors since 12 April, while indoor dining is expected to restart from 17 May. And many UK hospitality venues are hoping pent-up demand and a more UK-focused holiday season to translate into a bumper summer.\n\nAs a result, recruitment was a \"growing issue\", said UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls. It was more acute in some areas, such as London, than others, she added, and could mean some venues struggle to reopen.\n\nThe trade association said chef vacancies are among the most difficult to fill. But restaurant owners have reported staff shortages across all types of roles.\n\nSpecialist recruiter, Caterer.com, said the number of vacancies on its website had grown by more than 85% in the last few weeks, with 22,000 roles now being advertised.\n\nBut it pointed to figures from the Office for National Statistics suggesting 355,000 fewer people were employed in hospitality than a year ago. Pre-pandemic around 3.2 million were employed in the sector including bars, restaurants and hotels.\n\n\"Many restaurants, pubs and bars have experienced a sudden surge in business due to built-up customer demand and an increase in consumer confidence which is great news for the hospitality industry,\" said Caterer.com director Neil Pattison.\n\n\"However, the impact of the pandemic, combined with Brexit has the potential to create a significant recruitment challenge for the sector and we are likely to see the skills shortage it once faced starting to return.\"\n\nColum Maher left hospitality and now works in customer services\n\nOne person who turned his back on a full-time job in hospitality after work dried up due to Covid, is 42-year-old father-of-one Colum Maher.\n\nHe has 20 years of experience working in bars and restaurants, but last December he took up a full-time job in customer services with Sky.\n\nHe now says something very special would have to come along for him to go back into hospitality full-time.\n\n\"I've had 15 to 20 jobs in the hospitality sector over the years, from bartender to bar manager to chef, so it's an industry I love and know inside out.\n\n\"However, I found myself with no work during the pandemic and I needed to find some job security. Now I'm able to work every week, Monday to Friday, so I have no plans to change that now.\"\n\nBut he hasn't turned his back on the industry completely - he's registered with a speciality hospitality recruitment website Coople, to look for weekend work.\n\n\"I personally think it's going to take the hospitality industry three to four years to get back on its feet,\" he says.\n\n\"I'm at a stage of life when I cannot afford to wait for opportunities to start appearing again - I don't think a lot of pubs will even reopen.\n\n\"However, if this doesn't work out, then I know I have something I can hopefully fall back on.\"\n\nBefore Brexit a lot of the UK's hospitality workforce was made up of workers from overseas, including from the EU, but hundreds of thousands of foreign workers have left the UK over the last year and it is unclear whether they will return.\n\nLuke Garmsworthy says his restaurants will struggle to open up properly in May if he can't recruit more staff\n\nLuke Garnsworthy, who owns Crockers Henley, a hotel and fine dining restaurant in Oxfordshire, and Crockers Tring in Hertfordshire, said he is struggling to recruit enough staff for when his restaurants open fully next month.\n\nAs well as chefs, he is hoping to hire front-of-house staff and waiters.\n\n\"I've put adverts out and I thought I was putting the net out into a sea full of fish but it's not been like that at all.\"\n\nMr Garnsworthy would like to employ between 45 and 50 staff at his Henley venue where the headcount is currently only at 12.\n\nHe said senior team members will step in to fill roles where necessary, but the restaurant was only likely to be able to open five days a week instead of seven.\n\nRecruitment in hospitality has always been a challenge, even before the pandemic, but is \"definitely worse now\", according to Mr Garnsworthy.\n\n\"We are perceived as unskilled, so the country looks down their nose… and young people are not interested.\"\n\nHe wants them to know that although it is hard work \"the days of Gordon Ramsey shouting\" are over at least.\n\nRestaurant owner and Masterchef The Professionals finalist Sven-Hanson Britt also operates several venues.\n\nHe said staff turnover in hospitality is normally high, but he too said furloughed staff are sticking with their existing employer.\n\n\"There's not that ebb and flow with talent because people are staying put.\n\n\"It's very difficult at the moment and finding anyone for senior positions is hard.\"\n\nMr Britt is hoping to recruit pastry chefs, chocolatiers and a sommelier.\n\n\"We can't seem to find anyone in that arena,\" he added.\n\nThe business took on a number of staff in October but application rates this time around are far lower.\n\n\"Some businesses closed or went bust and people felt let down by their employer or the industry as a whole,\" he said.\n\n\"I know a lot of people who have moved on to something different.\"", "The UK and Iran are in discussions over a £400m debt that the UK owes, foreign office minister James Cleverly has said - but the talks are not linked to the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nThe UK owes the money for failing to deliver tanks Iran bought in the 1970s.\n\nBritish-Iranian national Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is in jail in Iran, believes she has been imprisoned as leverage for the debt.\n\n\"There are two entirely separate issues,\" the prime minister said.\n\nSpeaking to reporters during a visit to Hartlepool, Boris Johnson said ministers were doing \"everything we can to look after the interests of Nazanin and all the very difficult dual national cases we have in Tehran\".\n\nThe case of Mrs Zaghari Ratcliffe made headlines again in recent weeks after she was sentenced to another year in prison, just weeks after she reached the end of a five-year sentence. She was first jailed in Tehran in 2016 on spying charges, which she has always denied.\n\nHer husband, Richard, maintains she is being used as a bargaining chip in the dispute over the unpaid debt, as well as leverage in talks over the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.\n\nOn Sunday, Iranian state TV suggested the UK had paid the £400m debt - but the UK government said nothing had changed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, Foreign Office minister Mr Cleverly said: \"The situation with regards to the... military contract from the 1970s which has dragged on for decades, those negotiations are ongoing. They have been for a long while, sadly, but they are ongoing.\"\n\nAsked if the talks were getting anywhere, Mr Cleverly said: \"There's a legal process tied up with this as well. Iran most recently stepped away from that legal process which has of course delayed things.\n\n\"We are looking at ways of resolving what has been a multi-decade long problem.\n\n\"The reports that we had over the weekend linking that work with the incarceration and the arbitrary detention of British dual nationals I think was completely inappropriate - they are separate issues, one massively predates the other.\"\n\nHe said the imprisonment of dual nationals in Iran \"should be unlinked to the multi-decade long dispute with regard to the tanks\".\n\nThe decades-old debt and the imprisonment of British-Iranian nationals may be \"separate issues\" to the UK government. However, they are not in the eyes of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has been involved in the detention of both Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, a 67-year-old retired engineer now serving a 10-year sentence in Evin jail - where he has twice attempted suicide. Both of them have been told directly that their cases are connected to the military debt.\n\nWe don't know exactly what's happening behind the scenes to resolve the debt. British officials have said sanctions on Iran are an obstacle to repayment, but negotiations have been taking place in Vienna which would involve lifting US sanctions in return for Iran complying with the nuclear deal it signed in 2015.\n\nAs the nuclear deal came into force back in early 2016, the US paid back its own historic military debt and in return saw the release of four Americans detained in Tehran. Richard Ratcliffe believes Iran is now trying to engineer a \"grand bargain\" - involving frozen assets, Iranian prisoners and jailed dual nationals from several countries.\n\nAnd this is against the backdrop of Iran's complex internal politics and elections in June pitting hardliners against moderates.\n\nIt's all extraordinarily complicated and, for the innocent families caught up in it, exceedingly fraught.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe: \"I think it was worse than I was expecting\"\n\nMeanwhile, Tulip Siddiq - who is the MP representing 42-year-old Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from West Hampstead in London - tweeted: \"People seem to be being fed a false narrative that the £400m in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case is a ransom. It is not. It is a historic debt that the courts (and the government) have confirmed the UK owes Iran.\"\n\nThe UK government has repeatedly condemned Iran's treatment of her - and on Sunday Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab used its strongest language to date when he said it \"amounts to torture\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr show, Mr Raab said Tehran was using her in \"a cat-and-mouse game\" for diplomatic leverage.\n\n\"Nazanin is held unlawfully, in my view, as a matter of international law. I think she's being treated in the most abusive, tortuous way,\" he said.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe - who has not seen his wife since 2016 - said the family had not been updated but welcomed the reports on Iranian state TV over the long-running dispute as \"a good sign\".\n\n\"My instinct is that it is actually a sign we are in the middle of negotiations rather than at the end of them,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But we will keep our fingers crossed - for ourselves, and all the other families caught up in this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Police said officers were \"met with hostility\" during protests at Old Trafford\n\nA police officer was dragged and kicked and another suffered a fractured eye socket in clashes with protesters outside Manchester United's ground.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said officers were \"met with hostility\" at Old Trafford and the Lowry Hotel in Salford before the team's match with Liverpool on Sunday.\n\nThe game was later postponed after about 200 fans entered the ground.\n\nA 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the protests.\n\nFans had gathered outside the ground and the hotel, where the team was staying before the game, to protest against the Glazer family's ownership of the club.\n\nAsked about the protest while on a visit to Hartlepool, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he understood \"people's strength of feeling\" on football and club ownership, but he did not think it was \"a good idea to have disruptive behaviour, demonstrations of that kind\".\n\nSports minister Nigel Huddleston said in a tweet that while passions were \"running high in football\", there were \"ways to protest and make your voice heard without hurting or endangering others\".\n\nOfficers were sent to deal with a protest at Salford's Lowry Hotel, close to Manchester city centre\n\nGMP said six officers were injured in the \"violent disorder\", in which flares \"were let off and bottles and barriers were thrown at police officers and horses\".\n\nA spokesman said as the situation escalated, additional officers had to be deployed and officers \"had to be drawn in from neighbouring forces to assist\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the behaviour \"shown at this protest was absolutely atrocious\".\n\nHe said his officers had been \"trying to do their job and facilitate a peaceful protest\", but a section of those present \"became hostile and aggressive... and forced entry to the football grounds, making it very clear that this protest was not peaceful and ruining it for the majority of protesters\".\n\n\"Our officers tried to engage with protesters, but were met with violence and aggression which resulted in enforcement action being taken,\" he said, adding that enforcement was \"a last resort, but in these circumstances it was deemed necessary\".\n\nA force spokesman said \"bottles and barriers were thrown at police officers and horses\"\n\nMr Bailey said the force was \"reviewing all obtainable evidence and following all lines of enquiry available to us in order to identify the organisers of this protest, as well as those responsible for the officer assaults\".\n\n\"If anyone has any information at all in regards to this... please do get in touch with police as soon as possible,\" he added.\n\nEarlier, the Manchester United Supporters' Trust released a statement, urging the club's co-chairman Joel Glazer to engage with fans to avoid a repeat of the protest.\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.", "Gusts of up to 65mph (105km/h) had been forecast for coastal areas\n\nHomes were left without power and travel was disrupted as winds of up to 75mph (120km/h) hit Wales.\n\nFlooding closed some roads while strong winds shut the M48 Severn Bridge and meant restrictions on the A55's Britannia Bridge.\n\nMore than 250 homes are still without power across mid, west and south Wales, according to Western Power.\n\nA yellow Met Office wind warning was in force until 09:00 BST on Tuesday for south, west, mid and north-west Wales.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by HGC Uned Plismona'r Ffyrdd/NWP Roads Policing Unit This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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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\nIn Connah's Quay, the A548 Flintshire Bridge is closed in both directions due to strong winds.\n\nTraffic Wales reported flooding on Tuesday morning on the A470 northbound near the Taffs Well interchange.\n\nThe A4118 Gower Road, near Sketty in Swansea, which was previously closed due to an 80ft tree \"at serious risk of collapsing on to the road\", has now reopened in both directions.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said a large tree blocking the road on the A489 in Sarn had closed the road and would remain in place for \"some time\".\n\nA wind weather warning covers 17 of Wales' 22 council areas, and much of southern England\n\nA fallen tree has also closed the B4500 road between Chirk and Pont Faen Bridge near Wrexham, North Wales Police said in a tweet.\n\nTrain services were disrupted on the Cowny Valley Line between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Llandudno because of flooding, with rail replacement services put in place.\n\nPeople brave the wind and rain for a stroll down the front at south Wales seaside resort Porthcawl\n\nTrains were also delayed on routes from Cardiff to Pontypridd, Swansea to Shrewsbury, Barry to Bridgend and Pontypridd to Treherbert.\n\nProperties across Wales suffered power cuts on Monday as Western Power Distribution reported loss of power to homes in Llandrindod Wells and Brecon in Powys, Trelewis in Merthyr Tydfil, Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire and Pontcanna in Cardiff.\n\nSP Energy Networks, meanwhile, reported disruption to some electricity supplies in north Wales at Colwyn Bay, Holyhead, Llanfairfechan, Pwllheli and Beaumaris on Anglesey.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Munich celebrated after last year's Oktobefest was cancelled\n\nAuthorities in Germany have cancelled the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich over coronavirus concerns.\n\nThis is the second year in a row that the event has been called off due to the pandemic.\n\n\"The situation is too uncertain,\" Bavaria's Premier Markus Söder said on Monday.\n\nAround six million people would normally attend the annual festival, which takes place in September and October.\n\n\"It wasn't an easy decision,\" Munich's Mayor Dieter Reiter told a joint news conference on Monday.\n\nBavarian Premier Söder, meanwhile, said that measures such as face masks and social distancing \"would not be feasible\" in the festival's traditional beer tents.\n\nMr Söder added that cancelling the event at a later date would have caused \"economic loss\".\n\n\"Imagine there was a new wave and it then became a super-spreader event. The brand would be damaged forever and we don't want that,\" he said.\n\nWhile Munich's official events were cancelled last year, many locals attended the city's breweries in traditional clothes.\n\nSix million people usually attend the annual event\n\nThis year marks the 26th time the festival has been cancelled in more than 200 years.\n\nAccording to its official website, Oktoberfest was first called off in 1813 - just four years after it began - due to fighting with Napoleon. Since then, it has been halted by wars, inflation and cholera.\n\nLast month, Germany introduced a controversial new lockdown law in response to a third wave of infections.\n\nThe rules, which allow the federal government to impose an overnight curfew and shut schools wherever infection rates rise too high, have already been put in place in a number of cities.\n\nGermany has reported around 3.4 million cases and more than 83,000 deaths since the pandemic began.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney was booed by delegates at a GOP conference in Utah\n\nUS Senator Mitt Romney has been booed by Republicans at a convention in Utah.\n\nThe Utah senator and former presidential candidate was the only Republican to vote twice to impeach ex-President Donald Trump.\n\nAs Mr Romney took the stage at a state party convention in West Valley City, delegates shouted that he was a \"communist\" and a \"traitor\".\n\nAmid the jeering, he asked the crowd: \"So what do you think about President Biden's first hundred days?\"\n\nMr Romney added that he was \"a person who says what he thinks, and I don't hide the fact that I wasn't a fan of our last president's character issues\".\n\nHe started to say \"and I'm also no fan...\", but then had to stop speaking again because of the volume of the booing.\n\nAfter a pause, the senator asked the crowd of 2,100 delegates: \"Aren't you embarrassed?\"\n\nState party chair Derek Brown then stepped in and pleaded with everyone to \"please... show respect\".\n\nDespite this show of disapproval, a motion to censure Mr Romney for his votes to impeach Mr Trump failed narrowly. Mr Romney urged people to \"come together in strength and unity\" before leaving the stage.\n\nA moderate Republican, Mr Romney is not facing re-election to the Senate in 2022.\n\nThis incident is seen as an example of how, despite his election loss last year, Mr Trump continues to be popular within the party.\n\nA CNN poll released this week suggested 70% of Republicans still believe Mr Trump's allegations that President Joe Biden did not legitimately win the election - despite the claims being repeatedly proven to be false.\n\nMr Trump is the only president in US history to have been impeached twice.\n\nThe first time, in December 2019, was for asking Ukraine for dirt on his political opponents.\n\nThe second was for inciting a deadly storming of the Capitol on 6 January this year, after repeating his claim of electoral fraud. Before the riot, he told a crowd of supporters to \"fight like hell\".\n\nHe was acquitted at both impeachment trials.", "Delhi hospitals are struggling to cope with huge numbers of Covid patients\n\nThe authorities in the Indian capital Delhi have called for help from the army as the city grapples with a brutal second wave of Covid-19 cases.\n\nHospitals in the city are in crisis, with intensive care beds full and an acute shortage of medical oxygen.\n\nDelhi's government wants the army to run Covid care facilities and intensive care units.\n\nAcross India, case numbers since the start of the outbreak are closing in on 20 million.\n\nThe country has seen more than 300,000 new cases a day for nearly two weeks straight while deaths stand at 220,000.\n\nExperts say total Covid cases and deaths in India are likely to be much higher, citing lack of testing and patients dying at home without being seen by doctors.\n\nDelhi, which this weekend reported record daily deaths at more than 400, wants the army to run medical care with oxygen facilities for around 10,000 patients, and a further 1,000 intensive care units.\n\nDeputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that with healthcare \"overwhelmed... it will be a timely help to the people of Delhi if the Ministry of Defence, with the considerable resources at its command, is tasked with the responsibility to provide and man the additional Covid health facilities\".\n\nHe also asked for \"urgent\" help transporting much-needed oxygen.\n\nIndia has already ordered its army to send its oxygen from army reserves to hospital while retired military medical personnel have been called up to help.\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 like others is facing oxygen shortages\n\nDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has repeatedly said that the city is not getting enough oxygen from the federal government, which allocates oxygen quotas to states.\n\nBut federal officials deny there are shortages, saying the challenge has come from transportation.\n\nIndia produces thousands of tonnes of oxygen a day, but some experts say the supply crunch comes from a lack of investment in distribution networks.\n\nDelhi hospitals have resorted to sending SOS messages on social media to secure supplies. For residents, hours spent in queues to top up portable canisters have become part of daily life.\n\n\"It's a battle we are fighting every day,\" said Dr Gautam Singh, who runs the Shri Ram Singh hospital.\n\n\"Half of my hospital staff are on the road with cylinders to get them filled every day, going from one place to another.\"\n\nThere are severe strains outside of the capital too. In the southern state of Karnataka, 24 people died in one hospital, but the government there has denied reports that all of them died due to a shortage of oxygen.\n\nIndia's Covid crisis has been compounded by a sluggish vaccination campaign.\n\nDespite being the world's biggest producer of vaccines, there is a shortage of supplies. Since January, just over 10% of India's 1.4 billion people have had one dose and only about 2% two doses.\n\nMuch of India's population is still awaiting a vaccine\n\nThe chief executive of India's Serum Institute, the world's biggest vaccine manufacturer, has warned shortages will last for months.\n\nAdar Poonawalla told the Financial Times the institute had been unfairly maligned over the lack of supplies.\n\nHe had not boosted capacity earlier, he said, because \"there were no orders, we did not think we needed to make more than 1bn doses a year\".", "John Williams struggled to prove a local connection to Swansea, despite it being his hometown\n\nA man has called for all those who are homeless in Wales to receive speedy help even if they do not fit into a priority group.\n\nJohn Williams, 52, became homeless in Weston-super-Mare, where he had been volunteering to help homeless people.\n\nIt prompted him to return home to Swansea, where he thought he would be helped.\n\nBut it took months to prove his \"local connection\" - a condition on getting help if you are homeless in the city.\n\nAs part of a series looking at the issues people in Wales would like to see tackled by politicians after the Senedd election, BBC News spoke to Mr Williams about the campaign.\n\n\"My mum lived here in a nursing home, she's lived here all her life, but it still took months and all that time I was living in shelters,\" Mr Williams said.\n\n\"It was hard, I didn't know what to do, I was expecting to come back to where I was born, where my mum lives, and be put on the council list.\n\nSIGN UP FOR WALES ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\n\"I didn't know which way to turn, it gave me a feeling of not belonging, like I was coming back as a newcomer and starting again.\"\n\nMr Williams was then placed in a homeless hostel, before he finally had his connection confirmed with the help of charities and moved into a one-bed flat just before lockdown.\n\nHe is now working as a Big Issue seller.\n\nMr Williams said while he was supporting homeless people, he saw many struggle with the same \"local connection\" rule.\n\n\"You just could not win,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams is now supporting a campaign with the charity Crisis to pull people out of a \"cycle of homelessness\".\n\nThey want to see barriers removed so everyone can access support without having to meet sets of demands first.\n\nThe charity says since 2015 one in eight people in Wales (9,261) who went to their local council for help to end their homelessness were unable to access further support, adding that the average age of death for people experiencing homelessness is 46 for men, and 43 for women.\n\nThe Housing (Wales) Act 2014 placed a legal duty on councils to prevent homelessness from happening in the first place and to help people out of it when it does and Crisis says the legislation has made a huge difference.\n\nTents used by homeless people were a common sight in Cardiff before the pandemic\n\nBut when efforts fail, it says, homelessness can be prolonged because a person must meet certain criteria before they are given support.\n\nPeople who fall into the priority category for help include those with dependants, a connection to a local area and whether they can prove they have not become homeless intentionally.\n\nBut there is renewed hope as a result of the emergency response to the pandemic that ending homelessness is possible across Wales, Crisis says, due to a Welsh Government directive which saw more than 7,000 rough sleepers provided with temporary accommodation and support.\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\nCampaigners want this to be built on further, leading to a law change to remove barriers so anyone facing homelessness in Wales can access support.\n\nBBC Wales asked each political party whether they support the campaign, and what they would do to tackle homelessness if elected.\n\nWelsh Labour said it had a \"proud track record\" of tackling homelessness and has housed more than 7,000 people into temporary accommodation during the pandemic and made additional funding available to local authorities.\n\nIt has promised to build 20,000 low-carbon homes for social rent and introduce a scheme restricting rent for anyone at risk of homelessness.\n\nA Plaid Cymru spokesperson said the party would change the law to ensure everyone in Wales who needs housing and homeless services can access it, abolishing the priority need system and delivering 50,000 social and affordable homes.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives said they would introduce a \"housing first\" model and commit to tackling rough sleeping in Wales by 2026 by appointing a Homelessness Commissioner, as well as bringing 150 empty social housing properties back into use for people at risk of homelessness.\n\nPropel said it would being in a new law to end \"injustices\" in Welsh housing, \"meaning a person will simply be housed, no ifs, no buts\", including compulsory targets for local authorities to bring empty properties back into use.\n\nReform UK said it supported the campaign, and would make it a statutory duty for councils to put a roof over everyone's head every night of the year.\n\nUKIP said it would reduce demand and pressure on housing stock by implementing \"firm and fair\" immigration controls\", and has pledged to end homelessness amongst veterans in the next Senedd term.\n\nThe Green Party said it wants to ring-fence funding for councils to provide shelter to every rough sleeper who wants it, and they should be given more guidance and power to control local rents.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats and Abolish the Welsh Assembly did not respond.\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 Labour MP has apologised \"unreservedly for any error he made\" by asking a constituent for prescription-only anxiety drugs.\n\nByron Long claimed to the Mail on Sunday he gave his MP Stephen Doughty up to 140 diazepam pills during up to 20 meetings at a Cardiff coffee shop.\n\nBut he said the MP did ask his \"friend\" Mr Long for \"a few spare diazepam\" once in 2019, to take ahead of a flight.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"To the best of his recollection, at the time he was panicking, had been unable to get to a GP for an appointment, and as a friend who he regularly shared confidential personal mental health worries and anxieties with, asked Byron if he had a few spare diazepam, which he had previously been prescribed for such circumstances, and taken without any issues.\n\n\"Stephen apologises unreservedly for any error he made in making this request, which was to a friend who he had shared many highly personal, trusted and mutually supportive conversations with about mental health over many years.\n\n\"In the event Stephen subsequently cancelled his trip - and did not need medication.\"\n\nPossession of diazepam, which is a Class C drug without a prescription, carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison.\n\nIt is available on prescription only and is used to treat anxiety, muscle spasms and fits.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday printed what it said was an exchange of messages between Mr Long and Mr Doughty, who is MP for Cardiff South and Penarth and Labour's shadow foreign affairs and international development minister.\n\nIn the alleged exchange, Mr Doughty invited Mr Long to his home to meet his new cat, adding: \"PS do you have any spare diazepam by any chance? I haven't been able to get to GP and need some for flying next week! X.\"\n\nEarlier on Sunday, when asked about the allegations, Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"Well, I haven't seen the article myself but I understand that Mr Doughty has provided a full explanation.\n\n\"He refutes many of the allegations that are made in that article and he explains part of why one aspect of it has some grounding is the truth, so I think it's fair that he has that opportunity to set that record straight.\"\n\nMr Doughty's spokesman added: \"Stephen has spoken openly about his own struggles about mental health. He is sad to have to reveal personal medical information in these circumstances - but feels that others talking about their mental health experiences can help destigmatise the challenges so many people go through.\n\n\"He has been prescribed medication over the last 12 years on a number of occasions, including diazepam, to deal with panic attacks and anxiety disorder, alongside talking therapies.\"", "Rome's ancient Colosseum has not had an arena floor since the 19th Century\n\nThe Italian government has approved a plan to furnish Rome's ancient Colosseum with a new floor, giving visitors the chance to stand where gladiators once fought.\n\nCulture Minister Dario Franceschini announced the project to build the wooden, retractable floor on Sunday.\n\nItalian engineering firm Milan Ingegneria won the 18.5m euro (£16.1m; $22.2m) contract to design the floor.\n\nThe floor is expected to be finished by 2023.\n\nAt present, the 2,000-year-old monument has no floor. It was removed by archaeologists in the 19th Century, exposing the underground network of tunnels where gladiators and animals were held before the Roman blood sports began.\n\nMr Franceschini said the \"extraordinary\" new floor would allow visitors to \"see the majesty of the Colosseum\" from its centre.\n\n\"It's another step forward toward rebuilding the arena, an ambitious project that will aid the conservation of the archaeological structures while getting back to the original image of the Colosseum,\" Mr Franceschini said.\n\nThe culture minister tweeted out a graphic showing an artist's impression of the new floor\n\nThe minister said cultural events could be held in the Colosseum once the floor had been restored to its former glory.\n\nMilan Ingegneria was one of 10 competitors who answered the Italian government's 2020 call for bids to design a new floor for the Colosseum.\n\nThe winning design involves installing hundreds of wooden slats that can be rotated to allow natural light and air into the underground chambers.\n\nItaly's culture ministry said the new 3,000-sq-m (32,300-sq-ft) floor would be entirely reversible, should plans for a new design be made in the future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Fleming from the BBC's Politics Europe programme reports from Rome's Colosseum\n\nThe Colosseum was the biggest amphitheatre in the Roman Empire.\n\nGladiatorial fights and other public spectacles were hosted in front of crowds of at least 50,000 people.\n\nWhile the coronavirus pandemic has limited tourism, the Colosseum remains one of Italy's most famous landmarks. Before the pandemic struck, the monument attracted about 7.6 million people in 2019.", "Singer Billie Eilish has spoken about the pervasiveness of sexual misconduct, describing it as being \"everywhere\".\n\nIn an interview with Vogue, she said she doesn't \"know one girl or woman who hasn't had a weird experience, or a really bad experience\".\n\n\"And men, too - young boys are taken advantage of constantly,\" she said.\n\nVogue interviewer Laura Snapes wrote that it also \"happened to Eilish when she was younger\", but added \"the details are hers.\"\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 Grammy award-winning, American singer-songwriter, 19, was discussing her new single Your Power, which is about an abuser taking advantage of a minor.\n\n\"It's an open letter to people who take advantage - mostly men,\" she said.\n\nShe also unveiled a new look in her photoshoot for the magazine, using it as an opportunity to hit back at those who discuss what she wears.\n\nDescribing the look as \"classic, old-timey pin-up\", the star's signature black and green hair is now platinum blonde (although the blonde colour first appeared a few weeks ago).\n\nShe said the colour change made her feel \"more like a woman, somehow\".\n\nEilish's previous baggy style of dress has often been hailed as refreshing when compared with that of other famous women who wear tighter, more revealing clothing, but Eilish told the magazine her dress sense was more about the onlookers' issues than her.\n\n\"Don't make me not a role model because you're turned on by me,\" she told Vogue, adding that her body \"was the initial reason for my depression when I was younger\".\n\n\"Suddenly you're a hypocrite if you want to show your skin, and you're easy and you're a slut and you're a whore. If I am, then I'm proud. Me and all the girls are hoes. Let's turn it around and be empowered in that. Showing your body and showing your skin - or not - should not take any respect away from you.\"\n\nShe said it was a male problem, not a female one.\n\n\"I really think the bottom line is, men are very weak,\" she says. \"I think it's just so easy for them to lose it. 'You expect a dude not to grab you if you're wearing that dress?' Seriously, you're that weak? Come on!\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "As footballers boycott social media over hate crimes, the abuse directed at Spurs star Son Heung-Min has focused attention on racism suffered by people of Asian background.\n\nCommunity leaders say such abuse has increased dramatically since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn the US, Congress has just enacted a hate crime bill giving specific protection to Asians.\n\nThe number of such crimes reported to police in London alone tripled at the start of the pandemic. But campaigners and police agree many go unreported.\n\nThe BBC's special correspondent Fergal Keane has been meeting victims of the attacks.", "There is a \"good chance\" the 1m plus social distancing rule can be scrapped on 21 June in England, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said the results of the vaccine rollout are \"really starting to show up in the epidemiology\" - but any change would depend on the data.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer agreed that caution was necessary.\n\nMr Johnson also suggested there could be some \"opening up\" of foreign travel on 17 May.\n\nDuring a campaign visit to Hartlepool the prime minister said ministers would say more about travel \"as soon as we can\" but \"we have got to be very, very tough\".\n\nHe said that \"the way things are going\" with the vaccine rollout, the 1m plus rule - which allows people to be 1m apart if they take extra precautions such as wearing face coverings - could end when England reaches the final step of its roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson said 50 million doses of coronavirus vaccine have been administered. That includes more than 34 million people who have had a first dose and more than 15 million who have had a second, according to the latest government figures.\n\nHe said he felt as though the next stage of reopening on 17 May - which covers indoor hospitality, entertainment and possibly foreign travel - would \"be good\".\n\n\"I think we have got a good chance of being able to dispense with the 1m plus from 21 June,\" he added.\n\n\"That is still dependent on the data, we can't say it categorically yet. We have got to look at the epidemiology as we progress, we have got to look at where we get to with the disease. But that's what it feels like to me right now.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said any easing of social distancing measures would have to be \"cautious and careful\".\n\n\"All of us want to see the restrictions eased but also want to make sure we don't go into another lockdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I will listen to what scientists say - there are a number of weeks to run until 21 June. I hope we get to situation we can ease restrictions but have got to be led by science.\"\n\nAre we are on the brink of beating the virus? Talk of foreign travel and the end of social distancing raises the very real prospect we are.\n\nIt would be foolish to say, categorically, this is it.\n\nEven with the continued successful rollout of the vaccination programme, there is still scope for the virus to spread, given the jabs are not 100% perfect and not everyone will get vaccinated.\n\nVariants could also still cause problems - although there is plenty of evidence to suggest these will be more limited than sometimes seems to be the case. Experts remain confident that even if the mutations help the virus dodge some of the immune response from the vaccines, the jabs will still be very effective at preventing serious illness.\n\nSo while the virus is not going away (cases are certainly going to rise again) the risk it poses has been dramatically reduced.\n\nAnd that means our response to it can be, too, so some of the non-Covid harms of the past year can really start to be tackled.\n\nIn Scotland, the government timetable for lifting Covid restrictions suggests physical distancing will be in place beyond \"Level 0\" - the lowest level of curbs - currently expected from late June.\n\nIn Wales, where \"alert level 3\" restrictions are in place, even its lowest alert level 1 suggests people should still observe \"social distancing rules with people you do not live with or who are not in your exclusive extended household\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive has described social distancing as part of the \"personal responsibility to protect ourselves and others\" that could be required \"for some time\".\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association said the prime minister's comments offered the sector \"hope of a return to normality and viability\".\n\nChief executive Emma McClarkin said: \"Given pubs are financially unviable under the current restrictions they face, being able to reopen without any restrictions at all from 21 June is going to be vital to their survival.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our recovery only begins when the restrictions are removed.\"\n\nSpeaking before Mr Johnson's comments, Kate Nicholls, chief executive of trade body UKHospitality, said recommencing unrestricted trading on 21 June would be \"critical\" and would allow companies to \"come off life support\".\n\n\"We urge the government to confirm reopening dates and these plans at the earliest opportunity, which will boost confidence and allow companies to step up planning and bring staff back,\" she said.\n\nAsked about international travel, Mr Johnson said experts were assessing which countries were safe.\n\n\"We do want to do some opening up on 17 May, but I don't think the people of this country want to see an influx of disease from anywhere else,\" he said.\n\n\"I certainly don't and we have got to be very, very tough and have got to be as cautious as we can whilst we continue to open up.\"\n\nMr Johnson's comments came after a group of MPs called on the government to keep travel rules in England in place beyond mid-May.\n\nForeign holidays are currently banned, but a traffic light system of rules will be introduced with countries classed as green, amber or red.\n\nTravellers to green countries will not need to isolate on their return, but they will need to take a Covid test.\n\nArrivals from amber countries will need to quarantine, while red-list countries have the strictest rules, with only UK or Irish nationals allowed to return and they must pay to stay in a government quarantine hotel.\n\nFurther details are expected this week, after the government said it will \"set out by early May\" how countries will be categorised.\n\nMany in the travel industry are hopeful for holidays this summer, while countries such as Spain, France, Greece, Portugal and Cyprus are preparing to open to tourists.\n\nThe European Commission has also recommended opening up to travellers who have received both doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe boss of Thomas Cook earlier told the BBC he expected many popular destinations, particularly in Europe, to be open to UK holidaymakers this summer as they were making \"great progress\".\n\nThe first ministers of Scotland and Wales have previously argued that 17 May would be too early for foreign holidays to resume, and no date has yet been set for rules to be relaxed. Northern Ireland's executive has not said anything about when it expects to make an announcement.\n\nBut a representative from the travel industry in Scotland has said any plan needs to be agreed between the four nations.\n\n\"There's no way it's going to work [with] Scotland operating a different system to England when you can freely travel across the border and fly out of an English airport - and that's exactly what will happen,\" said Alan Glen, from the Scottish Passenger Agents Association.\n\nThe next stage of England's lockdown easing is expected in a fortnight, on 17 May. As well as the possibility of international travel, people will be able to meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors, while six people or two households can meet indoors.", "It was at an entrance round the back of the Stretford End, away from the noise and the flares that accompanied the start of the Manchester United fans' protest at Old Trafford, that those who made it on to the pitch gained access.\n\nMost were young lads in their 20s, coming down the hill in wave after wave. But not all.\n\nThere were women and older men too. One, probably in his late 50s or early 60s, wore a green and gold scarf and woolly hat - the colours of United's first shirts when they were formed as Newton Heath in 1878, and of the original anti-Glazer protests in 2010.\n• None Football Daily podcast: All about the Man Utd protest\n\nAfter he had left the stadium compound, he remained with those waiting for the United team bus that never arrived.\n\nHe was not angry and spoke calmly to fans and media in the same area, wanting to know the latest about what was happening on the other side of the ground, or around the team hotel, where he had been earlier.\n\nThose fans, he felt, were more sinister than the ones at the stadium. But he didn't condemn them. He accepts they have a common goal. Emotions have been simmering for 16 years, so a bit of aggression is understandable, the theory went.\n\nExchanges like this - and people like that - underline the reason for what happened at Old Trafford.\n\nA large protest was expected outside the ground before the match with historic rivals Liverpool - but no-one expected fans to force their way into the stadium and on to the pitch and for the match to be postponed.\n\nIt was the third major fans protest against the club and its owners in recent days following a protest at Old Trafford last Saturday and fans entering the club's training ground at Carrington the previous Thursday.\n\nLike supporters of the other five 'big six' clubs, Manchester United's fans are angry about the European Super League proposals. They don't want it and will voice their opposition - just as fans of the other five English sides have done.\n\nWhat sets United apart is that their fans are not surprised at the actions of their owners - the US-based Glazer family.\n\nIndeed, to those fans, it merely underlines their view that the owners of their football club only care about money and that they have no affection for the world-famous 149-year-old institution they are in charge of.\n\nIf they did, the argument goes, they would never have landed the club with the enormous debt associated with their controversial £790m leveraged takeover in 2005.\n\nManchester United were a debt-free organisation when they were on the stock market prior to the Glazers buying the club. The fans believe the Glazers should have used their own money.\n\nThat debt currently stands at £455.5m, according to the club's latest accounts, which were released on 4 March, 2021. It is estimated that in general finance costs, interest and dividends, the Glazer takeover has cost United in excess of £1bn.\n\nSome fans were so annoyed by the Glazer takeover they walked away from Manchester United to form their own club. FC United have not been without their own trials and tribulations over the past few years, but the Northern Premier League outfit remain a beacon for fan ownership.\n\nAnd whilst their level of support has slipped from their early days, average attendances remain around the 2,000 mark, which put it in the top 30 non-league clubs in the entire country.\n\nOf those who remained, some kept up their opposition. Many United fans were genuinely angry when Sir Alex Ferguson used to defend the owners. The Scot repeatedly said the Glazer family backed him in the transfer market and never offered criticism.\n\nThose fans felt Ferguson's brilliance as a manager masked underlying issues around the money being invested in United's playing squad.\n\nIt is no surprise the 'green and gold' anti-Glazer campaign began in 2010, when United were experiencing a dip after three successive Premier League titles, nor that it fizzled out when Ferguson got his team playing like champions again and reached another Champions League final.\n\nBut for some, the sentiment never dimmed. Disenchantment with the Glazer stewardship of United has grown with every passing year since Ferguson retired in 2013, not just because the club's fortunes have slipped, but because despite the relative failure, tens of millions of pounds go out of the club, either directly to the family or because of the way they run United.\n\nThere is a counter-balance to this narrative.\n\nThe owners are responsible for the phenomenal rise in Manchester United's commercial revenue. They were the ones who aggressively pursued the regional approach, which every other similar sized club has followed.\n\nThe Glazers introduced a commercial plan which was different to any other club. Other than the major deals with Adidas, Chevrolet and others, they sell on a regional basis across the globe, so they have telecoms partners in USA and Canada, another in Africa, another in China. They recognised United were popular and maximised the popularity.\n\nIt can be argued, with some justification, that the Glazers are responsible for a significant proportion of United's rise in income and what they take out is only a percentage of it.\n\nUnited sources never tire of drilling home the message that the money the club raises is done to improve the playing side, whether it be through big-money signings or academy prospects.\n\nBeyond question, they have spent a lot of money on players. Whether they have bought the right ones is debatable though, and the Glazers are blamed by some for not putting the processes in place to get the recruitment right.\n\nIn recent times, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, a patron of the Manchester United Supporters Trust (Must), which has campaigned against the family, has, like Ferguson, been condemned for not criticising the owners.\n\nYet Solskjaer, when I asked him about the planned protests in the build-up to Sunday's game, said the fans' voice \"needs to be heard\".\n\nThat probably explains the wording of the club statement on Sunday night, which in addition to condemning those who put \"other fans, staff and police in danger\", also acknowledged their right to free expression and peaceful protest, in addition to highlighting their passion.\n\nIn the aftermath of the ESL's collapse, co-chairman Joel Glazer said he accepted there was a need for greater communication with supporters.\n\nThat said, he opted not to join an emergency fans forum on Friday when Must were amongst the signatories of a letter, read out to executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, stating the fans did not trust or believe the owners.\n\nIt is doubtful whether bridges between the two sides can ever be built but even securing some sort of peace, however uneasy, may not be easy to achieve.", "Countries are deciding whether to implement Covid passports to allow people to attend events and travel\n\nAs time goes on, more countries are considering turning to Covid passports as a way of opening up and letting people travel.\n\nThese passports are usually accessed via an app on your phone or in some cases, paper versions are available.\n\nSome nations have already installed their own versions of a Covid passport which has allowed people to attend large scale events. But with some countries lagging behind with vaccinations, there is concern that some could be left behind.\n\nHere's how a range of countries have adapted vaccine passports and what they involve.\n\nAt the moment, \"higher risk\" settings such as nightclubs don't have to ask for proof of vaccination.\n\nHowever, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced plans \"to make full vaccination the condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather\" by the end of September.\n\nUnder these new measures, people would show proof of vaccination by using the NHS Covid Pass app in England.\n\nThe NHS Covid Pass - or equivalents in other parts of the UK - will also allow fully vaccinated adults to avoid quarantine when they return from most amber-list countries. But even if they have the pass, they will have to self-isolate on arrival in the UK from France.\n\nAccording to the government, more than 30 countries, including Greece and Spain now accept the pass but holders must check their destination's entry rules before booking and keep checking before travelling.\n\nAn EU vaccine \"passport\" is being introduced across all 27 member nations - plus Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein.\n\nCitizens of these nations can download it or obtain a paper copy - at no cost. It is also available to non-EU nationals living legally in member states who have the right to travel to other member states.\n\nBecause the UK is no longer in the EU, the certificate is not available to most Britons.\n\nThe certificate can be issued if someone has been vaccinated, recently had a negative Covid test or recently recovered from the virus.\n\nAnyone holding the certificate should be exempt from testing or quarantining when crossing a border within the EU.\n\nOther EU nations also have their own certificate or vaccine passport.\n\nAuthorities have set up a health pass that will allow people to access restaurants, bars, planes and trains.\n\nAt present, venues that accommodate more than 50 people already require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test.\n\nThe pass will be required by all adults from the beginning of August and include children over the age of 12 from 30 September.\n\nIn order to obtain the pass, people must have proof they are fully vaccinated, recently tested negative or recently recovered from the virus.\n\nOn 24 July, about 160,000 people protested across the country against the Covid pass and mandatory vaccinations for health workers.\n\nIsrael introduced a vaccine pass earlier this year. It required people to show proof of either vaccination or having recently had the virus. The pass helped increase uptake of the vaccine, especially among younger people.\n\nAfter infection rates declined, authorities decided to end the scheme.\n\nBut the government has now announced plans to reinstate the system amid a recent surge in cases.\n\nThe green pass system will only allow those over the age of 12 who are vaccinated, recovered from Covid-19 or who present a negative test result to attend large events and enter certain public spaces, the Times of Israel reports. The new pass will come into effect from 29 July.\n\nThe pass will apply to cultural and sporting events, gyms, restaurants and dining halls, conferences, tourist attractions and places of worship.\n\nChina introduced a QR code system last year which categorised people into different colours. A green colour allows people to move around without restrictions while someone with a yellow code may be asked to stay at home for seven days.\n\nThe codes are a combination of big data and information submitted by the users themselves.\n\nMany public spaces in China require people to show their QR code in order to gain entry.\n\nIn March, China launched a digital health certificate that shows the holder's vaccine status and test results. The certificate is available to foreigners in China as well as Chinese nationals. It is hoped that Chinese citizens will be able to use the certificate as a vaccine passport in other countries in future.\n\nIt's not yet clear which countries China is in discussions with to get its certificate recognised.\n\nA green QR code allows people to gain access to a range of public spaces\n\nMany countries have opted not to have a vaccine passport.\n\nIn April, the White House ruled out introducing mandatory federal Covid vaccination passports, saying citizens' privacy and rights should be protected. However four states have active vaccination apps, according to MIT Technology Review.\n\nBut some states have also opted to introduce their own measures to try to increase vaccination rates.\n\nCalifornia will require all state employees and health care workers to show proof of vaccination or be tested weekly from next month. New York City will adopt a similar measure from mid-September requiring its municipal workers - including police officers and teachers - to be vaccinated or face weekly tests.\n\nAt present, inoculated Australians have a digital certificate on their phones but it has no rights attached to it.\n\nThe country's tourism minister Dan Tehan has said that a vaccine passport could give people \"the right to be able to travel across borders when there are lockdowns, or if there are parts of a state which have been locked down, because of an outbreak\".\n\nHe also said that giving more freedoms to people who are vaccinated would encourage more to get the jab.", "Boris Johnson says there is a \"good chance\" the one-metre plus social distancing rule will be scrapped on 21 June in England.\n\nDuring his campaign visit to Hartlepool, the prime minister said that, \"as things stand, and the way things are going\" with the vaccine, distancing could well end with the final step of England's roadmap out of lockdown.\n\n\"You are seeing the results of that really starting to show up in the epidemiology,\" he said.\n\n\"I think that we will be able to go ahead, feels like 17 May is going to be good.\n\n\"But it also looks to me as though 21 June we'll be able to say social distancing as we currently have to do it, the one-metre plus, I think we have got a good chance of being able to dispense with the one-metre plus from 21 June.\n\n\"That is still dependent on the data, we can't say it categorically yet. We have got to look at the epidemiology as we progress. We have got to look at where we get to with the disease. But that's what it feels like to me right now.\"", "German authorities said the platform had more than 400,000 users\n\nGerman police have arrested three men and a fourth is being held in Paraguay for allegedly running one of the world's biggest online networks for sharing images of child sex abuse.\n\nThe international operation, involving several police forces, targeted a dark net platform called Boystown, which has now been taken down.\n\nOfficials say Boystown had more than 400,000 registered users.\n\nThey say some images showed the most serious sexual abuse of young children.\n\nThe dark net is an internet area beyond the reach of mainstream search engines.\n\nThe German-led investigation involved law enforcement agencies in the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, the US and Canada.\n\nThe EU police agency Europol says it will also examine intelligence gained from the operation, and \"more arrests and rescues are to be expected globally\" on that basis.\n\nSeveral related paedophile chat sites on the dark net were also dismantled, Europol says.\n\nGerman police say three men detained since mid-April are believed to have run the paedophile network: one aged 40 from Paderborn, one aged 49 from the Munich area and a 58-year-old from north Germany who has been living in South America for several years. He was detained in Paraguay's Concepción region under an international arrest warrant, and German authorities have asked for his extradition.\n\nThe fourth suspect is a 64-year-old from Hamburg who was allegedly one of the most active members, responsible for more than 3,500 posts.\n\nThe dark web is a notorious layer of the web that many people never see.\n\nYou won't find its pages on mainstream search engines such as Google - you'll need a specialised web browser like Tor to access it at all.\n\nOnce you're in, if you know how to look, you'll find all sorts of activity.\n\nThe dark web itself is not illegal and neither is being on it. Indeed it is used by some for whistleblowing and activism in parts of the world where censorship is rife and such behaviour is heavily punished.\n\nBut there is plenty of material on it that is absolutely outside of the law.\n\nThere are forums where harrowing images of child sexual abuse and other extreme explicit content is shared or traded. In the many illegal marketplaces you'll also find banned drugs and weapons for sale.\n\nAnonymous sellers spring up as quickly as they disappear. Payment is generally in cryptocurrency and there are no consumer rights or customer support here if the merchant - or indeed the entire store - suddenly vanishes.\n\nIt happens, and it's not unusual. That's in part because law enforcement is getting better targeting at these operations. I've met several experts who specialise in tracking illegal traders across the dark web - and, much like all criminals, cyber criminals also make mistakes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Technology explained: What is the dark web?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US police battling against child abusers on the internet (2014)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSlow rural broadband has prompted one man to get his internet from a satellite 22,000 miles above Africa.\n\nProf Christopher Spry, 79, who lives in Heol Senni in the Brecon Beacons, had download speeds of about 500Kbps\n\nHe runs a community website and uploads weather data and nature videos, so paid £620 for satellite broadband, which comes from over the Democratic Republic of the Congo, via Luxembourg.\n\n\"It's an astonishing technological achievement,\" he said.\n\nWhere Prof Spry lives also has sporadic 3G coverage so he researched his options and decided to invest in satellite technology.\n\nA BT spokesman said: \"Heol Senni is in scope to benefit from the scheme and work to provide access to superfast broadband to this rural community is anticipated to be completed in the early autumn.\"\n\nThe retired professor of immunology pays £420 a year for his satellite internet, which gives him download speeds of up to 28Mbps.\n\nProf Christopher Spry has worked in London and Oxford and has owned his home in Powys since 1971\n\nHis broadband signal travels about 50,000 miles from a dish in his back garden to the ASTRA 2F satellite over the Earth's equator and back, via a company in Luxembourg.\n\nCompanies such as Sky also use satellites similar to this to broadcast their TV signal.\n\n\"I'm interested in what's going on in the world, I'm a very inquisitive person, I'm asking questions all the time and I need to know so the web is a wonderful resource for all of us who need to know what's happening,\" he said.\n\nHe also pays £250 a year for BT broadband, which he uses as a backup as heavy rain or snow can block the satellite signal and leave him cut off.\n\nBut the nearest exchange is in Sennybridge - about five miles by road - so his broadband slows down when making the switch.\n\nSatellites are positioned over the equator to maintain geostationary orbit\n\n\"It really makes all the difference in the world, without it I think my life would be quite difficult up here... but it does need a satellite 24,000 miles above the surface of the earth over the Congo - it does seem ridiculous doesn't it,\" he said.\n\n\"Without broadband we're living in a dark age, so let's hope everybody can have high speed broadband soon and they'll be able to use it for whatever they want - entertainment, education, research - it's a wonderful tool for everybody.\"\n\nDespite his best efforts, nature can still throw a spanner in the works when it comes to his satellite connection: \"It's pretty adequate for most of the programmes I need so I'm a happy rabbit - the only difficulty for me is that there's a tree in the way and I have to trim that!\"\n\nBT said more than nine out of every 10 homes and businesses in Wales were able to put in an order for superfast broadband.\n\nThe Welsh Government also runs a scheme called Access Broadband Cymru which helps provide funds for satellite connectivity for properties not covered by the Superfast Cymru scheme.\n\nNearly 600 homes and businesses have taken up the option since it started in January 2016.\n\nThe UK Government announced on Sunday that homes and businesses from all parts of the UK are set to benefit from universal high speed broadband.", "Australia has imposed a temporary ban on citizens in India returning home\n\nAustralia's threat to jail citizens returning home from India has sparked condemnation, with critics labelling the Covid measure as \"racist\" and a breach of human rights.\n\nFrom Monday, any Australian arriving in the country from India faces fines and up to five years in prison.\n\nIt comes after Canberra banned all flights from the virus hotspot until 15 May.\n\n\"The same accusations were made against the government over a year ago when we closed the borders to mainland China,\" he told Sydney radio station 2GB.\n\n\"There's no politics or ideology in a pandemic... It's got nothing to do with politics, this is a virus.\"\n\nThe policy marks the first time Australians have been criminalised for returning to their country, local media reported.\n\nThere are an estimated 9,000 Australians in India, 600 of whom are classed as vulnerable.\n\nThe government said the measures, which were announced on Saturday, are based on medical advice aimed at protecting the community. The virus is surging in India, with daily cases in the country topping 300,000 for 10 consecutive days.\n\nOfficials said an increase in infection rates seen in Indian arrivals over the past fortnight has raised concerns. Australia has pursued a Covid elimination strategy - partly through strict border controls and mandatory quarantine - which has seen it record 910 deaths, far fewer than many other countries.\n\nForeign Minister Marise Payne said India arrivals accounted for 57% of positive cases in quarantine, up from 10% in March.\n\nShe said this placed a \"very, very significant burden on health and medical services\".\n\nHowever critics - among them medical experts and legal groups - argue the government's move to criminalise Indian arrivals was extreme and disproportionate to the health risks.\n\nFederal Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi wrote on Twitter that the measures were \"absolutely horrific and racist\".\n\nProminent conservative media commentator Andrew Bolt said the policy was \"so mean and irrational that I must also blame racism\".\n\n\"I can't believe we would impose such a travel ban on white Australians fleeing, from, say England.\"\n\nAustralia's former Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane pointed out the \"inconsistency\" in the government's policy, noting bans and criminal penalties weren't imposed on Australians returning from other nations at the height of their Covid waves.\n\n\"We didn't see differential treatment being extended to... the United States, the UK, and any European country even though the rates of infection were very high and the danger of arrivals from those countries was very high,\" he told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.\n\n\"There are different standards at play here depending on which part of the world you're coming from.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia has enforced strict travel restrictions throughout the pandemic which have kept families apart\n\nMembers of the Indian-Australian community, which makes up about 2.6% of the population, have expressed anger over the sudden ban. Some have told the BBC they feel they are being treated like criminals and \"second-class citizens\" for wishing to flee danger.\n\nLegal experts have also raised concerns that the temporary ban violates international law. That includes the right for citizens to not be arbitrarily deprived entry to their country - recognised in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Australia is signatory.\n\nThe Australian Human Rights Commission said in a statement: \"The Government must show that these measures are not discriminatory and are the only suitable way of dealing with the threat to public health.\"\n\nThe situation in India has also put renewed focus on Australia's quarantine system, which has seen more than a dozen infection leaks since November.\n\nThe country has successfully operated a policy of mandatory, 14-day quarantine for all international arrivals - mostly conducted in hotels.\n\nBut the government said the spike in positive cases from India now threatened to overwhelm its quarantine system, which has capacity to handle a maximum limit of 2% of arrivals being infected.\n\nThe Australian Medical Association, the nation's peak medical group, said the need to pause Indian arrivals was an indication of the \"frailty\" of the quarantine system.\n\n\"We would rather our governments focus on fixing the quarantine system and bring Australians home, rather than extend this ban any longer than it needs to be.\"", "Millions of Muslims around the world are currently observing Ramadan. But some mosques in the UK are not allowing women inside to pray.\n\nThe BBC contacted 29 of Britain's largest capacity mosques to find out their policy for the month of Ramadan.\n\nFive do not have a women's area, while six mosques responded to say they cannot accommodate women due to Covid-19 health and safety reasons. Twelve were open for women, while seven didn't respond.\n\nWhile many families pray together at home, worship in mosques tends to be gender segregated, with many people believing that allows people time to focus on prayer.\n\nSometimes women will pray behind men in the same space. More often, mosques will have two separate rooms for each gender to pray in, with the men in the main prayer hall and the women in an alternative space.\n\nBut not all mosques make room for women. More than a quarter of British mosques don't have a space for women at all. In the mosques that do cater for both men and women, the spaces aren't always the same size.\n\nAnita Nayyar, who co-runs Open My Mosque, to campaign for more inclusive mosques, says women often get \"second class\" areas. She says they can be smaller than the men's section, in basements, behind locked doors and up flights of stairs, or sometimes only open sporadically.\n\nAnd the pandemic has exacerbated the problems.\n\n\"We have received reports that during the pandemic, mosques who used to accommodate women pushed women out either to create socially distanced space for men or because they felt they could not organise stewardship to ensure the women's facilities adhered to guidelines,\" she says.\n\nAmong those found by the BBC to not be admitting women, were the Greenwich Islamic Centre and Baitul Futuh mosques, in London, as well as the Jamia Al-Akbaria, in Luton, and the Lanarkshire Mosque, in Scotland.\n\nJulie Siddiqi, a women's rights campaigner who wants to make British mosques more accessible for women, published an Instagram video talking about how her mosque, the Jamia Masjid and Islamic Centre, in Slough, was not open for women this month.\n\nShe received hundreds of messages from other British women with similar experiences.\n\n\"I understand about health and safety,\" she says. \"Our mosque has lots of space, it's totally doable in this mosque. So let's just be clear - this is way beyond Covid. This is a mindset, a mindset that tells men they can decide whether women can go to pray in a mosque.\"\n\nThis is way beyond Covid. This is a mindset - a mindset that tells men they can decide whether women can go to pray in a mosque\n\nHer mosque told the BBC the decision had been made after consulting its female volunteers who were \"concerned about the lack of female resources\". It said it could not put volunteers at risk.\n\nSome believe that while daily prayer in congregation is compulsory for men, it is a voluntary option for women, who can worship at home.\n\nLondon's Baitul Futuh mosque - another to restrict access to women - said it was \"not a requirement in Islam for women to offer congregational prayers at the mosque, whereas it is for men\".\n\n\"As soon as restrictions ease, women will be able to use the mosque for prayers once again,\" the mosque added in a statement.\n\nSheikh Ibrahim Mogra, an imam in Leicester, says \"men and women should both be equally accommodated in mosques\", but added: \"Some traditions state it is better for women to pray at home than congregate at mosques, so the Muslim position is divided.\"\n\nOther mosques have changed their stance. The Hounslow Jamia Masjid and Islamic Centre had originally planned to be men-only - but changed its policy after a conversation around women's access to mosques began to emerge online at the start of Ramadan.\n\nZara Mohammed, president of the Muslim Council of Britain, said its guidance for mosques calls for fair access for both men and women - \"during Ramadan or other times in the year\".\n\n\"Women must be involved in the development and role of mosque life and we encourage more constructive dialogue and solution-focused approaches to ensuring increased access and opportunities for Muslim women.\"\n\nCorrection 7 May 2021: A previous version of this story reported a worshipper's account of being told by the Milton Keynes Islamic Centre that it was closed to women during Ramadan. In fact this was referring to a note carried on the centre's website which was out-of-date and has since been removed. Milton Keynes Islamic Centre confirms that the mosque was closed to women for a short time in December and March and has since been open, with limited capacity, to both and men and women. As a result we have removed this section of the article.", "Boris Johnson visited Barry Island on his visit to south Wales on Bank Holiday Monday\n\nBoris Johnson has accused Welsh Labour of \"separatism\" on a Bank Holiday Monday visit to Wales.\n\nThe UK prime minister was campaigning in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, as parties began the last week of the Welsh Parliament election campaign.\n\nMr Johnson said voters wanted to see politicians working together to beat the pandemic.\n\nBut Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford it was Mr Johnson who was encouraging support for Welsh independence.\n\nOn a visit to Swansea, Wales' first minister said there would be a mandate for more powers in Cardiff if voters backed a majority supporting more devolution.\n\nMeanwhile, Plaid Cymru said a pro-independence government in Wales would have more leverage over Westminster.\n\nVoters go to the polls in the Senedd elections on Thursday.\n\nSIGN UP FOR WALES ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\nMr Drakeford, who has been Welsh Labour leader since 2018, is opposed to independence, unlike Plaid Cymru's Adam Price who has made it a key part of his campaign.\n\nBoth parties also argue for more issues in Wales to be in the control of ministers in Cardiff rather than London, such as policing and justice.\n\n\"I don't think the people of this country are obsessing right now about further constitutional change,\" Mr Johnson, who was visiting the Conservative party office in Barry town centre, told BBC Wales.\n\n\"I think what they want to see is politicians working together to beat the pandemic.\"\n\nThe prime minister said he was a \"believer in devolution\" but he wanted to see \"people using their powers effectively\".\n\nBut he added that both Plaid Cymru and Labour \"are obsessed with the constitutional issues, trying to go for more separatism. I don't think that's the right way forward.\"\n\n\"I think we should be working together,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we should have a situation which people can be proudly emphatically Welsh, but also see the merits and the beauty of doing things together.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said there could be a mandate for further powers to come to Cardiff if a pro-devolution majority is returned to the Senedd after the election.\n\n\"It could well be that they will be a majority of voters in Wales supporting parties who want to see devolution strengthened and entrenched,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's a message that the UK government really will need to heed.\n\n\"I often think that the prime minister is the greatest recruiting sergeant for people who believe that Wales will be better off outside the United Kingdom.\n\n\"I hope the prime minister would act in ways that reinforce those of us who make the positive case for the union rather than undermining us\".\n\nAsked about his remarks captured in a S4C documentary when he called the PM \"awful\" after a Cobra meeting, Mr Drakeford said: \"My views of the prime minister are a good deal kinder than many people who have worked in Downing Street with him\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price was campaigning in Ystrad Mynach on Monday\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Price, Plaid's leader since 2018, said the Welsh government would have \"greater leverage\" in London if it was led by a pro-independence party.\n\n\"That's exactly what we will get from the election of a Plaid Cymru government,\" he said.\n\n\"A strong Welsh Government with a strong voice able to negotiate a far better deal than anything we've seen under a Labour government over the last 22 years.\"\n\nMr Price, who was campaigning in Ystrad Mynach in the constituency of Caerphilly, said there had been \"one economic plan\" from Welsh Labour.\n\n\"It's all been about just looking to salvation from companies coming in from outside, that's not going to build the economic foundation for the future.\n\n\"We've got to shift the focus from just relying on foreign-owned companies coming in for a while - we've got to invest in our own homegrown businesses.\n\nWelsh Labour said this was a \"false choice\".\n\nMr Drakeford added: \"I absolutely think that we need to invest in indigenous companies and to grow indigenous companies that then stay rooted here in Wales.\n\n\"But a Labour government is never going to turn our back on people who want to come and invest in Wales from elsewhere.\"\n\nJane Dodds, the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, spent the day campaigning in the Wrexham area of north Wales.\n\nShe said her party had a \"big message\" on Covid recovery in the final few days of the campaign and that was putting the economy, mental health and the planet \"first\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats had one Senedd seat at the last election. Its former occupant, Brecon and Radnorshire's Kirsty Williams, is quitting the Welsh Parliament after 22 years.\n\nMs Dodds denied that her party was facing a fight for survival in mid-Wales. \"Every single vote important,\" she said, \"it doesn't matter where it is.\"\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\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 Welsh Liberal Democrats said they were focusing on the \"health recovery\".\n\nLeader Jane Dodds, who is in Llanidloes and Wrexham on Monday, said: \"We owe the NHS so much, we are pledging a proper pay rise for front-line nurses as well as a commitment to pay all social care staff the real living wage.\n\n\"Welsh Lib Dems understand the stress and pressure that our NHS heroes are under and we want to support put healthcare staff, not just through a pay rise but by investing in new staff and new technology to benefit both staff and patents,\" she said.", "The Covid pandemic has led to the loss of about 660,000 jobs in the UK's hospitality sector this year, the industry's trade body has told MPs.\n\nUK Hospitality chief Kate Nicholls said that at the end of 2019, the sector was the third-largest employer in the UK.\n\nThe industry was forecast to generate one-in-six net new jobs this year, she said, but instead some 20% of the sector's 3.2 million jobs had gone.\n\nHospitality sector revenue is down 40% compared with last year, she said.\n\nMs Nicholls said businesses should be enjoying a \"golden\" time of year, since more than a third of annual revenue is usually earned between Halloween and New Year's Eve.\n\nBut instead she said the sector was in \"intensive care\" and called for pubs and restaurants to be able to open with as few restrictions as safely possible in December.\n\nBusiness leaders from a range of industries were giving evidence to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee of MPs.\n\nThe boss of the British Retail Consortium, Helen Dickinson OBE, said there had been job losses across big and small retailers, particularly in clothing and footwear stores.\n\n\"I spoke to one business yesterday who has seen their turnover fall from $200m to $160m. They are on their third round of redundancies,\" she said.\n\nClothing and footwear stores have been hit particularly hard\n\nEarlier, the chair of the BEIS Committee, Darren Jones, said it was unfair that some big retailers were able to keep trading during lockdown, while many small shops were closed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC 5 Live's Wake Up To Money programme, Mr Jones said: \"It's evidently unfair that some retailers can sell everything and others cannot sell anything at all.\"\n\nHe said it was \"unfortunate\" ministers had been unable to set out a mechanism for retailers to continue to operate in a Covid-secure way during lockdown, while other countries such as Germany had done so.\n\nThe Labour MP also called for more financial support to go to businesses forced to close, and criticised some supermarkets - which have stayed open during lockdowns - for accepting public money for help with business rates.\n\n\"Christmas is the most important time of the year for retailers and we don't just want them to survive the Christmas shopping period but to be able to survive into the new year,\" he said.\n\n\"Ministers need to quickly be able to get to a position where they can allow retailers to operate in a Covid-secure way.\"", "TMC supporters have been celebrating after being returned to power in West Bengal\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party has failed to win a key state in elections held amid record Covid-19 deaths and cases.\n\nThe BJP targeted West Bengal heavily during campaigning but the state was comfortably held by the incumbent, Mamata Banerjee, a fierce Modi critic.\n\nHer win came as a surprise to political observers, who noted how much time and money the BJP invested in the state.\n\nMr Modi was even accused of focusing on polls rather than the pandemic.\n\nDespite the defeat, the BJP won nearly 80 seats to become the main opposition party in the state In the 2016 vote, Narendra Modi's party won just three seats there.\n\nElections also went ahead in Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala states as well as the territory of Pondicherry (Puducherry).\n\nThe BJP held power in the north-eastern state of Assam but failed to make major gains elsewhere.\n\nFor 10 straight days, daily cases in India have topped 300,000. It recorded more than 360,000 new cases and 3,417 deaths on Monday. On Sunday, the country set a new record for daily deaths, with 3,689 recorded. Hospitals are facing dire shortages of beds and medical oxygen, with many Indians resorting to desperate pleas on social media to secure help.\n\nCampaign rallies and voting have been blamed for the surge in cases.\n\nMr Modi and his home minister made dozens of speeches in West Bengal and were accused of focusing on the polls rather than the pandemic.\n\nWith almost all the results counted, the Trinamool Congress party (TMC) led by the state's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has won more than 200 seats in the 294-seat assembly.\n\nThe results are set to make Ms Banerjee the leader of West Bengal for a third time. She is also India's only female chief minister.\n\nCelebrating the win, she said West Bengal had \"saved\" India with the result and tackling Covid-19 would be her first priority.\n\nMamata Banerjee has been a fierce critic of Prime Minister Modi\n\nVictory was soured by the loss of her seat in Nandigram to a former aide turned defector to the BJP. She has said she will challenge the result in court but may have to run again to remain chief minister.\n\nWest Bengal, home to 90 million people and the city of Kolkata, is of particular interest to election watchers. It is one of the few states that have never been governed by Mr Modi's Hindu nationalist BJP.\n\nAlthough assembly elections were held in five Indian states, the real battle was over West Bengal.\n\nThe BJP had pulled out all the stops for electioneering, with PM Narendra Modi leading its campaign from the front.\n\nTo enhance his appeal further to the Bengali voter, he had grown his beard long, with his supporters drawing comparisons with the state's much loved icon - Nobel Prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore.\n\nBut in the end, it all came to nothing.\n\nAt a time when a deadly second wave of coronavirus swept India and led thousands of Indians across the country to beg for hospital beds and oxygen cylinders, Mr Modi's frequent visits to the state to address huge rallies were called out as a major failure of his prime ministerial duties.\n\nSo Mamata Banerjee fought back anti-incumbency, the BJP's mammoth election machinery, last-minute desertions from within her own party, and a largely unfriendly media to return for a third term.\n\nCongratulating Ms Banerjee in a tweet, Mr Modi also noted: \"From a negligible presence earlier [in West Bengal], BJP's presence has significantly increased.\"\n\nLeader of the opposition Congress party Rahul Gandhi congratulated Ms Banerjee for \"soundly defeating the BJP\" even though his party lost a significant number of seats in the state.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rahul Gandhi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe was among a number of regional opposition leaders to revel in Ms Banerjee's win.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Aaditya Thackeray This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSocial media was flooded with memes and posts about the success of \"Didi\" - a nickname for Ms Banerjee, meaning older sister.\n\nVoting in the state was held in eight phases over a month. The Election Commission is facing a great deal of criticism for refusing to reduce the number of phases and make campaigning virtual. Critics have accused the commission of being controlled by the BJP.\n\nA number of congratulatory tweets noted that the TMC had won \"despite\" the commission.\n\nAs well as the north-eastern states of West Bengal and Assam, there was voting in the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the South Indian union territory of Pondicherry, and local council elections in some parts of Uttar Pradesh in the north and Telangana in the south.\n\nIn Tamil Nadu, the main regional opposition party, the DMK, took power. A left-wing coalition retained power in Kerala, while a BJP-led alliance won no seats there.\n\nOn top of the coronavirus pandemic, some analysts saw the results as showing the limits of the BJP's rhetoric in states with sizeable Muslim populations.\n\nIndia has recorded more than 19 million cases of coronavirus - second only to the US. It has also confirmed more than 218,000 deaths, though the real toll is thought to be far higher.\n\nExperts have cited low testing rates and the number of people dying at home, especially in rural areas, as contributing factors to under-reported figures.\n\nThe country's previous highest daily death toll, also reported this week, was 3,645.\n\nThe head of the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, the Serum Institute of India, which manufactures the AstraZeneca vaccine, has blamed India's government for the shortage of Covid jabs.\n\nAdar Poonawalla told the Financial Times that initially Narendra Modi's government only ordered 21 million doses, and a larger order was not placed until March, when the second wave of the pandemic had already hit India. The country has a population of 1.3 billion people.\n\nIn a separate statement, Mr Poonawalla said the Serum Institute of India has now received a total order of more than 260 million doses.\n\nBrazil and the US have both registered daily tolls of more than 4,000 during the course of the pandemic.\n\nIn India, distressing images of families begging for hospital beds and life-saving supplies have been emerging for more than 10 days, while morgues and crematoriums remain overwhelmed.\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", "Ella also wears a hat around the house as a \"comfort blanket\", her family said\n\nA teenager with a rare illness that has caused her hair to fall out can now wear a cap to school after pupils protested when her request was denied.\n\nElla Goodwin's father said the 13-year-old was told a cap or hoodie was not part of the uniform policy at Heritage High School in Clowne, Derbyshire.\n\nThe row led to a protest outside the school involving dozens of Ella's fellow pupils on Monday morning.\n\nThe school confirmed it has been agreed Ella can wear a cap and hoodie.\n\nHowever Ella said she was frustrated that the school did not agree to her request earlier.\n\n\"Rules should be bent for someone going through something like this.\n\n\"But it was an amazing feeling just to know how many people supported me.\n\n\"I'm not ashamed... but wearing a cap and hoodie just gives me confidence and comfort. I would not have gone back to school without it,\" she said.\n\nElla was diagnosed two years ago with CRMO (chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis), a disease where the immune system attacks the bones and causes pain and swelling.\n\nRecently, her hair has started falling out. Her father Shaun Goodwin said doctors are unsure if the hair loss is a symptom or a side effect of medication she has to take.\n\nElla has had her head shaved and was given a wig by the Little Princess Trust, but Mr Goodwin said she did not feel comfortable in it.\n\nHe said he and partner Joanna Davies had a meeting with the school last week in which they were told a cap - including one with school branding - was not part of the uniform policy.\n\nThe row sparked a backlash among parents and pupils, and 25 to 30 children protested the decision on Monday morning, many of whom wore caps and hoodies in solidarity.\n\n\"We went up to the school to support Ella and the amount of children and parents stood there with hats on - it's amazing.\n\n\"The support of the community is outstanding.\"\n\nJoanna Davies, Ella's father's partner, also shaved her hair to help the schoolgirl feel comfortable at home\n\nMs Davies added: \"She [Ella] doesn't want to have to wear the cap but her hair loss is beyond her control.\n\n\"Even though everyone knows she's lost her hair, she uses the hat and hoodie to control who sees it and says when she is shielding it she feels in control.\n\n\"Even in the house she wears the hat, it's like her comfort blanket.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Two Counties Trust - which the school is part of - said: \"We are happy to confirm that we have now been able to speak to Ella's family and have agreed with them that Ella can wear a cap and a hoodie to ensure she feels as comfortable and supported as possible when at school.\n\n\"We will continue to do everything we can to ensure Ella and her family are appropriately supported through this challenging period. No student has been sanctioned around this matter.\"\n\nMr Goodwin said: \"It's amazing, but it shouldn't have got to this in the first place.\n\n\"They ought to have come to this decision quicker, but I'm well chuffed.\n\n\"Seeing the protest and the amount of support she had brought a lump to my throat.\"\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.", "We've been hearing today about concerns around the Indian virus variant in Bolton and Blackburn. And how testing and vaccination is being sped up there, while testing is also surged in Bedford.\n\nMore than 6,200 people were vaccinated in Bolton at the weekend amid concerns over the Indian Covid-19 variant.\n\n21-year-old Bolton resident Josie (pictured) took up the offer of a vaccine after the roll-out scheme was extended to all over-16s in the badly affected BL3 area.\n\nJosie told BBC Radio 5 Live's Rachel Burden today: \"I’ve wanted it for so long so I thought I’ll just go down and see if they’ll let me and thankfully they did.\"\n\nJosie works in a supermarket and says even though staff wear masks and regularly sanitise, she does worry about her customers and feels “more comfortable serving them now I’ve got the vaccine\".\n\n“It’s been really hard being in the lockdown for so long like we have in Bolton, everyone has been clinging to that hope of going outside,\" she said. \"I think the vaccine is going to help us stay on track for that, so long as everyone gets it.\"\n\nGP and clinical director of Rumworth in Bolton, Dr Saveena Ghaie, spoke to 5 Live’s Nicky Campbell about what’s happening in the area.\n\n\"A lot of our residents live in multi-generational households, a lot of those young people might be passing it on to their elderly relatives.\n\n\"They were so pleased to have the jab that they really didn’t mind waiting in that wet weather,\" she said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said the \"vast majority\" of Bolton locals who had been hospitalised in recent days had not taken up their offer of a vaccine, including people in intensive care.\n\nDr Ghaie said she thinks that's due to \"a lack of information or maybe scaremongering\".\n\nListen to 5 Live on the free BBC Sounds app.", "As lockdown rules ease in England, Wales and most of Scotland, millions of people can now socialise indoors in limited numbers, hug loved ones and visit pubs and restaurants inside again.\n\nSome people couldn't wait for morning. Here, Rosie Delaney, Isobel Loan and Rebecca Mitchell have their first drink inside a pub for a long while, at 00:11, at the Showtime Bar, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.\n\nAt the The Oak Inn, in Coventry, West Midlands, customers enjoy a pint, a game of pool and a hug.\n\nThese changes come with a note of caution, with the variant identified in India spreading in some areas. \"We must take this next step with a heavy dose of caution,\" Prime Minister Boris Johnson warns, urging people to be tested regularly.\n\nFor some, the changes mean a chance to exercise indoors. At Park Road Pools & Fitness in London, a group takes a high-energy barbell class, just after 00:00.\n\nHousekeeper Zusanna Gulierrez prepares a room at the Brighton Metropole, as the Hilton group reopens its 130 hotels across England.\n\nPassengers prepare to board an EasyJet flight to Faro, Portugal, at Gatwick Airport, after the ban on international leisure travel for people in England was lifted to some destinations.\n\nThe National Youth Choir of Scotland, with founder and conductor Christopher Bell, meet on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, as most of Scotland moves to level-two - high - restrictions, enabling up to 30 people to meet outside to sing.\n\nThe digital message: \"Less URL, more IRL. Welcome back,\" is displayed on the BT Tower, above the streets of London.\n\nCustomers inside the Mile Castle pub, in Newcastle, enjoy breakfast as indoor hospitality and entertainment venues reopen.\n\nAt Barbarella's cafe, in London, a customer takes a selfie to mark the return to indoor dining.\n\nCharlotte Griffiths, 25, and her three-year-old son are among the first people to visit the Great North Museum, in Newcastle, following its reopening.\n\nA man wearing a face covering echoes the pose within Seurat's Bathers at Asnières painting inside the National Gallery, in London.\n\nThe first passengers board the London Eye, as the attraction reopens.\n\nYork Minster opens its doors once again to tourists.\n\nIt's eyes down for a full house at the Apollo Bingo Hall in the seaside resort of Rhyl, Denbighshire. It's an industry worth hundreds of millions of pounds a year in Wales, with 36 dedicated bingo halls across the country.\n\nFans gather to watch the runners and riders during the Racing TV Straight Mile Fillies' Handicap at Redcar Racecourse, North Yorkshire.\n\nA small crowd attends a screening of Ingmar Bergman's Persona in the BFI Southbank cinema in London.\n\nMembers of the Durham Strikes Bowling team enjoy a game at the Hollywood Bowling alley in Washington, County Durham.\n\nAs the evening drew in, people enjoyed drinks inside pubs and bars - such as this one in London - without having to sit outside on tables and chairs.\n\nIn Manchester's city centre, revellers danced in their seats to a live show at Albert's Schloss bar (above and below).\n\nAlso in Manchester, customers laughed together at Peaky Blinders bar.", "Pat Cummins and David Warner were among the IPL players to return to Australia\n\nA group of Australian cricketers have landed in Sydney from the Maldives where they were sheltering after fleeing the Covid crisis in India.\n\nThe players and staff had been involved in the Indian Premier League which was suspended this month.\n\nThey flew to the Maldives after Australia banned all arrivals from India following a surge in Covid cases.\n\nWhile the controversial ban was lifted on 15 May, thousands of Australians remain stranded in India.\n\nThe cricketers - among them former Australian captain Steve Smith, David Warner and Pat Cummins - will now complete 14 days' quarantine in Sydney.\n\nThe cohort of more than 30 people travelled on a private flight from the Maldives where they had been staying since 6 May.\n\nCricket Australia had previously said the players and staff would not seek any special exemptions from the government, as Australia restricts the number of international arrivals allowed in each week.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday that the cricketers would be returning \"under their own steam... they won't be taking the spot in quarantine of any other Australian who is returning home under the New South Wales caps.\"\n\nStill, their arrival comes amid simmering frustration with the Australian government over the India restrictions and the plight of citizens stuck there.\n\nEarlier this month the government said high rates of Covid infections seen in arrivals from India, which has seen one of the world's worst outbreaks of the virus, was placing a significant burden on health services. To protect the community, it blocked arrivals from the country.\n\nThe controversial travel ban - which included the threat of fines and jail sentences for returning citizens - was lifted on 15 May.\n\nAround 10,000 Australians remain in India. Though the ban has been lifted, those seeking to return home - including around 1,000 classed as vulnerable - have few options available to them.\n\nThe government has begun repatriation flights for some citizens.\n\nThe first of those flights touched down on Saturday but was half-empty, after 70 passengers were barred from travel following positive Covid tests.\n\nStrict rules on pre-flight testing meant there was not enough time for the seats to be given to others waiting to return.\n\nA second flight is due to bring 150 Australians home on Monday but many have called for more support for Australians in India. Critics want the government to allow more commercial airlines to fly from India to Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australians trapped in India 'betrayed' by ban on returning home\n\nAustralia is one of the few places in the world where there is no widespread community transmission of Covid-19.\n\nThe country has managed to stave off a major outbreak on the scale seen in other nations through strict border and quarantine controls, and by periodically enforcing snap lockdowns.", "America’s longest serving commander in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller, has reflected on Nato forces' time in the country ahead of his troops withdrawal.\n\nGeneral Miller told the BBC that Nato troops are now focused on “the risks to their forces, and the risks to the future of Afghanistan”.\n\nUS-led Nato forces will withdraw from Afghanistan by 11 September, 20 years on from the attack that led to their placement.\n\nGeneral Miller emphasised they would continue to support their Afghan allies in these final months but that he expected Taliban violence would get worse.", "Recruitment from some communities remains a challenge for policing in Northern Ireland\n\nIsaac Andrews is rarely off his phone.\n\nAs a community worker in the unionist and loyalist Shankill area of Belfast, he responds to calls from local residents who are often in need of help or advice.\n\nHis role also involves liaising with the police on a range of community policing matters.\n\nYet, he doesn't know anyone who has joined the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nIsaac Andrews said most officers he works with are not from a working class background\n\n\"I'm sadly not aware of one person that I could tell you that I know from a working class background recently has joined the PSNI,\" he said.\n\n\"Most of the PSNI officers who I work with are from the suburbs, somewhere else in Belfast, but they're not working class.\"\n\nPolice reform via the Patten Commission Report was a key part of the peace process.\n\nHowever, two decades after the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was superseded by the PSNI, recruitment from some communities remains a challenge for policing in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"A lot of change happened in policing, like badges, uniforms, symbols, human-rights training,\" said Peter Sheridan, a former PSNI assistant chief constable.\n\n\"Unfortunately I think what happened is that all of those, if you like, shiny new police officers and new ideas and the new recruits went out into a society that largely hadn't changed, those deep-rooted divisions were there so that makes policing that environment still very difficult - and I think then that started to impact again more so in recent times around the politicisation of policing.\"\n\nPolice transformation was intended to build support for policing from all communities but attracting Catholics remains an issue for the PSNI.\n\nThe ongoing dissident republican threat to police officers, as witnessed in recent weeks, is seen as a major factor in Catholic under-representation.\n\nEmmet Doyle said he is unaware of anyone from his community who has joined the PSNI\n\nEmmet Doyle is the Aontú councillor for Ballyarnett on Derry City and Strabane District Council.\n\n\"I'm 34 and I don't know anyone, certainly from the area where I am, who has joined the PSNI,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a trade-off I suppose that many people from a nationalist/republican community would see when you join the police.\n\n\"It's almost accepted that you won't be part of the community anymore and that's not necessarily something I agree with but that's the reality of it.\"\n\nThere has been a drop-off in applications from the Catholic community in recent years - the 2018 recruitment campaign had around 500 fewer applicants than the year before.\n\nAdd to that, the problem in trying to attract working-class Protestants, women, ethnic minorities and members of the LGBT community.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne said there is \"more to do\" in order to reach out to working class communities\n\n\"The police service should reflect the society it comes from,\" said Peter Sheridan.\n\n\"We wanted young people from the Shankill Road, from Creggan, from the Bogside - that's what moderates policing when you have people from those communities - and if that disconnect is happening then it's not just a matter for the police and the police recruitment, it's a matter for all of society.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne said that in terms of recruitment, there is \"more to do\".\n\n\"I think we have tried certainly in my time, in the last recruitment round which has been the first under my tenure, we did reach out into working class loyalist and Catholic communities to try and attract people from there,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there's a recognition that there's more space to actually recruit people from all sorts of different backgrounds and it's a key commitment that I want to see fulfilled.\"\n\nSpotlight will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday, 18 May at 22:45 BST.", "Coronavirus vaccines have saved 11,700 lives and stopped 33,000 people becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 in England, research suggests.\n\nThe Public Health England analysis, up to the end of April, found people in their 70s and 80s had seen the biggest fall in deaths and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the figures were \"remarkable\".\n\nGetting a vaccine is \"one of the most important things you will be asked to do in your lifetime\", he added.\n\nExtra vaccination clinics are being set up in parts of Lancashire to offer more jabs to people aged 38 and over, and anyone with an underlying health condition who is over 18.\n\nThis is, in part, to help reduce the spread of the India variant, which is causing concern because scientists believe it could be at least as transmissible as the Kent variant.\n\nNine out of 10 people aged 40 and over have now had a first vaccine dose in England. The impact of the vaccines is likely to be similar across the UK, with more than 53 million doses administered in total.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) used data on how well the vaccines are working and the number of people being vaccinated in different age groups, to calculate deaths and illness prevented from Covid.\n\nIt is estimated that, thanks to vaccines:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens if I don't get the Covid vaccine? Laura Foster explains\n\nThe latest government data - based on evidence from the UK rollout - suggests one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine cuts the risk of infection by as much as 70%, and serious illness and death by even more.\n\nIf someone is less likely to become infected and have symptoms, then the spread of the virus between people is also less likely.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at PHE, said: \"The vaccine has already saved so many lives and we can now see the huge impact it has had on preventing people becoming seriously ill and therefore also protecting our hospitals.\n\n\"As these figures highlight, getting your vaccine could save your life or stop you becoming seriously ill from Covid-19.\n\n\"It will also significantly reduce your chances of getting infected and infecting others.\n\n\"It is vital to get both doses of your vaccine when you are offered it.\"", "Edwin Poots was elected as the DUP's fourth leader in its 50 year history on Friday\n\nThe next Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Edwin Poots has indicated he will consult with the party about whether Arlene Foster should stand down as first minister earlier than her intended departure date.\n\nMrs Foster said she would stay on as first minister until the end of June.\n\nMr Poots said he was keen to ensure a smooth transition.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Life newspaper, he confirmed he would not take the first minister post himself.\n\nMr Poots added that party members could also judge whether he is the \"right man to stay\" in his current role as agriculture minister, or whether he should take on a different brief or leave ministerial office.\n\n\"I want our party to be a party that is healing and fit for purpose going forward. Therefore, I will deal with things as gently as I possibly can but also practically going forward,\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I will ascertain those views over the next few days.\"\n\nAmong those tipped as possible successors as first minister are DUP MLAs Mervyn Storey, Paul Givan, Paul Frew and the party's new deputy leader Paula Bradley.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Poots defeated his Lagan Valley constituency colleague Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP in the DUP's first contested leadership election in its 50-year history.\n\nPaula Bradley was elected to the role of DUP deputy leader on Friday\n\nMr Poots said advice from colleagues will be \"critical\" to determining any changes to the DUP's ministerial team.\n\nHe explained that by rejecting the role of first minister, which has been held by previous DUP leaders, whoever occupies it instead can focus on \"leading the country and dealing with the machinations of government\".\n\n\"The leader of unionism can focus on reinvigorating unionism,\" he continued.\n\n\"This is absolutely critical now\".\n\nWith an assembly election a year away in 2022, Mr Poots said he planned to speak with the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) about ways to maximise the unionist vote.\n\nHe described the possibility of Sinn Féin becoming Stormont's largest party and nominating a first minister as \"destabilising\" and \"something a lot of people would find hard to swallow\".\n\nThe potential for a Sinn Féin justice minister \"would create problems\", he added, \"given the history of Sinn Féin and where they have come from and the attitude they had during the Troubles towards IRA violence\".\n\nMr Poots said he wants unionist parties to cooperate to find a \"solution\" to the issues arising from the Northern Ireland Protocol, an element of the UK-EU Brexit deal which has led to disruption and additional checks on goods arriving into Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP leader designate said he has requested to meet the prime minister and NI Secretary Brandon Lewis to discuss the issues and will \"certainly be ramping things\" in expressing his opposition to the protocol.\n\n\"I have been working with a senior UK lawyer who is advising us on what steps we can take in terms of judicial remedies,\" he said.\n\n\"If there isn't real significant political progress made in the coming weeks, I would imagine we would be launching judicial proceedings in the not too distant future.\"\n\nUUP leadership candidate Doug Beattie has accused the DUP of not being honest on the Northern Ireland Protocol\n\nMr Poots re-stated that he would not be attending North-South Ministerial Council meetings until there was a resolution.\n\nHe accused the Irish government of having \"hugely damaged north-south relations in their conduct over the protocol, the demands they have made and the aggressive nature\".\n\nDUP MLA Christopher Stalford, who supported Mr Poots' leadership campaign, told Sunday Politics that all unionist parties agree \"the protocol has to go\".\n\n\"The provision in the law says if 45 members of the assembly vote to remove the protocol then it will go and that is where I think that we do need to see, I don't want to talk about pacts, or stuff like that, but we do need to see a degree of cooperation across the broad unionist family in order to ensure that 45 unionists are elected to Stormont in the next assembly election.\"\n\nHowever, Doug Beattie, currently the only candidate for the UUP leadership, accused the DUP of \"not being honest with the electorate\" on efforts to scrap the protocol.\n\nMr Beattie told Sunday Politics the assembly cannot vote to end the protocol if unionists return with 45 MLAs, rather, only articles five to ten can be replaced.\n\n\"We have to start this off by being as honest as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\n\"We want rid of the protocol, but we have worked really hard to try and put in alternatives and mitigations to get rid of that protocol, but what we will not be doing is telling people an untruth to garner support.\"", "Television chef Nisha Katona says debt could push firms out of business\n\nLeisure firms say they need more support after a year of \"haemorrhaging cash\" and mounting debts due to the pandemic.\n\nBusinesses from wine bars to bingo halls can reopen on Monday but at reduced capacity making it harder to cover their costs.\n\nBusiness minister Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC he did not want rent arrears to \"cripple\" firms.\n\nHe said the government was looking at ways to help firms manage their debts.\n\nWhile leisure venues, including soft play centres, amusement arcades and concert halls, are welcoming Monday's reopening, they know some customers will take longer to return to indoor activities, especially with the spread of the new Indian variant of the virus.\n\nEven if customer demand is high, venues can accommodate fewer customers at a time, due to social distancing rules.\n\nAnd according to the trade body UKHospitality, that sector alone has £2.5bn in rent arrears \"hanging around its neck\" as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Opening... will give us a certain amount of revenue, but we will still have half the number of covers we need to survive,\" says Nisha Katona, television presenter and founder of Indian restaurant chain Mowgli Street Food.\n\nShe says her business has been lucky to have had a bit of financial \"breathing room\" to help it cope with lockdown, but it has still suffered.\n\n\"Cash has been haemorrhaging out of our account all the while we have no revenue, and yet we continue to pay rents,\" says Ms Katona.\n\n\"There are lots of business costs that don't go away, so while there has been no cash, we really have become a business that is on its knees, waiting for the resurrection.\"\n\nShe says the UK's high streets are already \"littered with the gravestones\" of independent bars and restaurants that didn't have backers with deep pockets or hadn't been able to negotiate concessions from their landlords.\n\nUKHospitality has called for \"a fair amount\" of rent debt to be written off and for a ban on business evictions, currently due to expire at the end of June, to be extended.\n\nThe business minister, Mr Kwarteng, said the government was aware that businesses were facing a build-up in rent arrears after many months of not being able to trade normally.\n\n\"The government is working very closely together - the Treasury and [the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy] - to see if we can come up with an arrangement whereby tenants and landlords can work together to make sure this rent issue doesn't cripple business,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis is a big moment for the national mood and the UK economy - particularly those sectors which have been hardest hit by the restrictions.\n\nNearly one million hospitality and leisure workers will go back to work today according to industry estimates. Although many have been open for outside service, 60% of hospitality venues have no outside space and have been unable to open till now.\n\nHowever, this is not the champagne moment many had hoped for. The real prize for businesses in hospitality and beyond was the planned removal of all restrictions on 21 June. The recent increasing concerns and government warnings about the threat posed by the Indian variant to the reopening roadmap are casting an unwelcome cloud of uncertainty.\n\nEven with the restrictions being eased today, with the reintroduction of seated indoor drinking and dining, many businesses will still be unable to operate anywhere near pre-pandemic capacity and will be facing the prospect of deferred rent bills, the repayment of Covid loans and an increasingly acute staff shortage as hospitality workers who left the industry don't yet feel confident enough to return.\n\nA separate report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development said employers would have to improve pay and working conditions to get the staff they need.\n\nStephen Burns, chief executive of the Hollywood Bowl Group, which runs bowling and mini-golf sites throughout the UK, said his venues had only been able to trade for seven or eight of the past 62 weeks, costing the business £100m in lost revenue, during which time bills had mounted.\n\n\"Whilst we are incredibly grateful for the support that we have seen from the government, there has still been the cost of keeping our team members on furlough, as well as paying our rent, service charges and utility bills, so it has had a significant impact on our cashflows.\" He said maintaining the furlough scheme had cost the firm £100,000 a week.\n\nHollywood Bowl had been able to engage with its landlords, something that wasn't happening across all areas of the leisure sector, he added.\n\nHollywood Bowl is keen to get back to pre-Covid levels of business\n\nAfter reopening, the bowling alleys would only run at half capacity, said Mr Burns, until measures to curb the pandemic end altogether, currently scheduled for 21 June, according to the government's roadmap.\n\nHowever that date has now been thrown into doubt. The government has said it will make a decision on 14 June about whether the final easing of restrictions can go ahead.\n\nMs Katona said many businesses would make little or no profit while capacity was still restricted.\n\n\"In order to survive, what needs to happen is that we need to trade at the levels that we were trading prior to Covid,\" she said.\n\n\"While social distancing is in place we cannot do that. Many places will not be able to make any kind of profit while restrictions are in place.\"\n\nShe fears many businesses will go bankrupt in the Autumn as landlords demand rent arrears and says the government should look at things like business rates and VAT rates as well as support with debts due to landlords.\n\nMr Kwarteng said he hoped the final lifting of restrictions, including ending the need to distance indoors, would go ahead in June, but that he couldn't offer any \"cast iron guarantees\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency services at the scene of the collapse carried the injured away\n\nAt least two people have died and scores have been injured after a tiered seating structure collapsed at a partly built synagogue north of Jerusalem.\n\nPolice said about 650 ultra-Orthodox worshippers were in the synagogue at Givat Zeev, a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, to mark a festival.\n\nFootage showed the seating collapse and people falling on top of each other.\n\nIt comes weeks after 45 people died in a crush at an ultra-Orthodox festival on Mount Meron in northern Israel.\n\nIn Sunday's incident, initial reports from Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said medics \"provided care to about 60 injured, including about 10 in critical and severe condition\".\n\nA later update said two people were confirmed dead and about 100 were injured.\n\nThe stands had been packed for a religious festival\n\nThe seats at the back of the stands appear to have collapsed into the space below\n\nWitnesses said the collapse happened during a ceremony to mark the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Video showed hundreds of worshippers dancing and singing just before the seating gave way.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was praying for the injured.\n\nThe synagogue was described as partially constructed. Police and local officials said organisers had been warned that the building was unsafe and the event had taken place despite a lack of permits.\n\n\"We were called again to another event where there was negligence and a lack of responsibility. There will be arrests,\" Jerusalem district police chief Doron Turgeman told television reporters.\n\nIsrael's government watchdog has launched an inquiry into the deadly crush at Mount Meron - one of Israel's worst civilian disasters - saying it could have been prevented. All the victims were men or boys.\n\nThe synagogue is in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank", "Cases of Covid-19 in Glasgow are continuing to rise\n\nGlasgow may have to remain under level three Covid restrictions for longer than a week, Scotland's national clinical director has warned.\n\nProf Jason Leitch said the situation remained \"fragile\" as case rates continue to climb.\n\nThe latest seven-day average per 100,000 population in the city is 94.5 cases, well above the level two benchmark of 50 cases.\n\nEast Renfrewshire has seen its case rate jump to 75.4, overtaking Moray.\n\nGlasgow and Moray are the only local authority areas due to remain in level three on Monday, as the rest of mainland Scotland, including East Renfrewshire, go down to level two, and some islands to level one.\n\nThe outbreak in Moray appears to have stabilised, with the case rate falling for the fourth consecutive day to 58.4 per 100,000 population in the latest published figures.\n\nIn East Renfrewshire, however, the rate is climbing steeply with 72 positive cases over the past seven days.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland infection rates in every local authority were being monitored and action would be taken to contain outbreaks, if necessary.\n\n\"The last thing we want to do is to have areas going in and out of restrictions like a yo-yo, that's the worst of all possible worlds.\n\n\"What we need to try and do is what we're doing in the overwhelming majority of the country which is get to a sustained position of suppression of the virus which then enables us to take the necessary action to relax restrictions.\"\n\nThere is evidence the Glasgow surge is being driven by the so-called Indian variant, unlike in Moray where it is thought to be much less of a factor.\n\nLast Tuesday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said all mainland areas with the possible exception of Moray were expected to move to level two rules which allow different households to meet up indoors, and pubs and restaurants to serve alcohol indoors.\n\nBut on Friday she announced that the move to level two would be delayed by a week for both Moray and Glasgow after cases rose rapidly, particularly in the south of the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The decision to delay Glasgow's move to level two was a tough one, says Jason Leitch\n\nProf Leitch told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show \"it may well be\" that Glasgow would have to remain in level three for longer than an extra week.\n\nHe added: \"We'll give the best advice we can on this - we've met all weekend, we'll meet next week.\n\n\"Glasgow are doing an enormous amount of work. The leaders of the public health response in Glasgow are testing everywhere.\n\n\"If you haven't had a test and you're in Glasgow, you should do it.\"\n\nLateral flow test kits are available free on the NHS, and everyone in Scotland - but particularly in Glasgow - is being urged to take them twice a week regardless of whether they have symptoms, Prof Leitch said.\n\nOn vaccination, he said text messages were going out to younger age groups in the worst-affected Glasgow postcodes, inviting them to be vaccinated.\n\nProf Leitch said work was ongoing to identify those who did not previously come forward for their first dose, and he also urged people to take up offers of the second dose.\n\nHowever, he said the success of the vaccination programme meant there was no evidence yet that the upturn in cases would lead to significant increases in deaths or pressures on the NHS.\n\n\"We're keeping Glasgow at three. We're not locking Glasgow down. The beer gardens can still open, you can still meet outdoors,\" he said.\n\nPeople are urged to take regular tests, regardless of whether they have symptoms\n\nWhile a case rate of 50 cases per 100,000 population is a key benchmark for deciding if an area can move to level two, other factors such as the ability of the local health service to cope are also considered.\n\nOn Sunday another 292 cases of Covid-19 reported across the whole of Scotland, with 2% of tests coming back positive, the highest percentage since 19 April.\n\nEarlier, the Westminster health secretary, Matt Hancock, said the experience of Bolton, which has also seen a surge in the Indian variant, was that it was mainly spreading among younger people who had not had a vaccine jab.\n\nHe said that while this variant appeared to me more transmissible and was likely to become the dominant UK strain, he was \"confident\" that existing vaccines offered protection.\n\nIn Bolton, he said he was aware of five people in hospital despite having had one dose of the vaccine and one \"frail\" person who had received two doses - but he said the \"vast majority\" were people who had not received any vaccine.", "A new emergency alert text system will be trialled this summer before being rolled out across the UK.\n\nWarnings will be sent directly to people's phones in the event a risk to life, such as flooding or fire.\n\nSimilar systems exist in other countries, including New Zealand, \"where it has been widely credited with saving lives,\" the government said.\n\nThe first trial will be in East Suffolk on 25 May, when residents will receive a test alert.\n\nA second test will be held in Reading on 15 June. If it is successful, the system will be rolled out across the UK.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the alerts would issue a warning, details of the affected area, advice on what to do, and a link to further information.\n\nThe system will be a \"vital tool in helping us to better respond to emergencies,\" said Penny Mordaunt, the Cabinet Office minister.\n\nIt will \"allow us to more quickly and effectively get life-saving messages to people,\" she added.\n\nAlerts could be sent for situations including public health emergencies, severe floods, fires, industrial incidents and terror attacks.\n\nDuring the pandemic, text alerts were sent to remind people to stay at home.\n\nThe new system would use cell broadcasting technology, which the government says will ensure alerts are \"secure, free to receive, and one-way\".\n\nThe system does not use people's phone numbers, instead sending alerts to anyone in a specific area.\n\nThe alerts \"do not reveal your location and do not collect any personal data. Alerts can also only be sent by authorised governmental and emergency services users,\" the government said.\n\nMs Mordaunt said the government was working with the devolved administrations to ensure all emergency services have access to the system, as well as consulting the charity sector to make sure \"the needs of the elderly, vulnerable, young people and those with disabilities are fully considered as the new service is delivered\".\n\nIt will be possible to opt-out of some alerts through the phone's settings. However, the most important alerts will always come through and the government recommends that people do not opt-out.", "Thousands of fans marched to George Square after the match\n\nPolice Scotland has said \"many more arrests will follow\" what it described as \"disgraceful\" scenes as Rangers fans celebrated in Glasgow city centre.\n\nFive police officers were injured and 28 people arrested as crowds were dispersed due to \"rising disorder\".\n\nThousands of fans had taken to the streets after Rangers' first Scottish Premiership title win in a decade.\n\nThey marched from Ibrox Stadium to George Square on Saturday where flares were set off and missiles thrown.\n\nPolice broke up the crowds after about five hours due to \"rising disorder\", with one officer suffering a serious facial injury.\n\nPolice Scotland Deputy Chief Constable Will Kerr said investigations were continuing and further arrests would be made in the coming weeks.\n\nGlasgow remains in level three of Covid lockdown restrictions, with large gatherings outdoors not permitted.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"To say I'm utterly disgusted by the Rangers fans who rampaged through the city would be an understatement.\"\n\nThere had been a high, visible police presence throughout the day as huge crowds gathered outside Ibrox before the final game of the season against Aberdeen.\n\nGeorge Square was covered in rubbish after the crowd was broken up by police\n\nPolice Scotland said it had declined a request to facilitate the march to George Square and urged the crowd to go home.\n\nAfter supporters celebrated in George Square for about five hours, officers said some fans became unruly.\n\nProperty was damaged, several people assaulted and missiles and flares were thrown at officers.\n\nOfficers formed a line and cleared the group from the area just after 21:00, with Police Scotland describing the fans' behaviour as \"disgraceful\".\n\nMounted police officers were used to control the crowd\n\n\"Our officers became the focus of the crowd's attention with missiles and flares being thrown at them,\" Ch Supt Mark Sutherland, Police Scotland's Divisional Commander for Greater Glasgow, said in a statement.\n\n\"Our policing response has been proportionate. We have responded appropriately and consistently to the behaviour of those gathered.\n\n\"This disgraceful behaviour which clearly endangered public and officer safety could not be tolerated and officers dressed in full public order equipment after appropriate warnings were given, moved in to disperse those present.\n\n\"Although most of those present dispersed, a number remained and confronted officers with violence and aggression. Missiles were thrown and officers came under direct attack as George Square and the surrounding area was cleared.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"angry on behalf of every law-abiding citizen\".\n\nThe first minister added: \"In normal times, the violence and vandalism and the vile anti-Catholic prejudice that was on display would have been utterly unacceptable. But mid-pandemic, in a city with cases on the rise, it was also selfish beyond belief.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she hoped Rangers would \"reflect on what more must be done to tackle this behaviour by fans, albeit a minority\".\n\nShe added: \"However, ultimate responsibility lies with those who behaved in such a thuggish, sectarian and selfish manner. And that's why we must let the police do their job.\"\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, said Glasgow was in a \"fragile\" place and it was \"disappointing to see people break the rules, in whatever setting and for whatever reason\".\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show: \"This virus has not gone away - we're not joking, we're not pretending - it's absolutely real.\n\n\"And the risk, particularly now in Glasgow, is quite high and Glasgow is fragile.\n\n\"You've seen us make an enormously difficult decision this week on our advice that has kept a bit of Glasgow in the same level.\n\n\"It feels like a tough day to watch that yesterday if you are a business owner or a family waiting for lunch or dinner.\"\n\nGlasgow city centre was taken over by Rangers fans on Saturday evening\n\nScottish Police Federation chairman David Hamilton said the people in George Square had shown a \"blatant disregard for the safety of the public and police officers\".\n\nHe told The Sunday Show: \"To see that number of people blatantly ignoring all the health advice, the government advice, the police advice - even the club advice to disperse - is just absolutely appalling.\n\n\"Policing in this country is, of course, done by consent. The whole strategy throughout the coronavirus pandemic has been about making sure people take personal responsibility and they have not done so.\n\n\"These people should not have been there in the first place and when they were asked to move, they should have gone.\"\n\nFans had been warned against gathering to celebrate due to rising Covid-19 cases in Glasgow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marching fans pack the 'squinty' bridge over the River Clyde\n\nThe Union Bears fan group had earlier announced plans to walk from the stadium to George Square.\n\nOn Friday night, scores of Rangers fans lit red flares simultaneously along the River Clyde in the city as they marked the end of the season.\n\nIn an earlier statement on Saturday, Ch Supt Sutherland said: \"We understand the importance of football in Glasgow, how it connects our communities and, is for many, a culture and a way of life.\n\n\"We are, however, still in the midst of a pandemic and under coronavirus restrictions people should not be gathering for any reason.\"\n\nThere was a large police presence around George Square\n\nHe said a request for a fan procession to the city centre had been declined, but police later decided to escort large groups of supporters as they made their way to George Square in order to minimise disruption.\n\nSome arrests were made in the afternoon for anti-social behaviour.\n\nBut Ch Supt Sutherland said due to the largely peaceful nature of the crowd at that time \"it would not be proportionate for our resources to use a high level of force through public order policing to disperse those gathering\".", "Almost 23 million people saw the Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nThe BBC has postponed its broadcast of a Panorama investigation into reporter Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nPanorama was expected to examine claims that Bashir used fake bank statements to convince Diana to do the interview.\n\nThe film was due to air on BBC One on Monday but the broadcaster said it had been delayed due to a \"significant duty of care issue\".\n\nBashir left the corporation earlier this week due to ongoing health issues.\n\nA new date for the programme has not yet been confirmed.\n\nThe 58-year-old was BBC News religion editor and was seriously ill with Covid-19 when the allegations emerged late last year. He has since undergone a quadruple heart bypass and another heart operation more recently.\n\nThe decision to push back the Panorama episode comes shortly after a separate investigation into the interview - led by Lord Dyson - had concluded.\n\nThe BBC said Bashir had co-operated fully with the inquiry and would not comment publicly while that process was ongoing.\n\nLord Dyson, who was Master of the Rolls - the second most senior judge in England and Wales, had been tasked with looking into the steps Bashir and the corporation took to get the interview.\n\nHis report has been given to the BBC, which the broadcaster said would be published \"very soon\".\n\nNearly 23 million people tuned in to watch the Panorama interview, recorded 25 years ago.\n\nIn the interview, Diana famously said that \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles. At the time she was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nThe princess also talked frankly about her difficulties with post-natal depression and bulimia.\n\nDiana's son, the Duke of Cambridge, welcomed the launch of the inquiry late last year and his brother, the Duke of Sussex, reportedly also supported it.\n\nQuestions arose late last year over the interview, which was one of the most watched BBC programmes of all time and won Bashir a Bafta TV award.\n\nMartin Bashir's interview with Princess Diana for Panorama took place in November 1995\n\nDiana's brother, Earl Spencer, said Bashir had used forged bank statements to persuade the princess to do the interview.\n\nIt was reported by the Daily Mail that the statements wrongly purported to show that two senior courtiers were being paid by the security services for information on his sister.\n\nThe BBC has previously apologised for the use of the statements, but has insisted they played \"no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".\n\nIn March, police ruled out a criminal investigation into the background to the interview.", "Sarah Everard's body was found in woodland in March\n\nDozens of officers and staff are being investigated for looking up details of the Sarah Everard case on the police computer system, the Met has said.\n\nThe 33-year-old marketing executive vanished as she walked home in Clapham, south London, on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in Kent woodland.\n\nThe Met's Directorate of Professional Standards is set to question staff who accessed files on the case.\n\nDoing so \"without a purpose\" could be a criminal offence, the force said.\n\nThe Sun first reported that more than 30 Met Police officers and staff were under investigation.\n\nA Met spokeswoman said officers and staff needed to have access to computer records, but were only permitted to review specific information.\n\nShe said that accessing records without a legitimate reason could amount to a breach of professional standards or even be a criminal offence.\n\n\"Officers from the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards are in the process of contacting those officers and staff who accessed records relating to the investigation into the abduction and murder of Sarah Everard to ensure that each access was for a legitimate policing purpose,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Once all the responses have been received, a decision will be taken as to whether any further action is required.\"\n\nPC Wayne Couzens, 48, from Deal in Kent, is accused of Ms Everard's kidnap and murder.\n\nHe is due to appear at the Old Bailey for a plea hearing on 9 July.\n\nAt a previous hearing, a provisional trial date was set for 25 October.", "The Puerto Rican authorities are investigating which beach Jake Paul was on and if any laws were broken (file photos)\n\nYouTuber Jake Paul is being investigated after posting a video on social media apparently showing him driving around a protected beach in Puerto Rico.\n\nDriving is illegal on some of the island's beaches, as turtles nest in the sand.\n\nThe local Department of Natural and Environmental Resources said it would investigate whether the law had been broken.\n\nPaul has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe Instagram video showed Paul and a group of people driving around in two vehicles on a beach. The post now been removed.\n\nTurtle nesting and hatching season is between February and August in Puerto Rico and its beaches attract several protected species, including the endangered leatherback.\n\nThe video was widely shared online and many criticised the Youtuber-turned-boxer for putting the reptiles at risk, saying eggs could be crushed by the vehicles.\n\nOne Puerto Rican accused Paul of \"destroying our beaches\", on Twitter.\n\nPaul’s brother, Logan - who is also a boxer and YouTuber - has recently moved to Puerto Rico but is not pictured in the videos.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Logan and Jake Paul became social-media superstars\n\n\"I have ordered an investigation to determine the circumstances surrounding the use of two motor vehicles on beaches that are presumed to be in Puerto Rico,\" Environment Secretary Rafael Machargo said.\n\n\"Some media have published a video of the influencer Jake Paul in a motor vehicle on the beach, an activity that is prohibited.\"\n\nThe laws existed to “protect the environment and the species that can nest or live on the beaches”, he said.\n\n\"Those who violate the law face fines and other penalties, if applicable,” Mr Machargo said.\n\nAnd he applauded citizens who “become eyes and spokespersons for the possible environmental damage that some people cause due to ignorance or unscrupulousness”.\n\nAccording to TMZ, sources close to Paul said he was a \"huge animal lover\".", "Portugal has yet to decide whether it will allow visits from UK holidaymakers as it extends its \"state of calamity\" until 30 May.\n\nFrom 17 May, travellers from England and Scotland won't have to quarantine upon their return from Portugal and other \"green list\" countries.\n\nBut those countries have their own restrictions on who can visit.\n\nHowever, some football fans may be able to go to the planned UEFA Champions League final in Porto on 29 May.\n\nPortugal's government has announced that it is extending its \"state of public calamity\" on the mainland - the second highest level of alert - for a further 15 days from Monday, until 30 May.\n\nUnder current plans, people from England and Scotland will be allowed to travel to Portugal for non-essential reasons from Monday.\n\nBut whether they will be allowed in by Portugal has not been decided yet by the Portuguese government, said cabinet office minister Mariana Vieira da Silva.\n\n\"I have no information to give yet,\" she said at a briefing when asked whether the UK restrictions would soon be lifted.\n\n\"Work is going on and as soon as there is a decision it will be announced, but no decision was taken in this cabinet meeting,\" she said.\n\nTravellers from the UK are one of the biggest markets for Portugal's tourism sector, along with those from Spain and France.\n\nMs Vieira da Silva did not say when a decision on the matter might be taken.\n\nAt present, Portugal allows flights to and from the UK, but only for essential travel, such as for business, study, family reasons, health or humanitarian reasons.\n\nFirms including Tui and Easyjet have been offering holidays and flights to green list countries, but online travel firm On The Beach has stopped selling all holidays for this summer due to Covid uncertainty.\n\nTui has 44 flights due to depart for Portugal between 17 and 30 May. These include 28 to the Algarve, a popular destination for UK summer holidays.\n\nThe UEFA Champions League final in Porto has not yet been officially announced, but is widely expected after Portugal's government agreed to allow a limited number of fans to attend, despite this not yet being the case at domestic games.\n\nMs Vieira da Silva said that a series of restrictions would apply.\n\nThere will be a 12,000 limit on numbers and tickets will be for named people in designated seats, which will spaced in line with health guidelines.\n\nFans will have to fly in on charters, arriving and leaving \"on the same day\" in what Ms Vieira da Silva described as \"a bubble situation\" - passing through a separate zone at the airport, as well as having to take a coronavirus test before travelling.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Doug Beattie says some UUP members may not like his \"liberal credentials\"\n\nUpper Bann MLA Doug Beattie has been elected as the new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).\n\nMr Beattie was the only candidate to run for the top post in the party.\n\nIt comes after Steve Aiken announced his decision to step down as party leader after less than two years in the job. He said he had taken the party as far as he could.\n\nNominations for the leadership closed at 12:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe election has yet to be formally ratified by a meeting of the Ulster Unionist Party council at the end of May.\n\nThe party - once led by Good Friday peace agreement negotiator and former NI first minister, David Trimble - lost its Westminster seats in the 2017 general election.\n\nAt a press conference in Stormont on Monday, Mr Beattie said he felt \"the weight of expectation on my shoulder\".\n\nHe said the party was a modernising one that wants to reach out by reforming its structures, bringing in more women and young people.\n\n\"We know there are some mammoth tasks ahead of us, not least the Northern Ireland Protocol and we will look to see how we can address that.\n\n\"All of these things will feed into a degree of instability which is affecting Northern Ireland.\"\n\nBut he said the UUP would \"stay stable\".\n\nMr Beattie, a retired Army captain who was first elected as an MLA in 2016, said he was the right person to \"rekindle the fortunes\" of the UUP and give a clear vision for the future.\n\nHe said the Northern Ireland Executive and the assembly is \"fractious\" and it \"won't take much to tip it over the edge\".\n\nMr Beattie told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programe that the Northern Ireland Protocol, the post-Brexit arrangement for Northern Ireland which places a border in the Irish Sea, is here to stay and cannot be voted away.\n\nHe reiterated that it is damaging for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nHe said he wanted a solution that did not place a hard border either in the Irish Sea or on the island of Ireland.\n\nDoug Beattie's decades of experience on the military front line may be about to come in handy on the battlefield of Stormont politics.\n\nOne of the tasks he faces is getting rid of the Brexit protocol, which may require him to work closely with the incoming DUP leader Edwin Poots.\n\nAs a liberal Ulster Unionist, Doug Beattie is conscious that his brand of politics may not win over everyone in his party.\n\nThe Upper Bann MLA wants to revive and reform the party's fortunes, but can he now go where his predecessors have failed and convince Ulster Unionist members to back him and any changes he hopes to make?\n\n\"We will look for policies that are progressive, we will look for a union of people over the coming months and years and we will make Northern Ireland work,\" he said.\n\nHis election comes just days after Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), elected Edwin Poots and Paula Bradley as the new leader and deputy leader.\n\nThey will replace Arlene Foster and Lord Dodds. Mr Beattie said there was \"clear blue water\" between the DUP and UUP.\n\n\"That's good for unionism and that gives unionism a choice,\" he said.\n\n\"Those disenfranchised unionists, who are more centre or centre right, may find a home in the Ulster Unionist Party.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nWilder (right) could be in line to delay any bout between Joshua (left) and Fury Tyson Fury has been ordered to fight Deontay Wilder for a third time, casting doubt over a proposed August super bout with Anthony Joshua. Fury, 32, won the WBC world heavyweight title from Wilder in a rematch in February 2020 after an initial draw. The pair were due to fight again but delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic prompted Fury to seek an alternative. On Monday a US judge ruled in mediation that Wilder has a right to face Fury for a third time before 15 September. The American's team had long argued their fighter had a contractual right to a third fight with Fury. But after delays caused by the pandemic led to a July 2020 contest being postponed, Wilder's team sought to move the bout to 2021. Fury refused the 2021 date and said he would move on. That prompted mediation overseen by American judge Daniel Weinstein, who has now sided with Wilder and set a 15 September deadline for a third contest. \"Until we can reach an accommodation with Deontay Wilder's people, I can't say that [Fury's fight with Joshua] will definitely happen,\" Fury's promoter Frank Warren told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. \"But we are working hard to get that over the line. We were talking last night and hopefully we can do that. If not then Tyson, if he wishes, will go to the fight with Wilder. They're the only two options.\" Fury's US promoters Top Rank did not wish to comment on the development when contacted by BBC Sport. But Top Rank founder Bob Arum told ESPN that Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas has been reserved for a Fury-Wilder fight on 24 July. \"We're not paying Wilder to step aside,\" said Arum. \"It's better to get rid of him and go about our business. We can make the Fury-Joshua fight for November or December.\" Just 24 hours before Monday's arbitration hearing, Fury confirmed he had agreed to fight fellow Briton Joshua - holder of the IBF, WBA and WBO belts - for all four heavyweight world titles in Saudi Arabia on 14 August. Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn has also said several times that the August bout was in place, with terms agreed. The mediation outcome does not necessarily mean a Fury-Joshua fight cannot take place in August but fresh deals will now need to be struck for it to do so. That could mean Wilder being offered money to allow Fury-Joshua to take place. \"It'll cost quite a bit of money. He will want as much as possible so I think it'll be about the negotiation if we go down that road,\" said Warren. Saudi authorities are reportedly putting forward around £106m just to stage the Fury-Joshua contest. Pay-per-view sales and ticket sales will serve to substantially add to the total revenue of the contest. If it goes ahead, Joshua versus Fury will be the first bout in heavyweight history where all four world titles are on the line. Just 24 hours after Fury said he had been in conversation with Saudi organisers and agreed to seal the deal, this Wilder news will come as a blow. How big of a blow is not yet clear. With so much money to be made from Joshua v Fury, one would think a deal will be struck with Wilder whereby he steps aside and perhaps even gets told he can face the winner in 2022. It may suit him to do so given he can pocket a sizeable sum and prepare against an opponent of his choosing short-term - he has been out of the ring for 15 months. There were already countless moving parts to a Joshua-Fury deal, with three promoters, several broadcasters, four sanctioning bodies and a host venue all needing to co-operate to get the fight done. But any postponement would be highly damaging for the sport given so many fans from outside boxing's hardcore support will tune in to watch it. It is a golden opportunity to draw new people into the sport, and fights with such a crossover appeal are rare.\n• None He talks to Sir Mo Farah about choosing a positive route in life\n• None Looking for a new phone?: BBC Scotland look at the research you should do before you trade up", "After months of good news, including falling Covid cases and a hugely successful vaccination campaign, the tone has shifted.\n\nEngland's full relaxation of rules in June is in jeopardy and there is the looming spectre of greater pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe thorn in the plans is the variant of coronavirus that emerged in India - B.1.617.2 - and has started spreading around the world.\n\nConcerns have been mounting over the past week and, for the first time, the scientists advising the UK government are now confident it does spread more easily.\n\nThe expectation is the variant will edge out the one that emerged in Kent and eventually \"dominate\" cases in the UK.\n\nWe are in a race between the virus and the vaccine. Easing restrictions on Monday and a more transmissible variant means the virus will move even faster.\n\nBut there is still huge uncertainty about exactly how much better the B.1.617.2 variant is at spreading.\n\n\"That's a really critical question to which we do not yet have the answer,\" said Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nIf it is just a smidge faster than the Kent variant, which still makes up the overwhelming majority of cases in the UK, then there's not much to worry about.\n\nHowever, the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) says there is a \"realistic possibility\" it could spread 50% faster, which is a lot.\n\nThere are some higher estimates of 60% coming out of India, but these are based on published genetic sequences from viral samples and its not clear how representative of the overall picture they are.\n\nSage estimates the problems would really start with a variant that was 40% more transmissible as it \"would lead to a substantial resurgence of hospitalisations\" and put pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe uncertainty is reminiscent of last year when the new variant in Kent was first detected and raised questions about the approach to controlling the virus.\n\nBut it is important to remember we are not in the same situation as last year.\n\nMore than 19 million people - a third of the adult population - have had both jabs of their vaccine. Another 17 million have had one. Vaccines are weakening, if not eliminating, the link between infection and severe disease.\n\nAnd overall cases are also far lower. The Office for National Statistics estimates fewer than 50,000 people currently have the virus. The figure was 1.25 million at the start of the year. Currently there are only around 1,000 people in hospital with Covid.\n\nThe concern is that while vaccines are great they are not perfect and not everyone who is vulnerable has had one. So if there was another wave of cases from the combination of relaxing and a new variant then a worrying number of people could still end up in hospital.\n\nNote these predictions are not crystal balls. Earlier mathematical models had predicted a summer wave, but suddenly became far more optimistic once it became clear vaccinated people were less likely to spread the virus.\n\nPlans to reopen are going ahead, but the vaccination campaign is being tweaked to give more vulnerable people more immunity more quickly.\n\nThe hope is if the variant is going to pose a problem then there will be time to spot any further warning signs - such as a rise in hospital admissions - and then act.\n\nThe prime minister, Boris Johnson, said that if the Indian variant proves to be \"significantly more transmissible\" than other strains then \"we're likely to face some hard choices\" in the UK.\n\nBut the problem posed by more transmissible variants is far greater in countries that haven't got successful vaccination programmes, where they could be hugely damaging.", "The freight train was carrying highly flammable fertiliser and nearby residents have been evacuated.\n\nThe incident happened near the city of Sibley in the north west of Iowa.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Search and rescue teams are still at the scene\n\nA two-year-old boy has died and four adults have been injured in a suspected gas explosion in Heysham, Lancashire.\n\nFirefighters, police and ambulances were called to Mallowdale Avenue in the town in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nTwo houses had collapsed and a third property was seriously damaged, Lancashire Police said.\n\nGeorge Arthur Hinds was described by his parents, Vicky Studholme and Stephen Hinds, as their \"beautiful little angel.\"\n\nGeorge's parents said the two-year-old was \"so precious to us\"\n\nMs Studholme and Mr Hinds were also injured in the blast, which happened at 02:40 BST.\n\nAnother man and woman remain in hospital in critical condition, Lancashire Police said.\n\nIn a tribute the parents said: \"We are devastated at the loss of our beautiful George.\n\n\"He was so precious to us. We have no words to describe how we feel and just want time to ourselves to come to terms with what has happened.\n\n\"Our beautiful little angel grew his wings today.\"\n\nTwo houses have collapsed and others have been badly damaged\n\nAssistant chief constable Jo Edwards said at a press conference at the scene earlier that the search and rescue operation was still ongoing but \"we believe we have got everybody out\".\n\nLancashire Fire said a major incident was declared after it was reported that there had been an explosion at a property on Mallowdale Avenue.\n\nAbout 30-40 people were evacuated from their homes. Most went to stay with friends and family but the Salt Ayre Leisure Centre is welcoming anyone needing support.\n\nPolice are using specially-trained dogs to search through the rubble\n\nLancaster City Council leader Erica Lewis said councils would give housing support to those affected and a helpline has been opened.\n\nShe said it was important to understand how the incident happened and let the investigation run its course.\n\nOne neighbour said the explosion \"sounded like a bomb going off\".\n\nShe said: \"It literally shook the whole bed. We felt like we were going through the floor.\n\nFirefighters and ambulances were sent to the scene in the early hours\n\n\"We jumped out of bed and we just ran to see what was going on. It's just awful.\"\n\nSusan Faulkner, 74, who lives further down the avenue, said she was still shaken by the incident.\n\n\"I woke up with this huge bang and I thought someone was breaking into my house... I'm still quite shaken by it. I've never experienced that before.\"\n\nNeighbours said the explosion \"sounded like a bomb going off\"\n\nMs Faulkner said that her own property and others close by had been damaged.\n\n\"It was quite a blast,\" she said. \"I live quite a way down there and part of my side door was blown in and my next door neighbour's plates were smashed,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been very lucky. When I see what those poor souls have had happen to them, it's devastating. I'm really sad for those people. It's such a sad thing to happen to them.\"\n\nCars and houses were damaged by bricks and debris from the blast\n\nDan Knowles, who lives four streets away from the explosion, said he thought there had been an earthquake.\n\n\"We immediately checked on our kids and got back in bed. We then heard sirens and my wife checked Facebook.\n\n\"We stayed indoors and switched everything off at the source and then sat up all night worrying.\"\n\nAnother neighbour said he had been helping out \"making brews\" since being woken by the blast.\n\nMatt House, from North West Ambulance Service, said he had not seen an explosion like this in the UK during his 20 years of service.\n\nPolice advised people to stay away from the area\n\nBen Norman, assistant chief fire officer, said there would be \"untold\" impact on fire officers working at the scene.\n\nHe said at its peak, 80 fire officers were at the scene with two engines pulled in from Cumbria and emergency service workers \"took great risks\".\n\nHe added: \"Some of those are staff that respond from home or a workplace. They're on-call firefighters so they go back into this community.\n\n\"They live within it, they work within it, their families are within it.\"\n\nLocal MP David Morris, who represents Morecambe and Lunesdale, thanked the emergency services on Twitter and said: \"My thoughts and prayers are with all of the families on Mallowdale Avenue\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Morris MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said they were working with gas service engineers to make the area safe and they advised people to stay away.\n\nElectricity North West, which supplies electricity across the north west of England, said on Twitter that engineers were removing supplies for safety.\n\nThe company could not confirm how many properties would be affected, or for how long.\n\nHeather Brandwood, who runs the Hurley Flyer pub in nearby Morecambe, said she had asked people to donate clothing and toiletries for evacuated residents.\n\nHelpers are sorting through donations at the Hurley Flyer pub\n\nShe said people had been queuing in the car park to help.\n\n\"We are very conscious that people were evacuated from their homes with immediate effect,\" she said.\n\n\"We have heard from an elderly couple who left in their pyjamas. There is a woman who is in literally nothing but her nightie.\"\n\nLancaster City Council has also lowered flags at its town halls as a mark of respect.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Mary Bastholm used to work at the cafe in Southgate Street where Fred West was a regular customer\n\nExcavation work is to begin at a cafe where police have been searching for a teenager whose disappearance was linked to serial killer Fred West.\n\nMary Bastholm went missing in Gloucester in 1968 and police have been searching the cellar of the premises where she used to work.\n\nOfficers were called to The Clean Plate cafe on 7 May following suggestions a body may have been buried there.\n\nThere is enough evidence for excavation work to take place, police said.\n\nMiss Bastholm, 15, was wearing a blue coat when she disappeared - and police have now revealed a production company filming a documentary at the cafe tipped them off after finding an image of blue material in one area of the cellar.\n\nWest was a regular at the cafeteria, then called the Pop-In Cafe, and was previously suspected over her disappearance.\n\nDet Ch Insp John Turner, of Gloucestershire Police, said: \"The analysis from our experts and the material provided by the production company means there is enough evidence to justify excavation work beginning.\n\n\"I've spoken to the family and was so impressed by their quiet dignity and gratitude for all the work we've done and will be doing.\"\n\nFred West took his own life while awaiting trial for the murders of 12 people\n\nForensic archaeologists confirmed on Monday that there were a number of structural anomalies within the cellar that would be investigated, with work set to begin on Wednesday and last for several weeks.\n\nMs Bastholm's family said they were \"extremely happy\" that police were continuing the search.\n\n\"This gives us a chance to potentially put her at rest after all these years. We hope this is a chance to finally get closure for Mary,\" they said in a statement.\n\nGloucestershire Police have said officers could be at the site \"for a number of weeks\" and excavation work will begin\n\nSerial killer West, aged 53, tortured, raped and murdered an unknown number of women over a 20-year period, along with his wife Rose.\n\nIn 1994, West admitted murdering his daughter Heather. The confession came as police began to search 25 Cromwell Street, where they found the bodies of nine girls and young women.\n\nWest was charged with 12 murders, but took his own life in a Birmingham prison before his trial.\n\nRose West was convicted of 10 murders in November 1995 and is serving life.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has compared people who refuse Covid vaccines to drink drivers.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, he called for people to consider how vaccine refusal affects others.", "The bus was travelling from Tenby to Crymych in Pembrokeshire when the crash happened\n\nA car driver has been killed and 17 pupils hurt after a crash between a school bus and a car in west Wales.\n\nTwo of the children were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the two-vehicle collision, which happened at about 08:30 BST on Monday.\n\nThe bus was travelling on the A478 near Llandissilio in Pembrokeshire while taking children to school in Crymych.\n\nThe road between Llandissilio and Llanglydwen was shut for almost 12 hours as police investigated the crash.\n\nPupils were travelling to Ysgol y Preseli when the crash happened and the school said 17 had been hurt in the incident.\n\nEmergency services were called just after 08:30 BST on Monday\n\nPembrokeshire council said the children travelling on the number 636 bus from Tenby to Crymych had been injured but not seriously - and parents had been contacted.\n\nDyfed Powys Police said: \"Sadly the driver of the motorcar died at the scene.\n\n\"Next of kin have been advised and are being supported by specialist officers.\"\n\nThe police had earlier confirmed \"a number of children received minor injuries\" with two taken to hospital by ambulance with what are described as minor injuries.\n\nThe road between Narberth and Cardigan was closed between 08:30 BST and 20:30 on Monday\n\n\"It's a very sad day and there's a cloud over our community,\" said local Pembrokeshire councillor Huw George.\n\n\"It was obvious fairly early on this was an horrific accident because of the the number of emergency vehicles attending here this morning.\"\n\nCllr Huw George said there was a \"cloud over our community\"\n\nHe said the school had \"worked quickly\" and counsellors would be going to the school to help the children - and a classroom set aside for them.\n\nA helpline set up by the council is available to parents or guardians only of children travelling on the bus on 01437 775400.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'Everyone was running' after warning\n\nVideo caption: Watch: How the tower block collapsed after strike Watch: How the tower block collapsed after strike A reporter with the Al-Jazeera news outlet has been describing what it was like to flee the tower block in Gaza where her organisation's offices were based, moments before it collapsed after being hit in an Israeli air strike on Saturday. Youmna Al-Sayed said they had been given a one-hour warning by Israel on to evacuate the 12-storey building, prompting a scramble to make it out. \"We know that when we get an evacuation call, we need to act quickly because they might target the building at any time,\" she told the BBC's Newshour programme. \"Everyone was running around, on the stairs in the elevators, grabbing their kit, grabbing our cameras, whatever we could get with us, and running quickly, which was really traumatising for us.\" \"I’ve seen lots of buildings being targeted and brought down - but when it’s your house or your building… it’s really devastating.”", "Bolton's vaccine hubs saw long queues across the weekend\n\nMore than 6,200 people were vaccinated in Bolton at the weekend amid concerns over the Indian Covid-19 variant.\n\nThe town has seen a sharp spike in infections since mid-April and the B.1.617.2 variant now makes up the majority of new cases.\n\nPrior to the push, about 10,000 people in the highest priority groups were yet to be vaccinated.\n\nDr Helen Wall, who is leading the town's vaccine rollout, said it had been \"emotional\" to see.\n\nShe said many who had been eligible for some time came for a jab over the last two days and she now hoped the programme had \"made a big dent\" in the list of outstanding eligible residents.\n\nBolton recorded 733 new cases of Covid-19 in the seven days to 11 May - the highest anywhere in the UK, the latest data shows.\n\nHowever, the rate of new cases among people in the town aged 60 and over is just 59.9, up from 35.3 a week earlier.\n\nBy contrast, the rate for those aged 10-19 in Bolton currently stands at 486.2 per 100,000, up sharply from 200.7 one week earlier, while for those aged 20-29 the rate has jumped from 147.9 to 310.\n\nThe efforts to get everyone eligible vaccinated saw long queues form at vaccination hubs.\n\nBBC presenter and comedian Paddy McGuinness shared a video of the queues in his \"strong\" hometown on social media.\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\nDespite the concerns over the Indian variant, the easing of lockdown rules has gone ahead as planned in England.\n\nThe easing allows people to socialise indoors in limited numbers, hug loved ones and visit pubs and restaurants inside.\n\nAlex McVey, who runs Odessa cafe in Bolton, said trade had been OK since reopening at 7:00 BST but, due to Covid measures, he had reduced the number of seats from 72 to 22.\n\n\"It has been a lot different this morning. It has taken ages and ages to get set up and everything in place,\" he said.\n\nMr McVey, who has been forced to make four members of staff redundant during the pandemic, said he was \"a little bit nervous\" about the reopening but remained hopeful.\n\nIn Bolton, a big push to get more people vaccinated is bearing fruit.\n\nHealth officials are targeting about 10,000 people who are eligible but have yet to come forward, but know that take-up of the vaccine in some parts of the town is lower than the national average.\n\nAnd they reject the charge that they are flouting the national rules on who can get a jab.\n\nIn February, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation - which sets the guidelines for the UK's vaccination roll-out - announced factors other than just health and age could be taken into account.\n\nSo deprivation, ethnicity and living in a multi-generational household with older, vulnerable relatives could mean that younger people are eligible.\n\nThis is not bending the rules, local leaders say. Rather, it is exactly what the rules are for.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday that a local lockdown in Bolton had not been ruled out due to a rise in cases.\n\nHe added that the \"vast majority\" of locals who had been hospitalised in recent days had not taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Dr Wall said the vaccination hubs were \"seeing people coming forward that clearly had the option to have the jab for some time - older people, disabled people - and they've chosen to come forward now\".\n\n\"I think in part that's because we brought this into the community as a trusted place, but also the things that are going on in Bolton are quite worrying for people,\" she said.\n\n\"I think that's given some push to people coming forward now for the vaccine.\"\n\nResidents in Bolton lined up outside the mobile vaccination centre\n\nSurge testing has already begun in other areas of north-west England where cases involving the Indian variant are on the rise.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" has also been detected in Blackburn, Lancashire, which neighbours Bolton, and in Sefton on Merseyside.\n\nBlackburn with Darwen's public health director said everyone over-18 should book a Covid vaccination in the area.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman said local areas should not vaccinate young people earlier than planned to stem the spread of the Indian variant of coronavirus.\n\nHe told a Westminster briefing the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation had said the best way to protect against the new variant was to ensure vulnerable groups got their second dose of the vaccine.\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\nDo you live in Bolton? What are your concerns about the Indian Covid-19 variant? 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.", "Microsoft was investigating its co-founder Bill Gates over a 20-year-old affair shortly before he stepped down from the company's board last year.\n\nThe tech giant confirmed that it had launched a probe after concerns were reported about his behaviour.\n\nThe firm said it held an investigation with a law firm and provided support to the employee who made the complaint.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Gates denied that his decision to step back had anything to do with the investigation.\n\nNews of the investigation emerged after Bill and Melinda Gates announced their decision to divorce after 27 years of marriage.\n\nOn Monday, a spokesman for Microsoft said the software company had received a complaint in late 2019 that Mr Gates had \"sought to initiate an intimate relationship\" with a female employee in 2000.\n\n\"A committee of the board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm, to conduct a thorough investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern,\" he said.\n\nThe investigation did not reach a conclusion, as Mr Gates stepped down from the board before it was completed.\n\nIn a LinkedIn post in March of last year, Mr Gates said that he took the decision so he could spend more time on his charity work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It came three months after he was re-elected.\n\nAt the time, he wrote: \"With respect to Microsoft, stepping down from the board in no way means stepping away from the company. Microsoft will always be an important part of my life's work... I feel more optimistic than ever about the progress the company is making and how it can continue to benefit the world.\"\n\nHowever, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Microsoft's board had decided that Mr Gates's involvement with a female employee was inappropriate and he needed to step down.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Gates acknowledged the affair took place when asked by the newspaper, but denied it had anything to do his decision to step back.\n\n\"There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Bill's decision to transition off the board was in no way related to this matter. In fact, he had expressed an interest in spending more time on his philanthropy starting several years earlier.\"\n\nThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation told the BBC that it stood by that statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Michelle Fleury breaks down the story of Bill and Melinda Gates' relationship\n\nBill and Melinda Gates announced their decision to divorce earlier this month. The couple have spent billions on charitable causes around the world and have pledged to continue to work together at the foundation once their divorce is finalised.\n\nUS media reported that the two had agreed how to divide their property and assets before announcing their separation.\n\nMr Gates, 65, is the fourth wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes, and is worth $124bn (£89bn).\n\nHe co-founded Microsoft - now the world's biggest software company - in the 1970s and remained full-time at the firm until 2008.\n\nThe couple's estate is believed to include multi-million dollar properties in the states of Washington, Florida and Wyoming. Their main residence is a lakeside mansion in Medina, Washington that is reported to be worth at least $127m.", "Police have arrested four men in connection with a video which appeared to show anti-Semitic abuse being shouted from a car in north London.\n\nBoris Johnson earlier condemned the \"shameful racism\" aimed at British Jews, which had \"no place\" in society.\n\nThe person who filmed the video told the BBC they cried after witnessing the scene, adding: \"I don't feel safe.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the incident was \"utterly disgusting\", adding: \"There must be consequences\".\n\nIt comes as Israel launched strikes on the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired rockets at southern Israeli cities in the worst violence in the region since 2014.\n\nOn Sunday, a video was posted on social media appearing to show a convoy of cars with Palestinian flags driving down a street, with a man shouting anti-Semitic abuse from a megaphone.\n\nThe person who filmed the video - who wanted to remain anonymous - said they started filming when they heard \"excessive hooting\" outside their window in north London.\n\n\"They happened to stop at a set of traffic lights and I was able to capture what happened.\n\n\"I cried. How is this the world we live in today?\"\n\nThey added: \"I felt immediately frightened and appalled that this is happening in this country. What if I was walking alone wearing something that identified me as Jewish? What might have happened?\n\n\"I don't feel safe in my own home, and that's what terrifies me.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan Police said it deployed one of its helicopters to help trace the vehicle and officers stopped the car at approximately 18:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nFour men were arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offences. They have been taken into custody at a west London police station where they remain.\n\nThe police said the video appeared to be filmed in the St John's Wood area. St John's Wood is an area in north London which is home to a Jewish community.\n\nSuperintendent Jo Edwards, in charge of the policing operation, said the behaviour was \"utterly shocking\" and added that extra police patrols will be in place in St John's Wood and Golders Green on Sunday evening.\n\nOfficers will be sent to key venues, police said, \"to provide maximum reassurance to the local community, and deal robustly with anyone committing racially aggravated offences towards the Jewish community\".\n\nThe prime minister was among many politicians to condemn the video on social media.\n\n\"There is no place for anti-Semitism in our society,\" Mr Johnson tweeted. \"Ahead of Shavuot, I stand with Britain's Jews who should not have to endure the type of shameful racism we have seen today.\"\n\nShavuot is a Jewish festival beginning on Sunday that celebrates when the children of Israel received the Ten Commandments.\n\nSir Keir said: \"Utterly disgusting. Anti-Semitism, misogyny and hate have no place on our streets or in our society. There must be consequences.\"\n\nMike Freer, the local MP for Finchley and Golders Green, said: \"The scenes I've witnessed in my constituency today have left me sick to my stomach.\"\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the police had his \"full backing\" for their zero-tolerance approach, and Londoners could expect to see \"high visibility police patrols\".\n\n\"Hate crimes are inexcusable and have no place in our city,\" he said.\n\nThe Palestine Solidarity Campaign - one of the organisers of a protest in London on Saturday in support of the Palestinians - also condemned the incident.\n\n\"The vile anti-Semitism shouted today from a convoy of cars has no place in the Palestine solidarity movement,\" it said in a tweet. \"We condemn it and all anti-Semitism, on it's own account and also as it serves to undermine the anti-racist struggle for Palestinian rights.\"\n\nThousands of people attended Saturday's protest, which called on the UK government to step in and \"stop allowing Israel's brutal violence against and oppression of the Palestinian people to go unpunished\".", "On Sunday a video was posted on social media appearing to show a man shouting anti-Semitic abuse from a megaphone\n\nThere has been a \"deeply disturbing\" upsurge in anti-Semitism in recent years, the communities secretary says.\n\nRobert Jenrick told MPs incidents over the weekend in north London and Essex were \"intimidatory, racist and extremely serious crimes\".\n\n\"Every time the virus of anti-Semitism re-enters our society it masks itself as social justice,\" he added.\n\nIt comes amid rising tension between Israel and Palestinians in the Middle East.\n\nIsrael has conducted dozens of air strikes on the Gaza Strip, after Palestinian militants fired barrages of rockets at southern Israeli cities.\n\nThe pre-dawn raids on Gaza were some of the heaviest seen since the fighting began a week ago.\n\nResponding to an urgent question in the Commons, Mr Jenrick said there had been a particular upsurge in anti-Semitism on social media and condemned those who posted content online glorifying the Palestinian militant group Hamas.\n\nThe Community Security Trust said there had been a fivefold increase in reports of anti-Semitic incidents since the recent escalation in tensions between Israel and Palestinians.\n\nBetween 8 May and 17 May the charity recorded 86 anti-Semitic incidents, up from 16 in the previous 10 days.\n\nIt said the number was likely to rise due to delays in receiving and processing reports.\n\nMr Jenrick said the government was taking robust action to root out anti-Semitism and would shortly name and shame councils and universities which had refused to sign up to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.\n\nHe said grants had also been introduced to provide security at Jewish schools, synagogues and community buildings.\n\nOn Sunday a video was posted on social media appearing to show a convoy of cars with Palestinian flags driving down a street, with a man apparently shouting anti-Semitic abuse from a megaphone.\n\nThe Met Police said the video appeared to have been filmed in the St John's Wood area of north London, which is home to a Jewish community.\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offences, the force said.\n\nSuperintendent Jo Edwards, who is in charge of the investigation, said extra patrols had been arranged in the area in response to the \"shocking\" incident.\n\nMeanwhile, a rabbi needed hospital treatment after he was assaulted outside his synagogue in Chigwell, Essex, on Sunday.\n\nPolice responded to reports of a religiously-aggravated assault, after two teenagers were reported to have spoken about his religion in a derogatory way before attacking him.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"sickened\" by the anti-Semitic incidents over the weekend.\n\nShe told the Commons the footage of the convoy in north London was \"nothing to do with Palestine or Israel\".\n\n\"That was pure and simple anti-Semitism which sought to intimidate, harass and frighten members of the Jewish community,\" she said.\n\nConservative MP Robert Halfon, said the \"air has become even tighter\" for Jews following Sunday's \"horrific\" incidents.\n\nHe added: \"As a proud British-Jewish MP, I never imagined that I would live at a time when myself and the Jewish community would question whether Britain is a safe place for Jews any more.\"\n\nLabour MP Dame Margaret Hodge, who is also Jewish, told the Commons: \"Tragically, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict will not go away and we have to be able to debate and disagree without Jew hate or Islamophobia taking over.\"\n\nEarlier, London Mayor Sadiq Khan urged people to report anti-Semitism to police, saying any alleged hate crimes would be taken seriously.\n\n\"Many of us are angry, upset, heartbroken by the events in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza,\n\n\"That's no excuse, though, for anti-Semitism.... We're not going to tolerate it in London,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThousands of people attended a protest on Saturday, which called on the UK government to step in and \"stop allowing Israel's brutal violence against and oppression of the Palestinian people to go unpunished\".\n\nThe Palestine Solidarity Campaign - one of the organisers of the protest - has also condemned Sunday's incident in north London.", "Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez appeared together in the video for her song, Stuck With U\n\nPop star Ariana Grande has married her fiance Dalton Gomez in a \"tiny and intimate\" wedding.\n\nThe 27-year-old American singer tied the knot in front of fewer than 20 people over the weekend, the PA news agency reported.\n\nMs Grande announced in December she was engaged to the Los Angeles estate agent, 25.\n\nTheir wedding took place at her home in California, according to reports.\n\nA representative for the singer told PA: \"They got married. It was tiny and intimate - [fewer] than 20 people.\n\n\"The room was so happy and full of love. The couple and both families couldn't be happier.\"\n\nThe TMZ website said the ceremony took place at Grande's property in Montecito, a celebrity hotspot in southern California where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex also live.\n\nMr Gomez was raised in southern California and has been working in the luxury real estate market for five years, according to his biography on the AKG website.\n\nMs Grande shared news of their engagement just before Christmas on Instagram, showing a pearl and diamond ring on her left hand.\n\n\"Forever n then some,\" she captioned the post.\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 arianagrande This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe has been dating Mr Gomez for just over a year.\n\nIn February 2020, she was spotted by the press kissing her new love interest, Mr Gomez, at a restaurant in Los Angeles.\n\nThen in May, they made their first public appearance together as a couple in the lockdown music video to Grande and Justin Bieber's collaboration, Stuck With U.\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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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe following month, she posted a picture of them in each other's arms on Instagram.\n\nLast October, Ms Grande released her sixth album, Positions, which topped both the UK and US charts.\n\nThe singer was previously engaged to US comedian and actor Pete Davidson, but they called off their high-profile relationship two years ago.\n\nThis weekend will mark four years since a terrorist detonated a suicide bomb following a Grande performance at the Manchester Arena, killing 22 people.\n\nThe star, who said she suffered PTSD as a result of the atrocity, returned to Manchester in 2019 to headline the city's Pride festival.", "The tiger's new home is an animal sanctuary elsewhere in Texas\n\nA tiger that was missing for a week after being spotted roaming around a Houston neighbourhood has been found, police confirmed.\n\nIndia, the nine-month-old Bengal tiger, was turned in to police on Saturday and is said to be in good health.\n\nFootage shared on social media last week appeared to show the tiger wandering around the streets of in the west of the Texan city,\n\nIndia's new home is an animal sanctuary.\n\nThe animal was spotted out on the streets on 9 May. When officers arrived at the scene, a man put the tiger into an SUV and drove off, police said.\n\nHouston Police attempted to follow the vehicle but lost sight of it a short time later.\n\nThe alleged owner, Hugo Cuevas, was arrested several days later for evading arrest. At the time of the incident, Mr Cuevas was already on bail for a murder charge.\n\nMr Cuevas' lawyer has insisted that the animal was not his but told the Associated Press that he was involved \"in the caretaking of India often\".\n\nLate on Saturday, police said at a news conference that the animal was turned over to officers by Mr Cuevas' wife Giorgiana.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Houston Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not clear where the animal has been for the past week but Houston Police Commander Ron Borza said earlier this week that he believed the animal was being passed around several safe houses.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Saturday, Mr Borza said: \"In no way, shape or form should you have an animal like that in your household. That animal is only nine months old and already weighs 175 lbs (80kgs) - full grown, that animal can get to 600 lbs. It still had its claws and it could do a lot of damage if he decided to.\n\n\"Luckily for us, he's very tame and he will be going to a sanctuary tomorrow where, hopefully, he'll live the rest of his life in a very safe environment.\"\n\nThe tiger will have its own enclosure with a wooded area and pool at the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch.\n\nCarole Baskin, star of Netflix documentary Tiger King, said on Facebook that she was \"grateful\" the animal will be going to the sanctuary and said it had \"excellent facilities\".\n\nTigers are not allowed within Houston City limits although it is permitted in many parts of the state under certain conditions.\n\nAccording to the World Wildlife Fund, there are an estimated 5,000 tigers in captivity in the United States.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the Indian government launched ‘Project Tiger’ to save the animals from extinction", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A holidaymaker said she was \"so excited\" to be heading on a coach trip to the Lake District\n\nIndoor eating and drinking was back on the menu from Monday as Wales eased Covid rules to alert level two.\n\nCinemas and visitor attractions such as museums and galleries were also allowed to reopen in the latest round of lockdown easing.\n\nWales' latest reopening was similar to that of last summer, but this time with a vaccination programme in place.\n\nForeign travel is permitted to a small number of countries, although the Welsh government has advised against it.\n\nHowever physical contact, such as hugs, is still restricted to members of extended households or \"support bubbles\", unlike in England.\n\nAfter three lockdowns and the vaccination programme roll-out, Wales has seen a significant fall in Covid cases in recent months.\n\nBut newly reappointed First Minister Mark Drakeford said the Welsh government would maintain its cautious approach to lockdown easing, as concerns rise about a variant of coronavirus from India.\n\nIndoor leisure, such as this bingo hall in Rhyl, have reopened\n\nMinisters had considered relaxing lockdown restrictions further from Monday, but Mr Drakeford said officials had \"decided to hold back\" for more advice on the variant.\n\nFrom Monday, Wales is adopting the \"traffic-light\" system, allowing the resumption of international travel.\n\nBut the first minister warned last week international travel was \"best avoided\" because of concerns travellers could carry Covid with them.\n\nTeresa Moriarty, owner of Coffee Plus in Cardiff, was delighted to reopen indoors and hopes to keep the new customers who used her takeaway service during lockdown.\n\n\"There has been a lot of support for small businesses, we've adapted and done pretty well,\" she said.\n\nInside was a mix of people getting away from working at home to families spending time together again.\n\nKirsty Jones, from Cardiff, who was with her grandmother for brunch, said: \"It's lovely to start getting back to normal. We haven't seen each other as much as we would have liked, so it's lovely not to have to worry about the weather.\"\n\nFriends and families can now meet and not worrying about the weather\n\nAnna Redfern, who owns Cinema and Co in Swansea, called the Welsh government's rules for the hospitality and tourism trade \"bewildering\".\n\n\"The government is telling us what direction to walk in, what doors to use and they're just impractical,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"Trying to navigate through this rule book which is supposed to be guidance is really stressful.\"\n\nCatherine Hummel, co-owner of Riverside Camping near Caernarfon, said it was \"very exciting\" to be able to welcome back campers with tents as she could now reopen shower and toilet facilities as part of the easing of rules.\n\n\"It's great news because a lot of them we didn't see last year at all,\" she said.\n\nHotel boss Joe Lavin said his phones had been \"melting\" due to demand\n\nConwy's Castle Hotel general manager Joe Lavin said phones had been \"melting\" due to demand ahead of welcoming customers back from Monday.\n\n\"We're looking at a full week from this weekend and beyond,\" he said.\n\nMr Lavin said the \"biggest change\" to the business was adopting track and trace technology and an online booking system.\n\nPub owner Sian Shepphard says bookings have been \"brilliant\"\n\nSian Shepphard, owner of the Horse and Jockey pub in Pontypool, said advance bookings for inside dining had been \"brilliant\", although the business had remained busy in its beer garden prior to the rules easing further.\n\n\"We've got lots of measures in place just to make sure that everyone's safe but primarily has a good time and actually is able to come out and eat inside a restaurant,\" she said.\n\nHolidaymakers began setting off with travel firm Edwards Coaches in Llantrisant, for UK getaways.\n\nOwner Jason Edwards said Covid had been \"devastating\" but added Monday felt like Christmas morning with staff turning up to work two hours early.\n\n\"That just gives you an idea of the appetite for getting things done,\" he said.\n\nCustomer Gill Jones said she was \"over the moon\" to be able to travel by coach to the Lake District.\n\n\"A year last February was the last holiday I went on... so this is a big escape,\" she said.\n\nAndy Ainscough hopes north Wales can cash-in on staycations this summer\n\nThe Adventure Parc Snowdonia complex in the Conwy valley is to reopen on Tuesday, having been closed since March 2020.\n\nAlongside its surfing facilities, a new hotel will open its doors for the first time following a £20m upgrade of the site in the hope of capitalising on 'staycations'.\n\n\"Unfortunately we lost a lot of staff [but] we're rebuilding now to reopen both the adventure park and the Hilton Garden Inn, hopefully with a bang,\" said managing director Andy Ainscough.\n\n\"Bookings are very strong, there's a lot of interest, not only in north Wales but in ourselves and the local attractions, so it's very positive.\n\n\"Especially with staycations this year, and [it being] harder to get abroad, hopefully north Wales will be the choice for people's holidays.\"\n\nWales has now seen two million people vaccinated\n\nMr Drakeford said last week the restrictions were being relaxed \"thanks to everyone's hard work and ongoing efforts\".\n\n\"By sticking with the rules and our successful vaccine programme, we are making really good progress in controlling the virus and keeping rates low.\n\n\"But the pandemic isn't over. The new, so-called Indian variant of concern is another unwanted twist in this pandemic, which we are monitoring closely.\"", "Supermarkets in NI struggled for some food stocks when the protocol was implemented in January\n\nThe UK is proposing to phase in new Irish Sea border checks on food products in four stages from October.\n\nThe details are contained in a Northern Ireland Protocol roadmap shared with the EU, which has been seen by the BBC.\n\nThe protocol is the part of the Brexit deal which creates a trade border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn March, the UK delayed introducing some new border processes without EU agreement.\n\nThat led to the EU starting legal proceedings against the UK.\n\nAt the end of March, the UK sent the roadmap to the EU, which sets out how the two sides should work together to implement the protocol.\n\nIt has formed a starting point for ongoing technical talks between officials.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK's chief negotiator, Lord Frost, urged the EU to rapidly \"find a new approach and new solutions\".\n\nThe UK roadmap document covers more than 20 separate issues including medicines, access to databases, pet travel and the VAT treatment of second-hand cars.\n\nNow we can see in black and white the problems with the protocol that have been identified by both sides, rather than relying on leaks and second-hand accounts. That's useful.\n\nAnd there are a lot of issues to be resolved, reminding us that agreeing a deal is one thing and implementing it in the real world is another.\n\nThis roadmap also shows the potential trouble ahead.\n\nIf the UK's scheme for sending supermarket goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland is going to be phased in during 2021 and 2022 (and 2023?) then the UK will probably have to ask the EU for another extension to the grace period before European laws will be fully respected, which won't go down well in Brussels.\n\nThen the EU also needs to agree that British-regulated medicines can be sold in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd when exactly will the Northern Ireland Executive start building the bricks and mortar customs facilities that the UK has promised the EU but which are so offensive to the DUP's newly-elected leader? The dates are still a secret.\n\nAnd a moment of truth seems to be brewing, with the Brexit Minister Lord Frost suggesting that in June or July the UK will decide whether the protocol can be made to work in the long term.\n\nThe movement of food products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland has been the biggest practical challenge of the sea border.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThat means food products entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain need to be professionally certified and are subject to new checks and controls at ports.\n\nUnionist parties have said they oppose the protocol for placing a trade border in the Irish Sea\n\nThe two sides agreed an initial three-month grace period which meant supermarkets did not need to comply with all the EU's usual certification requirements.\n\nThe UK unilaterally extended that grace period until October; the roadmap suggests what should happen next.\n\nThe document states: \"The UK will roll out official certification in four phases.\"\n\nIt suggested that phase one in October will cover fresh meat products and phase two at the end of January 2022 will cover dairy products, plants and wine.\n\nPhases three and four would cover fruit and vegetable marketing standards, pet food, organics and composite products.\n\nNo dates are given for phases three and four with the document saying a full timeline \"requires additional clarity on infrastructure and staffing\" as well progress on integrating the UK and EU certification systems.\n\nIt is not yet clear if the EU would consider these timelines to be reasonable.\n\nMeat and dairy products will be among the issues tackled by phases one and two of the proposal\n\nSome details are included on the UK's Digital Assistance Scheme (DAS) which is intended to digitise the agri-food certification and verification process.\n\nIt said first users should be registered next month with final testing in August, roll out in October and integration with the EU system in January.\n\nSome parts of the roadmap are vague.\n\nFor example, no target dates are suggested for the construction of permanent border control posts at Northern Ireland's ports despite these facilities having planning permission and funding.\n\nHowever, the document added the government will set out \"a detailed delivery plan\" for permanent facilities.\n\nIn other areas, there is a greater commitment to giving dates.\n\nThe UK, for instance, said it proposes to issue guidance by the end of this month on the long-term arrangements for business-to-consumer parcel deliveries from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Monday, outgoing Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster said we needed to see action in relation to the Northern Ireland Protocol from the UK government.\n\nMrs Foster told MLAs that Lord Frost recognised that there were no unionists in favour of the current arrangements.\n\n\"Instead of listening to words we actually [need to] see action in relation to the protocol,\" Mrs Foster said.\n\nSpeaking from Dublin on Monday, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin said the Northern Ireland Protocol was the best outcome for dealing with the damage caused by Brexit.\n\nDuring an online meeting with the Institute of International and European Affairs, Mr Martin said people needed to focus on the full implementation of what had been agreed.\n\nThe taoiseach said Brexit had caused damage which could not be undone but added that the authorities must now do what they could to limit its damage.\n\nMr Martin said there was a process to resolve difficulties, and said Ireland and the EU were in solution mode.\n\nHe also said he was concerned about the mood in unionism in relation to the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nBut he argued the Northern Ireland Protocol did not interfere with the principle of consent and was not an issue of identity or sovereignty.\n\nHe suggested the arrangement could be very advantageous to sectors in Northern Ireland, including foreign direct investment.\n\nThe taoiseach also told the audience he had been reading about how the protocol was helping Northern Ireland farmers to sell milk south of the Irish border.\n\nHe said he had a sense many more moderate people were happy with the protocol but were keeping their heads down.\n\nMr Martin added his government would not \"stop being an open door\" to unionists.", "Why do some people feel unwell - while most don't - after a Covid jab? And does it matter?\n\nFor most it's just a sore arm - for others it can wipe you out - but why does the Covid vaccine act this way?\n\nBBC Wales journalist George Herd has a special interest as he lives with an immune system health condition.\n\nMore than 35 million people in the UK have now had at least their first Covid jab - including more than 62% of the population in Wales.\n\nA study of 600,000 people across the UK found the most common side effect of the jab was pain where the needle went in.\n\nBut one in four experienced other symptoms - fever, headaches and nausea - that last about a day.\n\nThe question I wanted to ask was: Were those who had less of a reaction still protected?\n\nAnd what about those - like me - who have a condition that affects how their immune system works?\n\nMore than 1.9 million people in Wales have now had a Covid jab - more than 60% of the population\n\nI lost my spleen following an accident as a young teen.\n\nA fist-sized organ that hides just under the left ribs, it has an important role to play in the immune system. It's part of our arsenal in fighting infection.\n\nOf course, I'm living proof that you can survive without one. I have an active and full life, often to be found on the hills above my home in north Wales - where I have even taken part in the gruelling Snowdonia marathon.\n\nHowever, I am at risk of potentially overwhelming infections, and have repeat vaccinations against certain illnesses, in particular pneumonia.\n\nI also tend to get prescribed antibiotics on a much more regular basis than most.\n\nBut I've been lucky - and only once ended up on a hospital drip due to an infection.\n\nFully vaccinated: BBC Wales' George Herd has now had his second Oxford-AstraZeneca dose\n\nI had my first Covid jab back in February - now I've had my second and am fully vaccinated.\n\nI fell squarely in the no-reaction camp to the vaccinations. Sore arm, yes - but little else to note.\n\nWas that, however, because my immune systems are damaged?\n\nWhat about those who have to take drugs to suppress their immune system, such as organ transplant patients, or those undergoing treatment for cancer?\n\nIs the Covid jab working for them?\n\nAn emphatic \"yes\" says expert immunologist Veenu Manoharan.\n\n\"I get emails from people who have compromised immune systems, maybe because they are taking drugs for chronic diseases, asking me the same thing,\" said the Cardiff Metropolitan University lecturer.\n\n\"But the studies state that even though the first dose maybe does not give them enough antibodies, the second dose will. It will give them immunity.\n\n\"It is not the case that those people on immunosuppressants are without hope. The second dose really does help improve their level of antibodies.\"\n\nGood news then for those who have been facing that worry - including myself.\n\nImmunologist Veenu Manoharan says the vaccines work for those with weakened immune health\n\nBut what about those who showed no or little reaction to the jab?\n\nDoes this mean it hasn't worked as well as those laid up in bed for a day or two afterwards?\n\nNot at all, insists Dr Manoharan.\n\nAnd that's because of what vaccines are and how they work.\n\nAll the Covid vaccines being used in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna - work to stimulate a response from the immune system, triggering it to make antibodies.\n\nThese antibodies then identify specific germs or viruses, and act as a signal for the rest of the immune system to take out the unwanted invaders.\n\n\"Sometimes our immune response is exaggerated, especially when you are having a vaccine,\" explained Dr Manoharan.\n\nThe \"exaggerated\" responses are those fevers and chills or fatigue, as your body is tricked into believing it is under attack and needs to respond.\n\nBut whether you experience an exaggerated response or not will depend on many factors - including your own genetic make-up and medical history.\n\nYour sex also has a role to play.\n\nWomen are more likely to trigger a stronger immune response, because the hormone oestrogen is known to enhance the immune system.\n\nHow we respond physically to the Covid vaccine is not a measure of how effective it is, say doctors\n\nSimilarly, higher levels of the hormone testosterone in men have the opposite effect on the immune system - it suppresses the inflammatory response of the reaction.\n\nAs you get older, your immune system becomes less active. So those who got the jabs first - the oldest in our society - would be expected to have less of a reaction and that's exactly what happened.\n\nSimilarly, the younger you are, the more likely your immune system will react more energetically to the vaccine.\n\nOne review of vaccination research suggested other factors can play a role in the reaction.\n\nBehaviour such as smoking, alcohol consumption, body weight and exercise levels - even the time of day you get a jab - could influence how the vaccine works.\n\nBut Dr Manoharan's view is that none of this matters.\n\n\"If you don't have an exaggerated reaction, it does not mean your immune system isn't working.\n\n\"If you think about it, every day we are exposed to a variety of microbes and pollutants. Our immune systems are constantly detecting those.\n\n\"But we don't feel ill. Our immune system is protecting us every single minute of the day - we just don't notice it.\"\n\nSo whether you felt unwell after your Covid jab - or nothing at all - the science is telling us we should get a good level of protection.", "In an exclusive interview with BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has denied that his agency was linked to a massive cyber-attack in the US last year.\n\nSergei Naryshkin was responding to accusations from UK and US authorities that Russian intelligence carried out the SolarWinds attack, which was described as the world’s most sophisticated hack.\n\nMr Naryshkin suggested it was Western intelligence that may have orchestrated the operation. Russia’s spy chief also revealed that contact has been re-established with the head of Britain's secret intelligence service MI6, and that he hopes for a face-to-face meeting soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock says the Indian Covid variant is \"tending not to penetrate into older, vaccinated groups\"\n\nThere are now 86 local authorities with five or more confirmed cases of the Indian Covid variant, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\n\"This isn't just about Bolton and Blackburn,\" he said, referring to the areas seeing a spike in cases.\n\nIt comes as millions of people can now enjoy new freedoms as lockdown is eased in England, Wales and most of Scotland.\n\nBut the government has warned its next review of social distancing rules may be delayed.\n\nNo 10 said the Indian variant \"could pose a threat\" to the process of deciding whether all remaining lockdown restrictions could be eased on 21 June.\n\nMr Hancock told the House of Commons there were now 2,323 confirmed cases of the Indian variant in the UK.\n\nThis means there has been a 77% increase in confirmed cases of the variant over the last five days.\n\n\"There are now 86 local authorities where there are five or more confirmed cases,\" he said. There are 343 local authorities in England.\n\nMr Hancock said the Indian variant was now the dominant strain of the virus in Bolton as well as Blackburn and Darwen and was rising in all age groups.\n\nHe said most people in hospital in those areas had been eligible for a vaccine but had chosen not to have it - and urged anyone not sure whether to get jabbed to \"look at what's happening in Bolton\".\n\nBedford was also fast becoming a hotspot for the variant, Mr Hancock said, and surge testing would begin there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holidaying Brits touch down in Portugal: \"It feels unreal\"\n\nScientists believe the Indian variant does spread more easily, but early data suggests vaccines still work. The exact impact on vaccine efficacy - if any - is yet to be confirmed.\n\nPeople aged 37 and over in England will be able to get the vaccine from Tuesday, he said - and the rollout would continue to be expanded later in the week.\n\nThe lockdown changes on Monday - which are different in England, Wales and Scotland - have seen thousands of people heading off on foreign holidays, flocking to bingo halls and drinking inside pubs again.\n\nPeople have also taken the chance to finally hug loved ones as the guidance on close contact were changed. Hospital ward manager Viv Hudson, 58, wept with joy as she finally hugged her daughter, Theresa Fox, for the first time in more than a year.\n\n\"It's a bit weird - but a good kind of weird. I've missed this so much,\" said Theresa, 38, who also works for the NHS.\n\n\"It feels a bit naughty after all this time,\" says Theresa, 38, as she hugged her mum\n\nCinema goers in Cardiff wear masks and are socially distanced as they watch the Oscar-winning Nomadland\n\n\"While we can take this step today, we must be humble in the face of this virus,\" said Mr Hancock.\n\nHe pointed out that fewer than 1,000 people were now in hospital with the virus - the first time this has happened since last September.\n\nLatest figures show another 1,976 cases have been recorded across the UK and a further five people have died.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people who have received their first vaccine dose has topped 36.7 million, and more than 20.2 million second doses have been given.\n\nShould we be celebrating the easing of restrictions or worried by the continued spread of a new variant?\n\nThe big picture is we are in a much better place than the start of the year - when around 1.25 million people were estimated to have the virus and the NHS was feeling the pressure.\n\nNow there are fewer than 1,000 people in hospital with Covid - 97% lower than the peak.\n\nHowever, we are in a transitional phase as the burden of suppressing the virus is shifting from lockdowns to the vaccine. That process is not yet complete.\n\nIt means there is still the potential for a more transmissible variant to cause a spike in cases and people needing hospital treatment.\n\nThere is still uncertainty about how transmissible B1617.2 is and in turn how great a threat it poses.\n\nHowever, the planned easing in mid-June is already in significant doubt.\n\nThe government's plan was to end all remaining limits on social contact from 21 June - which would mean unlimited numbers of guests at weddings and nightclubs allowed to reopen.\n\nAhead of this happening, a review was set to happen by the end of May.\n\nBut earlier, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The Indian variant could pose a threat to this process - our decision will be based on latest data. We will set out plans as soon as the data allows.\"\n\nAsked whether ministers would consider a return to a tier system of rules, the spokesman said they did not want to talk about hypothetical situations but \"we don't want to rule anything out\".", "Jennifer Johnson denied perverting the course of justice in 1987\n\nThe ex-girlfriend of convicted Babes in the Wood murderer Russell Bishop faces jail after being found guilty of lying over evidence in his 1987 trial.\n\nJennifer Johnson admitted she lied over a sweatshirt found near the scene.\n\nThe 55-year-old said she had no choice after being threatened by her partner, but she was found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice.\n\nBishop was cleared in 1987 and not convicted of killing Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows, both nine, until 2018.\n\nJohnson is due to be sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Wednesday. Mr Justice Fraser said a custodial sentence was inevitable.\n\nThe jury reached a majority decision after 12 hours of deliberation.\n\nKaren Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows (right) were killed in Wild Park, Brighton, in 1986\n\nThe jury was told Johnson had lied \"prolifically\" and \"significantly undermined\" the trial in 1987.\n\nJohnson claimed she had acted under duress and \"had no choice\" but to lie during the trial more than 30 years ago.\n\nJurors heard Ms Johnson first told police a sweatshirt found near the scene belonged to Bishop, but later denied it in a witness statement and at his first trial.\n\nMr Justice Fraser said Johnson was \"infatuated\" with Bishop but the relationship had been \"problematic\".\n\nRussell Bishop faced a second trial in 2018 and was convicted\n\nKaren and Nicola's parents - Michelle and Lee Hadaway and Susan and Barrie Fellows - did not give up their fight for justice and in 1988 called on Sussex Police to reinvestigate the case.\n\nMr Fellows told the BBC at the time: \"There's a man out there (who) murdered two little girls.\"\n\nSome of the girls' family members wept as verdicts on Johnson were delivered.\n\nAfter his acquittal, Bishop went on to attack a seven-year-old girl on the South Downs in 1990. She was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and left for dead.\n\nBishop was sentenced to life in prison.\n\nHe was finally convicted of the murders of Karen and Nicola in 2018 following a DNA breakthrough that linked the sweatshirt to the girls and his home.\n\nMichelle Hadaway, Karen's mother, has sat through four court cases over the murder of her daughter\n\nFollowing Johnson's conviction, Libby Clark, senior crown prosecutor at the CPS, said: \"Jennifer Johnson's deception caused decades of distress to the families of Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway.\n\n\"Her actions were clearly those of someone who wanted their partner acquitted of murder, rather than a person living in fear.\"\n\nAfter the hearing, Sussex Police Ch Supt Nick May said Johnson's lies \"mattered\".\n\nHe said her lies had undermined a key part of the prosecution in 1987.\n\nDuring the trial, the prosecution claimed Johnson stood to benefit from Bishop selling his story as an innocent man to the News of the World for £15,000.\n\nAfter the verdicts, Nicola's family criticised the now-closed Sunday newspaper and said it \"provided encouragement for for Johnson to lie\".\n\nLorna Clary, Nicola's cousin, said: \"As a key witness in Bishop's 1987 trial, she [Johnson] lied knowing that there would be a huge financial reward if Bishop received two acquittals for the double child murders.\n\n\"He did indeed receive the wrongful acquittals. The News of the World got their stories. The perpetrators got their payday.\n\n\"Our two families were devastated again after those verdicts, yet on the same evening, Johnson and the Bishops celebrated with a funded champagne dinner at the Hilton Hotel. They should all hang their heads in shame.\"\n\nShe urged other historical murder families to \"take hope\", adding: \"The truth does eventually catch up with those who hide in plain sight.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen joined Prince Charles for the first Jubilee tree planting in the grounds of Windsor Castle in March\n\nPeople across the UK are being urged to plant trees in an initiative to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022.\n\nThe Queen joined the Prince of Wales as he planted the first Jubilee tree at Windsor Castle earlier this year to launch the scheme honouring the monarch's 70-year reign.\n\nThe Queen's Green Canopy (QGC) will see new trees planted, as well as ancient woodlands and forests protected.\n\nPrince Charles encouraged people to \"plant a tree for the jubilee\".\n\n\"In other words, a 'tree-bilee'\", he said in a video message.\n\nTaking part in the scheme, hosted by climate charity Cool Earth, could range from individuals planting trees in their own gardens to the creation of platinum jubilee copses on council land or avenues in cities or housing developments..\n\nSchools and community groups will be able to apply for a share of three million free saplings from the Woodland Trust as part of the project.\n\nCharles' tree was planted earlier this year during official planting season (October-March)\n\nThe prince said: \"Whether you are an individual hoping to plant a single sapling in your garden, a school or community group planting a tree, a council, charity or business intending to plant a whole avenue of trees or a farmer looking to create new hedgerows, everyone across the country can get involved.\"\n\nHe said it is vital more of the right species of trees are planted, in the right places and that more woodlands, avenues, hedgerows and urban planting schemes should be established, while protecting and sustaining what we already have.\n\nDescribing it as a \"statement of hope and faith in the future\", the prince said planting trees and hedgerows and protecting existing woodlands and forests were simple, cost-effective ways to protect the planet.\n\nThe initiative will also highlight 70 irreplaceable ancient woodlands across the UK and identify 70 ancient trees.\n\nA pilot training programme for unemployed young people aged between 16 and 24 to plant and manage trees will also be created and run through Capel Manor College, London's only specialist environmental college, of which the Queen Mother was patron.\n\nDonations to the scheme will go to deprived areas and urban schools via one of the partner organisations of the Queen's Green Canopy, Trees for Cities.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has thrown his support behind the initiative.\n\nHe said: \"Our trees stand at the frontline of our fight against climate change and by sustaining our beautiful countryside for generations to come.\n\n\"The Queen's Green Canopy is a fitting tribute to her majesty's years of service to this country. I urge everyone to get involved.\"\n\nThe Queen has herself planted more than 1,500 trees around the world during her reign.\n\nWoodland Trust chief executive, Darren Moorcroft, said the last year had \"emphasised the central role that trees and woods play in the life of the nation\".\n\nHe added: \"We need more projects like this, giving people access to our natural heritage, opportunities to do something positive for the environment, and helping to safeguard it for our children in the face of a combined climate and nature crisis.\"", "UK plastic waste is being exported to Turkey and then illegally dumped and burned, according to a report.\n\nGreenpeace said about 40% - or 210,000 tonnes - of the UK's plastic waste exports were sent to Turkey last year.\n\nBut rather than being recycled, investigators saw some of it dumped by roads, in fields and in waterways.\n\nThe UK is a \"global leader in tackling plastic pollution\", the government said - after Greenpeace called for it to \"take control\" of the problem.\n\nThe charity said it had investigated 10 sites across southern Turkey and found plastic bags and packaging from UK supermarkets and retailers at all of them.\n\nPackaging for a coronavirus antigen test was also found, indicating the waste was less than a year old, the report said.\n\nThe UK generates more plastic waste per person than any other country apart from the US, the report added.\n\nTurkey, Malaysia and Poland received the largest amounts of plastic waste exports from the UK in 2020.\n\nLast year, the dumping of plastic waste in Turkey was the subject of a BBC investigation.\n\nCorrespondent Angus Crawford sorted through piles of plastic bags, bottles and packaging left by the roadside.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK sends more plastic waste to Turkey than to any other country, but not all of it gets recycled\n\nTurkey received nearly 40% of the UK's plastic waste exports in 2020 - an increase by a factor of 18 since 2016, when 12,000 tonnes were sent.\n\nEuropean Union member states also sent 20 times more plastic waste to Turkey last year compared to 2016.\n\nNihan Temiz Atas, biodiversity projects lead from Greenpeace Mediterranean, based in Turkey, said: \"Around 241 truckloads of plastic waste come to Turkey every day from across Europe and it overwhelms us.\n\n\"As far as we can see from the data and the field, we continue to be Europe's largest plastic waste dump.\"\n\nNina Schrank, senior plastics campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said the crux of the problem was overproduction, and urged the government to ban plastic waste exports and reduce single-use plastic by 50% by 2025.\n\nThe UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: \"We are clear that the UK should handle more of its waste at home, and that's why we are committed to banning the export of plastic waste to non-OECD countries and clamping down on illegal waste exports - including to countries such as Turkey - through tougher controls.\n\n\"The UK is a global leader in tackling plastic pollution and our proposals for extended producer responsibility for packaging, a plastic packaging tax and mandatory electronic waste tracking will boost recycling rates, reduce waste and cut crime.\"\n\nMany wealthy countries send recyclable waste overseas as it is financially cheap, reduces domestic landfill and can help areas achieve recycling targets.\n\nLast year, Malaysia's environment minister said the government had sent back 150 shipping containers of illegally imported plastic waste to their country of origin - 42 of which belonged to the UK.\n\nYeo Bee Yin said the move was to ensure the South East Asia nation did not become \"the garbage dump of the world\".", "Nearly two thirds of people in Wales have antibodies to help protect against Covid-19, data shows\n\nMore than two million people in Wales have now received their first Covid vaccine, according to latest figures.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said a total of 2,019,160 people (64% of the population) have had their first dose.\n\nAlso, 915,674 people have had their second jab - 29% of the population.\n\nIt comes as pubs, restaurants and cafes will be able to serve indoors, and cinemas and other businesses allowed to reopen, as Wales moves to Covid alert level two as of Monday.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford revealed on Friday that he had planned to go further in easing Covid rules but paused because of the Indian variant.\n\n\"We're right to pause and make sure we have all the very best information, and then make decisions about further easements in Wales,\" told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has received his second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan said the figures were a \"fantastic achievement\".\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud and grateful to the thousands of people - NHS staff, military personnel and volunteers - who have worked so hard across the country to reach this milestone,\" she added.\n\n\"Every dose delivered is a small victory against this awful virus.\"\n\nThe vaccination figures for Wales are released daily, apart from Saturdays, so the latest data includes vaccination numbers from Friday.\n\nThe programme is pushing ahead with first doses for the younger age groups, with 40.5% of people aged between 18 and 29 having had their vaccination.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales' seven-day infection rate has risen slightly from 8.9 cases for every 100,000 people to 9.5, according to the latest data.\n\nDr Gill Richardson said she was pleased with the numbers of people having the Covid vaccine\n\nDr Gill Richardson, deputy chief medical officer for vaccines in Wales, said she was \"grateful\" many people were \"coming forward when they are called\" for a jab.\n\n\"It's really when everybody has had their second dose that we can take our feet off the pedal and just breathe a little before whatever the autumn holds for us,\" she added.\n\n\"We're looking ahead and planning now with colleagues across the four nations... to see what we will be doing with regards to autumn boosters, and to learn from the trials that have been taking place on school-age children to know how that will affect our planning going forward.\"\n\nShe said the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) would \"advise us all on the best strategy for the autumn\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nChelsea conceded four goals in the first 36 minutes as Barcelona blew them away to win their first Women's Champions League in Gothenburg.\n\nChelsea trailed 33 seconds in when an attempted clearance hit Melanie Leupolz and went in for an own goal, and Alexia Putellas' penalty made it 2-0.\n\nAitana Bonmati finished an intricate move and Caroline Graham Hansen tapped in to put a rampant Barca out of sight.\n\nDespite a spirited second-half display there was no way back for the Blues.\n\nBarcelona become the first club to win both the men's and women's Champions League, and this was the biggest ever winning margin in a women's final.\n\nEmma Hayes' Chelsea side had hoped to add a European crown to their Women's Super League and League Cup triumphs this season, as they looked to become only the second English side in history, after Arsenal in 2007, to complete the quadruple.\n\nIt was Chelsea's first Champions League final - and the first time an English side had reached the showpiece since Arsenal lifted the trophy in 2007 - and it showed with a nervous start, and failure to turn the tide once things began to unravel.\n\nIn the first attack of the game Lieke Martens struck the bar for the Spanish champions from outside the box and from a subsequent cross Fran Kirby's attempted clearance rebounded off team-mate Leupolz and freakishly looped in over goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger.\n\nChelsea's Pernille Harder missed a golden chance to level, shooting over when unmarked from Jess Carter's deep cross, and they were punished as Leupolz caught Jennifer Hermoso with her trailing leg in the box and Putellas calmly sent Berger the wrong way from the spot.\n\nPutellas then played a wonderful first-time pass for Bonmati to slot home a third inside 20 minutes before Martens beat Niamh Charles and showed composure to pick out Hansen for well-worked fourth goal.\n\nChelsea were high on endeavour after the break but failed to create any notable chances, while Barca's Asisat Oshoala had a last-gasp goal ruled out for offside.\n\nChelsea had overcome bogey side Wolfsburg and fellow German giants Bayern Munich to reach the biggest game in club football, 14 years since an English side had last been there.\n\nHayes' Blues had not even qualified for last year's competition and had previously twice fallen at the semi-final stage, so finishing as runners-up is a big step forward both for the club and the ever-growing profile of the WSL.\n\nAnd it has been a memorable campaign which has seen them win a record fourth league crown, while they could yet add the FA Cup to their League Cup for a domestic treble.\n\nAttacking duo Kirby and Sam Kerr have dazzled, scoring 52 goals between them this season, but they could not get a foothold in Sweden and the Australia striker was withdrawn with 20 minutes left.\n\nAnd while Carter and Charles have impressed in makeshift full-back roles in recent months, they struggled against the world class wide play of a Barcelona side who have won all 26 of their domestic league matches and scored 128 goals in the process.\n\nBarca right the wrongs of 2019\n\nIt was a second Champions League final for Barcelona and the lessons learned from their previous experience proved invaluable this time round.\n\nAgainst seven-time winners Lyon in 2019 they found themselves 3-0 down inside 20 minutes before going on to lose 4-1.\n\nTwo years later and it was they who were handing out that punishment, showing a ruthless edge that Chelsea do not yet have on the highest European stage.\n\nBarca knocked out Chelsea's biggest domestic rivals Manchester City in the quarter-finals and while the WSL now seems to be attracting the highest revenues and biggest names in Europe, this shows the level of its top clubs is still a bit below the leading one or two teams on the continent.\n\nThe Spanish side's triumph brings an end to Lyon's run of five Champions League titles in a row.\n• None Offside, Barcelona Femenino. Aitana Bonmatí tries a through ball, but Asisat Oshoala is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Asisat Oshoala (Barcelona Femenino) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Kheira Hamraoui.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lieke Martens (Barcelona Femenino) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mariona.\n• None Attempt saved. Sophie Ingle (Chelsea Women) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Erin Cuthbert.\n• None Offside, Barcelona Femenino. Melanie Serrano tries a through ball, but Asisat Oshoala is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Beth England (Chelsea Women) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Guro Reiten.\n• None Attempt blocked. Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea Women) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Beth England.\n• None Attempt missed. Pernille Harder (Chelsea Women) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Beth England.\n• None Attempt blocked. Patri Guijarro (Barcelona Femenino) header from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mapi León with a cross.\n• None Offside, Barcelona Femenino. Lieke Martens tries a through ball, but Asisat Oshoala is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The 18-year-old had been at a rave the night before he disappeared\n\nDrivers have been flagged down by police in their search for a teenager after three people were arrested.\n\nOfficers have been in Pentir after Frantisek \"Frankie\" Morris, from Anglesey, went missing two weeks ago.\n\nFrankie was last seen near the Vaynol Arms, in the village in Gwynedd, on Sunday 2 May, a day after going to a rave at a disused quarry.\n\nOne of the three suspects is held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, North Wales Police said.\n\nA second man and a woman were arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.\n\nPeople have told BBC Wales of their \"shock\" and \"sadness\" over Frankie's disappearance.\n\nPolice have closed a road while investigations take place\n\n\"Local people have taken a great deal of interest as he's been missing for a fortnight and local people have been helping the police\", said Menna Baines, councillor for Pentir.\n\n\"This is a quiet area where everyone knows everyone else - it's a great shock and we're all concerned about the family.\"\n\nIn Llandegfan, where Mr Morris lives with his family, residents also expressed concerns.\n\n\"It's come as an incredible shock\", said Councillor Alun Roberts.\n\n\"Our thoughts have been with Frankie and his family over the last fortnight.\n\n\"We have full faith in the police and we wait now to see what happened to Frankie.\"\n\nOfficers spoke to a cyclist who was caught on CCTV in the area around the time of Frankie's disappearance but he is no longer part of the inquiry.\n\nCh Insp Owain Llewelyn said: \"Due to the ongoing investigation, the road from Pont Felin, Pentir heading towards Waen Wen will be closed until further notice.\"\n\nHe appealed for a number of drivers to get in touch.\n\nFrankie was last seen on CCTV pushing his bike near the Vaynol Arms\n\nPolice also want to talk to three male cyclists seen near the pub at about 13:45 BST that day.\n\nMany volunteers have been involved in the search, using drones and dogs.\n\nCh Insp Llewelyn said \"several useful reports and pieces of information\" were being assessed.\n\n\"If there is anyone who was at the rave at the disused quarry in Waunfawr on Saturday (1 May), please use this link to contact us, anonymously if you prefer,\" he said.\n\nFrankie was last seen on CCTV pushing his bike past the Vaynol Arms.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMore than 30 officers have conducted house-to-house inquiries, and specialists have been reviewing CCTV footage between Pentir and Bangor.\n\nFrankie's brother Robin has said the family, from Llandegfan, Anglesey, was \"distraught\" over his disappearance.\n• None Community in search for missing teen after rave\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has urged everybody in Bedford to \"exercise caution\"\n\nSurge testing has started in Bedford due to an increase in coronavirus cases linked to the Indian variant.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the town was the \"next biggest cause of concern\" after Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen.\n\nBedford has the second-highest rate of Covid-19 in England, with cases doubling every five days.\n\n\"I would urge everybody in Bedford to exercise caution and engage in testing,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nSurge testing has started at two schools in Bedford.\n\nMr Hancock told the House of Commons early evidence suggested the Indian variant was more transmissible than the Kent variant.\n\nAt present there is no evidence that the Indian variant is resistant to current vaccines.\n\nMr Hancock said there were 2,323 confirmed cases of the variant in the UK - of which 483 were in Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen.\n\nMr Hancock said he would encourage Bedford residents to get tests where available\n\nLast week, Bedford Borough Council called for vaccines to be offered to all residents aged 16 and over due to the increase in cases.\n\nProfessor Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, said local \"surge vaccinations\" were not being pursued as there was a \"finite\" supply of doses and younger people were less at risk from the virus.\n\nLouise Jackson, portfolio holder for public health and wellbeing at the council, said she thought not offering vaccines to people aged over 16 was \"a mistake\".\n\n\"We have the second highest rate of infection in the country,\" she said.\n\n\"We should be getting the resources and vaccinations here so we can get on top of things.\"\n\nWhile discussing the variant in the House of Commons, Mr Hancock urged those eligible to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said the majority of people who had been admitted to hospital in Bolton had been eligible for the jab but had not taken it up.\n\n\"It just reinforces the message that people should come forward and get vaccinated because that is the best way to protect everybody,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Shoppers have returned to central Glasgow this month\n\nConcern is growing about a rising number of Covid cases in Glasgow as the area prepares to move down to level two.\n\nThe latest published case rate is 58.3 per 100,000 population - well above a key threshold for easing restrictions.\n\nA senior health official said there were clusters of high infection rates in parts of the city.\n\nThe so-called India variant is suspected to be involved, although this has yet to be confirmed.\n\nAll mainland council areas with the likely exception of Moray are due to move to level two on Monday.\n\nAttention has been focused on a surge in cases in Moray although this increase appears now to be slowing.\n\nMoray's latest rate stands at 100.2 per 100,000 population, almost five times the Scotland-wide average, according to Public Health Scotland (PHS).\n\nGlasgow, however, has also seen a steady rise, and is now above 50 cases per 100,000 population - one of the benchmarks for deciding if level two or level three restrictions are appropriate. Other factors taken into account include the ability of the local NHS to cope.\n\nScotland's clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, told BBC Scotland's The Seven that the case rate in Glasgow has been rising for the last five or six days.\n\nHe said he was concerned but he was confident Glasgow would still be able to move to level two as hospital admissions, intensive care and mortality remained low.\n\n\"The doesn't mean I'm complacent,\" he said. \"In fact I want to encourage people to follow the rules tonight, tonight over the weekend, into Monday and then the new rules on Monday.\n\n\"And any suggestion that people should gather in groups, or march or parade or anything that breaks rules - please don't do that because Glasgow is at a fragile moment.\"\n\nLinda de Caestecker, director of public health at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said she \"anticipated\" that Glasgow would still move to the lower level.\n\nBut she said officials were carefully monitoring case rates in particular districts such as Pollokshields and Battlefield in the south of the city.\n\nWhile the figures published by Public Health Scotland relate to three days ago, she told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime the most recent data was indicating a city-wide rate of 74 cases per 100,000.\n\nAsked what was driving the increase, she told BBC Scotland: \"It seems particularly to be household mixing.\n\n\"We know that restrictions are going to be lifted in a few days' time and I do understand people thinking if we can do it on Monday, why can't we do it now. But it is people mixing together in households that we think is the source of this increase.\"\n\nMs Caestecker said some upturn in case numbers was to be expected as restrictions eased, but she was \"concerned\" about the increase in Glasgow.\n\n\"It shows we cannot be complacent. The numbers go up very, very quickly - particularly as we see new variants coming in that are more transmissible,\" she said.\n\nA proportion of the cases in Glasgow are suspected to involve the Indian variant though this has still be confirmed through genomic sequencing.\n\n\"What we know is that it's not the Kent variant, so the assumption is it's the Indian variant but we haven't got the sequencing yet so we can't be sure,\" she said.\n\nThe PHS heat map indicates the highest case rates are in the south of Glasgow and Easterhouse in the east.\n\nNicola Sturgeon announced on Tuesday that all mainland council areas would move to level two next week, with the exception of Moray where a final decision on whether it should remain in level three is to be made on Friday.\n\nLevel two rules mean people can meet up inside homes, pubs and restaurants can sell alcohol indoors and venues such as cinemas can reopen.\n\nThe previous major relaxation of Covid restrictions was on 26 April when non-essential shops and hospitality businesses reopened.\n\nThe impact of the easing of restrictions tends to show up in the figures about a fortnight later because of the incubation period of Covid-19 which is five to six days on average but can be as long as 14.\n\nClackmannanshire has also seen rising Covid rates recently, currently just below the 50 case threshold, with provisional data from PHS indicating the figure will rise further in the coming days.\n\nMidlothian, currently with 36 cases per 100,000, is another local authority area where case rates appear to be on the rise.", "Downing Street is seeking to cancel a county court judgement against Prime Minister Boris Johnson that cites an unpaid bill of £535.\n\nThe order was made against Mr Johnson, of 10 Downing Street, on 26 October, according to a judgement database.\n\nThe creditor and nature of the debt, which was first reported by Private Eye magazine, is not yet known.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said the claim against the PM was without merit.\n\n\"An application will be made for an order to set aside the default judgement, to strike out the claim and for a declaration that the claim is totally without merit,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe BBC understands the case relates to a defamation claim against Mr Johnson.\n\nCounty court judgements are issued in England and Wales when people fail to repay money they owe.\n\n\"If you get a judgement, this means that the court has formally decided that you owe the money,\" according to a government website.\n\nA bailiff \"may visit your home if you do not pay your debts\", the website warns.\n\nBanks and loan companies can also use the information to decide whether to issue credit or loans.\n\n\"If you're late with your payments, you could be taken back to court and you may have to pay extra costs,\" the website adds.\n\nAnyone who has had a county court judgement (CCJ) against them can apply for it to be cancelled - or \"set aside\" in the legal language - but they must convince the court that there is a good reason for this to happen and they have also acted promptly in launching their challenge.\n\nThat could include the judgement having been issued in error - perhaps because the debt had actually been paid, or because there was never a debt in the first place.\n\nSometimes, people seek to have a CCJ cancelled because they genuinely did not know about it - or they can show the court that it has acted incorrectly in making the order.\n\nThat can happen when the court has been provided with the wrong address for a debtor who only later learns of the judgement when they discover it has damaged their credit score.\n\nThe official rules for applications to set aside a judgement state: \"Most applications will require a hearing and you will be expected to attend. The court will allocate a hearing date and time for the application. Please indicate in a covering letter any dates that you are unavailable within the next six weeks.\"\n\nThe application must come with some kind of \"statement of truth\", explaining why the judgement should be set aside.\n\nThe prime minister could instruct a lawyer to appear for him.\n\nApplicants can also ask the court to consider waiving the £100 fee if it would cause them \"undue hardship\".\n\nThe prime minister's personal finances have been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks.\n\nIn particular, he has faced questions about how renovations to the flat, above 11 Downing Street, that he shares with fiancée Carrie Symonds were paid for.\n\nHe has insisted he personally paid for the work, but has declined to say whether he received an initial loan.\n\nThe Electoral Commission is investigating whether any spending on the flat falls within its remit, and whether any donation to the Conservative Party was properly declared.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the prime minister's spokesman said the court judgement had nothing to do with the Downing Street estate refurbishment, saying: \"All bills have been paid by the government or the prime minister, personally.\"\n\nAsked if Number 10 had only become aware of the judgement when it was first reported earlier on Wednesday, the spokesman said it was something they are \"looking into currently\".\n\nAnd on being asked whether there should be concerns about the prime minister's personal finances, Mr Johnson's press secretary said: \"You should not be concerned, no.\"", "The largest tunnelling machine ever used on a UK rail project is officially starting work.\n\nFlorence - named after Florence Nightingale - will spend the next three-and-a-half years cutting through the chalk beneath the Chiltern hills in Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe tunnel will form part of controversial high-speed rail project HS2's first phase, which will link London with the West Midlands.\n\nThe BBC takes a look inside the operation to see how it works.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPortugal is set to host the Champions League final after Uefa failed to receive the guarantees of exemptions it wants if it is to move the game to Wembley.\n\nUefa, UK government officials and the Football Association met on Monday to discuss moving the game between Chelsea and Manchester City from Istanbul.\n\nUefa has decided it will be moved after Turkey was put on England's red travel list meaning fans cannot travel. Portugal is on the green list so fans would be allowed to attend on 29 May.\n\nPorto's Estadio do Dragao is expected to be named as the venue on Thursday because Uefa would prefer not to stage the match in Lisbon, which hosted last year's final.\n\nEuropean football's governing body believes holding the match in Portugal will make it easier to gain access for sponsors and broadcasters, who would need to be compensated if they were unable to attend the game.\n\nHowever, Uefa is still not in a position to confirm the switch, which would see Istanbul given the 2023 final, having originally been due to host last year before the move to Lisbon.\n\nThe match could still be played at Wembley but it would require a major shift from the UK government, which has so far failed to reach an agreement with Uefa.\n\nTravellers from England to green-list countries must follows rules before departure but do not have to quarantine on their return.\n\nUK citizens returning from red-list countries are required to quarantine at a government-approved hotel for 10 days.\n\nSuch a quarantine would have an impact on players involved in Euro 2020, which starts on 11 June.\n\nOn Friday, transport secretary Grant Shapps said Covid-19 red-list countries \"should not be visited except in the most extreme circumstances\".\n\nUefa had hoped to give both clubs a minimum of 4,000 tickets each for the game at Ataturk Olympic Stadium.\n\nShapps said that the FA was in talks with Uefa about switching the game, but that it is \"ultimately a decision for Uefa\".\n\nChelsea Supporters Trust has said it will meet Uefa and will request that the final is moved to the UK, while Manchester City fan groups said they will be renewing their calls to move the game from Istanbul.\n\nThere is also a fixture issue to resolve, as Wembley is scheduled to stage the Championship play-off final on 29 May. However, it is understood the EFL would consider moving the match if asked by Uefa, and its board would make the final call.\n• None Fan favourite hard-hitting drama about the crack epidemic in 1980s LA is streaming now\n• None How are Gen Z learning to adapt and thrive?: Young entrepreneurs find new ways to make money in Covid times", "Portugal has yet to decide whether it will allow visits from UK holidaymakers as it extends its \"state of calamity\" until 30 May.\n\nFrom 17 May, travellers from England and Scotland won't have to quarantine upon their return from Portugal and other \"green list\" countries.\n\nBut those countries have their own restrictions on who can visit.\n\nHowever, some football fans may be able to go to the planned UEFA Champions League final in Porto on 29 May.\n\nPortugal's government has announced that it is extending its \"state of public calamity\" on the mainland - the second highest level of alert - for a further 15 days from Monday, until 30 May.\n\nUnder current plans, people from England and Scotland will be allowed to travel to Portugal for non-essential reasons from Monday.\n\nBut whether they will be allowed in by Portugal has not been decided yet by the Portuguese government, said cabinet office minister Mariana Vieira da Silva.\n\n\"I have no information to give yet,\" she said at a briefing when asked whether the UK restrictions would soon be lifted.\n\n\"Work is going on and as soon as there is a decision it will be announced, but no decision was taken in this cabinet meeting,\" she said.\n\nTravellers from the UK are one of the biggest markets for Portugal's tourism sector, along with those from Spain and France.\n\nMs Vieira da Silva did not say when a decision on the matter might be taken.\n\nAt present, Portugal allows flights to and from the UK, but only for essential travel, such as for business, study, family reasons, health or humanitarian reasons.\n\nFirms including Tui and Easyjet have been offering holidays and flights to green list countries, but online travel firm On The Beach has stopped selling all holidays for this summer due to Covid uncertainty.\n\nTui has 44 flights due to depart for Portugal between 17 and 30 May. These include 28 to the Algarve, a popular destination for UK summer holidays.\n\nThe UEFA Champions League final in Porto has not yet been officially announced, but is widely expected after Portugal's government agreed to allow a limited number of fans to attend, despite this not yet being the case at domestic games.\n\nMs Vieira da Silva said that a series of restrictions would apply.\n\nThere will be a 12,000 limit on numbers and tickets will be for named people in designated seats, which will spaced in line with health guidelines.\n\nFans will have to fly in on charters, arriving and leaving \"on the same day\" in what Ms Vieira da Silva described as \"a bubble situation\" - passing through a separate zone at the airport, as well as having to take a coronavirus test before travelling.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Online retail giant Amazon has said it is hiring 75,000 workers across the US and Canada to meet growing demand as the pandemic continues.\n\nThe new jobs offered across transport and its warehouses will be permanent roles.\n\nIt will also offer new staff who have already been vaccinated against Covid-19 a $100 (£71.19) bonus, it said in a statement.\n\nA spokesperson said the firm had an \"unwavering commitment to safety\".\n\nThe retailer said that the jobs, which are already being advertised, will offer average starting pay of $17 per hour - following recent wage increases it introduced.\n\nAmazon also said it would offer sign-on bonuses of up to $1,000 in some locations to attract new staff.\n\nFigures released last week showed that the US economy added far fewer jobs than expected in April, with some analysts saying that firms were finding it harder to recruit people.\n\nAmazon now employs more than one million workers worldwide, having gone on a huge hiring spree during the pandemic. In the UK, for example, it added 10,000 jobs last year.\n\nAs consumers stayed at home during lockdown, the retailer had its most lucrative year to date in 2020. But it also faced allegations over poor working conditions, as well strikes at warehouses in the US, Italy and Germany.\n\nThe Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which organised an effort in Alabama to form the first unionised Amazon warehouse in the US, hit out after the latest hiring announcement.\n\nStuart Appelbaum, president of the RWDSU, said: \"Amazon has to keep hiring because of the extraordinary turnover at all of its warehouses.\n\n\"No matter what they pay people, it doesn't compensate for the way they treat people and the unsatisfactory working conditions at Amazon facilities - and people keep leaving these jobs.\"\n\nAmazon has insisted that it ensures workers' health and safety.\n\nIn many of its US warehouses across Missouri, Nevada and Kansas, it has organised on-site vaccination events as the rate of jabs being delivered has slowed in recent weeks.\n\nOther companies have also sought to promote Covid vaccinations.\n\nMcDonald's announced on Tuesday that in the US it would start printing \"We can do this\" slogans, alongside links to websites with further information about vaccines, on its coffee cups.\n\nConsumer giant Unilever will also be giving away milkshakes and ice creams to healthcare workers and those getting vaccinated across several US sites on 14 May.", "More than 800 over-50s have participated in the Com-Cov study on mixing jabs to date\n\nAdults are more likely to report mild and moderate side-effects after mixing doses of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid vaccines, a study indicates.\n\nChills, headaches and muscle pain were reported more frequently when different vaccine doses were combined.\n\nAny adverse reactions were short lived, with no other safety concerns.\n\n\"It's a really intriguing finding and not something we were necessarily expecting,\" Prof Matthew Snape, from the Oxford Vaccine Group said.\n\nThe Com-Cov study launched in February to see whether a different jab for the second dose might give longer-lasting immunity, better protection against new variants or simply allow clinics to swap vaccines if supplies are interrupted.\n\nThe Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec have both said they plan to mix vaccines in the near future, amid uncertainty over shipments of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab and concerns about rare blood clots.\n\nThe study, led by the University of Oxford, has recruited 830 volunteers aged over 50.\n\nIt is expected to publish its first full results in June.\n\nBut preliminary data has now been published in a research letter in the medical journal the Lancet.\n\nOne in 10 volunteers given two AstraZeneca jabs four weeks apart reported feverishness - but if they received one AstraZeneca jab and one Pfizer, in any order, the proportion rose to about 34%\n\n\"The same real differences applied for other symptoms such as chills, fatigue, headache, malaise and muscle ache,\" Prof Snape, the trial's chief investigator, said.\n\n\"One things it's telling us is that you wouldn't want to vaccinate a ward full of nurses on same day [with mixed doses of different vaccines], because you might have more absenteeism the next day.\"\n\nIn April, the study was expanded, adding another 1,050 volunteers to test combinations of the Moderna and Novavax Covid vaccines alongside the AstraZeneca and Pfizer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jordan Banks was \"caring, considerate, generous and so loving\", say his family\n\nThe family of a nine-year-old boy killed after being struck by lightning during football training said he was \"the brightest star\" and \"our everything\".\n\nJordan Banks was injured when a thunderstorm hit as he was on a playing field in Blackpool on Tuesday evening.\n\nA statement from his family said \"our worlds stopped\" when \"we lost our beautiful boy\".\n\nJordan had an \"infectious smile\" and was \"wise beyond his years\", it added.\n\nHe was taken to hospital with serious injuries after being struck by lightning at about 17:00 BST but died a short time later, Lancashire Police said.\n\nHis family described him as \"caring, considerate, generous and so loving\", adding \"yesterday our worlds stopped\".\n\nThe statement added: \"We lost the brightest star our beautiful boy Jordan.\n\n\"His laugh, that infectious smile, golden curls, he was our everything.\"\n\nFlowers, football boots and messages of condolence have been placed on the field\n\nFlowers, footballs, football shirts and messages of condolence have been left at the playing field on Common Edge Road.\n\nPeople have also been posting nine footballs on social media in honour of the keen Liverpool FC fan, using the hashtag #RIPLittleMan.\n\nLiverpool midfielder James Milner, who had previously sent Jordan a congratulatory video message for completing a charity run for a mental health charity, tweeted: \"A special boy taken far too soon.\"\n\nThe youngster ran 30 miles in 10 days in memory of his uncle earlier this year, raising £3,000.\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\nCraig England and Jane Murphy, co-head teachers at Stanley Primary School, where Jordan went to school, said everyone was \"completely numb\" and they were \"beyond devastated that we won't see [Jordan's] cheerful face again\".\n\nHe was a \"bright, bubbly pupil loved by staff and pupils alike\" and was a \"very determined young man demonstrated by his charity efforts\", they added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by The Blackpool Tower This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Blackpool Tower\n\nOne of his best friends, CJ, and his father laid flowers and a football on the field.\n\nThe nine-year-old said: \"He was very kind and caring. Football was very important to him. He loved it. He played it every day and at school with me.\"\n\nThroughout the day flowers, footballs and football shirts have been left in remembrance of a life snatched away playing the game Jordan Banks loved so much.\n\nHis family and friends have described him as a \"superstar footballer\", telling me he lived for football and played at every single opportunity he could.\n\nHe came here after school with a small group of people for specialist training.\n\nGrassroots football is coming to the end of the season and there were some crucial matches coming up and he was absolutely determined to play.\n\nJordan played for Clifton Rangers Junior Football Club, who described him as \"an extraordinary young man\".\n\nTwo crowdfunding pages have been set up in his memory, raising more than £46,000.\n\nLiverpool FC tweeted that the thoughts of everybody at the club were with Jordan's family and friends.\n\nJordan raised £3,000 for a mental health charity in memory of his uncle\n\nMPs paid tribute to the nine-year-old during a debate in the House of Commons.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston sent the government's condolences, adding Jordan's club and the local community were \"clearly devastated by his loss, as evidenced by the absolute outpouring on social media\".\n\nThe flag at Blackpool town hall was flying at half-mast in tribute to Jordan and Blackpool Tower and the Illuminations arches were lit up in red in homage to his beloved Liverpool FC.\n\nThe leader of Blackpool Council, Lynn Williams, said the whole town was \"devastated\".\n\nShe said she hoped Jordan's family and friends would \"take some comfort from the outpouring of love and support from the whole community\".\n\nTraining on the playing fields, which are owned by the council, has been cancelled until further notice.\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.", "Kim Leadbeater says she was touched by the number of people who had contacted her asking if she planned to stand as a candidate\n\nThe sister of murdered MP Jo Cox has announced her intention to stand as a candidate in the same constituency.\n\nKim Leadbeater said she hoped to stand in the upcoming by-election for the Batley and Spen seat previously held by her late sister.\n\nShe said she intended to stand as a Labour candidate if party members gave her their blessing.\n\nTracy Brabin stood down as the area's MP this week after she was elected as West Yorkshire's first mayor.\n\nMs Leadbeater told the Batley & Birstall News she had been \"knocked for six\" by the number of people who had contacted her to ask if she would stand.\n\n\"I would love to represent this extraordinary, vibrant place that I have called home all my life,\" she said.\n\n\"I am touched that so many people seem to think I would do a good job and I can promise that if they want me, I will give my all for Batley and Spen at Westminster.\n\n\"This community picked me up when I needed it most and I will be forever grateful.\"\n\nMs Leadbeater said she had met some \"truly fantastic people\" through her work with the foundation set up in her sister's memory, for which she was appointed an MBE last year.\n\nBut she said it had also exposed her to many who were \"disillusioned and disengaged\" with politics.\n\nJo Cox was killed as she arrived at a constituency surgery in June 2016\n\nMs Brabin, who was first elected after Ms Cox was fatally shot and stabbed by a right-wing extremist in June 2016, won the constituency a second time with a 3,525 majority in 2019.\n\nFormer Bradford West MP George Galloway has announced that his Workers Party GB will also put up a candidate in the Batley and Spen by-election.\n\nHe said his pro-Brexit group was a \"patriotic working-class alternative\" to the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.\n\nSir Keir came in for criticism after Labour suffered defeat to the Conservatives in the Hartlepool by-election and lost control of eight councils in England.\n\nIt performed better in Wales, where it remains the largest party in the Senedd - the Welsh Parliament - and won 11 out of 13 mayoral races in England.\n\nHowever, the results raised concern in the party that it had not done enough to win back its traditional strongholds from the Conservatives.\n\nA date for the Batley and Spen by-election has yet to be set and no candidates have been formally announced.\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.", "Online travel agent On The Beach has stopped selling all holidays for this summer due to Covid uncertainty.\n\nThe pause in sales until September includes \"green list\" countries such as Portugal.\n\nBy contrast, EasyJet and Tui will begin offering holidays to countries classified as amber, despite government advice remaining not to travel for leisure.\n\nEasyJet said it would let people \"make up their own mind about their holiday\".\n\nMost countries are currently classed as amber, but it is not illegal to travel to them when holidays resume on 17 May for people in England and Scotland.\n\nInstead, arrivals from these places will be required to quarantine at home for 10 days and take a Covid test before departure and on arrival.\n\nHowever, On The Beach, one of the biggest UK online travel agents, said it would not be selling any holidays for June, July and August due to \"continuing uncertainty around international leisure travel\".\n\nThe firm's chief executive, Simon Cooper, said: \"There's nothing we want more than to be able to send customers on holiday, but with the current number of unknowns, we don't think that now is the right time for customers to book new holidays departing in the next few months.\"\n\nHe told the BBC that many would-be holidaymakers had been \"jaded by the experience\" of summer 2020, when many holidays that had been booked failed to take place because of shifting travel restrictions.\n\nMr Cooper added that if On The Beach did go ahead with summer bookings, its profits risked being outweighed by \"administrative costs and loss of goodwill\".\n\nThe Foreign Office stopped advising against all but essential travel to a number of amber destinations last week. However, its advice is based on different criteria to the Department of Transport's advice.\n\nAt present, only 12 countries are on the government's \"green list\" for foreign holidays under the traffic light system for travel, meaning people are not required to quarantine when they get back. But they will need to take a Covid test before departure and another on arrival.\n\nBy contrast, those visiting amber countries such as Spain and France must take a Covid test before departure and two more on arrival. They also need to quarantine at home for 10 days when they return.\n\nOn The Beach's Mr Cooper said it would not be offering foreign holidays to \"green list\" countries because \"it is very likely that we will see regular fluctuations in destinations' traffic light classifications\".\n\n\"Given this, there is too much uncertainty for us to take new bookings with confidence that they will go ahead, or for us to know the potential inconvenience or incremental costs that customers might experience or incur,\" he said.\n\n\"Unlike many of our competitors, we have no interest in selling holidays that are unlikely to happen, as our business model enables us to put customers first, rather than needing to get cash in the door to contribute to high fixed costs, and offering refunds in the form of a voucher when holidays get cancelled.\"\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that although holidays abroad would no longer be illegal from Monday 17 May, the government advised against travel to amber countries for leisure.\n\nHowever, Tui and EasyJet are still going to push ahead with their plans to offer holidays to \"amber list\" countries.\n\nAn EasyJet Holidays spokeswoman said: \"We recognise that many our customers do still want their holidays to go ahead, so for 'amber' list destinations where holidays can be enjoyed safely and legally, which do not have 'all but essential travel' warnings and where there is no quarantine requirement in destination, we are providing flexibility and choice so customers can make up their own mind about their holiday.\"\n\nShe added that EasyJet won't operate any holidays to destinations on the \"red\" list.\n\nTui's spokeswoman said: \"We want to offer our customers flexibility and choice this summer, so where borders are open and FCDO advice allows travel, we will operate to those destinations.\n\n\"We know some customers may be unsure about travelling this summer, so we've offered free changes 14 days before travel for anyone due to travel before the end of August.\"\n\nThe flurry of activity by the FCDO at the start of last week led a few to think that they had cracked which countries would be on the green list early. But they spoke too soon; while there is overlap the two are not the same.\n\nThe government would say the two lists each serve a different purpose. The Foreign office list is advice to help British travellers assess the risk posed to them if they travel to a country. The traffic light list is about stopping the virus and variants coming into the country.\n\nEssentially, one is about personal risk, one is about national risk. There is still a strong overlap between the two and the fact that the countries differ has still left some passengers and the industry scratching their heads.\n\nUnlike now, there will be no law stopping travellers from going to amber countries, just government advice not to do so for leisure. Doing so will mean quarantine on return and added cost for tests, which will put many off. But after low passenger numbers for over a year, some operators think that it's a price that certain passengers will be willing to pay.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, Spain's Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya said the UK should take a regional approach when deciding which places should be on the green list. The country is on the amber list.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"We are having good discussions with the UK authorities to convince them there are many regions in Spain - Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Valencia - where the numbers are equivalent to those in the UK today.\n\n\"Maybe if the UK looks with a regional lens they will discover that there are many safe places already in Spain to travel to. Let's keep on working, but it's looking good for British tourists to spend their holidays in Spain this summer.\"\n\nShe said Spain was proceeding at pace with its vaccination effort and that over 30% of Spaniards had already received at least one shot, with six million were fully vaccinated. She said that the country was 98 days away from collective immunity.\n\nIt comes as Tui reported reported a sharp jump in demand for holidays this winter as more people defer their holidays.\n\nAs of 2 May, bookings this year for winter 2021/22 breaks were up 17% on the same period in 2019. But total summer bookings were down 69% due to continued uncertainty over travel rules.\n\nNevertheless, TUI said it expected the safe return of holidays in the coming months.\n\n\"The continued vaccination progress across our key customer markets and destinations, combined with more testing, and comprehensive hygiene measures throughout our eco-system, should enable the safe return to holidays this summer,\" it said.\n\nDue to the ongoing pandemic, third lockdown and travel restrictions, Tui's revenues dived by 89% to €716m (£614.6m) in the six months to March.\n\nHowever, TUI said customers were keen to travel once Covid restrictions were fully lifted.\n\nIt said nearly three times as many Britons have decided to book with the travel giant for the summer of 2022 compared with 2019.\n\nThe travel operator said it was focused on reopening a portfolio of destinations strong vaccination coverage and low incidence rates, including the Greek islands, the Balearics, the Canaries and Portugal.", "The NHS is sending a mobile vaccine bus into parts of Bolton with high infections\n\nSecond vaccine doses could be brought forward and local restrictions introduced to help tackle the Indian variant in the worst-affected areas, the UK government has said.\n\nMinister Nadhim Zahawi said steps could also include vaccinating younger people in multi-generational households.\n\nMeanwhile, a top scientist has warned lifting restrictions on 21 June is in doubt because of the Indian variant.\n\nCases in the UK have more than doubled to 1,313, Public Health England said.\n\nThe figures released on Thursday have risen from 520 cases recorded by PHE up to 5 May.\n\nMost of the cases - 1,255 - are in England, while there are 35 in Scotland, 12 in Northern Ireland and 11 in Wales, according to PHE.\n\nHowever, Prof Paul Hunter, who sits on a number of Covid advisory committees for the World Health Organization, said current figures were around two weeks out of date and would now be higher.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Indian variant was now in most regions of the UK, with the possible exception of Yorkshire and Humber and north-east England.\n\nMore than 30% of cases are in London, followed by 25% in north-west England, 12% in eastern England, 10% in the East Midlands and 8% in the South East, PHE said.\n\nFour people have now died with the Indian variant of concern as of 12 May, according to PHE.\n\nAccording to Friday's government figures, a further 17 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test and another 2,193 coronavirus cases have been recorded.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said there was \"no firm evidence yet to show this variant has any greater impact on severity of disease or evades the vaccine\".\n\nBut experts believe it may be more transmissible.\n\nAnd the department said ministers could not rule out imposing local restrictions if they were necessary to suppress a variant which vaccines are less effective against.\n\nVaccines Minister Mr Zahawi said the government was also considering reducing the gap between vaccine doses for people in areas where the variant is spreading.\n\nHe added that pilots of vaccinating younger people in multi-generational households in Luton had been successful.\n\nProf Hunter said there was \"possibly\" a case for targeting vaccines in certain areas - but jabs took two to three weeks to work. This would mean diverting doses from other areas, where the Indian variant could also soon be spreading.\n\nHe added that he thought it was more important to administer as many first doses as possible than boost the number of second doses at this stage.\n\nOn Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was no evidence to suggest England's planned lockdown easing could not go ahead.\n\nThe next major easing of restrictions is due to take place on 17 May.\n\nBut Prof Hunter said step four of the roadmap out of lockdown, which is due on 21 June and would see all legal limits on social contact lifted, \"is in doubt\".\n\nCurrently, he said the Indian variant was spreading in younger, unvaccinated people but if cases increased in the elderly so would hospital admissions, putting pressure on the NHS.\n\nMr Zahawi said easing restrictions on 21 June depended on the government's four tests being met - including that vaccines continue to be effective and the risks are not fundamentally changed by new variants.\n\nWhy could the Indian variant be a problem when the vaccination programme is doing so well?\n\nThe issue is that we are only part way through even though those most at risk have been prioritised.\n\nThere is still debate about how transmissible the new variant is.\n\nBut modelling by the University of Warwick has estimated that a 30%-40% more transmissible variant combined with relaxing restrictions in May and June could lead to more hospital admissions than in the first wave.\n\nIt would be a very different situation if we were in the autumn when overall levels of immunity would be making it harder for the virus to spread.\n\nInstead, we are in the delicate phase where restrictions are being eased as the vaccine is taking over the burden of suppressing the virus.\n\nOne option being considered is closing the gap between the first and second doses.\n\nThis would give vulnerable people, who have already been offered their first jab, extra protection more quickly.\n\nHowever, there could be a trade-off as studies suggest the current 12-week gap between doses leads to a better immune response than the originally planned three-week gap.\n\nAsked whether local lockdowns were being considered, Mr Zahawi said nothing was \"off the table\", including further regional or national measures.\n\nHowever, he said surge testing was the \"most effective way\" of dealing with variants.\n\nSurge testing is already taking place in 15 areas across England, including Bolton, Blackburn, London, Sefton and Nottingham.\n\nThis is when increased testing and enhanced contact tracing is carried out in specific locations to try to prevent the spread of outbreaks.\n\nGreater Manchester's Labour Mayor Andy Burnham told BBC Breakfast local lockdowns \"can't be the answer\" and urged ministers to deliver more vaccines to areas where case rates are highest.\n\nThe Conservative leader of Bolton Council, David Greenhalgh, also appealed to the government not to enforce a local lockdown, saying people would simply travel to pubs and restaurants in neighbouring areas.\n\nHe said he had also asked the health secretary for more resources and vaccines, including for younger people, to tackle the surge.\n\nMr Greenhalgh said talks on the introduction of vaccines for younger age groups had been \"very constructive\" and \"all the soundings\" were that the government was looking to progress this as soon as possible.\n\nPHE said mobile testing units had been set up in Bolton, and door-to-door PCR testing had been offered to 22,000 residents. A PCR test is the most accurate way to check for Covid.\n\nMore doses have been delivered to the town, which has also set up a vaccine bus to increase uptake among those who are eligible.\n\nExtra clinics will open in Blackburn and Darwen in Lancashire from next week to offer the vaccine to those who are eligible under national guidelines.\n\nBut the area's public health director, Prof Dominic Harrison, said he was \"furious\" the government had refused a request to extend vaccinations in Blackburn.\n\nOn Thursday, the council initially said all over-18s would be offered a jab, before later stating only those with underlying conditions could book an appointment.\n\nMeanwhile, the R number - or reproduction number - in England is estimated to have risen slightly from between 0.8 and 1.0 to between 0.8 and 1.1, according to the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nIf the R number is above one then the number of cases keeps increasing.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThe Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City on 29 May will take place in Portugal with 6,000 fans from each club able to attend.\n\nThe game has been moved from Turkey to the Portuguese city of Porto because of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nPortugal is on England's green list so players and fans can attend without having to quarantine on their return home. Turkey is on the red list.\n\nThe final had been due to be staged at Istanbul's Ataturk Olympic Stadium.\n\n\"To deprive supporters of the chance to see the match in person was not an option and I am delighted that this compromise has been found,\" said Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin.\n\nUefa, UK government officials and the Football Association met to talk about Wembley hosting the game but no agreement could be reached on quarantine exemptions for sponsors, VIPs and broadcasters.\n\n\"Fans have had to suffer more than 12 months without the ability to see their teams live and reaching a Champions League final is the pinnacle of club football,\" added Ceferin.\n\n\"After the year that fans have endured, it is not right that they don't have the chance to watch their teams in the biggest game of the season.\"\n\nBoth Chelsea and Manchester City say they are in discussions with Uefa and other stakeholders over ticketing and travel arrangements.\n\nCity say they will offer fans a day-trip travel package from Manchester to Porto for the 20:00 BST match.\n\nThe sale of tickets to the general public will start on 24 May 2021 at 13:00 BST.\n\nIt is the second successive year the final has been held in Portugal with Lisbon the location for the delayed final stages of last season's competition, won by Bayern Munich.\n\nThe final capacity limit at the Estadio do Dragao in Porto is still to be fixed.\n\nCeferin acknowledged that the UK government's decision to place Turkey on the red list for travel was made in good faith but said it also left the governing body with \"a major challenge\".\n\n\"The difficulties of moving the final are great and the FA and the authorities made every effort to try to stage the match in England, and I would like to thank them for their work in trying to make it happen,\" he added.\n\n\"The Turkish Football Federation and the authorities have always been reliable partners of Uefa and I hope to be in Istanbul and Turkey for a Champions League final and many other events in the near future.\n\n\"I hope the final will be a symbol of hope at the re-emergence of Europe from a difficult period and that the fans who travel to the game will once again be able to lend their voices to showcase this final as the best in club football.\"\n• None He talks to Sir Mo Farah about choosing a positive route in life", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrom Monday, you'll get a chance to see the most famous space rock in Britain.\n\nThe meteorite that fell on the Gloucestershire town of Winchcombe in February is going on public display at London's Natural History Museum.\n\nScientists are busy studying the rock because it holds within it chemistry that existed at the formation of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago.\n\nBut they've got enough material to enable a 100g chunk to also be shown off to museum visitors.\n\nTo the uninitiated, the display meteorite looks like a small piece of half-burnt coal. Lean in close, though, and you can see some strands of grass and even some mud. This is something that fell out of the sky into a field.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Helena Bates: \"We hope this will reinvigorate meteorite science in the UK\"\n\nVictoria Bond, whose land that was and who's donated the rock fragment to the museum, is still surprised by the discovery.\n\nShe'd given permission for scientists to come on to her farm to perform a systematic sweep, but doubted anything would be found among all the sheep faeces that covered the ground.\n\n\"They were moving like zombies, pacing back and forth in a line, looking for the meteorite,\" she recalls. \"And as I left that morning in my car, I could see them jumping for joy.\n\n\"How they found it is amazing. I'm thinking of putting a plaque in the field because the footpath, the Cotswold Way, is no more than 100 yards away.\"\n\nThe thrill of it: It's difficult to overstate the importance of this find\n\nFrom the many videos of the incoming fireball that were recorded that Sunday night, and also from the thousands of eyewitness accounts, researchers had been able to correctly identify where in England rocky debris might come down. And the subsequent searches turned up trumps. It was Mira Ihasz in a University of Glasgow-led sweep of the Bond land that spotted something precious among the sheep poo.\n\nThat discovery may have been the single biggest chunk recovered in the Winchcombe area, but the museum has many more pieces now in its collection - roughly 500g.\n\nThey are kept in a special box to keep them dry. Each piece is in a little bag. Lumps larger than a pea are wrapped in foil first.\n\nMuch of the material comes from the driveway of the Wilcock family. Their home was in the crosshairs of the fireball.\n\nRob, his wife Cathryn and daughter Hannah had carefully picked up some of the debris that went splat on the tarmac. Museum scientists then came in to sweep up the remaining dust using a toothbrush and an empty cottage cheese pot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Ashley King: \"Winchcombe takes us back to 'year zero' for the Solar System\"\n\nBelieve it or not, those plastic ephemera are now part of the national collection, too. As will be a square of the dented Wilcock driveway when it's dug up. These artefacts are all part of the story and will eventually join the Bond fragment on display.\n\n\"It's fabulous to see the Winchcombe meteorite finally on show. It's so beautiful,\" says Cathryn. \"It's mind-blowing,\" adds Hannah.\n\nThere's some crazy money being offered online right now by privateer collectors seeking to buy or sell Winchcombe space rock.\n\nBut Rob says the family never thought of selling their share: \"We wanted the meteorite (to go to the museum) to inspire young people to get into science and do lots of good work. We owe a lot to scientists at the moment and I think we should inspire the next generation.\"\n\nDelicate rock: The Bond fragment broke in two when it was picked up\n\nDr Helena Bates, the interim curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum, certainly hopes that will be the case.\n\n\"This is the first meteorite to be observed to fall and then be recovered in the UK for 30 years,\" she tells BBC News.\n\n\"But the other thing is, we have not had a carbonaceous chondrite ever fall in the UK. Carbonaceous chondrites are really, really special, because they are basically some of the oldest, most pristine material we could possibly get to look at.\n\n\"They're like time capsules from the beginning of the Solar System. That piece of rock that fell in Gloucestershire has a 4.567-billion-year history.\"\n\nA section of the Wilcock driveway will be dug up for display\n\nScientists in the UK and abroad are subjecting the meteorite pieces to a battery of tests.\n\nYou might think that 500g - the weight of half a bag of sugar - represents an inadequate supply for all the researchers who want to examine it. But it's actually ample. Space missions sent to retrieve similar rock from asteroids would be thrilled to grab as much.\n\nThe museum's Dr Ashley King is bombarding a tiny bit with X-rays to reveal its mineral make-up.\n\n\"Each kind of mineral has its own characteristic X-ray pattern. It's like a fingerprint,\" he says.\n\n\"When the Solar System was forming, there was this huge cloud of gas and dust with the Sun at the centre, and then everything started accreting together to make bigger bodies, like the asteroids and the comets and eventually the planets. This meteorite tells us what minerals were present back then.\"\n\nThe Wilcock family: It's all about the science\n\nThe scientists know enough already about Winchcombe to make a submission to the international body that classifies meteorites.\n\nIt's very probably what's referred to as a CM carbonaceous chondrite. CMs are highly prized because they contain abundant organic, or carbon-rich, molecules. This, obviously, is chemistry that fascinates researchers because it lies at the basis of life.\n\nWe don't have traces of biological activity on Earth until almost a billion years after the Solar System's formation, but studying meteorites like Winchcombe could give us clues as to how life got going on our planet.\n\nThat's an amazing thought as you gaze at the 100g block in the museum's glazed display-case.\n\nThe Natural History Museum reopens to the public on Monday after its enforced Covid closure. To get in, visitors must book a free timed ticket in advance online at the museum's website.\n• None Winchcombe meteorite is first UK find in 30 years", "Chrissy Teigen is a US model and celebrity\n\nUS model Chrissy Teigen has apologised to TV personality Courtney Stodden for bullying them online a decade ago.\n\nIn 2011, Teigen allegedly sent Stodden messages on Twitter urging them to take their own life.\n\nIt was around the time that Stodden rose to fame as the 16-year-old bride of actor Doug Hutchison, who was 50 at the time of their wedding.\n\nStodden accepted the apology but said it may just be an attempt at limiting damage to Teigen's reputation.\n\nTeigen, who is married to singer John Legend, said she is now \"ashamed and completely embarrassed\" of her actions a decade ago.\n\nShe recently returned to Twitter after having taken a break due to being unable to handle the \"negativity\" on the platform.\n\n\"Not a lot of people are lucky enough to be held accountable for all their past... [comments] in front of the entire world,\" Teigen tweeted on Tuesday.\n\n\"I'm mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure, attention-seeking troll.\n\n\"I am ashamed and completely embarrassed at my behaviour but that is nothing compared to how I made Courtney feel.\"\n\nUS TV personality Courtney Stodden has said Chrissy Teigen was not the only celebrity to comment on their marriage\n\nTeigen added she will \"forever work\" on being a better person and try not to let down her 13.6m followers again.\n\n\"I have worked so hard to give you guys joy and be beloved, and the feeling of letting you down is nearly unbearable, truly,\" she continued.\n\n\"These were not my only mistakes and surely won't be my last, as hard as I try but god I will try!!\"\n\nThe star claimed she had tried to contact Stodden privately, noting: \"I hope you [Stodden] can heal now knowing how deeply sorry I am.\"\n\nStodden, who recently came out as non-binary, accepted the apology but questioned its sincerity and accuracy.\n\n\"I accept her apology and forgive her,\" Stodden said. \"But the truth remains the same, I have never heard from her or her camp in private. In fact, she blocked me on Twitter.\n\n\"All of me wants to believe this is a sincere apology, but it feels like a public attempt to save her partnerships with Target and other brands who are realising her wokeness is a broken record.\"\n\nStodden rose to fame aged 16, when they married the actor Doug Hutchison\n\nHutchison, who featured alongside Tom Hanks in the 1999 drama movie The Green Mile, was divorced from Stodden last year.\n\nStodden recently told The Daily Beast that other celebrities had commented on the relationship.\n\n\"People came out of the woodwork to beat up on a kid because she was in a situation that she shouldn't have been in,\" Stodden told the publication.\n\n\"There were a lot of celebrities acting like playground bullies.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Violence in Gaza and Israel shows no sign of abating amid continued rocket fire, air strikes and civil unrest among Jewish and Israeli Arab mobs.\n\nBBC reporters are on the ground in Gaza, Lod and Jerusalem.", "Boris Johnson no longer has a county court judgement against him after his lawyers sought to strike out a claim for a £535 debt for alleged defamation.\n\nDowning Street said the claim against the prime minister had been \"totally without merit\" and \"vexatious\".\n\nThe PM's lawyers lodged an application to have the judgement struck out.\n\nA court official confirmed a CCJ was no longer present in the case after applications were considered by District Judge Hammond.\n\nThey said they were unable to provide further details.\n\nDowning Street appeared to have been taken by surprise when the CCJ emerged on Wednesday, after being first reported by Private Eye magazine.\n\nOfficial records showed an \"unsatisfied record\" for the unpaid debt was registered to Mr Johnson at \"10 Downing Street\", with the judgement dated 26 October last year.\n\nAn additional file showed the claim, for \"defamation\" and \"committed repeated defamation\", was made by an Yvonne Hobbs against \"The Rt Hon Boris Johnson\".\n\nIt was not clear how the case led to a CCJ being issued, as defamation cases would normally be heard in the High Court.\n\nBut the CCJ was issued by the online civil-claims court, which used to be known as the small claims court.\n\nCCJs are issued in England and Wales when people fail to repay money they owe.\n\n\"If you get a judgement, this means that the court has formally decided that you owe the money,\" according to a government website.\n\nIt is likely letters about the alleged debt were sent to 10 Downing Street and not answered, and therefore no defence was offered, which would eventually have led to a CCJ being issued by default.", "Mahmood used police cars to try to stop drugs couriers and \"seize\" their money\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer who pretended to stop and search drug dealers so he could steal their money has been jailed for eight years.\n\nKashif Mahmood seized hundreds of thousands of pounds for an organised crime gang controlled from Dubai.\n\nThe gang received information about when money was on the move so that Mahmood could intercept it - in uniform - using police cars.\n\nFour other men and a woman received sentences of up to 16 years.\n\nThe sentences follow an investigation which benefited from the penetration of the Encrochat mobile phone network in 2020.\n\nClockwise from top L: Shazad Khan, Shabaz Khan, Moshin Khan, Ioan Gherghel and Maria Shah - all had entered guilty pleas\n\nPassing sentence, His Honour Judge Tomlinson said Kashif Mahmood had abused his position of \"power, trust and responsibility\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick called the case \"shocking\" but said she was \"delighted\" the Met's anti corruption officers \"were able to mount this operation and to catch those people and to actually have a big impact on an organised criminal network\".\n\nOf corrupt officers, Dame Cressida added: \"They betray the rest of us and we deplore this form of corruption or any corruption.\"\n\nMahmood was a police officer for 10 years, receiving a string of commendations before being dismissed in November\n\nThe defendants pleaded guilty to offences including acquiring criminal property, money laundering and drug supply.\n\nIt was a sophisticated criminal operation based on tip-offs from a shadowy figure in Dubai, named in court as Mutjaba Neazmand.\n\nUsing the code name \"SSNew\" on the Encrochat network, the court heard he was involved in large-scale drug dealing, but also directing gang members to \"steal back\" the proceeds.\n\nNeazmand would contact the gang's leader in the UK, Mohsin Khan, with information about \"jobs\" - large amounts of money being carried by drug couriers.\n\nKhan, whose Encrochat nickname was \"AcquaPlus\" would pass on the details to police officer Kashif Mahmood, who had served in the Met for 10 years.\n\nMahmood would book out police cars from Stoke Newington Police station, and pick up an accomplice, Ioan Gherghel, to pose as his partner.\n\nThe police seized 20kg of cannabis at the home of one of Khan brothers\n\nBacked up by Khan and his two brothers, they would then try to stop the couriers and \"seize\" their money.\n\nOften the couriers had been given the cash by the Khan gang as part of a drug deal.\n\nWhen it was stolen back by the Khans and Mahmood, they were left out of pocket, and at risk of reprisals from their criminal associates.\n\nThe scam was so successful the gang seized more than a million pounds, prosecutors believe.\n\nBy March 2020 \"SSNew\" or Neazmand, the mastermind in Dubai, was boasting in Encrochat messages that: \"We can do 1500m and I still say to u bro we do more.\"\n\n\"This system is in our hand. We can do it unlimited.\"\n\nPolice say Encrochat was almost exclusively used by criminals who communicated freely, believing their conversations were encrypted.\n\nIt was penetrated by French police and intelligence agency cyber security experts in early 2020, and, as a result, more than 1,500 suspects have been arrested so far.\n\nThe Khan gang were caught following a number of \"jobs\", including one where they inadvertently targeted a drug courier, while he was under police surveillance.\n\nProsecutors believe the gang had handed him half a million pounds, in return for drugs.\n\nMahmood and Gherghel, also dressed as police officers, then stopped the man's car in Chingford, East London, searched it, and took the money back.\n\nThis meant that the gang now had both the cash and the drugs.\n\nBut surveillance officers belonging to a police proactive money laundering team were, by chance, watching what happened.\n\nThey stopped Mahmood to find out why the search of the target's car had been carried out, and requested he create an intelligence report.\n\nMahmood's body worn video camera was inadvertently triggered and captured pictures of Gherghel, dressed as a police officer and sitting in the police car with him\n\nA still from Mahmood's bodycam which was accidentally triggered during the Chingford stop and search\n\nProsecutors said Mahmood was forced to go to his police station, despite being signed off on sick leave to complete the report.\n\nIt was used by police as evidence against him.\n\nThey also analysed extensive mobile phone evidence to build up a picture of the gang's communications and movements.\n\nFollowing arrests, large amounts of cash were found in the conspirators' homes.\n\nCash seized at an address shared by Maria Shah, Moshin Khan and Shazad Khan\n\nMaria Shah, a partner of one of the gang, and also convicted of being involved, is believed to have withdrawn a large amount of cash from a safety deposit box facility in Knightsbridge, central London.\n\nWhen police searched the boxes they were found to be empty.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct, which worked to ensure the investigation was thorough and impartial, called Mahmood's behaviour \"audacious corrupt and criminal\".\n\n\"His actions were a complete betrayal of public trust and confidence and have no place in policing,\" said the IOPC's director of major investigations, Steve Noonan.\n\n\"While all the evidence we have seen points towards this being an isolated case of police corruption... we have to remain vigilant and will continue to pursue allegations of corruption vigorously.\"", "MDMA - most commonly known as a party drug - could be more effective than therapy alone at treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\nThe results of a keenly-awaited trial suggest two-thirds of people no longer qualified for a PTSD diagnosis after treatment.\n\nThe study represents a significant step towards approval of the drug in the US.\n\nBut UK experts warn against overhyping MDMA's potential, saying more research is needed to understand its effects.\n\nPTSD can be the result of a very distressing or frightening event, or longer-term series of experiences. That might include accidents, abuse, rape, combat or illness.\n\nAnd it can be very difficult to treat.\n\nThis trial, run by US charity the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (Maps), found 88% of people had a \"meaningful reduction in symptoms\" and 67% no longer qualified for a PTSD diagnosis at all after 18 weeks and three sessions of MDMA-assisted therapy.\n\nTalking therapy alone led to a significant improvement in 60%, and remission in 32% of people.\n\nThe participants in the study, which was published in the journal Nature, had suffered from PTSD for an average of 14 years.\n\nWhile scientists acknowledge these findings provide important evidence in MDMA's favour, they are based on just 91 people. And since they were self-selecting (they volunteered for the study), they may not be representative of all trauma survivors.\n\nThe trial also compared MDMA with a type of therapy not recommended by the NHS for trauma, making the comparison less useful, according to some UK psychiatrists.\n\nMDMA appears to work in part by calming the amygdala - the part of the brain which acts as a smoke alarm, telling the body to prepare for danger.\n\nIn people with PTSD and anxiety disorders, this part of the brain can overreact, sounding the alarm over seemingly small events (slight noises, changes of tone or facial expression, for example).\n\nThe Maps researchers suggest flooding the brain with feel-good hormones like serotonin at the same time as dampening its response to fear, might allow people to face and deal with painful memories without becoming overwhelmed.\n\n\"At its core, PTSD is a disorder of memory\", said Dr Michael Bloomfield, a consultant psychiatrist at University College London (UCL).\n\nWhen we are babies, and again during adolescence, we experience periods where our brains are very pliable - they grow and change much more than they're generally capable of in adulthood, and we can form lots of new connections.\n\nThe scientists involved in the study speculate that psychedelics and similar-acting drugs like MDMA might allow a \"reopening\" of this critical window of brain development, during which therapy can help healthier connections form.\n\nThe Maps researchers said commonly prescribed antidepressants were ineffective for 40-60% of sufferers. But in the UK, talking therapy rather than medication is generally recommended as the first way of treating PTSD.\n\nDr Bloomfield at UCL said the treatment most recommended for trauma involves a therapist actively working with an individual to relive and process traumatic memories. But the therapy used in the study was closer to counselling, involving empathetic but mostly passive listening.\n\nThis makes it difficult to say whether MDMA-assisted therapy works better than trauma-focused therapy on its own, he explained.\n\nPositive expectations might also be driving some of the effects, Dr Bloomfield said, since the patients who volunteered to take part in the study were likely to have an existing interest in the drug.\n\nAlthough the study used a placebo group to help correct the effect of positive expectations, it's difficult to \"blind\" someone to the fact they've been given a drug like MDMA, which causes a strong and fairly immediate reaction.\n\nNevertheless, while more research is needed, Dr Bloomfield described the study as \"very exciting\", providing further evidence MDMA-assisted psychotherapy may be helpful for people with PTSD.\n\nGuy Goodwin, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford, also flagged the study's relatively small sample size and self-selecting patients as limiting what the findings can tell us.\n\nBut he agreed the study \"adds to the growing conviction that drugs producing psychedelic effects have real potential in the treatment of severe mood and anxiety disorders\".\n\nMany psychedelic studies are exploratory - early-stage research investigating the potential of various drugs but remaining a long way from actually being available to prescribe.\n\nBut the Maps research is what is known as a phase three trial - the final hurdle before investigators can apply for the drug to be approved and therefore becomes available to patients.\n\nThe study was designed and conducted with the approval of the US regulatory authority, the Food and Drug Administration.\n\nMaps' chief scientific officer Dr Berra Yazar-Klosinski said MDMA could be legalised and available for prescription by 2023 in the US, and this summer she plans to travel to Europe to begin the process of seeking regulatory approval from the EU and the UK.\n\nThe team later plans to explore its potential for other conditions, including depression.", "Sir Alex Ferguson says he is \"grateful for the three years extra\" he feels he has had after surviving a brain haemorrhage in 2018.\n\nThe legendary former Manchester United manager made the admission before this month's release of a new film about his life.\n\nDirected by his son Jason, 'Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In' recounts his journey on and off the pitch, the support of his family, and the recovery from his health scare.\n\nAnd the 79-year-old Scotsman believes that audiences \"may be quite startled\" by the way he comes across in the documentary.\n\n\"They may say, 'he wasn't like that as a manager, he's a different guy, he's human'.\"\n\nIn a wide-ranging and rare interview with BBC Sport, conducted at Old Trafford, Ferguson\n• None Revealed he was \"terrified\" of losing his memory and voice after his devastating brain haemorrhage, and is \"very fortunate\" to still be alive.\n• None Explained his opposition to the failed recent proposal for a sealed-off European Super League, saying \"the real reason for football is that the smallest guy can climb to the top of Everest... we can't do without that\".\n• None Praised the latest manager to try to replace him at Manchester United, his former player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, for \"giving young players a chance... he really has done very well\", and highlighted the \"drive\" of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp.\n• None Said he believed he would still succeed if managing today, but that current players are \"more fragile, they need more care... it's become a more protective life nowadays\", and social media was a \"terrible problem\".\n• None Said he was \"so proud\" of Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford for his campaign for free school meals.\n\nFerguson, who retired from management in 2013, had emergency surgery for his brain haemorrhage on 5 May 2018, and was in intensive care for several days.\n\nThe film, which will be shown in cinemas and on Amazon Prime, starts with the audio of the 999 call that Jason made after his father fell ill at home.\n\n\"I tried to get out my bed and just collapsed,\" said Ferguson.\n\n\"I was very fortunate because I fell against a shoe rack, and all the shoes fell out and made a noise, and Cathy was downstairs.\n\n\"She came up and got me sat up against the wall, and that's the last thing I remember.\"\n\nFollowing his operation, Ferguson said his greatest fear was losing his memory.\n\n\"I always depended on that. And then my two grandsons were in with me, and all of a sudden I stopped talking, I just couldn't get a word out.\n\n\"And at that moment I was a bit terrified to be honest with you.\n\n\"And I'm starting to think, 'What are we going to do now? You can't talk, has my memory gone?' And then the speech therapist started, she was fantastic, got me to write all the names of my family, all the names of my players, and then about 10 days later it came back.\n\n\"All of my life I have appreciated the NHS, none more so with that experience, they were fantastic. And I owe it to them really.\"\n\nWhen asked how the ordeal had changed him, Ferguson replied: \"Probably not taking things too seriously in terms of knowing that you're vulnerable… if I go tomorrow I'll be grateful for three years extra I had. That's a feeling I've had for quite a while now.\"\n\nWith Ferguson's working-class identity and Glasgow roots a central theme of the film, it features previously unseen footage of him leading an apprentice march in Glasgow in 1960, when the shipyard workers went on strike to demand higher pay.\n\n\"When Jason came to me with the clip… that was astounding,\" he said.\n\n\"I said, 'where did you get that?' That was probably my proudest moment at the time, because apprentices in those days weren't paid well… the cause, to get them better conditions, always lives with me.\n\n\"It will cling to me all my life because how you're brought up lives with you, the important things that your mother or father taught you… as you get older your own personality maybe changes. But these things are really the foundation.\n\n\"I never used reflection as part of my management, always looked forward.\n\n\"So the reflection… thinking about some of the players you had and some of the triumphs and defeats was quite powerful for me.\"\n\nThe film - which Jason said he wanted to be a \"very personal and intimate\" portrait of his father's life, also reveals the appreciation Ferguson feels for his family, and especially his wife, Lady Cathy.\n\n\"Management is such a sacrifice that you don't have time for family, you don't have time for your friends,\" he said. \"I didn't want to fail. I couldn't fail, so that was always a driving force for me, and I needed a wife that recognised that and lived with it, and that couldn't have been easy for her. She brought the boys up.\"\n\n'Every club should have that dream'\n\nFerguson won three Scottish Premier Division titles and the European Cup Winners' Cup, among other trophies, during eight years with Aberdeen.\n\nHe then went on to become the longest-serving manager in Manchester United's history, winning 38 trophies in 26 and a half years, including 13 Premier League titles and the Champions League twice.\n\nWith more than 550 hours of material gathered for the film, it ends with the 1999 Champions League final, when United scored twice in stoppage time to claim a famous victory over Bayern Munich and complete the Treble, having already won the Premier League and FA Cup.\n\nThe future of the competition was threatened last month when 12 clubs, including United, tried to launch the European Super League\n\nThe breakaway plot failed, but sparked fury among United's fans, some of whom stormed Old Trafford in protest at the actions of the club's despised American owners, the Glazer family.\n\nFerguson declined to be drawn on the controversy surrounding the owners or the fan protest, but did make clear his opposition to the idea of a sealed-off 'super league', with access restricted to the wealthiest clubs.\n\n\"As a player I played in European football for Rangers and Dunfermline,\" he said.\n\n\"And then as a manager I took a provincial club, Aberdeen, and beat Real Madrid in the [1983 European Cup Winners Cup] final in Gothenburg. That is a provincial club, fulfilling its dream.\n\n\"Every club should have that dream to achieve what Aberdeen did. So that's the answer.\n\n\"You cannot ever forget that the real reason for football was that the smallest guy can climb to the top of Everest, and that's the best way I can put that. We can't do without that really.\"\n\nWhen asked if he would find it harder to be a manager in today's game, where power has shifted towards players and their agents, Ferguson said: \"I personally don't think so.\n\n\"I think I had something in me that was bound to get me somewhere in life. I'm not being boastful, but I think I had that personality to do well, the drive and the hunger and the energy. Even when I got into my 60s I wanted the players to really see my energy.\n\n\"My experience in the last few years at United would reflect the fact that they are more fragile, they need more care.\n\n\"The players I inherited at Aberdeen and Manchester United were strong, were powerful, and it's changed because it's become a more protective life nowadays. I was very lucky to inherit the kind of players that I did in my earlier days.\"\n\nAnd he had special praise for Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and his counterpart at new league champions Manchester City, Pep Guardiola.\n\n\"I think there are young people out there with a drive like you see with Klopp for instance, and the drive he's brought to Liverpool, and Pep Guardiola with the job he's done at City… there is a place for people with the right credentials, and the right material to do well.\n\n\"And I take your point what they're up against today, because you've got social media which is a terrible problem at the moment. And you've also got the role of agents… and there are obstacles. But the good ones will find a way.\"\n\nUnited have not won the title since Ferguson's last season in 2012-13 and Solskjaer is the first manager to secure back-to-back top-four finishes in the league since the Scot retired. United are currently second in the league and through to the Europa League final.\n\n\"Even as a young reserve, even when he was on the bench… he would take notes of the training sessions. He had a will that he wanted to be a manager, and at a club like Manchester United, it's a result industry, without question.\n\n\"If you don't get results there's questions to be asked. He is getting the results, he really has done very well. And what is really important for this club is to introduce young people, and he's given young players a chance.\n\n\"That will always be the foundation of Manchester United, from Matt Busby, from Alex Ferguson and to what Ole is doing, the young guys, if they are good enough, play them. Never a problem at this club.\"\n\nEngland international Rashford, 23, has used his platform to campaign for the provision of free school meals in England during holidays and other support to low-income families, prompting major changes in government policy.\n\n\"When he did what he did I phoned him right away,\" said Ferguson. \"And I thought what he was doing is an example for a young person to give to all the rest of them in this industry, which most of the top players are doing very well.\n\n\"For Rashford to do we he did, for a young person, I was so proud of him, I really was. I think everyone was and he's not got carried away with himself. He's still trying to do an honest job as you would expect from him.\"\n• None He talks to Sir Mo Farah about choosing a positive route in life", "A trial date has been set for a man charged with the murder of police community support officer Julia James.\n\nMs James, 53, was found with fatal head injuries next to Akholt Wood, Snowdown, near Dover, on 27 April.\n\nCallum Wheeler, 21, from Aylesham, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court via video link from Belmarsh prison.\n\nMr Wheeler spoke only to confirm his name and to say he could hear Judge Philip Statman during the 12-minute hearing. He was remanded in custody.\n\nA trial date has been set for 29 November, with a plea and trial preparation hearing set for 8 June.\n\nNo members of Ms James's family were at the hearing.\n\nJudge Statman said: \"There being no application for bail, in the circumstances having looked at all the matters, it is right and proper the defendant should remain in custody.\"\n\nMs James, who had worked for Kent Police since 2008, had been walking her dog near her home in Snowdown at the time of the attack, police said.\n\nPolice carried out a reconstruction of Ms James's last walk with her Jack Russell, Toby, on Tuesday.\n\nFollowing that, Assistant Chief Constable Tom Richards said: \"We have received a number of additional calls from members of the public and the local community with information they feel may assist the investigation.\"\n\nMs James's cousin, Sam Griffin, is organising a series of walks in memory of the PCSO.\n\nMs Griffin suggested online that those taking part in the Walks for Julia could wear something blue or blue ribbons, in recognition of Ms James's role in the police force.\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.", "Trains taken out of service after cracks were found are to be reintroduced following \"rigorous safety checks\", the Rail Delivery Group says.\n\nSome of the Hitachi Class 800 trains have cracks on the lifting plate, but as this is used for maintenance and not passenger journeys, regulators have agreed they are safe to return.\n\nThere have been cancellations since 182 trains were pulled on Saturday.\n\nThe rail minister warned travellers to expect disruption for \"some time\".\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said Great Western Railway and London North Eastern Railway (LNER) will now ramp up services, but timetables will still be affected.\n\nTravellers are being advised to continue to check with their operator before they travel.\n\nTrains with more severe cracks will remain with Hitachi for repair and, in the longer term, the manufacturer says all trains with cracks will be brought back to be repaired.\n\nAndrew Barr, CEO of Hitachi Rail, apologised for the disruption and told the BBC: \"Over the coming days we'll see more trains available for service as we get ready for the service on Monday morning.\"\n\nAsked if he expected the majority of trains to be back next week, he said: \"It is still early days, we're still undertaking those inspections, but we're hopeful that we can ensure the maximum number of trains are available for service.\"\n\nHe said it was \"too early to say\" how much the disruption and repair work caused by pulling 182 trains out of service had cost.\n\nIn a statement, the Rail Delivery Group said Hitachi Rail, train operators and the government have agreed a \"service recovery plan\" to reintroduce more Class 800 and 385 trains after they were taken out of service on Saturday.\n\nBut it said trains on some routes may be less frequent than usual and train availability could vary.\n\nThe industry has put in place \"suitable criteria for the trains to meet before they can re-enter service\", the Rail Delivery Group said.\n\nGreat Western Railway services in and out of London Paddington were cancelled on Saturday\n\nRail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said he welcomed the news that \"many trains\" can return following safety checks.\n\n\"Trains should begin to return to service after further inspections have been carried out, helping to safely restore the reliable and punctual services on GWR and LNER that passengers deserve,\" he said.\n\n\"Safety is our absolute focus, which is why Hitachi will carry out a comprehensive daily testing regime on affected trains.\"\n\nHe said the next step would be for Hitachi to present its long-term repair plan for the fleet, which he expects \"shortly\".\n\n\"Whilst this long-term fix can partly be incorporated into the regular service pattern for these trains, we do expect disruption to services for some time to come, but hope passengers understand this work is essential to ensure these issues do not occur again,\" Mr Heaton-Harris said.\n\nGreat Western Railway is still advising customers not to travel, saying disruption is \"likely to continue for some time\".\n\n\"We have had to cancel many of our long-distance services and expect disruption to journeys to continue for the next few days,\" it said.\n\nMost GWR services from London Paddington were cancelled on Thursday.\n\nEast Coast mainline company LNER said it was running a reduced timetable \"which may change at short notice\".\n\nIts website is reporting delays on 20 services, including journeys between London Kings Cross and Edinburgh, on Thursday.\n\nIn Scotland, LNER is not running any trains between Edinburgh and Aberdeen or Inverness.\n\nIt said its tickets would be accepted with ScotRail and Transpennine Express until Friday.\n\nHull Trains and TransPennine Express were also affected by the problem with Hitachi Class 800 trains, but both operators said on Saturday afternoon their fleet could return after checks.", "An estimated 82.1% of people classified as clinically extremely vulnerable had received both doses of coronavirus vaccine by 9 May, according to NHS England figures.\n\nThe proportion of people aged 16 to 64 in an \"at-risk group\" or who are unpaid carers to have received a second jab by this date was 32.2%, the data suggests.\n\nPeople are identified as at risk or a carer in a number of ways, including through GP records, those receiving carer's allowance or on the GP Learning Disability Register, and those identified as unpaid carers by local authorities, NHS England said.\n\nMeanwhile, an estimated 90.2% of frontline NHS trust staff in England had been given both doses of coronavirus vaccine by May 9, NHS England figures suggest.\n\nThe data only represents those NHS trust healthcare workers who appear in the NHS electronic staff record (ESR) covering all directly-employed staff in NHS trusts, with the exception of Chesterfield Royal NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nIt does not include data on agency staff and NHS bank staff that are not paid through the ESR, NHS England added.\n\nPeople included in these figures may also have been counted as being part of the same, or another high-priority group, it added.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed by Usman Khan at the conference on offender rehabilitation\n\nThe UK's top intelligence agency did not consider a convicted terrorist a risk, an inquest court has heard.\n\nUsman Khan was jailed for a terror offence in 2012 before being released on licence six years later.\n\nHe went on to kill Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt in a knife attack at London's Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nMI5 told the hearing it had been considering whether to close an ongoing investigation into Khan.\n\nA courtroom sketch of the MI5 officer Witness A giving evidence behind a screen\n\nA deputy director of MI5, known as Witness A, was giving evidence at the inquests in London's Guildhall from within a closed pod, meaning that no-one in court could see her.\n\nThe court heard that Khan spent more than four years under active MI5 investigation while he was in prison and that the security service had re-opened the case in the months before his release.\n\nWitness A said MI5's prison intelligence on Khan was shared with counter terror police and that in November 2018, MI5 received intelligence that Khan might return to his \"old ways\" and re-engage in terrorist-related activity including \"carrying out an attack\".\n\nBut the inquests were told that a document before the multi-agency panel responsible for managing Khan after release, only referred to the \"old ways\" intelligence, which it stated was \"low grade\" - and not the material about planning an attack.\n\nWhen asked in court whether she was aware the information had not been passed on, Witness A said: \"We did not know that\".\n\nMI5 continued its investigation into Khan, however, and upped its level of priority due to the prison intelligence, the inquests heard.\n\nAfter Khan's release from prison, it carried out two assessments to ascertain whether he might become a lone attacker, but both failed to assess him as posing such a risk, the inquests were told.\n\nKhan, from Stafford in the West Midlands, had armed himself with knives and a fake suicide belt for the attack\n\nThe inquests heard that MI5 and the police held a joint meeting about Khan on 18 November 2019.\n\nWitness A said at that point the MI5 investigation into Khan was \"heading towards closure\" as it had not detected any conduct of national security concern.\n\nEleven days after that meeting, Khan killed Ms Jones and Mr Merritt and injured three others during a conference on offender rehabilitation, which Khan had been allowed to attend unaccompanied.\n\nHe had been invited to attend the Fishmongers' Hall event as he was perceived a \"success story\" of the Learning Together programmes he enrolled in while in custody.\n\nThe deputy director told the court that MI5 had \"no intelligence of concern\" at the time that could have fed in to a decision on whether Khan could attend the event.\n\nShe told the jury: \"We had not seen anything to suggest it was a potential source of risk\".\n\nThe inquests previously heard from Khan's probation officer Ken Skelton who authorised his attendance at the conference.\n\nMr Skelton told the inquests that he was unaware MI5 had been investigating Khan and that if he had known of MI5's concerns \"the whole management process would have altered\".\n\nPsychologist Ieva Cechaviciute, previously told the inquests that she had assessed Khan's risk of engaging in extremist activity would increase upon his release in December 2018.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The body overseeing criminal sentences in England and Wales is proposing treating paedophiles who are caught in stings the same as abusers who harm real children.\n\nThe plan from the Sentencing Council says judges should look at intent, rather than whether a child was harmed.\n\nUndercover operations with officers posing as children are a common way of uncovering paedophile rings.\n\nOffenders have sought reduced jail terms if no child came to harm.\n\nThe rules will cover the sentencing of all abusers caught via stings, usually operating online - including those run by police forces around the world and traps set by informal groups of people often dubbed \"paedophile hunters\".\n\nCurrent guidelines have long been interpreted as meaning that in many cases, where someone was caught in a sting, the jail term would be lower because of the absence of a child.\n\nBut last year, senior judges at the Court of Appeal looked at the actions of abusers - including one who thought he was on his way to meet a real child.\n\nThe judgement said that the intentions of the men should be the key starting point for their sentences.\n\nLord Justice Fulford, the lead judge on that case and a member of the Sentencing Council, said: \"The changes we are proposing today will make sure the courts give the proper weight to the harm intended by those who commit offences against children.\n\n\"When an offender intends sexual activity with a child, that must be reflected in the sentence imposed, even where that activity does not ultimately take place.\"\n\nThe proposals would affect all abusers convicted of arranging a sexual offence with a child or inciting a child to take part in abuse, whether or not the harm was caused or the victim actually existed.\n\nThe maximum jail term for these crimes is 14 years and the guidelines set out how long offenders should be jailed for, depending on the specific circumstances of their crime.", "Hamas was formed in 1988 after the outbreak of the first Palestinian uprising\n\nHamas is the largest of several Palestinian militant Islamist groups.\n\nIts name is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, originating as it did in 1988 after the beginning of the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Under its charter, it is committed to the destruction of Israel.\n\nHamas originally had a dual purpose of carrying out an armed struggle against Israel - led by its military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades - and delivering social welfare programmes.\n\nHamas set up the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades to pursue its political goals militarily\n\nBut since 2005, when Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza, Hamas has also engaged in the Palestinian political process. It won the legislative elections in 2006, before reinforcing its power in Gaza the following year by ousting the rival Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas.\n\nSince then, militants in Gaza have fought four major conflicts with Israel, which along with Egypt has maintained a blockade on the strip to isolate Hamas and to pressure it to stop attacks.\n\nHamas as a whole, or in some cases its military wing, is designated a terrorist group by Israel, the United States, European Union and United Kingdom, as well as other powers.\n\nHamas came to prominence after the first intifada as the main Palestinian group opposed to the Oslo peace accords signed in the early 1990s between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the body representing most Palestinians.\n\nDespite numerous Israeli operations against it and clampdowns by the Palestinian Authority (the main governing body of the Palestinians) Hamas found it had an effective power of veto over the process by launching suicide attacks.\n\nHamas has carried out multiple deadly bus bombings in Israel\n\nIt carried out multiple bus bombings, killing scores of Israelis, and stepped up its attacks after Israel assassinated its chief bomb maker Yahya Ayyash in December 1995.\n\nThe bombings were widely blamed for turning Israelis off the peace process and bringing Benjamin Netanyahu - a staunch opponent of the Oslo accords - to power in 1996.\n\nIn the post-Oslo world, most particularly following the failure of US President Bill Clinton's Camp David summit in 2000 and the second intifada which followed shortly thereafter, Hamas gained power and influence as Israel clamped down on the Palestinian Authority, which it accused of sponsoring deadly attacks.\n\nHamas organised clinics and schools, which served Palestinians who felt let down by the corrupt and inefficient Palestinian Authority, dominated by the Fatah faction.\n\nHamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli missile strike in 2004\n\nMany Palestinians cheered the wave of Hamas suicide attacks in the first years of the second intifada. They saw \"martyrdom\" operations as avenging their own losses and Israel's settlement-building in the West Bank, territory wanted by Palestinians for a future state of their own.\n\nIn March and April 2004, Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and his successor Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi were assassinated in Israeli missile strikes in Gaza.\n\nThe death of Fatah leader Yasser Arafat that November saw the Palestinian Authority newly led by Mahmoud Abbas, who viewed Hamas rocket-fire as counter-productive.\n\nIsmail Haniyeh (L), seen here with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is the overall leader of Hamas\n\nWhen Hamas scored a landslide victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006, the stage was set for a bitter power-struggle with Fatah.\n\nHamas resisted all efforts to get it to sign up to previous Palestinian agreements with Israel, as well as to recognise Israel's legitimacy and to renounce violence.\n\nHamas's charter defines historic Palestine - including present-day Israel - as Islamic land and it rules out any permanent peace with the Jewish state.\n\nThe document also repeatedly makes attacks on Jews as a people, drawing charges that the movement is anti-Semitic.\n\nIn 2017, Hamas produced a new policy document that softened some of its stated positions and used more measured language.\n\nThere was no recognition of Israel, but it did formally accept the creation of an interim Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - what are known as pre-1967 lines.\n\nThe document also stresses that Hamas's struggle is not with Jews but with \"occupying Zionist aggressors\". Israel said the group was \"attempting to fool the world\".\n\nAs a result, the new Hamas-led government was subjected to tough economic and diplomatic sanctions by Israel and its allies in the West.\n\nAfter Hamas ousted forces loyal to Fatah from Gaza in 2007, Israel tightened its blockade on the territory, and Palestinian rocket-fire and Israeli air strikes continued. Egypt also closed its border crossing with Gaza and has only opened it intermittently since.\n\nHamas wrested control of Gaza from forces loyal to Palestinian Abbas during a bloody conflict in 2007\n\nIsrael holds Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from the strip, and the two sides have been in a constant state of conflict ranging from deadly incidents around the border to full-scale hostilities.\n\nThe deadliest round, in 2014, saw at least 2,251 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians, killed during 50 days of fighting. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed.\n\nMost recently, an 11-day conflict in May 2021 killed at least 256 people in Gaza and 13 in Israel before it ended with an Egyptian-brokered truce.\n\nYears of rocket-fire from Gaza has been a major security issue for Israel\n\nRepeated attempts at reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah have failed, and the first Palestinian elections for 15 years, in which Hamas was due to compete, were called off by President Abbas in April 2021.\n\nMeanwhile, the humanitarian situation for the two million Palestinians in Gaza has deteriorated. The strip's economy has collapsed, and there are shortages of water, electricity and medicine.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nHundreds of Manchester United fans protested against the club's ownership at Old Trafford in the hours leading up to their home match against Liverpool.\n\nThe fixture was postponed due to protests on 2 May and similar scenes were expected before Thursday's game.\n\nThe United team arrived at around 14:00 BST in order to ensure stadium access.\n\nLiverpool arrived around 19:00 BST on unmarked buses after the club's official bus was blocked by protesters on a street close to the stadium.\n\nThe official bus was on its way to pick up Liverpool's squad when it was stopped but the club moved to use its other two coaches to get the players to the ground.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said two arrests had been made.\n\nManchester United's players used beds brought into the stadium in order to rest before the fixture.\n\nReacting to protests before the rescheduled fixture, the club's former player and Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville said: \"Let us be clear with what we are seeing, which is effectively Manchester United turned into a prison.\n\n\"It's a devastating image for the club and its brand around the world.\"\n\nUnited will host 10,000 fans in the stadium when they meet Fulham on Tuesday.\n\nAfter the 4-2 defeat to Liverpool, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"Of course it disrupted us a little bit so it's not been ideal but we had to deal with it.\n\n\"Hopefully when we let the fans in on Tuesday it's a good atmosphere. We have waited a long time to let them in so we're looking forward to enjoying the game together.\"\n\nUnited's home game with Liverpool became the first fixture in Premier League history to be postponed due to fan protests when it was called off earlier this month.\n\nFans broke into the stadium on the day and police were injured by fans, with one man arrested this week.\n\nThe protests followed United's decision, along with five fellow Premier League clubs, to join the European Super League (ESL), before subsequently all pulling out.\n\nUnited co-chairman Joel Glazer has since written to the club's supporters and is expected to meet with fans when the season ends.\n\nCharlie Brooks, director of communications at Manchester United, told Sky Sports: \"The owners absolutely do care about the club. They are committed in the long term.\n\n\"We're in a situation where all the fans want to see, the staff want to see and the owners want to see continued success - and that's what we need to build towards.\"\n\nThe protests were not on the same scale as the postponed fixture but they were still noisy and retained a lot of the anger from 11 days previously.\n\nThe major difference this time around was the amount of police and security around.\n\nWhen the fans moved from the front of the stadium to the back, a line of police, with vans behind them, blocked the entrance to Old Trafford.\n\nA couple of flares were thrown, more anti-Glazer songs were sung - but just as it was happening, the top of the Liverpool buses were visible as they moved into the complex through a different entrance.\n\nManchester United will probably regard it as a success. However, next Tuesday, there are supposed to be 10,000 fans at the final home game of the season against Fulham.\n\nThat will be another test entirely.", "Former prime minister David Cameron will be questioned by MPs later over his work lobbying for collapsed finance firm Greensill Capital.\n\nHis unsuccessful attempts to obtain access to government-backed loans for the company during the pandemic have led to scrutiny of lobbying practices.\n\nThe government has said Greensill's applications were dealt with properly and were ultimately rejected.\n\nIn an earlier statement Mr Cameron insisted he had not broken any rules.\n\nBut he acknowledged he should have used \"only the most formal of channels\".\n\nMr Cameron, who has not yet spoken publicly about his actions, will appear before both the Commons Treasury and Public Accounts committees.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Treasury Committee released dozens of texts and emails Mr Cameron sent to ministers and senior officials on behalf of Greensill, including sending nine WhatsApp messages to Chancellor Rishi Sunak and 12 texts to Sir Tom Scholar, the permanent secretary of the Treasury.\n\nGreensill had hoped to take part in a government scheme - the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) - set up to help businesses during the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the Treasury rejected its application, concluding the firm's proposals were not suitable.\n\nReports of Mr Cameron's lobbying led Boris Johnson to order a review by lawyer Nigel Boardman into decisions made in government around the finance scheme and the role of Lex Greensill, founder of the company.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Greensill said he took \"full responsibility\" for the firm's collapse when he appeared before the Treasury Committee.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority has also launched an investigation into the failure of Greensill, which filed for insolvency in March, and said \"potentially criminal\" allegations had been made about its circumstances.", "Howard Beckett is standing to be the next Unite general secretary\n\nThe home secretary's immigration policies are \"disgusting\", union official Howard Beckett has said following his suspension from Labour.\n\nThe suspension came after the Unite assistant general secretary tweeted that Priti Patel \"should be deported\".\n\nMr Beckett later apologised to Ms Patel and deleted the post.\n\nBut he told Sky News his suspension was \"completely inappropriate\" and insisted he would not pull out of the race to lead Unite.\n\nHe added that he had not received any notice of his suspension from Labour, but had found out about the move on social media.\n\nHe also said Labour was becoming \"the party of the establishment\" and accused party leader Sir Keir Starmer of failing to \"show leadership\".\n\nWhile suspended from the party Mr Beckett is not allowed to take up his place on Labour's ruling body.\n\nHe sits as a union representative on Labour's National Executive Committee - a role that requires membership of the party.\n\nMr Beckett is a candidate in the race to succeed longstanding leader Len McCluskey at Unite, one of Labour's biggest financial backers.\n\nHis tweet was a response to the Home Office detaining two Indian immigrants in Glasgow on Thursday over \"suspected immigration offences\".\n\nThe Home Office defended its actions, saying: \"The UK government is tackling illegal immigration and the harm it causes, often to the most vulnerable people by removing those with no right to be in the UK.\"\n\nIn his now-deleted twitter message, Mr Beckett wrote: \"Priti Patel should be deported, not refugees. She can go along with anyone else who supports institutional racism. She is disgusting.\"\n\nIn a later apology posted on Twitter, he said: \"My earlier tweet, deleted after half an hour, was never intended to be literal.\"\n\n\"My intention was to emphasise that racist policies should be rejected and have no place in society,\" he added.\n\n\"The wording was wrong, offensive and I apologise unreservedly to Priti Patel. No-one should be deported.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, he said his language had been \"inappropriate\" adding: \"I don't look at Priti Patel and see her migrant background and colour of her skin, I look at Priti Patel and I see a racist agenda, the racist policies that are being carried out, the institutional racism that is now becoming the norm in society.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't have a racist bone in my body.\"\n\nA Labour spokesperson had earlier said it was taking the matter \"extremely seriously\" and pledged \"appropriate action will be taken\".\n\nConservative MP Steve Baker said it was \"an extraordinary, absolutely intolerable remark\" which must have a \"robust response\" from Labour.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Unite for a comment.", "Pupils have lost months of education due to Covid\n\nSome £13.5bn is needed to reverse the damage to pupils' education caused by the pandemic, a think tank has said.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute says the money is needed as pupils have lost up to two months of learning in reading, and up to three months in maths.\n\nIt is calling on the government to extend the school day and increase funding for poor pupils, as part of a series of measures to help recovery.\n\nThe government has already given £1.7bn for catch-up support in England.\n\nThis week, the Prime Minister promised to address the learning pupils have missed during the pandemic, and ensure every child is able to fulfil their potential.\n\nThe report points out this will require significant investment.\n\nIt says the government will need to put in place an ambitious programme of support to run over a number of years, to help pupils who have lost months of education since schools were first closed in March 2020.\n\nThe report calculates the total cost to help pupils catch up is £13.5bn over three years, which compares with the annual schools budget for England of £48bn.\n\nIn total, it is estimated the lost learning could result in total lost lifetime earnings of between £62bn and £420bn, across the eight million school children in England.\n\nThe researchers argue that extra support should be kept in place for a number of years to address the inequalities in education that existed before the pandemic, and to improve the results of pupils.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute (EPI) research shows that even before Covid, poorer pupils were already 18 months of learning behind their more affluent classmates by the time they took their GCSEs - with that attainment gap already starting to widen.\n\nThe impact of school closures meant that by autumn 2020, pupils had lost up to two months in reading overall, and up to three months in maths in primary schools.\n\nBut following school closures before Christmas and in early 2021, losses are likely to have increased further, the report suggests.\n\nTo make up for the loss of so much time in school, the report recommends a number of measures that should be part of the recovery plans the government is working on.\n\nThese include longer school days, so that children can take part in a range of education, sports and social activities.\n\nOther suggestions include summer activities to help well-being, more one-to-one and small group tuition, extra funding for pupils from poorer families and mental health support.\n\nThe recovery should also include support for younger children in the early years, where high-quality education and care can play a decisive role.\n\nAnd much more funding is needed for 16 to 19-year-olds in further education colleges and those studying apprenticeships, the researchers recommend.\n\nNatalie Perera, chief executive of the EPI, says if the government is committed to dealing with the harmful and long-term consequences of Covid, then it needs to provide a serious funding boost.\n\n\"We are calling on the government to implement a series of effective, evidence-based policies from this September to support children and young people - not only with their learning, but with their well-being and mental health too.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government's response has been utterly insufficient.\n\n\"The government must prioritise education in the forthcoming Spending Review so that schools can increase the number of properly qualified teachers on staff, and bring down our historically high class-sizes. The solution to Covid cannot be yet more austerity.\"\n\nA government spokesman highlighted its initial £1.7bn investment in a catch-up plan for pupils, adding: \"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 as quickly and comprehensively as possible - and we have appointed Sir Kevan Collins as education recovery commissioner to advise on this work.\"", "The controversial US embassy move to Jerusalem is going ahead amid celebration and protest. The BBC's Yolande Knell explains why the city is so important.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson said the UK's Covid response would be \"placed under the microscope\"\n\nThe government is \"fully committed to learning the lessons at every stage\" of the pandemic, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nHe told MPs an independent public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic would be held in spring 2022.\n\nThe inquiry would place \"the state's actions under the microscope\", he added, and take evidence under oath.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why the inquiry could not start earlier, such as later in 2021.\n\nBut addressing the Commons, the prime minister said the inquiry could not \"inadvertently distract\" those within the NHS and government advisers, who were continuing to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe inquiry's terms of reference have not yet been defined but would be published in \"due course\", he said, adding that the devolved administrations would be consulted.\n\nOn Wednesday the UK reported another 11 deaths within 28 days of a positive test and a further 2,284 coronavirus cases.\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged many bereaved families would want the inquiry to begin sooner, but said because of the threat of new variants and a possible winter surge in infections, spring next year would be the \"right moment\".\n\nHe said the \"new variants pose a potentially lethal danger, including the one first identified in India which is of increasing concern here\".\n\n\"Should these [variants] prove highly transmissible and elude the protection of our vaccines, they would have the potential to cause even greater suffering than we endured in January.\"\n\nBolton has one of the highest instances of the Indian variant in the UK and is seeing a particularly sharp rise in cases among unvaccinated under-25s.\n\nHealth officials in Glasgow have expressed concern about a rising number of Covid cases in the city - the latest public case rate is 58.3 per 100,000, well above a key threshold for easing restrictions.\n\nMore than 127,600 people have died in the UK with coronavirus, making it one of the worst affected countries by number of deaths.\n\nThe inquiry is expected to examine the government's handling of the pandemic, including the timing of its decision to impose lockdowns.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the inquiry would be established on a \"statutory basis\" - where witnesses can be legally compelled to attend and give evidence and provide relevant material under oath.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for clarification on whether the inquiry would be formally opened in spring next year or whether that will be when work begins to establish the inquiry.\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said the preparatory work to establish the terms of reference and the inquiry chairman \"will happen before the spring of next year\".\n\nMr Johnson - who has set out plans to ease some of England's coronavirus restrictions on 17 May - said: \"The end of the lockdown is not the end of the pandemic.\"\n\nHe added: \"The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the pandemic has now reached its global peak and will last throughout this year.\"\n\nA WHO report released on Wednesday said the organisation should have declared a global emergency earlier than it did, and that individual governments failed to act quickly enough.\n\nMost leading healthcare systems struggled to get to grips with Covid in the early stages. France, Italy and Spain had similar challenges to the UK.\n\nThe inquiry will look at the extent to which the experience here mirrored that of other countries and how decisions and policies affecting outcomes were different.\n\nKey questions will include preparedness and why before last year health chiefs only \"war-gamed\" a serious flu epidemic.\n\nWhy were PPE supplies so inadequate and why then was procurement so flawed?\n\nWhy was testing and tracing dropped because of lack of capacity in the early stages of the pandemic?\n\nThere will be intense scrutiny of the decision to fully lock down only on 23 March last year when dire warnings about the NHS being potentially overwhelmed had come more than a week earlier.\n\nDifferent approaches to opening up in the UK's nations will be considered.\n\nThe biggest question is likely to be why the UK had one of the highest Covid death rates relative to the population of any major economy.\n\nThe inquiry will need to consider whether this might be the result of misguided official decision making - or a consequence of underlying inequalities and poor health in disadvantaged communities, and perhaps under-investment in public health.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, who were calling for a public inquiry in June 2020, said the planned timing of the inquiry meant the government were \"getting away from… early accountability\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jo Goodman, co-founder of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, said the inquiry must involve families from the start, allowing them to help to choose the chair as well as determining the terms of reference.\n\nShe said spring 2022 was \"simply too late to begin\".\n\n\"It sounds like common sense when the prime minister says that an inquiry can wait until the pandemic is over, but lives are at stake with health experts and scientists warning of a third wave later this year.\n\n\"A rapid review in summer 2020 could have saved our loved ones who died in the second wave in winter.\"\n\nAlong with the Lib Dems, the campaign group called on the government to release an internal \"lessons learned\" investigation into its handling of the pandemic.\n\nDowning Street confirmed an \"informal\" review of its response has been carried out but declined to say whether it would be published.\n\nThe PM attended a Westminster Abbey service on Wednesday that paid tribute to nurses working during the pandemic\n\nFran Hall, who had only been married three weeks to her long-term partner when she lost him to Covid last year, called for a \"rapid review\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"That is something that can be done in a matter of weeks, that wouldn't tie up people's time to the degree that a full judge-led inquiry would.\n\n\"That would hopefully begin to get some quick answers to some of the very pressing questions.\"\n\nDame Deirdre Hine - the author of the independent review into the swine flu pandemic - told BBC Radio 4's World at One: \"Looking at what will have to be the terms of reference and the ground it [the inquiry] has to cover; I can't see it reporting in less than two to three years.\"\n\nProfessor Sir Ian Kennedy, who chaired an inquiry into the deaths of babies undergoing heart surgery, warned against placing a time limit on the inquiry.\n\nHe told the BBC's Newscast podcast: \"What's got to be worked out are the mechanics. Who's going to chair it? Is he or she going to sit with others? Is it going to be time limited? That would be a disaster. It must be done as expeditiously as possible, but never put a time limit on it because you never know what circumstances will arise.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Mr Johnson also confirmed a commission on Covid commemoration is to be established to help remember those who lost their lives during the pandemic.\n\nHe added he \"wholeheartedly\" supported the plan for a memorial in St Paul's Cathedral, describing it as \"a fitting place of reflection in the heart of our capital\".\n\nIn response to a question from Conservative MP Felicity Buchan on the government's work-at-home advice, Mr Johnson said it was \"certainly\" the intention to lift the guidance on 21 June, but the government would \"say that with more clarity a bit later on\".\n\nEveryone who can work from home must do so under the current government advice.\n\nOn Thursday, England's Covid vaccination programme will open to those aged 38 and 39, with the NHS website to be updated at 07:00 BST.\n\nPregnant women will also be able to book through the national booking service from Thursday and will be directed to vaccination centres offering Pfizer and Moderna in their local area - in line with guidance from the UK's vaccine advisers.\n\nMore than 18.4m people - 35% of the adult population - have now received both doses of a vaccine, with 35.7m people having received one jab.", "Mary Bastholm used to work at the cafe in Southgate Street where Fred West was a regular customer\n\nForensic archaeologists have begun examining a cafe basement in the search for suspected Fred West victim, Mary Bastholm.\n\nThe 15-year-old, who worked at the now-called Clean Plate in Gloucester, went missing in the city on 6 January 1968.\n\nOfficers say the work, involving geophysical survey equipment, means dismantling a fireplace at the scene.\n\nMiss Bastholm's then boyfriend Tim Merrett said he did not think she would be found there.\n\nShe went missing on her way to catch a bus to visit Mr Merrett.\n\nSerial killer West was previously suspected over her disappearance.\n\nThe search began after a film crew alerted police to evidence a body could be buried there\n\nFred West took his own life while awaiting trial for the murders of 12 people\n\nMr Merrett said: \"I really don't think anything will come of this. She left the cafe for the day, went home and changed before going to the bus stop to come and see me.\n\n\"Why would she be back at the cafe?\"\n\nOn Friday, officers were called in following suggestions a body may have been buried at the cafe on Southgate Street.\n\nGloucestershire Police said the force could be at the site \"for a number of weeks\".\n\nIn 1994, West admitted murdering his daughter Heather. The confession came as police began to search 25 Cromwell Street, where they found the bodies of nine girls and young women.\n\nHe and his wife Rose were jointly charged with nine murders and he was charged with a further three.\n\nWest took his own life in prison while awaiting a trial in 1995.\n\nFlowers were left at the scene on Wednesday, but remains have not been found\n\nRose's former lawyer Leo Goatley said it \"wouldn't surprise me if a body was found there\", adding the Wests often visited the cafe.\n\nBoth Mary and Fred West's first victim, Anne McFall, worked there.\n\n\"I've spoken to witnesses who have said that they may have seen Rose West there,\" he added.\n\nWest's biographer Geoffrey Wansell said the killer had never admitted to police he had killed her, but allegedly confessed to his solicitor, who was then sacked.\n\nMiss Bastholm's family are aware of recent developments and have asked for privacy.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has said he is \"anxious\" about the Indian variant of Covid and is \"ruling nothing out\" to tackle it.\n\nAsked specifically whether surge vaccinations could be introduced, a No 10 spokesman said ministers \"want to consider all options\".\n\nThis would mean focusing extra doses of vaccine in specific areas to immunise a larger section of the population, and reduce the spread of variants.\n\nPublic Health England has recorded 1,313 UK cases of the Indian variant.\n\nThe figures released on Thursday are more than double the 520 cases recorded by PHE up to 5 May.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, Covid-19 strategic response director at PHE, said: \"Cases of this variant are rising in the community and we are continuously monitoring its spread and severity to ensure we take rapid public health action.\n\n\"We need to act collectively and responsibly to ensure that variants do not impact on the progress we have all made to drive down levels of Covid-19 and the increased freedom that brings.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the UK reported another 11 deaths within 28 days of a positive test and a further 2,657 coronavirus cases.\n\nMore than 35.9 million people have received their first dose of a vaccine, and more than 18.8 million have had a second dose, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nSpeaking earlier at a primary school in Ferryhill, County Durham, the prime minister did not rule out reintroducing regional restrictions.\n\n\"It is a variant of concern, we are anxious about it,\" he said.\n\nAsked if local lockdowns were possible, Mr Johnson said: \"There are a range of things we could do, we want to make sure we grip it.\n\n\"Obviously there's surge testing, there's surge tracing.\n\n\"If we have to do other things, then of course the public would want us to rule nothing out.\"\n\nBut he added there was no evidence to suggest England's planned lockdown easing could not go ahead.\n\nAsked separately whether surge vaccinations could accompany surge testing in areas that have seen spikes of variants, a No 10 spokesman said: \"We want to make sure that we keep the public safe and keep our roadmap on track.\"\n\nHe added the government would consider any updates provided by Sage on the Indian variant and its spread in the UK.\n\nThe variant that was first detected in India, which may spread more quickly, is causing mounting concern.\n\nNumbers are relatively low, but they are rising and the planned unlocking from Monday in England would accelerate that spread.\n\nMeanwhile, the hugely successful vaccination campaign is not yet complete.\n\nSo the worry is there is still the possibility of a surge in cases and, because the vaccines are not perfect, a rise in the numbers of people in hospital. This would be much smaller than it would have been without vaccination.\n\nThe other issue is the number of confirmed cases tells us what happened between one and two weeks ago, rather than what is happening now. That's because there is a delay between someone catching the virus, it causing symptoms and then being confirmed as B.1.617.2.\n\nOne of the four tests for the roadmap out of lockdown has always been the role of new variants.\n\nThe key question is whether local approaches in variant hotspots - such as expanded testing and vaccination - would be enough, or if there needs to be a change to the overall plan.\n\nThe India variant - officially called B.1.617.2 - is one of four mutated versions of coronavirus which have been designated as being \"of concern\" by UK public health bodies, with others first being identified in Kent, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nExperts believe the Indian variant has mutations that may make it more transmissible, but it is not yet known if it causes more severe disease or if it might make current vaccines less effective.\n\nProf Robert Dingwall, a scientist on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said it seemed people who have been vaccinated \"have only a very low risk of infection\" from the Indian variant - and infection was \"likely to be mild\".\n\nHe said it \"seems to be slightly more transmissible\" than the UK and South African variants and could become the dominant variant in the UK.\n\n\"The consequence of this would be a greater number of mild illnesses with little risk of a surge in hospitalisations or deaths,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to stop panicking about every new variant that comes along,\" he added.\n\nThe recorded cases of the Indian variant in the UK have included cases in London, Bolton, Tyneside and Nottingham.\n\nPHE said mobile testing units have been set up in Bolton, and door-to-door PCR testing has been offered to 22,000 residents.\n\nThere have been at least 12 cases in Northern Ireland and between 20 and 30 in Scotland, where the variant is suspected to be spreading in Glasgow.\n\nExtra clinics will open in Blackburn and Darwen in Lancashire from next week to offer the vaccine to those who are eligible under national guidelines.\n\nIt was earlier reported that additional doses had been given to these areas in order to open up jab appointments to all over-18s - but the council now says that is not the case.\n\nSources told the BBC surge testing in areas where the variant has been found \"isn't working\".\n\nThe current strategy was identifying cases but not stopping the spread, they told the BBC.\n\nThe sources added cases of the variant were being seen in many places with no links to travel and case numbers had been \"grossly underestimated\".\n\nThe BBC's senior political reporter Matt Cole said sources told him England was still expected to move to stage three of the roadmap out of lockdown on Monday, and the PM is thought to have signed off some reduction in social distancing measures - but a politically difficult rethink may now be under consideration.\n\nQuestions are also being raised about the potential need to delay stage four, due on 21 June, when the government hoped to remove all legal limits on social contact.\n\nSenior Tory Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, warned against any further lockdown measures, asking: \"Why on earth would we lock down when the vaccines continue to break the link between cases and hospitalisations and deaths?\"\n\n\"We were told the roadmap was cautious - in spite of the overwhelmingly promising data on the benefits of the NHS vaccine rollout - precisely so it would be irreversible,\" he said.", "Eluned Morgan and Jeremy Miles are rewarded with promotions within the cabinet\n\nEluned Morgan has been named health minister with Jeremy Miles at education in a Welsh government reshuffle.\n\nIn a surprise move, Vaughan Gething moves from health to economy, replacing Ken Skates who leaves the government.\n\nMark Drakeford was sworn in as first minister earlier, after Senedd members backed him to continue in the role on Wednesday.\n\nLabour won 30 of the 60 seats in the Welsh Parliament in last week's election.\n\nBoth Mr Gething and Mr Skates had been in their previous posts for five years.\n\nMr Gething had a particularly high profile as health minister during the pandemic, in leading the response to the coronavirus crisis alongside Mr Drakeford and the chief medical officer.\n\nVaughan Gething visited an NHS depot collecting supplies for India in one of his last acts as health minister on Monday\n\nAnnouncing the changes, the first minister paid tribute to Mr Skates, who he said would \"continue speaking up for north Wales and for Welsh Labour, but in a different role\".\n\n\"We will miss his energy and passion,\" he said.\n\nMr Drakeford said Mr Gething's efforts during the pandemic had been \"extraordinary\" but he felt it was time \"to ask someone else to take on that challenge\".\n\nThe former health minister, he said, was taking over the economy job \"at a crucial point in time - the pandemic is not just a public health emergency but also an economic one\".\n\nLaura McAllister, professor of public policy at Cardiff University, said there had been \"rumours for a while that Vaughan Gething wanted to move from the health portfolio\".\n\n\"He's been in position there for five years and was a deputy before that, and that's quite a long stint really, in a very difficult role and not least, of course, during a pandemic, so I can see the logic to that,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nProf McAllister said his replacement, Eluned Morgan, as health minister had a \"very effective time during the pandemic in terms of fronting up on government policy, sometimes at very difficult times\", and she was being rewarded for that.\n\nMark Drakeford (centre) assembles his new team at the Welsh government offices in Cardiff\n\nThe new cabinet was expected to meet on Thursday evening to finalise Friday's Covid lockdown restrictions review.\n\nJulie James has been appointed to a new cabinet role as minister for climate change, with Lee Waters as her deputy.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"The environment will be at the heart of our decision-making.\n\n\"The climate change emergency has not gone away while we have been dealing with the pandemic.\n\n\"Wales is a beautiful country with immense natural assets, which will help power our recovery and create the jobs of the future.\n\n\"In my new government, the environment doesn't just have a seat at the cabinet table, it will be a consideration in all we do.\"\n\nJane Hutt moves from chief whip to a newly created post of minister for social justice.\n\nTwo thirds of the new cabinet are women.\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\nDawn Bowden, Member of the Senedd (MS) for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, joins the government from the backbenches as deputy minister for arts and sport and takes over Ms Hutt's former role of chief whip, responsible for ensuring discipline in the Labour ranks.\n\nTorfaen MS Lynne Neagle, a Cardiff Bay politician since 1999, also gets a government job for the first time, as deputy minister for mental health and wellbeing.\n\nIn a statement marking his departure as economy minister, Mr Skates said: \"This week I informed the first minister of my wish to step away from Welsh government. After eight years in government, now is the right time.\"\n\nHe added: \"Clwyd South has always remained my number one priority, and my decision will enable me to spend more time in the constituency, focusing on local matters, as well as further strengthening the party's position in north Wales and further afield.\"\n\nConservative Senedd group leader Andrew RT Davies said his members would \"scrutinise and hold ministers to account, but will also offer the hand of cooperation where possible to ensure Wales bounces back from the most difficult year we've experienced\".\n\n\"It's in this spirit that I want to wish the first minister and his new cabinet well as they start the significant task of ensuring our economy and public services get on the road to recovery,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru South Wales West MS Sioned Williams welcomed the \"greater focus on climate change and mental health\" but urged new ministers in other portfolios to address the \"policy shortcomings and lack of delivery of their predecessors\".\n\n\"With record waiting lists, a low wage economy and one in three children living in poverty - all there before the pandemic and all on Labour's watch - we are in danger of getting the same results if ministers do the same thing over and over again,\" she said.\n\nThe next Senedd term takes us through well over half of what the UK's advisers on climate change describe as a \"decisive decade\".\n\nBy 2030 Wales needs to have got rid of two thirds of its greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nAnd if there's hope of no longer contributing to global warming by 2050, the complex rewiring required of our economy and way of life must truly get under way.\n\nIt's a monumental task and these new climate change ministerial and deputy ministerial roles should be considered among the most senior and important jobs in the Welsh government.\n\nBut of course every department and minister will have to work out how they too can rise to this challenge, with Wales already starting to feel the potentially disastrous effects of a changing climate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron was challenged over his lobbying for Greensill\n\nDavid Cameron has said he was paid \"far more\" as a part-time adviser to now-collapsed Greensill Capital than when he was prime minister.\n\nHe told MPs he had had a \"big economic investment\" in the finance company, including shares.\n\nBut he insisted he was not motivated by money when he lobbied ministers on behalf of the firm - and he believed he had acted in the national interest.\n\nMr Cameron was paid £150,402 a year when he quit as prime minister in 2016.\n\nSpeaking via video link to the Treasury Select Committee, he repeatedly declined to reveal his exact salary at Greensill, which he joined two years after leaving Downing Street, calling it a \"private matter\".\n\nThe panel of MPs is among three parliamentary committees that have launched inquiries into the company, following its collapse in March.\n\nMr Cameron told the Treasury Committee he had not broken any rules when he tried to influence ministers and officials on behalf of Greensill Capital around the start of the Covid pandemic in spring last year.\n\nHe said it had been \"appropriate\" for him to call and text ministers and officials directly, as financial schemes were being designed quickly at a \"time of extraordinary crisis\".\n\nBut he conceded that in future \"prime ministers should only ever use letter or email, and should restrict themselves far more\".\n\nAnd he backed a tightening up of the rules for ministers and officials who take jobs in industry.\n\nMr Cameron has previously said he began working as a \"part-time senior adviser\" to Greensill Capital in August 2018.\n\n\"I was paid an annual amount, a generous annual amount, far more than what I earned as prime minister, and I had shares - not share options but shares in the business - which vested over the period of time of my contract,\" he told the committee.\n\nHe described reports he had been set to make £60m from Greensill before its collapse as \"completely absurd\".\n\nMr Cameron also said the demise of Greensill Capital was a \"great regret\" to him, and there were \"important lessons to be learned\" from it.\n\nHe added that he had conducted \"quite a lot of due diligence\" before taking up the advisory role, including asking questions about \"every aspect of the business\".\n\n\"I had a big economic investment in the future of Greensill, so I wanted the business to succeed,\" Mr Cameron told MPs. \"I wanted it to grow.\"\n\nHe said his economic interest in the firm had been \"important\" but was not relevant to the MPs' inquiry into its collapse and its contacts with government.\n\nAnd he said he had felt the firm's proposals would help small businesses access cash during an economic crisis, and were \"absolutely in the public interest\".\n\nIn a separate hearing, with the the Public Accounts Committee, Mr Cameron said he had only learned that Greensill Capital was in financial difficulty towards the end of last year.\n\nHe added that the past few months, during which his work for the company has come in for widespread criticism, had been \"very difficult\", but said he felt more sorry for the hundreds of staff who had lost their jobs.\n\nThe former prime minister repeatedly texted ministers and officials, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, asking for the firm to be included in a Covid-related government loan scheme.\n\nBut his attempts to involve Greensill in the Covid Corporate Financing Facility were ultimately unsuccessful after they were rebuffed by the Treasury.\n• None What is lobbying? A brief guide", "A man arrives for morning prayer in Kashgar, Xinjiang, a mostly Muslim region in north-western China\n\nChina has imprisoned or detained at least 630 imams and other Muslim religious figures since 2014 in its crackdown in the Xinjiang region, according to new research by a Uyghur rights group.\n\nThe research, compiled by the Uyghur Human Rights Project and shared with the BBC, also found evidence that 18 clerics had died in detention or shortly after.\n\nMany of the detained clerics faced broad charges like \"propagating extremism\", \"gathering a crowd to disturb social order\", and \"inciting separatism\".\n\nAccording to testimony from relatives, the real crimes behind these charges are often things like preaching, convening prayer groups, or simply acting as an imam.\n\nThe UHRP, working with rights group Justice for All, tracked the fates of 1,046 Muslim clerics — the vast majority of them Uyghurs — using court documents, family testimony and media reports from public and private databases.\n\nWhile all 1,046 clerics were reportedly detained at some point, in many cases corroborating evidence was not available because of China's tight control over information in the region.\n\nAmong the 630 cases where it was, at least 304 of the clerics appeared to have been sent to prison, as opposed to the network of \"re-education\" camps most closely associated with China's mass detention of the Uyghurs.\n\nWhere information was available from court documents or testimony about the length of the prison sentence, the punishments reflect the harsh nature of Xinjiang justice: 96% sentenced to at least five years and 26% to 20 years or more, including 14 life sentences.\n\nA closed down mosque near Kashgar, with barbed wire and a surveillance camera in the foreground\n\nThe database, which drew on research by the Uyghur activist Abduweli Ayup, as well as the Xinjiang Victims Database and Uyghur Transitional Justice Database, is by no means exhaustive — representing only a fraction of the total estimated number of imams in Xinjiang — and much of the data cannot be independently verified.\n\nBut the research shines a light on the specific targeting of religious figures in Xinjiang, appearing to support allegations that China is attempting to break the religious traditions of the Uyghurs and assimilate them into Han Chinese culture.\n\nChina denies those allegations, saying the purpose of its so-called \"re-education\" programme in Xinjiang is to stamp out extremism among the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.\n\nChina is believed to have detained more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, a large region in north-western China that is home to various ethnically Turkic peoples. The state has been accused of human rights abuses in the region, including forced labour, sterilisation and rape.\n\nMost of those detained in Xinjiang are sent to \"re-education\" facilities — prison-like camps where they are held for indeterminate periods of time without charge. But others have been given formal prison sentences, the number and severity of which have increased dramatically since 2017.\n\nPublicly available detention or charging documents are rare, but those that do exist demonstrate how the state has worked to tie ordinary religious expression in Xinjiang to extremism or political separatism.\n\nAccording to the arrest notice for Oken Mahmet, a 51-year-old Kazakh imam from Qaba in Xinjiang, Mahmet was charged with \"propagating extremism\". According to testimony collated by the Xinjiang Victims Database, his family says he was arrested for leading Friday prayers and officiating marriages at a mosque.\n\nMahmet's initial detention notice says he was detained for \"inciting people to violate national laws pertaining to the reading of marriage vows, education, and public governance, as well as making and propagating items related to extremism\". His sentence was reportedly eight to 10 years.\n\nBaqythan Myrzan, a 58-year-old state-approved imam from Hami prefecture, was also arrested for \"propagating extremism\". Myrzan was detained in August 2018 and held at a detention facility until May 2019, when he was sentenced to 14 years at the Bingtuan Urumqi Prison. Myrzan's family says his only crime was going about his duties as an imam.\n\nAnd the only clues to the alleged offence committed by Abidin Ayup, a prominent scholar and imam from Atush city, were a few lines that appeared in a long court document from a separate case against a Han Chinese official. The official was accused of allowing Ayup's son to visit him at a hospital detention facility after he was arrested. The court document refers to Ayup, who was 88 when he was detained in 2017, as a \"religious extremist\".\n\nAyup's niece Maryam Muhammad told the BBC the imam was a \"kind, hardworking, charitable man, cultured and knowledgeable, who encouraged young people to study not only religion but all the school subjects\".\n\nMuhammad, who is now in the US, said nearly 60 members of her extended family had been detained since Ayup's arrest, including her husband and all of the imam's eight children.\n\nAn excerpt from a verdict against a Han official - the only clue to the charges against Abidin Ayup\n\nExtremism charges were being issued on a \"flimsy legal basis\" in Xinjiang for \"offences that shouldn't even qualify as offences\", said Donald Clarke, a professor at George Washington University who specialises in Chinese law.\n\n\"Setting to one side for a moment whether you accept 'propagating extremism' as a valid charge, the question is do the facts make a plausible case for that charge?\" he said. \"And the alleged offences we have seen — things like having a beard, not drinking, or travelling abroad — suggest they don't.\"\n\nThe real reason imams were being targeted was \"because of their ability to bring people together in the community\", said Peter Irwin, senior programme officer at the Uyghur Human Rights Project.\n\n\"The state has been carefully dealing with imams for a long time because it knows the influence they have,\" he said. \"The detentions and imprisonments of the past few years are just the culmination of three decades of repression designed to constrict Uyghur culture and religion.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Chinese government told the BBC that Xinjiang \"enjoys unprecedented freedom of religious belief\".\n\n\"Xinjiang's 'de-radicalisation' effort has effectively contained the spread of religious extremism and made a great contribution to global 'de-radicalisation' efforts,\" he said.\n\nAbidin Ayup was detained in 2017. His family believes he is in a hospital detention facility\n\nTargeting of the Turkic ethnic groups in north-western China is not a new phenomenon. Muslim minorities suffered long periods of repression between the 1950s and 1970s, when Qurans were burned, mosques and cemeteries desecrated, and traditional dress and hair styles prohibited.\n\nThe 1980s brought a period of relative openness and revival. Damaged mosques were repaired and new mosques built; religious festivals allowed and imams and other figures permitted to travel; and the Quran translated for the first time into Uyghur, by the prominent Uyghur scholar Muhammad Salih Hajim.\n\nBut a violent uprising by Uyghur militants in 1990, in the town of Baren in Xinjiang, precipitated a crackdown by the Chinese state and the beginning of a two-decade period of gradually tightening control. Imams, seen by authorities as influential community figures, were increasingly required to demonstrate loyalty to the state.\n\nIn the early 2000s, many imams were compelled to attend formalised education courses that foreshadowed the mass \"re-education\" programmes pursued today against the general population. According to Human Rights Watch, roughly 16,000 imams and other religious figures underwent \"political re-education\" between 2001 and 2002.\n\nAmong them was Tursun, an imam who was first detained in 2001 for translating prayers from Arabic into Uyghur for his congregation, according to his niece.\n\nChinese soldiers outside the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, where an imam was killed by assailants in 2014\n\nTursun's two-year stint in a \"re-education through labour\" camp marked the beginning of a two-decade ordeal at the hands of the state, his niece told the BBC from outside China. Her uncle was freed from the labour camp in 2002 but constantly harassed by police, she said, and frequently taken away again for two-week periods of \"study\". Then in 2005, he was detained again but this time sentenced to four years in prison.\n\n\"We were not given any notice from the court,\" his niece said. \"My family went to the police station to enquire about his fate and the police gave them a handwritten note containing information about his prison sentence and the address of the prison.\"\n\nTursun was released from prison in 2009, only to be detained again in 2017 after the hardline politician Chen Quanguo was put in charge of Xinjiang and escalated the campaign against the Uyghurs.\n\nAs appears to be the case with other imams in the region, Tursun's family was subsequently targeted en masse, said his niece, who had left China by that time.\n\n\"After I heard the news of my uncle and his wife's arrests, I heard that my mother and many of my relatives were also arrested. Anyone over 14 was taken away,\" she said. \"For the last four years I have been trying to find information regarding their whereabouts, especially my mother.\"\n\n\"Propagating extremism\" is a common charge levied against imams, for a variety of perceived offences\n\nAbout a month ago, Tursun's niece learned that her mother had been sentenced to 13 years in prison and her younger brother to five years. She doesn't know what the charges were. Her father is already serving a life sentence, she said, issued in 2008 for \"illegal preaching\" and \"separatism\".\n\n\"My mother was a simple housewife and she was sentenced to 13 years,\" she said. \"I cannot imagine how long my uncle has been sent to prison for.\"\n\nThey were targeted \"because of their invisible authority\", she added. \"The state has tried everything to break them, to destroy them. And not only the religious leaders but also those who practise Islam quietly, and take pride in being Uyghur. They have made every effort to dig them out and destroy them.\"\n\nSome that disappear into detention never come out. Eighteen imams named in the database were reported to have died while in custody or shortly after.\n\nNurgazy Malik, a father of two, graduate of the official Xinjiang Islamic Institute and editor-in-chief of a state-approved religious magazine, reportedly died in detention in November 2018. Unconfirmed reports say Chinese authorities acknowledged his death to his family, but did not produce a body — a situation echoed in other, similar reports. Malik's friends and relatives held a funeral for him in Kazakhstan all the same.\n\nUyghur men pray at an open air mosque in old Kashgar, Xinjiang, in 2014\n\nIn late 2019, as its network of \"re-education\" camps drew intense international scrutiny, China claimed it had released everyone from the system. Significant numbers had been released, into house arrest or into the otherwise controlled environment of Xinjiang, but rights groups say many were simply transferred to formal prisons.\n\nThere is also evidence that many thousands had been in prison all along. Incarceration rates exploded in Xinjiang in 2017 and 2018, according to reporting by the New York Times and others, sweeping up at least 230,000 people — about 200,000 more than in previous years.\n\nAccording to Chinese government data, criminal arrests in Xinjiang accounted for 21% of the country's total in 2017, despite the region having about 1.5% of the population.\n\nUnlike the \"re-education\" system, formal prison sentences should create a paper trail. But the court documents are \"nowhere to be found\", according to Gene Bunin, the researcher behind the Xinjiang Victims Database.\n\nAccording to Bunin, only 7,714 criminal verdicts are available for Xinjiang for 2018, despite the region logging 74,348 criminal cases that year. The near total absence of verdicts on charges typically levied against religious Uyghurs, like \"propagating extremism\" and \"inciting separatism\", suggests China is intentionally scrubbing the record.\n\nWhere official documents are available and contain details, offences can be shocking in their innocuity.\n\nExperts say about 16,000 mosques have been destroyed in Xinjiang — two thirds of the total\n\nIn one 2018 verdict, now deleted from the government records but archived by the Xinjiang Victims Database, a 55-year-old Uyghur farmer already serving 10 years for \"propagating extremism\" had his sentence doubled after he \"used a disguised and simplified method to perform the namaz prayer in the prison dormitory\".\n\nEssentially, Ismayil Sidiq secretly prayed in prison. He was reported by a cellmate and charged with \"illegal religious activities\" and \"inciting ethnic hatred and discrimination\" — the latter charge for allegedly shouting that Uyghurs should not inform on one another. He will be eligible for release in 2038.\n\nThose who are detained in camps stand a better chance of release after a few months or years, but release in Xinjiang does not necessarily mean freedom.\n\nMemet, a Uyghur who fled Xinjiang, told the BBC his father was detained in 2017 after many years serving peacefully as an imam. Memet had been able to learn news of his family over the years from an acquaintance in Xinjiang — someone distant enough from the family that she felt safe messaging abroad from her WeChat account — but Memet heard virtually no news of his father's condition for four years.\n\nThen recently he heard his father had been released, and Memet imagined speaking to him for the first time in years. He asked the family acquaintance if she would be willing to find his father and connect them again via her phone.\n\nOn the appointed day, Memet received a message on his WeChat account from the acquaintance. She said she had found his father, but he had told her it would be better if he didn't speak to his son. And after she sent the message, she blocked Memet from contacting her again.\n\nSome names have been changed.", "The current St Paul's Cathedral was built between 1675 and 1710 and replaced a previous version destroyed in the Great Fire of London\n\nSt Paul's Cathedral may have to close permanently if more regular funding is not found, bosses have warned.\n\nThe world-famous London landmark relies almost entirely on tourist income from ticket sales and has seen its finances devastated by the pandemic.\n\nThe building's income dropped by 90% in 2020 as it remained shut. There has been a similar fall so far this year.\n\nDean of St Paul's, the Very Rev Dr David Ison, said \"big decisions\" were needed for the historic building.\n\nSt Paul's is facing its worst financial crisis in 300 years, according to those who run it.\n\nWhile it received £3.3m from the government's £1.57bn culture recovery fund, the annual running costs alone amount to £8m per year even after a restructure.\n\nSome also fear visitor numbers will never return to pre-pandemic levels as countries around the world continue to grapple with Covid-19.\n\nDr Ison said the last year had involved a lot of \"crisis management\". He is worried about how the building can be future-proofed without being given some ongoing outside assistance.\n\n\"If we can't raise the resources to be able to employ the people to look after the building and pay for the heating and lighting, we would have to shut our doors,\" he said.\n\nNearly all the cathedral's reserves have been spent and although some staff have been furloughed, a restructure has seen almost 25% made redundant.\n\nThe Vicars Choral has been in existence since the 13th Century\n\nThere are fears that the internationally renowned St Paul's Cathedral choir could also be at risk.\n\nAlongside 30 choirboys, it is made up of 12 professional singers who provide the different ranges enabling the choir to sing its repertoire.\n\nKnown as the Vicars Choral, the group has been in existence since the 13th Century but the cost of continuing to pay for the adult singers is in question.\n\nAndrew Carwood, St Paul's director of music, said other expenses mean they cannot be funded at the moment.\n\n\"We have to plan and it's irresponsible for me not to consider all the options but I'm going to do everything in my power - and I know that the cathedral is here to make sure we find an answer to the problem we face,\" he said.\n\nAlmost all renovation projects at the cathedral have also been shelved.\n\nOne critical project which has been cancelled is the replacement of large sections of the 7,000 sq m (75,300 sq ft) lead roof, some of which dates back to the time of Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of the cathedral.\n\nIn March 2020, at the same time as when the pandemic hit, a £15m programme of works to replace the ageing lead roof was about to be put out to tender.\n\nBut that has been cancelled as the money set aside for the project has been spent to keep the cathedral afloat.\n\nOliver Caroe said the historic building was \"rotting\"\n\nOliver Caroe, the surveyor of fabric at St Pauls, said the building was \"rotting\" and his team currently have to patch things up and seal the gaps, but \"there's only so long you can do that for\".\n\n\"We have collections under these roofs, really precious objects, and there are buckets next to them, covered in plastic because the roof leaks,\" he explained.\n\n\"I think everyone would be shocked if this building ran into trouble. It is in trouble now.\"\n\nAlmost all renovation projects at the cathedral have been shelved\n\nDr Ison said the Church of England has 16,000 churches and diocese to run and most of its income pays for clergy.\n\n\"These heritage buildings belong to all of us and the church has been the custodian for many generations, but the church no longer has the income to do that, it's just spread too thinly.\n\n\"We've got some big decisions in our country about our heritage and how we're going to manage that going forward,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mary Beard wants classics to be not just for \"posh people\"\n\nHistorian Mary Beard is to fund scholarships for two disadvantaged students to study classics at Cambridge University, as a \"retirement present\".\n\nThe Cambridge professor is stepping down next year after almost 40 years of teaching and research.\n\nShe described the £80,000 donation as her \"payback time\".\n\n\"I am very conscious of what I've gained from classics, no-one from my family had a university degree,\" said Dame Mary.\n\nThe historian and television presenter wants to help widen the reach of classics as a subject, so it's not \"just for posh people who've done Latin for ages\".\n\nMost people approaching retirement might expect the present to be heading in their direction, but Dame Mary - no stranger to doing things her own way - wants to mark her departure with her own donation.\n\n\"It's a pledge, that we really do want people from more diverse backgrounds to study classics. Classics is a subject that has changed, is changing, but needs to change more.\n\n\"But you still walk around the faculty and it looks, although not entirely, very white,\" said Dame Mary.\n\nThe television historian brought the classics to a mainstream audience\n\nThe funding, £40,000 for each of two students, will help with living costs through their degree course, and will be available to students from low-income families or under-represented groups.\n\nDame Mary has not named the awards after herself, but after one of her classics tutors, Joyce Reynolds.\n\nShe said her former tutor at Cambridge, now aged 102, had been a \"fantastic fighter for the rights of women in what was then a very male subject\".\n\n\"I have no illusion that giving a couple of scholarships is the solution, but it's a way of showing we're serious about equality of opportunity,\" said Dame Mary.\n\nShe said classics students are \"trained to think hard, to express themselves, to write well - qualities that a hell of a lot of employers are looking for\".\n\nThe subject also offered a way of \"thinking about the world differently\", with different perspectives on philosophy, culture, gender and race.\n\nHer BBC television series, such as Julius Caesar Revealed and Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit, have brought ancient history to a wider, modern audience.\n\nShe has also faced threats and abuse on social media, and what she's called \"sexist rants\" online.\n\nDame Mary said her own interest in classics was through an early enthusiasm for archaeology, and she remembers the excitement of finding a Roman coin and \"holding the past\".\n\nOne of her earliest memories, she said, was being taken by her mother to the British Museum as a small child, and an attendant being kind enough to open a display case to let her hold a piece of ancient Egyptian carbonised cake.\n\nShe now wants to help open up classics for another generation of young people.\n\nZaynab Ahmed, a current third-year classics student at Newnham College, Cambridge, said a barrier was the lack of state schools teaching the subject.\n\nShe said that was why the Cambridge four-year course was more accessible, with a foundation year to support students who might not have studied Latin at school.\n\n\"Classics is a subject I've fallen in love with. It's about the past, but it's also about how we understand ourselves now,\" she said.", "Alison Johnstone was the only candidate for the presiding officer role\n\nAlison Johnstone has been elected as the Scottish Parliament's new presiding officer as MSPs returned to Holyrood after the election.\n\nMs Johnstone was returned as a Scottish Greens MSP for the Lothians last week.\n\nBut she will now give up her party affiliation to take over the politically neutral role.\n\nThe appointment of the new presiding officer was the first task for the parliament's 129 MSPs after they were formally sworn in on Thursday morning.\n\nMs Johnstone was the only candidate to put themselves forward for the position - and was backed by 97 MSPs, with 28 voting against her, two others abstaining and one spoiling their ballot paper.\n\nShe has been an MSP since 2011 after previously serving as a councillor in Edinburgh.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was the first MSP to be sworn\n\nMs Johnstone said she was very proud to become the parliament's sixth presiding officer, describing it as a \"great opportunity and an incredible privilege which I will never take for granted\".\n\nThe new presiding officer was a talented athlete who held East of Scotland records in the 800m and 1,500m.\n\nShe has worked at the Scottish Parliament since 1999, initially as a staffer for Green MSP Robin Harper, before taking over his Lothians seat from 2011.\n\nThe presiding officer role, which is similar to the Speaker in the House of Commons, was filled by Ken Macintosh in the last parliament, but he stood down as a Labour MSP ahead of the election.\n\nThis is the first time a Green MSP has been elected to the most prestigious job in Scottish politics outside government.\n\nSome at Holyrood think that's particularly appropriate in the year Glasgow is due to host the COP26 climate summit.\n\nBut as parliament's impartial referee, Ms Johnstone has to give up her party affiliation - which is why some in the Greens did not want her to stand.\n\nIn fact, no party in this finely balanced parliament wanted to give up a member to the political neutrality of the chair.\n\nMs Johnstone was persuaded to become the sole nominee for the £113,000-a-year job in the absence of any other candidates.\n\nHer election from the ranks of the opposition means Holyrood is now tied 64 votes to 64 between government and opposition - but the SNP will still need help from other parties to pass budgets and other bills.\n\nNo party has been keen to give up one of its members to replace him - but Ms Johnstone was persuaded to stand following cross-party talks.\n\nGiving up one of their MSPS would have left the SNP two seats short of a majority rather than just one.\n\nMs Johnstone's appointment leaves Holyrood down the middle with 64 SNP MSPs and 64 opposition MSPs.\n\nBut there is still a pro-independence majority, with a total of 71 SNP and Scottish Greens MSPs.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross and his Scottish Labour counterpart Anas Sarwar have both been sworn in\n\nLast week's election, which saw the SNP win a landslide victory, means there are 43 new faces among the 129 MSPs in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThey include a record number of women, including the parliament's first two women of colour.\n\nAnd the parliament also has its first permanent wheelchair user to be elected as an MSP, Labour's Pam Duncan-Glancy.\n\nIt is expected that SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon will be formally elected as first minister on Tuesday of next week, and that she will unveil her new ministerial team two days later.\n\nConservative MSP Pam Gosal, the first Sikh to be elected to Holyrood, took the oath in Punjabi\n\nThursday morning's swearing-in ceremony saw all 129 MSPs take either an oath or affirmation that both include pledging allegiance to the Queen.\n\nThe oath says: \"I do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God\".\n\nThe affirmation omits any religious reference, and instead states: \"I do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law.\"\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\nAs in previous previous years, some members chose to give their oath or affirmation in languages other than English.\n\nThese included Gaelic, Scots, Doric and Orcadian as well as languages from outside of Scotland - with new SNP MSP Angus Robertson doing his in German, his colleague Humza Yousaf in Urdu, and Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman in Zimbabwean Shona.\n\nThe new member for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, the SNP's Karen Adam, made her affirmation in sign language.\n\nMs Sturgeon was sworn in first, as leader of the largest party, followed by the other four party leaders and finally the remaining MSPs.\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said that his allegiance was to the \"people of Scotland\" ahead of making his affirmation.", "Fraud and error on the main universal credit benefit have reached record levels, according to new official figures.\n\nAccording to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), £8.4bn was lost in 2020-21, up from £4.6bn the previous year.\n\nOfficials say the rise is almost entirely due to fraud.\n\nThe number of people on universal credit has doubled to six million since the start of the pandemic.\n\nOfficials say the increase in universal credit fraud is a product of more people applying for the benefit, and the value of each fraudulent case rising, rather than a higher proportion of people engaging in fraud.\n\nThe overall level of fraud and error across the benefits system increased by almost two-thirds, from 2.4% last year to 3.9%, the highest ever reported rate.\n\nThe fraud rate on the main benefit, universal credit, has increased by more than 50% over the past year, and now stands at 14.5%.\n\nThe DWP says the vast majority of claims are genuine and the benefit provides a vital safety net for people in need.\n\nFraud can be as simple as individuals claiming money to which they are not entitled, for example by not declaring income from other sources.\n\nMore complex cases involve criminal gangs stealing people's details to apply for advance payments of universal credit.\n\nThe money is paid to them but the person whose identity has been stolen gets the bill.\n\nAs Covid-19 hit the UK last spring and the economy was effectively mothballed, the sheer demand for universal credit in March and April led the government to relax some welfare rules, which allowed criminal gangs to target the benefit and steal as much as £1.5bn.\n\nIdentity checks were processed online, for instance, rather than face-to-face and some information was taken on trust, such as the cost of rent.\n\nIt was not until a letter from the DWP dropped through her door last November, demanding repayment of a £1,475.52 universal credit advance, that Jo Darby, 37, realised she had a problem.\n\nMs Darby, from Birmingham, had been working full-time throughout the pandemic and had never claimed benefits, let alone an advance, so she immediately assumed fraud.\n\nFraudster's stole Jo Darby's details to claim a benefit advance, leaving her with the bill\n\nBut convincing the DWP proved difficult - there was no reply on the helpline number on the letter and when the fraud team eventually called back, they refused to talk to her because she was unable to verify the security questions on the scam universal credit account.\n\nTwo weeks later Ms Darby's employer told her they had been instructed to deduct money from her salary.\n\n\"I felt like I was going round in circles and had no control,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"They hadn't taken on my concerns regarding the fraud and they'd already started to recover that debt without fully investigating the situation.\"\n\nIt took the intervention of BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme to resolve the situation.\n\nMs Darby later discovered the original fraud actually happened in June.\n\n\"For all that time, someone was pretending to be me and there were no significant checks in place,\" she says.\n\nOther factors in 2020 include confusion among many new claimants, who applied for both universal credit and the government's Self Employment Income Support Scheme - income from the scheme can mean claimants should receive less universal credit.\n\nOfficials also say pre-pandemic concerns that the rules around declaring capital and savings are complex and driving high levels of fraud and error have not been addressed and are becoming more acute as the number of people claiming universal credit rockets.\n\nReacting to the figures, a DWP official said \"following an unprecedented year... fraud and error in the benefits system remains low with 95% of benefits worth more than £200bn paid correctly.\n\n\"We take any abuse of taxpayers' money very seriously and those who claim benefits they are untitled to will face criminal prosecution.\n\n\"We also have robust plans in place to recover fraudulent claims and drive fraud and error down to the lowest feasible level.\"\n\nHave you been a victim of universal credit fraud? 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 one where they get back together\" will see the actors re-unite for unscripted special\n\nThe much-anticipated reunion special of Friends has finally got a US release date and trailer after a lengthy delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFriends: The Reunion will be available on the HBO Max streaming service from 27 May after the sitcom's original cast were able to film together last month.\n\nFriends was one of the biggest sitcoms of the 90s and ended in 2004.\n\nThe 10-series show has found a new generation of fans thanks to re-runs and streaming services like Netflix.\n\nAll six members of the original cast - Matthew Perry (Chandler), Jennifer Aniston (Rachel), Courteney Cox (Monica), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe), Matt LeBlanc (Joey) and David Schwimmer (Ross) - are set to take part, though it's not yet been announced how it can be viewed in the UK.\n\nThey will feature alongside other supporting stars including Maggie Wheeler (Janice), James Michael Tyler (Gunther), Reese Witherspoon (Jill) and Tom Selleck (Richard), as well as Elliott Gould and Christina Pickles, who played Ross and Monica's parents, Jack and Judy.\n\nCelebrity guests, including David Beckham, Lady Gaga, BTS, Cara Delevingne, Mindy Kaling, James Corden, Malala Yousafzai and Justin Bieber, are also expected to appear.\n\nA trailer for the reunion, released on Thursday, shows the six actors walking together to a melodic version of the show's iconic theme-tune of I'll Be There For You by The Rembrandts.\n\nA caption then teases the special as: \"The One Where They Get Back Together\".\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 HBO Max 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\nRumours of a reunion originally swirled back in November 2019. It was originally due to air in May 2020 but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed production throughout the year.\n\nFilming for the special eventually took take place last month on the show's original soundstage on the Warner Bros lot in Burbank, California, in front of a live audience.\n\nJennifer Aniston shared the trailer on Instagram on Thursday, adding: \"It's official! The #FriendsReunion premieres May 27th on @HBOMax - could we BE any more excited?!\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lead researcher Professor Woodward examines the most contaminated site in the River Tame\n\nUntreated wastewater \"routinely released into UK rivers\" is creating microplastic hotspots on riverbeds.\n\nThat is the conclusion of a study in Greater Manchester, which revealed high concentrations of plastic immediately downstream of treatment works.\n\nThe team behind the research concluded: untreated wastewater was the \"key source\" of plastic pollution.\n\nThe water company that operates along the river the scientists studied said it didn't \"fully accept\" the findings.\n\nBut the scientists, who published their research in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Sustainability, say sewer overflow pipes and outflows from treatment plants can release millions of plastic particles in a day.\n\nMicroplastic fibres, fragments and beads build up in the riverbed until a flood flushes them downstream\n\nLead researcher Prof Jamie Woodward from the University of Manchester told BBC News that, at the most contaminated site in the River Tame, where the team carried out their study, there were \"concentrations over 130,000 microplastic particles per kilogram of sediment on the riverbed\".\n\n\"So for every single gram of sediment, there were 130 particles - extraordinarily high levels of contamination.\n\n\"It's clear that wastewater is the key source of microplastics in our rivers.\"\n\nResearchers compared their sediment samples to water they collected from sewer overflows\n\nWhile the water company, United Utilities, declined to be interviewed, Jo Harrison, the company's director of environment said in a statement: \"We understand that wastewater will be a contributing factor to microplastics pollution. We are involved in a wider two-year study, beginning this summer... to understand the sources and consequences of microplastics in the environment.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Environment Agency, which regulates the activities of the water industry added that the agency was \"aiding water industry research in this area\".\n\nWater companies are permitted to release untreated wastewater when the pipes in their plants are overwhelmed by excess rainwater. But the researchers say that they measured build-ups of plastic during a dry summer period.\n\n\"To produce such high levels of contamination, [they] must be releasing wastewater into low flows - so when there isn't heavy rain,\" said Prof Woodward.\n\n\"It's almost become routine for many water companies to do this.\"\n\nAn Environment Agency report published earlier this year seemed to confirm that conclusion, revealing that water companies discharged raw sewage into UK rivers 400,000 times in 2020. And a recent study using artificial intelligence to detect sewage spills showed that hundreds more releases were simply going unrecorded and unreported.\n\nProf Jamie Woodward at work on the banks of the River Tame\n\nCommenting on the recent study, Prof Andrew Johnson, from the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) in Wallingford, said that wastewater from sewer overflows was \"likely to be a source of microplastic flushes to rivers\". But, he added, \"we should not ignore all sorts of run-off from roads and fields adjacent to rivers\".\n\nAnd water industry body Water UK said that \"prevention was better than cure\". \"The public can play their part as well by not flushing wet wipes, and other single-use plastic items down the toilet,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nMicroplastics settle in the riverbed, which is the foundation of the river ecosystem, so researchers are concerned that this pollution accumulates exactly where it could do the most harm. Dr Rachel Hurley, at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research, said that the impact of microplastic pollution on rivers was a concern around the world.\n\n\"A lot of wastewater goes untreated globally,\" she said. \"And we know this wastewater concentrates many different types of microplastic in one place.\"\n\n\"We need to find out what the real reasons for these wastewater discharges are.\"\n\nHear more about this story on Inside Science on BBC Sounds", "BT says it is speeding up its rollout of full-fibre broadband to five million more households than previously planned in a move it says could create up to 7,000 jobs.\n\nBoss Philip Jansen told the BBC that BT is also bringing forward its deadline to complete the work, with 25 million homes now due to be connected by 2026.\n\n\"It's a massive programme - a £15bn investment,\" he said.\n\nThe telecoms giant has been criticised for the pace of full-fibre rollout.\n\nBut BT said tax changes introduced on fibre broadband investment to homes and businesses allowed it to accelerate its strategy.\n\nMr Jansen added that the faster rollout could be done through joint ventures with other parties to share the work and investment with its Openreach operation, especially to speed up broadband access to people in rural areas.\n\nA number of European telecoms rivals and private equity investors are thought to have looked at trying to secure a slice of the UK's fast-growing broadband infrastructure.\n\nAccelerating the plans \"will help fuel UK economic recovery, with better connectivity and up to 7,000 new jobs\", Mr Jansen said.\n\nMany big companies use the Openreach network to provide their services, including TalkTalk and Sky, but have been critical of the pace of the rollout and prices.\n\nTalkTalk said it welcomed Thursday's announcement, but said that affordability and take-up of services was key. \"Whilst this [BT] commitment is great progress, it shouldn't hide the fact that the UK lags far behind other European nations in rolling out full fibre,\" a TalkTalk spokesperson said.\n\nBT news came as Britain's biggest broadband and mobile provider reported a 23% fall in full-year pre-tax profit to £1.8bn, in large part due to a 7% fall in revenue to £21.3bn.\n\nBT is still looking at the future of its sports arm\n\nBT's profit was also eaten into by a bonus for frontline staff, increased cost of services and the continuing investment in the fibre network.\n\nBut Mr Jansen said he was confident about future trading: \"After a number of years of tough work, and as we look to build back better from the pandemic, we're now pivoting to consistent and predictable growth.\"\n\nAnd in a relief for shareholders, BT said it planned to bring back its dividend, which was suspended due to Covid, during the current financial year.\n\nSeparately, the Premier League has agreed to roll over its existing television deal for football rights with broadcasters, which include BT Sport.\n\nLast month, BT confirmed it was in talks with several companies about the future of its sports arm.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Jansen said he was \"open-minded\" on options for its BT Sport, but added: \"It's very possible we make no changes at all, because BT Sport now has a very clear profile and we're happy with it.\n\n\"It's possible that we do some sort of partnership or joint venture, and of course it is possible that we don't end up with BT Sport because there's a better owner of it who can invest more than we will invest. But I think it's too early to call that right now.\"", "Ten people were killed in the wake of an Army operation in west Belfast in 1971\n\nThe prime minister has \"apologised unreservedly\" for the \"events that took place in Ballymurphy\" in 1971, Downing Street has said.\n\nA spokesperson said during a phone call with NI's first and deputy first ministers on Wednesday, Boris Johnson said what happened was \"tragic\".\n\nAn inquest found 10 people who were shot in the wake of an Army operation in Belfast were \"entirely innocent\".\n\nFamilies of some of the Ballymurphy victims have rejected the apology.\n\nPoliticians in Northern Ireland have also criticised the manner in which it was delivered.\n\nJohn Teggart, whose father Danny was among those who were killed, said Mr Johnson's comments were an \"insult\".\n\n\"The apology was to third parties, it wasn't to the Ballymurphy families,\" he said.\n\n\"What kind of insult is it to families that he couldn't have the conversation with ourselves?\"\n\nA statement from a Downing Street spokesperson said Mr Johnson told First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill he was sorry for the \"huge anguish\" which had been caused to the families due to their \"lengthy pursuit of truth\".\n\nThe prime minister was \"deeply sad\" at the findings of the inquest led by Mrs Justice Keegan, it continued.\n\nThe killings happened in the days following the introduction of internment without trial\n\nAmong the victims were a priest who was trying to help the wounded and a mother of eight.\n\nNine of the 10 victims were killed by the Army, the coroner said.\n\nHowever, she could not definitively rule who shot the tenth victim, John McKerr.\n\n\"The prime minister apologised unreservedly on behalf of the UK Government for the events that took place in Ballymurphy and the huge anguish that the lengthy pursuit of truth has caused the families of those killed,\" Mr Johnson's spokesperson said.\n\n\"The prime minister restated the government's intention to deliver a way forward in Northern Ireland that focuses on reconciliation, delivers for victims of the Troubles and ends the cycle of reinvestigations.\n\n\"He stressed the importance of working hard to keep the gains made through the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and of all parties doing their utmost to help the victims' families find out what happened to their loved ones, so that future generations are not burdened by the past.\"\n\nBriege Voyle, whose mother Joan Connolly was killed, said the prime minister's apology \"means nothing\".\n\n\"I don't care about an apology, I want to know why [our loved ones were killed],\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe added it would have been \"more respectful\" for Mr Johnson to make the apology in parliament, rather than through a phone call.\n\nThere are real question marks over the nature of how this apology was issued.\n\nNot by the prime minister at the despatch box in parliament, nor to the families who had been calling for a direct, public apology, but in a readout from Number 10 after a private meeting with Stormont's first and deputy first ministers.\n\nPart of the confusion is that the DUP and Sinn Féin statements giving their version of the call make no reference to any apology from Boris Johnson.\n\nUltimately, only the politicians who took part in the call and their advisers know exactly what was said, and how it was said.\n\nThere is speculation that Brandon Lewis's planned statement to the Commons on Thursday about the inquest's findings will include a public apology.\n\nGiven the underwhelming response from the families to the prime minister's words and how this has been handled so far, they may not take much more comfort from what the government says next.\n\nA Sinn Féin spokesperson said the first and deputy first ministers were told that Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis would make a statement on Ballymurphy on Thursday.\n\nThey said: \"Michelle O'Neill put it to Boris Johnson that he should apologise to the families of those killed in Ballymurphy by British state forces.\n\n\"After 50 years of cover-up and lies they have been vindicated and their innocence declared.\n\n\"She challenged attempts by his government to deny the Ballymurphy families, or any other access to justice now or in the future.\"\n\nRelatives of the victims celebrated the findings of the inquests on Tuesday\n\nMs O'Neill, Sinn Fein's vice-president, had previously described an apology as the \"bare minimum\" required by the government.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin said: \"I would encourage the British government to respond in a comprehensive and fulsome way to the finding that 10 completely innocent people were shot and killed.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would encourage them to understand the depth of the pain and grief felt by the families and how that pain and grief was compounded by the untruths that were told about their loved ones.\n\n\"This should be done in a manner that respects the wishes of these families.\"\n\nAlliance Party MP Stephen Farry said it was \"helpful\" that the government was \"prepared to apologise\", however, he added a statement needed to be made in parliament on Thursday.\n\n\"The scope of apology needs to be scrutinised to ensure it covers all aspects,\" he 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 Stephen Farry MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSDLP assembly member Matthew O'Toole tweeted it was \"utterly repugnant\" for the prime minister to believe it was an \"appropriate manner\" to issue a statement on the shootings through a spokesperson.", "Is Israel’s military operation in Gaza, dubbed “Guardian of the Walls”, nearing its conclusion? Not obviously. Benjamin Netanyahu says attacks are continuing with “full force” and will “take time”.\n\nIn a news conference this afternoon, Israel’s prime minister admitted there were “pressures” but thanked US President Joe Biden, in particular, for his support.\n\nMr Netanyahu has so far resisted calls for a ceasefire with Hamas Image caption: Mr Netanyahu has so far resisted calls for a ceasefire with Hamas\n\nMr Biden’s envoy, Hady Amr, has been in Israel since Friday, discussing the crisis with Israeli officials. Unusually, at the end of a week that has also seen an alarming spate of inter-communal violence in mixed Jewish-Arab cities, he also met Israeli-Arab leaders.\n\nSince the US, like Israel and many other countries, regards Hamas as a terrorist organisation, Mr Amr will not be meeting one of the two warring parties. Any messages for Hamas will have to go through traditional interlocutors, like Egypt or Qatar.\n\nLocal reports suggest Hamas has been offering some kind of ceasefire for several days, only to be rebuffed by Israel, which clearly wants to inflict as much damage as it can on the militants before the fighting is finally brought to a close.\n\nThese episodes follow a familiar pattern: Israel presses home its undoubted military advantage until the international outcry over civilian casualties, and a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, demand that the operation end.\n\nIn Israel’s estimation, we have not yet reached that point.", "Entrepreneur Steven Bartlett is to join Dragons' Den, becoming the youngest investor in the show's history.\n\nThe 28-year-old will join Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman and Sara Davies for the next series of the long-running BBC business programme.\n\nBartlett is the founder and former CEO of social media marketing agency The Social Chain, which he set up from his bedroom in Manchester.\n\nHe described becoming a Dragon as \"a tremendous honour\".\n\n\"I've been watching Dragons' Den since I was 12 years old - it was my first window into the real world of business and investing,\" he said.\n\nHe added he wants to represent \"a new generation of entrepreneurs, inspiring young and specifically under-represented entrepreneurs to follow in my footsteps\".\n\nBBC entertainment boss Sarah Clay said Bartlett's \"unique approach to business will bring a whole new dynamic to the Den\".\n\n\"He brings a wealth of experience from the social media, technological and brand building worlds,\" she continued.\n\nBartlett dropped out of university and went on to build The Social Chain and Media Chain - with the stated aim of \"reshaping the world of brands and commerce\".\n\nHe took his company - which has a market value of more than £300m - public aged 27, before leaving the business after six years to pursue other investment opportunities.\n\nHis debut book, Happy Sexy Millionaire, was published this year and he also hosts a podcast entitled The Diary Of A CEO.\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\nBartlett's rapid rise has seen him named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, and win entrepreneur rising star at the Black British Business Awards.\n\nIn 2019, he was also inducted into Manchester's Hall of Fame by the Mayor of Greater Manchester.\n\nOn Dragons' Den he will take the place left by Tej Lalvani, who announced his departure from the show earlier this year.\n\nThe new Dragon announced his arrival with a video on social media showing him growing scales and breathing fire.\n\nThe show sees people pitch business ideas in exchange for expert advice and a stake in their fledgling independent companies.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Why do so many Dragons' Den deals fall through?", "Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups in Gaza have a wide variety of missiles\n\nWhile death, damage and suffering have been caused to both sides in the escalating hostilities between Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli military, this remains a hugely asymmetric struggle.\n\nIsrael is the vastly more powerful player and its air force, armed drones and intelligence-gathering systems enable it to strike targets in Gaza pretty much at will. It insists that its targeting is restricted to sites used for military purposes but the density of the Palestinian population and the fact that Hamas and Islamic Jihad facilities are located close to, and often hidden under, civilian buildings makes the avoidance of civilian casualties altogether impossible.\n\nHamas and Islamic Jihad, though the weaker parties, have weapons enough with which to attack Israel. They have already tried a variety of tactics. Israeli defences shot down a drone - possibly armed - that had sought to cross into Israel from Gaza. And an Israeli military spokesman said an \"elite Hamas unit\" had attempted to infiltrate Israel through a tunnel from the southern part of the strip. The Israeli military, it seems, had advance warning of this and, according to the spokesman, was able to \"cause the tunnel to implode\".\n\nIsrael says more than 1,000 rockets have been launched from Gaza since Monday night\n\nBut by far and away the most significant weaponry in the Palestinians' arsenal is their wide variety of ground-to-ground missiles. Some of these (along with other systems employed like the Kornet guided anti-tank missiles used during recent days), are believed to have been smuggled in through tunnels from Egypt's Sinai peninsula.\n\nBut by far the bulk of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad arsenals come from a dynamic and relatively sophisticated manufacturing capability inside the Gaza Strip itself. Israeli and outside experts believe that Iranian know-how and assistance have played a significant role in building up this industry. Accordingly, weapons manufacturing and storage sites have been among the chief targets of the Israeli strikes.\n\nThe Israeli military has carried out hundreds of strikes on Gaza in response to the rocket fire\n\nEstimating the stockpile of Hamas missiles is impossible.\n\nIt certainly includes many thousands of weapons of varying ranges. Clearly the Israeli military has its own estimates that it is not willing to share. All a spokesman would say was that they believed Hamas could sustain this level of fire for \"a significant period of time\".\n\nThe Palestinians are employing a variety of missiles, none of which, so far, appear to be especially new in terms of basic design. But the overall trend is for the weapons to have increased ranges and larger explosive payloads.\n\nWhile the names and designations of specific missiles can be a bit confusing, Hamas has a huge inventory of shorter-range systems like the Qassam (up to 10km or 6 miles) and the Quds 101 (up to about 16km); bolstered by the Grad system (up to 55km); and the Sejil 55 (up to 55km). These probably make up the bulk of its inventory and for the shortest ranges can be bolstered by mortar fire.\n\nBut Hamas also operates a variety of longer-range systems like the M-75 (up to 75km); the Fajr (up to 100km); the R-160 (up to 120km); and some M-302s which have a range of up to 200km. So it is clear that Hamas has weapons that can target both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and threaten the whole coastal strip which contains the greatest density of Israel's population and critical infrastructure.\n\nStreaks of light are seen as the Iron Dome system intercepts rockets near Ashkelon early on Wednesday\n\nThe Israeli military says that of the more than 1,000 or so rockets fired into Israel over the past three days, some 200 have actually fallen short in the Gaza Strip itself (perhaps an indicator of the problems of a home-grown and dispersed weapons manufacturing process).\n\nThe IDF also say 90% of all missiles reaching Israel have been intercepted by their Iron Dome anti-missile system. However, at one stage the battery defending the city of Ashkelon appears to have been off-line due to a technical malfunction, underlining that for all its remarkable technical success, this is not a missile-proof screen.\n\nTo counter missile fire you only really have a limited number of options. You can employ anti-missile defences. You can target stockpiles and manufacturing facilities. You could in theory also mount a ground operation to push the missile-launchers back beyond effective range.\n\nThat is not going to be possible in this case. Part of the Palestinians' vulnerability is that they have no strategic depth and nowhere to go. A ground operation to stifle the missile fire is possible. But as was shown in Israel's last major incursion into Gaza in 2014, the human cost would be considerable. During the operation, 2,251 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians, were killed, while on the Israeli side 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed.\n\nThis repeating cycle of rocket-fire, response and incursion gets neither side anywhere. At best, it buys a period of calm before the next round begins. Many might argue that it was the tensions in Jerusalem that started this particular episode. A signal once again that the Israel-Palestinian dispute cannot be ignored forever.\n\nHamas threatened to turn Ashkelon into \"hell\" in retaliation for Israeli air strikes\n\nBut with more and more Arab governments making their peace with Israel; with the Palestinians politically as divided as ever; and with this issue being far from the agenda of Israel's current leadership, it is hard to see how any progress towards a real peace can be made. For that you would need a real desire for progress on the ground and a strong and sustained effort by outside players. The conditions for this just do not appear to be there.\n\nJonathan Marcus is a foreign affairs analyst and former defence and diplomatic correspondent for BBC News", "Public Accounts Committee chair Meg Hillier asks how David Cameron would like to be remembered.\n\nThe former PM says he put together the first coalition in 70 years against the background of a \"very tricky\" economic situation.\n\n\"Do you regret the past few months?\" asks Ms Hillier.\n\n\"Well obviously it's been difficult for me,\" he replies, but he says he feels more sorry for people who worked at Greensill Capital and lost their jobs.\n\n\"There'll be lessons to learn. I'll be reading your committee report and the Treasury Committee's report,\" he says.\n\nWith that, the committee session closes.", "Boris Johnson's lawyers are \"confident\" of winning their application to cancel a county-court judgement against the prime minister, Downing Street says.\n\nThe court order was registered against Mr Johnson over an unpaid debt of £535, official records show.\n\nNo details of the creditor or nature of the debt were included in the online record of the CCJ, which appeared to have taken No 10 by surprise.\n\nBut it has now emerged the case relates to defamation allegations.\n\nThe official records show an \"unsatisfied record\" for the unpaid debt was registered to Mr Johnson at \"10 Downing Street\", with the judgement dated 26 October last year.\n\nBut a No 10 spokesman said it was a \"vexatious and spurious\" claim that they were fighting to get struck off.\n\nAn additional file shows the claim, for \"defamation\" and \"committed repeated defamation\", was made by an Yvonne Hobbs against \"The Rt Hon Boris Johnson\".\n\nIt is not clear how the case led to a CCJ being issued, as defamation cases are normally heard in the High Court.\n\nBut the CCJ was issued by the online civil-claims court, which used to be known as the small claims court.\n\nCCJs are issued in England and Wales when people fail to repay money they owe.\n\n\"If you get a judgement, this means that the court has formally decided that you owe the money,\" according to a government website.\n\nIt is likely letters about the alleged debt were sent to 10 Downing Street and not answered, and therefore no defence offered, which would eventually have led to a CCJ being issued by default.\n\n\"An application will be made for an order to set aside the default judgement, to strike out the claim and for a declaration that the claim is totally without merit,\" Downing Street said in a statement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People who had surrounded an immigration van holding two men cheered when they were released by police\n\nTwo men who were being detained in an immigration van which was surrounded by protesters have been released.\n\nThe move followed a standoff between police officers and protesters in Kenmure Street on Glasgow's southside.\n\nEarly on Thursday people surrounded the Home Office vehicle believed to contain two Indian immigrants who had been removed from a flat.\n\nHundreds gathered in the area, with one man crawling under the van to prevent it from moving.\n\nThe Home Office said the men had been detained over \"suspected immigration offences\".\n\nSome of the protesters were heard shouting \"let our neighbours go\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement, Police Scotland said that Ch Supt Mark Sutherland had decided to have the men released.\n\nIt said: \"In order to protect the safety, public health and well-being of all people involved in the detention and subsequent protest in Kenmure Street, Pollokshields, today, Ch Supt Mark Sutherland has, following a suitable risk assessment, taken the operational decision to release the men detained by UK Immigration Enforcement back into their community meantime.\n\n\"In order to facilitate this quickly and effectively, Police Scotland is asking members of the public to disperse from the street as soon as possible. Please take care when leaving the area and follow the directions of the officers on the street.\"\n\nEarlier the force stressed that it did not assist in the removal of asylum seekers, and that officers were at the scene to police the protest and to ensure public safety.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who is also the MSP for the area, said she disagreed fundamentally with Home Office immigration policy.\n\nShe said: \"This action was unacceptable. To act in this way, in the heart of a Muslim community as they celebrated Eid, and in an area experiencing a Covid outbreak was a health and safety risk.\"\n\nShe said she would be \"demanding assurances\" from the UK government that they would not create such a dangerous situation again.\n\nShe added: \"No assurances were given - and frankly no empathy shown - when I managed to speak to a junior minister earlier.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon and her justice secretary, Humza Yousaf are seeking follow up talks with the Home Secretary, Priti Patel.\n\nThey believe Immigration Enforcement has acted provocatively by trying to remove migrants from an ethnically diverse community during Eid.\n\nThe resulting protests brought people together, against Covid rules, in part of Glasgow which is experiencing a spike in cases linked to the Indian variant.\n\nPolice Scotland intervened on public health and public order grounds to require the release of the two Indian nationals being held by Immigration Enforcement.\n\nTheir operational decision is fully supported by Scottish ministers and while the Home Office is always grateful for police assistance, releasing the men on bail is hardly the outcome they wanted.\n\nThey will not have enjoyed being seen to back down in the face of public and political protest.\n\nHumza Yousaf, the Scottish government's justice secretary, said: \"the action they [the Home Office] have today is at best completely reckless, and at worst intended to provoke, on a day the UK government would have known the Scottish government and MSPs would be distracted by parliamentary process.\"\n\nHe added that the situation \"should never have occurred\", and that \"the UK government's hostile environment is not welcome here.\"\n\nOne of the protesters lay underneath the immigration van to stop it from moving\n\nIn a statement, the Home Office said: \"The UK government is tackling illegal immigration and the harm it causes, often to the most vulnerable people by removing those with no right to be in the UK.\n\n\"The operation in Glasgow was conducted in relation to suspected immigration offences and the two Indian nationals complied with officers at all times.\n\n\"The UK government continues to tackle illegal migration in all its forms and our New Plan for Immigration will speed up the removal of those who have entered the UK illegally.\"\n\nThe Sikhs in Scotland group said in a statement that it was \"deeply concerned\", and urged the Home Office to \"abandon forced removals and to adopt an immigration policy based on human rights, compassion and dignity\".\n\nMohammad Asif, of the Afghan Human Rights Foundation, said hundreds of people were protesting.\n\nThe 54-year-old added: \"We're here against the hostile environment created by the Tories and the British state.\"\n\nIncidents like Kenmure Street - at the centre of Scotland's most ethnically diverse neighbourhood - will do nothing to persuade those who already believe the UK's policy on immigration is unfair and inhumane.\n\nDespite the protest, the Home Office says it was a legitimate operation targeting those it suspected of immigration offences.\n\nAnd yet there could be more problems on the horizon. The Home Office has just ended its consultation on its New Plan for Immigration - a policy that will speed up deportations for those who have entered the country 'illegally'.\n\nThose in such a position will not be able to claim asylum and will instead be granted 'temporary protection', a status that would come under periodic review.\n\nMore than 70 charities and faith groups in Scotland have condemned such proposals.\n\nThe Home Office is toughening its stance on immigration, but says its policies will make the system fairer for those most in need, while discouraging criminal activity like people trafficking.\n\nThe Scottish government, and the protestors in Glasgow today, fundamentally disagree.", "The woman and her hospital trust cannot be named for legal reasons\n\nMedics can use force to take a pregnant woman who has agoraphobia to hospital to give birth, a judge has ruled.\n\nThe 21-year-old has an \"overwhelming\" fear of leaving her home, the Court of Protection in London heard.\n\nShe wants a home birth - unless there is an emergency. But the NHS wants her to have the baby in a \"planned way\" in hospital, due to the increased risks if she gives birth at home.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Holman said his ruling was in the woman's best interests.\n\nHe concluded that \"proportionate\" force could be used by specially-trained staff if she refused to leave home on a specified day near her due date.\n\nThe woman, who the judge said lived \"far from London\", has barely left home in four years and had her scan at home.\n\nThe judge said the woman's partner and mother thought she should give birth in hospital.\n\nThe woman and the NHS trust cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nMr Justice Holman said evidence showed there was a risk there could be a \"catastrophe\" if she had a home birth.\n\n\"I think you should go to hospital and have this baby,\" he told the woman and her partner who watched on video link.\n\n\"It will avoid potential risks and disaster if something goes wrong. I think it is better than some awful rush job in the middle of the night.\"\n\nHe added: \"I know it will be an ordeal for you.\"\n\nMr Justice Holman concluded that the woman's agoraphobia meant that she did not have the mental capacity to make decisions about the birth of her baby.\n\nAgoraphobia is a condition which may include fears of leaving a \"safe\" place, being left alone or in a situation where sufferers feel trapped.\n\nPeople can seek advice from NHS Choices. their GP or the charity Anxiety UK.\n• None How an agoraphobic travels the world\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coronavirus vaccines have saved 11,700 lives and stopped 33,000 people becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 in England, research suggests.\n\nThe Public Health England analysis, up to the end of April, found people in their 70s and 80s had seen the biggest fall in deaths and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the figures were \"remarkable\".\n\nGetting a vaccine is \"one of the most important things you will be asked to do in your lifetime\", he added.\n\nExtra vaccination clinics are being set up in parts of Lancashire to offer more jabs to people aged 38 and over, and anyone with an underlying health condition who is over 18.\n\nThis is, in part, to help reduce the spread of the India variant, which is causing concern because scientists believe it could be at least as transmissible as the Kent variant.\n\nNine out of 10 people aged 40 and over have now had a first vaccine dose in England. The impact of the vaccines is likely to be similar across the UK, with more than 53 million doses administered in total.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) used data on how well the vaccines are working and the number of people being vaccinated in different age groups, to calculate deaths and illness prevented from Covid.\n\nIt is estimated that, thanks to vaccines:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens if I don't get the Covid vaccine? Laura Foster explains\n\nThe latest government data - based on evidence from the UK rollout - suggests one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine cuts the risk of infection by as much as 70%, and serious illness and death by even more.\n\nIf someone is less likely to become infected and have symptoms, then the spread of the virus between people is also less likely.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at PHE, said: \"The vaccine has already saved so many lives and we can now see the huge impact it has had on preventing people becoming seriously ill and therefore also protecting our hospitals.\n\n\"As these figures highlight, getting your vaccine could save your life or stop you becoming seriously ill from Covid-19.\n\n\"It will also significantly reduce your chances of getting infected and infecting others.\n\n\"It is vital to get both doses of your vaccine when you are offered it.\"", "Shoppers have returned to central Glasgow this month\n\nAn outbreak of Covid cases in the south of Glasgow is \"relatively contained\", according to national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch.\n\nHe said he hoped the city would move down to level two restrictions as planned on Monday.\n\nHowever, he said no decisions had yet been taken and that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon would provide updates about both Glasgow and Moray on Friday.\n\nShe said on Tuesday that Moray was likely to stay in level three.\n\nThis followed a surge in cases in the area, which currently has a case rate of 98.1 per 100,000 - well above a key threshold for easing restrictions.\n\nThe latest published rate for Glasgow is 70.9 per 100,000.\n\nMr Leitch said people should be concerned about the increasing numbers in the city.\n\nBut he added: \"It is relatively contained, not yet exponential growth like we have seen with this virus before.\"\n\nProf Leitch said there had been a \"precision public health response… throwing everything at it, testing, extra vaccination clinics, really asking the public to step up and help us as much they can.\"\n\nAsked if the whole of Glasgow may have to stay in level three, he said: \"I really hope not.\"\n\nThe Public Health Scotland heat map suggests the highest case rates are in Pollokshields and Easterhouse\n\nHe said meetings had taken place on Thursday with local public health teams in both Glasgow and Moray, and that no decisions had been taken in either area.\n\nThe rest of mainland Scotland is scheduled to move to level two Covid restrictions on Monday, which will allow people to hug and visit other households indoors. Most islands will move to level one.\n\nClackmannanshire has also seen rising Covid rates recently, and is now just above the 50-case threshold at 52.4.\n\nCases also seem to be on the rise in Midlothian, which has 48.7 cases per 100,000.\n\nThe reasons behind the increase in cases in Glasgow are not yet known, although it is suspected the so-called Indian variant has played a role.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow Clyde and Glasgow City Council is writing to all households in the G41 and G42 areas, asking people to get tested regardless of whether they have symptoms.\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld said door-to-door testing was needed, as has happened in areas of England - but people in those parts of Glasgow will be asked to go to test sites themselves.\n\nThe difference between Glasgow and Moray is that the clusters in Scotland's biggest city have been sourced to specific postcode areas and linked to household mixing.\n\nIn Moray it quickly became widespread community transmission hence the decision to remain in level three there.\n\nThe real test for public health teams in Glasgow will be the new Indian variant, which is believed to be the source of the outbreak in the southside. It's known to be at least as transmissible as the UK variant, and it has also led to outbreaks in some parts of England.\n\nI don't get the sense that officials in Glasgow are panicking but they are concerned. Expect to see enhanced efforts to get people tested even if they don't have symptoms and encouragement from community leaders to stick to the rules.\n\nThe context in which this is happening is also very different now. The success of the vaccine means that, so far, this outbreak has not led to a jump in hospital admissions. But it is early days and younger people in particular, who are more likely to become infected, still need get their jag.\n\nDr Linda de Caestecker, director of public health at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said the south of the city appeared to be affected and there had been a \"cluster of outbreaks\" linked to household transmission.\n\nShe said: \"The rise in cases in certain areas of Glasgow is a cause for concern, particularly at a time of such progress in the fight against the virus across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\n\"A rise in household mixing seems to be the principal reason for the increase.\"\n\nShe urged everyone to follow the current rules, not the ones which are likely to apply from Monday.\n\n\"In addition, we are seeing new variants that are more transmissible and that is another reason why we cannot be complacent at this critical time,\" she added.\n\nOn Wednesday, Prof Leitch said that between 20 and 30 cases of the so-called Indian variant had been identified in Scotland.\n\nHowever Prof Bauld told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme on Thursday that sources, including Cog UK - the UK's genomic sequencing consortium - suggest instances of this variant may be even higher.\n\nShe said it was \"extremely important\" to identify the prevalence of the Indian variant.\n\nProf Bauld said: \"In other parts of the UK where we've seen these cases, surge testing is needed - that means not just asking people to turn up, it's going door-to-door.\n\n\"Our attention needs to be focused on that and when cases are identified how do we give maximum support to communities to successfully self isolate and stop those chains of transmission?\"\n\nProf Bauld added that the increase in cases appeared \"mostly in younger people\".\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already said the situation in Glasgow is being monitored \"very closely\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"We are seeing an increase in cases in Glasgow just now and, amidst concern about the so-called Indian variant, we are monitoring it very closely.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon and other leading politicians have also issued words of caution this week around celebrations of Eid - one of the biggest holidays in the Muslim calendar.\n\nWhile Prof Bauld said \"questions will be asked\" about the profile of cases in Glasgow, it was \"perhaps premature\" to enforce rules which would restrict the whole council area.\n\nShe said: \"I think a localised approached - a really concentrated identification and support of cases - is the first step. What we don't want is spread beyond those areas, it is about stopping the chain of transmission.\n\n\"In the past we, perhaps, had not acted early enough to get on top of outbreaks - this is just a red flag that needs to be dealt with.\"", "The e-fit image was created after speaking to a key witness, police said\n\nAn e-fit picture has been released by police as they try to find the mother of a newborn baby boy found in a park.\n\nThe infant, named George by hospital staff, was found clothed in a blanket on 22 April at The Mounds in Kings Norton, Birmingham.\n\nPolice said he is healthy and doing well with foster carers but they remain worried about his mother.\n\nDespite extensive searches and a number of leads, the force said they have not been able to find her.\n\nThe e-fit image, created by specialists at Thames Valley Police, was put together after speaking to a key witness, detectives said.\n\nThey said they wanted to speak to the woman in the picture as part of their investigation.\n\nGeorge was named by hospital staff, as he was found the day before St George's Day\n\nTheir only concern was George's mother, to check she was OK physically and mentally, they added.\n\nDet Insp Neil Hunt said he was worried about her and needed to make sure she was safe and well.\n\n\"We've not taken the decision to issue this image lightly or to frighten you,\" he said.\n\n\"We simply want to find you so we can talk to you, check you are okay, and offer any help or support you may need.\"\n\nGeorge is doing well with foster carers, police said\n\nThe woman is described as white, about 5ft 6in (1.68m) tall, of medium or large build and was wearing a light grey zipped hoodie and jogging bottoms.\n\nNew leaflets with the e-fit image on them are going to be handed out in the area around the park, the force said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader convicted of genocide during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, is to serve the rest of his life sentence in a British jail.\n\nThe Foreign Office said he would be transferred to a UK prison from a UN detention unit in the Netherlands.\n\nKaradzic, 75, was also found guilty at his 2016 criminal tribunal of war crimes and crimes against humanity.\n\nHis original 40-year sentence was increased at an appeal hearing in 2019.\n\nHis conviction for genocide related to his responsibility for the murder of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.\n\nIt was considered one of the worst massacres in Europe since World War Two.\n\nJudges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia also held Karadzic responsible for the siege of Sarajevo, a campaign of shelling and sniping which lasted more than three years and led to the deaths of an estimated 10,000 civilians.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"Radovan Karadzic is one of the few people to have been found guilty of genocide...\n\n\"We should take pride in the fact that, from UK support to secure his arrest, to the prison cell he now faces, Britain has supported the 30-year pursuit of justice for these heinous crimes.\"\n\nMr Raab described Srebrenica as \"the darkest moment in European history since the Holocaust\".\n\n\"I think we have got a moral duty and I think we have a sense of national purpose in trying to hold to account the perpetrators of the very worst crimes,\" Mr Raab said.\n\n\"Back since Nuremburg [the trials of Nazi leaders in the German city after World War Two] we have played that role.\"\n\nHe added: \"If we want to deter these kind of crimes from happening, if we want to give justice to the many thousands of victims, I think it is right we do our bit.\"\n\nThe UK was one of the signatories to enforcement agreements with the United Nations for sentences passed by its tribunals related to the former Yugoslavia.\n\nUN officials confirmed they had asked the UK to \"enforce the sentence\".\n\nThey did not provide a date for the move but said \"all necessary measures\" should be taken \"to facilitate Karadzic's transfer... as expeditiously as possible\".\n\nRadovan Karadzic, right, pictured with General Ratko Mladic in 1995\n\nThe conflict in the former Yugoslavia stemmed from tensions among ethnic groups, following the death of President Tito in 1980.\n\nCalls for more autonomy led in 1991 to declarations of independence in Croatia and Slovenia and fighting with the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army.\n\nBosnia, with a complex mix of Serbs, Muslims and Croats, was next to try for independence. Bosnia's Serbs, backed by Serbs elsewhere in Yugoslavia, resisted.\n\nKaradzic, a former psychiatrist, was president of the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.\n\nAfter the war, he hid for years - masquerading as an expert in alternative medicine - before his eventual arrest in Serbia in 2008.\n\nIn November 2017, former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life in prison on similar charges of war crimes and genocide. A ruling in an appeal against his conviction is to be announced next month in The Hague.\n\nBritain was involved in the hunt, trial and conviction of Radovan Karadzic. And now it is taking responsibility for enforcing the sentence handed down to him.\n\nBritish intelligence played a role in his capture in Belgrade in 2008 after 13 years on the run. British judges and lawyers were involved in the trial against him at a United Nations tribunal that the UK helped to set up.\n\nOne of the young lawyers who drafted the legal procedure to transfer Karadzic to the UK was a certain Dominic Raab, who is now the Foreign Secretary - and who ultimately agreed to the request from the UN that the former Bosnian Serb leader should serve out his term in a British jail.\n\nOfficials say the reason the UK agreed is because it is on the list of UN members willing to detain those found guilty of global crimes, and it wished to show its continued support for the international rules-based order.\n\nThe UK will bear the costs of Karadzic's detention but any decision about whether he is released before his death would be a matter for the UN authorities in The Hague.\n\nKaradzic will not be the first foreign national convicted of war crimes to have been held in a UK prison.\n\nFive men convicted of war crimes by the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia have been sent to British high-security prisons in the past.\n\nThey included former Bosnian-Serb general Radislav Krstic, who was stabbed by three Muslim prisoners at Wakefield jail in 2010 in apparent retaliation for Srebrenica.\n\nKrstic was moved to a prison in Poland in 2014.\n\nThe UK had also offered to jail the former President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, when he was on trial in The Hague on charges of war crimes and genocide. But he died in 2006 before the legal proceedings were completed.\n\nIn a separate arrangement, ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor is serving a 50-year war sentence in the UK following a war crimes conviction by a UN-backed special court, for aiding rebels who committed atrocities in Sierra Leone during its civil war.", "Restrictions during the pandemic contributed to a fall in crime, the Office of National Statistics says\n\nCrime recorded by police in England and Wales fell by 8% in 2020 as periods of lockdown caused theft reports to drop by more than a quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nFirearms offences fell by 11% and knife crime dropped by 9%.\n\nDomestic abuse reports increased, however, along with fraud based on online shopping.\n\nThe ONS said the \"majority\" of the fluctuation in crime rates during the year was due to periods of lockdown.\n\nThe annual reduction in crime was mostly driven by \"substantial falls\" between April and June when the first lockdown took place.\n\nCrime increased again from July to September as restrictions were eased and fell again as further lockdown measures were imposed in the final months of the year.\n\nThe ONS said the closure of non-essential shops and people spending more time in their homes was the likely cause of the 26% fall in thefts - including a 42% drop in thefts from the person, 29% reduction in shoplifting and 24% fall in burglary.\n\nThe decrease in knife crime was mostly driven by a 29% fall in robbery using a knife.\n\nHomicides fell by 12% in 2020, although the decline was exaggerated by the 2019 incident when 39 Vietnamese people were found dead in Essex after they were trafficked into the UK.\n\nExcluding that, the fall in homicides - which covers all deaths caused by another person - was 6%, with 625 offences in the year.\n\nAmid concerns about the impact of lockdown on the victims of domestic violence, the number of domestic abuse offences increased by 7% to 839,077.\n\nSexual offences recorded by police fell by 7% in 2020 compared with the previous year, while rape offences dropped by 6% to 55,632.\n\nThe ONS said that before the fall recorded during this pandemic year, rape offences reported to police had been gradually increasing each year.\n\nImprovements in the way police record rape offences have contributed to increases in previous years, and the ONS said that may be having a diminishing effect now.\n\nBut they said national lockdown restrictions may also have had some impact on the fall last year.\n\nOver the past nine months, about half of adults in an ONS survey said they had noticed others breaking coronavirus restrictions, and 7% of them reported the breach to police.\n\nOf those who did not report it, most of them said the incident was too trivial or not worth reporting.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions also changed patterns of fraud, the ONS suggested, with a 38% increase in fraud related to online shopping and auctions, while ticketing fraud plummeted by 68% as music gigs and festivals across the country were cancelled.\n\nDrug offences rose by 15% over the last year. The ONS said it was driven by a police crackdown in \"crime hotspots\" from April to June 2020.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police in London was among the forces which ran more proactive drug operations targeting dealers and suppliers as they struggled to move around freely in lockdown.", "Travel companies have been warned they must be ready to refund consumers if foreign holidays are cancelled by the coronavirus pandemic this summer.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority said it had reminded package holiday firms of their legal obligations.\n\nIn 2020, cancelled trips resulted in 23,000 complaints to the competition watchdog.\n\nThe CMA said it had taken action against five big firms, which had now refunded a total of £200m.\n\nThese included Tui, which the watchdog said had now formally committed to giving clearer information about refunds upfront.\n\nThe others were Teletext Holidays, LoveHolidays, Lastminute.com and Virgin Holidays.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps on the green list destinations: \"This is just a first step\"\n\nThe UK government has said people can travel abroad again from 17 May, but destinations will be ranked for safety under a traffic light system and there are fears their status could change unexpectedly.\n\n\"We're calling on package holiday companies to make the refund process less hassle in the future,\" said CMA chief executive Andrea Coscelli.\n\n\"We expect all firms to give clear cancellation options and will consider appropriate steps if we see companies breaking the law by refusing or delaying refunds this summer.\"\n\nUnder package holiday rules, cancelled holidays must be refunded within 14 days and customers must be offered a refund, not just a credit note.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, many people have faced last-minute cancellations of flights and holidays as travel restrictions were imposed.\n\nSome agreed to defer their holidays to a later date and accepted credit notes, but others who wanted their money back found it difficult to get refunds.\n\nAs the pandemic stretched on, others who had initially agreed to put off their holidays changed their minds and decided they did want a refund after all, but experienced reluctance from travel firms.\n\nThe CMA said any offer of a refund credit note had to be accompanied by the option of a full refund, while customers should be able to exchange their credit note for a refund at any time.\n\nFollowing customer complaints, the CMA has stepped in. It said at the end of last month that Teletext faced court action unless it paid more than £7m in refunds.\n\nLastminute.com had been facing legal action in connection with £1m worth of unpaid refunds, but the CMA said in February that the money had since been repaid.\n\nThe watchdog has now secured refund commitments from the other firms.\n\nPeople will be able to travel for leisure again from Monday, but holidays to most destinations require a period of quarantine when holidaymakers return home.\n\nPortugal is the main holiday destination currently on the \"green list\", but the travel industry is worried that countries could be added or withdrawn at short notice.\n\nThe government has advised against leisure travel to \"amber list\" countries, but Tui and EasyJet are still planning to offer holidays to some of those destinations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How is the race to vaccinate looking around the world?\n\nAn EasyJet Holidays spokeswoman said: \"We recognise that many of our customers do still want their holidays to go ahead, so for 'amber' list destinations where holidays can be enjoyed safely and legally, which do not have 'all but essential travel' warnings and where there is no quarantine requirement in destination, we are providing flexibility and choice so customers can make up their own mind about their holiday.\"\n\nShe added that EasyJet would not operate any holidays to destinations on the \"red\" list.\n\nOn Wednesday, online travel agent On The Beach said it had stopped selling all holidays for this summer because of Covid uncertainty.\n\nChief executive Simon Cooper told the BBC that many would-be holidaymakers had been \"jaded by the experience\" of summer 2020, when many holidays that had been booked failed to take place because of shifting travel restrictions.\n\nMr Cooper added that if On The Beach did go ahead with summer bookings, its profits risked being outweighed by \"administrative costs and loss of goodwill\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Joe Biden: 'It's a good day for the country, we aren't done yet'\n\nPresident Joe Biden has hailed a \"great day for America\" as US officials said vaccinated people can go mask-less in most indoor and outdoor settings.\n\nThe president removed his mask in the Oval Office with Republican lawmakers as the guidance was being announced.\n\nThe advice still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes and hospitals.\n\nThe Biden administration has faced pressure to ease restrictions on fully vaccinated people.\n\nIn another major step for the US in returning to pre-pandemic life, the president of the 1.7m-member American Federation of Teachers labour union called for schools to reopen fully in the autumn.\n\nIt comes after Pfizer's vaccine was approved for children aged 12 to 15.\n\nThe US coronavirus caseload has fallen to its lowest point since last September, with deaths at their fewest since last April.\n\nAccording to the new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), physical distancing can also cease for the fully vaccinated.\n\nMr Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris and staff went without facial coverings during a White House Rose Garden event to trumpet the new guidelines.\n\n\"We're not going to go out and arrest people,\" added Mr Biden, urging non-vaccinated Americans to wear masks.\n\nHis Twitter account posted: \"The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.\" The US president has no power to order Americans to get vaccinated or wear masks.\n\nThe latest rules come with about 35% of Americans now fully vaccinated, though the roll-out has been losing momentum.\n\nCDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday at the White House: \"Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask.\n\n\"If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things you have stopped doing because of the pandemic. We have all longed for this moment, when we can get back to some sense of normalcy.\"\n\nThe guidance does not apply to healthcare facilities or places such as prisons and homeless shelters. Masks are also still advised for planes and other public transport.\n\nThe CDC's advice does not supersede local ordinances, and some businesses may still require customers and workers to wear masks.\n\nIn April, the CDC said masks can be avoided for most outdoor activities, but recommended their use in crowded settings.\n\nDr Walensky said that immuno-compromised people may want to consider continuing to wear a mask outdoors.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The White House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The White House\n\nThe CDC defines \"fully vaccinated\" as two weeks after receiving a second jab of a two-dose vaccine, or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.\n\nThe move could alarm some Americans, with less than half of the population fully vaccinated and no way to confirm whether someone has received their shots or not.\n\nPresident Biden has set a 4 July goal of vaccinating 70% of Americans with at least one jab. Around 250m jabs have been given so far, according to latest estimates.\n• None France calls on US to drop vaccine export bans", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League has agreed to roll over its existing television deal with broadcasters for a further three years.\n\nThe new deal with Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime Video and BBC Sport will run from 2022 to 2025.\n\nThe current £4.7bn deal, agreed in 2018, represented a 10% drop in value.\n\nThe Government has approved the deal \"in principle\" with an \"exclusion order\" under the competition act, which allows the league to renew without its normal tender process.\n\n\"In light of the damaging impact of the Covid-19 pandemic throughout the English football pyramid, the Premier League was able to demonstrate to Government exceptional and compelling reasons for the Exclusion Order,\" the league said.\n\nAs part of the new deal, BT Sport say that to help with the fixture congestion, they will change their Saturday lunchtime game to an evening slot when teams involved have played in Europe on the previous Wednesday.\n\nClubs had been concerned that there could be another fall in value if the usual open-market auction started as planned next month.\n\nThe value of rights for domestic leagues in Europe also appears to have peaked.\n\nThe Premier League say that the renewals will provide financial certainty to professional clubs and also enables an additional £100m of funding to be provided to clubs throughout the football pyramid over the next four years.\n\nThe extra funding will be available to more than 1,000 clubs in the National League system, women's and girls' football, EFL League One and League Two clubs and the Football Foundation.\n\nIt will also support a number of football-wide projects, including the Premier League's work looking at head injuries in football, anti-discrimination and fan groups.\n\nThe EFL said it \"welcomes\" the increased funding but warned: \"It is important to acknowledge that the current media rights deal will preserve the status quo of an unbalanced, unsustainable, and unfair financial distribution model across English football.\n\n\"While we recognise the attempts by the government to increase the level of solidarity provided to League One and Two clubs through this process, what is more urgently required is a fundamental reset of the game's financial model - both in terms of fairer distribution of monies at all levels and sensible, realistic cost control measures to ensure clubs will live within their means.\"\n\n'Help the pyramid get back on its feet' - reaction\n\n\"Covid-19 has had a significant impact on football, and renewals with our UK broadcast partners will reduce uncertainty, generate stability and promote confidence within the football pyramid,\" said Premier League chief executive Richard Masters.\n\n\"We know that, once concluded, this will have a positive impact on the wider industry, jobs and tax revenues.\"\n\nThe Football Association has welcomed the extra £100m of funding which chief executive Mark Bullingham says will \"help the pyramid get back on its feet.\"\n\nDavid Kogan, the former Premier League rights executive, said the government's involvement in the deal was a \"really marked difference in the way football's been run in the past\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The Today programme: \"This will buy the Premier League three years of some peace.\"\n\nSky Sports and BT both said the deal was good news for its viewers.\n• None He talks to Sir Mo Farah about choosing a positive route in life", "Tensions in Jerusalem spiralled over the past month\n\nThe latest round of violence between Israelis and Palestinians is happening because the long and unresolved conflict between the two sides has once again been left to fester. It is an open wound in the heart of the Middle East and it is why violent face-to-face confrontations have escalated into rocket-firing, air strikes and death.\n\nJust because the conflict has fallen out of international headlines in recent years does not mean that it has ended. The issues do not change, neither does the hatred and bitterness that not years but generations of trouble and killing have engendered.\n\nFor more than a century, Jews and Arabs have struggled to be the masters of the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. Israel has inflicted a series of crushing defeats on the Palestinians since it became independent in 1948, but it still cannot win.\n\nWhile the conflict goes on neither side can be secure. The one certainty is that every few years, at least, there will be a serious and violent crisis. The pattern over the past 15 years or so has often involved confrontation across the wire separating Gaza from Israel.\n\nThis time there has been a reminder that events in Jerusalem and its holy sites have an unmatched capacity to ignite violence.\n\nThe city's sanctity for Christians, Jews and Muslims is not just a religious matter. The Jewish and Muslim holy places are national symbols too. Geographically they are, literally, a stone's throw apart. The Holy Sepulchre church is close by, on the other side of an Israeli checkpoint, venerated by Palestinian Christians.\n\nThe triggers included threats to evict Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah. It is a Palestinian neighbourhood outside the walls of the Old City, with land and property claimed by Jewish settler groups in the Israeli courts.\n\nThat was more than a dispute over a handful of homes. It comes after years of successive Israeli governments pursuing the strategic objective of making Jerusalem more Jewish. Big settlements for Jews were built on occupied land to ring the city, breaking international law. In recent years the government and settler groups have worked to settle Jewish Israelis in Palestinian areas near the walled Old City on a house-by-house basis.\n\nAdded to that in the past few weeks was heavy-handed Israeli policing of Palestinians during Ramadan, culminating with the use of CS gas and stun grenades inside al-Aqsa mosque, the holiest place for Muslims after Mecca and Medina.\n\nHamas took the unusual step for them of issuing an ultimatum to Israel to remove its forces from the al-Aqsa compound and from Sheikh Jarrah, and then fired rockets at Jerusalem.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted that \"the terrorist organisations in Gaza crossed a red line... Israel will respond with great force\".\n\nAnother combination of events could have ended up the same way. Violent events will happen again and again while the conflict is left unresolved.\n\nI was asked by a BBC presenter on Monday, as the crisis was escalating, when was the last time I found any sense of hope in Jerusalem that the two sides would find a way to co-exist in peace. I lived in Jerusalem from 1995 to 2000 and have been back since many, many times.\n\nFinding an answer was difficult. At the high point of the Oslo peace process in the 1990s there was a brief moment of hope but only residents of Jerusalem who are the wrong side of 40 years old or so will have much of a memory of how it felt.\n\nLeaders on both sides have been fighting their own domestic political battles, concentrating on safeguarding their own positions, when the biggest issue for any Palestinian or Israeli leader should be making peace. That challenge has not been addressed seriously for years.\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\n\nSome new ideas have emerged. Two respected think tanks, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the US/Middle East Project have just released a joint report arguing that the first priority should be equal rights and equal security for both Palestinians and Israelis.\n\nIt says the United States should support \"full equality and enfranchisement for all those residing in the territory under Israeli control; it will not endorse two separate and unequal systems\".\n\nNew thinking is good. This week though old realities, familiar rhetoric and the latest inevitable eruption of a century-long conflict are drowning everything else out.", "The government should still invest in projects such as HS2, despite the rise in home working, Sir John said.\n\nThe government needs to keep up spending on public transport, even though its usage has plummeted during the Covid pandemic, a government adviser has told the BBC.\n\nCommuter numbers could drop by a quarter because of home working, said Sir John Armitt, head of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).\n\nBut the government should \"hold their nerve\" in case of a bounce back.\n\nThis was important for sustainability reasons, he said.\n\nSir John told the BBC that the NIC's modelling indicated there could be a continuing hit to passenger numbers of 25% from fewer commuters returning to offices after the pandemic.\n\n\"If you want to avoid congestion in the future, if you want to stick to your zero carbon, then you need to get people back on public transport.\n\n\"Therefore for the government, it's going to be a case of continuing to ensure that public transport is available, whether it's the trains or whether it's the buses, so that people can make use of it as and when they feel relaxed to do so,\" Sir John told the BBC.\n\nHe said despite their modelling, the government should \"hold their nerve\" and wait to see actual data on the return to work, and give people the opportunity to make choices over the next two or three years.\n\nAssuming changes that could materialise in the coming months were permanent, they could damage city centres, which have driven economic activity.\n\nHe said that the rise of home working and Zoom meetings did not alter the benefits of investing in high-speed rail lines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At 170m long, \"Florence\" is the largest ever tunnelling machine to be used on a UK rail project\n\nHistoric underinvestment in rail capacity remained the fundamental reason for HS2, Sir John said.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government has underpinned practically the entire rail system.\n\nThe latest figures showed there were fewer than a third of the normal level of rail journeys in the last quarter of last year.\n\nSir John also said that city centres would change as a result of new ways of working, and that \"shops and offices could be replaced to a degree by housing\" and that \"could be really beneficial\".\n\nLast week, 43 out of 50 big UK employers questioned by the BBC said they did not plan to bring staff back to the office full-time.\n\nThey said they would embrace a mix of home and office working, with staff encouraged to work from home two to three days a week.\n\nIn a report, the NIC acknowledged that the \"radical and rapid\" rise in working from home during the Covid pandemic could lead to a permanent shift to less commuting.\n\nThe NIC found that almost a third of UK workers intended to work from home more often after the pandemic than they had before.\n\nAlmost half of UK employees were doing some work from home in April 2020, while in March 2021, almost a third of employees were working from home exclusively and 12% occasionally, it said.\n\nWorkers might also seek to relocate to more suburban and rural areas, but cities remained attractive and there might not be enough suburban and rural houses to cope with demand if people wished to relocate, it added.\n\nHome-working opportunities tended to be limited to certain types of occupations, such as those that needed higher levels of qualifications, the NIC said.\n\nThis change in working patterns \"greatly reduced workers' footfall in business and commercial districts in city centres\".\n\nIn the first lockdown in March 2020, public transport use dropped by between 80% and 95%, depending on the type of transport.\n\nCycling boomed in the first lockdown, but then its uptake levelled off, while car use \"recovered almost fully\" during periods with reduced restrictions.\n\nHowever, there is no evidence of increased car ownership, \"which could indicate that people are not yet making decisions about long-term preferences\", the NIC added.", "A major trial to detect one of the most elusive and deadly cancers - ovarian - has failed to save lives, after two decades of work.\n\nThe researchers, at University College London, said the results were a disappointment - and thanked the 200,000 people who participated.\n\nThe trial had looked promising, with annual blood tests detecting cases of ovarian cancer earlier.\n\nBut routine screening for the cancer is now a distant prospect.\n\nOvarian cancer is tricky to diagnose because the symptoms are easily mistaken for less serious health problems.\n\n\"Some women are diagnosed so late they are too sick to start treatment,\" the trial's lead investigator, Prof Usha Menon, said.\n\nAnd two out of every three patients die within a decade of diagnosis.\n\nThe UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening - the largest in the world - tracked levels of CA125, a chemical released by ovarian tumours, in the blood and sent participants in whom they were rising for an ultrasound scan.\n\nBut the final results, published in the Lancet medical journal, showed the screening had failed to save lives.\n\nProf Menon told BBC News: \"I was hoping there'd be something in this - it is disappointing news.\n\n\"It is about not giving up at this point - we have suffered a setback and need to get up and march forward again.\"\n\nThere is some evidence the cases detected earlier than usual were still highly aggressive and hard to treat.\n\nAnd the researchers say they may need to find cancers even earlier and in even more women to affect survival rates.\n\nScientists hoping to detect ovarian cancer early are now looking at other chemicals in the blood, fragments of DNA released by tumours and exosomes - microscopic fatty spheres break off cancerous cells.\n\nBut these would have to go through the same long-term, large-scale trials.\n\n\"Realistically, this means we have to reluctantly accept that population screening for ovarian cancer is more than a decade away,\" Prof Ian Jacobs, from the University of New South Wales, said.\n\n\"This is deeply disappointing and frustrating given the hope of all involved that we would save the lives of thousands of women.\"\n\nAbout 4,000 people die from ovarian cancer every year in the UK alone.\n\nCancer Research UK chief executive Michelle Mitchell said people needed to be more aware of the symptoms.\n\n\"Symptoms of ovarian cancer can be quite vague [so] whether it's needing to go to the toilet more often, pain, bloating or something else, raise it with your GP,\" she said.\n\n\"In most cases it won't be cancer - but it's best to get it checked out.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a woman who said she has been racially abused several times over the years wants authorities to take the issue more seriously.\n\nTattiana Alfaia said police were slow to respond when her daughter Gabriela Tavares, 19, complained after being abused in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it regretted it had been unable to respond within its 48-hour target time due to high demand.\n\nIt said hate crime was taken seriously and inquiries in the case were ongoing.\n\nMs Tavares said she was left \"in a complete mess\" when an argument with another customer at the town's Greenfield Inn led to a racist slur being used against her over the May bank holiday weekend.\n\nThe pub has declined to comment.\n\nGabriela Tavares said she was racially abused when she was aged 16\n\n\"I'm upset but I'm also angry,\" said Ms Tavares.\n\nShe said it was the latest in a number of incidents that have left her feeling deflated and wanting to move away from the area where she has grown up.\n\nMs Tavares is studying hairdressing and hopes to carry on her studies in Birmingham later this year.\n\n\"There's no excuse for making fun of someone's skin colour,\" she said.\n\n\"It makes me feel like I'm not as good as the other person.\n\n\"I can't help the colour of my skin. It makes me feel deflated, like I don't want to be here. I just want to move away.\"\n\nThree years ago, a 16-year-old Ms Tavares and her younger sister were in a park when two boys started making fun of her.\n\nShe said one boy was \"calling me a monkey, throwing peanuts at me, calling me the n-word\".\n\n\"My sister had never experienced anything like that - she was really upset,\" Ms Tavares said.\n\nMs Alfaia said both the park and pub incidents had been reported to police and an officer from Dyfed-Powys Police contacted them more than a week after the latest incident.\n\nGabriela Tavares and her mother Tattiana Alfaia have reported incidents to police\n\n\"I would like the police to take this more seriously,\" she said.\n\n\"I'd like these people to be told it's not acceptable. I'd like to see more action - people apologising to Gabby.\n\n\"If you call someone the n-word and nothing happens to you, you're just going to carry on saying it.\"\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it was alerted to the complaint on 2 May and a hate crime support officer made contact on 6 May.\n\nA spokesman said officers from the neighbourhood policing team attended the venue to begin inquiries last week and investigations were continuing.\n\nMs Tavares was contacted again on 10 May with an inspector also making contact the following day to \"discuss her concerns and apologise for the delay in the initial contact\", the force added.\n\nOn Wednesday, the police and crime commissioner for the area defended the force after inspectors found it had documented just 87.6% of reported crime.\n\nMs Tavares said she thought there was a complacency in her local community about racism.\n\n\"It's more common than you think,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC Action Line has details of organisations that offer information and support in connection with racism and racist hate crime.", "Kate Hollern stepped down from her role as shadow minister for local government on Wednesday\n\nA Labour shadow minister has resigned her post after claims she tried to interfere in a sexual harassment case.\n\nKate Hollern has been accused of trying to \"scare\" away Tory MP Andrew Bridgen from helping the complainant.\n\nFormer Labour MP Mike Hill denies allegations of sexually harassing and bullying a female parliamentary worker.\n\nAt a tribunal into the case, Mr Bridgen said Ms Hollern told him there were rumours he was having an affair with the woman.\n\nHe claimed she added: \"If I were you I would keep away from her, because you have a wife and baby and you would not want to lose them if it got in the papers.\"\n\nA Labour spokesman confirmed Ms Hollern had resigned as the shadow minister for local government.\n\nIn a statement, she apologised for her \"error in judgement\", saying it was \"never my intention to undermine the support the complainant was receiving, which I was unaware of at the time\".\n\nIn response, Mr Bridgen said Ms Hollern \"really should have apologised to the victim\".\n\nThe Central London Employment Tribunal is currently hearing evidence into accusations made by a woman known only as Ms A against Mr Hill - who was the MP for Hartlepool.\n\nShe has accused him of carrying out a campaign of sexual harassment and bullying against her over a 16-month period while he was in office.\n\nThe 58-year-old resigned as an MP in March - sparking last week's by-election in the seat - but he has denied the allegations.\n\nFormer Labour MP Mike Hill has denied allegations of sexual harassment and bullying\n\nDuring Wednesday's hearing, Mr Bridgen - the MP for North West Leicestershire - said Ms A had confided in him, telling him she was allegedly being \"sexually harassed and sexually assaulted\".\n\nIn written evidence also submitted to the tribunal, he said he had advised Ms A to seek legal advice and that he approached the Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, to ask for advice too.\n\nBut later, he said Ms Hollern - the MP for Blackburn - had approached him while he sat on a terrace outside Parliament.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Bridgen wrote: \"Kate Hollern MP said 'everyone is saying in the Labour Party that you are having an affair with [Ms A] and if I were you I would keep away from her, because you have a wife and baby and you would not want to lose them if it got in the papers.'\n\n\"I told Kate Hollern MP 'this is rubbish.' In truth I was shocked, as Ms A is only a friend who asked me for some help and I regarded Kate Hollern MP's remarks as malicious and designed to scare me away from offering Ms A any help or support.\"\n\nAsked about it at Wednesday's hearing, Mr Bridgen said he believed she made the comments \"\"to isolate the applicant [Ms A] from any help and support\", which he thought was \"pretty appalling\".\n\nHe added: \"It was quite malicious and I don't respond well to intimidation like that I can assure you.\"\n\nThe tribunal also saw written evidence from Ms A that she had been approached by Ms Hollern at a later date, and Ms A confided in the Labour MP.\n\nMs A said the MP advised her to go on sick leave, adding: \"Ms Hollern advised me to save as much money as possible and in terms of the sexual harassment she said that many people in Parliament had put in complaints in the past of sexual harassment and nothing was ever done about it, which deterred me from seeking any further advice on this at that time.\"\n\nAndrew Bridgen told a tribunal Ms A had confided in him about the allegations\n\nMs Hollern put out a statement on Wednesday in response to the allegations made at the tribunal.\n\nShe said: \"I am absolutely clear that any complaint of sexual harassment should be treated extremely seriously and had this been raised with me I would have taken the necessary action.\n\n\"It was never my intention to undermine the support the complainant was receiving, which I was unaware of at the time.\n\n\"If that is what Mr Bridgen was led to believe, I apologise for my error in judgement in having the conversation.\"\n\nAsked for a response to the apology on Wednesday, Mr Bridgen said: \"Kate Hollern resigned at 18:30 today and issued an apology to me through the Guardian newspaper.\n\n\"Ms Hollern really should have apologised to the victim Ms A.\"", "It takes two or three weeks after infection or vaccination for the body to make enough antibodies to fight infection\n\nNearly two thirds of people in Wales are estimated to have antibodies to help protect them against Covid-19.\n\nThe latest survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which took blood samples from nearly 1,000 people in Wales, estimated that 63.2% have antibodies present.\n\nBut this rises for older age groups up to an estimated 90% of those over 80.\n\nPresence of antibodies suggest people have either had the virus already or, in most cases, had a vaccine.\n\nFor the youngest age groups, where the vaccine roll-out has only recently started in Wales, 38% of 16 to 24-year-olds are estimated to have antibodies.\n\nThis then rises to 47.% of those aged between 35 to 49.\n\nBut the presence of antibodies is really noticeable for those aged 50 and above, where take-up of first doses of vaccine in Wales - according to Public Health Wales figures - is currently between 87 and 96%.\n\nThe proportion who were found to have antibodies to protect against Covid was 81.7% of those in their 50s, at least 81% for those in their 60s rising to 90.4% of those aged 80 and above.\n\nThe ONS survey has also modelled for individual ages - so estimates 20.4% of 16-year-olds and 39.4% of 25-year-olds have antibodies.\n\nIt also shows 66.4% of women have antibodies, compared to 59.7% of men. This gender gap is widest in the youngest age groups.\n\nAntibodies are a key part of our immune defences and stop the virus from getting inside the body's cells.\n\nHaving antibodies can help stop people being infected again although it's not yet known if it affects the chance of getting Covid again. Once infected or vaccinated, antibodies stay in the blood at low levels and can decline over time.\n\nWe can see in the survey too how antibody positivity can fall in age groups between first and second doses.\n\nOfficial statisticians said that across all UK nations, there was a clear pattern between vaccination and testing positive for Covid antibodies \"but the detection of antibodies alone is not a precise measure of the immunity protection given by vaccination\".\n\nThe survey does not include residents of care homes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People aged 38 and 39 are now being invited to receive vaccines across most of the UK\n\nA council in Lancashire has clarified its statement that Covid vaccines would be offered to all over-18s due to concerns about the Indian variant.\n\nBlackburn with Darwen Council said jabs would be offered only to over-18s with health conditions, in line with government guidance.\n\nA spokeswoman had earlier said all over-18s could book vaccines.\n\nThe council has now said additional clinics will be opening to help offer more jabs to those eligible.\n\nIt said the push would begin next week and go hand-in-hand with a programme of surge testing in the area.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Contrary to earlier social media and news reporting, vaccines at the clinics will not be widely available to over-18s.\n\n\"They will be available within current government guidance, which is currently anyone over the age of 38, anyone over 18 with an underlying health condition or who lives with someone who has lowered immunity, health and social care staff and carers.\"\n\nThe council had earlier provided a statement saying: \"The council and NHS partners have secured extra doses of the Covid-19 vaccine that will be made available to anyone in Blackburn with Darwen aged over 18 from next week.\"\n\nIn a joint statement, council leader Mohammed Khan, chief executive Denise Park, and director of public health Professor Dominic Harrison said: \"While the Prime Minister announced this week that we can progress to step three of the government's road map as planned next week, we need everyone in Blackburn with Darwen to be extra vigilant and proceed with caution.\n\n\"The variant first identified in India is more transmissible than other variants, which means it is easily passed on from one person to another.\"\n\nBlackburn has been one of the hardest-hit areas of England by Covid\n\nThe development comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out a return to local lockdowns in future.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to a primary school earlier, Mr Johnson said: \"There are a range of things that we could do. We want to make sure we grip it.\n\n\"Obviously there's surge testing, surge tracing, making sure that whenever you have a case, you check everybody who's been in contact with that person.\n\n\"But if we do have to do other things, then of course, I think the public would want us at this stage to rule nothing out.\"\n\nThe recent rise in cases in Blackburn has been confirmed to be linked \"in part\" to the new Indian variant.\n\nIt joins Bolton and Sefton in the North West as well as parts of London in seeing a spread of the newest variant of concern.\n\nIn the latest weekly figures, the town recorded the third highest infection rate in England, with an 89% jump in cases compared to the previous week.\n\nAs with other areas, mass testing is due to be deployed in hotspots, and there are early indications health teams will be stepping up the vaccination rollout.\n\nHowever, it's worth noting that although the new variant is thought to spread as easily as previous ones, there's no evidence to suggest it causes more serious illness.\n\nHospital admissions do not seem to have increased in line with cases, and the area hasn't seen a death with coronavirus for the past six weeks.\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\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.", "Jill Mortimer was elected as MP in Hartlepool with a majority of nearly 7,000 votes\n\nThe rickety folding tables looked like they could hardly cope with the weight of votes for the Tory candidate, and now elected MP, Jill Mortimer, in Hartlepool.\n\nThe result: more evidence for the Conservatives that they are digging further and further into territory where once they were total outsiders.\n\nThey didn't just win here, they romped home.\n\nHartlepool, as it's constituted now, has never had a Tory MP. It's also unusual that governments win by-elections - they are often moments when voters remind the administration of the day who is really in charge.\n\nBoris Johnson's party has also scooped up council seats in places like Harlow and Nuneaton, with swings - at what is still, remember, an early stage - that give the impression the Tories really are consolidating their dominance in England.\n\nDespite a bumpy few weeks, it's a reminder for the Tory party of Mr Johnson's record as an election winner.\n\nThe Hartlepool result is not a surprise for Labour. And it's important to remember that about 10,000 people voted for the Brexit Party in 2019 there, and at an early glance it seemed many of those voters switched across to the Tories.\n\nBut that doesn't mean it's not a setback. The result is more evidence of the long term shift in politics where areas that had chosen Labour for decades were less and less convinced.\n\nThat didn't start with Boris Johnson and didn't even start with Brexit.\n\nThe success of the vaccine programme has no doubt helped the 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\nBut Keir Starmer has questions to answer as well, even if results for his party in places like Trafford or Crawley come good in the long results process in the coming days. Why was a strong Remain candidate chosen for a seat were voters were massively in favour of leaving the EU?\n\nWould the party have been wiser to choose to hold the by-election on a different day to the Britain-wide ballots?\n\nBut beyond the local circumstances, even some of his allies would admit privately, the leadership has struggled to come up with a really compelling message that can grab voters, that magic ingredient that turns competent politicians into winners.\n\nThere'll be likely strife from the left in the next few days - several MPs, including Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon, front benchers under Jeremy Corbyn, already tweeting calls for a change in direction. One former member of the NEC this morning has even told me that the leader has to go.\n\nBut if anything, expect Starmer's team to make the case more aggressively that the party needs to change. Don't be surprised if there is a reshuffle, and a punchier approach to his critics on the left on the other side.\n\nRemember in all this however, we are in the early hours of a complicated and extensive set of elections. A lot still could change.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Billowing black smoke reached the top of the building\n\nA fire that badly damaged the middle floors of a 19-storey London tower block has left two men in hospital.\n\nFour children and 38 adults were evacuated from the building in Poplar, London Fire Brigade (LFB) said.\n\nMore than 120 firefighters spent about three hours tackling the blaze at the New Providence Wharf estate.\n\nAbout 20% of the façade of the affected section, Block D, features ACM PE cladding panels - found to be a key factor in the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nIn a statement, LFB said that parts of the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the east London tower block caught fire.\n\n\"Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus have carried out multiple rescues. Two men have been taken to hospital suffering [from the effects of] smoke inhalation.\"\n\nFirefighters were called at 08:55 BST and had managed to bring the fire under control by about 11:30\n\nKaren and John Archibald, who live with their daughter in an adjacent block, said they had been expecting scaffolders to arrive to remove cladding this week.\n\nResidents in Block D said they were alerted by a security guard shouting at them to get out.\n\nMatthew Robb saw thick smoke coming from the middle section as he left and said one woman was in tears having escaped from the building.\n\nHe said there has been frustration at delays in having the tower block's cladding replaced.\n\nThe cause of the fire is under investigation, LFB said\n\nThe development, owned by Irish company Ballymore, has 1,535 apartments across a number of buildings and houses a Radisson Blu hotel.\n\nWork to replace cladding is \"under way\" and the main contractor had been due to take possession of the site on Monday, according to Ballymore.\n\nAn email sent to residents by the company, which has been seen by the BBC, said everyone had been evacuated and there were no life-threatening injuries.\n\nKenneth Law, who lives in nearby Charrington Tower, described watching the blaze take hold.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I saw lots of black smoke coming from one of the apartments and then I saw flames and it quickly spread to the apartments above and debris started to fall out.\n\n\"Firefighters came quickly and then eventually managed to put out the fire.\n\n\"But it was really scary. I am on a resident WhatsApp group for the area and some people weren't even aware what was going on.\n\n\"Someone mentioned there was no fire alarm either, and many didn't know what was going on.\n\n\"Many residents have now been evacuated and there's a hotel next door so I believe they've been moved into there.\"\n\nThe building is part of the New Providence Wharf development\n\nMayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs expressed his concern about the fire and said he was speaking to council officers and LFB.\n\nHe said: \"I've been working with residents of this block for a long time to help them resolve fire safety issues. Their safety must come first.\"\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said they were called out at 09:05, and sent ambulance crews, clinical team managers, an emergency planning and resilience officer and hazardous area response teams.", "The inquiry was launched in 2018 into a payment made to Stormy Daniels (pictured)\n\nAn inquiry into whether Donald Trump violated campaign financial law during the 2016 election has been dropped.\n\nThe case stemmed from an allegation that Mr Trump directed his former lawyer to pay Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress, to stop her speaking out about an alleged affair.\n\nThe lawyer, Michael Cohen, was later jailed on multiple charges.\n\nThe regulatory agency tasked with enforcing campaign finance law announced the case closure Thursday.\n\nIt came after the Federal Election Commission (FEC), which is split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, became deadlocked on taking action at a closed-door meeting in February.\n\nThe vote came months after an internal report recommended that there was \"reason to believe\" Mr Trump's campaign had knowingly violated campaign finance law.\n\nTwo Republicans who voted to dismiss the case said they had concluded it would not be \"the best use of agency resources\" while two Democrat-aligned commissioners criticised their decision.\n\n\"To conclude that a payment, made 13 days before Election Day to hush up a suddenly newsworthy 10-year-old story, was not campaign-related, without so much as conducting an investigation, defies reality,\" they wrote in a letter.\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\nCohen previously testified under oath that Mr Trump had directed him to make the payment of $130,000 (£100,000) just days before the election.\n\nMr Trump has acknowledged reimbursing the payment but denied the affair and any wrongdoing regarding campaign laws.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things Cohen said about Trump\n\n\"The hush money payment was done at the direction of and for the benefit of Donald J. Trump,\" Cohen said in a statement to The New York Times, responding to the case dismissal.\n\n\"Like me, Trump should have been found guilty. How the FEC committee could rule any other way is confounding.\"\n\nIn a statement issued through his website, Mr Trump thanked the commission for dropping what he described as a \"phony case against me...built on lies from Michael Cohen, a corrupt and convicted lawyer\".\n\nCohen, who once said he would take a bullet for Mr Trump, was given a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to multiple offences in 2018, including violating campaign finance laws and lying to Congress.\n\nLegal wrangling over the allegations involving Ms Daniels, who alleges she had sex with Mr Trump in 2006, were ongoing throughout the Trump presidency.", "Jarryd Hayne was found guilty in March of two sexual assault charges\n\nFormer Australian Rugby League player Jarryd Hayne has been jailed for five years and nine months for sexually assaulting a woman in 2018.\n\nHayne, 33, was found guilty in March of attacking the 26-year-old woman in her house.\n\nHe must serve at least three years and eight months before being eligible for parole.\n\nThe woman told the court in Newcastle, north of Sydney, she had been damaged by the attack \"but I'm still standing\".\n\n\"I felt dirty and violated. He made me feel like an object and was looking straight through me,\" she said in a victim impact statement on Thursday.\n\nIn previous hearings, prosecutors said Hayne had assaulted the woman in her bedroom, causing two injuries. The victim's mother was also at the Newcastle home at the time and Hayne left afterwards in a taxi, the court heard.\n\nOn Friday Hayne launched an appeal against his conviction.\n\nThe former National Rugby League (NRL) player insisted that all sexual activity had been consensual and that the injuries had been accidental.\n\nBut at Thursday's sentencing hearing, District Court Judge Helen Syme said Hayne had been \"fully aware that the victim was not consenting and went ahead anyway\".\n\n\"The reliability and honesty of the victim's evidence was tested at length and in my view, her reliability was not in doubt. She said no several times,\" the judge said, quoted by broadcaster ABC.\n\nHayne's sentence means he must serve at least three years and eight months before being eligible for parole.\n\nHe was one of the NRL's most high-profile athletes and twice won the player of the year award. He played 11 Tests for Australia, helping them to win the 2013 World Cup.\n\nHayne also had a brief career playing in the NFL in the US with the San Francisco 49ers, where he also faced sexual assault accusations.\n\nIn 2019, he settled a civil case concerning sexual assault allegations from a woman in California in 2015. Hayne strongly denied those allegations and privately settled the matter.\n\nHis case in Australia has been closely watched in recent months amid an intensifying national debate about rape and sexual misconduct.\n\nIn March thousands of people took part in marches across the country, protesting against the sexual abuse and harassment of women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Julia James's body was found near her home in Snowdown\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of community officer Julia James are \"not 100 per cent sure\" what murder weapon was used, police said.\n\nKent Police's chief constable Alan Pughsley also said detectives still had no motive or suspect in the case.\n\nMs James, 53, was found on 27 April near woodland in Snowdown, Kent, having suffered serious head injuries.\n\nMr Pughsley said other forces were helping in the inquiry, and he appealed to the killer to give themselves up.\n\nHe said detectives were not able to say if the attacker was a man or a woman.\n\nPolice would like to speak to anybody who was in the area pictured on 27 April\n\nMs James left her home in The Crescent just after 15:00 BST on 27 April to take her dog for a walk in nearby woodland.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Kent, Mr Pughsley said: \"At this time we are not 100 per cent sure with regard to what weapon was used to kill Julia.\n\n\"Pretty much every chief constable in the land is offering whatever assistance they can to help find the murderer.\n\n\"We have lots of lines of inquiries, lots to think about, and lots of work to do.\n\n\"We need just to get that little bit of luck, little bit of public information and little bit of forensic examination to come back to identify this individual, so we can capture him or her - we don't even know that yet.\"\n\nJulia James' dog Toby was found next to her body, police said\n\nA post-mortem examination found Ms James died from blunt force trauma and an inquest has been opened and adjourned.\n\nA £10,000 reward has been offered for information that leads to a conviction in the case.\n\nMr Pughsley said he was convinced information from the public, together with forensic evidence would help solve the murder.\n\nSpeaking directly to the killer, he said; \"They know their time will come, we will not rest in anyway shape or form.\n\n\"I'm absolutely certain, [we will] find you, and I hope that is in the very near future.\n\n\"You will never ever get away with this. You have to keep looking over your shoulder and at some stage we will be there to get you.\"\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 state of emergency will now remain in place until the end of the month\n\nA state of emergency has been extended in several regions of Japan as Covid-19 cases surge, less than three months before the Tokyo Olympics.\n\nRestrictions in Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo and Kyoto had been due to end on 11 May, but will now remain in place until the end of the month.\n\nPrime Minister Yoshihide Suga also said they had added Aichi and Fukuoka to the regions under a state of emergency.\n\nThe move casts more doubt on whether the Olympics will go ahead as planned.\n\nUnder the state of emergency, bars and restaurants have had to shut or stop serving alcohol, while cinemas and karaoke parlours have been closed.\n\nMr Suga said the government had hoped that a \"short and powerful\" state of emergency would contain the country's fourth wave of the virus.\n\nBut, he said, the number of new cases was still \"at a high level in major cities\", and \"hospitals continue to be overwhelmed\" in some areas.\n\nPrime Minister Yoshihide Suga said they had hoped a \"short and powerful\" state of emergency would stem the spread of the virus\n\nOsaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura also warned that his region's medical system was \"reaching breaking point\".\n\nIn one nursing home in Osaka 61 residents were infected with the virus, and 14 died while waiting to receive hospital treatment, broadcaster NHK reported.\n\nEarlier on Friday Yasutoshi Nishimura, the economy minister who is also in charge of Covid-19 measures, said variant strains of the virus were spreading rapidly.\n\nHowever, local media report that some rules will still be eased, such as allowing a limited number of fans back into sports stadiums, despite other restrictions being extended.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin in Tokyo on 23 July. They were postponed from 2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nMore than 10,000 athletes from 200 countries and regions are due to take part.\n\nJapan's Games president Seiko Hashimoto said they would welcome a visit by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach this month, but that it would be very difficult to organise with the restrictions now having been extended.", "Cities are increasingly relying on sensors and other network-connected devices which feed data into a central system\n\nSmart cities will be a target for hackers, and councils need to be prepared, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned.\n\nSensors and internet-connected devices may improve urban services, but could also be used by hackers and foreign states to disrupt or spy.\n\nThe NCSC - an arm of GCHQ - has published guidance for local authorities on how to secure what they call \"connected places\".\n\nThey warn that critical public services will need to be protected from disruption.\n\nSensitive data also needs to be secured from being stolen in large volumes.\n\nSmart cities and connected rural environments promise a host of benefits. Sensors will monitor pollution or offer real-time information on parking. Cameras will track congestion and manage traffic flow.\n\nThis should help improve efficiency, and help local authorities become more sustainable.\n\nBut the growing dependency on technology also brings risks. The NCSC is warning of possible \"destructive impacts\" if systems were switched off which, in some cases, could even \"endanger\" residents.\n\nAnother concern is that the large volumes of data about people that are collected could erode privacy by allowing citizens to be tracked even more, or could be stolen by criminals or hostile states.\n\nWith cars more connected to each other and to traffic infrastructure, there is a danger of hackers causing gridlock\n\nThe NCSC's technical director, Dr Ian Levy, claims that one of the first Hollywood depictions of a cyber-attack was against critical infrastructure.\n\nHe points not to a recent James Bond film but the 1969 classic 'The Italian Job' in which a computer professor (played by Benny Hill) switches magnetic storage tapes running traffic in the Italian city of Turin, in order to create gridlock which allows a haul of gold to be stolen.\n\n\"A similar 'gridlock' attack on a 21st century city would have catastrophic impacts on the people who live and work there, and criminals wouldn't likely need physical access to the traffic control system to do it,\" Dr Levy warns in a blog.\n\n\"These connected physical environments are just emerging in the UK, so now is the time to make sure we're designing and building them properly,\" Dr Levy writes.\n\nThe new principles advise local authorities on how to design and manage their systems to protect data and ensure they are resilient.\n\nThey do not explicitly name any countries or groups likely to carry out an attack. But they do warn about the risks in the context of suppliers of the technology.\n\nChina has been at the leading edge of developing smart cities technology, deploying it within its own borders, but also exporting equipment to other countries.\n\n\"Some countries seek to obtain sensitive commercial and personal data from overseas, including from the UK,\" the guidance warns.\n\n\"They may also seek the potential to cause disruption to overseas services.\n\n\"Suppliers that are part of corporate groups based in these countries may be subject to influence from those governments to access and exfiltrate data from UK-connected places, in support of those countries' security and intelligence services.\n\n\"Such suppliers may also be used as a vector for an attempt to take down an essential service,\" the guidance warns.\n\nThe head of GCHQ, Jeremy Fleming, highlighted the risks last month when he warned that the West faced a moment of reckoning when it came to China, and a battle over what values would be embedded in technology.\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,\" he told the BBC.", "The vaccination of younger adults in Moray is to be accelerated because of the coronavirus surge in the area.\n\nNHS Grampian has announced appointments will start being given from Saturday to those between 18 and 39 who have not already been vaccinated.\n\nHealth officials are urging everyone in Moray to take up asymptomatic testing in a bid to combat the recent spread.\n\nThey are also considering the introduction of door-to-door testing in Elgin.\n\nMoray is experiencing what is being described as \"uncontrolled, sustained community transmission\" of Covid-19.\n\nThe region currently has an infection rate of more than 81 cases per 100,000 - four times the Scotland-wide level.\n\nKatrina Morrison, the clinical lead nurse for the vaccination programme, said additional stocks and the sustained community transmission in Moray had made the decision \"straightforward\".\n\nShe said: \"It needs to happen quickly and our staff have been mobilised to speed up the process.\n\n\"During the first few days, we will phone to offer appointments before moving to letter appointments from the middle of next week. You may not recognise the number or the number may be withheld. Check your voicemails regularly.\n\n\"Working together to reduce the spread in Moray will reduce the risk of further spread to Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC North East Scot This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCovid hospital admissions in NHS Grampian have been mainly rising since mid-April.\n\nAll of Scotland is due to move to level two on 17 May, but it has been warned that Moray could remain in level three if cases do not begin to go down.\n\nThe situation at Elgin Academy is being assessed\n\nHealth officials have pinpointed Elgin as the \"epicentre\" of the outbreak, but rising levels are also being seen in Lossiemouth, Buckie and Keith.\n\nOn Wednesday, NHS Grampian announced that 48 Covid cases were being linked to Elgin Academy, but parents were assured that it was still safe to send their children there.\n\nA mobile testing unit has now arrived in Elgin as part of the effort to tackle the escalating cases.\n\nThe unit is initially targeting pupils and teachers at Elgin Academy during school hours, and will be used for members of the wider public during the weekend.", "Most adults under the age of 40 will be given an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine due to a link with rare blood clots.\n\nThe UK's medicines safety regulator says there have been 242 clotting cases and 49 deaths, with 28.5 million doses of the vaccine administered.\n\nBut the risk is slightly higher in younger age groups.\n\nLow levels of coronavirus cases and the availability of alternative vaccines have also informed the decision.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said they were putting \"a high priority on safety\" and he expected the move would \"serve to boost confidence\" in the vaccination programme.\n\nImmunisation is estimated to have already saved 10,000 lives in the UK.\n\nHe added: \"As Covid-19 rates continue to come under control, we are advising that adults aged 18- 39 years with no underlying health conditions are offered an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, if available, and if it does not cause delays in having the vaccine.\"\n\nIt comes as two-thirds of over-18s in the UK have now had a first dose - about 35 million people - and 31.8% or nearly 16.8 million have had both doses, according to the latest government figures.\n\nA further 15 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test were reported on Friday, and there were 2,490 new confirmed cases.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been linked to distinctive, but rare, blood clots that also appear with low levels of platelets (which help clots form) in the blood.\n\nThe risk of a clot is roughly one in 100,000 for people in their 40s, but rises to one in 60,000 for people in their 30s. Two in a million people in their 40s died rising to four per million people in their 30s.\n\nAt the same time, the risks of developing severe Covid, if you catch the virus, fall in younger age groups.\n\nDr June Raine, the chief executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), said the benefits continued to outweigh the risks for the \"vast majority of people\".\n\nShe added: \"The balance of benefits and risks is very favourable for older people, but is more finely balanced for younger people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens if I don't get the Covid vaccine? Laura Foster explains\n\nThe supply of alternative vaccines, including Pfizer and Moderna, has made the decision possible.\n\nThe vaccination programme has also been unexpectedly successful in reducing the spread of the virus. This has changed projections for a \"third wave\" later in the year meaning the risk to younger adults is less than previously anticipated.\n\nMost clots were after the first dose and people who have already had one dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca are advised to still have the second.\n\nHowever, some under 40s will still be offered the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as it is easier to both transport and store, making it more practical than the alternatives.\n\nAll adults are still expected to be offered their first dose of a vaccine by the end of July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rocket was launched to carry a Chinese space station section into orbit\n\nDebris from a Chinese rocket is expected to fall back to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry this weekend.\n\nThe main segment from the Long March-5b vehicle was used to launch the first module of China's new space station last month.\n\nAt 18 tonnes it is one of the largest items in decades to have an undirected dive into the atmosphere.\n\nThe US on Thursday said it was watching the path of the object but currently had no plans to shoot it down.\n\n\"We're hopeful that it will land in a place where it won't harm anyone,\" US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. \"Hopefully in the ocean, or someplace like that.\"\n\nVarious space debris modelling experts are pointing to late Saturday or early Sunday (GMT) as the likely moment of re-entry. However, such projections are always highly uncertain.\n\nOriginally injected into an elliptical orbit approximately 160km by 375km above Earth's surface on 29 April, the Long March-5b core stage has been losing height ever since.\n\nJust how quickly the core's orbit will continue to decay will depend on the density of air it encounters at altitude and the amount of drag this produces. These details are poorly known.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Aerospace Corporation This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Aerospace Corporation\n\nMost of the vehicle should burn up when it makes its final plunge through the atmosphere, although there is always the possibility that metals with high melting points, and other resistant materials, could survive to the surface.\n\nWhen a similar core stage returned to Earth a year ago, piping assumed to be from the rocket was identified on the ground in Ivory Coast, Africa.\n\nThe chances of anyone actually being hit by a piece of space junk are very small, not least because so much of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, and because that part which is land includes huge areas that are uninhabited.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Space-Track This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 zone of potential fall in this case is restricted still further by the trajectory of the rocket stage. It's moving on an inclination to the equator of about 41.5 degrees. This means it's possible already to exclude that any debris could fall further north than approximately 41.5 degrees North latitude and further south than 41.5 degrees South latitude.\n\nChina has bridled at the suggestion that it has been negligent in allowing the uncontrolled return of so large an object. Commentary in the country's media has described Western reports about the potential hazards involved as \"hype\" and predicted the debris will likely fall somewhere in international waters.\n\nThe Global Times quoted aerospace expert Song Zhongping who added that China's space monitoring network would keep a close watch and take necessary measures should damage occur.\n\nBut the respected cataloguer of space activity, Jonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, US, said the situation did reflect poorly on China.\n\n\"It is indeed seen as negligence,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"This is the second launch of this rocket; the debris in Ivory Coast last year was from the previous launch, i.e. a basically identical rocket.\n\n\"These two incidents [the one now and the Ivory Coast one] are the two largest objects deliberately left to re-enter uncontrolled since Skylab in 1979.\"\n\nFragments of the US space station Skylab scattered across Western Australia in 1979, attracting worldwide attention.\n\nHugh Lewis, who models space debris at Southampton University, UK, noted that more than 60 years of spaceflight had left a large legacy of junk in orbit. The responsibility for this litter rests on several countries, but principally Russia and the US.\n\n\"It's worth remembering that there are approximately 900 orbital rocket stages in low-Earth orbit, left behind by nearly every launch-capable nation and with a combined mass orders of magnitude greater than the one expected to re-enter the atmosphere this [weekend],\" Dr Lewis posted on Twitter.\n\nModern practice now calls for rocket stages to be de-orbited as soon as possible after their mission. In the case of large core segments, these would normally come straight back, within one orbit, falling into the ocean or on land (the US company SpaceX now propulsively lands its core stages so they can be used again).\n\nFor upper-stages that go into an orbit and may travel around the globe several times as they precisely position a payload, the preference is to include a re-ignitable engine that can steer the stage into a return at the earliest opportunity.\n\nUsually, this would be over an ocean - potentially in the furthest place from land in the South Pacific, between Australia, New Zealand and South America.\n\nOver an area of approximately 1,500 sq km (580 sq miles) this region is a popular graveyard of rocket elements and defunct satellites, where the remains of around 260 missions are thought to be scattered on the ocean floor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None China launches first module of new space station", "The single-use carrier bag charge will rise from 5p to 10p and be extended to all businesses in England from 21 May.\n\nThe government said all stores, including corner shops, will now have to apply the charge from that date.\n\nThe 5p levy on plastic bags was introduced in England in 2015. Since then their use has fallen by over 95%.\n\nThe average person in England now buys just four single-use carrier bags a year from the main supermarkets, compared with 140 in 2014.\n\n\"The introduction of the 5p charge has been a phenomenal success,\" said Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.\n\nBy extending the charge to all retailers, the government hopes the use of single-use carrier bags will fall by 70-80% in small and medium-sized businesses.\n\n\"We know we must go further to protect our natural environment and oceans, which is why we are now extending this charge to all businesses,\" said Ms Pow.\n\n\"Over the next couple of weeks I urge all retailers of all sizes to make sure they are ready for the changes, as we work together to build back greener and strengthen our world-leading action to combat the scourge of plastic waste.\"\n\nMorrisons has switched from offering plastic \"bags for life to paper bags\n\nAssociation of Convenience Stores chief executive, James Lowman, said: \"We strongly welcome the inclusion of local shops and other small businesses into the successful plastic bag charging scheme, which not only helps the environment, but is also a great way for retailers to raise money for local and national charities.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said it was trialling the removal of single-use bags from its Cheltenham, Kingston and Leeds stores from 21 May.\n\nCustomers will be asked to bring their own bags or buy a reusable bag made from 100% recyclable material costing 50p for a medium size and 75p for a large size.\n\nMarija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability for the John Lewis Partnership, said: \"It has become the norm to take our own bags when we go food shopping but we have a different mindset when shopping for clothes, beauty and home products.\n\n\"We expect our customers will be supportive of this change and will be listening to their feedback.\"\n\n\"Plastic pollution is one of the most visible symptoms of the environmental crisis, damaging natural habitats and putting precious wildlife at risk,\" sasid Paula Chin, sustainable materials specialist at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).\n\n\"Measures to reduce plastics consumption need to go much further. The UK government must consider a complete ban on single-use bags and make sure this is not undermined by the sale of 'bags for life', which are currently cheaply available and all too often end up as single-use items.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How plastic bags were supposed to help the planet\n\nThe Co-op became the latest supermarket chain to say it will stop selling plastic \"bags for life\" last month.\n\nThe retailer, which has 2,600 shops, said many people only used the 10p bags once before throwing them away.\n\nThe Co-op said its move would take 29.5 million bags for life, or about 870 tonnes of plastic, out of circulation every year.\n\nEarlier last month Morrisons said it would switch from offering plastic \"bags for life\" to a paper alternative.\n\nIn recent years, all supermarkets have tried to cut plastics use.\n\nWaitrose is currently trialling the removal of its 10p bags for life from several of its stores.\n\nSainsbury's has said its bags for life cost 20p to encourage customers to re-use them and are made from 100% recycled plastic.\n\nTesco increased the price of its bags for life to 20p in September 2020 and doesn't sell single-use bags.", "As always, one of the biggest counts will be at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow - but it will be staggered over two days\n\nScots have cast their ballots in the Holyrood election, but don't need to stay up all night as Covid-19 restrictions have put paid to the usual overnight count. With votes to be tallied across Friday and Saturday, when will you know the result in your local area - and when will the overall winners be declared?\n\nCounting will kick off from 09:00 on Friday morning, with the Electoral Management Board projecting 48 of the 73 constituencies to be tallied that day.\n\nThe full lists can be found here, or you can look up your local results here:\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\nFriday's constituencies include both the most marginal and safest seats from 2016, and eight of the SNP's top 10 target seats.\n\nThese include the Labour defences of Dumbarton, Edinburgh Southern and East Lothian, none of which have a majority exceeding 3%, and the Conservative seats in Ayr, Edinburgh Central, Dumfriesshire and Eastwood.\n\nIf the SNP manage to pick off the lion's share of these seats, they will feel good about going into Saturday and winning a majority.\n\nAs always, one of the biggest counts will be at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow - but it will be staggered over two days\n\nThis will particularly be the case if they can gain ground without suffering defeats in any of their own more marginal seats - Angus North & Mearns, Moray and Perthshire North are those with single-digit majorities.\n\nThe reverse is also true of course - if the SNP struggle to gain many of these marginal seats or lose some of their own, the path to a majority narrows.\n\nBy the end of Friday, it should be fairly clear which way the wind is blowing - but there will still be plenty to play for on Saturday.\n\nIf all goes well on Friday, the remaining 25 constituencies will count on Saturday - with the most marginal contests being between the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nThe most marginal constituencies to count on Saturday are again SNP-Tory contests, with the SNP hoping to pick off Aberdeenshire West and Galloway&West Dumfries, both with majorities under 5%.\n\nIt is not yet clear how Covid-safe protocols will affect the speed of counting\n\nThere are a few chances for the Tories to fight back too, with the SNP defences of Perthshire South& Kinross-shire, Edinburgh Pentlands and Aberdeen South and North Kincardine all having single-digit majorities.\n\nOnce each region has declared all of its constituencies, we will also start to get results from the regional lists - which could be pivotal for the overall result, as well as questions over who claims second place and the fate of smaller parties.\n\nBefore we turn to the regional results, a quick note on how they are worked out.\n\nScotland is divided into eight electoral regions, with the 73 constituency seats scattered across them. Each region elects an extra seven MSPs from lists submitted by the parties - voted for via the peach ballot paper - giving a total of 129.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe idea of the list system is to make the outcome of the election more proportional.\n\nOnce the constituency results have been declared, you divide the number of list votes each party has won by the number of seats they have already won in that region, plus one. So if a party has won nine seats in an area already, their list vote tally is divided by 10 - making it 10 times harder for them to win a seat from the lists.\n\nThere has been particular focus on the list system in 2021 thanks to the emergence of some list-only parties which encourage tactical voting, leading to a debate over whether this is \"gaming the system\" or simply testing the limits of the rules.\n\nTimings for the counts remain very much up in the air, given we don't yet know how difficult it will prove to stack up ballots in line with Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nBut under current plans, with the exception of the big centres of Glasgow and Edinburgh, most of the count centres only have one constituency to finish off on the Saturday.\n\nThis means they could well finish up quickly - and indeed simultaneously, if there are similar numbers of ballots to count in each constituency.\n\nWhich regions will declare first?\n\nIt is hard to say, but the Highlands and Islands - normally one of the last regions to come back in an overnight count due to the vast and varied geography of the area - only has one seat to count on Saturday.\n\nSimilarly there will only be one seat left to count from the West Scotland region - so it is possible these two will be able to declare their full regional lists first.\n\nOther regions have at least a couple of constituencies still to polish off before they can run the equations and calculate list seats. Mid Scotland and Fife could be next in line with three seats to count, all at separate locations.\n\nHowever, this is largely guesswork, and a lot will depend on how the Covid-safe procedures play out at count centres. There will be four constituencies counting at the Emirates Area in Glasgow on Saturday, and three at Ingliston for the Lothian region.\n\nSouth Scotland also has four counts still to run on Saturday, as does North East Scotland - with two of the latter at P&J Live in Aberdeen, which may delay matters from a logistical standpoint.", "Boris Johnson's had a good set of results - but are there problems ahead?\n\nThis isn't a general election, where everything can change, where voters' choices can shift the course of the whole UK in a moment of decision.\n\nBut the scale of these votes means our politicians are being given much more than a flavour of the public's opinions right now.\n\nIt shouldn't be forgotten that many contests are yet to conclude - hand sanitiser, screens and social distancing have slowed the pace.\n\nMuch may yet emerge, but there are some observations worth making.\n\nIn Westminster, Boris Johnson has been through a torrid few weeks. But much of the country has just shown again that he is a magnet for millions of voters.\n\nLove it, or loathe it, which other political leader can you imagine having the bottle to pose next to a giant inflatable blimp of themselves?\n\nAs his political opponents have found to their frustration in Westminster, the prime minister's prowess as a campaigner sucks oxygen from everyone else - and goodness knows it must have taken a lot of puff to blow up that inflatable.\n\nSir Keir Starmer thought things could only get better after Labour's 2019 general election result\n\nIn contrast, Sir Keir Starmer has just enjoyed a few weeks of making the running in SW1. But much of the country has demonstrated once more that Labour turns swathes of voters away.\n\nCaution is still wise, hordes of results are yet to come, and for both of the big parties, and particularly the prime minister, the outcome of the Scottish results is possibly the start of a brand new nightmare.\n\nAs things stand, the chances of the SNP taking a majority all on its own are in the balance.\n\nWhatever the final details of the result, the situation is likely to be fraught - stand by for a battle of the mandates.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to strengthen the case for another independence referendum\n\nAnd all the parties have to grapple with the particularities of the electoral map. Whether it's the different scenario in Scotland, or contrasting results for Labour in Wales and England, or town and city, young and old, the jigsaw is becoming more, not less, complicated.\n\nFor the primary Westminster battle, however, it's clear the Tories have trampled further into areas where they used to be alien, more reward from a long-term strategy.\n\nLabour, even with its new leader who has been consistently at pains to show the party is different under his stewardship, has to grapple with a new horror - the thumping in 2019 under Jeremy Corbyn may not have been rock bottom.\n\nElections record only one moment in time - but these results shape the mood, the psychology of our political parties.\n\nFor the Tories, more than a decade in power already, they're defying gravity - these results argue for more of the same.\n\nFor Labour, the urge to change is more urgent - quite how is no easier to say.", "A coronavirus variant first identified in India is being investigated by scientists across the world\n\nThe Prime Minister has said the government needs to carefully handle outbreaks of the India variant of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nIt comes as Public Health England (PHE) said one version of it had been elevated to a \"variant of concern\".\n\nB.1.617.2 appears to be spreading more quickly than two other identified subtypes of the Indian variant.\n\nScientists believe it is at least as transmissible as the variant first detected in Kent last year.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government needs to think \"very carefully\" about the public health response.\n\n\"We're doing a huge amount, obviously, to make sure that when we do find outbreaks of the Indian variant that we do surge testing, that we do door-to-door testing,\" he said.\n\nPHE said there was currently \"insufficient evidence\" to indicate that any of the variants recently detected in India cause more severe disease or make current vaccines any less effective.\n\nScientists are now carrying out laboratory testing to better understand the impact of the mutations on the behaviour of the virus.\n\nViruses mutate all the time, producing different versions of themselves. Most of these mutations are insignificant - and some may even make the virus less dangerous - but others can make it more contagious and harder to vaccinate against.\n\nThe original India variant - officially known as B.1.617 - was first detected in October.\n\nThat version has now been re-characterised as three different subtypes, all with slightly different genetic mutations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nThe UK has seen a sharp increase in one type in particular, known as B.1.617.2, which now makes up the majority of all Indian variant cases and appears to be growing faster than other versions.\n\nCases have increased from 202 to 520 in the last week, with most detected in London and the North West of England.\n\nAlmost half were related to travel or contact with a traveller but there have been examples of community transmission linked to work and religious gatherings.\n\nIn one cluster at a care home, 14 elderly residents who had all been vaccinated, were infected with the variant, a source told the BBC. A number needed hospital treatment, but not for severe disease, and it is thought all have now recovered.\n\nAll current vaccines are thought to offer some degree of protection against variants but can never completely stop all infections, especially among vulnerable or elderly people.\n\nIt is tempting to conclude that because there is now evidence this variant is more infectious and because cases have risen rapidly in the UK, this marks the start of the rise of this Indian variant.\n\nBut there are some good reasons why we should not jump to that conclusion.\n\nThe rapid rise in cases is being linked to an increase in international travel from India ahead of the country being put on the \"red list\".\n\nThere are some early signs in the data, Public Health England sources say, that the increase may be coming to an end, meaning that it may reflect that rise in travel rather than significant community spread.\n\nTwo key factors are in our favour - the vaccines appear to work just as well against this variant as the dominant virus circulating in the UK (although uptake in the Indian community is a little lower) plus there are still significant social distancing restrictions in place that should help to limit spread.\n\nLots of testing and contact tracing in different areas are taking place - and some surge testing is expected to be announced later in areas where there is most concern.\n\nIt will be a couple of weeks before we know for sure. The message is clear - this needs to be taken seriously, but there is no need to panic.\n\nPHE said extra surge testing was now being put in place in affected areas along with more targeted contact tracing to try and stop the spread of the variant.\n\nAll individuals living in specific postcodes will be asked to get a PCR test, even if they don't have symptoms.\n\nEnhanced testing is already being rolled out in parts of Bolton which has seen an increase in cases of B.1.617.2 in the last week.\n\nAnyone living, working or studying in the Rumworth, Deane or Great Lever areas is strongly urged to visit a mobile testing unit, whether they have symptoms or not.\n\n\"The way to limit the spread of all variants is the same and although we are all enjoying slightly more freedom, the virus is still with us,\" said Dr Susan Hopkins, Covid-19 strategic response director at PHE.\n\n\"We are monitoring all of these variants extremely closely and have taken the decision to classify this as a variant of concern because the indications are that it is more transmissible.\"\n\nLaboratory work is needed to sequence individual Covid tests and identify specific variants, meaning the latest figures are likely to represent the situation about a week ago.\n\nFigures from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, which analyses positive swabs for different variants, also showed clusters of B.1.617.2 in places including Leicester, Bolton, Nottingham and Blackburn in the week to 24 April.\n\nIt comes as seven confirmed cases of the same variant have been detected in Northern Ireland - the first discovered in the region.\n\nIndia has said the B.1.617 variant may be linked to a deadly second coronavirus wave that has swept the country in recent weeks.\n\nThe country reported a record 412,000 cases in the space of 24 hours on Wednesday, and 3,980 deaths.\n\nThe surge in infections has already overwhelmed the healthcare system with hospital beds, oxygen and even crematorium space in short supply, while several states are under localised lockdowns and curfews.", "Labour MP Stella Creasy is currently pregnant with her second child\n\nPregnant women are struggling to get the coronavirus vaccine because clinics are unable to guarantee they will have the right type of jab available, Labour MP Stella Creasy has said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna jabs are preferable for pregnant women because there is more safety data available.\n\nBut the online booking system in England does not allow them to specify which vaccine they require.\n\nPregnant women are advised to speak to their GP instead of booking online.\n\nBut Ms Creasy, 44, said GPs do not always know when local vaccination centres will have specific types of the jab available.\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\nThe MP for Walthamstow, who is currently pregnant with her second child, said she had received five invitations to be vaccinated but she could not take them up because there is no system to specify she needs the Pfizer or Moderna jab.\n\n\"I don't think it's been made enough of a priority because there's a presumption it will become more of a priority as they move through the age groups, which is a misreading of the data about pregnancy,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"More women in this country are pregnant over the age of 40 than under 20 so there are quite a lot of us now who qualify.\n\n\"There are also pregnant women who have serious health conditions who still can't get a vaccine because of a logistics problem.\"\n\nMs Creasy is currently working with doctors in Walthamstow, north-east London, to arrange for pregnant women to receive leftover Pfizer vaccines.\n\nBut she said there should be a national system in place to allow people to specify if they need a particular type of vaccine when booking an appointment.\n\nGiuditta Fontana, 36, from Birmingham, has received a text inviting her to book her coronavirus vaccine but has been unable to do so yet.\n\nShe was told by her GP surgery that they were unable to book her in for a specific vaccine and was advised to call the 119 central booking service.\n\nBut she still encountered the same problem and was then told to visit her nearest vaccination centre to see what doses they had available.\n\nGiuditta tried a mass vaccination centre nearby but was told they did not have Moderna or Pfizer vaccines available.\n\nShe said many of her friends who are pregnant have had similar experiences - and even if they have booked an appointment they do not know which vaccine they will be offered.\n\nGiuditta is worried about catching Covid-19 in hospital\n\nAt 32 weeks pregnant Giuditta is now worried she will not be able to be vaccinated before she gives birth and is concerned about the risk of catching Covid-19 in hospital.\n\n\"In my case, I know that in six weeks' time, I'm going to be taken into hospital, and I'm going to have a booked C-section. And I'm going to have to spend two or three days there,\" she said.\n\n\"It would really make a huge difference if I was able to have at least the first dose of the vaccine before getting into hospital.\"\n\n\"The whole process is proving incredibly stressful, which is something that in theory, you shouldn't experience in pregnancy,\" she added.\n\nOn 16 April, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments, said pregnant women should get the coronavirus vaccine at the same time as the rest of the population, based on their age and any underlying health conditions.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest other vaccines are unsafe for pregnant women but more research is needed.\n\nReal-world data from the US shows around 90,000 pregnant women have been vaccinated, mainly with mRNA vaccines such as the Pfizer and Modern jabs, without any safety concerns being raised.\n\nBased on this data, the JCVI says it is preferable for pregnant women in the UK to be offered the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines where available.\n\nThey are also encouraged to discuss the risks and benefits of the vaccines with their doctor before making the appointment.\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said: \"Following the updated guidance set out by the JCVI, the NHS immediately communicated the advice to GPs.\n\n\"If you're pregnant, or think you might be, speak to your maternity team or GP surgery to discuss your vaccine appointment so that it can be arranged at a site offering the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, which is preferable for pregnant women.\"\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.", "Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price says he has no plans to resign, despite his party's \"disappointing\" results.\n\nThe party has so far lost one seat and made no gains - although it has increased majorities in its heartland seats.\n\nEarlier the party's Ceredigion MP said: “Is it a disappointing result so far? Yes, of course.\"\n\nBut Mr Price said he had no plans to step down.\n\n\"I'm not walking away from anything, because this is the moment when Wales needs leadership,\" he said.\n\n\"We can move our nation forward, and I'm looking forward to playing my part, it's not something that anyone can do on their own.\n\n\"I have a role to play, we all have a role to play and that's what's exciting about politics at the moment.\n\n\"Wales is on the move, Wales is on the march. I'm going to be part of that.\"", "Clarke rose to fame by playing Mickey Smith in Doctor Who from 2005-10\n\nThe BBC has said it is \"shocked\" to hear allegations by several women that actor Noel Clarke sexually harassed them on the set of Doctor Who.\n\nMr Clarke played Mickey Smith in the BBC drama from 2005 to 2010.\n\nThe Guardian has quoted five women, including an unnamed actress, who it says have claimed that he touched them inappropriately or made sexual remarks.\n\nHe denied all the claims. He has previously \"vehemently\" denied sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing.\n\nThe latest reports come a week after 20 women told The Guardian that Mr Clarke, 45, had harassed or bullied them during his career as a TV and film actor, writer, director and producer.\n\nLast week, he said he understood that \"some of my actions have affected people in ways I did not intend or realise\" and said he was \"deeply sorry\" to those people. But he denied that his actions constituted sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing.\n\nNoel Clarke in a promotional photo for the Doctor Who 2005 Christmas special\n\nHe told The Guardian that he strongly denied the latest allegations. His representatives have not responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"The BBC is against all forms of inappropriate behaviour and we're shocked to hear of these allegations.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, we will investigate any specific allegations made by individuals to the BBC - and if anyone has been subjected to or witnessed inappropriate behaviour of any kind we would encourage them to raise it with us directly.\n\n\"We have a zero tolerance approach and robust processes are in place - which are regularly reviewed and updated to reflect best practice - to ensure any complaints or concerns are handled with the utmost seriousness and care.\"\n\nLast week, Sky \"halted\" its work with Mr Clarke, including on the fourth series of crime drama Bulletproof, while ITV dropped the final episode of his drama Viewpoint from its broadcast schedules. The BBC said it would \"not be progressing any projects with Noel Clarke at this time\".\n\nBafta has suspended his membership, weeks after giving him an outstanding contribution award, and the Metropolitan Police have said they have received allegations of sexual offences from a third party.\n\nMeanwhile on Friday, Doctor Who and Torchwood actor John Barrowman was said by The Guardian to have repeatedly exposed himself on set. It said that was regarded as \"larking about\" and \"joking\" rather than sexually predatory behaviour.\n\nA video of Mr Clarke joking about Mr Barrowman's behaviour at a 2015 sci-fi convention resurfaced and went viral last week.\n\nIn 2008, Mr Barrowman apologised for exposing his genitals during a live BBC Radio 1 broadcast. At the time, he said he \"was joining in the light-hearted and fun banter of the show and went too far\".\n\nIn a new statement to The Guardian, he said his \"high-spirited behaviour\" was \"only ever intended in good humour to entertain colleagues on set and backstage\".\n\nHe added: \"With the benefit of hindsight, I understand that upset may have been caused by my exuberant behaviour and I have apologised for this previously. Since my apology in November 2008, my understanding and behaviour have also changed.\"\n\nMr Barrowman added that he was never made aware of any allegations against Mr Clarke.\n\nMr Barrowman has not responded to a BBC request for further comment.", "Holidaymakers in England are to find out which \"green list\" countries they can visit without quarantining on their return later this afternoon.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps will unveil details of new travel rules at a coronavirus briefing at 17:00 BST.\n\nRules will be based on a traffic light system, with countries rated green, amber or red based on their Covid risk.\n\nCurrently, people in England face fines for holidaying abroad, and must have a valid reason for foreign travel.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have not said when they might ease their strict travel rules.\n\nThe list of green countries with the fewest travel restrictions is expected to be small when the rules come into effect on 17 May.\n\nTravellers to countries rated green will not need to isolate on their return, but they will need to take a Covid test before and after their trip.\n\nArrivals from amber countries will need to quarantine, while red-list countries have the strictest rules, with only UK or Irish nationals, or UK residents, allowed to return - and they must pay for a 10-day stay in a government quarantine hotel.\n\nCountries will be categorised based on their number of Covid cases and the success of vaccine rollouts.\n\nAt the moment, the UK has fewer cases and a higher rate of vaccinations than many popular destinations, including France, Spain, Greece and Turkey.\n\nInfections in Portugal are at a similar level to that in the UK, with 27 confirmed virus cases per 100,000 people per week compared with 21 in the UK, according to figures from Our World in Data from 4 May.\n\nThe UK government previously said the travel rules will be reviewed again on 28 June to see whether any measures can be relaxed further.\n\nThe chief executive of Booking.com warned that travel prices would rise due to pent-up demand and fewer planes in service.\n\nWhile the UK's largest tour operator, Tui, has said it will subsidise the cost of Covid testing for its customers, offering test packages for between £20 and £90.\n\nAhead of the transport secretary's announcement, airline giant IAG, which owns British Airways, said it was \"ready to fly\" but urged the government to introduce affordable, simple and proportionate testing to replace quarantine.\n\nMeanwhile, a coronavirus variant first detected in India has been escalated to a \"variant of concern\" by Public Health England, as scientists believe it is at least as transmissible as the Kent variant.\n\nIndia is currently on the red list of countries, with people only able to enter the United Kingdom from there if they are a British or Irish national, or UK resident.\n\nAre you planning to travel abroad? Or are you unable to because of the costs? 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. Aerial footage shows suspects of a wanted drug gang trying to escape police\n\nAt least 25 people including a police officer have been killed in a shootout in Rio de Janeiro, according to local media.\n\nThe shootout took place during a police operation in a favela in the Jacarezinho area of the city.\n\nPolice launched the operation after receiving reports that drug traffickers were recruiting children for their gang.\n\nTwo passengers on a metro train were hit by bullets but survived.\n\nPolice in the Brazilian city confirmed the death of one of their officers, Inspector Andre Leonardo de Mello Frias. A statement on Facebook said \"he honoured the profession he loved and will be missed\".\n\nPolice Chief Ronaldo Oliveira told Reuters news agency that Thursday's raid was \"the largest number of deaths in a police operation in Rio\".\n\nAccording to local news, the gang targeted in this raid engages in drug trafficking, mugging, murders and kidnappings.\n\nTelevision images showed suspects trying to escape across rooftops as police entered the favela.\n\nCivil Police showed off weapons and drugs seized during the raid\n\nMeanwhile, residents of Jacarezinho have shared accounts of what they witnessed on social media.\n\nOne resident posted a photo of his blood-covered floor and said two people had died in his house as police chased the criminals. The man, who did not want to give his name, said he would try to move out of the area as soon as possible.\n\n\"We're trying to sell the house as fast as possible, we can't continue to live here,\" he said.\n\nOther residents said officers had seized their phones, accusing them of warning gang members of the raid.\n\nSociology professor Ignacio Cano from the Laboratory for the Analysis of Violence at Rio State University dismissed the reasons the police gave for the raid: \"To say that drug traffickers recruit children and teenagers to deal drugs is almost laughable because everyone knows that these gangs have minors who work for them.\n\n\"To say that you're going to launch a massive raid because you've discovered that traffickers recruit children is a joke,\" he told O Dia newspaper.\n\nRio de Janeiro is one of Brazil's most violent states\n\nRio de Janeiro is one of Brazil's most violent states and vast areas are under the control of criminals, many of them linked to powerful drug-trafficking gangs.\n\nSecurity forces in Brazil have often been accused of excessive use of force against the civilian population during anti-crime operations in major cities.\n\nA court ruling last June restricted police action in poor neighbourhoods of Rio during the pandemic unless it was deemed essential.\n\nRio de Janeiro is the city with the biggest percentage of people living in shanty towns in Brazil - 22%. It's a population of 1,3 million, 70% of which are black.\n\nPolice operations targeting favelas controlled by drug traffickers are quite common in Rio. This, however, is the deadliest operation since 2016.\n\nSince a court ruling last June restricted police action in poor neighbourhoods in Rio, the number of deaths in shootouts in favelas has fallen.\n\nIn the first month alone, deaths plummeted 70% when compared to the average recorded since 2007, according to the research group Grupo de Estudos dos Novos Ilegalismos, from Universidade Federal Fluminense.\n\nThe drop was not followed by a rise in crime. In fact, property crimes were down by 40% and homicides by 48%. Researchers argue this shows that police operations are not the best strategy to tackle crime.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nArsenal's Europa League hopes were dashed as Villarreal sealed a semi-final victory that will almost certainly end the Gunners' unbroken 25-season run of appearing in European competition.\n\nTrailing 2-1 from the first leg in Spain and knowing that victory in this tournament represented their only realistic route back into the Champions League, Mikel Arteta's side could not find a way past the visitors' stubborn defence.\n\nPierre-Emerick Aubameyang struck the post with a volley but it was a rare moment of threat in a display strangely passive for large parts.\n\nNicolas Pepe and Emile Smith Rowe both fired efforts wide early in the second half and Aubameyang hit the post again with a downward header later in the game, but such moments were few and far between.\n\nThat the defeat came at the hands of former boss Unai Emery will be especially galling for the Gunners. Emery was sacked in November 2019 after 18 months in charge, ultimately leading to the appointment of Arteta.\n\nWith Manchester United seeing off Roma in the other semi-final and Chelsea and Manchester City into the Champions League final, Arsenal's loss ruins hopes of a Premier League clean sweep of European competitions this season.\n\nVillarreal will face United in Gdansk's Stadion Miejski on 26 May.\n\nMore importantly for the Gunners, though, the result effectively ends their season and their European chances - a big blow to a club that, a little over two weeks ago, was one of 12 prepared to walk away from the Champions League in order to join the proposed European Super League.\n\nArsenal blow their chance to save the season\n\nArsenal have been a mainstay in European competition since the 1996-97 season, much of that time spent in the Champions League under Arsene Wenger, with the last four campaigns in the Europa League.\n\nBut that run is now over, serving warning that the Gunners are arguably at their lowest point in terms of on-field performance since George Graham was sacked in February 1995.\n\nThere were high hopes when Arteta's side beat Liverpool in August's Community Shield, after winning last season's FA Cup, but what has followed has been a model of inconsistency, every forward stride followed by two steps back.\n\nFor such a crucial game, they were too nervous and ponderous in the first half, failing to open up a Villarreal side comforted by their first-leg advantage and determined not to be unbalanced.\n\nYoung, talented players showed flashes and then faded, while senior individuals, so crucial to guide a side through such situations, failed to step up when needed with the requisite composure and leadership.\n\nAubameyang did his best but is clearly still hampered by fitness issues following a recent bout of malaria. His withdrawal late on, when a goal was needed to save the team's season, was a clear nod to this.\n\nSimilarly, Kieran Tierney was a late addition to the starting XI, with Granit Xhaka picking up an injury in the warm-up, but after a spell out he was clearly not at his dynamic, penetrative best down the left.\n\nArsenal's first home meeting with Villarreal - a Champions League semi-final 15 years ago - was the final European game at Highbury.\n\nWithout some serious summer surgery, Thursday's game against the Spanish side may well be the last continental encounter the Emirates sees for some time.\n\nEmery has the last laugh\n\nVillarreal's boss is the undoubted master of the Europa League.\n\nHe won the competition three times on the trot as Sevilla boss between 2014 and 2016 before leading the Gunners themselves to the final in 2019, where they were comprehensively beaten by Chelsea.\n\nThis is another triumph for the Spaniard and a sweet one at that, coming at the ground where he was never fully embraced by a crowd fed on a regular diet of success by Wenger and frustrated at the way the Frenchman's regime was allowed to slide from its early heights.\n\nAs in the first leg, in which Villarreal were somewhat unfortunate to concede, Emery won the tactical battle against his successor and compatriot Arteta.\n\nThey were disciplined, well-drilled, alive to where the danger might come from and willing to battle when they had to.\n\nThey had to face some adversity too, with arguably their most dangerous player, Samuel Chukwueze, departing injured in the first half.\n\nBut they adapted and continued to compete with a minimum of fuss.\n\nA sweet moment for Emery, but also for Villarreal, who were beaten by Arsenal in the Champions League semi-finals in 2006 and quarter-finals three years later, and now, finally, have their revenge.\n\nYellow Submarine sets sail for first European final - the stats\n• None Villarreal have reached the final of a major European competition for the very first time, having been eliminated from each of their previous four semi-finals - Uefa Cup/Europa League in 2003-04, 2010-11, 2015-16 and Champions League 2005-06.\n• None Having progressed from each of their first six semi-finals in major European competition, Arsenal have been eliminated from three of their four appearances at this stage in Europe since (2008-09 Champions League, 2017-18 & 2020-21 Europa League).\n• None Since the competition's rebranding in 2009-10, Unai Emery has reached the final of the Europa League on more occasions than any other manager (5 - 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2018-19 & 2020-21) - indeed, the Spaniard has won the competition on three of the previous four occasions he has reached the final.\n• None Arsenal have failed to reach the final of a major European/domestic cup competition for the first time since 2015-16 (reaching the 2016-17 FA Cup, 2017-18 League Cup, 2018-19 Europa League & 2019-20 FA Cup finals since).\n• None Villarreal remain unbeaten in 14 games in European competition (W12 D2), last suffering defeat in April 2019 (0-2 v Valencia in the Europa League quarter-final 2nd leg).\n• None Arsenal have failed to score in 10 home matches within a single season in all competitions for the first time in the club's history.\n• None This was Villarreal's first goalless draw in Europe in 21 matches, since a stalemate against Rangers in November 2018.\n• None Arsenal have failed to win in three consecutive home matches in Europe (D2 L1) for the first time since September 2003 (a run of six).\n• None Eddie Nketiah (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nicolas Pépé.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Héctor Bellerín tries a through ball, but Gabriel Martinelli is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Alexandre Lacazette. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why Kwabena's dream job might mean risking it all\n• None Fidel Castro's Cuba as told by the spies, revolutionaries and diplomats who shaped it", "Tories have moved further in grabbing Labour seats\n\nThis isn't a general election, but it gives a striking impression as to what's going on in politics across the country right now. For the big picture, the Conservatives are cock-a-hoop. Labour are disappointed, limping behind. Results are not yet over, but there are three things we can already say: Tories have moved further along in grabbing Labour areas which the opposition used to be able to rely on. It's more evidence of a profound move over time, while Labour is getting squeezed to the cities. We're also reminded of the fragile connection between Westminster and the rest of the country. Boris Johnson has had a torrid time in Westminster in the past few weeks, yet he remains a magnet for millions of voters. Labour have discovered they are a brand which some people want nothing to do with. We are in a scenario where there are very different situations for politics across the country. Welsh Labour's performance is different to England's. All the parties have to grapple with the fact that the jigsaw is becoming more and more complicated. It used to be a pretty stable political system.", "Reducing emissions of methane gas is vital for tackling climate change in the short-term, a major UN report says.\n\nMethane is produced when living things decompose; it's also in natural gas.\n\nIt persists for just a short time in the atmosphere - unlike carbon dioxide - but methane is a much more potent global warming gas than CO2.\n\nThe report says \"urgent steps\" are necessary in order to reduce methane if global warming is to be kept within a limit laid down in the Paris deal.\n\nThis agreement, signed by 200 countries, aims to keep the global temperature rise to within 1.5C above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century.\n\nThe 1.5C target is regarded as the gateway to \"dangerous\" warming, where the planet could experience serious adverse effects of climate change.\n\nThe report comes as data showed both CO2 and methane (CH4) in the atmosphere reached record highs last year.\n\nThis happened despite pandemic lockdowns, which massively reduced economic activity.\n\nThe good news is that the UN report says rapid and significant reductions in the greenhouse gas are possible using existing technologies and a very low cost.\n\nMethane is also a source for another gas - ozone - in the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere (known as the troposphere)\n\nIn addition to saving money, cutting methane would yield significant health benefits by reducing the amount of ground-level ozone - a pollutant that's harmful to the human body.\n\nThe recommendations come from an international team of scientists, who have produced the Global Methane Assessment for the UN Environment Programme (Unep).\n\nMethane is the major component of natural gas\n\nDrew Shindell, the study's lead author, and a professor of Earth science at Duke University in Durham, US, agrees CO2 is the number one target in the fight against climate change, but says cutting methane will have a more rapid impact.\n\n\"So many aspects of climate change are happening faster than expected\", he said. \"We see more fires, more of the strongest hurricanes, more heatwaves, and methane is the best lever we have to reduce the growth in those over the next 30 years.\"\n\nScientists regard a temperature rise of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels as a gateway to \"dangerous\" warming of the planet. The Paris agreement, signed by nearly 200 countries, aims to keep the increase to within the 1.5C target.\n\nThe new report says measures available now could reduce emissions from human activities by as much as 180 million tonnes a year by 2030 - 45% of the total per year.\n\nThe main sources of human-related methane are the fossil fuel industry, which accounts for 34% of total emissions, agriculture which contributes another 40% and the waste sector 20%.\n\nOne of the difficulties in tackling the methane problem has been knowing precisely where the gas is coming from. But this is changing thanks to an emerging satellite capability that can pinpoint sources. The Canadian company GHGSat has the highest-resolution instrument in orbit currently, able to detect plumes of CH4 down to about 25m across.\n\nIn the example above, the technology is tracking emissions from a giant landfill area serving the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. The area is outputting 16 tonnes of CH4 every hour, equivalent to nearly 400 tonnes/hr of CO2.\n\nOn an annualised basis, this is like the greenhouse gas output of 750,000 cars driving for a year. GHGSat's spacecraft are being followed by a fleet of other methane-detecting satellites this decade. Identifying super-emitters is about to get a lot easier.\n\nThe Unep report says the fossil fuel industry has the greatest potential for low-cost methane cuts.\n\nPlugging leaks in oil and gas wells and along production and transmission lines would significantly cut methane emissions at little to no cost, it concludes.\n\nMany of the reductions could quickly pay for themselves because reducing leaks means more gas available for sale.\n\nBut the report warns the continued expansion of the use of natural gas is not compatible with keeping warming to 1.5C without what it calls \"massive-scale deployment of unproven carbon removal technologies\".\n\nThe waste sector could cut its methane emissions by improving the disposal of sewage around the world.\n\nImproving the management of rice paddies has the potential to reduce emissions from agriculture but the report says the biggest generators of agricultural methane - livestock - are harder to abate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gases produced by livestock are a major factor in global warming, so should we change our eating habits?\n\nThere is little scope for technical solutions, it concludes, so the effort needs to be focused on reducing food waste and loss, improving livestock management and encouraging consumers to adopt what the report calls \"healthier diets\" - those with a lower meat and dairy content.\n\nIf a concerted effort managed to achieve that 45% cut in methane emissions, it would help avoid nearly 0.3C of global warming as early as the 2040s, the report claims.\n\nBecause of methane's contribution to the formation of ozone, up to a quarter of a million premature deaths could be avoided worldwide under the most aggressive emission abatement efforts.\n\nThis attempt to focus on the issue of methane is very welcome, said Myles Allen, professor of geosystem science at Oxford University, provided it does not distract from the need to reduce CO2 emissions to net zero as soon as possible.\n\nProf Euan Nisbet, from the greenhouse gas group at Royal Holloway, University of London, said: \"The actions it suggests, like cutting gas leaks and landfill emissions, are sensible, cost-effective and economically realistic. If fully implemented, these relatively inexpensive measures will help avoid nearly 0.3C of warming by mid-century.\"", "Poor pupils have fallen further behind in maths as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to research.\n\nThe Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) study suggests primary-school pupils eligible for free school meals have fallen another month behind their classmates since the first lockdown.\n\nAnd the gap is unlikely to narrow without intervention, despite all pupils returning to class in September.\n\nThe government has already made £1.7bn catch-up funding available in England.\n\nBut Sir Peter Lampl, who chairs the EEF, is calling for significant extra funding to mitigate against the long-term impact of school closures as failing to act now will be a \"catastrophe\" for disadvantaged children.\n\nPupils from 132 primary schools in England were tested in autumn 2019, September 2020 and then towards the end of the autumn term.\n\nContrary to previous estimates, the interim findings of this study indicated no discernible change to the disadvantage gap in reading.\n\nPrevious studies have suggested children in England are up to three months behind in their studies after lockdown, with boys and poor pupils worst hit.\n\nResearch by the National Foundation for Educational indicated the learning gap between rich and poor pupils had grown by almost 50% between March and July 2020.\n\nThe EEF report found considerable variation in how schools and teachers responded to the huge disruptions caused by Covid-19.\n\nFor example, 23% of teachers surveyed reported phoning pupils at least once a week, while 37% never called them.\n\nAnd 24% of schools in the study provided video lessons, while the remaining 76% did not.\n\nBut the research found no clear evidence of a link between different teaching methods and changes to the achievements of pupils.\n\nEEF chief executive Prof Becky Francis said: \"The pandemic has brought the significance of social and educational inequality into sharp focus.\n\n\"Research studies like this one are providing clear evidence that substantial existing gaps have grown further due to the disruption to learning caused by the pandemic.\"\n\nA department for education spokesperson said: \"We have invested £1.7 billion in ambitious catch-up activity, including high-quality tutoring and summer school provision. The majority of the funding is targeted towards those most in need, while giving schools the flexibility to use it 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 as quickly and comprehensively as possible.\"", "An inquest is to be held into the death of a transport worker who died with Covid-19 after allegedly being spat on.\n\nBelly Mujinga, 47, died last April after she was reportedly coughed on by a customer at London Victoria station.\n\nThe decision comes after BBC Panorama raised questions about the inquiries carried out by her employer and police.\n\nHer family has campaigned for an inquest and Senior Coroner Andrew Walker confirmed one would take place as her death may have been \"unnatural\".\n\nHe said that there are concerns about the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) and the deployment of Ms Mujinga at Victoria station.\n\nTwo other employees also became unwell while working at the station, one of whom died from a Covid-19 infection, Mr Walker told a hearing at North London Coroner's Court.\n\nMs Mujinga worked as a sales clerk for Govia Thameslink Railway. She suffered from a condition known as sarcoidosis, which affected her throat and lungs, and had made it difficult for her to breathe.\n\nOn 21 March 2020, she was on duty on the station concourse with her friend and colleague Motolani Sunmola, when they were involved in an incident with a customer.\n\nMs Sunmola, 52, told the BBC Panorama programme they were approached by a man who coughed on them and said: \"You know I have the virus.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police investigated but concluded there was not enough evidence to charge anyone with a crime.\n\nA vigil was held for Belly Mujinga at Victoria station\n\nMr Walker said there was reason to suspect the death was \"unnatural\" and may have involved \"human error\".\n\nHe said the incident took place at a time when there was a \"recognised increased risk for frontline workers over PPE\" and therefore concerns about its provision by her employer, Govia Thameslink Railway.\n\nMs Mujinga's union, the Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA), described the decision as \"a step forward in the fight for justice\".\n\n\"Belly's death touched the nation and was keenly felt by so many transport workers who have bravely been on the front line throughout this terrible pandemic, it said.\n\n\"We simply must know what happened and the lessons which can be learned.\n\n\"For all these reasons, and to bring peace to Belly's family, without doubt it's in the public interest to have an inquest.\"\n\nMs Mujjinga's family has campaigned for an inquest into her death\n\nThe British Transport Police, Govia Thameslink Railway and the Department for Transport were also in attendance at Friday's hearing.\n\nMr Walker will issue a date for the inquest in due course.", "In the Philippines, a second surge in Covid-19 cases is putting renewed pressure on the healthcare system.\n\nThe country currently has the second highest number of cases in South East Asia behind Indonesia.\n\nAnd with one of the longest and hardest lockdowns in the world, a crippling recession has forced thousands on to the streets in search of food.", "Michelle Brown sat as a UKIP MS in the last Welsh Parliament until she resigned in 2019 to sit as an independent\n\nAn independent Welsh Parliament election candidate whose name was left off some ballot papers has called the error \"an affront to democracy\".\n\nSome voting papers for the regional north Wales seat did not include a box for independent Michelle Brown.\n\nReturning officers said it was a \"printing error\" and said voters had been given the chance to vote for the full list at polling stations.\n\nMs Brown said she would be \"examining the results very carefully\".\n\nShe added: \"This is not the end of the matter\".\n\nMs Brown said postal votes had been returned before the error had been spotted and that nothing had been done to \"redress that\".\n\nThe error was on regional list ballot papers issued in Arfon and Anglesey\n\nOn Thursday, voters headed to polling stations to elect 60 Members of the Senedd to form the next Welsh Parliament, and four Police and Crime Commissioners.\n\nFor the Senedd poll each voter was issued with two ballot papers, one to vote for their constituency MS and one to vote for their regional representatives in the chamber.\n\nHowever, Ms Brown's name was not included on the regional north Wales list ballot papers at polling booths in Arfon and Anglesey, after a printing error.\n\nCorrect ballot papers were issued in other parts of the region.\n\nIn a joint statement, the regional returning officer for north Wales, Colin Everett, Gwynedd's returning officer Dilwyn Williams, and the returning officer for Ynys Mon, Annwen Morgan, said: \"Due to a local printing error the Senedd North Wales Regional Ballot Papers for the Arfon constituency in Gwynedd and Ynys Mon do not include the final listed candidate - Michelle Brown, Independent.\"\n\nThe returning officers added that voters had been advised of the error as they attended their local polling stations and they were \"being given the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice from the full list of nominated parties and candidates\".\n\nSIGN UP FOR WALES ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\n\"This situation is an affront to the very basics of democracy, both in the significance of the error, and the insignificance of the pitiful response that is being made to remedy it,\" said Ms Brown, who served as an MS for north Wales in the last Welsh Parliament.\n\n\"For example, the postal votes had already been sent back before the mistake was discovered, and nothing is being done to redress that.\n\n\"I am the only independent candidate standing in north Wales, and thousands of voters have been denied the opportunity to vote for someone who can and will prioritise the needs of the people ahead of party politics.\n\n\"I will be examining the results very closely indeed and can assure you, this is not the end of the matter.\n\n\"The Welsh people deserve better,\" she added.\n\nMs Brown sat as a UKIP MS in the last Welsh Parliament until she resigned in 2019 from the party and sat as an independent.\n\nThe returning officers, who oversee how each ballot is carried out, said they were \"working closely\" with the Electoral Commission, which was providing them with advice and guidance \"on how we can support voters in casting their vote\".\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", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gymnast Latalia Bevan and rugby international Angharad de Smet say the pandemic left their careers in the balance\n\nIncreasing numbers of top female athletes will walk away from their sport due to difficulties during the pandemic, leading figures have warned.\n\nGymnast Latalia Bevan, 20, and rugby international Angharad de Smet, 24, say Covid has left their careers in the balance.\n\nSports sociologist Dr Ali Bowes said it had highlighted inequalities in sport.\n\n\"There are absolutely concerns women will walk away,\" she said.\n\nWales rugby international de Smet, who has worked on the front line during the pandemic, said she's been left wondering whether \"the love of the game is enough?\"\n\nThe 24-year-old from Ammanford, who was playing for Wales in the Autumn Internationals and as part of the sevens squad before Covid-19, was \"living the life of a professional athlete, without the pay cheque\".\n\nBut as Wales began its first lockdown, games and training were cancelled.\n\nAngharad de Smet has been working on the Covid front line while also maintaining her fitness\n\nOver the last year, she said she's trained with just one kettlebell, unable to access proper equipment or facilities. Her last game of rugby was 14 months ago.\n\nThe physiotherapist technician, who works on an elderly care ward in Swansea, said she has struggled to train after gruelling shifts in hospital.\n\n\"You've seen things you would hope to never see again in your lifetime, to come home and try and do a gym session... in your tiny kitchen... you think 'why am I bothering?'\"\n\nIn 2019, the 24-year-old had been travelling to Worcester to train a couple of times a week after work, arriving home in the early hours.\n\n\"Nobody understands how much we give, just the wear and tear on your car, the petrol, putting food on the table, trying to get good food into you to aid recovery is expensive.\"\n\nNow, she describes her future in the sport as \"uncertain\".\n\n\"Do I put my career first or do I pursue my dream of playing internationally, becoming a professional athlete? I am 24, should I have to make those sorts of calls already?\"\n\nCommonwealth Games silver medallist Latalia Bevan said the challenges of a global pandemic were a \"massive\" factor in her decision to retire from elite gymnastics earlier this year.\n\nLatalia Bevan has been working as a home carer since retiring\n\n\"It was so hard to keep your motivation, we'd do two or three Zooms a day, so my home turned into a gym and I'm from a family of seven.\"\n\nThe 20-year-old from Merthyr Tydfil, who won Wales' first gymnastics medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Games in Australia, had been training for 32 hours a week as well as studying at university in Cardiff.\n\nAs a student, she used her loan to help cover costs after losing GB funding and while recovering from an operation.\n\nBut after leaving her studies, she lost the financial support and struggled to adjust to a new life away from the gym after 14 years.\n\nShe's been working as a home carer since retiring and said it's nice not to have to rely on her family to pay for things.\n\nLatalia won silver at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia\n\nThe former gymnast said she'd thought about returning to the sport but, if she did, she'd have to quit her job and that isn't an option with rent to pay.\n\nShe's now focused on becoming a gymnastics coach and personal trainer.\n\nAlecs Donovan says the pandemic gave her the chance to sit back and prioritise seeing family and friends\n\nRugby player Alecs Donovan \"would never have thought\" that at the end of the third lockdown she'd retire.\n\nWith her yoga businesses closed, the 30-year-old said she was able to train \"more than ever\".\n\nThe business owner said the pandemic has given her the chance to sit back and prioritise seeing family and friends.\n\nAs a personal trainer who works with professional male athletes, she said it can be worse seeing their schedules and the support they get.\n\nShe added she was aware of women who don't go for promotions because their current job allows them to play the sport, but she wonders what will happen when rugby stops.\n\nDr Ali Bowes, senior lecturer in sociology of sport at Nottingham Trent University, said: \"It's one year on from lockdown and it's really obvious where the inequalities exist.\"\n\nHer research, looking at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on elite women's sport, found women struggled to access equipment, a gender \"play\" gap where men's sport returned faster and financial difficulties for women who were unable to play.\n\n\"There are absolutely concerns that women will walk away and we've seen that already with some examples in a number of sports where it's been too difficult for them to continue,\" she said.\n\nThe sociologist is optimistic that discussions about the problems in women's sport, and the difficulties athletes face can be used for positive change.\n\n\"There's also been significant forward steps, and it's put equality really on the agenda for lots of sports organisations, teams, clubs and national governing bodies. There's no hiding place now.\"\n• None 'We value men's work more than women's'", "Having secured a fourth term in power for the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon is not short of things to do as first minister.\n\nShe has to form a government - that could be another SNP-only administration, unless she wants to explore a more formal arrangement with the independence-supporting Greens to secure an outright majority.\n\nShe has to reshuffle her ministers, with four cabinet posts - including that of health secretary - needing filled as a result of retirements.\n\nThere are also important decisions that need to be taken on coronavirus - with a further easing of restrictions due on 17 May, plans to reopen international travel to consider and concern over Covid cases in Moray to address.\n\nMs Sturgeon has insisted that dealing with the pandemic and its aftermath will be her immediate priority - although clearly she intends to press the case for another independence referendum too.\n\nThere are also formalities - being sworn in with the other 128 MSPs on Thursday, before putting herself forward in parliament for re-election as first minister the following week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows suspects of a wanted drug gang trying to escape police\n\nThe United Nations human rights office has strongly criticised a police raid against suspected drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro, amid allegations of abuse and extrajudicial executions.\n\nThe deadliest police operation in the city's history has left 28 dead, including a police officer.\n\nResidents say police killed people who wanted to surrender and entered homes without a warrant.\n\nPolice have denied any wrongdoing, saying officers acted in self-defence.\n\nRio de Janeiro is one of Brazil's most violent cities, and vast areas are under the control of criminals, many of them linked to powerful drug-trafficking gangs. Security forces are often accused of disproportionate force during their anti-crime operations.\n\nThursday's raid in Jacarezinho, one of the city's largest slums known as favelas, was carried out by about 200 heavily armed police officers and included an armoured helicopter with a sniper. The area is dominated by Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of Brazil's largest criminal organisations.\n\nA television helicopter filmed men jumping from rooftops, while desperate residents posted videos on social media showing intense shootouts as they claimed police had invaded their houses and used excessive violence.\n\nResidents in Jacarezinho protested on Thursday after the deadly police operation\n\n\"There are boys who have been cornered in the house and want to surrender,\" one resident said, referring to the suspects. \"And the police want to kill them. They have even killed some in front of us.\"\n\nIn another video, a resident filmed a police officer standing next to a house and said: \"They're cornering [the suspects]. They don't want to let the boys surrender.\"\n\nMaria Júlia Miranda, a public defender, said residents told her a suspect was killed in the bedroom of an eight-year-old girl where there were blood stains on the floor and on her bed, and that the family had witnessed the alleged execution.\n\nMs Miranda said she was \"shocked\" by seeing \"lots of pools of blood... and walls with bullet marks\" when visiting the favela. There was also evidence that the scenes of the killings were not preserved, she said, with bodies being removed. \"On these cases,\" she added, \"there was probably an execution.\"\n\nA suspect is alleged to have been shot dead in this child's bedroom\n\nHuman rights groups, including Amnesty International, said they had also received reports and images from residents saying that their houses had been invaded, and that the police had killed people when they already offered no risk.\n\n\"It's completely unacceptable,\" Jurema Werneck, executive director of Amnesty International Brazil, said in a statement. \"Even if the victims were suspected of criminal association, which has not been proven, summary executions of this kind are entirely unjustifiable.\"\n\nThe level of violence caused shock even in Rio, which for decades has been plagued by high levels of crime and police brutality. Between January and March, 404 people were killed in police operations in the city's metropolitan area, according to official figures.\n\nAlmost all raids happen in communities where residents are mostly black and poor, and some of the victims are not even suspects. Critics say the operations are often badly planned and frequently end in bloodshed while allegations of misconduct by officers are rarely investigated, with impunity virtually the norm.\n\n\"This kind of operation doesn't dismantle criminal groups, it only causes pain and distrust,\" Igarapé Institute, a Rio-based think tank, said in a statement. \"The social impact of this case is still unknown but will certainly last for years.\"\n\nPolice show the weapons they say were seized during the operation\n\nAmid widespread condemnation, the United Nations human rights office called for an independent investigation, describing it as a \"long-standing trend of unnecessary and disproportionate\" police operations.\n\n\"You have the institutions which control these operations... So, it appears that collectively, they are not succeeding in stopping these kinds of really disturbing, over-the-top, lethal operations. So something is clearly wrong there,\" spokesman Rupert Colville said in Geneva.\n\nThe officer killed was named as 48-year-old Inspector André Leonardo de Mello Frias, who was shot in the head while trying to remove a barricade set up by the criminals. Police have not yet identified the other people killed but said six suspects had been arrested.\n\nRodrigo Oliveira, a police chief, defended the police's actions, saying that officers acted within the law. \"The only execution that took place was that of the police officer,\" he said at a news conference where police displayed an arsenal of weapons that had been seized, including six assault rifles and a submachine gun.\n\nPolice say they launched the operation to serve 21 arrest warrants as part of a year-long investigation that suggested gangs were recruiting children, among other crimes. Experts again questioned the force used given that minors are used by criminals across the city.\n\n\"This is cruel, barbaric,\" Joel Luiz Costa, a lawyer from Jacarezinho, said in a video posted on Twitter. \"Twenty-five people or more were killed. Did it end drug trafficking? Will this end drug trafficking?\"\n\nThe raid happened despite a court ruling last June that restricted police action in poor areas of Rio during the pandemic unless it was deemed essential. The Rio state public prosecutor's office said it would launch an investigation while the police said they would also open an inquiry.\n\nThere has been no comment from far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. A former army captain, he supports changes in legislation that would protect officers from prosecution if they kill suspects, and has previously said that \"a good criminal is a dead criminal\".", "The last few results are still coming in after a bumper set of local and national elections.\n\nWith ballots being counted over several days final results for some areas will be spread out over the weekend and into Monday.\n\nSearch below to find the result in your area.\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 Scottish and Welsh national parliaments and the London mayor and assembly have declared all their results.\n\nThere have also been council elections across England and Police and Crime Commissioner votes in England and Wales, and some areas may have had parish or town council elections, referendums on local issues and council by-elections.\n\nSome parts of England had four votes or more, as elections postponed from last summer were carried over to this year.", "Whether you want to watch, listen, or follow online, the BBC has you covered for all your election needs.\n\nResults for Thursday's elections in England, Scotland and Wales began coming in on Friday morning.\n\nThe BBC News website will have all the results as they are announced, with live results, and live pages with the latest reaction and analysis from our correspondents.\n\nThe BBC's Election 2021 results programme will begin later than usual, as the pandemic will delay vote-counting.\n\nThe programme will kick off at 09:00 BST on Friday and run until 22:00 BST on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer. It will also be available on BBC Two in the morning and BBC One from 14:30-18:00.\n\nHuw Edwards and Kirsty Wark will lead the show, co-hosted from London and Edinburgh, bringing the latest results, analysis and in-depth reporting from the BBC's election teams.\n\nThey will be joined by political editor Laura Kuenssberg, polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice as well as Reeta Chakrabarti and Lewis Goodall, and correspondents will be on the ground at closely fought council, mayoral and police commissioner contests.\n\nAs results are expected to continue coming in over the weekend, the special programme will continue on Saturday from 13:15 to 22:00. It will be broadcast on the BBC News Channel throughout the day, and on BBC One until 18:00.\n\nBBC local radio stations will carry results and analysis throughout the day on Friday and into the weekend, with special programmes across the network. You can find your local station's schedule here.\n\nOn BBC Radio 4, the latest results and forecasts will be broadcast on Friday on The World at One at 13.00 and PM at 17.00, presented by Evan Davis.\n\nOn Saturday from 07.00, the Today programme will have news and analysis, and Jonny Dymond will present PM later in the day at 17.00.\n\nAnd, as the inevitable fallout continues into the following week, the Today programme will be co-presented from Glasgow with Scotland editor Sarah Smith on the Monday, from 06.00.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live will have full coverage of the results across Friday and into the weekend. Reporters will be based at the key counts, political experts will explain the significance of the results and listeners will be sharing their reactions throughout.\n\nIn Wales, TV coverage will begin on BBC One Wales from 13:30 on Friday, with a special programme led by Nick Servini and Wales political editor Felicity Evans. S4C's coverage begins at 13:15 and is presented by Bethan Rhys Roberts.\n\nViewers in Wales who want to watch the BBC's election special with Huw Edwards and Kirsty Wark can see it online, on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer.\n\nBBC Radio Wales will have an extended election special with Gareth Lewis on Friday between 16:00-19:00, while on Radio Cymru Dewi Llwyd and Kate Crockett will present Etholiad 2021 from 13:30.\n\nAnd the Walescast podcast will provide a lighter look at issues and developments across the campaign.\n\nAll the latest results, news and up-to-the-minute analysis from our election teams in Wales will be on Twitter in English @walespolitics and in Welsh @BBCCymruFyw.\n\nIn Scotland, coverage begins on BBC One Scotland from midday on Friday.\n\nSpecial coverage will run on English-language and Gaelic programmes and platforms across Friday, Saturday, and into the Sunday if there are still results outstanding.\n\nBBC Naidheachdan will bring the Gaelic audience the latest news with a series of An La specials, and extended reports on radio, TV and online.\n\nViewers in Scotland who want to watch the BBC's election special with Huw Edwards and Kirsty Wark can see it online, on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer.\n\nFollow the latest results in Scotland on Twitter @bbcscotlandnews", "The photograph of the man was taken on Spinney Lane in Aylesham on 28 April, Kent Police said\n\nPolice investigating the murder of community support officer Julia James have appealed to a man in an image they released to come forward.\n\nMs James, 53, was found dead on 27 April near woodland in Snowdown, Kent, having suffered serious head injuries.\n\nKent Police said the man was seen in a \"very relevant\" location the following day, near to where her body was found.\n\nAssistant chief constable Tom Richards said the man was the \"key to unlocking what happened to Julia\".\n\nJulia James's body was found near her home in Snowdown\n\nAt a briefing in Folkestone on Friday afternoon, he told reporters the man was seen in the area police are focusing on, between Spinney Lane and Holt Street, near Aylesham.\n\nHe said: \"I'm not saying here and now that he is a suspect, but he is of crucial importance to the investigation.\"\n\nMr Richards added: \"Somebody knows who that man is and we desperately need you to make contact with us and help us identify who that person is.\n\n\"I need somebody to do the right thing, and give us the information we need to provide justice for Julia and her family.\"\n\nAppealing directly to the individual he said: \"If that person is watching please make contact with us.\"\n\nPolice would like to speak to anybody who was in the area pictured on 27 April\n\nA post-mortem examination found Ms James died from blunt force trauma and an inquest has been opened and adjourned.\n\nMs James had left her home in The Crescent to take her dog for a walk.\n\nPolice said on Thursday they were broadening the search area to include \"a number of other locations\" in addition to the woodland where her body was found.\n\nMr Richards said detectives were \"still waiting for that critical phone call or piece of information\" in the case.\n\nJulia James' dog Toby was found next to her body, police said\n\nChief constable Alan Pughsley told BBC Radio Kent earlier that detectives still did not know what murder weapon was used, or the motive for the killing.\n\n\"Pretty much every chief constable in the land is offering whatever assistance they can to help find the murderer,\" he said.\n\n\"We have lots of lines of inquiries, lots to think about, and lots of work to do.\"\n\nA £10,000 reward has been offered for information that leads to a conviction in the case.\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.", "Wing Cdr Ken Rees was imprisoned in Stalag Luft III and helped dig a tunnel that prisoners fled through\n\nA World War Two pilot who was part of the Great Escape team is to have a train named after him.\n\nWing Cdr Ken Rees was imprisoned in Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp, now part of Poland, and helped dig a tunnel that prisoners fled through in March 1944.\n\nHe was caught in the shaft during the breakout when it was found by a guard.\n\nHe was said to have inspired Steve McQueen's character in the film based on their story, though he denied this.\n\nAt Friday's naming ceremony at Swansea railway station will be air officer for Wales, Air Cdre Dai Williams, the RAF Queen's Colour Squadron, and under-secretary of state for Wales, David TC Davies.\n\nGreat Western Railway set out to mark last year's 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two by naming seven trains after people involved in the conflict.\n\nMr Rees's name will feature on Intercity 800310, which will form the 11:22 BST service from Swansea to London Paddington after the ceremony.\n\nThe Wrexham-born bomber command pilot was shot down over Norway in October 1942, just two weeks after getting married.\n\nKen Rees was said to have inspired the character played by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape\n\nHe was taken to Stalag Luft III, a prisoner of war camp for airmen that was a template for the camp in 1963's The Great Escape.\n\nMr Rees was a digger on a tunnel named Harry, the longest of a number of tunnels, and the one used to make their getaway.\n\nIn the film, McQueen's character Capt Virgil Hilts is supposed to have been based on Mr Rees due to the fact Mr Rees antagonised his captors after his brother-in-law, Sqn Ldr Harold Starr, was shot under his parachute in the Battle of Britain.\n\nHis dissent usually amounted to pulling faces or letting down bicycles tyres, which meant being marched off.\n\nMr Rees always insisted he had nothing to do with the claim McQueen's character was based on him.\n\nBefore he died in 2014 at the age of 93, he said: \"He is taller than I am, I'm heavier than he is, he's American and I'm a Welshman.\n\n\"The only things we've got in common is that we both annoyed the Germans and ended up doing stretches in the cooler.\n\n\"I didn't get out and if I did, I wouldn't have been able to ride a motorbike anyway.\"\n\nMr Rees, pictured in 2004, always denied he was the inspiration for Capt Virgil Hilts, played by Steve McQueen\n\nAir Cdre Williams welcomed the chance to commemorate Mr Rees: \"It will be a privilege to acknowledge the service of this remarkable RAF Officer.\"\n\nGWR engineering director, Simon Green, added: \"It is right that we honour some of those heroes of the war effort, remembering the sacrifice, bravery and tenacity that later generations owe so much to.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps on the green list destinations: \"This is just a first step\"\n\nTwelve destinations have been put on a green travel list for people in England, meaning anyone returning will not need to quarantine from 17 May.\n\nA new traffic light system of rules means international travel will no longer be illegal.\n\nHowever, places on the green list - which includes Portugal, Israel and Gibraltar - have their own restrictions on who can visit from abroad.\n\nThe transport secretary said the UK approach was \"necessarily cautious\".\n\nBut the travel industry has said it is too cautious and called it a reopening of air travel \"in name only\".\n\nTurkey, the Maldives and Nepal will be added to England's red list of countries from 04:00 BST on Wednesday 12 May, meaning travellers from those destinations will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days on their return.\n\nThe biggest group is the amber list - which includes popular European destinations such as Spain, Italy and France.\n\nPeople returning from those countries have to isolate from home for at least five days - but Mr Shapps said no-one should be travelling to those destinations at the moment.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have not said when they might ease their strict travel restrictions, but Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said all four of the UK's chief medical officers agreed on the principles behind the traffic light system.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing, Mr Shapps said the changes were a \"tentative\" first step to opening up travel, as there remained \"concern about the resurgence of Covid\".\n\nMr Shapps said the \"success in combating Covid\" in the UK was \"not yet replicated in many places abroad\".\n\n\"We must make sure the countries we reconnect with are safe,\" he added.\n\nCovid tests will be required before and after travel.\n\nThe long-awaited restart of international travel is less throwing open the doors, more opening them a crack.\n\nThat's a deliberate decision by the government, which is hoping to reassure those who are nervous about opening the country's borders while also giving a small concession to the travel industry.\n\nSome in the industry are not impressed, calling the list a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nMany of the transport secretary's comments - he dissuaded passengers from travelling to amber countries and warned them to expect queues at the border - will be seen as trying to dampen down demand, just at the moment when the industry was hoping to start to ramp up.\n\nUltimately, the real test will be in a few weeks' time when the government will announce the green list for June. The industry will be hoping it's a little longer than this list.\n\nMr Shapps said people looking to travel overseas should check any restrictions that apply to new arrivals, and not book trips which do not include a refund should the Covid situation change.\n\nCountries on the green, amber and red lists would be reviewed every three weeks from 17 May, he added.\n\nSpain's ministry of tourism said the decision had no immediate effect with restrictions still in place for non-essential travel from the UK.\n\nBut a spokesperson said Madrid \"reiterates its conviction that this summer it will be possible for British citizens to spend their holidays in Spain\" and it predicts that in June \"we will be able to start the reactivation of international travel\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"No-one enjoys a holiday more\": A restaurant owner in Portugal is excited to welcome back tourists from England\n\nThe travel industry has been largely critical, with Airlines UK calling the move a missed opportunity and \"a reopening of air travel in name only\" which leaves the UK \"at risk of falling behind\".\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director of holiday firm Tui, said it was \"an overly cautious start\".\n\nEasyjet chief executive Johan Lundgren said: \"The decision to put so few European countries into the green tier is simply not justified by the data or the science and is inconsistent with the approach to reopen the domestic economy.\"\n\nTravellers have also been warned of queues at the UK border when they return.\n\nBorder Force director Paul Lincoln said the increased delays would be at each stage of their journeys, with staff required to check \"100%\" of all travellers coming through.\n\nRed list countries have the strictest rules, with only UK or Irish nationals and UK residents allowed to return. They must pay for a 10-day stay in a government-approved quarantine hotel.\n\nAsked what Turkey being added to the red list means for the Champions League final between Manchester City and Chelsea in Istanbul, Mr Shapps said fans should not travel to Turkey.\n\nHe added that the Football Association is in discussions with European football's governing body UEFA about the UK hosting the final.\n\nThe full list of 12 countries and territories people in England can travel to without having to quarantine upon return are:\n\nAre you planning to travel abroad? Or are you unable to because of the costs? 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 'No-one enjoys a holiday more than British people' Video, 00:00:44'No-one enjoys a holiday more than British people'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the Hartlepool by-election result is a \"mandate\" for his party to \"continue to deliver\"\n\nLabour is losing ground to the Conservatives in elections across England, in the first big test of Sir Keir Starmer's leadership of the party.\n\nThe first blow for Labour came when the Tories took a Westminster seat from it in the Hartlepool by-election.\n\nIt has also lost control of several councils, while the Conservatives have made gains.\n\nAnd the Tories won more than 70% of the mayoral vote in Tees Valley - an area that used to vote Labour.\n\nSir Keir said he was \"bitterly disappointed\", but pledged to lead a fightback for his party and to set out a \"bold vision\" in the next few days.\n\nMore than half the results from Thursday's English council elections have been announced.\n\nThe rest, as well as those for mayoral and police and crime commissioner contests, will continue to come in through over the weekend.\n\nAmong the details so far, the Conservatives have taken Pendle, Maidstone, Cornwall, Nottinghamshire, Basildon, Northumberland, Dudley, and Nuneaton and Bedworth councils from no overall control.\n\nThey also took control of of Harlow council, in Essex, from Labour.\n\nAnd Labour has lost Sheffield, Plymouth and Rossendale to no overall control.\n\nThe Green Party has increased its number of seats across England, while the Conservatives lost Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight to no overall control.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your English council or Scottish or Welsh constituency to find out. Eg 'W1A 1AA' or 'Westminster' A really simple guide to the 2021 elections\n\nConservative Ben Houchen was re-elected mayor of Tees Valley, which includes Hartlepool, receiving 73% of the vote. This involved a swing from Labour to his party of 23%.\n\nMr Houchen said there was \"pride returning\" to the area, adding that it was \"not true\" that the government had pumped lots of money into it over the past few years only because it was run by a Conservative.\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice, of Strathclyde University, said \"what was once traditional Labour territory\" in north-eastern England had \"now been well and truly painted blue\".\n\nIt is also choosing 35 police and crime commissioners, of which the Conservatives have so far gained three, for Dorset, Cleveland and Avon and Somerset.\n\nThe prime minister described results declared so far as \"very encouraging\" for the Conservatives.\n\n\"I think that's really because we have been focusing, as a government, on our priorities, the people's priorities, and bouncing back from the pandemic as much as we can and getting through it,\" he added.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nSir Keir offered a stark assessment of Labour's performance, which follows its worst general election outcome since the 1930s in 2019.\n\nHe told the BBC the party, which he has led for just over a year, had \"lost the trust of working people, particularly in places like Hartlepool\", adding: \"We have not made a strong enough case to the country.\"\n\nHe said that he intended to take \"responsibility for fixing things\".\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn criticised the party under Sir Keir for \"offering nothing\" but \"insipid support for the government\".\n\n\"We have to make a very clear pitch for what real social justice would look like,\" he told Channel 4 News. \"You don't succeed in beating the government if you agree with their strategy.\"\n\nBut Labour has won some key votes, including in Doncaster, where Ros Jones was re-elected as mayor.\n\nIt has also retained control of councils including Liverpool, Manchester, Hastings and Exeter.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, whose party has lost a few seats with more than half of councils still to declare their results, said it was \"moving forwards and making progress\".\n\nReacting to the gain in seats in Cambridgeshire, he added: \"If you want to beat the Conservatives, it's the Liberal Democrats that can do it.\"\n\nEngland is seeing a bumper set of local council elections this year, after polls in 2020 were postponed due to the pandemic.\n\nIn Scotland, parliamentary results will give an indication of the public level of support for a second independence referendum, as proposed by the SNP.\n\nMeanwhile, Welsh Labour is aiming to remain the largest party in the Senedd, where it has held power since the parliament was founded in 1999.", "We are now on to questions.\n\nDavid, in West Cornwall, asks about the vaccine rollout and whether poor uptake, particularly among young people, might threaten the success of the programme.\n\nGrant Shapps says the level of uptake has been \"phenomenal\" so far.\n\nDr Jenny Harries says the country is probably leading on vaccine confidence, and that we are still on track to offer a first dose to every adult by July.\n\nShe believes it would be wrong to jump to conclusions that young people will not take up the vaccine. \"We have every confidence that people will step forward and do that,\" she says.\n\nNicola, in Surrey, says the process for approving vaccines in the UK seems to have \"stalled slightly\" and asks why.\n\nDr Jenny Harries says it is remarkable that we have three approved vaccines for a new virus within a short timeframe.\n\nShe adds: \"I don't think we can say it has stalled at all... and other potential vaccines are on their way.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shared a picture of their son Archie to mark his second birthday.\n\nThe sepia-toned picture, taken on Thursday, shows the toddler standing in a garden with his back to the camera, holding a large bunch of balloons.\n\nIt was shared on their Archewell website, along with a plea for donations to a fund for Covid vaccinations in poor nations.\n\nThe Queen and other members of the Royal Family sent birthday messages.\n\nA message from the Royal Family's official Twitter account said: \"Wishing Archie Mountbatten-Windsor a very happy 2nd birthday today.\"\n\nThe post was shared alongside a picture of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex with their son days after he was born.\n\nIn a statement on their Archewell foundation website, Prince Harry and Meghan - who are expecting their second child - said they were \"deeply touched\" by people who had donated to charities in honour of Archie's birthday in previous years.\n\nThey urged people to support GAVI, the global vaccine alliance, saying: \"We will not be able to truly recover until everyone, everywhere, has equal access to the vaccine.\n\n\"We cannot think of a more resonant way to honour our son's birthday. If we all show up, with compassion for those we both know and don't know, we can have a profound impact.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the duke and duchess also wrote an open letter to major Covid vaccine manufacturers such as Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, urging them to redouble support for the UN-sponsored Covax programme distributing doses in poorer parts of the world.\n\nAnd as momentum builds around a US-backed proposal to waive vaccine patents, Harry and Meghan called on the firms to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nArchie lives with his parents in California, following Prince Harry and Meghan's decision to step back as senior royals and move to the US.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Archie's uncle and aunt, along with his grandparents the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, also posted birthday messages from their Twitter accounts.\n\nAlongside their message, Charles and his wife shared a photo of the Prince of Wales with Harry and Archie at his christening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall\n\nArchie, the Sussexes' first child, was born on 6 May 2019 weighing 7lbs 3oz.\n\nHe is seventh in line to the throne and does not have a title.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Royal Family This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Royal Family\n\nFor Archie's first birthday, the Sussexes released a video of Meghan reading the popular children's book, Duck! Rabbit!, to her son.\n\nHe has rarely been seen in public but last December made a surprise appearance in the couple's first podcast for Spotify, during which he was heard speaking with an American accent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Sussex read the book Duck! Rabbit! to her son\n\nIt comes after Meghan revealed she was publishing a children's book about father-son relationships, inspired by the bond between Archie and the duke.\n\nIn February the couple announced they were expecting their second child.\n\nPrince Harry was last in the UK in April for the funeral of his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh. However, Meghan stayed in California on the advice of her doctor.\n\nThe Sussexes stepped back as senior royals and said they would work to become financially independent last March.", "Johannah, 5, was visiting her grandparents in Kerala state when the pandemic saw borders closed and flights cancelled\n\nDilin was unable to hold back his emotions when he talked about his young daughter, who he has not seen since November 2019.\n\n\"I can certainly see the sorrow in her heart… she truly misses us,\" he told an Australian Senate committee on Friday.\n\nJohannah, 5, is one of at least 173 unaccompanied children who are stuck in India trying to return to Australia.\n\nShe was staying with her grandparents when the pandemic struck and borders were closed.\n\nJohannah's parents tried to get her on government organised flights to Sydney but children younger than 14 are not allowed to travel alone on the repatriation trips.\n\nQantas, which operates flights between India and Australia, also does not allow unaccompanied minors, so the couple's only other option is to charter a private plane or fly with Air India. However, until recently Johannah was still too young.\n\nDrisya and Dilin did not risk trying to fly back to India to be with Johannah because of the limited flights to return to Australia from there.\n\nThe coupled feared they would join the 9,000 people in India struggling to get home to Australia.\n\nDrisya and Dilin were finally able to get Johannah a seat on a chartered plane from Bangalore to Sydney, with a private company willing to take unaccompanied children.\n\nIt was due to arrive in Sydney on 6 May but that flight was also cancelled when the Australian government brought in a controversial ban on all arrivals from India.\n\n\"It was our last hope, we have exhausted all options,\" Dilin told the BBC. \"We literally fell apart. Sometimes you get a ray of hope, but then there's a set back like this,\" he said.\n\nDrisya and Dilin told their story to an Australian Senate committee which is investigating the government's efforts to help stranded Australians return home from India.\n\nDrisya told the hearing that there were seven other unaccompanied children on the privately chartered flight. The couple, who have connected with families in similar situations on social media, say many of the children are very young - some even younger than Johannah.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tegan George This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I plead, on behalf of all of them, to please consider the option of bringing in minors unaccompanied, either through repatriation flights or even private chartered flights,\" Dilin said.\n\nSenior Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) official Lynette Wood said a flight specifically for children had not been considered, and that the government was working directly with families to try and bring children home. The BBC also approached the DFAT for comment on this article.\n\nAustralia's High Commissioner to India Barry O'Farrell told the hearing 20 unaccompanied minors had been helped home since December.\n\nThe trio were living in Malaysia and visiting family in India when Drisya and Dilin left Johannah to spend a longer holiday with her grandparents in the southern state of Kerala. They went back to Malaysia and started making preparations to move to Sydney a few months later.\n\nJohannah was due to arrive in Sydney on 6 May, but the flight was cancelled due to the Australian government's India flight ban\n\nTheir reunion was thrown into disarray when the pandemic hit and Johannah's flight home was cancelled.\n\nAs time went on, all of the flights they managed to book were cancelled, or Johannah was \"bumped\" - which means she was no longer able to fly, because the number of people allowed to enter Australia that day had been reached.\n\nJohannah's Malaysian visa eventually expired, and her parents had to move to Sydney without her.\n\n\"When we can see her again she will have grown up a lot, it's that time we have lost, that we can never get back,\" Dilin told the Senate committee.\n\n\"What we have missed as parents is her prime childhood age… It's been almost one and a half years that we have not seen her grow,\" he added, holding back tears.\n\nDrisya often finds it hard to sleep and says she cries through the night, missing her young daughter.\n\n\"I can only imagine the emotional pain she is going through now, even though we are trying to keep her happy, buying her books, but I think from the bottom of her heart, there's nothing her parents can be replaced with,\" Dilin said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australians trapped in India 'betrayed' by ban on returning home", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the Hartlepool by-election result is a \"mandate\" for his party to \"continue to deliver\"\n\nThe Conservatives have beaten Labour in the Hartlepool by-election, with a Tory MP elected for the first time in the current constituency's history.\n\nTory candidate Jill Mortimer - who defeated Labour rival Paul Williams by nearly 7,000 votes - hailed the result as a \"truly historic\" moment.\n\nIt comes as a blow to Sir Keir Starmer's efforts to win back support in traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nThe Tories are also making gains from Labour in English council elections.\n\nOn a walkabout in Hartlepool with the victorious Tory candidate, Boris Johnson said her win was a \"mandate for us to continue to deliver\" for the north-east of England and the rest of the country.\n\n\"If there is a lesson out of this whole election campaign across the whole of the UK is that the public want us to get on with focusing on their needs and their priorities, coming through the pandemic and making sure we build back better,\" added the prime minister.\n\nSir Keir said he was \"bitterly disappointed\" by the results.\n\nThe Labour leader said the party had \"lost the trust of working people, particularly in places like Hartlepool,\" but added: \"I will take full responsibility for fixing things.\"\n\nHe said Labour had \"not made a strong enough case to the country\" and he promised to set out changes in the next few days to help the party \"reconnect\" with lost voters.\n\nThe Hartlepool constituency was formed in 1974 and had returned a Labour MP in every vote since - until Thursday's poll.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the election results\n\nMs Mortimer hailed it as a \"truly historic\" result, adding: \"Not only that, I am the first woman ever to be elected as MP for this town.\n\n\"Labour have taken people in Hartlepool for granted for too long.\n\n\"I heard this time and time again on the doorstep and people have had enough and now, through this result, the people have spoken and have made it clear it is time for change.\"\n\nDiane Abbott, an ally of Sir Keir Starmer's predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, tweeted: \"Crushing defeat for Labour in Hartlepool. Not possible to blame Jeremy Corbyn for this result. Labour won the seat twice under his leadership. Keir Starmer must think again about his strategy.\"\n\nAnother Corbyn ally, union boss Len McCluskey, warned Labour faced a \"continuous downward decline\" unless Sir Keir started \"talking about the radical alternative for ordinary working people\".\n\n\"People don't know what his vision is. People don't know what Labour stand for anymore,\" said the Unite general secretary.\n\nHe told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast he did not trust Sir Keir and had not spoken to him since Mr Corbyn's expulsion from the Parliamentary party last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Corbyn, who now sits as an independent MP, tweeted: \"With millions not voting, these results show a loss of hope.\n\n\"We must offer a bolder vision to transform people's lives and give them the confidence to strive for a more equal world.\"\n\nBut key figures from the centrist wing of the party say the Hartlepool defeat, which saw a 16% swing from Labour to the Conservatives, showed Labour had not changed enough.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The general secretary of the Unite union says Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer must “reach out to the left”\n\nLord Adonis, who served under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said the party was in \"no man's land\" under Sir Keir, who he described as a \"transitional leader\".\n\nHe warned \"it could be curtains for Labour\" unless it became a \"modernising, centrist, dynamic\" party.\n\nAnd former Hartlepool MP Lord Mandelson said it was clear from his conversations with voters in the town that Mr Corbyn was \"still casting a very dark cloud over Labour\" and that the party had more work to do put that era behind it.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Hartlepool defeat was down to \"two Cs: Covid and Corbyn\".\n\nLabour's loss of Hartlepool in a by-election is the most dramatic illustration yet that the party has so far failed to connect with the Leave-supporting, working class voters they lost heavily in 2017 and 2019.\n\nSupport for the Brexit Party, which registered 26% in Hartlepool in 2019, collapsed - the successor Reform party secured just 1% of the vote.\n\nIt looks as though the Conservatives picked up the Brexit Party's former support, in line with the proportion of Leave voters preferring the Conservatives to Labour to the order of 3/4 to 1.\n\nHowever, the swing to the Conservatives of 16% is more than can be accounted for by the collapse of the Brexit Party.\n\nLabour's vote fell 9 points to 29%, so the party clearly lost some of its 2019 support, as well as suffering from the movement of Brexit Party voters to the Conservatives.\n\nPart of the explanation may lie in the success of independent candidate, Sam Lee, who won 10% of the vote.\n\nTogether with the pattern in key wards there is clearly a debate about whether Labour can win support from Leave voters by ignoring Brexit as it has in the past 12 months.\n\nThe Conservative gain of Northumberland council is a further illustration of the success of the Conservatives in Leave voting areas.\n\nThe Hartlepool seat came back into contention after its former Labour MP, Mike Hill, resigned in March.\n\nThe by-election was one of a raft of elections taking place across Britain on Thursday, with voters picking representatives for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd, as well as mayors and local councils in England, and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe result is more evidence of the long term shift in politics where areas that had chosen Labour for decades were less and less convinced.\n\nThat didn't start with Boris Johnson and didn't even start with Brexit.\n\nThe success of the vaccine programme has no doubt helped the Tories.\n\nBut Keir Starmer has questions to answer as well.", "Tel Aviv's beaches have been busy again as coronavirus restrictions have eased\n\nPrices for international travel are set to rise this year due to pent-up demand and fewer aeroplanes in service, a travel boss has warned.\n\nBooking.com's chief executive Glenn Fogel told the BBC that holiday \"prices are already going up\".\n\nMany airlines have significantly reduced the number of flights they operate due to travel restrictions.\n\nHowever, Tui's UK boss Andrew Flintham said it would be \"a long time\" before holiday firms try to boost profits.\n\nMr Fogel said that despite huge demand, uncertainty makes it hard for airlines to plan bringing more planes back into service.\n\n\"There's so much pent-up demand,\" said Mr Fogel. \"Everybody wants to go travelling, but we all want to do it safely.\"\n\nJohn Grant, an aviation analyst with global travel data provider OAG said this will have a knock-on impact on air fares as travel restrictions are eased.\n\n\"That will, in the short term, create a rush of pent-up demand and revenge spending,\" he said.\n\n\"In turn, the airline algorithms will detect an uptick in demand and move prices up accordingly\".\n\nAirlines have reduced capacity by putting aeroplanes into storage, such as these in France\n\nThe government will shortly announce which foreign destinations holidaymakers from England can visit from 17 May without needing to quarantine on their return.\n\nAir fares to Portugal - which is expected to be on the green list - have already started to rise as airlines respond to higher demand.\n\nAccording to PA, British Airways is charging £530 for a flight from Heathrow to the Algarve on 17 May, compared with £276 two days earlier.\n\nA Ryanair flight from Stansted to Lisbon costs £262 on 19 May, PA found, more than double the price of £128 on 14 May.\n\nBut Tui's managing director for the UK and Ireland, Andrew Flintham, told BBC Breakfast travel firms were unlikely to push up prices anytime soon.\n\n\"Our prices are very, very stable. They're pretty much like for like, flat, year over year. There isn't a big increase in there.\n\n\"We've got plenty of holidays to sell. I think everybody in the industry has.\n\n\"It'll be a long time before the idea of trying to increase prices to make more money. We want to get people away on holiday, having a great time, because we think they genuinely all deserve it.\"\n\nA lack of clarity about how governments will go about recognising vaccine and testing statuses from other countries is troubling the travel industry, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Fogel believes a single system would be helpful: \"So many different people in so many different governments are talking about different programmes, but right now, there is nothing out there that is unified, so it's very confusing.\n\n\"I listened to the prime minister of Italy saying how they want to let people into Italy soon and you just have to prove that you have a vaccine and it'd be great.\n\n\"And my thinking is, well, I have my vaccine myself, but how do I prove it? Do I just bring my little white card that I got in the US that said I got it, is that going to be good enough? We need some clarifications.\"\n\nSeveral systems are being explored, including the International Air Transport Association (IATA)'s travel pass, which is being trialled by a number of airlines.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Union is working on having a digital pass ready in time for the summer holidays.\n\nThe idea of a scheme that allows passengers who have had the vaccine to travel has proved divisive.\n\nThe UK equality watchdog recently warned it could create a \"two-tier society, whereby only certain groups are able to fully enjoy their rights\".\n\nThat's a view supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) but Mr Fogel disagrees.\n\n\"It's true that if you're not vaccinated, you may not be able to enter a country under this type of a system,\" he said.\n\n\"But I'm okay with that. Because the alternative is what - nobody gets to go in? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.\"\n\nHe added that there are countries that people cannot go into if they don't have proof of vaccination against yellow fever, for example.\n\n\"There's nothing wrong with using technology to prove you are a safe traveller that can help get the industry up faster,\" said Mr Fogel.\n\nHow to verify the coronavirus vaccine and test status of travellers like this man at Milan's Malpensa Airport has become a divisive issue\n\nThe lack of clarity has hurt the finances of Booking.com's US owner Booking Holdings, which also owns Kayak and rentalcars.com.\n\nRevenues for the three months to the end of March fell to $1.1bn (£790m) - 50% lower than the same period a year ago.\n\nFigures from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) reflect a similar picture across the industry, showing tourism's value to the global economy fell from nearly $9.2tn in 2019 to $4.7tn in 2020.\n\nAs a share of the global economy that equates to a fall from 10.4% to just 5.5%.\n\nBut Mr Fogel, who is chief executive of both the Dutch-based Booking.com and its parent firm Booking Holdings, told investors that there is still reason to be optimistic things will improve.\n\n\"While the pace of vaccine distribution remains frustratingly slow in most places around the world, Israel, the UK and the US are benefiting from successful vaccine distribution programs,\" he said.\n\n\"In each of these countries, we have seen encouraging booking trends, which supports our view that vaccine distribution is key to unlocking pent-up travel demand.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Derek Jackson was among the men seen wearing yellow stars and making salute gestures\n\nA Liberal Party member who confronted the SNP MSP Humza Yousaf at a Glasgow election count has been suspended.\n\nDerek Jackson and others, who are not affiliated with the Liberal Democrats, questioned Mr Yousaf about how women and children in Pakistan are treated.\n\nPolice arrived at the scene and asked them to leave. Mr Yousaf has accused them of targeting ethnic minorities.\n\nA spokesman for the Liberal Party said they were not aware Mr Jackson was going to confront Mr Yousaf.\n\nThe spokesman added that Mr Jackson \"had used the party for his own ends and has a long history of this behaviour in the past\".\n\nHe added: \"NAC member Stephen Graham who vetted him was not aware of this.\n\n\"We weren't aware whatsoever of what he intended to do today.\"\n\nThe group of men were members of the Liberal Party - not linked to the Liberal Democrats\n\nLiberal Party candidate Derek Jackson was asked to leave the count in Glasgow\n\nThe Liberal Party are one of the smallest in Scotland, standing one candidate in the Holyrood election.\n\nThe men were seen at the Emirates Arena count wearing yellow stars with the phrase \"unvax\", as well as repeatedly making saluting gestures.\n\nPolice Scotland said they escorted six people from the venue following \"complaints about their behaviour\" and that inquiries were ongoing.\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 Yousaf said the group made a \"beeline\" for him due to his skin colour.\n\nThey questioned him about the Hate Crime Bill which MSPs passed in March before turning to events in Pakistan.\n\nFollowing the incident, Mr Yousaf tweeted: \"Twice these cretins have approached me, targeting ethnic minority candidates demanding we apologise for things going on in Pakistan.\n\n\"Always said voices of good outweigh the bad. When these numbskulls started, people of all political parties joined with me to tell them to jog on.\"\n\nMr Yousaf also praised what he called \"the best of Scotland\" after colleagues from other political parties stepped in.\n\nHe was later re-elected as the MSP for Glasgow Pollok, with 53.7% of the vote.\n\nMr Yousaf greeted Nicola Sturgeon as she arrived at the count following the incident\n\nIt comes after Nicola Sturgeon was involved in a tense confrontation with a far-right candidate as she visited a polling station in the south of Glasgow on Thursday.\n\nThe SNP leader was praised on social media for how she handled an approach from a former deputy leader of Britain First.\n\nJayda Fransen accused Ms Sturgeon of \"flooding\" the country with immigrants.\n\nFootage posted online showed the first minister call Ms Fransen \"a fascist and a racist\".\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. 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Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Twitter has launched a new \"tip jar\" feature that lets people send money to others on the social network.\n\nThe company says the feature is \"an easy way to support the incredible voices that make up the conversation\".\n\nTo begin with, only a select group of people can receive tips - a group Twitter said was made up of \"creators\", journalists, experts, and non-profits.\n\nBut the feature has also been criticised for exposing personal information such as email addresses.\n\nThe tip jar function essentially adds a small icon to a user's profile - on mobile devices only for now - with a drop-down menu for other payment providers such as PayPal, Venmo, or the Cash App, the latter two of which are popular in the United States.\n\nBut because the payment is made through those external systems, some Twitter users noticed that tipping a PayPal account lets the recipient know the postal address of the tip sender.\n\nIn other cases, the recipient's email address could be seen, whether or not any money was sent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Tobac This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter security expert Rachel Tobac highlighted the issue, Twitter product lead Kayvon Beykpour thanked her for the \"good catch\" - but said Twitter could not control how PayPal handled that information.\n\nInstead, Twitter said it was updating the information around the tip jar to make clear that some details might be shared.\n\nPayPal, meanwhile, said the issue arose because the Twitter tip jar was using its \"goods and services\" payment option - which shares details for shipping those goods. It said people can toggle to the \"friends and family\" option during payment to avoid the issue.\n\nThe tip jar function also has support for Bandcamp - widely used by musicians - and Patreon, used by all sorts of independent digital creators such as YouTubers and podcasters.\n\nTwitter says the addition was inspired by people who added payment links or Patreon ads in replies to viral tweets.\n\n\"We $ee you - sharing your PayPal link after your Tweet goes viral, adding your $Cashtag to your profile so people can support your work, dropping your Venmo handle on your birthday or if you just need some extra help,\" wrote Twitter's senior product manager Esther Crawford in the blog post announcing the feature.\n\nIt said more people would be able to add the function to their profile \"soon\".\n\nBut there are some concerns about the way the function will be used.\n\nJournalists, in particular, are often banned from accepting gifts - and it's not clear how \"tips\" will be treated by news organisations.\n\n\"Seems like Twitter's tip jar feature is going to raise some issues for newsrooms,\" tweeted Ryan Lizza, Politico's Washington correspondent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ryan Lizza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Should reporters at your favourite [publications] and networks be allowed to accept money from anyone on the internet?\" he asked.\n\nAnother reporter writing for a US-based newspaper wrote: \"On the one hand... seems ripe for creating unethical situations.\n\n\"On the other hand... I don't make a lot of money and it's a tough world out there.\"\n\nThe tip jar is the latest in a string of experiments from the social network, which has seen user growth slow in recent years.\n\nEarlier this month, it acquired Scroll, a subscription service that removes adverts from participating news websites - and announced it would be part of Twitter's upcoming subscription service.\n\nAs part of that deal, Twitter also pitched paying Twitter as a way of supporting journalism.\n\n\"As a Twitter subscriber, picture getting access to premium features where you can easily read articles from your favourite news outlet or a writer's newsletter from Revue, with a portion of your subscription going to the publishers and writers creating the content,\" it said.", "As people move from lockdowns in India's big cities to rural areas, Covid-19 continues to spread.\n\nBut rundown local hospitals and health centres are unable to cope with a crisis that they were never equipped for.\n\nBBC India correspondent Yogita Limaye has been inside one to uncover the conditions that patients are facing.", "The Array Collective at Pride 2019 (left) and Project Art Works' Siddharth Gadiyar at the Phoenix Art Space\n\nThe 2021 Turner Prize nominees are, for the first time, made up of collectives who have helped to \"inspire social change through art\", organisers say.\n\nExhibitions have been largely closed over the past year due to the pandemic.\n\nWith that in mind, Friday's shortlist contained the names of five groups who continued to work in the community.\n\nPrize chair and Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson said it is intended to capture and reflect the mood of the moment in contemporary British art.\n\n\"After a year of lockdowns when very few artists have been able to exhibit publicly, the jury has selected five outstanding collectives whose work has not only continued through the pandemic but become even more relevant as a result,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThe efforts - by Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical and Project Arts Works - have included artwork in support of law changes in Northern Ireland, a 24-hour fundraising rave for queer, trans and intersex black and people of colour, and the use of food to help understand the workings of the world.\n\nAs well as a lockdown doorstep neighbourhood story-telling campaign and work by a group of neurodiverse artists.\n\nLast year's Turner Prize didn't happen at all due to the effects of coronavirus and it was instead replaced by a fund for struggling artists.\n\nIn 2019, the prize pot was split four ways at the nominees' request.\n\nEventual joint-winners Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Tai Shani and Oscar Murillo said they wanted to make a \"collective statement\" at a time when there was \"already so much that divides and isolates people and communities\" - a nod to the fall-out from the Brexit referendum.\n\nThis year is the first time a Turner Prize jury has selected a shortlist comprising entirely of artist collectives, who the judges say have all showed \"solidarity\" with various communities across the UK during a difficult 12 months.\n\nArray Collective are a group of Belfast-based artists whose work tackles issues affecting Northern Ireland.\n\nThe jury commended the way it \"fuses seriousness with humour, and addresses contemporary issues using ancient folk imagery\".\n\nRecent projects have included public artworks in support of the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland, challenging legislative discrimination of the queer community, and participation in the group exhibition Jerwood Collaborate! in London.\n\nThe English capital is where Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) are based, and they work across art, sound and radical activism.\n\nFormed by and for QTIBPOC (queer, trans and intersex black and people of colour), the group aims to challenge the perceived norms of sound-system culture across African communities In London - through club nights, art installations, technical workshops and a film documenting QTIBPOC nightlife.\n\nJudges praised their live performances - they've put on events at Somerset House - and \"their commitment to community\", including an online 24-hour fundraising rave.\n\nCooking Sections are the other London-based nominees and they examine the systems that organise the world through food.\n\nUsing installation, performance and video, they explore the overlapping boundaries between art, architecture, ecology and geopolitics.\n\nTurner Prize officials applauded the ingenuity of their long-term CLIMAVORE project, which asks questions about how our diet can respond to the climate emergency.\n\nThe duo put on a sound, light and sculpture installation at Tate Britain last year, reflecting on salmon farming, as well as an ongoing installation-performance on the Isle of Skye which sees an underwater oyster table turn into a community dining space at low tide.\n\nOver in the Cardiff, Gentle/Radical - made up of artists, community workers, performers, faith practitioners, writers and others - are advocating for art as a tool for social change.\n\nThey create real and virtual spaces for communities in Wales to engage with culture, such as the creation a pop-up cinema space showing independent films.\n\nTheir ongoing Doorstep Revolution helped people to share neighbourhood stories during lockdown.\n\nThe jury admired their \"deep commitment\" to the hyper-local community of their native Riverside.\n\nIlluminating the Wilderness found Project Art Works on location in Glen Affric, Scotland\n\nLast but not least, Project Art Works are a collective of neurodiverse artists and makers based in Hastings.\n\nNeurodiversity is defined as autistic or other neurologically atypical patterns of thought or behaviour.\n\nThey explore art through collaborative practice with, for and by neurominorities - and their work appears in exhibitions, events, films and online.\n\nTheir recent film, Illuminating the Wilderness, followed members of the collective and their families and carers exploring a remote Scottish glen.\n\nThe jury praised their continuing work at Hastings Contemporary, where passers-by could continue to view work in lockdown by looking through the windows of the closed gallery.\n\nAn exhibition of all five Turner Prize nominees work will be held at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry from 29 September until 12 January 2022, as part of the UK City of Culture 2021 celebrations.\n\nThe winner will be announced on 1 December.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Portugal is one of just four European countries on the green list\n\nThe travel industry has expressed disappointment that so few countries are on the UK government's green list for travel, describing the announcement as \"overly cautious\".\n\nThe traffic light system means travel abroad from 17 May will not be illegal.\n\nThe 12 green list countries, which include Portugal, Gibraltar and Israel, will not require people to quarantine on return to England.\n\nFirms said leaving the US off the list would risk the UK \"falling behind\".\n\nTravel to amber or red lists countries is not advised.\n\nThe change in travel rules applies to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have not said when they might ease their strict travel rules.\n\nOnly four of the countries on the green list are in Europe, and Portugal is the only large holiday destination from the continent on the list.\n\nIsrael and Singapore are also included, but Australia and New Zealand - which are approved as safe by the UK government - are not currently allowing in visitors from abroad.\n\nFrance, Greece, Italy and Spain, normally hugely popular holiday destinations for UK travellers, are not included on the safe list.\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director of holiday firm TUI, said: \"While we were expecting to see just a handful of destinations on the green list, this is an overly cautious start.\"\n\nAirlines UK, representing UK carriers, described it as \"a missed opportunity\" and \"a reopening of air travel in name only\" which left the UK \"at risk of falling behind\".\n\nAnd Easyjet chief executive Johan Lundgren said: \"The decision to put so few European countries into the green tier is simply not justified by the data or the science, and is inconsistent with the approach to reopen the domestic economy.\"\n\nUK citizens risked missing out on bookings for hotels if other European tourists were permitted to travel, he added.\n\nMaking the announcement, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the easing of restrictions was \"necessarily cautious\" in the light of the threat from new variants of Covid-19.\n\nHe said the UK's success in combating the virus was not matched in many other countries.\n\nHowever he said the list would be reviewed every three weeks by the Joint Biosecurity Centre - the team set up last year to monitor the threat from the virus.\n\nSome firms had hoped the rapid roll out of the vaccination programme in the US would allow summer travel to resume there more quickly.\n\n\"There is no reason for the US to be absent from the green list. This overly cautious approach fails to reap the benefits of the UK's successful vaccination programme,\" a spokesperson for Virgin Atlantic - one of the airlines which relies heavily on UK-US traffic - said.\n\n\"A transatlantic travel corridor is vital to deliver a much-needed boost to economic recovery,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nBut British Airways predicted that more countries would be included before the summer.\n\n\"What's clear is that with high levels of vaccination in the UK being matched by other countries, we should see more destinations going 'green' before the end of June,\" BA chief executive Sean Doyle said.\n\n\"We cannot stress more greatly that the UK urgently needs travel between it and other low-risk countries like the US, to re-start the economy, support devastated industries and reunite loved ones.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ryanair, Easyjet, Tui and British Airways all said they would be increasing their flights to Portugal and other destinations on the green list.\n\nTourist-dependent firms in Portugal were quick to welcome the news.\n\n\"No-one enjoys a holiday more than the British people,\" said Miguel Campino, owner of Maria's Restaurant - a beach venue on Praia do Garrão Poente.\n\n\"They bring a colourful atmosphere to all the restaurants, bars and hotels. This is a happy moment for everyone, for Portugal, for England... it's great news.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"No-one enjoys a holiday more\": A restaurant owner in Portugal is excited to welcome back tourists from England\n\nJoão Fernandes, president of the Algarve Tourism Bureau, also said the region was ready to welcome UK visitors back.\n\n\"We are obviously delighted with the news,\" he said. \"It's a recognition of the remarkable work Portugal has done in reducing levels of Covid to be able to restart the economy safely.\"\n\nIt comes as ministers continue talks with Uefa about holding the Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City in the UK, after host nation Turkey was added to England's travel red list.\n\nFrom 04:00 BST on Wednesday 12 May, travellers from Turkey, as well as those from the Maldives and Nepal, will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days on their return.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told BBC Breakfast that the UK had offered to host the match but that it would \"ultimately be a decision for Uefa\".\n\nHowever, the UK consumer body Which? warned that practical difficulties over taking a holiday abroad would remain.\n\n\"Travellers will have an expectation that these new government rules should protect their health and their money, yet serious issues around lengthy airport queues and a broken testing system remain unresolved,\" Rory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said.\n\nAlthough international travel has been heavily restricted since January, returning travellers have experienced long delays at border control when arriving at Heathrow, sometimes waiting for up to six hours.\n\nPrivate firms offering Covid tests to returning travellers have been criticised for failing to deliver tests and results on time.\n\n\"Travellers should also be aware that there is still some financial risk involved in booking travel plans, depending on how you book and which company you choose,\" said Mr Boland.\n\n\"In a summer when further disruption can be expected, travel companies must be honest about the risks holidaymakers may be taking on. Crucially, holidaymakers also need to do their research before booking, as choosing the right provider could be the difference between getting hundreds of pounds back or just getting the run-round.\"\n\nA further 15 deaths in the UK within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Friday, bringing the total to 127,598. There were 2,490 new cases.\n\nMore than 35 million first doses of a coronavirus vaccine have been given and more than 16.7 million second doses.", "Nicola Sturgeon easily saw off a challenge from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar in her Glasgow Southside constituency\n\nThe SNP has won three key seats but its hopes of securing an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament election remain on a knife edge.\n\nThe party has taken both Edinburgh Central - where former MP Angus Robertson was standing for the SNP - and Ayr from the Conservatives.\n\nIt also won the East Lothian seat from Labour.\n\nBut it fell short in other targets, with counting in the remaining seats due to resume on Saturday.\n\nNo other constituencies have changed hands so far, with the SNP currently on 39 seats, the Liberal Democrats four, Tories two and Labour one.\n\nBut the opposition parties will see their number of seats increase dramatically once the regional list results are finalised on Saturday.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said it was now unlikely, but not impossible, that the SNP would achieve an overall majority in the new Holyrood parliament.\n\nAnd he said there were clear signs that tactical voting by pro-UK voters in some parts of the country had been successful.\n\nThe Alba Party, which was founded by former first minister and SNP leader Alex Salmond, looks unlikely to win any seats.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nAs the count resumed on Saturday, Aberdeenshire East was first to declare with the SNP's Gillian Martin holding her seat with a reduced majority of 1,889 over the Scottish Conservatives - who increased their vote share by 11%.\n\nFriday's results included First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - the SNP leader - easily holding off a challenge from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar in her Glasgow Southside constituency.\n\nMs Sturgeon won by 9,456 votes, only marginally lower than the 9,593 she won by in 2016.\n\nTurnout has been higher than anticipated in many areas, with the SNP's share of the vote falling in many of the early constituencies to declare but increasing in others.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that the SNP \"appears to be on course for a fourth consecutive election victory and to be on course to have the privilege of forming a government again\".\n\nShe pledged to \"get back to work immediately\" and lead the country's Covid recovery.\n\n\"And then, when the time is right, to offer this country the choice of a better future,\" she added.\n\nIt comes as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested he would reject any calls for a second independence referendum, saying it would be \"irresponsible and reckless\" right now.\n\nAsked if an SNP majority would mean there was a mandate for another vote, he told the Daily Telegraph: \"I think that count is still taking place and we'll have to see what happens. I listened to the Scottish election carefully. My impression was that they [the SNP] moved away from the idea of a referendum, and I think very wisely.\n\n\"I don't think this is anything like the time to have more constitutional wrangling, to be talking about ripping our country apart, when actually people want to heal our economy and bounce forward together. That's what people want.\"\n\nJohn Swinney told BBC Breakfast he was 'confident' there would be a pro-independence majority\n\nHowever deputy first minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast that his party would legislate for a second referendum if Mr Johnson were to block one.\n\nHe said: \"We've said we will take forward legislation to have a legal referendum - we already have put in place some of the legislative arrangements for that process. We will embark on such an agenda should there be a majority for such a proposition in the Scottish Parliament.\"\n\nMr Swinney said that although he was waiting to see the \"electoral arithmetic\" of the final results, he was \"very confident\" there would be a majority of candidates \"elected on a programme to deliver a referendum on independence\".\n\nThis election has a long way to go with a further 26 constituencies and all 56 regional list seats still to declare.\n\nWhile the SNP is on course to finish as the largest party, there are only limited opportunities left for them to do so with an overall majority.\n\nTo achieve that they really need to hold all they have and pick up an additional constituency seat like Aberdeenshire West, where the Conservatives are defending a majority of 900 votes.\n\nThere is also a possible pathway if they do better than expected on the regional lists which are very hard to predict because of the proportional voting system.\n\nIf the SNP fall short of that outright majority they could enter a fourth term in office as a minority government (as they are now) or seek a more formal arrangement with another party - most likely the Greens.\n\nTogether the SNP and the Greens will almost certainly have a pro-independence majority at Holyrood - committed to holding another referendum that the UK government seems determined to resist.\n\nA big wrangle over indyref2 is coming and it could end up in the UK Supreme Court.\n\nThe constituencies that declared on Friday included eight of the SNP's top 10 target seats.\n\nThe Conservatives held Dumfriesshire, which had been one of the SNP's goals, with Oliver Mundell increasing his majority, while Jackson Carlaw held the marginal Eastwood seat for the Tories from the SNP.\n\nAnd Labour's Daniel Johnson held off the SNP challenge in Edinburgh Southern and the party's deputy leader Jackie Baillie increased her majority over the SNP in Dumbarton.\n\nThe election is seen as being crucial to the future of the UK as the result could impact on whether or not there is a second referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nThe SNP - which has formed the devolved Scottish government since 2007 - will once again finish as the largest party, but is seeking to win an overall majority to strengthen the case for indyref2.\n\nAlthough it is not yet clear that it will win a majority by itself, there is likely to be a pro-independence majority in the parliament once the Scottish Greens are allocated regional list seats on Saturday.\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 coronavirus pandemic meant that traditional overnight counting was impossible, with the results instead being announced over the course of Friday and Saturday.\n\nA record number of people had already cast their ballots by post before the polls opened on Thursday morning - with more than a million having registered for postal ballots.\n\nOther elections also took place across the UK on Thursday, including for the Welsh Parliament, 143 English councils and 13 local mayors, as well as a by-election for the Westminster seat of Hartlepool in the north east of England - which was won by the Conservatives from Labour.\n\nSIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage", "Stuart Lubbock died following a party at TV presenter Michael Barrymore's home near Harlow in March 2001\n\nThe ailing father of a man whose body was found in Michael Barrymore's swimming pool 20 years ago said he believed \"the truth will come out\".\n\nStuart Lubbock, 31, died after being found unconscious in the TV presenter's pool in Roydon, Essex, in March 2001.\n\nThis week, Essex Police said a file would be submitted \"imminently\" to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nTerry Lubbock, who has terminal cancer, said he could rest in peace knowing he had done the best for his son.\n\nStuart, a butcher from Harlow, was at a party with eight other people at Mr Barrymore's home when he died.\n\nA post-mortem examination showed he suffered severe internal injuries which suggested he had been sexually assaulted.\n\nMichael Barrymore, 69, hosted a gathering at his house and Stuart Lubbock was found unconscious in his swimming pool\n\nA man in his 50s, who has not been named, was arrested in Cheshire in March on suspicion of murder and indecent assault after \"significant new information\" emerged, police said.\n\n\"I have done my best now for my son,\" said Mr Lubbock, a 76-year-old retired toolmaker.\n\n\"I can rest in peace now. I think the truth will come out.\"\n\nHe added: \"My body is going down, and my mind, and I am starting to forget things.\"\n\nTerry Lubbock called for a fresh inquest but was refused an application to the High Court\n\nIn February, Mr Lubbock said doctors had told him he had months to live.\n\nHe said all he lived for was to get \"justice for Stuart\", but accepted he may never get the answers he wanted.\n\nIn January, he called for a fresh inquest, and said he thought information must now have emerged which justified a fresh inquiry by a coroner.\n\nA coroner recorded an open verdict at an inquest in 2002 and, three years ago, the then-Attorney General, Jeremy Wright, refused to give Mr Lubbock permission to make an application to the High Court for a second inquest.\n\nBut Mr Lubbock said a fresh Essex Police appeal, which coincided with the broadcast of a Channel 4 documentary Barrymore: The Body In The Pool in February 2020, had changed the landscape.\n\nNo-one has been charged with any offence in relation to Stuart Lubbock's death.\n\nMr Barrymore, now 69, was arrested in 2007 but never charged with any offence.\n\nHe described the Channel 4 documentary as \"vile and vicious\" and said nobody who was at his house on the night of Stuart Lubbock's death knew what happened.\n\nAsked if he had anything fresh to offer the police, he replied: \"I honestly wish I did.\"\n\nEssex Police said it would soon pass a file to the CPS regarding the man who was arrested, following a \"substantial and detailed investigation\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Twaite shad were once abundant and famed across Europe for their taste\n\nOne of the UK's rarest fish is getting a chance to return to its historical breeding grounds on the River Severn.\n\nThe little-known twaite shad, a member of the herring family, was once common in British waters with thousands of the fish migrating upstream in spring.\n\nNumbers dwindled after weirs constructed in the 19th Century posed barriers to migratory fish.\n\nA conservation project is trying to unlock the river for fish by creating routes around several weirs.\n\nIt is hoped the move will benefit a host of species including salmon, lamprey and eels.\n\nThis month could see the return of the twaite shad to stretches of the river north of Worcester.\n\nVolunteers are being sought to listen out for the distinctive splashing sounds the fish make when they breed at night.\n\nJason Leach, programme director at the Canal & River Trust, said: \"It's never too late to give nature the chance to recover.\n\n\"Our project's night-time riverside spawning vigils are a fitting way to begin recording the recovery of the fish affected so badly when our predecessors inadvertently caused a big problem for migratory fish by the building of the weirs.\n\n\"We hope lots of volunteers will be inspired to join us to witness and record the spring shad-spawning phenomenon.\"\n\nOne of the new passes will take fish past Diglis Weir in Worcester\n\nThe Unlocking The Severn project by the Canal & River Trust, Severn Rivers Trust, Environment Agency and Natural England is in the process of reopening 150 miles (241km) of the river for the fish.\n\nTwo specially constructed passes beside Victorian-era weirs at Diglis and Bevere, near Worcester, have been completed.\n\nA study by Swansea University estimates that 99% of the UK's rivers are fragmented by barriers such as weirs, dams, hydropower structures and culverts.\n\nThe high number of barriers make it difficult for migratory fish to complete their journeys to reproduce and find food.\n\n\"If you imagine a fish that is 10cm long, then a barrier that is even under 50cm high is going to prevent that fish from moving up and down the river to different bits of habitat where it might feed or spawn,\" said researcher Dr Joshua Jones.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nPublic health experts have recommended that a version of the Indian Covid variant found in the UK be declared a \"variant of concern\", the BBC has been told. It's believed more than 500 cases of the variant known as B.1.617.2 have been detected across England, which would represent a sharp rise from the 202 recorded in the UK by Public Health England (PHE) as of 28 April.\n\nIf you're desperate to get away on an overseas holiday, industry figures warn it could prove costly this year. Uncertainty over the relaxation of travel rules is making it hard for airlines to plan when to bring planes back into service which, combined with pent-up demand, means holiday prices are \"already going up\", according to Booking.com's Glenn Fogel.\n\nIt's recommended that pregnant women are given the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna jabs when they are vaccinated because there is more safety data available about these drugs. But the online booking system in England does not allow users to specify a vaccine, meaning some women are struggling to get their jab, Labour MP Stella Creasy says. Giuditta Fontana, 36, tells us the process is proving \"incredibly stressful\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explainer: Should you get the Covid vaccine if you're pregnant?\n\nPoor pupils have fallen further behind in maths as a result of the pandemic, according to research. The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) study suggests primary-school pupils eligible for free school meals have fallen another month behind their classmates since the first lockdown. The government has made £1.7bn in catch-up funding available in England.\n\nThe Netherlands might be struggling to control a third wave of coronavirus - but the Eurovision Song Contest venue in Rotterdam is nonetheless ready to welcome thousands of screaming fans later this month. Anna Holligan explains why.\n\nThe stage is almost set at Rotterdam's Ahoy arena for the 2021 contest\n\n...you can pick up free rapid Covid tests. Here's how.\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham: \"This would appear to be in my view a fairly major communications error\"\n\nA hospital in Bolton has said it is taking \"urgent action\" to manage a surge in patients with Covid-19.\n\nRoyal Bolton Hospital said it had experienced \"one of the busiest days ever\" and urged people to attend A&E only \"if absolutely necessary\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the government made a \"major communications error\" in not announcing new Covid travel advice for the town.\n\nBolton is among the areas hardest hit by the Indian variant of the virus.\n\nThe town recorded 452 cases per 100,000 people in the week to 21 May, the highest in England.\n\nThere were 865 cases recorded in the week to 14 May, rising to 1,300 the following week.\n\nRoyal Bolton said it was also placing an \"increased focus on discharges to free bed space\".\n\nDeputy chief executive Andy Ennis said a number of patients were discharged overnight but 41 patients with Covid remained on the wards, with eight in critical care.\n\nManchester City Council leader Sir Richard Leese, who is also health and care lead for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, said the number of Covid patients at the hospital was still less than a third of what it was at the peak of the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Even though there is a high proportion of cases, that high proportion of cases is not translating into significant increases in hospitalisation, and, more importantly, it is not leading to more people in ICU.\"\n\nHe said those being admitted included people aged 35 to 60, and although some would have been eligible for one or two vaccinations, a bigger number of patients had only recently become eligible for the jab.\n\nMr Ennis said the hospital was \"taking urgent actions to ensure we can continue to manage this demand effectively\".\n\n\"Going into the bank holiday weekend and half term, which is always a busy time for the NHS, we anticipate this pressure continuing,\" he said.\n\n\"We urge the public to continue to take all necessary steps to protect themselves and others, follow the relevant national guidance, and to only attend our emergency department if absolutely necessary.\"\n\nAdvice against non-essential travel to Bolton in Greater Manchester and for people there to meet outside where possible was issued on 14 May.\n\nThe advice for Blackburn, Burnley, Kirklees, Bedford, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside was published online on Friday, on a page in a section of the government's website which deals with the Covid-19 restrictions, and urges \"an extra cautious approach\".\n\nIn a joint statement, public health directors from all eight areas reiterated that the advice was guidance only.\n\nThey said they had been assured by government officials there were no legal restrictions on travel in or out of each of the areas and \"no local lockdowns\".\n\n\"We are all working together to boost testing and vaccination and to support self-isolation,\" they said, and also urged people to continue taking \"sensible public health precautions\".\n\nSpeaking during a virtual press conference, Mr Burnham said: \"It would appear guidance was reissued on Friday but has been amended and it would appear to put more emphasis around travel, hence the confusion that has been created.\n\n\"Nobody in our system was told about this change in the presentation of the guidance.\"\n\nRoyal Bolton Hospital said there were 41 patients with Covid on its wards\n\nAsked if residents should cancel holidays, Bolton Council leader David Greenhalgh said they should \"just behave sensibly\".\n\nHe said after speaking with government officials \"there are no added restrictions coming to Bolton, there is no local lockdown\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said the government website would be updated to \"make it clearer\" local restrictions were not being imposed.\n\nAdvice about additional precautions people can take living in the areas would also be added, he said.\n\n\"This includes, wherever possible, trying to meet outdoors rather than indoors, keeping two metres apart from anyone you don't live with and minimising travel in and out the area.\"\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. There will be an investigation into the re-hiring of Martin Bashir, says BBC chairman Richard Sharp\n\nThe BBC is to review its editorial practices and investigate how journalist Martin Bashir was rehired, following an inquiry into his interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nLord Dyson's report found the BBC covered up \"deceitful behaviour\" used by Bashir to secure the interview.\n\nThe BBC board accepted the findings in full and reiterated its apology.\n\nCulture minister John Whittingdale told MPs that the BBC had \"damaged its reputation\" in the UK and abroad.\n\nThe inquiry, published last week, found Bashir had faked bank statements designed to suggest Princess Diana was under surveillance - to win the trust of her brother Earl Spencer, and eventually gain access to the princess for the 1995 Panorama interview.\n\nAs media interest in the interview increased, the BBC covered up what it had learned about how Bashir secured the interview, the inquiry said.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said his mother was failed \"not just by a rogue reporter\" but by BBC bosses.\n\nThe BBC rehired Bashir as religion correspondent in 2016, when questions had already been asked about his conduct.\n\nIt said the post was filled after a competitive interview process.\n\nBut Mr Knight, chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, told the House of Commons on Monday the BBC rehired and promoted Bashir \"who they know was a liar.\"\n\nHe said: \"My sources suggest Mr Bashir wasn't interviewed, he was simply appointed. Hardly a highly competitive process.\"\n\nHowever, the BBC said Mr Knight was not correct on that point, adding: \"We can confirm there was an interview process for this position, and that Martin Bashir was interviewed as part of that.\"\n\nMr Knight also said the Dyson report left more unanswered questions such as \"who was precisely involved in the 25-year cover-up and instituted the action against whistleblowers?\"\n\nHe also asked: \"Was Bashir rehired in essence so that he would keep his mouth shut?\"\n\nBashir, who was promoted to religion editor after his rehiring, has since resigned without a pay-off.\n\nThe BBC board said in a statement it hoped to ensure the \"mistakes of the past\" could not be repeated.\n\n\"We accepted Lord Dyson's findings in full and reiterate the apology we have offered to all those affected by the failings identified,\" it said.\n\n\"We recognise the impact that the events it describes has had on so many people, not least those whose lives were personally affected by what happened. We also acknowledge that audiences had a right to expect better from the BBC.\"\n\nThe board said it had \"confidence\" that the \"processes and guidelines in today's BBC are much stronger than they were in 1995\".\n\nBut it said \"it is right that we review the effectiveness of the BBC's editorial policies and governance in detail\".\n\nDame Melanie Dawes, Ofcom's chief executive, said: \"We've told the BBC that we expect its review to draw from a range of broadcasting expertise. We have also highlighted the need for greater openness and transparency at the BBC in order to maintain public trust, and will pay close attention to the review as it proceeds.\"\n\nBBC chairman Richard Sharp told the BBC's World at One: \"I take comfort from the fact that Martin Bashir is no longer here. I don't take comfort yet from understanding why he was rehired. We will find that out.\"\n\nAsked what he knew of Bashir's rehiring, including whether due diligence was carried out, he said: \"I actually don't know, that is being examined by the executive and they will report to the board on that. \"I want to see the facts.\"\n\nMr Sharp said that there was \"no doubt... that the practices adopted in advance of the interview were entirely unacceptable in any ethical news journalism broadcasting entity, and that was a clear failure\".\n\nHe added: \"It's also clear that the approach to reviewing the programme and the practices failed. And that's a separate failure which was identified in the prince's statement to do with governance, accountability and scrutiny.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Whittingdale told the Commons on Monday the government should not interfere in editorial decisions, but ensure there was \"a strong and robust system of governance at the BBC with effective external oversight.\"\n\nHe said: \"The BBC has been and should be a beacon, setting standards to which others can aspire. That it has fallen short so badly has damaged its reputation both here and across the world.\"\n\nMr Whittingdale said there was \"no question of dismantling the BBC or defunding it\".\n\nThe BBC now needs urgently to demonstrate that these failings have been addressed and that this can never happen again, he said.\n\nThe Panorama interview featured Princess Diana giving an extraordinarily frank account of her marriage to the Prince of Wales, famously saying \"there were three of us in this marriage\" - a reference to her husband's affair with the future Duchess of Cornwall and admitting to an affair of her own.\n\nRichard Sharp's intervention is significant partly because it is the first time a BBC figure has spoken since Prince William's statement.\n\nHe made clear that his concern was not only the (lack of) integrity of the original broadcast, but the \"culture\" that allowed Bashir's deceit and the subsequent \"woeful\" investigation.\n\nThe focus of this story is moving on, as Sharp acknowledged, to why Bashir was rehired by the BBC in 2016.\n\nHe was an employee of the BBC until this month.\n\nAs the clamour for reforms grow, this re-entry of Bashir to the BBC, and his subsequent promotion, undermines any hopes the corporation had that it could argue this all belongs to the past.\n\nJames Harding, who was director of BBC News when Bashir was rehired, said last week that he had not known the journalist had forged bank statements and, had he known, \"he wouldn't have got the job\".\n\nAsked about whether he had consulted then-director general Lord Hall about the reappointment, Mr Harding, who left the BBC at the beginning of 2018, did not answer directly but said he himself took responsibility for Bashir's rehiring.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Responsibility for rehiring Martin Bashir \"sits with me\", says the BBC's former news director James Harding\n\nLord Dyson's report, published last Thursday, said the BBC had fallen short of \"high standards of integrity and transparency\" over the interview.\n\nThe report said an internal BBC investigation in 1996, led by Lord Hall, into the initial complaints had been \"woefully ineffective\".\n\nThe independent inquiry was commissioned by the BBC last year, after Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, questioned Bashir's tactics to get the interview.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Diana was failed not just by Martin Bashir but by leaders at the BBC, says Prince William\n\nLord Dyson found that Bashir had lied to BBC managers about deceiving Earl Spencer with the forged bank statements.\n\nThe inquiry said Bashir told his bosses he had not shown the fake documents to anyone.\n\nThe report described significant parts of Bashir's account of the events of 1995 as \"incredible, unreliable, and in some cases dishonest\".\n\nBashir has said mocking up the documents \"was a stupid thing to do\" and that he regretted it, but said they had had no bearing on Diana's decision to be interviewed.\n\nSpeaking to the Sunday Times, Bashir said he was \"deeply sorry\" to her sons, the dukes of Cambridge and Sussex.\n\nBut he rejected Prince William's claim that he had fuelled her paranoia, saying they were close and he \"loved\" her.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, the Duke of Cambridge said the deception fuelled his mother's paranoia and worsened his parents' relationship.\n\nDue to the way it was obtained, Prince William has said the interview should not be shown again.", "Government borrowing fell in April compared with the same month last year, as parts of the economy reopened after lockdown measures eased.\n\nBorrowing - the difference between spending and tax income - was £31.7bn, official figures show, which was £15.6bn lower than April last year.\n\nHowever, the figure was the second highest for April since records began.\n\nBorrowing has been hitting record levels with billions being spent on measures such as furlough payments.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) now estimates that the government borrowed a total of £300.3bn in the financial year to March. While that was down slightly from its previous estimate of £303.1bn, it remains the highest level since the end of World War Two.\n\nThe ONS said the cost of measures to support individuals and businesses during the pandemic meant that day-to-day spending by the government rose by £204.1bn to £942.7bn last year.\n\nThe huge amount of borrowing over the past year has now pushed government debt up to £2.17 trillion, which is 98.5% of GDP - a rate not seen since the early 1960s.\n\nApril's borrowing figure was lower than official forecasts. The Office for Budget Responsibility, the fiscal watchdog, had predicted borrowing would reach £39bn last month.\n\nParts of the economy began to reopen in April, including pubs and restaurants as well as hairdressers and gyms.\n\nTax receipts in April were £58bn, which was up slightly from the same month last year when receipts were £54.2bn.\n\nThe government's borrowing figures were also boosted by smaller than expected interest payments on debt.\n\n\"April's public finances figures showed that the government's financial position isn't as bad as the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicted only two months ago, reinforcing our view that the tax hikes and spending cuts that most fear may be avoided,\" said Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\nHow you view the latest figures on government borrowing depends on what you compare it with.\n\nThe amount borrowed in April - £32bn - is very high by normal standards, about as much as the public sector was predicted, before the pandemic, to need to borrow over the whole financial year. But it is less than the £39bn officially predicted by the OBR at the Budget two months ago.\n\nSimilarly, the revised figure for the whole financial year 2020/21 is £300bn - about ten times what was forecast pre-pandemic and the highest borrowing in peacetime.\n\nBut compare it to the £394bn predicted in November and there's room for optimism.\n\nSome economists now think there won't be a need for big spending cuts or tax rises to bring that figure down. Instead it will drop naturally as the economy expands, tax receipts from income tax, VAT and the like roll in and the government spends less supporting the economy.\n\nIt's also worth remembering that government finances are about as unlike household finances as you could get; almost all the money the government's borrowed since the pandemic is owed to the Bank of England. In that light, the objective pressures to raise taxes or cut spending to reduce borrowing aren't at all urgent. Any decisions to do so will be born less from economic urgency and more from political judgment.\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics said public borrowing \"should continue to undershoot\" the OBR's forecast it published alongside the Budget in March amid expectations of a strong recovery in GDP.\n\nHowever, he said: \"The chancellor's room for manoeuvre on austerity measures will depend on the size of the long-term hit to potential GDP from the recent recession.\n\n\"While 'scarring' should be smaller than after past recessions, given that the unemployment rate has remained low, we still see significant costs in the form of diminished investment and an unprecedented exodus of non-UK nationals.\"", "Patrick Ennis was one of three paramedics to work at the scene of the blast\n\nA paramedic first on the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing did not give immediate treatment to casualties because his role was to assess the scene, an inquiry has heard.\n\nPatrick Ennis was one of three paramedics to work at the blast scene.\n\nHe explained he did not immediately start treating people because it was his job to prepare for a wider major incident response.\n\nMr Ennis said his training was to assess who was most in need of help.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at about 22:30 BST on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry heard Mr Ennis arrived at the scene 21 minutes after the bomb had gone off.\n\nHe said he spent 90 minutes triaging patients and deciding who was most in need of urgent care.\n\nMr Ennis explained to the hearing as the first person from the ambulance service on the scene, treating the injured \"would occur sometime into the incident\", and added \"it was not practical at that stage\".\n\nMr Ennis agreed that some people may see it as a \"brutal way to approach the situation\" but that was the way he had been trained to provide an \"overall grip\" on a major incident.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nThe advanced paramedic said although he expected more colleagues to follow him into the foyer, he realised it was going to take some time.\n\n\"I think the numbers that we had available at that time just simply didn't allow for any deployment of large number of paramedics into the City Room.\"\n\nMr Ennis told the inquiry he was made aware by firearms police officers that they did not think that area was safe.\n\n\"I believe that's one of the reasons why it wasn't possible to deploy further paramedics as they arrived into that area,\" he said.\n\nMr Ennis said the decision to move critically injured people from the foyer down to the station concourse was why only two more paramedics went into the bomb scene.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Japan's medical system is struggling to cope with Covid-19\n\nThe US has issued a travel warning for Japan over the country's Covid-19 surge, amid heightened scrutiny just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics.\n\nBut US Olympic officials have said they are confident their athletes will be able to take part safely in the Games.\n\nJapan already bans most travellers from entering the country.\n\nIt long had low numbers of Covid cases but is now seeing a fresh wave of infections pushing the healthcare system in some cities to its limit.\n\nJapan has recorded more than 700,000 infections and 12,000 Covid-19 deaths from the virus.\n\nThe US Center for Disease Control (CDC) said \"travellers should avoid all travel\" to the country, warning that in the \"current situation in Japan even fully vaccinated travellers may be at risk for getting and spreading\" Covid variants.\n\nLargely due to the global pandemic, the US currently has 151 countries at level four, its highest alert level, including most of Europe where large sports events go ahead under special Covid restrictions.\n\nJapan currently does not allow any tourists or business travellers into the country for fear of new strains of the virus. The Japanese ban includes people coming from the US being \"denied permission... unless there are exceptional circumstances\".\n\nLarge parts of the country are currently under a state of emergency to give regional authorities more power to enforce measures against the pandemic.\n\nThere's growing public pressure to axe the Games\n\nDespite the growing crisis, the Tokyo Olympics are still scheduled to go ahead on 23 July after having been postponed from last year.\n\nPublic opinion in the country has seen a vast majority of people calling for the Games to be cancelled though, or postponed a second time. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ruled out both those options.\n\nA lot of people in Japan will be hoping that the CDC warning for Americans not to travel to Japan is a precursor to the US Olympic Team pulling out of the Tokyo Olympics.\n\nWhy? Because most people in Japan want the Games cancelled, and a US team withdrawal would almost certainly force the Japanese government to pull the plug.\n\nFor weeks people here have been saying Japan won't cancel without some outside pressure. There's even a name for this in Japanese - it's called \"gaiatsu\".\n\nThose people look set to be disappointed. The US Olympic Committee says it is not changing its plans. Nor is the International Olympic Committee.\n\nLast Friday IOC vice president John Coates said the Olympics will go ahead \"even if Tokyo is still under a state of emergency\".\n\nThat statement did not make him many friends in Japan, where daily deaths from Covid are now higher than at any time during the pandemic, and where the healthcare system in parts of western Japan has been described as \"on the verge of collapse\".\n\nThe United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said the travel warning saying it would not affect their participation.\n\n\"We feel confident that the current mitigation practices in place for athletes and staff by both the USOPC and the Tokyo Organising Committee, coupled with the testing before travel, on arrival in Japan, and during Games time, will allow for safe participation of Team USA athletes this summer,\" it said in a statement.\n\nJapanese officials on Tuesday have responded to the US travel advisory, saying they did not expect it to have any impact.\n\n\"We believe that there is no change in the US position to support the Japanese government's determination to realise the hosting of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics,\" said chief cabinet secretary Katsunobu Kato.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'If people are not feeling safe, then it's a really big cause for concern'\n\nNo foreign travellers are allowed to attend the Games, and the Japanese government is also not ruling out the option of holding the event without any spectators, should the Covid situation get worse.\n\nLagging behind other developed nations in its vaccination efforts, Japan on Monday kicked off a mass vaccination programme in Tokyo and Osaka, the two cities which have been hit hardest by the new surge in infections.\n\nSo far, only about 1.9% of the population is fully vaccinated. Authorities hope that by the end of July, at least those aged 65 and above will have completed their vaccinations.", "Mhari O'Neill's body was discovered on Edinburgh's Calton Hill in December 2018\n\nA man has admitted killing a schoolgirl after buying her alcohol and abandoning her on Edinburgh's Calton Hill.\n\nEwan Fulton, who was 18 at the time, bit and throttled Mhari O'Neill, 15, before leaving her on Edinburgh's Calton Hill on 7 December 2018.\n\nHer body was found by a dog walker. Hypothermia, with intoxication, was said to be the most probable reason for her death.\n\nFulton, now aged 20, was remanded in custody at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nHe will be sentenced next month following background reports.\n\nThe court heard that Fulton met Mhari through social media site Yubo.\n\nBefore they met, he sent her a message which read: \"It is freezing today should've worn my pimp coat\". In a later message he wrote: \"Ur gonna freeze to death OMG.\"\n\nAfter she was found dead he told police he was aware Mhari was 15 years old.\n\nHe said he had bought a large bottle of vodka for them to share after he travelled to Edinburgh from Livingston to meet her.\n\nEwan Fulton was aged 18 at the time of the killing\n\nFulton told police Mhari had been so intoxicated that she kept falling off a bench and could not walk.\n\nHe claimed he was starting to panic and knew he needed to get the last train home. He maintained he told her several times he was leaving, but did not get a response as she was \"unable to speak\".\n\nThe following day the shop worker sent her a text stating: \"Are you alive?\" He said he was \"freaking out\" because he had not heard from her.\n\nAdvocate depute Alex Prentice told the court after his meeting with Mhari, Fulton had texted a friend the next day.\n\nIn a message he wrote: \"I had no choice but to leave, what was I supposed to do?\" and \"I got her drunk she's 15\".\n\nHe told another friend: \"That girl has a family and if I had stayed she would be alive.\"\n\nMr Prentice said pathologists considered hypothermia, with intoxication, was the most probable reason for the Portobello High School pupil's death.\n\nFulton pleaded guilty to culpable homicide. He admitted taking part in sexual activity with the schoolgirl, culpably and recklessly endangering her health and life, and exposing her to risk of injury and death.\n\nHe had provided her with alcohol which resulted in her becoming intoxicated and incapable of looking after herself.\n\nFulton, from Livingston, West Lothian, abandoned the girl \"in a remote and exposed location\" in a state of partial undress without means to contact anyone and failed to seek help for her.\n\nThe culpable homicide charge stated he behaved with \"utter disregard\" for the consequences of his actions towards her.\n\nIn impact statements, Mhari's parents described her as \"a much-loved daughter\".\n\nMhari had asked her mother, Donna O'Neill, if she could go to the city's Christmas market with a friend. Her mother agreed and told her she had to be home by 21:00.\n\nWhen she failed to return home her family began looking for her and contacted her friends, before reporting her to police as a missing person at about midnight.\n\nDet Insp Susan Balfour from Police Scotland's major investigation team said: \"This has been a distressing time for Mhari's family and our thoughts remain with them and her friends.\n\n\"We welcome the conviction of Ewan Fulton and hope it brings some comfort to Mhari's loved ones.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thank you for joining us on a sometimes contradictory day, that began with allegations of \"lockdown by stealth\" and ended with a joint statement from health directors refuting the idea.\n\nWe will be back tomorrow with updates as MPs question the prime minister's former chief adviser - Dominic Cummings - over the government's handling of the pandemic.\n\nMr Cummings has claimed that the government's original plan was to let the coronavirus spread through the population - achieving so-called \"herd immunity\".\n\nBut the UK Health Security Agency chief says allowing people to become infected \"has never been on the agenda\".\n\nWe will bring you live updates when the health and science select committee meet at 9:30 BST.\n\nFor now, goodbye from Doug Faulkner, Dulcie Lee, Jennifer Meierhans, Julian Joyce and Robert Corp.", "Michelle Hadaway said Martin Bashir did not return her murdered daughter's clothing\n\nThe mother of a murdered girl wants the BBC to investigate the way she was treated by journalist Martin Bashir.\n\nMichelle Hadaway gave Mr Bashir items of her daughter's clothing for DNA testing in 1991, but said no tests were done and the clothes were not returned.\n\nKaren Hadaway and Nicola Fellows, both nine, were murdered by Russell Bishop in 1986, in a case that became known as the Babes in the Wood murders.\n\nThe BBC has agreed to speak to Ms Hadaway about the lost items.\n\nA spokesman for the corporation said: \"We appreciate how distressing this must be for Ms Hadaway and we will of course discuss this matter with her if and when she wishes to do so.\"\n\nMs Hadaway said Mr Bashir denied taking the clothes, despite signing a receipt.\n\n\"Over the years I have been so angry with the fact this man has never apologised to me, never contacted me,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\n\"The denials have been going on for quite a long time,\" she added.\n\nMs Hadaway said she was persuaded Mr Bashir was going to have the clothes DNA tested as part of a BBC documentary exploring the impacts of advances in forensic testing.\n\nMartin Bashir returned to the BBC in 2016\n\nWoman's Hour said it had been unable to reach Mr Bashir for comment.\n\nWhen asked about the claims by The Times, he said: \"I may have lost it, but I don't remember.\"\n\nThe BBC is to review its editorial practices and investigate how it came to rehire the journalist as religion correspondent in 2016, after an inquiry into his interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nLord Dyson's report found the BBC had covered up \"deceitful behaviour\" used to secure the interview.\n\nKaren Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows (right) were killed in Wild Park, Brighton, in 1986\n\nMs Hadaway said she would \"of course\" welcome an investigation of her interactions with Mr Bashir, and said she intended to consult lawyers to \"see what can be sorted about him\".\n\nShe said she had trusted Mr Bashir with \"the last thing that I had to do with my daughter, which was her clothes\".\n\n\"To not give them to me back, or to not have them DNA tested, is a bit shameful,\" she said.\n\nIn 1987, Bishop was cleared of murdering and sexually assaulting Karen and friend Nicola Fellow, both nine, in woods in Brighton, East Sussex.\n\nHe went on to attack a seven-year-old girl in 1990.\n\nIn 2018, he was convicted of the murders after double jeopardy laws were changed, permitting a second trial.\n\nMs Hadaway said the family had always mantained Bishop was guilty and would have considered taking civil action if DNA tests had been conducted and evidence was found against him.\n\nShe said she would like Mr Bashir to apologise, adding: \"There's been no apology, even back when I found the receipt and he was approached about it with the receipt, he's still saying 'I don't remember'.\"\n\nA BBC spokesperson told Woman's Hour: \"When people raise concerns of this kind about our programmes, of course we look into them.\n\n\"The BBC has changed radically over the past 25 years and has significantly better processes and procedures in place to protect contributors, but we also know that it is important to keep learning.\"\n\nSussex Police said it was aware of claims Mr Bashir had not returned items of clothing, but said it had \"no material impact on the investigation then or later, or on the 2018 prosecution\" of Bishop.\n\nIt said that forensic evidence had already been obtained in 1986, before the clothing was returned to Karen's family at their request.\n\nMaterial obtained from the clothing before it was returned included DNA evidence \"which only became accessible many years later due to advances in forensic technology and which was crucial in securing Bishop's eventual conviction\", it said.", "The crew of a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka had to be evacuated after a chemical fire caused an explosion.\n\nTwo sailors from the Singaporean X-Press Pearl were taken to hospital with injuries.", "Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich is under house arrest after the extraordinary diversion of his Ryanair flight from Greece, denounced by some as a \"state hijacking\".\n\nMr Protasevich, 26, was until November 2020 editor of the opposition Nexta channel on the Telegram messaging app. The channel was founded by fellow dissident Stepan Putilo and run from outside Belarus.\n\nNexta and Nexta Live, used for mobilising street protests, now have nearly two million subscribers, managing to get round heavy state censorship.\n\nMr Protasevich faces serious charges. He and Mr Putilo - who calls himself Stepan Svetlov - were put on Belarus's list of \"individuals involved in terrorist activity\" last year. The charge of causing mass unrest can be punished by up to 15 years in jail. But terror offences carry higher sentences and as he was led off the plane passengers quoted him saying \"I'll get the death penalty here\".\n\nMass protests erupted across Belarus after long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in a 9 August presidential election widely condemned as rigged, and a crackdown followed.\n\nHe had just been visiting Greece along with his Russian girlfriend, Sofia Sapega. The blogger had attended an economics conference in Athens along with other Belarusian dissidents before the couple spent some time on holiday in Crete.\n\nThey were flying back to Lithuania, where they were both living, when their jet was made to land in Minsk over a fake bomb threat.\n\nPassenger Monika Simkiene remembered seeing Mr Protasevich panicking as the flight was diverted. Another said he looked \"super scared\".\n\nOn the ground, he and Ms Sapega were led away by police, and later appeared in videos where they were shown making what appeared to be forced confessions to crimes against the Belarusian authorities.\n\nOn 25 June, it was revealed that both had been placed under house arrest. Ms Sapega in a flat on her own in Minsk, and Mr Protasevich at an undisclosed location, allegedly under secret police supervision.\n\nHis fellow blogger Mr Putilo said they had once discussed the risks of flying over their home country.\n\n\"It's a real shame that Roman made this mistake, he said. \"But unfortunately Roman's colleagues say he had relaxed a bit in recent times, not feeling threats.\"\n\nThe small Nexta (pronounced \"nekhta\", meaning \"somebody\" in Belarusian) team is based in Poland but also works closely with Belarusian dissidents in neighbouring Lithuania. It was launched by Mr Putilo in 2015 as a YouTube music channel, but soon switched to focus on political content.\n\nTelegram, a secure messaging app for smartphones, is one of very few ways Belarusian dissidents have been able to organise.\n\nNexta Live's posts have included crowd-sourced photos and videos of police brutality and have informed people about opposition rallies and strikes.\n\nMr Protasevich now works for a different Telegram channel, Belamova. He stepped in to write for it after blogger Igor Losik was arrested by Belarusian authorities in June 2020.\n\nStepan Putilo at Nexta HQ in Warsaw last August\n\nWhen once asked by BBC Russian if Nexta was a protest hub or a media outlet, Mr Protasevich said: \"It is hard to say who we are. I guess we are primarily Belarusians who would like to come home and live in a free country without dictatorship.\"\n\nHis anti-Lukashenko activities go back to 2011 - as a teenager he was expelled from school for taking part in a protest.\n\nHe was later admitted to the journalism department of Belarusian State University, but expelled from there too.\n\nIn 2014-15, he was in eastern Ukraine, spending time with the ultra-nationalist Azov Battalion when it was fighting Russian-backed rebels.\n\nHe says he was there as a journalist and got wounded in the chest, but there exists a contemporary interview with a Belarusian Azov fighter (in Russian) using the nom de guerre Kim, who fits Mr Protasevich's description and calls himself a soldier.\n\nWhile the exact nature of his involvement with Azov is difficult to know, Belarusian state media have seized upon it in an attempt to portray Mr Protasevich as an extremist.\n\nThe blogger left Belarus in 2019 and in January 2020 applied for Polish citizenship.\n\nHis parents moved to join him in Poland last August. His father Dmitry is an army reserve officer who lectured in ideology at a Belarusian military academy.\n\nSince his capture, Mr Protasevich has appeared in several videos apparently speaking under duress.\n\nIn one appearance on Belarusian state TV, he admitted trying to topple Mr Lukashenko.\n\nRoman Protasevich's father was adamant that his words had been forced out by torture\n\nBelarusian rights group Viasna condemned the broadcast, saying: \"Everything Protasevich will say was said under duress - at the very least psychological duress.\"\n\nHis father Dmitry said watching his son speaking was painful: \"No-one should believe these words because they were beaten out, through abuse and torture of my son.\"\n\nAt the end of the interview, the dissident broke down in tears and lifted his hands to his face, revealing marks on his wrists.", "The body of Emma Faulds was found in the Galloway Forest, six weeks after she disappeared\n\nA former prison officer has been convicted of murdering his friend and dumping her naked body in a forest.\n\nRoss Willox, 42, killed Emma Faulds, 39, after a party at his house in Monkton, South Ayrshire, in April 2019.\n\nHe went to elaborate lengths to cover his tracks but Ms Faulds' body was found six weeks later in the Galloway Forest, Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe discovery followed a massive search of the remote area, which was narrowed down by CCTV and mobile phone analysis.\n\nEmma's family wept as the verdict was delivered at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nWillox will be sentenced next month\n\nLord Mulholland told Willox he had committed \"a foul crime on a young woman loved by her family\".\n\n\"You would have visited upon them a lifetime of wondering if she was still alive had her body not been recovered as a result of the sterling work by the police and experts,\" added the judge.\n\nWillox, who had denied murder, will be sentenced next month.\n\nDespite the guilty verdict, it is still not known why he killed Emma - or how she died.\n\nPolice Scotland said there was nothing in his background to suggest he was capable of such a crime.\n\nDet Insp Peter Crombie, of the force's major investigation team, said: \"He would appear, on the face of it, to be an ordinary guy who led an ordinary life.\"\n\nEmma and Willox became friends when they worked together as prison wardens at HMP Kilmarnock.\n\nDetectives said the pair, who had a platonic relationship, had agreed to meet at his house for a party on Sunday 28 April 2019.\n\nEmma Faulds had gone to Willox's home in Monkton on 28 April\n\nEmma had told her parents of her plans, and confided to her sister Miriam that she was \"going to have a bit of a mad one\".\n\nAt about 20:00 Emma messaged a friend from Willox's home in Fairfield Park, Monkton, to say she planned to have a few drinks and stay over.\n\nA witness also told the jury he drove a drug dealer friend to the house after receiving a text from Emma at 23:30 asking for cocaine.\n\nWilliam Beattie said the door had been opened by a large man wearing a coat, and that as he drove away from the house he saw Emma sitting on a couch.\n\n\"I waved and she waved back,\" he said.\n\nEmma was usually in frequent contact with her loved ones, and her phone was described as \"an extension of her arm\".\n\nBut no-one heard from her the following day.\n\nHer mother, Margaret, said this was \"totally out of character\".\n\n\"She was in touch every day. My husband and I knew something was wrong.\"\n\nMissing posters were distributed soon after Ms Faulds disappeared\n\nThe couple were visiting relatives in Brighton when they raised the alarm on 30 April.\n\nMrs Faulds had earlier received a call from Emma's employers at Kibble School in Paisley, Renfrewshire, saying she had not turned up for work.\n\n\"We were on edge and decided to report her missing because it was so unlike her,\" her father Ian told the trial.\n\nAt about 16:30 that day police officers broke in to Emma's flat in Fullerton Street, Kilmarnock, and discovered that her pet dog Maverick, who had been heard crying by a neighbour, was home alone.\n\nFriend Nicholas Wyper, told the jury: \"Maverick was her baby. Maverick never got left himself - ever.\"\n\nAs the last person to see her alive, Willox became the immediate focus of the investigation, codenamed Operation Solzen.\n\nPolice and forensic teams at the house in Monkton\n\nHe told officers that Emma had decided to drive back to her flat, which was less than nine miles away, at about 23:00.\n\nHe said he joined her for the journey, and later took about a dozen lines of cocaine.\n\nWillox said Emma was \"positive and upbeat and enjoying herself. She was talking about her forthcoming 40th and talking about a cruise\".\n\nHe claimed to have gone home in a taxi at about 07:00 on 29 April.\n\nThe trial heard he twice called the police for updates on the case and gave different accounts to Emma's sister, Sarah, about how she left his home in Monkton.\n\nEmma's car was critical to the timeline. Footage from a dash-cam revealed the blue BMW 1 series was parked outside Willox's house at 17:39 on April 28.\n\nBut at about 07:25 the following day Emma's neighbour told the jury he saw a man driving the vehicle in Fullerton Street, Kilmarnock.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe driver was also captured on private CCTV wiping down the interior of the car, including the steering wheel and the dashboard. Willox's DNA was later found on a seat lever.\n\nThe jury heard Willox did not join Emma's family and friends when they put up posters and distributed leaflets around Ayrshire after she was reported missing.\n\nMiriam said she thought that was \"strange\", adding: \"Why would he not be trying to find her?\"\n\nAs the search for Emma intensified, experts began to plot Willox's movements using CCTV and cell site analysis of his mobile phones.\n\nThey also examined his background and discovered he used to build wind farms near the Galloway Forest, in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nSearches took place at remote locations in the Galloway Forest\n\nThis became critical when cameras picked up two journeys to the area in the days following Emma's disappearance.\n\nThe first, on 29 April, was made in his Mercedes SUV. The following day he made the trip in a Jaguar he bought for his wife, who was working abroad when Emma vanished.\n\nA police dog trained in the scent of dead bodies later gave a \"positive indication\" during the search of the car, by repeatedly barking at the boot area.\n\nCCTV footage was discovered showing Willox going into various shops in Ayr and buying bleach, rubber gloves and tins of outdoor disinfectant.\n\nDet Insp Crombie said: \"When we put all those pieces of evidence together it painted a suspicious picture of Ross Willox's movements.\"\n\nRoss Willox was seen on CCTV buying bleach, rubber gloves and outdoor disinfectant\n\nPolice drafted in search experts from the UK National Crime Agency, as well as an officer who had worked as a wind farm liaison and had intimate knowledge of the area.\n\nThe Galloway Forest Park covers around 300 square miles and Det Insp Crombie said some parts look \"like the surface of the moon\".\n\nDigital forensic experts examined the cell site analysis from Willox's phones and overlaid it with the CCTV, which had been recovered from the routes he took in the 48 hours after Emma vanished.\n\nAs a result, they were able to narrow the search area down to between 10 and 15 square miles.\n\nWillox was under surveillance when he was arrested at his mother's house on 8 May on suspicion of Emma's murder.\n\nThe circumstantial case also featured internet searches he had made on his best friend's iPad. These included \"can cars be traced by GPS?\" and \"can UK police trace your car without a warrant?\"\n\nOn 12 June, six weeks after Emma disappeared, her naked body was found in Glentrool Forest, east of Loch Moan.\n\nThe discovery was made by Det Con Ben Pacholek and his dog Bear, who had walked more than 200 miles during the inquiry.\n\nDet Insp Crombie said the hairs on the back of his neck stood up when he got the call to say that Emma's body had been found.\n\n\"It was quite an emotional moment,\" he added.\n\nA pathologist was unable to confirm how Emma died due to the \"degree of decomposition\".\n\nBut the jury was told that soil found on boots owned by Willox was a 92% match for mud at the remote spot where the body was recovered.\n\nProsecutor Paul Kearney told the jury Willox had made a \"determined attempt to create a false narrative to conceal and destroy evidence\".\n\nDet Insp Crombie described the killer as \"a selfish, arrogant monster\" and said he compounded the agony of Emma's loved ones by failing to admit his crime.\n\nHe added: \"They are still heartbroken and I know they miss her terribly every day. To put her family through that is unforgivable.\"\n\nIn a statement released after the guilty verdict, Emma's family said: \"We are absolutely devastated by Emma's death and her not being with us has left a tremendous void in all our lives.\n\n\"We cannot believe she was taken from us in such a violent way and what makes it even worse is that Ross Willox was supposed to be her friend.\n\n\"The court case has been arduous and hearing about what happened that night has been harrowing, but we are thankful that Willox has been found guilty and he will have to live forever with the consequences of his actions.\"\n\nWHO KILLED EMMA? Sam Poling investigates the brutal murder of Emma Caldwell\n\nTHE DOORSTEP MURDER: The murder of Alistair Wilson is one of Scotland’s most baffling unsolved cases", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sasha Johnson in June 2020: \"Why should we stay quiet?\"\n\nProminent Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is critically ill after being shot in the head, her party says.\n\nThe Taking the Initiative Party (TTIP) said she was being treated in intensive care after being \"brutally attacked\" in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe 27-year-old has life-threatening injuries following the shooting on Consort Road, in Peckham, south London.\n\nTTIP said Ms Johnson had undergone an operation and remained in critical care, in recovery post-surgery.\n\nA vigil was held in Ruskin Park, close to King's College Hospital, where Ms Johnson is being treated.\n\nWell-wishers played African drums and prayed for Ms Johnson to pull through.\n\nOne speaker told the crowd: \"In every community there are good eggs and bad eggs and we have to make sure those bad eggs are held accountable for their actions.\n\n\"Because it's not acceptable for those bad eggs to be attacking our warriors - be they male or female.\n\n\"Warriors who are out there every day without pay working for our families, working for our communities.\"\n\nA vigil for Ms Johnson was held earlier in Ruskin Park, beside King's College Hospital in south London\n\nPolice said at this stage there was no evidence the attack was targeted.\n\nAfter fears grew among other activists that it was a targeted attack, Charles Gordon, one of TTIP's founding members said: \"I would like to say that we need to stay cautious and aware; the truth is that we don't know what has happened here.\"\n\nA party spokesman said: \"Whilst we understand there is much speculation around the nature of the incident, our priority is Sasha's health and recovery.\"\n\nDetectives said there was currently nothing to suggest the shooting victim had received any credible threats against her, and have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThey have not confirmed her identity.\n\nIt is believed Ms Johnson had been at a party when she was shot\n\nEarlier, Imarn Ayton, a friend of Ms Johnson's, told the BBC doctors had carried out surgery on her fellow activist, which had gone well and she was \"now with her parents\".\n\nShe said Ms Johnson had been at a party or gathering when she was injured but she did not believe \"she was the intended victim\".\n\n\"As far as I am aware... this incident is more related to rival gangs as opposed to her activism,\" Ms Ayton said.\n\nDetectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command have been investigating at the scene and the surrounding area and are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry.\n\nIt is believed the shooting happened near a house where a party was taking place and a number of people may have been in the area, a Met Police statement said.\n\nThe Taking the Initiative Party said the attack followed \"numerous death threats\".\n\nForensic officers have been carrying out searches in the area where Ms Johnson was shot\n\nDet Ch Insp Jimi Tele said: \"This was a shocking incident that has left a young woman with very serious injuries. Our thoughts are with her family who are being provided with support at this terribly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you saw anything suspicious in the Consort Road area in the early hours of Sunday morning, or if you have heard information since that could help detectives, it is crucial that you get in touch.\"\n\nDr Darren Henry, who knew Ms Johnson through community activism campaigns, called on those speculating about the shooting to \"let the police do their jobs\".\n\n\"Like any shocking or horrendous crime in our community, we hope that the offenders are brought to justice and that there is no bias and no racism.\n\n\"Let the police do their watching and monitoring, but we are out here as well doing our watching and our monitoring.\"\n\nTributes on social media have been pouring in from all over the world since the shocking attack on the young mother.\n\nTamika Mallory, a well-known US activist posted on her Instagram account: \"Pull through sis! People think it's a game out here. Smh. #SashaJohnson\", while Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy tweeted: \"This is gut wrenching. Praying for Sasha Johnson, her family and friends that she makes a full recovery #BlackLivesMatter\".\n\nAnd Harriet Harman, the Labour MP for Camberwell and Peckham, tweeted: \"Whoever carried out this dreadful shooting of Sasha Johnson needs to be caught quickly. Give any info you have to MPSSouthwark. Reported death threats will need to be investigated. Wishing her a full recovery. With thanks to the NHS for much needed expertise and care.\"\n\nMs Johnson was a well known anti-racism campaigner who organised a Black Lives Matter protest last summer, in her home city of Oxford.\n\nMany have praised her courage and determination to stand up for the rights of black people, tirelessly calling out injustices and inequality.\n\nMs Johnson has previously spoken about living in a society where her black sons would be accepted and which had a better system that could help them grow. She said she was determined to carry on campaigning and wanted to make a difference within her own community.\n\nMs Johnson, who works in community activism and community support and got a first in social care from Ruskin College in Oxford, has been a leading figure in the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK and is a member of the Taking the Initiative Party's leadership committee.\n\nIn its manifesto, the party describes itself as aiming \"to create real change in communities across the UK by setting the agenda in government\".\n\nIt said it wanted to do this by putting forward \"exceptional candidates who truly represent their communities, winning seats to create a Parliament that looks like the society it leads\".\n\nPolice said there was currently no evidence to suggest it was a targeted shooting\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, the party said Ms Johnson is a mother of two and a \"powerful voice\" who has always been fighting for black people and against the injustices that affect the black community.\n\n\"Let's all come together and pray for Sasha, pray for her recovery and show our support to her family and loved ones,\" the statement said.\n\nBlack Lives Matters UK said it was shocked by the shooting of \"a young mother and fearless political campaigner who was at the forefront of many BLM protests last summer\".\n\nIt said that while she was not part of the organisation, \"she impressively founded a new Black-led political party and was dedicated to resist anti-Black racism\".\n\nThe group added: \"Any attempt to intimidate or silence her, is an attack on all of us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFarmers fear escaped livestock could cause a serious crash after off-road bikers cut through fences, allowing animals to get on to the highway.\n\nThey claim there has been a rise in the amount of fencing being cut to access their land during the Covid pandemic.\n\nSeven sheep died after being hit by vehicles after getting free in Ebbw Vale, prompting calls for action.\n\nBlaenau Gwent council said it was liaising with police where fencing was \"deliberately being damaged\".\n\nBikers have been accused of cutting through fences and knocking over fence posts, with their deep tyre tracks destroying grazing habitats.\n\nA police inspector said anyone caught committing criminal damage could face prosecution.\n\nSam Pearce shows some of the damaged fencing\n\nSam Pearce, from Mynydd Carn-Y-Cefn Graziers' Association, which represents farmers in the area, said they were extremely worried about livestock getting free as \"it could result in a fatal car accident\".\n\n\"Over the last two weeks we've seen a number of animals get killed on the roads, and by dog attacks in the residential area,\" she said.\n\n\"It's causing great distress to everybody in the community.\"\n\nOne evening this month, seven sheep were killed in a crash involving several cars near a supermarket in Ebbw Vale.\n\nAnother animal was killed in a dog attack outside a pub.\n\nThere are also reports of livestock on the roads elsewhere, including Abertillery and Blaina.\n\nDaniel Burrows said the damage the bikers have done to the landscape was \"soul-destroying\"\n\nThe farmers said off-road motorcyclists have been using professional, heavy-duty cutting equipment to slice through high-tensile steel fences to access common land on Mynydd Carn-Y-Cefn, where some farmers have the right to graze their livestock.\n\nBBC Wales saw hundreds of metres of damaged and destroyed fencing.\n\nDaniel Burrows has grazing rights to the common and has lost livestock recently due to them being hit by traffic after they got free.\n\nHe said it was \"heart-breaking\" and that the damage to fencing has \"got worse since lockdown\".\n\n\"Look what they've done to the landscape itself, it's soul destroying,\" he added.\n\n\"Unfortunately, with these fences down, there is nothing stopping them. Sheep shouldn't be on the road.\"\n\nRepresentatives from Mynydd Carn-Y-Cefn Graziers' Association said they wanted the council to repair the fences.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gwent Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBlaenau Gwent council said it was not solely a council issue, and it also required the co-operation of livestock owners and members of the community.\n\nIn a statement, it said it \"responds to calls to assist the police in removing any sheep from the highway where they are causing a potential danger\".\n\n\"We also try to identify the owners of the animals so that they can be collected but, of course, we have to rely on the response of the individual owner in doing that.\n\n\"The maintenance of fences is always the responsibility of the landowner.\n\n\"Wherever these are council maintained, we will arrange for repairs to be carried out.\n\n\"We are also working closely with the police to look at areas where fences are deliberately being damaged by people wanting to gain access to the land.\"\n\nBlaenau Gwent Insp Shane Underwood said: \"We are working with the council and local farmers to address the issue of sheep roaming the highways.\n\n\"We have received reports of fences being deliberately damaged which is unacceptable. Anyone caught committing criminal damage could face prosecution.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison made the announcement in a statement issued on Tuesday\n\nAustralia has said it will shut its embassy in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Friday, as the withdrawal of international troops proceeds.\n\nIn a statement, Canberra talked of \"an increasingly uncertain security environment\" in the country.\n\nIt said Australian diplomats would visit Afghanistan regularly - but would be based elsewhere in the region.\n\nAfghanistan said it hoped the closure would be \"short-lived\" and Australia would continue its permanent presence.\n\n\"The closure of an embassy is also a cause for concern,\" it added in a statement. \"One question that may come to the minds of some people is: 'Why is Australia leaving Afghanistan in such a situation and why did it spend 20 years in this country?'\".\n\nThere are fears that the withdrawal of the US-led Nato force could plunge Afghanistan back into a full-scale war.\n\nIn April, US President Joe Biden said American troops would leave by 11 September, after 20 years of military involvement in Afghanistan. \"It is time to end America's longest war,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nAt least 2,500 US troops are part of the 9,600-strong Nato Afghan mission.\n\nOver the past two years, Australia has reduced the number of its troops in Afghanistan from more than 1,500 to about 80.\n\nUS and Nato officials have recently said that the Taliban, a hard-line Islamist movement, have so far failed to live up to commitments to reduce violence in Afghanistan.\n\nThe Australian statement was issued jointly by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Foreign Minister Marise Payne on Tuesday.\n\n\"We will close our Embassy building on 28 May 2021,\" the document said, adding that \"it is Australia's expectation that this measure will be temporary and that we will resume a permanent presence in Kabul once circumstances permit.\n\n\"Australia remains committed to the bilateral relationship with Afghanistan, and we will continue to support the stability and development of Afghanistan in concert with other nations.\"\n\nThe statement did not say where in the region Australian diplomats would be relocated.\n\nThis announcement throws up a number of questions. The speed for starters - the embassy is due to close by the end of this week. Why so fast?\n\nWhat does that mean for Canberra's commitment to peace in Afghanistan? Just four weeks ago, the foreign minister was in Kabul reiterating her government's support.\n\nWhat's clear, however, is that there's a great deal of nervousness about the potential for increased violence - and not much confidence, it seems, in the ability of the Afghan leadership or troops to stop it.\n\nWith an emboldened Taliban movement that sees the withdrawal of coalition troops as a victory, the Afghan government will need all the help it can get from its allies. In Australia's case, for now, it will have to be from a distance.\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\nA 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\nAlthough the group stopped attacks on international forces as part of the historic agreement, it has continued to fight the Afghan government.\n\nEarlier this month, 60 people, mostly girls, were killed in explosions outside a secondary school in Kabul.\n\nNo-one has admitted carrying out the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi, an area often hit by Sunni Islamist militants.\n\nThe Afghan government blamed the Taliban for the attack, but the group denied involvement.", "The BBC understands that the number of missed appointments at the Hydro was higher on Sunday than on Saturday\n\nAround half of people who were due to get a Covid jab at a mass vaccination centre in Glasgow failed to turn up over the weekend.\n\nThe BBC has learned a \"considerable\" number of no shows were recorded on both Saturday and Sunday at the Hydro.\n\nThe venue can administer a minimum of 4,000 vaccinations each day, with a capacity to scale up to 10,000.\n\nIt comes amid efforts to accelerate vaccination following a rise in cases in the city.\n\nThe BBC understands that the number of missed appointments at the Hydro was higher on Sunday than on Saturday.\n\nBoth NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Scottish government said they were looking into the issue to establish if it was a localised issue or more widespread.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives suggested there may have been an issue with people receiving their vaccination appointment letter on time while the Lib Dems pointed to younger age groups who they said \"move frequently\" and have less contact with their GP.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf received his first jab on Monday\n\nIn Scotland, people are invited to vaccine appointments, usually by letter, rather than booking slots themselves.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf, who received his first jab on Monday, said there had been a \"slight increase\" in those not attending appointments.\n\nHe said: \"My plea would be to please attend and if you can't attend the appointment you're given of course you do have details where you can switch appointments, rearrange and reschedule - which is really important to do.\"\n\nGlasgow City currently has the second highest coronavirus rate in Scotland at 136.8 cases per 100,000 people, having recorded 866 new positive tests in the seven days to 21 May.\n\nClackmannanshire has overtaken it for the highest case rate, at 139.7 per 100,000 although the number of positive tests is much smaller, at 72.\n\nGlasgow is the only council area in Scotland under level three Covid restrictions amid concerns over the prevalence of the variant first identified in India - referred to as the April 02 variant by the Scottish government.\n\nPeople aged 18 to 39 who live in postcodes G41, G42, G5, G51 or G52 in the southside of Glasgow are being offered jabs early to tackle surging cases.\n\nMobile testing units have been set up in some parts of Glasgow\n\nThe national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, confirmed there were bigger numbers of non-attendees than expected and that it was being looked into.\n\nHe told Radio Scotland's Drivetime with John Beattie: \"It's not simple, it will be a mixture of reasons. Some of it will be our fault, because we didn't send letters in time or the appointments didn't go where they were supposed to go.\n\n\"Some of it will be vaccine hesitancy and some will be complacency. But it doesn't matter if you didn't attend, we just want you to come. Make a new appointment and come back.\"\n\nHe also said he was optimistic that case numbers in Glasgow would stabilise and that the city might be able to move down to level two next week.\n\nThe Scottish government is now inviting 18-29 years to self-register after a successful trial for unpaid carers.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"This age group is particularly mobile and having the ability to text these groups means they will receive details of their vaccination appointment regardless of where they are.\n\n\"This is particularly relevant for students who may have registered with a GP near their term time address but be heading home for the holidays. Therefore, once they receive their appointment details vie text or email they simply contact the helpline should they need to change the location.\"\n\nThe service is open between 24 May and 4 June and those who register for their vaccination during this period will be allocated the first available slots from mid-June until the end of July.\n\nBut anyone in this age group who does not register for whatever reason will still receive a blue envelope appointment.\n\nTo sign up, visit nhsinform.scot/under30register or call 0800 030 8013.\n\nUniversity of St Andrews psychologist Prof Stephen Reicher, who advises the UK and Scottish governments, said the message should be that it is important to get both jabs. But he said it was not as simple as assuming people were to blame for not going for their vaccinations.\n\nHe said: \"Sometimes it's a matter of practicality. Getting to the SECC if you have caring responsibilities over the weekend, or if you are a single parent and you have got to take a couple of buses to get there, it is quite tricky.\n\n\"It makes sense that rather than ask people to come to you, to go into communities, take mobile labs there to get people vaccinated.\n\n\"We also need to talk to people and understand what their concerns are.\"\n\nHospital admissions in Glasgow have increased recently, and the health secretary said the Scottish government would be monitoring whether this figure translates into more severe cases which require ICU 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 Scot Gov Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Yousaf also said this new variant meant it was \"vitally important\" that people received both doses of the vaccination when it was offered.\n\n\"The second dose offers greater and longer lasting protection, and should not be missed,\" he said.\n\n\"We want everyone to come forward for a vaccine and we continue to work with community organisations to address any barriers people may experience to ensure that everyone is able to get an appointment.\n\n\"The vaccines we have are extremely safe and highly effective.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservative health spokeswoman Annie Wells said the number of missed vaccine appointments was \"extremely concerning\" and called for further transparency from the government on the issue.\n\nShe said: \"If there are any issues with people receiving their appointment letters on time, then SNP ministers must give health boards the resources to ensure that people's details are fully up-to-date.\n\n\"That is even more important now as we encourage younger people to take up the vaccine and ensure we can safely ease restrictions in the coming weeks.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP added: \"Younger age groups are more likely to move frequently and have less contact with their GPs so the government should be exploring a range of options as to how they can get people registered and get their jab.\n\n\"If you did not receive your letter, please check with your GP.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former motorsport boss Max Mosley, who later became a privacy campaigner, has died aged 81.\n\nEx-Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone said it was \"like losing a brother\".\n\nMr Mosley, who had been suffering from cancer, led motorsport's governing body the FIA from 1993 to 2009.\n\nHe also campaigned for tighter press regulation after winning £60,000 damages from the News of the World when it wrongly published a story alleging he had attended a Nazi-themed orgy.\n\nMr Mosley, in his role as FIA president, initiated widespread reforms of safety procedures in Formula 1 following the death of Ayrton Senna in 1994.\n\nMr Ecclestone added: \"He did, a lot of good things not just for motorsport, also the [car] industry. He was very good in making sure people built cars that were safe.\"\n\nCurrent FIA president Jean Todt said in a tweet he was \"deeply saddened\" by the news, adding that Mr Mosley \"strongly contributed to reinforcing safety on track and on the roads\".\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesman for F1 described Mr Mosley as \"a huge figure in the transition\" of the sport.\n\nMr Mosley - the son of 1930s British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley - took his privacy action against Sunday tabloid the News of the World in 2008 over the paper's story.\n\nThe newspaper had secretly filmed him with five prostitutes and later published a front-page story.\n\nA judge ruled there was no substance to the allegation that there had been a Nazi theme to the sex party and found that his privacy had been breached. The High Court also said the article was not in the public interest.\n\nAlthough Mr Mosley was awarded damages, everyone had learned the details of his sexual preferences, and he argued money alone could not restore his reputation.\n\nHe went on to seek reform of celebrity privacy laws, making a bid in 2011 for newspapers to warn people before exposing their private lives.\n\nHis case was unsuccessful, but it led Mr Mosley to use some of his family fortune to support victims of the Fleet Street phone-hacking scandal.\n\nHe also backed the independent press regulator Impress through a family charity, which Mr Mosley set up in his son Alexander's memory, after he died in 2009.\n\nMr Mosley said in 2011 that the story had a \"very bad effect\" on Alexander, whose death was ruled as being due to non-dependent drug abuse.\n\nImpress chief executive Ed Procter said Mr Mosley improved access to justice for victims of press misconduct and put \"his own resources behind efforts to ensure that these issues will not be forgotten\".\n\nHacked Off, which was set up in response to phone-hacking, said it was thanks to Mr Mosley's \"courage and generosity that the movement for a more ethical press remains so effective today\".\n\nAnd media lawyer Mark Stephens, who represented phone-hacking victims, described Mr Mosley as \"effectively the author of modern privacy law\".\n\nWith a family history that ruled him out of politics, Max Mosley turned his brilliant, devious mind to motorsport\n\nMax Mosley was one of the most influential and important figures in motorsport over the last half-century - and also among the most controversial.\n\nWith a brilliant intellect and a devious, sometimes malicious mind, he was arguably better suited to a career in politics.\n\nBut he was the son of the 1930s British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, and in his youth was involved in his father's post-war political party the Union Movement. He realised his personal history would prevent him from entering Parliament, so he directed his attention towards motorsport instead.\n\nMosley was a fascinating and contradictory character. Urbane and charming, he was never less than engaging on a personal level.\n\nBut not everyone felt so kindly towards this patrician and sometimes patronising figure. Mosley had a vindictive streak. His political and legal abilities were widely admired, but not everyone found him easy to like.\n\nBorn in London on 13 April, 1940, Mr Mosley studied physics at Christ Church, Oxford, and later turned to law and became a barrister.\n\nAfter a brief career as a racing driver in the late 1960s, in which he rose to race in Formula 2, he co-founded the racing car constructor March in 1970 with Robin Herd, Alan Rees and Graham Coaker - the company name formed from the initial letters of their surnames.\n\nThe company won its first three Formula 1 races in 1970 and later diversified into other forms of motorsport, but by the end of 1977 Mr Mosley had left the company to work full-time in motorsport politics.\n\nHe joined forces with Bernie Ecclestone at the Formula 1 Constructors' Association (FOCA) and the two fought a bitter political war for control of the sport with the governing body, then called FISA, in 1980 and 1981.\n\nThe arguments were finally settled with the so-called Concorde Agreement, which essentially set up the structure of the sport that remains in place to this day - FOCA, later to be renamed F1, held the commercial rights, while FISA controlled the rules.\n\nMax Mosley at his wedding to Jean Taylor in London in 1960\n\nMr Mosley left motorsport in 1982 to work for the Conservative Party but returned four years later to become president of the FISA manufacturers' commission.\n\nHe used the role as a springboard to launch a bid for the presidency of FISA in 1991. Mr Mosley then became president of its parent body the FIA, the international automobile federation, when the two were merged in 1993.\n\nHe quickly established a modus operandi as a president who was proactive, provocative and controversial.\n\nIn 1993, he instigated a ban on driver aids such as traction control and active suspension against the wishes of the teams. And his combative approach, in which he used a vast intellect to devise clever strategy and often Machiavellian tactics, continued over his near two-decade stay in his role.\n\nHis biggest challenge came a year later, when Ayrton Senna was killed in an accident at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix that was broadcast live around the world - just 24 hours after Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger died in a crash during qualifying for the same race.\n\nAs a global sporting icon, and an almost God-like figure in his native Brazil, Mr Senna's death raised serious questions about safety in Formula 1, and world leaders contacted Mr Mosley questioning the sport's position.\n\nRecognising the threat to the sport's existence, Mr Mosley introduced a series of changes to the cars, setting in motion a new approach whereby the safety of the drivers and spectators was central to the ethos of motorsport and attempts were made to constantly improve it.\n\nIn this, he was backed by Mr Ecclestone, and supported by the FIA medical delegate Professor Sid Watkins and the FIA F1 director Charlie Whiting. Together they changed the face of the sport.\n\nMax Mosley became a prominent privacy campaigner after winning his 2008 legal action\n\nAs FIA president he also turned his attention to road cars, and was central in introducing the EuroNCAP crash testing programme.\n\nThis required manufacturers to meet minimum safety standards in their cars for the first time and has played a significant role in reducing the number of deaths in road accidents.\n\nBut the longer Mr Mosley remained in situ, the more F1 teams began to become uncomfortable with what they saw as an authoritarian and arbitrary approach, along with sometimes questionable methods and motives.\n\nMr Mosley's reputation with the F1 teams was badly damaged by his deal to remove the TV rights to F1 from Foca and sell them on a 100-year lease to Mr Ecclestone's companies for what many considered to be a paltry one-off figure of $360m in 1995.\n\nHis antagonistic style of running the sport continued through the 2000s and the beginning of the end of his time at the FIA came with the News Of The World's story.\n\nHe survived the initial outcry but when in 2009 he tried to introduce a budget cap into F1, the big teams had had enough.\n\nThe latest of many political fights began, and this time Mr Mosley lost. The major teams and car manufacturers threatened to set up a rival championship, and to bring them back into the fold Mr Mosley had to agree not to seek a further term as president when his latest one expired in October 2009.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC director general Tim Davie is pushed on the Today programme about Martin Bashir's rehiring\n\nAn investigation into why the journalist Martin Bashir was rehired in 2016 will be published next week, BBC director general Tim Davie has said.\n\nA recent inquiry by Lord Dyson found the corporation covered up \"deceitful behaviour\" by Bashir to secure an interview with Princess Diana in 1995.\n\nMr Davie said there was \"no doubt\" that rehiring Bashir years after the interview had been a \"big mistake\".\n\nHe added that Bashir was still working out a three-month paid notice period.\n\nMr Davie said the notice period started the moment he resigned and was almost up.\n\nThe BBC rehired Bashir as religion correspondent in late 2016, when questions had already been asked about his conduct surrounding the Panorama interview. He was later promoted to religion editor.\n\nEarlier this month it was confirmed he had stood down due to ongoing health issues.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Davie, who took over the BBC's top job in September 2020, said a \"quick\" investigation into the decision to rehire Bashir was under way.\n\n\"We're interviewing people, getting the documents, and we should be able to publish something next week.\"\n\n\"There's no doubt with what you know now - it's a big mistake,\" he added.\n\nHe went on to say there were three reasons why he had accepted Bashir's resignation, which was offered before he had seen the Dyson report.\n\n\"The first was there were very significant medical care issues, which, in terms of Martin Bashir as a staff member, regardless of all the situation around it, is a factor,\" he said.\n\n\"The second is it allowed a clean break with no pay-off, which I thought was in the licence fee-payers' interest to make sure that there was a clean process.\n\n\"The third was there was no restraint in us getting to the truth. This was not an honourable discharge,\" he added.\n\nOn Monday, Julian Knight, chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said the BBC had rehired and promoted Bashir \"who they know was a liar\" and asked whether he was rehired to \"keep his mouth shut\".\n\nLast week, James Harding, who was director of BBC News when Bashir was rehired, said he had not known the journalist had forged bank statements and, had he known, \"he wouldn't have got the job\".\n\nAsked whether he had consulted then-director general Lord Hall about the reappointment, Mr Harding, who left the BBC in 2018, did not answer directly but said he himself took responsibility.\n\nIn the interview, Diana admitted to an affair and spoke of there being \"three of us\" in the marriage\n\nThe inquiry, published last week, found Bashir had faked bank statements designed to suggest Princess Diana was under surveillance - to win the trust of her brother Earl Spencer, and eventually gain access to the princess for the 1995 Panorama interview.\n\nAs media interest in the interview increased, the BBC covered up what it had learned about how Bashir secured the interview, the inquiry said.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said his mother was failed \"not just by a rogue reporter\" but by BBC bosses, and blamed the corporation's failings for fuelling his mother's paranoia and worsening his parents' relationship.\n\nThe prince said the original Panorama interview programme had \"effectively established a false narrative\" and should never be aired again.\n\nSpeaking to the Today programme, Mr Davie said he had \"no intention\" of airing Diana's Panorama interview ever again, but did not rule out using clips.\n\n\"I think we need to discuss clips and reflect on that,\" he said, adding: \"My view is you cannot now look at this interview free from the context in which it was secured.\"\n\nHe was also asked whether the BBC accepted there was a direct line between the forged documents, Bashir's actions and Diana dying in 1997 - as had been drawn by Earl Spencer.\n\n\"I think we fully accept the Dyson report. I think beyond that we are into speculation.\"\n\nHe said he did not have evidence that there was direct line. \"It's as simple as that - it's not a question of rejecting it,\" he added.\n\nMr Davie said some of the most disappointing and shocking elements from the report were around whistleblowing.\n\nGraphic designer Matt Wiessler had tried to expose Bashir's methods and complained that he had been sidelined after raising concerns that fake bank statements he mocked up for Bashir had been used to persuade Diana to do the interview.\n\n\"The very person who raised this - and I know many staff feel very strongly about this - suffered enormous impacts, which we're very sorry for,\" Mr Davie told the programme.\n\n\"That cannot happen again. We have improved processes but I want to look again at things.\"\n\nMr Davie said he was willing to meet Mr Wiessler, and reiterated a \"full, unconditional apology\" to him.\n\nAsked if he thought Mr Wiessler should be compensated, Mr Davie said it needed to go through a \"legal discussion\", adding: \"We'll engage in that discussion because clearly we were at fault.\"\n\nOn Monday, the BBC announced a review into its editorial policies.\n\nIts board said it had \"confidence\" that the \"processes and guidelines in today's BBC are much stronger than they were in 1995\" but it was \"right that we review the effectiveness of the BBC's editorial policies and governance in detail\".", "UK tourism is set for a slow recovery from the pandemic, with spending by holidaymakers this year expected to be just half the level of 2019.\n\nForecasts by the VisitBritain agency indicate that domestic tourism will be worth £51.4bn in 2021, down from £91.6bn two years ago.\n\nIts forecast for spending by foreign tourists in the UK is £6.2bn, less than a quarter of the £28.4bn in 2019.\n\nThe predictions come as UK tourism chiefs prepare for a summit on Tuesday.\n\nVisitBritain and VisitEngland are bringing industry leaders together - some in person, some virtually - to discuss priorities for helping the sector to recover and rebuild.\n\nLast year, the domestic tourism industry shrank by about two-thirds as coronavirus restrictions forced the cancellation or postponement of millions of people's travel plans. According to the tourism industry, that represented a £58bn loss to the economy.\n\nDespite the gloomy forecasts for this year, tourism analysts have predicted that demand for UK holidays is likely to outstrip supply this summer, with many holidaymakers unable or unwilling to brave foreign travel amid continuing restrictions.\n\nLike many hostels, Elterwater has only been able to welcome back limited numbers of guests\n\n\"We're offering a shadow of what we normally would and we'll struggle to break even,\" says Christine Thomas.\n\nThis is usually peak season at Elterwater Hostel in Cumbria, which she and her husband, Alan, own. They're in the heart of the Lake District and they would normally be close to fully booked, with fell-runners, walkers and school groups, not to mention overseas visitors.\n\nNow they're only about a third full. Even if more people want to come, Covid rules mean they can't fill all their 38 beds. People from different groups aren't allowed to share bathroom facilities and the hostel only has five showers.\n\nThey still provide hearty home-cooked meals, but you can't mingle with other visitors, like hostel guests often do. And the self-catering kitchen is closed.\n\nThe past year feels like a \"write-off\" they say. Hotels that can offer en suite rooms, or self-contained self-catering places are probably managing better, says Christine.\n\nAnd if the rules are eased further after 21 June, that could make a big difference.\n\n\"Hostels are basically social places. It's about people meeting each other and exchanging experiences,\" she says.\n\nLast week, the tourism agency launched a £5m campaign entitled Escape the Everyday - Enjoy the UK this Summer.\n\nThe campaign is aimed at boosting domestic demand, with a focus on cities and city visitor attractions, as well as on areas that have been particularly hard hit by the lack of international visitors.\n\n\"Britain's tourism industry is a huge driver of our economy but has faced many challenges over the past year,\" said tourism minister Nigel Huddleston.\n\n\"We've provided more than £25bn in support, and I have been impressed by VisitBritain/VisitEngland and the wider sector for its agile and innovative response, coming up with new ways to provide hospitality and entertainment while maintaining social distancing and protecting people's safety.\"\n\nBritish Tourist Authority chairman Lord Patrick McLoughlin said the sector had faced \"an unprecedented challenge\" during the pandemic.\n\n\"Tourism is a critical industry for our country, delivering jobs and economic growth across the nations and regions and strengthening our place on the world stage,\" he added.\n\nLord McLoughlin said that government's support measures, including the furlough scheme, the VAT cut for hospitality businesses and the business rates holiday, had been \"a lifeline\", helping many businesses survive and keeping people in jobs.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the UK government as it sets out its recovery plan and ambitions for tourism, and across the industry, to cement the recovery and the future of one of this country's greatest industries,\" he added.", "Lidl's Hampstead gin bottle was redesigned at the end of 2020\n\nDiscount supermarket Lidl has been ordered to stop selling a redesigned gin bottle that looks too similar to an upmarket rival.\n\nA senior judge has told the retailer the redesign of its Hampstead gin breaches the trademarks of premium brand Hendrick's.\n\nAt the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Lord Clark awarded an interim interdict to the makers of Hendrick's gin.\n\nThe temporary order stops Lidl selling the redesigned bottles in Scotland.\n\nThe decision comes just months after M&S took action against Aldi over its Colin the Caterpillar cake lookalike.\n\nIt argued the supermarket's Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake infringed its Colin the Caterpillar trademark, that their similarities led consumers to believe they were of the same standard and that the product \"rode on the coat-tails\" of M&S's reputation.\n\nWilliam Grant and Sons Irish Brands Ltd instructed lawyers to to take legal steps, believing the retail giant's Hampstead gin brand resembled their own product, which is distilled in the Ayrshire town of Girvan.\n\nThe company claimed the supermarket redesigned the Hampstead gin bottle to resemble the \"apothecary-style bottle\" used by Hendrick's.\n\nThe legal team argued that the redesign changed the colour of the diamond-shaped label from white to a similar pale colour used on the bottle in the Hendrick's trademark.\n\nThey argued that the look of the label was changed to look like the Hendrick's label and the bottle was changed to a similar dark colour.\n\nThe lawyers also said the redesign contained images of cucumbers which alluded to the fact that Hendrick's was infused with cucumber.\n\nWilliam Grant's lawyers asked for a temporary order which would force Lidl to stop selling the redesigned Hampstead gin. The firm feared sales of Hendrick's gin could be harmed by the cheaper rival.\n\nLord Clark agreed and said that the drinks firm's legal team shown there was a case that Lidl had breached section 10 (3) Trade Marks Act 1994.\n\nIn a written judgement issued on Tuesday, Lord Clark wrote: \"I accept that the pursuer in the present case has not (as yet) provided a sufficient basis to show a reasonable prospect of success in establishing a change in the economic behaviour of the average consumer or a serious likelihood that such a change will occur in the future. I do however recognise that there is at least some risk to the pursuer of harm to the brand.\n\n\"I take that factor into account and find that there is a reasonable prospect of success for the pursuer in showing that the defenders intended to benefit from the reputation and goodwill of the pursuer's mark.\n\n\"Whether or not there was a deliberate intention to deceive, there is a sufficient basis for showing that there was an intention to benefit. It is difficult to view the re-design, including the change in colour of the bottle, as accidental or coincidental.\n\n\"I therefore conclude that there is a reasonable prospect of success on the part of the pursuer in showing a change in economic behaviour or a real likelihood of such a change by customers who buy from Lidl.\"\n\nDuring an earlier court hearing, social media comments about the redesign of Hampstead gin, which retails for £15.99, were read out.\n\nThe court acknowledged the brand had a previous design\n\nOne said: \"Hmmm...Reminds me of another gin, but I just can't put my finger on it...\" - which was followed by laughing emojis).\n\nAnother person commented: \"Looks a lot like another bottle of gin\" - which was followed by a winking emoji.\n\nIn his judgement, Lord Clark said that Lidl could sell the Hampstead gin brand but in a form which differs from its current design.\n\nLidl said it was disappointed by the ruling.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We note the court's decision and have closely adhered to the requirements outlined within the ruling.\n\n\"We continue to liaise directly with the parties involved and hope to reach a satisfactory resolution in due course.\"", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nUncapped Ben White, Ben Godfrey, Sam Johnstone and Aaron Ramsdale have been named in England's 33-man provisional Euro 2020 squad, while Trent Alexander-Arnold also makes the cut.\n\nAston Villa striker Ollie Watkins is also named, but Leeds' Patrick Bamford misses out.\n\nGareth Southgate will name his final 26-man squad on Tuesday, 1 June.\n\nLeicester's James Maddison, Tottenham's Eric Dier and injured Burnley keeper Nick Pope are left out.\n\nOne of the major talking points had been about Liverpool right-back Alexander-Arnold, who was dropped for Southgate's last squad in March.\n\nWith Atletico Madrid's La Liga winner Kieran Trippier, Manchester City's Premier League champion Kyle Walker and Chelsea's Reece James also in the squad, one of them is likely to miss out.\n\nThere are three teenagers included - Borussia Dortmund's 17-year-old midfielder Jude Bellingham, plus Arsenal's Bukayo Saka and Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood, who are both 19.\n\nEngland face Croatia (13 June - 14:00 BST), Scotland (18 June - 20:00) and the Czech Republic (22 June - 20:00) in Group D with all those games at Wembley.\n\nBefore then, they play two friendlies at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium - against Austria on 2 June and Romania on 6 June.\n• None All the reaction to England's provisional Euros squad - Southgate and your thoughts\n• None 'We have to build a team to win' - Southgate explains key decisions\n\nWho are the newcomers?\n\nGoalkeeper Johnstone, 28, was relegated from the Premier League with West Brom. He was named in the England squad in March but did not play.\n\nSheffield United keeper Aaron Ramsdale, 23, played every league game this season as his side were also relegated. He would appear to be the most likely keeper to miss out on the final squad.\n\nBrighton defender White, 23, has never played for England at any level. This was his first Premier League season and he impressed in a back three - which could be a big factor if Southgate plans to use that system.\n\nEverton defender Godfrey, also 23, joined the Toffees for a reported £20m from Norwich last season and had an impressive debut season at the club.\n\nPick your 26-man England squad for the Euros.\n• None 'The UK is all I've ever known': Panorama looks at the impact of immigration status on those born or raised in Britain\n• None Three youngsters embark on the wildest activities Scotland has to offer", "Nicola Sturgeon has urged people not to \"lose heart\" despite Covid-19 case numbers in Scotland continuing to rise.\n\nThe first minister said cases across the country had doubled in the past fortnight.\n\nAnd Glasgow remains in level three, with the seven-day average of new infections rising from 112 per 100,000 people to nearly 139 since Friday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there had been a \"bump in the road\" out of lockdown due to the new Indian variant.\n\nBut she said there were \"some positive signs\" that case numbers may be stabilising in areas with outbreaks, such as Glasgow and East Renfrewshire.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said the vaccination programme could be working to \"break the link\" between rising case numbers and serious illnesses and deaths, saying this could mean tougher restrictions are no longer needed to control outbreaks.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was a \"rise in cases overall\" across Scotland, with case numbers having doubled - albeit from a \"very low base\" - over the past 16 days.\n\nShe said the percentage of tests coming back positive was \"creeping up\" too.\n\nThere are particular concerns about Glasgow, where the number of cases continued to rise despite the city remaining under harsher restrictions than the rest of the country.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon said it was \"important to recognise that the extensive public health efforts under way in Glasgow will take time to work through given the scale and complexity of the city\".\n\nAnd she said that \"just in the last two days or so we think we may have started to see signs that case numbers in Glasgow are stabilising\".\n\nThe first minister said the overall rise in cases was partly due to the easing of restrictions giving the virus more opportunity to spread, adding that new variants were \"another important factor\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was important to put the figures in context, with 97 patients in hospital now compared to more than 2,000 at the peak of the second wave in January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said increasing case numbers earlier in the pandemic had led \"as night follows day\" to increased hospital admissions and deaths within two to three weeks.\n\nAnd while she said \"significant degree of caution is still needed\", this situation may be changing thanks to the vaccine - which could lead to a change in approach.\n\nShe said: \"Increasingly we are monitoring whether and to what extent vaccination might be breaking that link between rising case numbers and significantly rising cases of serious illness and death.\n\n\"If that does prove to be the case, as we hope it will, we hope our response to this virus can increasingly evolve as well.\n\n\"In short, while care will still be needed, it might mean we don't have to react quite so aggressively with tough restrictions in the face of rising case numbers.\n\n\"Instead we hope we will be able to rely more on enhanced public health interventions like testing and vaccination, and good public health practices on the part of the public.\"\n\nA decision on restrictions in Glasgow will be made later in the week, with Ms Sturgeon saying this would be based not just on case numbers but also hospital and intensive care admissions.\n\nThere have also been concerns about the number of people coming forward for vaccine appointments, with around half of those booked in at one mass vaccination centre in Glasgow failing to turn up at the weekend.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there would be \"more than one factor at play\" behind this, ranging from address details not being up to date to younger people finding it harder to keep an appointment due to work.\n\nBut she stressed that \"uptake rates are very high\", saying that \"this is a relative thing and we want to nip it in the bud\".\n\nScottish Labour has urged the Scottish government to use \"every means necessary\" to get Glasgow out of lockdown, with leader Anas Sarwar calling for \"urgent action now\".\n\nHe said: \"We can't have Scotland's largest city and one of the major economic engines of the country stuck in perpetual lockdown.\n\n\"To be frank the action so far has been timid, the communication has been poor and the decision-making has been inconsistent.\"\n\nMr Sarwar called for the government to seek help from the Army to speed up the vaccination programme, with Ms Sturgeon replying that there will be \"no hesitation in doing that\" if needed.\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer said the Scottish government should deploy local surge testing \"much quicker, before these local outbreaks are well under way\".\n\nHe said: \"We need to get a place where you can rapidly deploy that capacity, go door to door in an area that looks like it's beginning to have an outbreak and get that under control as quickly as possible.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Willie Rennie raised concerns about the take-up rate of vaccines, saying \"many people\" in his constituency had missed out on appointments due to the \"clunky booking system\".\n\nMeanwhile the Scottish Conservatives called for new Health Secretary Humza Yousaf to make cutting waiting times an \"urgent priority\".\n\nHealth spokeswoman Annie Wells said: \"While there has rightly been a focus within our NHS on tackling covid, the number of patients waiting for key diagnostic tests is extremely concerning.\n\n\"The SNP's new health secretary must tackle these waiting times as a matter of urgency before they completely spiral out of control. \"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Second in line for the jab at University Hospital in Coventry was 81-year-old William Shakespeare\n\nThe second person in the world to get the Pfizer-BioNTech jab has died of an unrelated illness.\n\nBill Shakespeare, 81, received his first Covid vaccine in December at University Hospital Coventry shortly after 91-year-old Margaret Keenan.\n\nCoventry councillor Jayne Innes, a friend of Mr Shakespeare, said he had died on Thursday and added the \"best tribute to Bill is to have the jab\".\n\nMr Shakespeare had worked at Rolls-Royce and was a parish councillor.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had served his local community in Allesley for more than three decades, died of a stroke, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust said.\n\nMr Shakespeare, who had lived in Brownshill Green, was an inpatient on the hospital's frailty ward at the time of his first jab, and said it had been \"wonderful\".\n\nMr Shakespeare was \"hugely proud\" of being among the first to have the vaccine, his wife said\n\nIn a tribute, released through the trust, his wife, Joy, said: \"Bill was so grateful for being offered the opportunity to become one of the first people in the world to be given the vaccine.\n\n\"It was something he was hugely proud of - he loved seeing the media coverage and the positive difference he was able to make to the lives of so many.\n\n\"He often talked to people about it and would always encourage everyone to get their vaccine whenever he could.\"\n\nAs well as his wife of 53 years, Mr Shakespeare leaves their two adult sons and grandchildren.\n\nHe was a talented photographer and loved all kinds of music, especially jazz and regularly attended gigs to take pictures of the musicians.\n\nMrs Shakespeare added: \"Bill loved meeting people and helping them in any way possible.\n\n\"Most of all he was a wonderful husband, father and grandfather, nicknamed Pop Pops by the grandchildren. He left a huge imprint on everyone who knew him and will be greatly missed.\"\n\nMs Innes wrote in a post on Facebook: \"Bill will be remembered for many things, including a taste for mischief.\"\n\nShe said he had always been proud to be from Coventry and had served as a governor at Allesley Primary and Coundon Court schools.\n\nWest Midlands Labour group said on Twitter: \"Bill made global headlines as [the first] man to have Covid vaccine.\n\n\"His decades of service to the party were recently recognised by Keir Starmer.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Joy and Bill's family and friends.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by West Midlands Labour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCouncillor Angela Hopkins said Mr Shakespeare had helped her when she had campaigned for the Bablake ward.\n\n\"He was very thoughtful and always, in his work as a parish councillor, very much putting forward the concerns and views of the local residents in his area,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former Royal Marine whose home was destroyed in a suspected arson attack after he stood up to anti-social behaviour says he \"doesn't think the cowards should win\".\n\nSean Ivey, from Wingate in County Durham, fled to safety with his wife and two children after the blaze at their property on 18 March.\n\nMr Ivey, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, believes he was targeted after posting videos on social media and contacting the police over youths tearing around on motorbikes.\n\nBBC North East & Cumbria Impact Team reporter Jonathan Swingler followed the family as they returned to their burnt-out home.\n\nFive people were arrested over the fire but the case was dropped.\n\nA Durham Police spokesman said the force \"carried out a full and thorough investigation\" however there was \"insufficient evidence to support a charge and no further action will be taken\" against those people.\n\nThey added \"no further lines of inquiry have been identified, but we will examine any additional information which is reported to us\".", "Tata Steel has said it will compensate the families of its workers in India that die of Covid-19.\n\nThe firm said it will pay deceased employees' salaries, housing and medical benefits until what would have been their retirement at the age of 60.\n\nIt also pledged to cover the education costs of the children of dead frontline workers until they graduate.\n\nThis week India officially counted 300,000 dead from the virus, though experts warn the number is higher.\n\n\"Tata Steel stands together with a deep sense of loss at the sad demise of its beloved employees during this dreadful pandemic,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nAfter detailing the benefits of the firm's \"best-in-class social security schemes\" the statement concluded by saying that the \"Tata Steel family stands stoically with all its people, committed to their security and well-being.\"\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\nTata Steel is the latest major employer in India to announce financial support plans for the families of its workers that have lost their lives to Covid-19.\n\nLast week, hospitality group Oyo Rooms said it would help the families of its workers who have died of the coronavirus in a number of ways, including eight months' pay and support for their children's education for five years.\n\n\"The battle against COVID is far from over but I hope these initiatives will help ease out the difficulties for the families, the company's founder Ritesh Agarwal said in a series of Tweets.\n\nEarlier this month, glass manufacturer Borosil said it would pay the salaries of workers that died of Covid for the next two years.\n\nIn a LinkedIn post, Borosil Limited's Managing Director Shreevar Kheruka also said the company would cover the education costs of the deceased workers' children.\n\nThe announcements come as the country reels from a huge loss of life and economic impact.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA second wave of the virus has ravaged the country's healthcare system in the past few weeks. Hospitals filled to capacity have been forced to turn away patients. Critical medicines and oxygen have run out in several areas. Even crematoriums have run out of space.\n\nThis week India became only the third country in the world to record more than 300,000 deaths - behind the US and Brazil.\n\nIt has recorded 26 million cases - second only to the US - and is now the epicentre of the global pandemic.", "Brazilian police have arrested fugitive Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito in the north-eastern city of João Pessoa.\n\nKnown as the \"cocaine king of Milan\", the suspected head of the 'Ndrangheta crime gang has been one of Italy's most wanted fugitives since 1994.\n\nMorabito was arrested in Uruguay in 2017, but escaped from jail two years later while awaiting extradition to Italy.\n\nHe has been sentenced to 30 years in absentia by an Italian court.\n\nMorabito was arrested at a hotel on Monday, the Brazilian justice ministry said in a statement. Two other foreigners, including another Italian, were also arrested.\n\nThe ministry said Morabito \"was considered the second most wanted criminal in Italy and accused of involvement with the 'Ndrangheta, considered one of the largest and most powerful criminal organisations in the world\".\n\nAccording to Italian news agency Ansa, the arrest was part of a joint operation involving Italian authorities, as well as the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the FBI.\n\nMorabito was previously arrested while staying in a hotel in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, in 2017. He had been living in a luxury villa near the resort town of Punta del Este, east of the capital.\n\nHe and three other inmates managed to escape through a hole in the prison roof in 2019, a scandal that prompted the resignation of Uruguay's prison chief.\n\nThe 'Ndrangheta are the most powerful mafia in Italy and are believed to control the supply of huge amounts of cocaine entering Europe from South America and elsewhere.\n\nEarlier this year, hundreds of suspected members of the 'Ndrangheta group went on trial as part of Italy's largest mafia trial in decades.\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. Academic John Dickie joins an elite special forces squad as they search for the mafia's secret bunkers", "The two consignments weighed nearly a tonne in total\n\nDrugs found in packages that washed up on the south coast are thought to be South American cocaine with a street value of £80m.\n\nTwo consignments of nearly a tonne of suspected cocaine were discovered on beaches in Sussex on Monday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nSamples tested positive for the Class A drug, but a full forensic examination will be carried out, the NCA added.\n\nPolice said the haul weighed 960kg - a \"significant\" loss to those involved.\n\nThe packages were all in waterproof bags and attached to life jackets to make them float, officers said.\n\nPolice were alerted by passers-by who spotted the packages\n\nSussex Police removed the bundles from the beaches and took them to a secure location after passers-by spotted packages on the shoreline near Hastings and Newhaven and alerted the force.\n\nMartin Grace, NCA branch commander, said: \"This is a significant amount of Class A drugs which we think originated in South America, but we are keeping an open mind about how the drugs washed up here and where the end destination might have been.\n\n\"Clearly though, losing a consignment of this size will represent a significant hit to the criminal networks involved.\"\n\nPolice, the NCA and Border Force are investigating\n\nHe said the two seizures were being linked and a Sussex Police and Border Force investigation was now under way.\n\nThe packages were first reported to be floating in the water off Hastings shortly before 06:00 BST on Monday.\n\nFurther packages were then found later in the day along the coast at Newhaven.\n\nThe packages were in waterproof bags and attached to life jackets to make them float\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Tasmanian devils have been born on the Australian mainland for the first time in thousands of years.\n\nConservationists introduced the species back into a sanctuary north of Sydney in late 2020.\n\nNow, around 3,000 years after the marsupials vanished from the mainland, the first joeys have been born in the wild.", "Nadia Whittome said she has been advised by her doctor to take several weeks off\n\nA Labour MP has said she has decided to take a \"step back\" from her work because she is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\nNadia Whittome said she has been advised by her doctor to take several weeks off for her health to improve.\n\nThe Nottingham East MP said the decision was \"incredibly difficult\" and one she feels \"very sad\" about.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer wished Ms Whittome \"all the best\" in her recovery and praised her \"bravery\".\n\nIn a statement, Ms Whittome, 24, said she has been battling \"some persistent health issues\" over recent months.\n\n\"Until now, I have been attempting to manage them alongside continuing with my full-time work as an MP,\" she said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, it has become clear that this is not feasible and I have been advised by my doctor that I need to take several weeks off in order for my health to improve.\n\n\"I feel it is important for me to be honest that it is mental ill-health I am suffering from - specifically post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\n\"Through being open about my own mental health struggle, I hope that others will also feel able to talk about theirs, and that I can play a small role in creating greater acceptance and facilitating healthier discussions around this issue.\"\n\nPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is described as an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event and may have problems sleeping and find concentrating difficult.\n\nPTSD can develop straight after someone experiences a disturbing event, or it can occur weeks, months or years later.\n\nIt is thought to affect about one in every three people who have a traumatic experience.\n\nMs Whittome said her constituents should continue to contact her office as normal.\n\n\"My decision to take time off has been an incredibly difficult one to make. Representing Nottingham East is the greatest honour of my life and I am very sad to have to step back for a little while,\" she said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he respected Ms Whittome's \"bravery\" and looked forward \"to welcoming her back to Parliament\"\n\nMs Whittome became the House of Commons' youngest MP when she topped the poll at the snap general election in 2019.\n\nDuring the coronavirus pandemic, she took on a part-time job at a care home but said she was \"effectively sacked\" after speaking out about personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nEarlier this month Ms Whittome spoke about a \"mental health crisis\" in a column published by Nottingham magazine LeftLion.\n\nShe said the pandemic has made it worse and that young people have been most affected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nadia Whittome MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe charity Rethink Mental Illness said there is still a stigma surrounding mental health in the workplace.\n\nChief executive Mark Winstanley said: \"Being signed-off from work for poor mental health is not a sign of weakness, but a recognition that wellbeing should always be a priority.\n\n\"We welcome Nadia's openness around her diagnosis and wish her well in her recovery.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 74-year-old man died while waiting 16 hours for an ambulance, an inquest heard.\n\nJoseph Edge's wife, Carole, called 999 in December 2019, worried about his low blood pressure, the hearing was told.\n\nThe ambulance service was facing \"unprecedented\" demand at the time and his case was not listed as a \"red\" priority, the inquest in Ruthin heard.\n\nCall handlers went on to ring every two hours to \"apologise and say they were busy\", said Ms Edge from Denbighshire.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded Mr Edge's heart was enlarged and a main artery was blocked.\n\nDr Brian Rodgers, a Home Office pathologist, said Mr Edge \"could have died at any time\".\n\n\"A prompter response from the ambulance service may have led to a different outcome but I can't be certain,\" he wrote in a statement.\n\nElizabeth Dudley Jones, the assistant coroner for North Wales East and Central, concluded Mr Edge died of natural causes.\n\nShe said that, while patients with similar health problems could die at any time, she felt he was denied the opportunity for medical treatment which may have made a difference.\n\nThe inquest was held at Ruthin on Tuesday\n\nGrandfather Mr Edge, a former plumber and mechanic who had retired early after suffering a heart attack and stroke at 48, died at his home in Llandegla.\n\nThe hearing was told he had fallen the day before and suffered a cut to his head, and a low blood pressure reading prompted his wife to call NHS Direct for advice.\n\nBut she gave up after several attempts to get through and called an out-of-hours number for their GP surgery and was then advised to dial 999.\n\nThe inquest in Ruthin was told she initially called for an ambulance at 13:15 GMT and by 17:15 \"they moved him up the list to urgent but they were still very busy\".\n\n\"The last call I received was around 3:15am,\" said Ms Edge's statement.\n\nAn ambulance arrived at Mr Edge's home shortly before 06:00\n\nAnticipating the arrival of an ambulance at 05:15 she went upstairs and found her husband \"cold and unresponsive\", she said.\n\n\"I phoned 999 again and a paramedic arrived within half an hour,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm very upset and annoyed about what has happened.\"\n\nThe hearing was told how 999 ambulance calls coded \"red\" had an eight-minute response time target but there was no set time for any other category of calls.\n\nMr Edge's case was coded as \"green 3\" but the call handler miscategorised the chief complaint, instead of prioritising \"near fainting\" as a main symptom or a \"green 2 category\" which meant the handler asked a different series of questions.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service manager Gill Pleming, who gave evidence in person, said that even if he had been correctly categorised he would have been treated the same with priority but he would have received a clinical telephone assessment.\n\nAll resources were allocated to other incidents or at hospitals with 41 emergency cases being dealt with at 13:27, she said.\n\nAt 17:42, a clinician reviewed the call and, after hearing Mr Edge's latest blood pressure reading, his call was reprioritised to an urgent \"amber 2\".\n\nThe hearing was told ambulance service welfare calls continued until 03:33 but resources were still unavailable until a paramedic in a rapid response vehicle attended at 05:55.\n\nClaire Roche, the Welsh Ambulance Service's executive director of quality and nursing, said: \"We extend our deepest sympathies to Mr Edge's family at what we know will be a sad and difficult time.\n\n\"We acknowledge the coroner's conclusions and sincerely apologise to Mr Edge's family for what we agree was an unacceptable delay.\n\n\"We are an organisation committed to learning and will continue to work with the health board to improve our timeliness to respond to people when they need us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UN data says 630 people are known to have died trying to cross the central Mediterranean this year alone\n\nImages of dead children and women washed up on a beach in Libya have been shared by a Spanish charity.\n\nThe NGO Proactiva Open Arms received some of the photos from inside Libya and said they are of people who had tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, a dangerous route for migrants.\n\nThey show the partially clothed bodies of small children and a woman, bloated and half buried in the sand.\n\nAt least 743 migrants are known to have died in the Mediterranean this year.\n\nAccording to the data published by UN's International Organization for Migration, there have been 630 recorded deaths in the central Mediterranean alone in 2021, compared with 289 deaths for the whole sea in 2020.\n\n\"We are in shock,\" Open Arms head of communications Laura Lanuza told the BBC. \"When people try to flee from Libya they shouldn't be taken back or left adrift in the Mediterranean. There should be a search and rescue operation... to protect lives at sea.\"\n\n\"The Mediterranean is the biggest graveyard in the world,\" she said. \"It shouldn't be like this.\"\n\nReacting to the photos, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said: \"Images of bodies of babies and toddlers washed up on a beach in Libya are unacceptable.\"\n\nOne of the images posted online shows a small child in a polka dot one-piece sleepsuit. Sand has partially obscured the body.\n\nAnother photo is of a woman in green trousers spread eagle on the sand, her top pulled up over her head.\n\nOscar Camps is the founder of Proactiva Open Arms. He tweeted photos of the bodies on Monday, of \"young children and women who had only dreams and ambitions to live\", saying they had been left there for three days.\n\nFreelance journalist Nancy Porsia - who has also posted images of the bodies online - tweeted however that a contact of hers found the bodies on Saturday and informed the authorities, who buried them the same day in Abu Qamash cemetery.\n\nEurope is grappling with a fresh influx of people heading to the continent across the Mediterranean. Some 13,000 people have already arrived in Italy this year, with warmer weather in the area raising fears of even more people trying to make the crossing.\n\nAnd in the western Mediterranean last week, some 8,000 people including children swam or waded around a border fence to get to the Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco. Authorities returned several thousand soon after.\n\nIn 2015, the image of drowned three-year-old Aylan Kurdi sparked global outrage. The Syrian child was photographed lying face down on the sand in Turkey after his family tried to reach Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In May Spanish troops were deployed when thousands of migrants entered Ceuta, a Spanish North African enclave.", "The lead singer of the Italian glam rock band which won the Eurovision Song Contest has been cleared of drug use.\n\nIt follows an investigation and negative drug test, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) says.\n\nDamiano David denied taking cocaine following online speculation after footage showed him leaning over a table during the grand final on Saturday.\n\n\"No drug use took place in the Green Room and we consider the matter closed,\" the EBU said in a statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMåneskin, who had been among the favourites to win the contest, took the top prize with their song Zitti e buoni.\n\nViewers watching the contest during a live broadcast started asking questions as to what the singer was doing when he appeared to bend his face towards a table as the band celebrated their victory.\n\nAt a press conference, David said he had been looking down because guitarist Thomas Raggi had broken a glass. EBU confirmed broken glass was found on the floor, and it can be seen in the live broadcast footage.\n\n\"I don't use drugs. Please, guys. Don't say that really, no cocaine,\" David said on Saturday.\n\nThe EBU said it was \"alarmed that inaccurate speculation leading to fake news has overshadowed the spirit and the outcome of the event and unfairly affected the band\".\n\n\"We wish to congratulate Måneskin once again and wish them huge success,\" it added. \"We look forward to working with our Italian member Rai on producing a spectacular Eurovision Song Contest in Italy next year.\"\n\nThe band robustly denied any drug use, and reacted to the allegation in an Instagram story: \"We really are AGAINST drugs and we never used cocaine. We are ready to get tasted [tested], cause we have nothing to hide.\"\n\nFrench singer Barbara Pravi came second, and defended the band on her Instagram page as speculation grew online, and some called for the Italians to be disqualified before EBU gave its verdict.\n\n\"Måneskin were AWESOME on Saturday night, they were voted in by viewers, this is their place, their victory, their moment,\" she wrote.\n\nMåneskin are the first group to win the competition since 2006. They also gave Italy its first victory since 1990, despite their rock number not being typical Eurovision fare.", "It is crucial that surgical services in Northern Ireland are not \"stood down\" again, according to a report by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS).\n\nThe most recent statistics reveal that one in four people in Northern Ireland is on a waiting list.\n\nNorthern Ireland has the worst waiting times of any UK region.\n\nThe Health Minister Robin Swann said tackling waiting lists is a \"long-term task\" and needs \"long-term, recurrent funding\".\n\nThe college has said that a regional approach involving patient and surgical teams travelling to surgical hubs is the key to moving forward.\n\nSurgeons acknowledge that could involve additional travel for some people.\n\n\"The Action Plan for Surgical Recovery: 10 steps not 10 years\" has called for investment, waiting list and surgery plans, Covid-light sites in every trust area, surgical hubs and elective accountability.\n\nA Covid-light site is a hospital or unit where, as far as possible, only elective patients who do not have the virus are treated.\n\nFrom the start of the pandemic, almost all elective surgery was cancelled in Northern Ireland, as wards were closed and nurses moved to work solely in Covid areas.\n\nThe move only exacerbated the waiting list crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I feel I've been let down'\n\nCounty Antrim man Brian Revels, after developing a problem with his hip for several years, was told he would have to wait between four and five years before getting surgery.\n\nMr Revels then used his savings for private treatment.\n\nHe told BBC News NI that the \"operation took place within two days\".\n\nMr Revels has also gone privately for a hernia operation, after being told it too would take a couple of years.\n\nJohn Brennan, from Lambeg in County Antrim, is waiting for three different surgeries - hip, knee and cataract surgery.\n\nHe has been on the list for a hip replacement for four years and fell last Friday after his leg gave way.\n\n\"My consultant had told me he would like to have done the surgery in three months,\" he told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"I would sometimes like to have been told my hip was broken but because it's the only way I am going to get the surgery.\n\n\"I would not wish this pain on anyone.\n\n\"There has to be an answer to all this. How much does it cost the NHS in painkillers alone?\" he asked.\n\nMark Taylor from the Royal College of Surgeons said statistics \"belie the true scale of the problem\"\n\nMark Taylor, Director for Northern Ireland at the RCS, said that since the pandemic, the situation has only \"worsened over the last year\" with the health service now in \"deep crisis\".\n\n\"These patients will be waiting in pain and uncertainty, some of them unable to work, to go about day-to-day life,\" he added.\n\n\"They will be waiting for treatments ranging from hip and knee replacements to post-mastectomy breast reconstructions, and children's surgeries such as putting in vents for ear glue.\n\n\"The statistics also belie the true scale of the problem - some will seek expensive private treatment.\"\n\nThe plan by the RCS also details the need for additional recruitment and retention of staff, the launch of a comprehensive review of surgical services to support surgical trainees, the implementation of physical and mental wellbeing programmes and protected time for health professionals to learn.\n\nAccording to the College, more than 4,000 \"red flag\" cancer procedures, including surgery, have been cancelled since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nPatients waiting for general surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, and ENT (ear, nose and throat) or urology procedures are worst affected.\n\nWaiting times for orthopaedics are especially bad and, in some areas, urgent cases can take between 1.5 years (80 weeks) and nearly 5 years (255 weeks) for treatment.\n\nChildren's surgery has also been severely affected with routine procedures taking anywhere between three and four years to be carried out.\n\nMr Taylor added that leaders in Northern Ireland are now faced with a choice to either continue to let things \"spiral out of control\" or to use the easing of Covid-19 pressures as a \"turning point and an opportunity to do things differently\".\n\n\"We must ensure that no matter where a patient lives in Northern Ireland they can expect the highest quality of surgical care,\" he said.\n\n\"Surgeons have already demonstrated great flexibility in adapting to the challenges of Covid-19 and the limitations placed on capacity.\n\n\"Protected surgical beds, Covid-19 light sites, a strong surgical team and surgical hubs are key parts to any meaningful solution.\n\n\"The Royal College of Surgeons stands ready to work with all stakeholders in delivering a surgical service fit for the 21st Century.\"\n\nIn a statement the health minister said the report highlighted the need for greater investment.\n\n\"Sustained additional funding is not the answer by itself - but we cannot start fixing waiting lists without it,\" Robin Swann said.\n\n\"As minister I have tasked the system to be innovative, to be ambitious and to get as many services fully back online as quickly as possible. Already we are now breaking down Trust and administrative barriers at a far greater scale than ever before.\n\nMr Swann said clinicians and patients were now travelling to \"better utilise capacity\".\n\n\"The new regional day procedure centre at the Lagan Valley Hospital is a clear illustration of that.\n\n\"Over the next few weeks I will also be publishing the cancer recovery plan for Northern Ireland, an elective care framework and the urgent and emergency care review.\n\n\"These reports will detail both the immediate and longer term actions that are needed to bring down our waiting times. We must start putting this right. It is a long-term task however and it needs long-term, recurrent funding. \"", "Elliot Page posted the first public picture of himself post-top surgery.\n\nElliot Page has won praise for posing bare-chested for the first time since coming out as trans in December.\n\nAn Instagram post shared by the actor showed him smiling while posing in a pool in swimming shorts alongside the words #transjoy and #transisbeautiful.\n\nPage, 34, previously described his top surgery - where breast tissue is removed - as \"life-saving\".\n\nSpeaking to Oprah Winfrey last month he said it made him \"feel comfortable\" in his body \"for probably the first time\".\n\nThe Umbrella Academy star tearfully explained why his chest had brought him the \"most joy\" in transitioning.\n\n\"It's getting out of the shower and the towel's around your waist and you're looking at yourself in the mirror and you're just like, 'There I am'. And I'm not having the moment where I'm panicked,\" he said during the Apple TV interview.\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\nPage's Instagram post has already received over two million likes and a wave of supportive celebrity comments praising his new appearance.\n\n\"Dude I see why you crushed me on that workout!\" actor Justin Cornwell commented. \"Hot\" added singer Miley Cyrus, alongside a heart emoji.\n\nThe Vampire Diaries' Nina Dobrev said: \"You look amazing… and most of all happy.\" Julianne Moore, who starred with Page in the film Freeheld, wrote: \"Happy summer\" accompanied by a flame emoji.\n\nThe Good Place star Jameela Jamil also posted in recognition, tweeting that she was pleased to see Page \"thriving\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jameela Jamil 🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWinfrey, meanwhile, shared her support by reposting the image on the Oprah Daily Instagram account.\n\n\"This is what happiness looks like!\" she wrote. \"Looks like Elliot will be shining brighter than the sun this summer.\"\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\nPage, a prominent LGBT advocate, also used the pair's April interview to reveal how the surgery had given him a new energy in fighting for trans rights, \"because it is such a freeing, freeing experience\".\n\n\"Not only has it been life-changing for me, I do believe it's been life-saving and it's the case for so many people. And because there is such an attack on trans healthcare right now, when already there's such lack of access,\" he continued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I feel comfortable in my body for the first time.\"\n\nPage was referring to laws in Arkansas and further legal fights across the US threatening to ban young transgender people from accessing certain medical treatments.\n\nKirrin Medcalf, Trans Community Engagement Lead at LGBT charity Stonewall, said the photo emphasised the positive impact that gender affirmation procedures can have upon a person's mental health.\n\n\"It's fantastic to see Elliot looking so comfortable and happy in his latest photo. Elliot's has always been a role model to a huge number of people, and it is wonderful that he can share his trans joy with the world.\n\n\"Seeing moments of gender euphoria also highlights how important it is for all trans people to be able to access appropriate and timely gender affirming healthcare,\" he said.\n\n\"Looking at Elliot's image, it makes me feel proud to see another trans person - especially a celebrity in the public eye - proudly showing off their top surgery scars, as it increases a wider scope of positivity.\n\n\"However, as a person who has had to delay surgery due to the unbearable waiting times on the NHS, it makes me frustrated that people with more money and resources - such as celebrities - do not have to struggle in the same ways as people relying on state healthcare.\n\n\"In the UK, it can often up to 10 years, if not longer, to fully medically transition. We should not have to wait this long to feel comfortable in ourselves.\n\n\"I have been waiting to medically transition since I was 14. I am 20 now and haven't got anywhere. I am now planning to go to Poland after crowdsourcing funds to complete the surgery privately. I should not have to be at such inconvenience in order to be myself.\n\n\"That said, I think the wider impact of Elliot's post is good, as long as we keep having this conversation about privilege and how it plays into securing a medical transition. With each celebration of Elliot's visibility, I hope people will recognise those relying on personal crowdfunds.\"\n\nPage, who is Canadian-born, made his film breakthrough starring as a pregnant teenager in 2007's Juno - landing an Oscar nomination.\n\nOther major films include Inception and the X-Men series, before most recently starring as Vanya Hargreeves in Netflix superhero show Umbrella Academy.\n\nPage came out as gay in 2014, telling an audience in Las Vegas: \"I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission.\" After three years of marriage he announced his divorce from choreographer Emma Portner in February.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "North Tyneside is one of eight areas in England where people are being asked to minimise travel\n\nMinisters have backtracked over travel advice for eight areas worst hit by the Indian virus variant, after a change in guidance led to widespread confusion.\n\nThe amended advice asks people to minimise travel into and out of Bolton, Blackburn, Kirklees, Bedford, Burnley, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's official spokesman said: \"We've updated the guidance online to make it clearer that these are not local restrictions and we do acknowledge the confusion this caused [on Tuesday].\"\n\nIt came as Mr Johnson's former chief adviser Dominic Cummings gave evidence to a joint Commons committee hearing on key government decisions during the pandemic.\n\nMany people cancelled plans at short notice after it emerged on Monday that advice specifically for the eight areas had been published the previous week without any government announcement, which included asking people to avoid non-essential travel.\n\nThe new advice - updated on Tuesday evening - asks people in the affected areas to meet outdoors and stay two metres apart from anyone in other households, wherever those things are possible.\n\nThat advice also refers people to their local authorities' Covid guidance and says anyone travelling to red or amber list countries should arrange \"a testing or managed quarantine package\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary and MP for Wigan Lisa Nandy said people in many areas had \"stopped listening\" to official advice and that confused messaging had undermined public trust.\n\n\"We woke up on Monday morning to find apparently that guidance had been in force on the government's website since Friday, telling us not to move in and out of affected areas but nobody had bothered to tell us,\" she said.\n\nShe said that \"to treat us as an afterthought on a government website is to treat people's lives with absolute contempt.\"\n\nDr Bharat Pankhania, an infectious disease expert who advises local authorities on health plans, said confusion was leading to a fall in cooperation from the public.\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today programme that \"when people like us in local authorities start changing the game plan or do things without really explaining our actions, they stop eventually listening to us.\"\n\nHounslow in west London is another area where people are being asked to meet other households outdoors rather than indoors\n\nAmong those considering cancelling plans as a result was Julie Suttar, from Aberdeen, who told the BBC on Tuesday that she had booked a non-refundable hotel in Leicester to visit family she had not seen for more than a year.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I've been on the phone to my sister, in tears. Where's this come from? Where's the notice?\" she asked.\n\nThe uncertainty prompted a swift denial from Downing Street that it was imposing local lockdowns by stealth.\n\nThat came after several of the local authorities affected by the new advice said they had not been consulted about it - and only learned of its existence from journalists.\n\nIt has become an accepted fact that public health messaging during the pandemic needs to be clear and concise.\n\nOn that test, government communications to people in the eight identified hotspot areas in England failed in recent days.\n\nPeople in most of those communities were simply unaware of tighter new guidelines posted on the government website on a Friday afternoon.\n\nWhen they emerged late on Monday evening there was understandable frustration with the suggestion that people should not leave their council areas unless for essential reasons.\n\nThen it took nearly 24 hours for officials to clarify and amend the guidelines to simply minimising travel.\n\nThe row will blow over but it raises bigger long-term questions.\n\nMinisters say they want to shift from legal restrictions to public guidance as the roadmap progresses in England - in other words not using the law to dictate behaviour but giving the public enough information to allow them to moderate their own behaviour.\n\nThis sounds fine in theory but recent events in the hotspot areas reveal the potential risks of this approach.\n\nFailure to provide clarity on what people can or cannot do at a time of uncertainty might potentially cause confusion and frustration - the opposite of what is intended.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, local councils for the eight areas - which together represent more than two million people - emerged from a meeting with government officials and insisted there were no restrictions on travel in their areas and \"no local lockdowns\".\n\nThey said they were working to increase vaccination and testing - with Kirklees the latest area to announce door-to-door testing - as well as to support people self-isolating.\n\nGreater Manchester's Labour mayor Andy Burnham said the confusion over the advice was a \"major communications error\" which had a \"major effect on people's lives\".\n\nNorma Redfearn, Labour mayor of North Tyneside, said \"after a day of confusion\" it had been confirmed the area was \"at the same stage of the road map as the rest of the country\".\n\nOverall cases of Covid are at their highest rate for six months in Bolton, at 452.1 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nThe original guidance, published on a page titled \"what you can and cannot do\", advised people in the eight areas of England to meet outside where possible and avoid travelling in and out unless essential.\n\nIt was first published on 14 May to cover Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen and Bedford, before being updated, without an announcement, to include the six other areas on Friday.\n\nEfforts to contain the virus come as people aged 30 and 31 in England are being invited to book an appointment to receive their first dose of Covid vaccine.\n\nThe NHS is urging these million or so to take up the offer of a jab at one of the 1,600 available locations, including mosques, museums and rugby grounds, as well as pharmacies.\n\nNearly three-quarters of adults in the UK have already had one dose, and more than two-fifths have had two.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK reported 15 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test and 2,493 new confirmed cases. Figures for reported deaths early in the week are sometimes higher due to weekend reporting delays.\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. Carey Mulligan: \"We feel a promise has been broken\"\n\nAn international charity working to prevent children being trafficked from Afghanistan says a delay to promised UK government funding is \"devastating\".\n\nThe government had agreed to pay War Child £500,000 from July this year in a much-publicised donation match scheme.\n\nBut they now say they will not pay out the money until April 2022.\n\nActress Carey Mulligan, a patron of War Child, said the \"damaging decision\" needed reversing - but the government said it had to take \"tough\" decisions.\n\n\"The children at risk of abuse and exploitation need our support now not next year,\" the star of the Great Gatsby and Promising Young Woman told BBC Two's Newsnight.\n\nThe government must \"keep their word to the public who donated so generously in such a challenging year, and most importantly the children we all committed to helping\", she added.\n\nUK Aid Match is a government scheme which is designed to allow the British public have a say in how UK aid is spent overseas, whilst helping the poorest people in developing countries.\n\nFor every £1 donated to a UK Aid Match charity appeal, the UK government will also contribute £1 of UK aid, up to £2 million.\n\nLast year War Child launched an urgent appeal in Afghanistan, which it said would have reached 3,430 children and their families.\n\nThey raised £500,000 from the public and the additional funding from the government was due to be used to reunite children with their families and build two multipurpose support centres in the local community to provide training, help children return to formal education.\n\nWar Child chief executive Rob Williams told Newsnight: \"A delay of a year is a disaster and it is a major breach of faith because all those people who raised money in response to the government's promise that they would match the money have basically been let down.\"\n\n\"Whilst the government might think a delay of a year is a reasonable proposition, the project means that we won't be able to stop about three thousand children being trafficked into Iran over the next 12 months or so,\" he added.\n\nGovernment sources told Newsnight that all affected charities have been given cast iron guarantees that they will receive the money next year.\n\nNewsnight's Political Editor Nick Watt said that, in Whitehall, that is seen as significant in light of what is described as difficult spending decisions.\n\nWar Child works to help the thousands of Afghan children, some as young as eight, who every year are forced to leave their families in search of work. After decades of war in the country, many families have little financial security and parents stay at home to care for the youngest in their families.\n\nChildren cross the border to Iran on dangerous journeys to find work to support their families and are left vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"The seismic impact of the pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take tough but necessary decisions, including temporarily reducing the overall amount we spend on aid.\n\n\"We will still spend more than £10 billion this year to and improve global health, fight poverty and tackle climate change.\n\n\"We have protected War Child's UK Aid Match funding because we value their work and the results they will deliver.\n\n\"All UK Aid Match commitments will be protected, as set out in the foreign secretary's written ministerial statement. In some cases there will be a delay in releasing the guaranteed funding\".\n\nFollowing the economic shock of the coronavirus crisis, the chancellor last November cut the UK foreign aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% of total national income - a reduction of around £4bn.\n\nRishi Sunak said the government had to make \"tough choices\". Even with the reduction UK is still be the second-highest aid donor in the G7 group of major economies.", "Weekly Parkrun events should be allowed to resume in England, cabinet ministers Robert Jenrick and Oliver Dowden say.\n\nWriting to councils, the ministers said exercise was \"vital\" for physical and mental health.\n\nThe 5km local runs have yet to restart despite organised outdoor sport being allowed without a cap on numbers since 29 March under eased Covid rules.\n\nOn Friday, Parkrun said it had been forced to delay its planned reopening in England due to land permissions.\n\nThe organisation had hoped to restart events on 5 June after it was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, but fewer than half of its venues approved the runs.\n\nIt said 250 locations in England had given them permission to run on the planned date, but that this fell \"far short\" of the number needed to prevent overcrowding at the areas given the go ahead.\n\nIn a letter to all councils in England, the communities secretary, Mr Jenrick, and the culture secretary, Mr Dowden, said sport and physical activity were particularly important \"as we recover from the pandemic\".\n\nThe ministers acknowledged the pressures that local authorities were under to consider requests for organised outdoor sports safely, but they stressed these events were exempt from legal gathering limits and could take place with any number of participants as long as they were in line with Covid guidance.\n\nAround 150 landowners, including a number of local authorities, have either refused permission for Parkrun to return, or not yet replied to correspondence from the organisers, according to the letter.\n\nIt added: \"Parkrun needs approximately 80% of Parkruns to be allowed to go ahead to prevent people travelling across the country from areas without a Parkrun operating, to ones which are.\"\n\nThe letter said the government had been clear that Parkrun events were legally able to take place, with research showing mass-participation events such as marathons and fun runs can take place safely.\n\n\"In the interest of public health they should now restart,\" it said.\n\n\"We therefore strongly urge local authorities to ensure that they are applying their powers in a consistent and proportionate manner and progressing Parkrun's applications at pace in order to allow these events to return as soon as possible,\" Mr Jenrick and Mr Dowden said.\n\nParkrun says it is hoping runs can resume on 26 June in Northern Ireland and on 3 July in Scotland. It is waiting to confirm a date for returning in Wales.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracy Brabin on new Covid travel guidelines in Kirklees.\n\nSurge testing for Covid will begin in parts of Kirklees on Wednesday, amid criticism of \"chaotic and confusing\" government travel guidance.\n\nThe advice for areas hardest hit by the Indian variant was published online on Friday without an announcement, with local leaders not formally notified.\n\nWest Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin called the decision to update the guidance without fanfare as \"shocking\".\n\nThe government said it intended to take a national approach to lifting rules.\n\nSpeaking in Dewsbury, Ms Brabin said: \"The community of Kirklees has absolutely suffered [over] this last year. We've been in some version of restrictions for over a year.\n\n\"Businesses have gone bust, people have lost loved ones, they've not been able to see the people they care about - and now a Friday teatime announcement that can change people's lives.\n\n\"It just feels so disrespectful.\"\n\nDoor-to-door testing is going to take place in Savile Town and Thornhill Lees, with people aged over 11 being invited to take PCR tests, Kirklees Council said.\n\nAll adults in those areas are being offered the chance to be vaccinated if they have not already received a first dose, it added.\n\nJonathan Hughes, 58, lives in Gomersal and planned to go to Edinburgh on 1 June to visit his son, but said the trip is now \"unlikely\" after the latest advice.\n\nMr Hughes, who has terminal cancer, said: \"There is a large point of me that would like to go 'to hell with what the rules are' but I've spent my life caring what the rules are so it's difficult for me to go all cavalier about it and not care about it now.\n\n\"A year ago, my oncologist advised that I plan for 'quality of life - not quantity'. The government's lack of clarity means that I'm increasingly unlikely to see much of either.\"\n\nJo Richmond at the Old Bridge Inn said there was a lack of clarity about what was expected of the hospitality industry\n\nJo Richmond, general manager of the Old Bridge Inn in Holmfirth, said: \"I don't think this has been communicated very well at all - I only found out about it because it came up on the news on my phone this morning.\n\n\"We've just had a brilliant opening week and it's a major worry that bookings could now be affected with people travelling into the area to stay at the hotel.\"\n\nShe said it seemed unfair that Holmfirth, which had a small number of Covid cases, was treated the same as larger towns like Dewsbury and Huddersfield because they were all within the Kirklees district.\n\nRakiya Maqsoon and her husband say they will continue to commute to Dewsbury\n\nRakiya Maqsoon, 45, who commutes with her husband from Bradford to Dewsbury to run a market stall, said: \"If we're not meant to be commuting in and out, we've not been made aware of it.\n\n\"If it's not in law, what does it actually mean - how does it affect us? We'll still wear masks, keep hands clean and keep a social distance, but we'll still be commuting in.\n\n\"You've got to continue at some point to live a normal life,\" she added.\n\nMuhammad Muhammad said residents in Kirklees \"were just have to take every day as it comes at the minute\"\n\nMuhammad Muhammad, from Dewsbury, 55, said: \"Not everyone knows how to use the government website, a lot of my friends don't because we're old-school, we still use old mobile phones.\n\n\"It is concerning, everyone's getting ready for a grand reopening but I don't think there's going to be normality, is there, how things are going.\"\n\nCases in Kirklees have increased by 45% in the last seven days, compared with the previous week.\n\nIn the most recent data, the area had the fourth highest rate of infection in England, standing at just below 100 weekly cases per 100,000.\n\nThis isn't as extreme as some other parts of the country, such as Bolton, but the number of new cases being recorded do not show signs of slowing.\n\nThe majority of these cases seem to be in the younger age groups and to the north, such as Dewsbury Savile Town and Thornhill Lees, but not exclusively and there are hotspots appearing in the south in places like Honley and Brockholes.\n\nThought by the government to be one of the areas where the variant B.1.617.2 is \"spreading fastest\", according to the most recent data released, three of the 12 cases examined in Kirklees were identified as being from this variant, first identified in India.\n\nHowever, this only covers up to the 15 May, so it is possible more cases have been identified since.\n\nAdvice against travelling to Bolton in Greater Manchester and nearby Blackburn with Darwen, other than for essential reasons, and for people there to meet outside where possible, was issued on 14 May.\n\nIt was updated to include six more areas - Kirklees, Bedford, Burnley, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside - on Friday.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government wanted to encourage the public \"to exercise their good judgement\", rather than issuing \"top-down edicts\".\n\nKirklees Council leader Mr Pandor said he hoped it had been \"an error\" as the district's hospital rates and death rates were low.\n\n\"We are doing whatever we can to respond to the pandemic but the responsibility overall is the government's, he said.\n\n\"We will step up and do our part but we can't do it when there's no trust or no confidence in how they communicate with us. It's not on.\"\n\nShabir Pandor said described the lack of an announcement as \"completely unfair\"\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said she was \"surprised\" to hear local leaders declare they had not been told about the fresh guidance.\n\n\"We have been working in close contact, so I'm surprised to hear people think this has come out of the blue - it hasn't,\" she told Sky News.\n\n\"It is about formalising on the record the guidance we believe people can and should follow in order to make sure we tackle and don't have more spread of the Indian variant.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An explosion that killed a child was caused by a gas pipe being cut inside a neighbouring house, police said.\n\nTwo-year-old George Hinds died in the blast in Mallowdale Avenue in Heysham, Lancashire, on 16 May.\n\nFour other people were also hurt in the explosion which destroyed two homes and seriously damaged a third.\n\nLancashire Police said it was investigating how and why the pipe became severed and treating it as a criminal investigation.\n\nTwo houses collapsed and a third was seriously damaged in the blast\n\nDetectives said they had identified, along with gas experts, the cause of the explosion as a cut gas pipe inside a property on Mallowdale Avenue.\n\nGeorge's parents, Vicky Studholme and Stephen Hinds, who were also injured in the explosion, have been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nTwo others, a man, 44, and a 50-year-old woman, remain in hospital with critical injuries.\n\nCadent North West had said earlier the gas mains and service pipes were \"sound and did not contribute to or cause the explosion at Heysham\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Jane Webb, of Lancashire Police, said \"an incredible amount of work\" had been done at the scene \"in a relatively short space of time\" and officers had been able to identify the source.\n\n\"We have also managed to recover some items of George's, which I know means a lot to his parents,\" she said.\n\nShe said the focus was now on establishing how and why the pipe came to be cut and that investigation would be \"complex and lengthy\".\n\nForensic examination of the scene had been completed, the force said, and it had been handed over to the local authority.\n\nThe blast caused debris to cover nearby streets and fields and residents described it as sounding \"like a bomb going off\".\n\nGeorge was described as a \"beautiful little angel\" by his parents who said they were devastated by his death.\n\n\"He was so precious to us,\" they added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Police said paramedics tried to save Rayon Pennycook, but he died at the scene\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death, with three teenagers arrested on suspicion of his murder.\n\nRayon Pennycook was killed on Constable Road in Corby on Tuesday evening.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police was called at about 19:00 BST and, despite the best efforts of paramedics, he died at the scene.\n\nOfficers have arrested three boys, one aged 15 and two aged 17, on suspicion of murder and the force said the inquiry was moving at a \"fast pace\".\n\nA police forensics team was working inside a large cordoned-off area on Constable Road/Reynolds Road on Wednesday\n\nRayon's family said his death had left them \"devastated\".\n\n\"There are no words which can accurately describe the pain we are suffering,\" they said in a statement.\n\nThe family said the teenager had \"his whole life ahead of him\" and was in the process of applying for an apprenticeship.\n\n\"Rayon is not a statistic and he will not be remembered as such - he was a unique human being with a beating heart who was loved so dearly by his mum, dad, siblings, niece, nephew and friends.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left at the scene on the town's Hazel Leys estate\n\nA wide cordon remained in place on Wednesday and an officer was standing guard outside a property on the adjacent Reynolds Road.\n\nDet Ch Insp Joe Banfield said he was \"aware that there may be some pertinent video footage of last night's incident taken\" and urged anyone with mobile phone, CCTV or dashcam footage to send it to police.\n\nHe said: \"Our inquiries into this murder are still progressing at a fast pace and we remain absolutely committed to bringing those responsible for Rayon's death to justice.\n\n\"This is an exceptionally sad and tragic incident in which a young boy with his whole life ahead of him has died.\n\n\"Whilst we do believe that this was an isolated incident, high-visibility police patrols will be taking place in Corby to reassure the local community and I would encourage anyone with concerns in the area to approach one of our officers who will be happy to help.\"\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said inquiries were progressing \"at a fast pace\"\n\nA tent was erected on Reynolds Road on Wednesday\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.", "James Bryd Jr's murder led to the creation of a federal hate crime law Image caption: James Bryd Jr's murder led to the creation of a federal hate crime law\n\nTwenty-two years before the death of George Floyd, another brutal murder of a black man shocked the conscience of America and forced a racial reckoning.\n\nJames Byrd Jr was killed by three white supremacists who drove him down a dark country road and beat him. Then they chained him alive to a pickup truck and dragged his body for three miles - until he was decapitated.\n\nTwo of the murderers were executed for the crime. The other is serving a life sentence.\n\nIn 2009, President Barack Obama signed a federal hate crime bill into law which is named after James Byrd Jr (as well as Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in 1998 because he was gay).\n\nMy colleague Angélica Casas and I visited the Texas town of Jasper this month to find out how Byrd's family is coping two decades after such an unspeakable crime.\n\nHis daughter, Jamie, told us how she had reacted to his murder.\n\n\"I was numb, I was in denial. I was 16-years-old, so love and forgiveness were no part of my thought process at that moment.\"\n\nJamie says she still feels angry but chooses to channel it into positive actions. Now a police officer in Houston, she draws a connection between the murders of her father and George Floyd.\n\n\"My dad did not get killed at the hands of a police officer, but in today's world, that is what we're seeing.\n\n\"We're seeing a lot of brutality by the hands of officers, unfortunately.\"\n\nShe says it was a challenge to put on the uniform after George Floyd's murder as protests against police brutality and racism spread across the world.\n\nUltimately, she decided it was more important to keep serving her community.\n\n\"I want to be that officer, just be there in solidarity, and say 'hey, I know what you're going through'.\n\nYou can watch our film about James Byrd Jr on the BBC News website on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elena Morgan, part of Wales' elite development squad, said the situation was \"really sad\"\n\nThere are \"grave concerns\" about the future of public swimming pools across Wales, according to the sport's governing body.\n\nSwim Wales has warned up to 10% - or 30 pools - may never open again, with rural areas worst hit.\n\nIts research suggests many of Wales' 307 pools have struggled financially while shut during most of the pandemic.\n\nThe Welsh government said it would spend £7m this year to help provide more modern and accessible facilities.\n\nAlongside gyms and community centres, pools in Wales reopened on 3 May, but the bills have mounted after they were forced to stay closed for most of the last year.\n\n\"It's an astronomical cost running into the hundreds of thousands a year,\" said Angharad Collins, who heads up leisure services across Torfaen.\n\nCurrent Covid-19 restrictions mean 30 people can use an indoor swimming pool at one time, but Ms Collins said this made it difficult to cover costs.\n\nBut the chief executive of Torfaen Leisure Trusts - which is responsible for five sites across the county, including three pools - said they were vital for helping residents to stay fit and well.\n\n\"I had one lady come to us and say she had completely seized up through the pandemic and actually the pool was her oil,\" she said.\n\nMs Collins, who is also chairwoman of the Welsh Sports Association's Facilities Committee, warned the biggest challenge would be in four months' time with the end of financial support from both the UK and Welsh governments.\n\n\"I think it's feasible but we're going to need the public support. Every pool in Wales will need the public support to ensure they remain open,\" she added.\n\nSimon Morgan (left) said Covid restrictions would drastically cut the number of swimming lessons possible at Cambrian Aquatics Centre\n\nThe cost is a concern shared by Simon Morgan, who took over the running of Cambrian Aquatics Centre in Connah's Quay, Flintshire, five years ago with other parents from a swimming group.\n\n\"It's half a million quid a year - it's really difficult when you have no income,\" he said.\n\nMr Morgan said support from the Welsh government and Sport Wales had been \"amazing\", but his priority was getting people back in the water.\n\n\"We had 1,200 in swimming lessons a week, now we're down to about 600... that really affects our ability to generate our own revenue,\" he added.\n\nMr Morgan said the pool was built in 1962 to stop people drowning in the nearby River Dee and had been a mainstay in the town ever since.\n\nBut he said the coronavirus pandemic and the current restrictions made it difficult to have younger children in the pool as, with parents observing, the numbers allowed to swim were cut further.\n\nHis daughter Elena, 18, who learned to swim there as a child, said the situation was \"really sad\".\n\nPontypool Active Living Centre has one of three public swimming pools in Torfaen\n\nShe is part of the national elite development squad and said she would not have raced for Wales without her local pool.\n\n\"Being a swimmer myself, I know how much I enjoy it and how much other people can enjoy it and it is disappointing how pools are struggling... it's just sad,\" she said.\n\nA report by Swim Wales found one in five pools had been completely closed for a year, with 80% \"inactive\" for 43 weeks out of 52.\n\nChief executive Fergus Feeney said he was most concerned about rural areas where facilities might already be scarce, with fewer customers.\n\n\"It's very hard to make ends meet with rural footfall and, if those facilities go from those communities, they'll be even worse off,\" he added.\n\nHe has called for a \"nationwide campaign\" to get people to use their local pools instead of losing them.\n\nThe age of pools is also a concern for the organisation, with more than half being at least 20 years old and having no investment since they were built.\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said physical activity would continue to play an important role in helping people to deal with the mental and physical effects of the past 14 months.\n\n\"That is why we have invested over £40m to support sport and physical activity over the course of the pandemic and are investing an additional £7m this year to provide more modern and accessible facilities,\" he said.\n\n\"We hope that more people will be able to access these facilities as the public health conditions improve and restrictions are eased.\"", "Teachers say they do not feel equipped to deal with peer-on-peer sexual abuse because they have had no training.\n\nMore than 1,500 UK teachers replied to a questionnaire from BBC Radio 4's File on 4 and teachers' union the NASUWT.\n\nMore than half said they did not think adequate procedures were in place in their schools to deal with abuse.\n\nMany are also unsure how to deliver elements of a new sex-and-relationships curriculum, which the government says third parties might now help with.\n\nIn England, the Department for Education has introduced a compulsory Sex and Relationships Education (RSE) curriculum in all schools, focusing on relationships in primary schools and sex and relationships in secondaries.\n\nIt has also asked Ofsted to review peer-on-peer safeguarding procedures.\n\nOf the teachers surveyed, almost a third said they had witnessed peer-on-peer sexual harassment or abuse and almost one in 10 said they saw it on a weekly basis.\n\nThe debate about a culture of sexual abuse at schools has escalated in recent months after a website set up for victims to post their experiences anonymously gained more than 16,000 posts - some from children as young as nine.\n\nThe Everyone's Invited website publishes anonymous allegations which refer mostly to sexual harassment carried out against young women by young men at their school or university.\n\nThe government has now launched a dedicated hotline with the NSPCC for young people who feel they have been harassed and abused.\n\nSince the helpline launched at the beginning of April, it has received more than 350 calls, and 65 referrals have been made to agencies including social services and the police.\n\nAmina is now 19 and still trying to come to terms with what happened to her at high school. She says her harassment started when she was in Year 7, aged 11.\n\n\"I started to get bullied and people were making rumours up about me. They were saying I would go home with so many different guys and have sex with them - that was really upsetting for me.\n\n\"It was during the summertime and we were practising for PE, and then I'm sitting there with my friends and then there's this group of boys next to us. And then I just feel a hand on my back, forcing me onto the floor and then this boy starts grinding on me, and I think during that moment - I just completely froze.\n\n\"And then I look up at my teacher and then he looks at me and then he looks away. I just felt so alone in that moment. Part of me felt like it was my fault because of other people's responses. I remember telling myself just to stay strong and just wait until I got home to cry.\"\n\nAmina is now being supported by the Rape Crisis charity.\n\nThe new RSE curriculum in England was introduced in September 2020.\n\nAndrew Fellows, associate head of policy at child-protection charity the NSPCC, says that while the new lessons are a positive development, schools have not been given the support and guidance to deliver the new curriculum effectively.\n\n\"Coercive control, sexual consent, healthy relationships, online safety, pornography - that's all in there.\n\n\"But what schools haven't been given is the guidance and the support to cover that and to deliver that in a way that works for their students,\" he said.\n\nFlora Cooper, head teacher of Crowmarsh Primary School in Oxfordshire, where staff have just started to teach the new RSE lessons, said: \"In terms of external training, we've not had any.\n\n\"We actually haven't seen much being offered in terms of training and it is absolutely in the training - that's what is essential, which we don't have.\n\n\"Until the teachers are confident with the delivery of the content, then I don't think any of them will be confident and fully teaching the children the full curriculum. It feels as though we are on our own.\"\n\nOfsted is currently conducting a review of safeguarding policies and practices relating to sexual abuse in state and independent schools and colleges.\n\nIt was ordered by the government after thousands of young people - mostly girls and young women - contacted the Everyone's Invited website.\n\nChildren's Minister Vicky Ford said: \"We've seen these enormously worrying and very shocking allegations that have come through the Everyone's Invited site.\n\n\"One of the things that Ofsted will be looking at in this review is, are schools getting enough training and support? Do they need, for example, third parties to come in and train elements of that curriculum?\"\n\nAnyone who has suffered sexual abuse at school can contact the dedicated NSPCC helpline on 0800 136 663.\n\nFile on 4 is on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 on Tuesday, May 25 and then available on BBC Sounds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sasha Johnson in June 2020: \"Why should we stay quiet?\"\n\nA prominent Black Lives Matter activist was shot by a group of four black men at a party in south London, police say.\n\nSasha Johnson is critically ill in hospital after being shot in the head at a property in Peckham on Sunday.\n\nMet Commander Alison Heydari said the men had \"entered the garden of the property and discharged a firearm\".\n\nMs Johnson's party said she had previously received death threats but police have said there was \"nothing to suggest\" it was \"a targeted attack\".\n\nCdr Heydari added detectives were also \"not aware of any reports of threats made against her prior to this incident\".\n\nMs Johnson, 27, was left in a life-threatening condition following the shooting at the property in Consort Road at about 03:00 BST.\n\nOn Monday Ms Johnson's party, the Taking the Initiative Party (TTIP), said she had undergone an operation and remained in critical care.\n\nAnother man, who was thought to be in his 20s, also suffered a \"superficial knife injury\" during the attack.\n\nHe went to hospital but was discharged following treatment, the Met said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Richard Leonard, who is leading the investigation, said about 30 guests had been at the party, which was being held in the back garden of the property.\n\nHe said the four attackers had been dressed in \"dark clothing\" and went into the garden \"through a side entrance\".\n\n\"In the ensuing melee a firearm has been discharged injuring Sasha,\" he said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Leonard added: \"Our investigation continues to make progress but we need the assistance of the community to find out who was responsible for this horrific attack.\"\n\nPolice said four men had entered the garden of the house and \"discharged a firearm\"\n\nMs Johnson, who works in community activism and community support and got a first in social care from Ruskin College in Oxford, has been a leading figure in the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK and is a member of the TTIP's leadership committee.\n\nIn a statement on Monday evening, the TTIP questioned how police could conclude it had not been a targeted attacked \"without being able to speak with Sasha regarding the death threats\".\n\nHowever Charles Gordon, one of TTIP's founding members, added: \"I would like to say that we need to stay cautious and aware - the truth is that we don't know what has happened here.\"\n\nImarn Ayton, a friend of Ms Johnson's, previously told the BBC she understood \"the incident is more related to rival gangs as opposed to her activism\".\n\nOn Monday afternoon a vigil was held in Ruskin Park, close to King's College Hospital, where Ms Johnson is being treated.\n\nDuring the event well-wishers played African drums and prayed for the 27-year-old to pull through.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new law would allow owners to carry handguns without a licence\n\nTexas legislators have passed a bill which would allow most people to carry concealed handguns without a permit.\n\nCurrent state rules require those carrying handguns to have a licence, training and background checks.\n\nBut Texas's Republican-run senate has voted to drop the restrictions, despite warnings from gun control groups that the measures could put lives at risk.\n\nSupporters say the new measures would allow Texans to better defend themselves in public.\n\nThe bill has been sent to Governor Greg Abbott, who has said he will sign it into law.\n\nTexas has some of the loosest gun laws in the US and already allows rifles to be carried in public without a licence.\n\nThe new measure would allow anyone aged 21 or older to carry a handgun unless they have past criminal convictions or legal restrictions on them.\n\nSupporters of the new rules, often known as \"constitutional carry\", say they would allow Texans to better defend themselves in public and abolish unnecessary limits on the constitutional right to bear arms.\n\n\"This is a simple restoration of Texans' constitutional right under the Second Amendment, a right of the people to keep and bear arms,\" state Senator Charles Schwertner, a Republican, said on Monday, the Texas Tribune reports.\n\nCritics say the bill puts lives at risk. Beverly Powell, a Democratic senator, raised safety concerns from some law enforcement groups that opposed the bill.\n\n\"If I sit down at a restaurant with a gentleman or a woman who has a holster on their side and a gun in it, I want to know that person is well-trained in the use of that gun,\" she said.\n\nThe bill would still allow businesses to ban guns on their property and keep federal background checks for some gun purchases.\n\nAfter passing in a 18-13 vote in the senate on Monday, the bill will now go to Mr Abbott, who has already indicated that he will sign it into law.\n\n\"We should have 'constitutional carry' in Texas,\" he told local radio last month.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roman Protasevich's father tells the BBC he is fearful his son may be tortured\n\nThe father of a journalist who was arrested after his flight was diverted to Belarus has told the BBC he fears his son may be tortured.\n\nRoman Protasevich, 26, was on a flight from Greece which was rerouted to Minsk on Sunday over a supposed bomb threat.\n\nWestern countries accused Belarus of \"hijacking\" the Ryanair plane in order to arrest the dissident reporter.\n\nA video has also emerged of Mr Protasevich that appears to have been recorded under duress.\n\nIn the clip, which was released late on Monday, the journalist said he was in good health and seemingly confessed to crimes he had been charged with by the Belarusian state. But activists, including the country's main opposition leader, criticised the video and suggested Mr Protasevich was under pressure to admit wrongdoing.\n\nThe journalist's father, Dmitri Protasevich, told the BBC on Monday that he was \"really afraid\" of how his son would be treated by the authorities in his home country.\n\n\"We hope that he will cope. We are afraid to even think about it, but it's possible he could be beaten and tortured. We are really afraid of that,\" he said in a video call.\n\n\"We are really shocked and really upset,\" he said. \"This sort of thing shouldn't be happening in the 21st Century at the heart of Europe.\n\n\"We hope that the whole international community, including the European Union, will put unprecedented pressure on the authorities. We hope the pressure will work and the authorities will realise they've made a really big mistake.\"\n\nShortly after the footage of Mr Protasevich was released, the European Union said it had agreed to impose more sanctions on Belarus. It also called on airlines to avoid the country's airspace and gave the go-ahead to banning Belarusian airlines from flying over EU territory.\n\nThe plane landed in Vilnius more than six hours after its scheduled arrival\n\nBelarus sent a fighter jet to force flight FR4978 - which had departed from the Greek capital, Athens, and was bound for Lithuania - to land, claiming a bomb threat. It touched down in the capital Minsk at 13:16 local time (10:16 GMT) on Sunday.\n\nPolice then took Mr Protasevich away when the plane's 126 passengers disembarked. The activist, who witnesses said was \"super scared\", was arrested along with his girlfriend Sofia Sapega.\n\nMs Sapega's mother told the BBC that the 23-year-old had been taken to a Minsk jail, adding that the last word she managed to write on her WhatsApp messaging account was 'Mummy'. The accusations against her are unclear.\n\nBelarus is the only European country that still executes prisoners, and witnesses said Mr Protasevich told fellow passengers he feared he would face the death penalty.\n\nThree other passengers did not reach the plane's final destination, which was the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said he believed some Belarusian KGB agents also departed the plane at Minsk, but this has not been independently verified.\n\nBelarus said the flight had been diverted because of a bomb threat from the Palestinian militant group Hamas. A senior transport official read a letter to reporters that he claimed was from the militant group.\n\n\"If you do not fulfil our demands, the bomb will explode over Vilnius,\" it said.\n\nBut Hamas has denied any involvement. The group has no history or known capability of mounting operations outside Israel and the Palestinian territories. German leader Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Belarusian claim was \"completely implausible\".\n\nThe incident has drawn sharp condemnation from across the world, with countries urging the immediate release of Mr Protasevich and a full investigation.\n\nDozens of Belarusian officials, including President Alexander Lukashenko, are already under EU sanctions including travel bans and asset freezes, imposed in response to the repression on opponents.\n\nState media in Belarus said Mr Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994, personally gave the order for the plane to be diverted.\n\nThe 66-year-old leader has cracked down on dissenting voices since winning a disputed election last August. Many opposition figures have been arrested, while others fled into exile.\n\nMr Protasevich is a former editor of Nexta, a media operation with a Telegram channel. He left Belarus in 2019 to live in exile in Lithuania. From there he covered the events of the 2020 presidential election, after which he was charged with terrorism and inciting riots.\n\nNexta played a key role for the opposition during the vote, which was won by Mr Lukashenko and is widely regarded as rigged. It has continued to do so in its aftermath, particularly with the government imposing news blackouts.\n\nMr Protasevich now works for a different Telegram channel, Belamova. He stepped in to write for it after blogger Igor Losik was arrested by the Belarusian authorities in June last year.\n\nWhere is Belarus? It has its ally Russia to the east and Ukraine to the south. To the north and west lie EU and Nato members Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.\n\nWhy does it matter? Like Ukraine, this nation of 9.5 million is caught in rivalry between the West and Russia. President Lukashenko has been nicknamed \"Europe's last dictator\" - he has been in power for 27 years.\n\nWhat's going on there? There is a huge opposition movement demanding new, democratic leadership and economic reform. The opposition movement and Western governments say Mr Lukashenko rigged the 9 August election. Officially he won by a landslide. A huge police crackdown has curbed street protests and sent opposition leaders to prison or into exile.\n\nWere you on the flight? 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.", "Ms Sturgeon takes a question from the Daily Telegraph about vaccination passports.\n\nBut rather than just focusing on the situation with foreign travel, will vaccination status reports help people return to the domestic hospitality sector in larger numbers?\n\nThe first minister says she can see that being the case some time in the future.\n\n\"I think we will see greater use of vaccination as a route back to doing things,\" she says.\n\n\"We will see venues or other places ask for proof of vaccination and we need to think through some of the implications of that.\n\n\"But as I've said many times before, there are equity and ethical issues in there that we have to think through and that work is ongoing.\"", "Some home teeth-whitening kits sold online contain dangerous levels of bleaching chemical that can burn gums and cause tooth loss, an investigation has revealed.\n\nThe worst had more than 300 times the recommended amount of hydrogen peroxide, says consumer group Which?.\n\nA further 20 products out of 36 tested also had illegal levels of the bleach.\n\nAll have since been removed from sale by outlets including AliExpress, Amazon and eBay.\n\nOral Orthodontic Materials Store, the company behind the product containing the highest levels of hydrogen peroxide - at 30.7% - told Which? that it had \"found the mistake, corrected it in time\" and that the product \"has been removed from sale\".\n\nAliExpress, the online store selling it, said: \"We take product safety very seriously and after being notified by Which? of its findings, we took prompt action and removed the third-party product listings identified to be in violation of our listing policy.\n\n\"We are a third-party marketplace and all merchants selling on AliExpress must comply with our platform rules and policies, as well as comply with all local laws and regulations. We will take action against sellers that are found to be in violation of our terms.\"\n\nProducts sold over the counter in the UK should contain no more than 0.1% hydrogen peroxide, while the legal limit for application by professional dentists is 6%.\n\nSix of the products that Which? tested contained more than 10% hydrogen peroxide.\n\nWhat one of the products did to a steak, 30 minutes after application\n\nWhich? says consumers should seek help from a professional dentist if they want whiter teeth, as the procedure, if done incorrectly, can cause lasting damage.\n\nDr Paul Woodhouse, a director of the British Dental Association, warned: \"Hydrogen peroxide is a seriously strong chemical and not to be messed with. Dentists are trained in its usage and they also know what whitening products are effective to use and safe for teeth and gums.\n\n\"If you destroy gum tissue, you are never going to get it back and you lose your teeth. If it penetrates the surface of your tooth, which is likely, it's probably going to lead to the death of that tooth.\"\n\nIf you go the DIY route, look to buy teeth-whitening kits from a reputable high-street retailer, as the legal responsibilities to ensure products are safe are stronger there than on online marketplaces, says Which?\n\nIt's shared the findings with the Office for Product Safety and Standards.\n\nSue Davies, head of consumer protection policy at Which?, said: \"It's clear that self-regulation is not working, leaving people exposed to a flood of unsafe products online.\n\n\"It is absolutely crucial that online marketplaces are given greater legal responsibility for the safety of products sold on their sites, so that shoppers are far better protected from dangerous and illegal items.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Office for Product Safety and Standards said: \"By law, cosmetics may be placed on the UK market only if they are safe. There are specific restrictions in place for products of this kind and we would urge anyone who is considering using teeth-whitening products to consult their dentist first.\n\n\"We continue to work with local Trading Standards and online platforms to identify unsafe products and ensure these are removed from sale - we expect the platforms to act swiftly when notified to keep people safe.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "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.", "The Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit said it was working with Royal Mail and other groups as part of the investigation\n\nEight men have been arrested in dawn raids targeting scam text messages.\n\nThe suspects were allegedly involved in sending fake messages, primarily posing as Royal Mail and asking people to pay a fee to retrieve a parcel.\n\nThe men were arrested in Birmingham, Coventry, London and Colchester, Essex, a specialist unit of the City of London and Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA man from London was charged with three offences and the others were released under investigation.\n\nThe charged man, from Enfield, will appear at Inner London Crown Court on 21 June.\n\nHe faces charges of fraud by false representation; possession of articles for use in fraud; possession of criminal property (money laundering), a spokeswoman for the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU) said.\n\nThe unit added the arrests were made as part of a week of action against scam messages.\n\nSuch messages, known as \"smishing\" texts, steal a victim's personal and bank details by getting them to follow a link to a fake version of a trusted website.\n\nDet Ch Insp Gary Robinson, head of the DCPCU, said it was working with Royal Mail, the financial services sector and mobile phone networks to fight the crime.\n\n\"Ongoing investigations are now under way and we will continue to work together to bring those committing smishing scams to justice,\" 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 Germany, people are enjoying outdoor drinking and dining once more as the authorities ease coronavirus restrictions.\n\nWhile the country may have announced a ban on Brits travelling there, the locals are making the most of the chance to meet up with friends and family at outdoor venues.\n\nBars, cafes and restaurants in Dusseldorf opened for outside dining and drinking Image caption: Bars, cafes and restaurants in Dusseldorf opened for outside dining and drinking\n\nMany enjoyed a stroll along the banks of the Rhine Image caption: Many enjoyed a stroll along the banks of the Rhine\n\nGermany had already eased restrictions on people who were fully vaccinated or had recovered from the virus, lifting curfews and quarantine rules as well as the obligation to provide a negative test result to visit a hairdresser, or zoo or to go shopping.\n\nBerlin has agreed to lift a nightly curfew and ease restrictions on shopping if the seven-day incidence remains below 100 for three consecutive days.\n\nArtists provided outdoor entertainment at the Revolte bar in Berlin Image caption: Artists provided outdoor entertainment at the Revolte bar in Berlin\n\nPeople enjoyed an al fresco evening at a bar terrace on Berlin's Simon Dach Street Image caption: People enjoyed an al fresco evening at a bar terrace on Berlin's Simon Dach Street", "The Mayhill street looked \"like a war zone\" said Ryan Stephens\n\nWindows have been boarded up, burnt-out cars towed away and the scorched road cleared after Thursday night's riot on the streets of Swansea.\n\nThe community of Mayhill has been left frightened and angry, after the \"shameful\" scenes which left terrified residents trapped in their homes.\n\nPolice were hit with rocks as they tried to break up the violence on Waun-Wen Road.\n\nThe disturbance began after a vigil was held for a local man who had died.\n\nA balloon release had been planned in memory of 19-year-old Ethan Powell who collapsed and died suddenly on Wednesday. But it escalated with fireworks being set off, followed by widespread disorder.\n\nA vigil for 19-year-old Ethan Powell had been held before the violence began\n\nMr Powell's family are said to be deeply upset by the violent scenes when the events were meant to have been a celebration of his life.\n\n\"Disturbing\" footage circulated on social media on Thursday night of gangs setting fire to cars, rolling them down a hill and crashing them into other vehicles.\n\nEmily Fender, who organised the community clean-up in Mayhill, said: \"No one wants a relative remembered like that, it's shameful. But it's not their actions it's the actions of other people.\n\n\"We're just tidying up, making sure that people on their way to school and work haven't got to see this nonsense really.\n\n\"There's a good community in Swansea that when a call to action goes out, people answer it.\"\n\nSwansea resident Ryan Stephens drove to the street on his way home, about an hour after the violence had subsided, after seeing videos circulating on Facebook.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It looked like a war zone,\" he said.\n\n\"I stopped and spoke to some of the people who were outside the houses to see if there was anything I could do.\n\n\"They were all traumatised. Especially the ones who'd had their houses attacked as well, their cars burnt out, things like that.\n\n\"I spoke to the son of a 90-year-old woman, who'd had her window put through. There was a single father with two young kids, they were screaming crying. They could see the fire and they had their window put through as well.\n\n\"He had to go out pleading with the crowd, saying 'I've got two young kids in there, screaming, that think they're going to die'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Disturbing' social media footage of cars being set on fire in Swansea\n\nHe added that many residents had expressed concerns over a perceived lack of police action.\n\n\"For at least two hours after the event, there was no police presence,\" he said.\n\n\"Pretty much everyone I spoke to said something to the tune of 'Where are the police? There's literally nobody here. There's been no support whatsoever'.\n\nSwansea council workers and the community worked together to clean up the area\n\n\"Some people had been in their houses trying to hide. They felt let down.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police, however, said its response was \"immediate and officers trained to deal with public order incidents were deployed to the scene\".\n\nSwansea council deployed extra resources to the Mayhill and Waun-Wen area of the city following last night's disorder, to repair damaged roads and pavements, doors and windows.\n\nTemporary concrete bollards have been placed at the scene.\n\nOne resident from Mayhill, called Maria, told a phone-in on BBC Radio Wales that she was \"very sad and shocked about the behaviour that went on\".\n\n\"I speak for the community, we all feel the same,\" she said.\n\n\"It's embarrassing and tarnishing our area. I've lived here all my life and we all look after each other, respect each other, we all stick together.\n\nWaun-Wen Road is one of the main road's in Swansea's Mayhill suburb\n\n\"But last night's behaviour, it's not acceptable at all. I felt sickened. It was unreal, it looked like scenes from a movie. It was horrendous.\"\n\nSwansea council's leader Councillor Rob Stewart said: \"We are here for the community of Mayhill and Waun-Wen.\n\n\"The council is acting quickly to respond to last night's disorder by cleaning-up damage, reassuring residents and helping make people's properties safe and secure. We will also liaise with residents in the community to explore if there is any further support the council can give.\n\n\"What happened last night is neither reflective of Mayhill and Waun-Wen, nor Swansea. These yobs are a minority and their behaviour is disgusting and unacceptable. We are working with South Wales Police to help identify, pursue and prosecute those responsible.\n\n\"People have the right to feel safe in their home and community. We will be doing everything we can with the police to ensure this doesn't happen again.\"\n\nTerrified residents of Waun-Wen Road were trapped in their homes\n\nDeputy leader Councillor David Hopkins added: \"It's absolutely awful. I really feel for the community. Lots of people with young children live in this area as well as very old people, very vulnerable people.\n\n\"This was not anti-social behaviour, this was a mini riot. I feel for the police. I know some suffered minor injuries.\"\n\nPoliticians condemned the behaviour of those involved as First Minister Mark Drakeford said the \"violent scenes were completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the scenes were \"disgraceful\" and said her \"thoughts are with Mayhill residents who had to endure such shocking behaviour\".\n\nSouth Wales Police has told the community of Mayhill that officers \"will stop at nothing\" to find the culprits.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rioters 'smashed through my windows and door'\n\n\"So many families will have been tormented by those responsible,\" said Chief Constable Jeremy Vaughan.\n\n\"We will work hard with others to help and support local residents who deserve better than this.\"\n\nOnline fundraising pages have been set up to raise money for \"anyone who has been affected by this mayhem\".\n\nEmily Danaher has set up a fundraising page for victims of last night's riots\n\n\"Last night we all know the state Mayhill was left in and the damage that was caused by those who decided to turn against the police and their own morals,\" said organiser Emily Danaher.\n\n\"Children and elderly persons' windows being destroyed along with their feelings of safety in their on homes. Animals terrified, cars destroyed, police and their vehicles attacked.\n\n\"It made me really sad to see what was happening and imagining that was my family whose window was broken, or my gran that was fearing for her safety.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Cup\n\nSt Johnstone edged Hibernian to lift the Scottish Cup for a second time and seal a domestic trophy double in the greatest season in the club's history. Wing-back Shaun Rooney, who scored the winner in the League Cup final against Livingston, rose above Josh Doig to head home after half an hour. Saints otherwise held on easily to win the cup for the first time since 2014. That Scottish Cup victory was their only previous appearance in the final, but they have now won on their last four appearances at Hampden Park - all in Callum Davidson's first season as manager. Their success against the side who finished two places above them - in third - in the Scottish Premiership, sees the Perth men upgrade their spot in next season's new Europa Conference League to the Europa League qualifiers. St Johnstone have now won their latest four meetings with Hibs without conceding a goal - including this season's League Cup semi-final. Their performance and win was all the more impressive given the build-up had been clouded in problems for Davidson's side after eight players were affected by Covid-19 protocols following positive tests. Both teams making a host of changes from goalless draws as the Premiership drew to a close last weekend, but they fielded the same starting line-ups other than one man apiece from their semi-final wins. Hibs settled first in terms of possession, but it was St Johnstone who had the better early chances. Kane ought to have made it a goal in three consecutive rounds of the Scottish Cup but lashed a shot over after a clever Craig Bryson flick. Hibs should have been ahead, though, when the ball fell kindly to Jackson Irvine in space deep inside the penalty box, but the Australia midfielder's low drive battered off goalkeeper Zander Clark's outstretched foot. St Johnstone steadied themselves and the lead was reward for determined tackles by Bryson and former Hibs left-back Callum Booth. When the ball fell to David Wotherspoon, the former Hibs midfielder turned Alex Gogic inside out and sent a sweet inswinging cross to the back post, where Rooney's jump dwarfed the flailing Doig to power his header home. Hibs came out after the break with greater fervour but were fortunate not to fall further behind as St Johnstone broke quickly after Gogic claimed for a penalty when his header was cleared from in front of goal. The latest of several superb Middleton runs was thwarted by a Joe Newell tackle and only a nick off the prone midfielder's leg prevented Rooney following up with his second of the game. Saints started to tire but were still dangerous on the break and Macey had to save from Middleton and Wotherspoon before the former Arsenal goalkeeper kept Hibs' hopes alive after the award of a penalty for Paul McGinn's foul on Kane. However, with the Leith side falling flat and failing to test Clark, an exhausted but resolute St Johnstone survived to record a famous win. David Wotherspoon (centre) delivered the cross for the goal and was a classy performer in midfield against his former club What did we learn? Where can St Johnstone go from here? After a difficult start to his first season as manager, Davidson has lifted the side inherited from Tommy Wright to new heights. They were underdogs not only because they finished below Hibs in the league but due to the havoc to their preparations through Covid. But once again they got the better of more lauded opponents. For Jack Ross' Hibs, it is another disappointment to add to their League Cup semi-final loss to Saints. Their goal-hungry front trio failed to ignite and how much they can build on their third place in the top flight will depend on how many of their best players will remain after the summer transfer window. What did they say? St Johnstone manager Callum Davidson: \"Hibs have had a fantastic season and it could have gone either way. I am just very fortunate it went our way. \"For a small club like St Johnstone to create a cup double - not many teams outside the Old Firm have managed to do it. I thought we weathered the storm and put pressure on Hibs.\" Hibs head coach Jack Ross: \"In the first half, we probably have the clearest opportunity and we don't take it. And then of course St Johnstone go ahead. \"That final third aspect where we're normally really creative, it just didn't quite come off for us. We've just got to make sure we come here again.\" For St Johnstone, the Europa League qualifiers await, while Hibs have to make do with the new Europa Conference League.\n• None Martin Boyle (Hibernian) has gone down, but the referee deems it simulation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why do we love wrestling?: Mark Andrews talks to some of the biggest names in the sport about what it means to them", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia's government has instructed social media companies to remove any content that refers to the \"Indian variant\" of Covid-19.\n\nThe IT ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the variant as B.1.617 and any reference to \"Indian\" was false.\n\nGeographical terms have been used to describe a number of other variants, including the UK and Brazil.\n\nIndia's government has faced criticism over its handling of Covid-19.\n\nIt also drew anger last month after it ordered Twitter to remove posts critical of some of its actions during the pandemic.\n\nThe country has been hit hard by the new variant since late March and is now second only to the US in terms of overall infections, at more than 26 million, according to Johns Hopkins University research.\n\nCovid-related deaths are close to 300,000, behind only the US and Brazil, although some experts believe India's fatalities could be considerably higher.\n\nThe instruction to social media companies was carried in a government order from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday.\n\nThe note was not made public but was obtained by news agencies.\n\nPlatforms were asked to \"remove all the content that names, refers to, or implies 'Indian variant' of coronavirus from your platform immediately\", the Press Trust of India reported.\n\n\"It has come to our knowledge that a false statement is being circulated online which implies that an 'Indian variant' of coronavirus is spreading across the countries. This is completely FALSE,\" AFP news agency quoted the same letter as saying.\n\nThe note says that the WHO has \"not associated the term 'Indian variant' with the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus in any of its reports\".\n\nOne social media executive told Reuters it would be extremely difficult to take down all references to \"Indian variant\".\n\nB.1.617, a more transmissible variant, was first detected in India last year and has spread to dozens of countries. A number of nations have severely restricted arrivals from India.\n\nIndia is a massive market for social media companies. Statistics from January show it is Twitter's third largest.\n\nIndia's government this year introduced guidelines it said were intended to curb misuse of social media and the spread of misinformation.\n\nIf what is termed \"unlawful\" material appears on a platform, the company can be given a takedown order. If it does not comply within a deadline, it can face the possibility of prosecution.\n\nThe rules in essence mean companies cannot evade responsibility for what users post.\n\nQuestions have arisen over whether these guidelines promote more censorship and undermine freedom of speech.\n\nThere has certainly been concern within the media that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has been behind persistent attacks on the freedom of the press.\n\nLast month, the government told Twitter and Facebook to remove some posts critical of Mr Modi's handling of Covid-19.\n\nOn Friday, it criticised Twitter for labelling some tweets by Indian politicians \"manipulated media\", which the platform uses referring to possible fabrications and deceptions.", "Samples are being collected at wastewater treatment plants and sent to a central lab for analysis\n\nThe government has ramped up its programme to analyse wastewater for early signs of coronavirus.\n\nThe sewage-testing programme now covers two-thirds of England's population.\n\nScientists discovered early in the pandemic that genetic fragments of the virus could be detected in sewage.\n\nSamples are now being are taken at wastewater treatment plants and sent to a new lab in Exeter that is dedicated to analysing wastewater.\n\nThe genetic 'signature' of the coronavirus can be detected in a sample of wastewater\n\nThe programme has supported the detection of local outbreaks or the presence of variants of concern, which it can link to specific communities via the sewage treatment network.\n\nDr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, described it as \"an additional detection system\" for Covid-19. \"It is enabling us to respond more effectively to outbreaks and better protect citizens.\"\n\nAnd since it can cause infections without any symptoms, Dr Harries added that it \"helps us understand where it may be circulating undetected\".\n\nEarlier this week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that the approach was being used to monitor the Indian variant of the virus and to track its spread.\n\nBecause the testing is at a community level, it has helped guide some local councils to direct their testing and public health guidance. Luton Borough Council, after seeing an increase in cases of the coronavirus, used the information from wastewater testing to \"understand where to put additional activity\".\n\n\"It's particularly useful to see where we have the variants so we can target our testing,\" said Luton's director of public health, Lucy Hubber.\n\nProf Andrew Singer, from the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, played a key role in the scientific effort to establish this wastewater-based epidemiology effort in the UK.\n\n\"The scale of the programme that has been created in the past year is truly remarkable,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Well over 500 locations are being monitored for coronavirus, and many of them sampled at least four days a week, thereby generating an enormous amount of data on the prevalence of the virus across the UK.\n\n\"And this will live on in a post-Covid world by searching for other pathogens in wastewater, like influenza, so that makes this programme one of the few silver linings from the pandemic.\"", "Hundreds of bags of rubbish were collected from Snowdonia in the last year\n\nThe rise in people exploring the UK's beauty spots has seen a rise in countryside litter.\n\nWith staycations on the rise because of foreign travel restrictions, a national park has asked litter-bugs to confess: \"Why did you mess up our mountains?\"\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority hopes visitors who dropped litter will anonymously say why they did it in an online survey.\n\nPark bosses want to know why some people did not take their rubbish home.\n\nWales' beauty spots have seen large visitor numbers during the coronavirus lockdown and Snowdonia, the 823-sq mile (2,130 sq km) area around Snowdon, has seen its fair share of litter.\n\nAbout 600,000 people a year climb Wales' highest peak, at the heart of Wales' oldest national park, but some do not take their rubbish home.\n\nAbout 200 bags of litter were collected from the slopes of Snowdon in the two months over the summer of 2020, according to a group of volunteers who have helped with litter picks\n\nThe park authority has said firepits, camping gear, cigarettes and even human waste have been just some things left behind by visitors.\n\nVolunteers have been helping keep the slopes of Snowdon litter free\n\nNow Angela Jones, the national park's partnerships manager, is hoping to learn why some people drop litter instead of taking it with them.\n\nQuestions on the survey ask people why some left their camping equipment behind and who visitors think is responsible for clearing up any rubbish.\n\n\"The gathering insights bit is the tricky bit,\" said Ms Jones. \"We want to get the people who have done it tell us why.\"\n\nSnowdon is the highest peak in Wales at 3,560ft (1,085m)\n\nRubbish was dumped outside places like the Snowdon summit cafe\n\nThe authority has been distributing the questionnaire using social media.\n\n\"But if we get enough people to fill it in, we can get a better understanding.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Snowdonia NPA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 park authority is working with Bangor University on the project and will analyse the answers to help the authority reduce litter in Snowdonia.\n\n\"Hopefully, we'll have an impact,\" said Ms Jones. \"It's worth trying to help us understand what people are thinking.\"\n\nThe Snowdonia litter survey will close at the end of May.", "Mark Walters suffered appalling racist abuse when he played in Scotland more than 30 years ago\n\nWhen Mark Walters signed for Rangers at the end of 1987 it was the highlight of his career but he suffered some of the most appalling racist abuse ever seen in the Scottish game.\n\nAs the only black man in top flight Scottish football, opposing fans targeted him by shouting abuse and hurling bananas.\n\nMore than 30 years after leaving the Ibrox club, Walters has told a BBC documentary he knew he could not complain because he would be seen as a troublemaker - and his team-mates never discussed it with him.\n\n\"Watching players take the knee to say that Black Lives Matter was unthinkable in my day,\" says Walters, who arrived at Rangers from Aston Villa as manager Graeme Souness carried forward his mission to change everything about the game north of the border.\n\nSouness told reporters at the time that \"whatever colour, whatever religion\", players could sign for Rangers if they were good enough.\n\nIn the BBC Documentary, Souness still maintains that Mo Johnston, the first Catholic to sign for Rangers in modern times, experienced more difficulty than Walters.\n\nBut Souness tells Walters he is \"saddened\" to hear that he grew up not expecting to be treated the same as white players.\n\nWalters grew up in Aston in Birmingham, surrounded by other children of the Windrush generation of Caribbean immigrants who came to the UK in the 1950s.\n\nIn 1987, the 23-year-old winger was much sought-after, and had been in talks with Everton, but Rangers offered an exciting new project and the prospect of European football that was being denied to English teams at the time because of crowd violence at high-profile matches.\n\nHe signed for £500,000 and made his debut in the Old Firm Game at Celtic Park in January 1988.\n\nWalters won the league three times with Rangers and the league cup twice\n\nIn England, Walters had played alongside other black players but when he came to Scotland he stood out as the only one at the top level.\n\nWalters remembers being booed during his debut against Celtic - and then came the bananas.\n\nHe also saw a dart stuck in the turf near where he ran up the wing.\n\nWalters says that when half-time came it was a long, lonely walk back to dressing room.\n\n\"I was isolated in that nobody spoke about it,\" he says.\n\n\"Not even my team-mates said to me 'Mark, don't worry about it, keep going'. No-one said anything to me.\"\n\nWalters was reunited with former manager Graeme Souness\n\nAt the start of the second half, commentator Archie Macpherson told viewers the game was slightly held up while \"some assortment of fruit was removed from the pitch\".\n\nHe told the documentary he had missed the implication of the banana throwing.\n\nHe says: \"I looked down and I saw them lying on the edge of the pitch but no more than that.\n\n\"It didn't grab me. It didn't make any impact on me and I regret it to this day. I just carried on dealing with the other aspects of that game.\"\n\nWalters went on to play for Liverpool where he was team-mates with John Barnes (left) and Michael Thomas (middle)\n\nMacpherson says he can only conclude that he was taken by surprise but when he reflected on the game the legendary commentator was determined to be ready next time.\n\nThe next away game at Hearts, predictably, saw Walters targeted again, with coins and other missiles added to the bananas.\n\n\"It was intimidating, there are no two ways about it,\" he says. \"I have never experienced anything like it in my life.\"\n\nWalters went over to take a corner and says the hatred in the eyes of some of the fans was \"terrifying\".\n\n\"All of a sudden he was cascaded with objects,\" says Macpherson.\n\nIn the commentary, at the time, he said: \"Bananas are raining in on Walters and that's a disgrace.\"\n\n\"What really hurts, watching back the footage, is I now realise kids were at it too,\" says Walters.\n\nHe says he felt like there was nothing he could do.\n\nHe could not go to the ref to complain. Walters says that the attitude was that if he didn't like it then he should leave the field and they would put someone else on.\n\n\"If I did complain I'd be classed as having a chip on my shoulder,\" he says.\n\nAt the end of the highlights programme that week, Macpherson made a plea for the madness to stop.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It can ruin people's lives, it can ruin people's careers.\"\n\nQuite soon afterwards rules were changed to punish fans more harshly for action such as throwing objects at players.\n\nAlthough the throwing stopped, the racism didn't.\n\n\"Looking back it was an horrific time for me. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy,\" says Walters.\n\nIn the BBC documentary Walters talks to modern-day players about how attitudes in the game have changed.\n\nHe also looks back to the earliest days of football to find out more about black pioneers such as Andrew Watson, the world's first black international player, who captained the Scotland national team in 1881 to its greatest ever win over England.", "Martin Bashir asks Matt Wiessler, a freelance designer, to make fake bank statements purporting to show payments to Earl Spencer’s former head of security from the intelligence services. These statements are subsequently shown to the earl in September. The Dyson report exonerated Mr Wiessler as being “entirely reputable”.\n\nA meeting between Earl Spencer and Martin Bashir. Earl Spencer says Mr Bashir showed him a second set of bank statements purporting to show payments from the intelligence services into the accounts of the private secretaries of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Lord Dyson says it is likely that Martin Bashir created these statements himself.\n\nEarl Spencer introduces Martin Bashir to Princess Diana. It is the first in a series of meetings between the reporter and the princess before the interview is conducted on 5 November 1995\n\nMartin Bashir’s Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales is broadcast. In the UK, 23 million people watch it.\n\nAfter watching the interview, Matt Wiessler tells the series producer of Panorama he is concerned the fake bank statements may have played a role in obtaining the interview by deception. Managers talk to Martin Bashir and ask him to provide evidence that the fake statements were not shown to Princess Diana.\n\nPrincess Diana writes a note saying: “I was not shown any documents nor given any information by Martin Bashir that I was not already aware of”.\n\nMartin Bashir admits to BBC bosses that he had lied to them when he claimed previously that he had not shown the fake bank statements to anybody.\n\nTim Suter, head of BBC weekly current affairs programmes, sends a note to Martin Bashir - agreed by Tony Hall, head of news and current affairs. It says Mr Bashir’s dealings with Princess Diana in securing the interview were “absolutely straight and fair” but that his use of some material in the early preparation of the programme was in breach of BBC guidelines and justified a reprimand.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday publishes an article questioning whether Martin Bashir had intended to show the fake statements to Earl Spencer. In response to the Mail’s publication of the fake documents, the BBC issues a statement saying the documents were “never connected in any way to the Panorama on Princess Diana”. But growing suggestions in the press that the interview had been obtained by deception lead Tony Hall to open a full inquiry.\n\nTony Hall meets Martin Bashir who cannot explain why he commissioned the fake statements or why he showed them to Earl Spencer. The earl is not contacted as part of the inquiry.\n\nTony Hall reports to BBC governors that Martin Bashir commissioned fake statements because “he wasn't thinking\" adding \"I believe he is, even with this lapse, an honest and honourable man. He is contrite.” Martin Bashir stayed at the BBC until 1998 when he left to join ITV.\n\nThe BBC turns down a Freedom of Information request from journalists (making a programme for Channel 4) for documents about the BBC investigation into Mr Bashir’s interview, on the grounds that it no longer holds the material. In 2020, a repeat request from programme makers at Channel 4, is given several pages of details. The BBC says: “We apologise… that the answer you received was inaccurate.”\n\nMartin Bashir returns to the BBC as religious affairs correspondent. He is subsequently made religion editor. At this time, Tony Hall is director general of the BBC.\n\nAround the 25th anniversary of the Panorama interview programme, the BBC commissions an independent investigation into the affair – under former Supreme Court Justice Lord Dyson - after receiving a letter from Earl Spencer saying the forged bank statements had been used to secure the interview with his sister.\n\nMartin Bashir steps down from his role as the BBC’s religion editor due to ill health.\n\nDyson report is published, describing Martin Bashir as “unreliable\", \"devious\" and \"dishonest\". It also described Tony Hall’s investigation as \"flawed and woefully ineffective”.", "Hundreds of bags of rubbish were collected from Snowdonia in the last year\n\nThe rise in people exploring the UK's beauty spots has seen a rise in countryside litter.\n\nWith staycations on the rise because of foreign travel restrictions, a national park has asked litter-bugs to confess: \"Why did you mess up our mountains?\"\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority hopes visitors who dropped litter will anonymously say why they did it in an online survey.\n\nPark bosses want to know why some people did not take their rubbish home.\n\nWales' beauty spots have seen large visitor numbers during the coronavirus lockdown and Snowdonia, the 823-sq mile (2,130 sq km) area around Snowdon, has seen its fair share of litter.\n\nAbout 600,000 people a year climb Wales' highest peak, at the heart of Wales' oldest national park, but some do not take their rubbish home.\n\nAbout 200 bags of litter were collected from the slopes of Snowdon in the two months over the summer of 2020, according to a group of volunteers who have helped with litter picks\n\nThe park authority has said firepits, camping gear, cigarettes and even human waste have been just some things left behind by visitors.\n\nVolunteers have been helping keep the slopes of Snowdon litter free\n\nNow Angela Jones, the national park's partnerships manager, is hoping to learn why some people drop litter instead of taking it with them.\n\nQuestions on the survey ask people why some left their camping equipment behind and who visitors think is responsible for clearing up any rubbish.\n\n\"The gathering insights bit is the tricky bit,\" said Ms Jones. \"We want to get the people who have done it tell us why.\"\n\nSnowdon is the highest peak in Wales at 3,560ft (1,085m)\n\nRubbish was dumped outside places like the Snowdon summit cafe\n\nThe authority has been distributing the questionnaire using social media.\n\n\"But if we get enough people to fill it in, we can get a better understanding.\"\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 park authority is working with Bangor University on the project and will analyse the answers to help the authority reduce litter in Snowdonia.\n\n\"Hopefully, we'll have an impact,\" said Ms Jones. \"It's worth trying to help us understand what people are thinking.\"\n\nThe Snowdonia litter survey will close at the end of May.", "The Zhurong rover drove down the ramp of the lander on to the surface of Mars\n\nChina's remote-controlled rover, which landed on Mars a week ago, has driven down from its landing platform to the surface of the planet.\n\nThis makes China the second country after the US to operate a rover there.\n\nThe Zhurong robot is due to study the planet's surface rocks and atmosphere. It will also look for signs of life, including any subsurface water or ice.\n\nChina's Tianwen-1 mission, consisting of an orbiter, lander and rover, was launched in July last year.\n\nThe deputy chief commander of the mission, Zhang Yuhua, said the rover was designed to operate for 92 Earth days (or 90 Mars days, known as \"sols\", which are slightly longer than Earth days) and would share its data via the orbiter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China landed its first spacecraft on Mars last week\n\n\"We hope we can get a comprehensive covering of Martian topography, landform and environment, and the exploratory data of the radar detecting the Martian subsurface during one Martian year,\" she said.\n\n\"By doing so, our country will have our own abundant and first-hand data about Martian resources.\"\n\nThis model shows how Zhurong descended from its landing platform\n\nThe solar-powered, 240kg (530lb) six-wheeled robot - named after a Chinese mythical fire god - will be exploring Utopia Planitia in Mars' northern hemisphere.\n\nThis colossal basin - more than 3,000km (1,860 miles) wide - was likely formed by an impact early in the planet's history. There is some evidence pointing to it having held an ocean long ago.\n\nRemote sensing by satellites indicates there are significant stores of ice at depth.\n\nThe front view from Zhurong shows the flat landscape of Utopia Planitia\n\nUtopia Planitia is where Nasa landed its Viking-2 mission in 1976.\n\nThe US landed the much larger (one-tonne) Perseverance robot in February, and its roving mission is also just getting under way.\n\nEurope's space agency, which has twice failed with landing attempts, will send a rover called Rosalind Franklin to Mars next year in a joint project with Russia.", "Vaccine certificate trials could allow mass gatherings - such as Trnsmt music festival in Glasgow - to resume safely\n\nThe Scottish government is considering making digital \"certificates\" available to people who have had the Covid-19 vaccine, the health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland they were also looking at how the documentation might be used - and in what circumstances.\n\nShe said they had to consider ethical and equality questions.\n\nIt came as Boris Johnson confirmed that Covid status certificates would be trialled in England from mid April.\n\nThe UK government says such a scheme could have an important role to play both domestically and internationally and is \"likely to become a feature of our lives until the pandemic recedes\".\n\nThe digital documents 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\nMs Freeman said any scheme in Scotland should operate digitally as far as possible.\n\n\"I don't want to put an unnecessary burden on the health service, on our GP practices for example with everyone going to them looking to get the bit of paper that says 'I've been vaccinated',\" she said.\n\n\"Because I want those GP practices to be able to return as quickly as it's possible to delivering all the services they were before the pandemic.\n\n\"We're currently looking at what would be the digital infrastructure you'd need for any form of certification as we've worked through those ethical, equality and practical questions about how it might be used and in what circumstances.\"\n\nThe health secretary said the government and its clinical advisors would keep a \"watching brief\" on the Covid passport scheme south of the border.\n\n\"There are practical questions about whether or not it can in practice work and what it means for the venue operators, for example, if they have someone who doesn't have the necessary test result or vaccination and what do they do in those circumstances,\" she said.\n\n\"We don't want to put an unnecessary burden on them. But also as we have said all along about vaccine certification, there are ethical and equality questions that you've got to work through because not everyone can get the vaccine.\"\n\nAs we prepare to open more of society up, a controversial question is going to need answered: should we have domestic vaccine passports?\n\nA version of them - also taking into account recent tests and natural immunity - is to be trialled in England. Should that approach be mirrored in Scotland?\n\nOn the one hand, allowing people to socialise in a bigger crowd - provided they can prove they're vaccinated or lower risk - makes sense.\n\nBut there are obvious concerns: what happens to people who haven't had a recent test or are still waiting for a jag? Or those who (for whatever reason) decline the vaccine? Are they turned away at the door?\n\nSome see it as the thin edge of the wedge when it comes to civil liberties. They're concerned about allowing governments to decide what we can and can't do based on medical history.\n\nThe Scottish Government is looking at a digital way for people to show their vaccine status. But it remains unclear whether or not vaccination will lead to enhanced freedoms.\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld told BBC Scotland's Reporting Scotland it was important to distinguish between the types of vaccine passport being proposed.\n\nShe said the trials of vaccine passports at large-scale events in England were the \"way forward\".\n\n\"It's absolutely spot on to do a study, look at how it goes and then use the findings to directly inform getting many more people back into sports events, concerts, festivals, you name it. That's what we're going to have to do in the future,\" she said.\n\nOn needing a passport for every day life, she added it was \"much more difficult\" and that the key to opening the non-essential retail and hospitality sectors would be to \"drive down the incidence and the prevalence of the disease like we did last summer\".\n\nWillie Rennie, the leader of the Scottish Lib Dems, urged caution - describing the move as a \"massive step for the state to insist that people are vaccinated before accessing everyday services\".\n\n\"This is grossly unfair to the millions who have not been vaccinated yet and to those who have been advised not to take the vaccine,\" he added.\n\nCo-leader of the Scottish Greens, Lorna Slater, said she \"wasn't over-keen\" on vaccine passports and that there were a \"lot of problems with them ethically and practically\".\n\nShe said there should be more discussions before making a decision.\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar welcomed the idea of vaccine passports, but said the \"international aspect needs to be really prioritised\".\n\nHe said it will be important for tourists to have the right certification and Scots going abroad would also need evidence that they had been vaccinated.\n\nA Scottish Conservative spokesman said: \"We look forward to being able to fully consider these proposals and hope the four governments can work together to ensure consistency and clarity across the UK.\"", "Australia's mining industry is a major driver of exports to the UK\n\nThe UK has offered trade deal terms to Australia under which both countries would phase out taxes on imports over 15 years.\n\nThe cabinet was reportedly split on what terms to propose, amid concerns UK beef and lamb farmers could be undercut by larger Australian producers.\n\nBut the dispute was apparently resolved after Boris Johnson pushed for unity.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss formally made the UK offer to her Australian counterpart on Friday.\n\nIf accepted, it would also lead to quotas - limits - on tax-free trade between the two countries to be phased out.\n\nThe National Farmers' Union (NFU) has warned that freeing up the UK-Australian trade in meat will lead to hundreds of British cow and sheep breeders going out of business.\n\nMinisters are keen to strike as many trade deals as possible following Brexit, and Ms Truss wants one in place with Australia by the time the UK hosts the G7 summit - of leading economies - in June.\n\nBut she had reportedly been at odds with Environment Secretary George Eustice over the possible impact on farmers of removing import taxes, called tariffs, that are normally paid to the government.\n\nWith these differences seemingly resolved at a Downing Street meeting chaired by the prime minister on Thursday, Ms Truss put the UK's terms for a deal to Australian counterpart Dan Tehan at an online meeting on Friday.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Portsmouth, Mr Johnson said: \"We are certainly looking at doing free trade deals around the world.\n\n\"They present a fantastic opportunity for our farmers, for businesses of all kinds, for our manufacturers. We should see these new openings not as threats but as opportunities.\"\n\nMr Tehan said he was \"confident\" of reaching an agreement with the UK by early June, having had \"very positive discussions\" with Ms Truss, the news.com.au website reported.\n\nFarmers have raised concerns over competition from larger-scale Australian operators\n\nIn 2019-20, trade in goods and services between Australia and the UK was valued at £20.1bn, and both sides are hoping to expand this amount considerably.\n\nCurrently, metals, wine and machines form the biggest goods exports from Australia to the UK, while Australia's main UK imports are cars, medicines and alcoholic drinks.\n\nTrade in meat between the two countries is small, with 0.15% of all Australian beef exports going to the UK and 14% of sheep meat imports to the UK coming from Australia.\n\nNFU president Minette Batters said removing tariffs on these products would \"have a massive impact\" on British farms, which would be unable to compete, in terms of scale, with Australia's vast cattle and sheep stations.\n\nShe added: \"We continue to maintain that a tariff-free trade deal with Australia will jeopardise our own farming industry and will cause the demise of many, many beef and sheep farms throughout the UK. This is true whether tariffs are dropped immediately or in 15 years' time.\"\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments have both urged Mr Johnson to ensure UK farmers are not left exposed.\n\nAnd Northern Ireland's agriculture minister, Edwin Poots, said he was \"strongly opposed\" to ending tariffs and quotas.\n\nBut Conservative MP Neil Parish, chairman of the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said UK farmers could succeed in the beef market by exporting more \"higher-end\" cuts, such as sirloin, to Australia.\n\nA Department for International Trade spokesperson said: \"Any deal we sign with Australia will include protections for the agriculture industry and will not undercut UK farmers or compromise our high standards.\n\n\"Typically, any tariff liberalisation is staged over time, with safeguards built in. We will continue to work with the industry, keeping them involved throughout the process and helping it capture the full benefits of trade.\"\n\nAre you a farmer in the UK? What are your thoughts on a free-trade deal? 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 Eurovision website has a short profile of the winning band, and says they are vocalist Damiano, bassist Victoria, guitarist Thomas and Ethan on drums.\n\nIt says they took their band name from the Danish word for moonlight, as a tribute to their bassist Victoria’s home country.\n\nAlthough they have known each other since middle school, they didn't form the band until 2015. They cite their musical influences as rock, rap, reggae, funk and pop.\n\nThe group is already well established in Italy, releasing two singles and their first chart-topping studio album Il ballo della vita in 2018.\n\nTwo years ago they sold out 66 gigs and with 140,000 tickets for shows in Italy and across Europe.\n\nThe Eurovision website's page also has a translation of the winning song's lyrics, which has a chorus:\n\nI'm out of my mind, but different from them/ And you are out of your mind, but different from them/ We are out of our minds, but different from them.", "Paxman said his symptoms were mild and that he was receiving \"excellent\" treatment\n\nBroadcaster Jeremy Paxman has revealed he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.\n\nThe former Newsnight presenter said he was receiving \"excellent\" treatment and that his symptoms are \"currently mild\".\n\n\"I plan to continue broadcasting and writing for as long as they'll have me,\" he said.\n\nThe 71-year-old has hosted University Challenge since 1994 and is renowned for his fiercely inquisitorial interviewing style.\n\nBorn in Leeds in 1950, the presenter joined Newsnight in 1989 and remained with BBC Two's nightly bulletin until June 2014.\n\nIn recent years he has presented documentaries about the British Empire and Winston Churchill.\n\nPaxman said he would be making no further comment and had written about his diagnosis for the June edition of Saga magazine.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Heathrow Airport will open a dedicated terminal for passengers arriving from countries with a high risk of Covid.\n\nThe decision follows criticism of the airport and the government after arrivals from red list countries were made to queue with other passengers.\n\nBut from 1 June, those travelling from red list countries will transit through Terminal Three, which has been closed for the past year.\n\nThey will then travel to a hotel where they will quarantine for 10 days.\n\nIt comes as the volume of passengers travelling through the airport is expected to increase after 12 countries were added to the government's green list, meaning travellers would not ordinarily be required to isolate on return.\n\nThe vast majority of countries are on the amber list, meaning travellers must isolate at home on their return. The government advises against non-essential travel to those on the list.\n\nHeathrow said opening of a dedicated terminal for those arriving from countries on the red list, who must isolate in a government-organised hotel on arrival, would be \"logistically very challenging\".\n\n\"Our hope is that it will enable Border Force to carry out its duties more efficiently as passenger volumes increase in line with the green list.\"\n\nThe airport said the arrival terminal for those landing from countries on the red list would eventually be moved to Terminal Four and that the arrangement was likely to be in place for some time.\n\n\"Red list routes will likely be a feature of UK travel for the foreseeable future as countries vaccinate their populations at different rates.\n\n\"We're adapting Heathrow to this longer-term reality by initially opening a dedicated arrivals facility in Terminal 3 from June 1st for red list passengers arriving on direct flights,\" Heathrow said in a statement.\n\nEngland's traffic light list will be reviewed every three weeks, and countries can be moved at short notice. There are similar rules for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Spain said it would lift restrictions for UK travellers from Monday. But those planning to holiday in Spain while it remains on the amber list would be doing so against the advice of the government.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said: \"We've been clear people shouldn't be travelling to amber list [nations] for the purpose of holidays. Our advice hasn't changed. We will keep the green list under review… and will add countries where possible.\"\n\nPortugal is the main destination on the UK's short \"green\" list of countries that are free of the quarantine requirement. Under the UK's traffic light system, people are advised to avoid amber and red countries, where the Covid risk is greater.\n\nThe EU is currently deciding on an expanded \"white list\" of countries whose citizens can enter the EU freely.\n\nThe BBC has been told a final EU decision on expanding the list has been delayed for another two weeks.", "Two brown bears escaped their enclosure following high winds on Friday\n\nTwo brown bears have been shot and killed after escaping from a zoo enclosure.\n\nWhipsnade Zoo in Dunstable said the animals were euthanised by zookeepers on Friday, after using a fallen tree to get into a neighbouring enclosure.\n\nThe zoo's chief curator, Malcolm Fitzpatrick, said the two female bears, named Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, had attacked a male boar.\n\nHe said it had been \"an incredibly upsetting and difficult day\".\n\n\"As brown bears are strong and dangerous predators, our first priority is safety,\" he said.\n\n\"We must quickly make decisions informed by our experience and expertise to protect our people, guests and our other animals.\"\n\nThe zoo said tranquilisers would have taken too long to take effect on the bears\n\nMr Fitzpatrick said zookeepers \"agreed the only option was to euthanise the bears,\" adding: \"When there's an immediate threat to human life, the decision is made for you.\"\n\nHe said tranquilisers could not be used, as they would have taken 20 minutes to take effect, \"during which time the animals can become unpredictable and aggressive as adrenaline is coursing through them\".\n\nThe boar enclosure has a low fence, which the bears could have escaped over, something the zoo called \"a risk we couldn't take\".\n\nA third brown bear called Cinderella, which had not left her enclosure, was called to an indoor den and secured. The fallen tree was then removed.\n\nMr Fitzpatrick said there would be a full investigation into the incident.\n\nHe added: \"This situation is something we train to deal with through regular, rigorous drills - but one that we always hope we'll never have to face.\n\n\"I'm devastated by the outcome of this morning's incident, but I'm confident that our actions prevented any further loss of life.\"\n\nThe boar was treated by a vet and remains under observation.\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 Scottish government has said it is working to rectify a security flaw which could allow people to edit Covid vaccination status certificates.\n\nPeople in Scotland travelling to a foreign country can download the vaccination status forms from the NHS Scotland Portal.\n\nThey show the dates of vaccinations and which jabs were given to an individual.\n\nBut a security glitch means vaccination status details can be altered using popular computer software programmes.\n\nBBC Scotland was able to download a certificate and edit it to include a false name and the address of the BBC's Glasgow headquarters.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman confirmed the security glitch, saying: \"We are looking into rectifying this issue.\n\n\"This is an interim solution and records of vaccination status will be replaced by digital Covid Status Certificates in the summer, which will include vaccination and testing data to be used for outbound international travel.\n\n\"The measures are intended to ease the burden on the NHS by removing the need for people to ask their GP for a status record.\"\n\nPublic health officials previously said this digital scheme would mean Scotland was \"ready to join\" an international vaccination passport programme.\n\nPeople have been advised to request the certificate if they are due to travel in the next 21 days.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokeswoman Annie Wells, said: \"It's extremely concerning that this security flaw has been uncovered at a time when people are looking for clarity from the Scottish government around international travel.\n\n\"Instead, their safety is being put at risk by yet another glitch from the SNP government's rollout programme, this time on vaccine certifications. Vaccinations are our route back to normality and the Scottish government has a duty to ensure this is done safely and efficiently.\n\n\"This security flaw must be rectified instantly - we can't run the risk of a two-tier vaccine system.\"\n\nRory Boland, Editor of Which? Travel, described the security flaw as \"alarming\".\n\n\"Evidence of vaccination will be crucial to international travel this summer, and the potential ramifications of a person travelling while falsely claiming to be vaccinated are serious,\" he said.\n\n\"The reopening of international travel depends on mutual trust between governments that the systems they have in place are robust, trustworthy and fraud proof, so it is crucial that the issue is fixed as soon as possible.\"\n\nIn England, the NHS app will be available to use as a vaccine passport. This is separate to the NHS Covid-19 app, which is used for contact tracing.\n\nPeople should be able to view their coronavirus vaccine records on the NHS app without there being any need to contact GPs.\n\nThe UK government previously said such a scheme could have an important role to play both domestically and internationally and was \"likely to become a feature of our lives until the pandemic recedes\".\n\nLatest figures show that Scotland has recorded 370 new cases of coronavirus but no further deaths in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt means the death toll under this daily measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - remains at 7,664.\n\nFigures published by the Scottish government on Saturday showed the daily test positivity rate was 1.8%, down from 1.9% the previous day.\n\nSo far, 3,096,341 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination and 1,799,956 have received their second dose.\n\nGlasgow is the only area in Scotland to remain in level three of Scotland's coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe city has the highest level of Covid-19 rates in Scotland at 126.7 per 100,000 people in the seven days to May 19, up from 122.6 in the week to May 18, latest available figures show.\n\nMoray dropped down from level three to level two on Saturday while East Renfrewshire, which earlier this week had a higher seven-day average rate of cases than Glasgow, remains in level two.\n\nCovid rates in East Renfrewshire in the seven days to May 19 were 108.9 per 100,000 people, down from 116.2 in the week to May 18.\n\nIn level two, people can hug and meet indoors - subject to restrictions - travel across the UK and overseas, and hospitality venues can open later than in level three and serve alcohol indoors.", "Some under 30s have already got their jabs in parts of England where the Indian variant is spreading\n\nPeople aged 32 and 33 in England are now being invited to book their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe NHS opened bookings to about one million people on Saturday morning.\n\nIt comes as surge testing is being rolled out in North Tyneside and parts of west London affected by the variant first found in India.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany says anyone arriving from the UK will have to quarantine for two weeks, amid concerns over the spread of the variant.\n\nThe variant - also known as B.1.617.2 - is responsible for the majority of new cases in pockets of England.\n\nPeople in North Tyneside are being urged to get tested amid a rise in cases linked to the variant. Two extra mobile testing units in North Shields and Wallsend opened on Saturday.\n\nWider surge testing is also being rolled out in Ealing, Hillingdon, Brent, Harrow and Hounslow. It will target secondary schools in the five boroughs and PCR tests will be offered to everyone else in the area who do not have any symptoms.\n\nMore than 37.5 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of the jab - and 21.6 million second doses have been given.\n\nText message invitations are being sent out to 33-year-olds on Saturday and to 32-year-olds on Monday.\n\nThey will appear as a message from \"NHSvaccine\", and people who cannot go online can call 119 to book a jab\n\nThe other UK nations are already offering jabs to younger age groups - people aged 30 and over are eligible in Scotland, as are over-18s in Wales and over-25s in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why it is normal for some people to experience short-term side effects from Covid-19 vaccines\n\nMore than 40% of adults in England have now had both doses of the vaccine - meaning they have maximum protection from the virus.\n\nAnd among those aged 35 to 39, more than half have had their first jab since becoming eligible earlier this month.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the government was still on track to offer a vaccine to everyone by July.\n\nPeople in their 30s and pregnant women are being offered either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna vaccines if they are available, rather than the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, because of concerns about a possible link between the Oxford jab and rare blood clots.\n\nAnd over-50s and those considered clinically vulnerable will have their second doses brought forward to eight weeks after their first, rather than 12, following concerns about the Indian variant.\n\nThe guidelines from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) say there is some flexibility in the way the rollout is conducted at a local level.\n\nBolton continued to be the worst-affected area in the country with 385 cases per 100,000.\n\nAnd people aged over 18 in parts of neighbouring Manchester have been urged to book vaccinations.\n\nRochdale also said it would offer jabs to some over-18s.\n\nAndrea Fallon, Rochdale's director of public health, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the council was focusing on the priority groups as well opening five drop-in centres as part of a \"new programme\" this weekend.\n\nGovernment figures on Friday showed there had been another 2,829 confirmed cases of the virus in the UK, and a further nine deaths.\n\nThere were also early signs of a \"potential increase\" in Covid infections in England, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday - following a fall for five straight weeks.\n\nAlthough the UK government is still advising against non-essential travel to most countries, some European nations are indicating whether UK tourists will be allowed in.\n\nSpain is officially lifting restrictions for UK tourists from Monday, and arrivals will not need a PCR test.\n\nHeathrow Airport has decided to open a separate terminal just for passengers arriving from \"red list\" countries, after concerns that travellers from red countries were queuing up with people from destinations with lower instances of Covid.\n\nAre you in your 30s or under and have been offered a vaccine? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The carrier plane releases Unity to begin its ascent\n\nSir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space plane has conducted the first of three key test flights that should enable it to enter commercial service.\n\nThe Unity vehicle, with pilots Dave Mackay and CJ Sturckow at the controls, powered to a height of 89km (55 miles), and then glided back down to Earth.\n\nSir Richard has some 600 paying customers - including movie and music stars - waiting to take the same ride.\n\nBut they'll only get their chance once Unity is fully licensed.\n\nThat ought, finally, to happen by the year's end.\n\nThe licensing process is the responsibility of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), who will now receive operational and performance data from Saturday's sortie high above the New Mexico desert.\n\nOfficials will want to see, for example, that an electronic interference issue that aborted a previous flight attempt in December, has been corrected. On the evidence of Saturday's successful flight, it has been.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Branson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 mission followed the usual pattern.\n\nUnity was carried to 13km (44,000ft) in altitude by its \"mother\" aircraft, Eve, before being released to ignite its rocket motor.\n\nThe vehicle then climbed rapidly to the edge of space, achieving a speed three times that of sound (Mach 3) along the way.\n\nIt was the sixth time Unity had conducted a powered ascent in its five-year test programme, although this one was particularly noteworthy because it was the first such demonstration to run out of what will be its operational home - the purpose-built commercial hub known as Spaceport America.\n\nUnity is seen climbing skyward from the perspective of the Eve carrier plane\n\n\"It was a beautifully elegant experience,\" said Sir Richard, who was watching from the ground.\n\n\"We had the backdrop of New Mexico, the mountains with the Sun coming up; we could see the spaceship clearly from the ground just going straight up. And, yeah, burning, burning, burning, until it finally disappeared into space,\" the businessman told BBC News.\n\nUnity's view of the blackness of space and the curvature of the Earth\n\nThe next flight should see four of Sir Richard's Virgin Galactic employees join the pilots - to get a sense of the experience that future ticketed customers will enjoy. The identity of this quartet has yet to be revealed, even within the company itself.\n\nThe flight after that would see Sir Richard himself go to the edge of space - as a statement of readiness for commercial service.\n\nAnd it's then on the subsequent outing that the company is expected to start earning revenues from carrying passengers.\n\nThat's a mission that has been purchased by the Italian Air Force, which is going to put several payload specialists aboard Unity to supervise a number of microgravity experiments.\n\nIt's been a long road for Virgin Galactic's engineers to get the system to where they want it, with progress over the past year stymied in part by the Covid crisis.\n\nBut CEO Michael Colglazie said the project was now firmly on track, especially with respect to FAA licensing.\n\n\"It was such a perfect flight. We'll get the data off the ship and give it to the FAA. That'll be our homework turned in. We believe we've now collected everything we need for the final points on our commercial licence,\" he explained.\n\nJeff Bezos is due to begin a commercial tourism service in July\n\nThe move to commercial service can't come soon enough. Space tourism is a sector being rekindled after a decade's hiatus, and it's about to get very competitive.\n\nThroughout the 2000s, seven wealthy individuals paid to visit the International Space Station (ISS). But this adventurism, organised under the patronage of the Russian space agency, ceased in 2009.\n\nNow, new initiatives abound. As well as Sir Richard's approach, there are projects coming from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and California tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.\n\nThe Russians, too, are reprising their commercial flights to the ISS, and there are even those who want to launch private space stations for people to visit. Among these is Axiom, a company started by a former Nasa ISS programme manager.\n\nSir Richard said he was busy getting himself ready for his own spaceflight later this year.\n\n\"I'll have a whole day of training tomorrow. And, oh my god, I'm looking forward to it. It's ridiculously exciting. Our chief astronaut Dave Mackay just turned to me and said, 'Richard, you're gonna love it',\" he told BBC News.", "Gen Attahiru was only appointed to the post in January\n\nNigeria's army chief, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, has been killed in a plane crash in the north-western state of Kaduna, officials say.\n\nThe incident happened as the plane was trying to land in bad weather, the military said. Ten other officers, including the plane's crew also died.\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the crash.\n\nGen Attahiru, 54, only took up his post in January in an overhaul of the military's top brass.\n\nIt was part of the government's plan to boost the military's efficiency in fighting a more than decade-long jihadist insurgency.\n\nThe Nigerian Air Force said the incident happened as the plane was landing at Kaduna International Airport.\n\nOn Twitter, the president said the crash was a \"mortal blow... at a time our armed forces are poised to end the security challenges facing the country\".\n\nFriday's crash comes three months to the day after a Nigerian military plane crashed short of a runway in the capital Abuja, killing all seven people on board.", "Beit Hanoun in Gaza. The UN has called for \"immediate humanitarian assistance\"\n\nAs Gaza and Israel emerge from 11 days of conflict, mediators are seeking to cement the truce and prevent more violence in the longer term.\n\nAn Egyptian team was in Israel on Saturday, while the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken could visit the region next week.\n\nBoth Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have claimed victory in the latest conflict.\n\nMore than 250 people were killed, most of them in Gaza.\n\nThe fighting began on 10 May after weeks of spiralling Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem which culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas - the militant Islamist group which rules Gaza - began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.\n\nSince the truce went into force on Friday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said the degrading of Hamas's military power by air bombardment was an \"exceptional success\".\n\nHe added: \"If Hamas thinks we will tolerate a drizzle of rockets, it is wrong\" and pledged a \"new level of force\" in response.\n\nMeanwhile, Hamas has spoken of what it called the \"euphoria of victory\" and its leader Ismail Haniyeh said the conflict had \"opened the door to new phases that will witness many victories\".\n\nIsraelis handed out flowers in the southern city of Ashkelon on the first day of the ceasefire\n\nThe truce held throughout its second day on Saturday. Its terms are unclear. Israel simply said it had agreed to a \"mutual and unconditional\" cessation of hostilities.\n\nEgypt, Qatar, the US and UN appear to have been involved.\n\nOn Saturday, the UN Security Council issued its first statement on the conflict, praising the mediators and calling for a \"full adherence to the ceasefire\".\n\nTeams of Egyptian mediators have been shuttling between Gaza, Israel and the West Bank.\n\nAn Egyptian diplomat said the teams were implementing agreed measures and trying to prevent practices that led to the latest fighting, but there was no detail.\n\nMr Blinken is expected to visit the region next week. The itinerary has not been released but a US source said he would travel to Israel and the West Bank on Wednesday and Thursday. He may visit Egypt and Jordan. The US will not hold direct talks with Hamas, which it regards as a terrorist organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's Tom Bateman, who has been in Gaza, says that, although the calm has been welcomed there, most people know it probably just means a countdown to the next inevitable conflict.\n\nCivilians on both sides have spoken of wanting to live without the fear of attack from the air.\n\nBut many are not confident. One shop owner in Gaza, Ashraf Abu Mohammad, told the Associated Press news agency: \"Life will return, because this is not the first war, and it will not be the last war.\"\n\nGhazi Dahdouh can't go home any more because his house was blown up by a missile fired from an Israeli warplane. So he's living on top of it. It's a treacherous walk up rubble and jagged glass. But in the middle of a collapsed concrete roof you'll find Ghazi, 70, in a tent.\n\nHe says he'll stay put until his house is rebuilt. Under the canvas Ghazi tells me his son is a policeman paid half salary. Ghazi gave him and his grandsons two rooms in the house.\n\nIsrael said during the conflict it struck the homes of militants, arguing they were legitimate targets to prevent attacks. It also launched air strikes on police facilities in the Hamas-governed territory.\n\n\"I am an innocent civilian, I have nothing to do with politics,\" Ghazi tells me. \"If I have a weapon now I will go and fight, because I am not guilty. I have nothing to do with what happened to me.\"\n\nGhazi can't understand why he and his extended family should be left homeless. He says: \"If they are looking for [my son] because he's a policeman they should have told me not to let him live here, instead of knocking down the whole building.\"\n\nRights groups have previously accused Israel of failing to give clear evidence that destroying homes in this way amounts to a legitimate military target under international law.\n\nThe first convoys of humanitarian aid have arrived in Gaza. More lorries arrived at Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing on Saturday and a 130-vehicle convoy was scheduled to cross from Egypt.\n\nBut the World Health Organization has said Gaza's health facilities are in danger of being overwhelmed by thousands of injured people.\n\nLynn Hastings, the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator for the Palestinian territories, said from Gaza City she hoped that calm would remain.\n\nBut she had spoken to families and \"they feel that they have no control of their lives\".\n\nTrucks loaded with humanitarian aid passed into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing on Friday\n\nFor about 14 years, Gaza has been under a blockade on its borders with Israel and Egypt that restricts the passage of people and goods - one of the main issues for any future mediation.\n\nIsrael says it must limit Hamas's access to weapons, as the militants refuse to disarm. The UN says the blockade must end for Gaza's economy to improve.\n\nFlashpoints in Jerusalem could also complicate the ceasefire. Hamas has told the BBC that part of the agreed truce involved Israel compromises over the al-Aqsa mosque compound and the district of Sheikh Jarrah, where there have been moves by Jewish settlers to evict Palestinian families.\n\nIsrael has denied this is the case and the issues remain. There were clashes in East Jerusalem on Friday after the truce started.\n\nFighters in Hamas's military wing marched in Gaza City on Saturday\n\nSome of the chants of Palestinians there highlighted another major issue - the rivalry between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, which is led by Mahmoud Abbas and runs parts of the West Bank.\n\nCrowds chanted \"the people want the president to leave\". Mr Abbas will try to shore up his position when he meets Mr Blinken.\n\nSome international leaders, including US President Joe Biden, have again referred to the long-term, two-state solution for the Middle East - a Palestinian state alongside Israel - but maintaining the current calm is the main focus at the moment.", "Tony Hall arriving to take up the post of BBC director general in 2013\n\nThis is a crisis that goes to the heart of the BBC's DNA - the values of integrity and fairness that underpin its reputation around the world.\n\nThe deceit may go back a quarter of a century, but there are unanswered questions that carry huge jeopardy for the corporation today.\n\nIn his first speech after taking over as director general after the Jimmy Savile scandal, Lord Hall addressed the culture of the BBC.\n\n\"No organisation as big as this one can avoid making mistakes,\" he said.\n\n\"But I want to ensure that when we do make mistakes, they are caused by trying to serve our viewers, not by looking after ourselves.\n\n\"And when we do make mistakes - and we will - let's own up to them quickly, learn from them and move on.\"\n\nBut Lord Dyson's report suggests the corporation's values and principles were parked to protect its corporate reputation.\n\nThe BBC used its press office to deflect difficult questions, the kind of institutional cover-up its own journalists seek to expose.\n\nThe corporation stands accused of hostility to staff who sought to blow the whistle on Martin Bashir's lies.\n\nFormer BBC graphic designer, Matt Wiessler, says he has only just received an apology\n\nThe graphic designer Matt Wiessler, who was commissioned by Bashir to create mocked-up bank statements, has long claimed he was made the scapegoat for the scandal.\n\n\"There is this culture within the BBC, that the little people... we don't really need to be addressed,\" he said.\n\nToday he said he had received the \"absolute minimum\" apology from BBC bosses - in a letter which arrived late last night.\n\n\"Only under duress do we get some sort of apology and some sort of acknowledgement,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC said on Friday that there had been \"radical change\" to its whistleblowing procedures over the past 25 years, and they had \"changed out of all recognition\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We now have a thorough and industry-leading whistleblowing scheme which provides clear and independent routes to raise concerns and, if necessary, direct access for whistleblowers to a non-executive director on the BBC board.\"\n\nAnother question the BBC must answer is why Martin Bashir was re-hired by the BBC as religious affairs correspondent in 2016.\n\nLord Hall was director general at the time and had intimate knowledge of Bashir's behaviour.\n\nThe BBC's head of newsgathering, Jonathan Munro, said at the time: \"Martin's track record in enterprising journalism is well-known and respected in the industry and amongst our audiences.\"\n\nIn the years before his re-appointment, Bashir was forced to apologise twice for making controversial remarks while employed by US news networks.\n\nOn one occasion, speaking to the Asian-American Journalists Association, he said: \"I am happy to be in the midst of so many Asian babes.\"\n\nIn 2013, he resigned from MSNBC following disparaging remarks on air about the former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.\n\nThe corporation's religion and ethics review in 2017, led by Lord Hall, promoted Mr Bashir to Religion Editor.\n\nThe BBC said this was part of its aim to \"raise our game across all output\".\n\nLord Dyson said yesterday that the decision to re-hire him was not closely related enough to his terms of reference, for him to investigate or reach any conclusions.\n\nA BBC spokesman said the post was filled after a competitive interview process: \"We now of course have the Dyson report. We didn't have it then.\"\n\nThe former head of news at Channel 4, Dorothy Byrne, last night called the appointment \"obscene\" and called for an inquiry into how it happened.\n\nQuestions have also been raised about how the BBC is governed.\n\nFormer BBC chairman and broadcasting executive Lord Grade has suggested an independent body of journalists should oversee standards at BBC News.\n\n\"There has got to be a serious governance structural change inside the BBC,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there has to be an editorial board of independent outside specialist non-conflicted journalistic people who can hold BBC journalism to account.\"\n\nThe Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has said the BBC's failings are serious enough for the government to consider taking action: \"Clearly the wider issues of governance and the way things are run now need to be looked at.\"\n\nThe BBC, which has changed its system of governance twice since the mid-1990s, said reviews were built into the existing system and one would take place as part of the current royal charter.\n\n\"But of course,\" it said in a statement, \"there is much to reflect on\".", "Twenty-five years ago, the BBC's Panorama programme landed a scoop rivals the world over wanted - an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales. Her son and heir to the throne, Prince William, has now launched an unprecedented attack on the corporation over that interview.\n\nThe programme, which attracted a UK audience of 23m, was a career-defining moment for reporter Martin Bashir.\n\nBut after accusations resurfaced last autumn that Bashir misled the princess to gain her trust, the BBC established an inquiry led by the former Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson. That inquiry has judged Bashir to be \"unreliable\", \"devious\" and \"dishonest.\"\n\nBashir was investigated by the BBC at the time by Tony Hall, who went on to become the BBC's director general. Hall found that Bashir was \"honest\" and an \"honourable man\". Dyson has condemned Hall's inquiry as \"flawed\" and \"woefully ineffective\".\n\nUntil now, the full story behind the scoop has remained hidden for a quarter of a century.\n\nThe interview became one of the 20th Century's seminal TV events. As the separated wife of the future king, Princess Diana spoke of adultery, palace plotting, mental and physical illness, and how Prince Charles was unfit for the job.\n\n\"Do you really think a campaign was being waged against you?\" Martin Bashir asked Princess Diana, having spent the preceding weeks amplifying the alarm bells in her head about just such a campaign. He claimed uniquely placed sources were telling him about dirty tricks by journalists, royal courtiers, the intelligence services, and even her friends.\n\nI worked on Panorama in 1995, and I had heard the rumours that Bashir had used deception to land his scoop, but nothing more. The details only began to resurface last autumn, on the 25th anniversary of the interview. The BBC released to ITV and Channel 4 some of the information journalists had been seeking for years.\n\nAt the same time, Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer disclosed that he'd kept contemporaneous notes of his meetings with Bashir, and the claims he made.\n\nLord Dyson's report represents the BBC's formal response to the allegations against Martin Bashir and the failure of Tony Hall's 1996 inquiry to get to the bottom of this affair.\n\nHowever, so serious were last autumn's renewed allegations of misconduct that the current Panorama team decided this needed to be investigated by the programme itself to restore public trust in Panorama's journalism and independence.\n\nWe've talked to almost all the witnesses who have given evidence to Lord Dyson and many more besides, including detailed testimony from Earl Spencer.\n\nLike Lord Dyson, we have also seen internal BBC documents that not only show Bashir repeatedly lied, but also acknowledge that there was a serious breach of journalistic ethics and BBC rules. And yet the BBC management board was told by Hall that he was certain Bashir had not set out to deceive, while Hall's note intended for the corporation's governing body said he was an \"honest and honourable man\".\n\nLord Dyson says: \"What Mr Bashir did was not an impulsive act done in the spur of the moment. It was carefully planned… What he did was devious and dishonest.\"\n\nThe story begins with Bashir's plan to persuade Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer that among journalists covering the \"War of the Waleses\", he had access to high-level sources with the inside story of a broad conspiracy against him and his sister.\n\nOn 24 August 1995, Bashir left a telephone message with one of Spencer's assistants: \"Not seeking interview or info\", just \"15 minutes of time to talk\". He then sent a BBC headed letter claiming to have spent the \"past three months investigating press behaviour\". In fact, Bashir had spent much of that time working on other Panorama programmes. However, his letter intimated that a dogged investigation had unearthed something big about press intrusion into the Spencer family.\n\n\"I simply [want] to share some information which I believe, may be of interest,\" he wrote, calculating Spencer would bite knowing that he had had his own battles with the media. With no response, Bashir called again on 29 August. Spencer said he could meet him in London at 18:00 for a quick drink.\n\nOn the face of it, the suddenness of Spencer's invitation to a meeting may well have taken Bashir by surprise. In order to ingratiate himself with Earl Spencer to gain access to his sister, the reporter intended to show Spencer - falsely - that his former head of security, ex-soldier, Alan Waller, was being paid regularly by Rupert Murdoch's News international and the intelligence services to spy on the Spencer family. However, Bashir didn't show this to Spencer at their first brief meeting - presumably because he hadn't yet created the \"information\".\n\nLord Dyson said he could not be certain about the precise date when this \"information\" was created. However, our own investigation suggests this happened immediately after Bashir's introductory drink with Spencer.\n\nSpencer had agreed to continue their conversation at his country estate, Althorp, two days later at 11:30 on 31 August.\n\nTo help prepare the \"information\", Bashir made an urgent call to a former colleague, Matt Wiessler, begging him to drop everything for a job that couldn't wait. The graphic designer doesn't recall the exact date except that it was at the junction of August and September. Wiessler's business partner at the time told me that Bashir called him first and remembers it being around the time of the Notting Hill Carnival, which in 1995 ended on 28 August. He says that because Bashir wanted a rushed overnight job, he couldn't do it and suggested he call Wiessler instead.\n\nBoth Wiessler and his business partner are also clear that the call came after hours. Since Spencer's diary shows he had his first meeting with Bashir on the evening of the 29th, the evidence points to Bashir having called Wiessler soon after his drink with Spencer.\n\nWiessler says Bashir came to his flat and dictated from his notebook details of what he said were two of Alan Waller's bank statements, which he claimed to have seen - £4,000 from News International on 8 March 1994, and £6,500 from a Jersey-based company called \"Penfolds Consultants\" on 4 June. Bashir didn't mention the story he was working on was about Princess Diana, only that it \"could lead to something big\" in relation to \"surveillance by MI5 or MI6\".\n\nThe designer assumed that Bashir had actually seen Waller's original bank statements. He told Bashir the job of recreating them would take all night. Wiessler says that since Bashir was due to fly somewhere the following morning, he instructed him to courier the graphics to him at Heathrow at 07:00. Presumably Bashir wanted them ready for his trip to Althorp first thing on the 31st.\n\nSpencer's note of that meeting shows that Bashir mentioned \"payments\" to Waller, which he said were regular: \"8/3/94 £4K News International £4K quarterly\" and \"4/6/94 £6.5K Penfolds, 4 payments\". \"Penfolds Consultants\", said Bashir, was a Jersey-based front company for the intelligence services.\n\nWhat had really hooked Spencer, however, was another false claim by Bashir - that the private secretary of Prince Charles, Commander Richard Aylard, was conspiring against Diana. Spencer's notes show Bashir having claimed that Aylard had been handed secretly recorded conversations and, in an apparent reference to the possibility of divorce, told journalist Jonathan Dimbleby: \"We are in the end game. Shit or bust.\"\n\nSpencer says this knocked him sideways so he called Panorama editor Steve Hewlett. Although Spencer didn't list Bashir's claims to Hewlett, he did ask him if he could be trusted. Hewlett, according to Spencer, assured him that Bashir was \"one of my best\".\n\nOn 14 September, Bashir and Spencer met again at Althorp. Bashir now ramped up his allegations: Diana's own private secretary Commander Patrick Jephson was said to be in cahoots with Aylard. Bashir produced what Spencer describes as a folded A4-sized sheet of paper purporting to show sizeable payments to both Aylard and Jephson from the intelligence services to monitor Princess Diana's movements.\n\nIn evidence to Lord Dyson, Bashir categorically denies he showed any such document to Spencer. However, Spencer noted the following comment from Bashir: \"Patrick Jephson was a gd friend of Aylard + had business connections until 1992. Non exec director of company that Aylard was on board of Financial investment co. Jephson cashed in shared +resigned in 1992.\"\n\nThis echoed Diana's well-publicised fears of a conspiracy by her estranged husband's camp at St James's Palace to discredit her.\n\nBecause Spencer could make no sense of such alleged treachery, he thought his sister should hear all this directly from Bashir, so he telephoned her to suggest that she should meet Bashir. \"Darling Carlos,\" she replied in an affectionate note shown for the first time to Panorama. Using their childhood names for each other, the note said: \"I so appreciated the contents of our telephone call this morning - it all makes complete sense to what is going on around me at this present time. 'They' underestimate the Spencer strength! Lots of luv from Duch x\"\n\nBy 1995 Diana, had come to fear she had enemies in high places and was already vulnerable and unsettled. \"I think that she was looking for reasons as to why things were as they were,\" Spencer told me.\n\nOn 19 September, Spencer introduced Bashir to Diana. During this meeting, Spencer noted some 30 claims which he attributes to Bashir, including Jephson's alleged plots against her: \"Jephson - dangerous: money. Left offshore a/c in March 1994\".\n\nBy the end of the meeting, Spencer told me he had become highly sceptical. \"I warned Diana that his stories didn't add up and apologised to her... and she said, 'Oh, don't worry, Carlos. It's nice to see you. It doesn't matter at all.' And I thought that was the last time I'd hear from or about Martin Bashir.\"\n\nBashir has claimed that most of the comments noted down by Spencer came from Diana, but Lord Dyson finds: \"I am satisfied that Mr Bashir said most, if not all, of the things that are recorded in Earl Spencer's notes.\"\n\nThe reporter gave a very different account of his dealings with Earl Spencer - and in particular the claims attributed to him - in his evidence to Lord Dyson. He denied he had said many of the things attributed to him by Earl Spencer. Despite the findings of Lord Dyson, he still stands by his account.\n\nFor Diana that encounter was just the start of numerous meetings with Bashir. As Lord Dyson says, by late summer 1995, she was \"keen on the idea of a television interview\".\n\nOn 16 September 1995, Princess Diana and Prince Charles joined Prince William for his first day at Eton College\n\nHowever, friends who met her in the run-up to the Panorama interview on 5 November observed a marked change. They were regarded as no longer trustworthy, including Jephson. \"From Martin Bashir's perspective, I was the obstacle that had to be removed,\" he told me. \"Because there was a fair chance that if I advised against her giving the interview to him that she wouldn't do it.\"\n\nDiana's friend Rosa Monckton has written that everyone knew something was wrong \"but none of us could put a finger on it\".\n\nOn 30 October, the day after Diana had secretly confirmed the interview with Bashir, she met her lawyer Lord Mishcon and described to him a series of lurid plots which she said had been hatched against her.\n\nAsked to identify her sources Diana replied only that they were \"reliable\" and included GCHQ.\n\nPrincess Diana photographed with her then private secretary Patrick Jephson\n\nIs it a coincidence that among the top-level sources, Bashir would later claim to BBC management that he had met while \"investigating\" the dirty tricks campaign against Diana, was a member of GCHQ? It was, however, unheard of for a serving intelligence officer to disclose intercepts (even assuming that Diana's communications were being intercepted, which itself seems highly dubious) to a journalist.\n\nThe key question about the BBC for both our inquiry and Lord Dyson's was: How did Bashir's machinations elude the corporation's most senior executives, all of whom had been editors and journalists for whom the first rule is to cast a sceptical eye over anything that doesn't seem to add up?\n\nThe first alarm bell that should have warned BBC management something was wrong rang in December 1995, a month after the sensational interview had been broadcast. Designer Wiessler approached current affairs bosses Tim Gardam and Tim Suter and told them that he had been unwittingly drawn into forging bank statements by Bashir.\n\nWiessler - who says he only realised a connection between the fake documents and the interview after it was broadcast - told them he had previously approached the then Panorama editor Steve Hewlett, who had assured him there was nothing to worry about. Hewlett died of cancer in 2017, and having worked closely with him, the idea that he might have colluded with Bashir in using fake bank statements is - to me - unthinkable. And nothing I have seen suggests that Hewlett did. Nonetheless, were he alive, Lord Dyson would have sought his answer to some searching questions.\n\nWhy, for example, having been first alerted to the fake bank statements shortly after transmission, had Hewlett not reported this to management?\n\nThe evidence suggests that Hewlett first learned about the fake bank statements after Wiessler faxed them to Panorama producer Mark Killick with whom he had previously worked. Killick instantly recognised the name \"Penfolds Consultants\" because the company had featured in two previous Panoramas he and Bashir had made about the business affairs of former England football manager Terry Venables. Why, puzzled Killick, should Penfolds be involved with paying an ex-employee of Earl Spencer?\n\nKillick confronted Bashir with the bank statements in the BBC canteen. The meeting was brief and acrimonious, with Bashir telling Killick it was none of his concern.\n\nKillick, along with two colleagues - former Panorama deputy editor Harry Dean and Panorama reporter Tom Mangold - went to see Hewlett on 4 December. All three also recall the editor saying it was none of their business. Dean asked him if he knew about the bank statements, and Hewlett said he couldn't remember. But as Killick left, he suggested Hewlett talk to Spencer. Despite Spencer later calling Hewlett, we have seen no evidence that either Hewlett or anyone from BBC management did ever check Bashir's version of events against Spencer's. Lord Dyson is especially critical of this failure. He says the investigation carried out by Tony Hall and Anne Sloman, a former radio current affairs producer who later became the BBC's chief political adviser, was \"flawed and woefully ineffective\".\n\nLord Dyson said it \"would have been substantially changed if they had bothered to speak to Earl Spencer\".\n\nDean recalls that Hewlett later assured him that the information on the bank statements was true. He told Dean that Venables had given up his interest in Penfolds and the name appearing in the fake bank statements was merely coincidental. That assurance seems likely to have come from Bashir himself.\n\nAt the Panorama Christmas party, former producer Peter Molloy recalls Wiessler looking very shaken as he arrived. Wiessler told Molloy his flat had been broken into, and the only thing missing appeared to be two disks containing the bank statements. When Wiessler reported his concerns to BBC management, it became clear that Hewlett had not told his line manager Tim Gardam anything about Bashir having faked bank statements. \"Tim was angry but sensible about it,\" recalled colleague Tim Suter in 2001. Hewlett told them there'd been \"nothing underhand in getting the Diana interview\".\n\nBashir was then questioned by Gardam, Hewlett and Suter. He assured them the bank statements hadn't been shown to Diana or anyone else. They couldn't have been used to persuade the princess to give an interview, he said, because the source of the information in them had been Diana herself.\n\nHowever, a note by Tim Gardam of this meeting, shows Gardam was still puzzled - why had Bashir gone to the trouble and expense of creating such authentic looking documents? He asked Bashir to seek an assurance from the Princess in writing that she'd not been shown them. The following day, a handwritten letter arrived from Kensington Palace: \"I can confirm that I was not (not is underlined twice) put under any undue pressure to give my interview. I was not shown any documents nor given any information by Martin Bashir that I was not already aware of. I was perfectly happy with the interview and I stand by it.\"\n\nDiana's letter put to rest any doubts management had that she'd been tricked or coerced. The BBC's greatest ever scoop, was safe. For now.\n\nWhat had been missed, however, was a big clue that Bashir was lying.\n\nBashir had already told Gardam in November that his first contact with Princess Diana had been in late September. This was mentioned in a \"record of events\" note by Gardam for Tony Hall. However, Gardam had also been told by Matt Wiessler that he had created the bank statements in late August/early September, some three weeks earlier.\n\nAlthough both Hewlett and BBC management had been made aware of both dates, neither appear to have spotted the obvious conflict that Diana couldn't have been Bashir's source because she and Bashir were yet to be in contact. When we highlighted this discrepancy over dates to Gardam, he acknowledged he hadn't spotted it: \"Had I done so, I would have questioned Martin Bashir about it.\" His focus, he explained, had been on Wiessler's allegation that \"the documents had been shown to the Princess of Wales in order to persuade her to give an interview\".\n\nBashir may have calculated that by naming Diana as his confidential source, BBC management would feel inhibited about checking this with her. And they never did.\n\nHe also deflected suspicion by admitting that he falsely inserted the name \"Penfolds Consultants\" as one of the two companies supposedly paying Spencer's ex-employee Alan Waller. His excuse? Although Diana had supposedly told him Waller was being paid by an intelligence services front company to spy on the Spencers, she hadn't known the name. All she had known, said Bashir, was that the company was based in Jersey. So he'd just inserted a dummy name because he knew Penfolds was based in Jersey.\n\nIn truth, Bashir must have realised he would never get away with passing off Penfolds as real because it had featured in his previous Panoramas. What Hewlett made of Bashir's volte-face over Penfolds given the former editor's earlier assurances to a sceptical Harry Dean is unclear. In Gardam's note of his interview with Bashir, he makes no reference to having been told about this contradiction which suggests Hewlett never told him.\n\nAsked by Gardam why he had compiled the graphics in the first place, Bashir said it was simply to record and file the information - an implausible reason for getting a graphic designer to work all night, paying him £250 of licence fee payers' money and getting the documents couriered to Heathrow, when jotting down the details in his notebook would have sufficed.\n\nNonetheless, however improbable this may seem today, Diana's letter appears to have reassured management. \"All could now relax for Christmas,\" said Suter at the time. \"We had had a scare, but we had got through it.\" But for Earl Spencer, the letter doesn't exonerate the BBC. \"Diana is dealing from a position of having been lied to. She didn't know that the whole obtaining of the interview was based on a series of falsehoods that led to her being vulnerable to this,\" he told me.\n\nHowever, if management thought that was the end of it, they were mistaken. On 21 March, the Mail on Sunday told Spencer they were investigating how Martin Bashir had been introduced to his sister and secured his scoop interview. In order to convince Spencer of his credentials, the newspaper alleged that Bashir had shown him bogus security service documents about bugging phones at Kensington Palace. Clearly the Mail were on to something, but were wrong about the content of the documents.\n\nDistrustful of the tabloid press, Spencer called the BBC to find out more. Spencer was put on to Hewlett and told him he had introduced Bashir to Diana \"on 19 September on the back of extremely serious allegations he had made, against various newspapers, named journalists, named senior figures at St James's Palace, and unnamed figures in the secret service\".\n\nHewlett now had a golden opportunity to question the Earl about Bashir's allegations and crucially whether he'd been shown bank statements since, unlike Spencer, Hewlett knew they were fake. It's not clear that Hewlett did ask Spencer about either point. Nonetheless, since the Mail on Sunday had mentioned forgeries, Gardam instructed Hewlett to question Bashir about this again.\n\nAgain, Bashir insisted he had not shown his forgeries to anyone, including Spencer.\n\nOn 23 March, Gardam was telephoned and doorstepped by the Mail on Sunday, so he telephoned Bashir: Had he shown the documents to Spencer? Again, Bashir denied this to both Gardam and Hewlett. Unconvinced, that afternoon, Gardam sought another assurance. Fearing imminent publication, Bashir caved in, finally admitting that he had. It had taken four attempts since December to get the truth out of Bashir.\n\nA furious Gardam warned Bashir the BBC would have to consider its position.\n\nGardam was days away from leaving the BBC. He wrote a handover note setting out all of Bashir's lies. It also records Tony Hall as having agreed with Gardam that since Bashir had \"misled us and… appeared to have acted unethically and in breach of the guidelines\" the corporation should conduct a \"full inquiry\".\n\nBut what transpired could hardly be described as a \"full inquiry\" and was compounded by misleading statements.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday had withheld publication, but by April 1996 had firmed up their story and published Bashir's fake documents. Approved by both Hall and Hewlett, the BBC issued a statement saying the documents were \"never connected in any way to the Panorama on Princess Diana\". Yet by now both knew that Bashir had admitted showing the statements to Spencer. They also knew that in a written statement, Bashir had admitted showing the documents to Spencer in order to \"foster\" his relationship with him. Therefore the documents manifestly were \"connected to the Panorama on Princess Diana\".\n\nIn fact, Lord Dyson finds that the way the BBC handled its public statements as a whole in this matter \"fell short of its high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark\".\n\nAs Anne Sloman, who had taken over as Gardam's temporary replacement, and Hall carried out their \"full inquiry\", they never appear to have worked out that Bashir's central claim - Diana was Bashir's source for the information in the fake graphics - was a lie.\n\nLike Gardam in December, neither Hall nor Sloman appear to have spotted that Diana couldn't have been Bashir's source because they hadn't met when Bashir commissioned Wiessler to do the graphics. But no such comparison appears to have been made. Lord Dyson does not hold BBC management culpable for not spotting the discrepancy in dates. He does, however, find that ahead of Bashir's first meeting with Diana on 19 September, it is \"inconceivable\" that he was \"locked in a relationship\" such that she would have been his source for the information in the graphics.\n\nThe Hall-Sloman investigation did draw up a chronology of events, which we've seen, but its focus was more about leaks from Panorama to newspapers than Bashir. Its chosen starting point was late October shortly before transmission, not late August/early September which is when management had already been told that Bashir had commissioned the graphics. Nor at any point did it say Bashir had lied.\n\nThe chronology reflected what Sloman appears to have thought about Panorama - \"a viper's nest\" seething with jealous rivalries was how she later described the atmosphere to the late Richard Lindley, himself a former Panorama reporter, for his book \"Panorama: Fifty Years of Pride and Paranoia\" published in 2002. \"All felt they had a God given right to leak to the press\" said Sloman.\n\nEarl Spencer and his wife, Karen, at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, May 2018\n\nHad Earl Spencer spoken out, his notes would have blown apart Bashir's story - and the BBC would have been confronted with one of its biggest crises. However, Spencer told me the reason he didn't was because he didn't know the BBC had launched an inquiry and Princess Diana's Panorama interview was \"seen as very controversial. And if I had gone against it while she was alive, then I didn't want to be seen to be undermining her in any way.\"\n\nMoreover, at the time, Spencer didn't know the information in the bank accounts was entirely fake, or that Bashir had told the BBC his sister was the source.\n\nAlso, the Mail on Sunday revelation quite quickly ceased to have traction. BBC press briefings that \"jealous colleagues\" were behind the paper's story had distracted from its allegation about Bashir's subterfuge, Spencer wasn't talking, and management hoped he never would. \"The Diana story is now dead, unless Spencer talks. There's no indication that he will,\" wrote Anne Sloman in an internal BBC management document a fortnight after the Mail on Sunday story.\n\nBashir had already put Diana off limits for questioning by claiming her as his source for the \"exact\" payment sums to her brother's former head of security Alan Waller. Now in conversations with management, Bashir did the same to her brother claiming it was Earl Spencer himself who was his source for Waller's bank account details - something he'd not previously mentioned.\n\nBashir had changed his story again but it seems not to have rung any alarm bells. Spencer only learned last autumn that Bashir had accused him of misusing private information and categorically denies there is any truth to it. In anger he contacted the BBC urging they hold an independent inquiry - hence Lord Dyson.\n\n\"In a credibility contest between Earl Spencer and Mr Bashir, Earl Spencer wins convincingly,\" says the former Supreme Court judge.\n\nIn Lindley's history of Panorama, Anne Sloman is quoted as saying Bashir was interviewed by Hall \"at length\", with Hall at one end of her \"grand desk\" in Broadcasting House, Bashir at the other. \"Certainly, Bashir had forged these documents. It was a stupid thing to do - it didn't get him the interview. Why he did it, God only knows.\"\n\nTo those of a more curious disposition, the circumstantial evidence pointed in only one direction: that these documents were Bashir's way of getting his foot in the door of the Spencer family. That is also the finding of Lord Dyson, who says: \"I conclude that Mr Bashir showed the fake statements to Earl Spencer before there was any contact between Princess Diana and himself.\"\n\nOn 25 April 1996, Hall reported the results of his \"personal investigation\" into Bashir to the BBC's governors, at the time the body appointed to regulate the corporation. A statement written by Hall for the governors' meeting quotes him as saying that Bashir's explanation for having commissioned the graphics was simply because \"he wasn't thinking\". Then came Hall's exoneration: \"I believe he is, even with this lapse, an honest and honourable man. He is contrite.\"\n\nHall's statement made no mention of what he already knew by that point, that Bashir had shown the fake documents to Spencer and had repeatedly lied to his editor and to senior management. At the same time, Hall refers to \"TRUST\" (which Hall spelled out in capital letters) and \"straight dealing\" as \"paramount\" BBC values.\n\nWhile Hall's statement to the governors criticised Bashir for having been \"incautious and unwise\", he assured his fellow managers he was \"certain there had been no question of Bashir trying to mislead or do anything improper with the document\" - implying nothing improper had taken place.\n\nLord Dyson comments: \"To dismiss his actions as no more than a mistake, unwise and foolish did not do justice to the seriousness of what he had done.\"\n\nAn internal document faxed three days before the board of governors meeting shows that management seem to have privately acknowledged Bashir had been in breach of journalistic ethics and BBC rules: \"Management will have to decide what action if any to take privately or publicly about Bashir, what to do about his contract and how long he should stay on Panorama.\"\n\nLord Hall told Panorama Bashir was given a \"severe reprimand\" and was placed under \"close supervision\". It is true on 4 April 1996, Tim Suter wrote a letter addressed to Bashir saying the creation of the graphics \"was in breach of BBC's guidelines on straight dealing… compounded by your failure to inform the head of department of the use made of this material when directly questioned by him. You should be in no doubt of the seriousness with which we view this nor of the reprimand that this letter represents.\"\n\nHowever, Lord Dyson finds that the letter was probably not sent to Bashir and further, that there is no record of a reprimand on his employment records. Panorama's then deputy editor Clive Edwards told me he was \"unaware of any supervisory order on Martin\".\n\n\"It is difficult to imagine how any such order could have been in force but not known to me as deputy editor, since I would have been the person to supervise such an order.\"\n\nBashir remained with the BBC until 1998, when he left to join ITV.\n\nThe most senior managers responsible for BBC journalism appear to have swallowed a whale of a story, and in a 2005 interview for the BBC's Arena documentary series to celebrate the scoop's 10-year anniversary, Tony Hall unwittingly explained why: \"Martin is the sort of interviewer who works very hard at getting into your confidence.\"\n\nIt seems to have worked on everyone - despite Tim Gardam's parting note to his management colleagues emphasising the need for the BBC to get to \"the entire\" truth of what Bashir had been up to.\n\nFor the anonymous BBC leakers without whom we would never have known about Bashir's dishonesty there was only excoriation - briefed against by the BBC to the newspapers as \"jealous colleagues\" and referred to in an internal management document as \"troublemakers.\" Because of \"this sordid saga\", says the document \"we can either go the formal disciplinary route, which needs proof and may be messy or pick off the troublemakers one by one with a stiff warning and ensure they are found work elsewhere as speedily as is practicable\".\n\nThe only named whistleblower Matt Wiessler would never again get any BBC work, Hall assured the governors. Wiessler paid a heavy price - his freelance graphics business eventually collapsed so he left London and in his own words became \"a bit of a drifter… I tried lots of other things, but at heart I was always a television current affairs guy. Hall called Martin, a 'good and honourable man'. I want him to reverse that because I'm the good and honourable man in this.\"\n\nIn response to Dyson, the BBC offered a \"full and unconditional apology\" and said it would be writing to \"a number of individuals involved\".\n\nWiessler says the least the BBC could do is include him in that list.\n\nPrincess Diana visited Argentina, shortly after the BBC interview was broadcast\n\nIn overall charge of the BBC at the time was director general John Birt. He says the revelation that the BBC \"harboured a rogue reporter on Panorama who fabricated an elaborate, detailed but wholly false account of his dealings with Earl Spencer and Princess Diana\" is a \"shocking blot on the BBC's enduring commitment to honest journalism; and it is a matter of the greatest regret that it has taken 25 years for the full truth to emerge. As the director general at the time, I offer my deep apologies to Earl Spencer and to all others affected.\"\n\nLord Dyson has little to say about how BBC governance was undermined by Hall's \"woefully ineffective\" investigation.\n\nOur own investigation sheds some light on this, however.\n\nLindley's book on 50 years of Panorama quotes Sloman as saying that she, Hall and Birt had a 90-minute meeting about Bashir but it doesn't go into detail as to what transpired. Lindley's widow let me search her attic for his original notes. I found that Sloman told Lindley: \"We concluded that faking documents had been going on as a general practice\" and that \"our business creates monsters… never did Birt express interest in covering his own back… Birt wanted to get to the bottom of the matter.\"\n\nI understand Birt has no recollection of any such meeting, but that he thinks his reference to wanting to \"get to the bottom of the matter\" refers to a meeting immediately after the Mail on Sunday revelations. What briefing Birt may have been given on the results of Hall's investigation before the boards of governors and boards of management is unclear, except that Birt is said not to have been told that Bashir had repeatedly lied. In fact, no evidence of Bashir having lied is mentioned in any of the documents written by Hall or Sloman that have surfaced.\n\nHowever, Lord Hall told Panorama that he was \"open and transparent with the director general and with colleagues on the board of management and I believe I gave them all the key facts... throughout I discharged my responsibilities in good faith\". For his part, Lord Dyson finds that Hall \"presented these facts to both the board of management and the board of governors as if they were uncontroversial\".\n\nLord Dyson continues: \"And yet he knew (but did not tell the board) that they derived from Mr Bashir's uncorroborated version of the facts and that Mr Bashir had lied on three occasions on a matter of considerable importance.\"\n\nIn a statement, Lord Hall said: \"I accept that our investigation 25 years ago into how Panorama secured the interview with Princess Diana fell well short of what was required. In hindsight, there were further steps we could and should have taken following complaints about Martin Bashir's conduct.\"\n\nHe said he was \"wrong\" to give Martin Bashir the \"benefit of doubt, basing that judgement as I did on what appeared to be deep remorse on his part\".\n\nMartin Bashir said in a statement that he had apologised then, and did so again now for asking for bank statements to be \"mocked up\".\n\nBut he reiterated that \"the bank statements had no bearing whatsoever on the personal choice by Princess Diana to take part in the interview\".\n\nHe said Lord Dyson had accepted that the princess would \"probably have agreed to be interviewed without what he describes as my 'intervention'\".\n\nAnd he said he was \"immensely proud\" of the interview, in which Princess Diana \"courageously\" talked through the difficulties she faced. He said in it, she \"helped address the silence and stigma that surrounded mental health issues all those years ago. She led the way in addressing so many of these issues.\"\n\nThe least that can be said is that Bashir tried to con everyone. Others may say Bashir told management what they too readily wanted to hear - to spare the corporation the ignominy of undermining a truly global scoop. In 2016, Bashir was rehired by the BBC as religious affairs correspondent. The announcement referred to his \"track record in enterprising journalism\" and previous experience on \"BBC religion and ethics programmes.\"\n\nHe resigned as the BBC's editor of religion before the publication of the Dyson report.\n\nThe last word must go to Panorama's editor at the time, Steve Hewlett. He too was interviewed for the BBC Arena documentary marking the 10th anniversary of Bashir's scoop. I understand Hewlett agreed to be interviewed provided he wasn't asked specifically about the forged bank statements. Instead, he was asked how Bashir met Diana.\n\nArena didn't broadcast his answer and the BBC refused to release it to us. However, we obtained a transcript which shows the normally sure-footed Hewlett seeming to stumble: \"I'm sure he told me he was going to see her… look, he's a journalist, he does his business, I don't follow him around all day, so you know, I've got a show to run… what, precisely… how he did it, to be honest I don't know.\"\n\nIf this was Hewlett's way of saying he hadn't known all the strokes Bashir had pulled before transmission, that is very likely to be true. I and others knew Hewlett to be an ethical journalist.\n\nHe continued: \"You know… he's an operator, so he manages relationships very cleverly. I don't mean…dishonestly, but he manages them cleverly.\"\n\nWas Hewlett really still convinced by 2005 that Bashir had \"managed\" his relationship with Diana \"very cleverly\" but not \"dishonestly\"?\n\nThe idea that Hewlett hadn't yet suspected that Bashir got to Diana by deceiving Spencer sits uneasily with his careful editorial eye.\n\nYet, however Bashir got his scoop, it was undeniably real and Princess Diana was, by several accounts, intent on telling her side in the War of the Waleses. At the same time, the reporter to whom Hewlett had entrusted this assignment turned out to be \"rogue\" confronting him with an acute dilemma. Did Hewlett reconcile this by deciding the authenticity of the scoop trumped an otherwise tainted process? I pose this as a question, not an allegation, because Hewlett is no longer here to answer for himself. Yet it seems he was troubled by something.\n\nIt is 2004, a late-night bar in Sydney. By chance Hewlett has bumped into a colleague Phil Craig, who had just produced a documentary about Princess Diana. They talk and they drink. Having previously worked on Panorama, Craig knew a little of the rumours. \"We were coming at this from different sides,\" he recalls \"so with Steve there was a sense of 'let's talk it all through'. I came away that night with the very strong impression that he thought there was a chance that one day the Bashir story would cause everybody a lot more trouble, that there was more to come out about the background to the interview, that there was something that hadn't gone away and was still lurking in the shadows.\"\n\nThat \"something\" turns out to be a timebomb about public trust that the BBC tried to defuse 25 years ago, but left it ticking. That bomb has now detonated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Disturbing' social media footage of cars being set on fire in Swansea\n\n\"Enhanced\" police patrols have been promised in an area of Swansea after rioters threw bricks at houses and torched cars, injuring seven officers.\n\nPolice said there has been no further incidents in Mayhill as they continue to investigate Thursday's violence.\n\nOfficers have not made any arrests but South Wales Police Chief Constable Jeremy Vaughan said he would \"stop at nothing to find\" the 200 culprits.\n\nFamilies said they were trapped inside as police were \"pelted with rocks\".\n\nThe violence in Waun-Wen Road began after a vigil was held for a local man who had died.\n\nA balloon release had been planned in memory of 19-year-old Ethan Powell who collapsed and died suddenly on Wednesday.\n\nBut it escalated with fireworks being set off, followed by widespread disorder, with groups rolling a car down the middle of the street into a burning car.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rioters 'smashed through my windows and door'\n\nPolice said they were using CCTV and social media footage to identify those responsible and urged people to send in any photos or videos as investigations continue.\n\nTom Giffard, Conservative Senedd member for South Wales West, said the \"police were severely outnumbered\" but it was hard to make a \"huge amount of judgement\" based on the footage seen on social media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It's really shocking and disturbing footage really because it's not a scene you'd expect to see in quite a tight knit community,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nSouth Wales Police said seven officers suffered minor injuries when they were hit by missiles and told the community of Mayhill that officers \"will stop at nothing\" to find the culprits.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jenny Gilmer said officers were mobilised \"within minutes\".\n\nA police van is patrolling Waun-Wen Road on Saturday two days after riots on that street in Mayhill\n\nIn a Facebook post on Friday, she described it as \"a very challenging situation\" with about 200 people involved in the incident and with officers deployed from across the force area.\n\n\"I want to reassure the residents of Mayhill that we shall be maintaining an enhanced police presence throughout the weekend,\" she said.\n\nThere were police vans parked on street corners in Mayhill on Friday evening and officers spoke with people as they walked by while some were refused access to Waun-Wen Road.\n\nBurnt out cars have been removed from the street, with council street cleaners working in the area\n\nBen Wheel from nearby Fforestfach, is trying to contact the owner of one of the cars damaged when the mob to offer them his black 2007 Vauxhall Astra after he recently bought another vehicle.\n\nThe 27-year-old personal trainer said he wanted to give his car away to provide some \"help\".\n\n\"It's disgusting,\" he said. \"There's no way that should have happened.\"\n\nSwansea business owner Sophie Heneberry, who has been helping to raise funds for those counting the cost of incident, said people have been \"willing to help in all sorts of ways\".\n\nAs well as offering people their old car, members of the local community have helped with boarding up windows, cleaning debris and giving cash,\n\n\"People have been amazing,\" said Ms Heneberry. \"That's the Swansea we know and love.\"\n\nThe community has led the clean-up of the Mayhill area while Swansea council deployed extra resources to help repair damaged roads and pavements, doors and windows.\n\nVolunteers helped with the clean-up on Friday morning, sweeping up burnt plastic and broken glass\n\nPoliticians condemned the behaviour of those involved in the riot, as First Minister Mark Drakeford said the \"violent scenes were completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the scenes were \"disgraceful\" and said her \"thoughts are with Mayhill residents who had to endure such shocking behaviour\".\n\nSwansea's council leader called it \"disgusting behaviour by yobs\" but Rob Stewart said: \"What happened is neither reflective of Mayhill and Waun-Wen, nor Swansea.\"", "The Scottish government has launched a service enabling people to access their vaccine certificate\n\nPeople in Scotland travelling to a foreign country will now be able to access a vaccine certificate, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nOnly those travelling to destinations which require a record of vaccination status should download their certificate from an NHS portal.\n\nIt can also be requested in the post via a Freephone Covid Status Helpline.\n\nThere are currently no countries requiring vaccination status to travel but restrictions can change quickly.\n\nPublic health officials previously said this digital scheme would mean Scotland was \"ready to join\" an international vaccination passport programme.\n\nThe Scottish government said the service was intended to allow people access to the certificate without asking their GP, thereby \"easing the burden\" on the NHS.\n\nPeople have been advised to request the document if they are due to travel in the next 21 days.\n\nAs more people are vaccinated, the system will be replaced by digital Covid status certificates - which will include vaccination and testing data to be used for outbound international travel.\n\nThe system differs from that being used in England where an NHS app - separate from its contact tracing app - can show vaccine status if enabled by a GP.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said people should continue to limit their travel abroad, \"play it safe\" and instead go on a staycation this summer.\n\nHe said: \"Given the risk of returning with infection, and especially of introducing new variants of the virus, we continue to be highly cautious about international travel.\n\n\"For those that do need it, this new service will provide people with a record of their vaccination status for outbound international travel.\n\n\"They should only access their record if they are planning to travel within 21 days and it is a requirement of their destination.\"\n\nA traffic lights system for foreign travel came into effect in Scotland on Monday - meaning people travelling to \"green list\" countries do not need to quarantine on their return.\n\nCovid status certificates have been trialled in England since mid April.\n\nThe UK government previously said such a scheme could have an important role to play both domestically and internationally and is \"likely to become a feature of our lives until the pandemic recedes\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're demanding McDonald's goes fully plant-based by 2025\"\n\nAnimal rights protesters say they are blockading four McDonald's distribution centres in the UK to stop deliveries to the fast-food chain's 1,300 UK outlets.\n\nAnimal Rebellion said activists were using trucks and bamboo structures to stop lorries leaving depots in Hemel Hempstead, Basingstoke, Coventry and Heywood, Greater Manchester.\n\nThe group is targeting McDonald's \"for its role in the climate emergency\".\n\nMcDonald's UK said it was \"assessing the impact\" of the protest on supplies.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our distribution centres are currently facing disruption. We are assessing the impact on deliveries to our restaurants and to menu items. We apologise to our customers for any disappointment caused.\"\n\nAbout 50 activists are stopping deliveries leaving four McDonald's depots across the UK\n\nAnimal Rebellion spokesman James Ozden, at a protest in Coventry, accused the meat and dairy industry of \"destroying our planet\".\n\nMr Ozden told the BBC the meat and dairy industry was \"causing huge amounts of rainforest deforestation, emitting vast quantities of greenhouse gases and killing billions of animals each year\".\n\n\"The only sustainable and realistic way to feed 10 billion people is with a plant-based food system. Organic, free-range and 'sustainable' animal-based options simply aren't good enough\", he said.\n\nAnimal Rebellion wants McDonald's to commit to becoming fully plant-based by 2025.\n\nProtesters have tied themselves to bamboo structures which are blocking the depot's entrance and exit\n\nBasingstoke is one of four depots where people have attached themselves to bamboo structures blocking access to depots\n\nThe group tweeted that it intends to remain at the sites for at least 24 hours and aims to cause \"significant disruption\" to McDonald's as the restaurants restock over the weekend.\n\nA second tweet called on McDonald's to personally engage with the activists at the protest sites, saying: \"We're waiting for them to come talk to us, or we'll stop their distribution to all 1,300 restaurants ALL DAY.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was aware of the protest at the depot site in the Canley area of Coventry and there was a police presence there.\n\nThe force said it recognised \"the right to a peaceful protest\", but expressed concern over the \"significant disruption to businesses\" caused by blocking the sole entrance and exit point to the distribution site.\n\n\"We have asked the small group of activists to remain mindful of road users and in particular emergency vehicles and will continue to maintain an open dialogue with them,\" a spokesman for the force said.\n\nAnimal Rebellion describes itself as \"a mass movement that uses nonviolent civil disobedience to bring about a transition to a just and sustainable plant-based food system\".\n\nIn November last year, the fast food giant announced plans to introduce a line of plant-based meat alternatives called \"McPlant\" in 2021.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the night after a large volcano erupted.\n\nAs the sky turned red and rivers of lava streamed from Mount Nyiragongo, there were concerns that its past deadly tragedies would be repeated.\n\nA mass evacuation was launched in the city of Goma, which has a population of about two million people.\n\nHowever, the city was largely spared and some residents are now returning.\n\nThe volcano, located 10km (six miles) from Goma, last erupted in 2002, killing 250 people and making 120,000 homeless.\n\nThere has been no official report of casualties during the latest eruption and it is unclear how many homes have been damaged.\n\nOn Sunday morning, Communications Minister Patrick Muyay tweeted to say the intensity of the lava flow had slowed and an assessment of the humanitarian situation was ongoing.\n\nThe BBC's Emery Makumeno in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa said a greater quantity of the lava took the direction of the forest, flowing away from the city.\n\nOur reporter said it stopped short of the international airport, despite earlier reports to the contrary. However, it did set some houses on fire and crossed a graveyard.\n\nOne resident, Zacharie Paluku, told the Associated Press news agency that the eruption had sparked fear and people began running. \"We really don't know what to do,\" he said.\n\nSome locals complained about the lack of information from the authorities amid conflicting accounts circulating on social media.\n\nCrowds were seen with mattresses and other belongings, fleeing even before the government's announcement, which came several hours after the eruption started.\n\nMany residents headed across the nearby Rwandan border, while others went to higher ground to the west of the city.\n\nRwandan authorities said about 3,000 people had officially crossed from Goma. The country's state media said they would be accommodated in schools and places of worship.\n\nOne Goma resident, Richard Bahati, said he was in his house when he heard screaming. \"I got out and saw the sky was red. I am so worried, so worried. I lived through the problem with this volcano in 2002. The volcano devastated all our homes and possessions.\"\n\nElectricity was out across large areas in the aftermath of the eruption.\n\n\"There is a smell of sulphur. In the distance you can see giant flames coming out of the mountain,\" resident Carine Mbala told AFP news agency.\n\nMount Nyiragongo is one of the world's more active volcanoes but there were concerns that its activity had not been properly observed by the Goma Volcano Observatory, since the World Bank cut funding amid allegations of corruption.\n\nIn a report on 10 May, the observatory warned that seismic activity at Nyiragongo had increased.\n\nLast year, the observatory's director, Katcho Karume, told the BBC World Service's Science in Action that the volcano's lava lake had been filling up quickly, increasing the chances of an eruption in the next few years. But he also warned that an earthquake could trigger a disaster earlier.\n\nThe volcano's deadliest eruption happened in 1977, when more than 600 people died.", "More than 50 million coronavirus vaccine doses have now been given in England.\n\nFigures released by NHS England show 31,546,846 adults have had their first jab, of which 18,699,556 have had both.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the milestone came after \"one of the biggest and most important national efforts in our history\".\n\nPeople aged 32 and 33 in England are being invited to book their first vaccination from this weekend.\n\nNHS England's lead for the Covid vaccination programme, Dr Emily Lawson, said the rollout was \"continuing at pace\".\n\n\"This success is the result of the tireless efforts of NHS teams, alongside local partners and volunteers, who are determined to protect their patients, families and communities,\" she said.\n\n\"Despite this we must take nothing for granted so when you are invited please book your appointment - and, along with millions of others, get vital protection against coronavirus.\"\n\nA total of 50,246,402 Covid-19 first or second doses of vaccinations took place in England between December 8 and May 21, the data shows.\n\nAcross the UK more than 620,000 people had a vaccine dose on Friday, the latest government data shows.\n\nIt means 37,726,924 people, or 71.6% of all UK adults, have now had a first dose, and 22,071,497 (41.9% of all adults) their second.\n\nA further 2,694 new cases and six deaths, within 28 days of a positive test, were also announced on Saturday.\n\nMr Hancock has said the government is on track to offer a first vaccine dose to all adults in the UK by the end of July.\n\nThe NHS opened bookings to about one million more people in England on Saturday morning.\n\nText message invitations are being sent out to 33-year-olds on Saturday and to 32-year-olds on Monday.\n\nThey will appear as a message from \"NHSvaccine\", and people who cannot go online can call 119 to book a jab.\n\nThe other UK nations are already offering jabs to younger age groups - people aged 30 and over are eligible in Scotland, as are over-18s in Wales and over-25s in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why it is normal for some people to experience short-term side effects from Covid-19 vaccines\n\nPeople in their 30s and pregnant women are being offered either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna vaccines if they are available, rather than the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, because of concerns about a possible link between the Oxford jab and rare blood clots.\n\nOver-50s, and those considered clinically vulnerable, will have their second doses brought forward to eight weeks after their first, rather than 12, following concerns about the spread of the variant first discovered in India.\n\nThe variant - also known as B.1.617.2 - is responsible for the majority of new cases in pockets of England.\n\nBolton continues to be the worst affected area with 385 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nBut North Tyneside and parts of west London are among the latest areas to start surge testing of residents amid concerns at its spread.\n\nMeanwhile, Rochdale has joined other parts of the North West in also offering jabs to anyone over the age of 18 in some parts of the town in an attempt to prevent cases spiralling further.\n\nThe guidelines from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) say there is some flexibility on the way the rollout is conducted at a local level.\n\nAndrea Fallon, Rochdale's director of public health, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the council was still focusing on priority groups as well as opening five drop-in centres as part of a \"new programme\".\n\nShe said: \"Once the virus gets into our communities it will take hold very quickly.... myself and our senior team have been working really closely with regional colleagues to put in place this surge vaccination programme this weekend.\"\n\nIt comes as Germany announced that anyone arriving from the UK will have to quarantine for two weeks. German officials said the decision was related to the spread of the Indian Covid variant.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prince recalled spending four happy years at university in Scotland\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said Scotland is the source of his saddest and happiest memories.\n\nPrince William recalled being at the Queen's Balmoral home in 1997 when he first learned of his mother's death.\n\nHe found comfort and solace in the countryside there during the \"dark days of grief,\" he said in a speech to the Church of Scotland on Saturday.\n\nBut he said Scotland was also where he first met his wife almost 20 years ago.\n\n\"The connection I feel to Scotland will forever run deep,\" he said, during the opening speech of the church's General Assembly in Edinburgh, attended by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nHis comments come two days after he blamed failings at the BBC over its interview with his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, for fuelling her paranoia and worsening his parents' relationship.\n\nAddressing the assembly, the duke, who is also known as the Earl of Strathearn in Scotland, said: \"I was in Balmoral when I was told that my mother had died.\n\n\"Still in shock, I found sanctuary in the service at Crathie Kirk that very morning and in the dark days of grief that followed I found comfort and solace in the Scottish outdoors.\n\n\"Alongside this painful memory is one of great joy because it was here in Scotland, 20 years ago this year, that I first met Catherine.\n\n\"Needless to say the town where you meet your future wife holds a very special place in your heart.\"\n\nPrince William was welcomed with the Ceremony of the Keys in Edinburgh on Friday as he began his trip to Scotland\n\nReminiscing about his time at the University of St Andrews in Fife, where he and the Duchess of Cambridge studied, he said: \"I spent four very happy and formative years studying in St Andrews. The town and the students left me alone to get on with student life, allowing me to share their freedoms - and their pubs.\n\n\"As I grew up I saw how my grandmother relishes every minute she spends here and my father is never happier than in walking among the hills.\n\n\"My childhood was full of holidays having fun in the fresh air, swimming in lochs, family barbecues with my grandfather in command, and yes the odd midge.\"\n\nThe Queen, who was at another royal engagement in Portsmouth, appointed Prince William as Lord High Commissioner to the assembly\n\nDuring the meeting, the Rev George Whyte, chaplain-in-ordinary and principal clerk of the Church of Scotland, read out a letter from the Queen.\n\nIn the letter, she spoke of \"new bonds\" that have been \"forged in times of emergency\" that \"will serve us all well in the future as the United Kingdom seeks to rebuild and reshape community life\".\n\nMeanwhile, the monarch has visited the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to wish the crew well ahead of their first operational deployment.\n\nDuring her visit, the Queen wore a brick-red cashmere coat with a black velvet collar and buttons, over a crepe wool dress\n\nThe £3bn warship will depart later for a world tour, carrying eight RAF F-35B stealth fighter jets, and accompanied by six Royal Navy ships, a submarine, 14 naval helicopters, a company of Royal Marines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen met some of the 1,700 personnel on board the carrier\n\nThe Queen was welcomed on board at Portsmouth Naval Base and given a briefing on the 28-week deployment, which will cover 26,000 nautical miles.\n\nThe Queen was shown around by the ship's commanding officer Captain Angus Essenhigh and commander of the Carrier Strike Group Commodore Stephen Moorhouse", "Gangs of people attacked a police van as part of violent riots in Swansea.\n\nSouth Wales Police responded to reports of violence and disorder in the Mayhill area of the city on Thursday evening.\n\nRioters threw bricks at the van and officers and and they were also seen kicking the vehicle.", "The Pyramid Stage is a skeleton, and the fields are empty - but Glastonbury will go ahead on Saturday night, with a one-off live-stream concert.\n\nColdplay, Jorja Smith, George Ezra and Kano are all set to play in the five-hour event, which organisers say will \"help to secure the festival's return in 2022\" after two years of Covid-enforced cancellations.\n\nRadiohead stars Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood will also debut a new band, The Smile, during the show.\n\n\"We're so excited,\" says Alana Haim of LA rock trio Haim, who flew over specially to play the virtual concert.\n\n\"Glastonbury is our favourite festival that we've ever played, ever, and to be chosen to be one of the artists to play is incredible.\"\n\nThe band had to \"quarantine for days\" after landing in the UK a fortnight ago. \"There was a lot of Come Dine With Me, a lot of First Dates,\" she says, but it was worth it to be able to play songs from their latest, Grammy-nominated album \"for the first time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wolf Alice, Haim and Damon Albarn are among the artists taking part in the special livestream\n\n\"I'll play to anything,\" she tells the BBC. \"I'll play to cars, I'll play to cows. We're a live band - I just want to play.\"\n\nBilled as \"one continuous wild night\" at Somerset's Worthy Farm, the show will thread together musical performances and narration by Jarvis Cocker, PJ Harvey, George The Poet and Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis.\n\nRock band Wolf Alice will kick proceedings off, playing inside the infamous Stone Circle that overlooks the site.\n\n\"Have I been here before?\" asks singer Ellie Rowsell, as the band set up their gear. \"I honestly don't know. I think I have.\"\n\n\"It's so strange to be stood on the stone circle and not be looking over loads of tents and lights and people,\" adds guitarist Joff Oddie, \"but it feels really special.\n\n\"We feel lucky to be here, to be honest. We're one of the lucky few.\"\n\nAll the artists waived their fees to appear at the show, which is the first in a series of planned events on the festival site this summer. Families will be able to camp at Worthy Farm over the school holidays; while organisers were recently granted a licence for a one-day concert this September - although no decision has been taken on whether it will go ahead.\n\nGlastonbury organiser Emily Eavis says the new ventures are a way of recouping the £5 million loss the festival incurred after cancelling in 2020.\n\n\"We're obviously not going to get that back,\" she says, but the live-stream in particular is \"a way of giving work to people who've been struggling over the past year\".\n\nShe calls over Emma Reynolds-Taylor who, in a typical year, would be in charge of Glastonbury's main stage.\n\n\"Doing a show like this absolutely means the world to all of us right now,\" she says. \"The events industry has been on complete shutdown since the very very start of the pandemic [and] it's been really challenging.\n\n\"To be able to do this, and to employ the number of people we've been able to employ, has meant so much to me personally. To send those emails and make those calls saying, 'We've got a job for you,' that's meant the most to me from this whole thing.\"\n\nThe concert will also feature post-punk band Idles, performing in front of Joe Rush's \"Carhenge\" sculpture, and soul star Jorja Smith\n\nAlthough it's billed as a live-stream, Saturday's concert has actually been filmed over the course of the last seven days by Paul Dugdale, who previously shot Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift's world tours for Netflix.\n\n\"It's obviously not the festival, it's a film but it's going to be as close to what it feels like to be here,\" says Eavis.\n\nShe takes us on a tour of the site - pointing out familiar landmarks like the Beehive, which we're more used to seeing swarming with people, accompanied by the relentless pounding of drum beats and the scent of freshly-baked doughnuts.\n\nInstead, the farm is tranquil and nature is in full bloom.\n\n\"It's May so everything is pure, peak life,\" says Eavis. \"The cow parsley is on the railway line, all the wild garlic is out, and it's sunny. It's a beautiful time.\"\n\nShe assures fans who find themselves torn between Glastonbury and Eurovision (yes, they exist) that they will have the option of tuning in for a repeat of the live-stream on Sunday.\n\nAnd while there's a \"real buzz\" about the concert film, she desperately hopes it's a one-off.\n\n\"It feels like [it will be] a really crucial part of our history - making it back after Covid,\" she says.\n\n\"It's going to be joyous when we come back, but this film will really capture a unique time in our history.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The BBC's former director of news has said the responsibility for re-hiring Martin Bashir \"sits with me\".\n\nJames Harding did not answer whether Lord Hall, BBC director general at the time, sanctioned re-hiring Martin Bashir in 2016.\n\nIt comes after the BBC made an \"unconditional apology\" over the way the BBC secured an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, more than 20 years ago.\n\nThe independent inquiry - by retired judge Lord Dyson - found that interviewer Martin Bashir acted in a \"deceitful\" way and faked documents to obtain his interview.\n\nThe BBC's 1996 probe led by then-head of News and Current Affairs Lord Hall into initial complaints about what happened was \"woefully ineffective\", it added.\n\nJames Harding, who left the BBC in 2018, said if he had known Bashir forged bank statements \"he wouldn't have got the job\".", "Concrete barriers have been placed on the road where violence broke out on Thursday\n\nFour people have been arrested in connection with violent disorder in Swansea on Thursday.\n\nSeven police officers were injured and families described being trapped in their homes after violence erupted in Mayhill.\n\nSouth Wales Police said three men, aged 36, 20 and 18, and a boy, 16, had been arrested on suspicion of unlawful violence and remained in custody.\n\nDet Supt Gareth Morgan urged anyone involved to \"hand themselves in\".\n\nHe urged people in the community to send in photos and videos and to help the force identify those involved in the disorder which broke out on Waun-Wen Road.\n\n\"There are many residents who were present at the scene during the disturbance and will know the identity of those that caused damage and threatened violence,\" he said.\n\n\"I urge the public not to protect those who showed such disregard for the community of Mayhill and to give us the names of those individuals who can been seen on social media footage.\"\n\nThe disorder is believed to have begun after a planned balloon release in the memory of Ethan Powell, who collapsed and died suddenly on Wednesday.\n\nMr Powell's family are said to be deeply upset by the violent scenes when the events were meant to have been a celebration of his life.\n\nThe Mayhill street looked \"like a war zone\", one of the residents said\n\nDet Supt Morgan said investigations were continuing and he expected further arrests to be made in the coming days and weeks, adding that increased patrols would continue in the area over the weekend.\n\nHe thanked members of the community who had already handed over footage to the police and given statements.\n\n\"We have a dedicated team of detectives who are carrying out extensive enquiries to identify those involved and we are ready to act upon any information received,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"Those that want to hand themselves in can do so at Swansea central police station.\"\n\nThe force's response to the disorder has been criticised by some residents.\n\nBut South Wales Police said its response was \"immediate and officers trained to deal with public order incidents were deployed to the scene\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rioters 'smashed through my windows and door'\n\nSeven police officers were injured when rioters threw bricks at houses and torched cars in Swansea.\n\nA major clean-up is under way after cars were burnt out and windows smashed during the violence in the Mayhill area on Thursday.\n\nFamilies spoke of being trapped in houses, with police \"pelted with rocks\" as they tried to break up the violence.\n\nSouth Wales Police said seven officers suffered minor injuries when they were hit by missiles.\n\nThe force's Chief Constable Jeremy Vaughan said he would \"stop at nothing to find\" those responsible.\n\nOfficers said they were using CCTV and social media footage to identify those responsible and urged people to send in any photos or videos.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the scenes were \"disgraceful\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the scenes were \"completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated anywhere in Wales\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the scenes were \"disgraceful\" and thanked \"brave officers for bringing it under control.\"\n\n\"Police have my backing to take robust action against those involved,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlun Michael, South Wales police commissioner, said Thursday's events were \"unusual and extreme\".\n\n\"Things developed very quickly and in a totally unacceptable manner last night and it's very important that we understand what's happened to make sure that it doesn't happen again,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I'm packing up, I'm not willing to live in fear,\" says Mayhill resident after riot\n\nThe force's response has been criticised by some residents who said they were faced by violent \"yobs\" outside their homes with no-one coming to their aid.\n\nBut South Wales Police said its response was \"immediate and officers trained to deal with public order incidents were deployed to the scene\".\n\nOfficers believe the disorder in Waun-Wen Road, which saw groups roll a car down the middle of the street into a burning car, started as a vigil for 19-year-old Ethan Powell who collapsed and died suddenly on Wednesday.\n\nAdam Romain says he stood behind his front door hoping no-one would try and get into his house where his children were \"terrified\"\n\nAdam Romain said he feared a \"mob\" would enter his home and attack his family when he tried to stop them setting fire to his car.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales he was out making deliveries when he got a panicked phone call from his girlfriend and could hear his children screaming in the background.\n\n\"I went back as quickly as I could, I drove up to my house, literally into a riot,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had to ride his motorbike through the middle of \"about 100 lads\" throwing bricks.\n\nMr Romain stood at the window, smashed in the riot, where his baby's cot is placed\n\nMr Romain said he tried to stop a car being set on fire but was set upon.\n\n\"The bricks were starting to be lobbed at me and my house... my children were in the house, my girlfriend was in the back screaming, scared for their lives.\n\n\"I was standing at the front, hoping, praying, that they wouldn't come inside the house.\n\n\"They were coming to the front door, lobbing these bricks, straight through the glass door, straight at me - they had no fear whatsoever,\" he said.\n\nMr Romain said he rang police three times, but was told \"we already know about the incident\" and no-one came to help.\n\nMr Romain said only last month a van was rolled down the hill and smashed into his neighbours' van and his car.\n\nIn the aftermath people took to the streets to help with the clean up, and photographers captured the burnt out cars\n\nHe filmed the rioters on a helmet camera, capturing the faces of many of the culprits, and said he would share the footage with the force.\n\nVolunteers helped with the clean-up on Friday morning, sweeping up burnt plastic and broken glass\n\nAll that's left of the cars are their charred remains with melted plastic, broken glass, and molten metal on Waun-Wen Road.\n\nThe clean-up operation got under way at just after 07:00 with council workers arriving to clean up the mess.\n\nA glazier firm arrived to look at homes which have several smashed windows.\n\nThere's a lot of anger about what happened.\n\nA lot of people are upset that this was meant to be a vigil for a young local lad who died recently.\n\nPeople are angry that children were terrified after seeing this happen. They are upset it was just too dangerous for the police and fire service to attend or stay at the scene because of the crowds here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe council said it was continuing to support residents and has also now installed temporary concrete blocks on Waun-Wen Road to replace bollards that were damaged during the disorder.\n\nCouncil area co-ordinator Bethan McGregor said: \"What happened last night is not a true reflection of the Mayhill and Waun Wen community.\n\n\"This is a close-knit community where the vast majority of people care about one-another, as the amount of residents helping the council with the clean-up operation today has shown.\"\n\nConcrete blocks have been placed on the street - but one resident says these were requested in February\n\nDespite being a \"lovely\" community, vehicles had been rolled down the hill in a similar fashion \"at least twice\" in the past three years, according to Sam Bennett, a community campaigner from the area.\n\nMr Bennett told Radio Wales residents had written to the council to request concrete blocks on the street back in February.\n\nHe added residents \"don't have the confidence that something is going to be done anymore and that's why they're choosing to move\".\n\nOwen Pillai, who works with young people in Swansea, said \"outrage and disgust\" was an understandable reaction to the \"inexcusable behaviour\" but added he could see why the riot had broken out.\n\nHe called on authorities to realise \"we all play a part in this\".\n\nMr Pillai told BBC Radio Wales: \"This is the result of decades and decades of a multifaceted undermining of resources, societal breakdown, generations of unemployment - you can't look at it in isolation unfortunately.\"\n\nThe community was thanked for helping those in need during the violence\n\nHe said it was \"a scientific fact young people want to engage in risky behaviour\", and argued a lack of access to positive activities like sport could lead to problems.\n\nMr Pillai added: \"We need to channel huge amounts of resource into listening, looking at restorative practice, involving these young people rather than just locking them away - they need to confront the reality of what they have done.\"", "This summer's Olympics will go ahead even if Tokyo remains in a state of a emergency, says International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates.\n\nJapan's capital is one of nine prefectures under a state of emergency until 31 May at the earliest because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt was brought in because of a rise in cases, which has since started to fall.\n\n\"We've successfully seen five sports hold their test events during the state of emergency,\" Coates said.\n\n\"All of the plans that we have in place to protect the safety and security of athletes and the people of Japan are based around the worst possible circumstances, so the answer [to whether the Games could take place during a state of emergency] is absolutely yes.\n\n\"The advice we have got from the World Health Organisation and all of the scientific advice, is that all the measures we have outlined in the playbook, all those measures are satisfactory to ensure a safe and secure Games in terms of health, and that's whether there is a state of emergency or not.\"\n\nRecent polls in Japan have shown nearly 70% of the population do not want the Olympics, which starts on 23 July, to go ahead.\n\nJapan has long insisted there was no question the Games, which should have taken place last summer, would be held and will be safe.\n\nAsked about the negative opinion polls, Coates added: \"There may well be a correlation between some of these percentages and the low percentages so far of people in Japan who have been vaccinated.\n\n\"I'm expecting that as the number of vaccinations increase that there will be better polls and public opinion will improve, but if it doesn't we just have to make sure that we get on with our job and our job is make sure these Games are safe for all participants and all of the people of Japan.\"\n\nThe British Olympic Association has confirmed that all British athletes and support staff will be fully vaccinated before they head to Tokyo.\n\nThe organisation said in a statement: \"The UK Government has confirmed that, through an agreement between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Pfizer BioNtech, Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes and support staff will be fully vaccinated ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, based on the unique position of having to travel to Japan to go about their work.\n\n\"The agreement means the vaccines will be obtained directly from Pfizer, and will not impact current supplies for the British public.\"\n\nIt appears pretty clear from what John Coates said that any cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics is not going to come from the International Olympic Committee.\n\nTokyo is currently under a state of emergency because of a large rise in Covid infections. The Japanese government has begun vaccinating the elderly - but so far only about 5% have received a first dose.\n\nThere is now very little time to vaccinate Japan's 36 million pensioners before the Games open on 23 July.\n• None What goes on in the Premier League captains' WhatsApp group?\n• None Just One More Thing: The simple home workout that is proven to boost your brain power", "The Pfizer and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines are highly effective against the variant identified in India after two doses, a study has found.\n\nTwo jabs of either vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the Kent one.\n\nHowever, both vaccines were only 33% effective against the Indian variant three weeks after the first dose.\n\nThis compared with 50% effectiveness against the Kent variant.\n\nPublic Health England, which ran the study, said the vaccines are likely to be even more effective at preventing hospital admission and deaths.\n\nThe Moderna vaccine has also been used in the UK since April but the study said the numbers who had received it were too small for them to include it in their research.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the findings made him \"increasingly confident\" the final stage of easing restrictions in England could take place on 21 June.\n\nThe data showed getting both doses of the vaccine was \"absolutely vital\", he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the data was \"positive\" but the planned \"stages\" for the easing needed to be followed.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"We will continue to follow the data... we all have to be conscientious... we are distancing, wearing masks, following all the rules.\n\n\"That, of course, will help us to that unlocking on 21 June.\"\n\nQuestioned about criticism of the timing of putting India on the travel red list, the home secretary said ministers \"work with the data... and that information was presented... in the right way for the decisions to be made\".\n\nMs Patel also defended the controls at UK borders - highlighting the pre-arrival testing requirements and saying a \"vigorous system\" for making sure people arriving from red list countries were quarantining was in place.\n\nA further five people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, and another 2,235 people have tested positive, Sunday's official figures showed.\n\nMore than 60 million vaccine doses have now been given, with 37,943,681 first doses administered and 22,643,417 second doses.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was found to be 88% effective at stopping symptomatic disease from the Indian variant two weeks after the second dose, compared with 93% effectiveness against the Kent variant.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab was 60% effective against the Indian variant, compared with 66% against the Kent variant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Test and Trace boss urges people to go for their second jab\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the difference in effectiveness between the vaccines after two doses might be explained by the fact that rollout of second doses of AstraZeneca was later than for the Pfizer vaccine, which was approved first.\n\nOther data shows it takes longer to reach maximum effectiveness with the AstraZeneca vaccine, PHE said.\n\nSome 12,675 genome-sequenced cases were included in the study, which took place between 5 April and 16 May. Only 1,054 of those cases were of the Indian variant, known as B.1.617.2.\n\nDr Jenny Harries told the Andrew Marr Show the study was \"very good news\".\n\nThe chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency said the study is the \"first real-world evidence of vaccine effectiveness\" against the variant.\n\nAsked about the discrepancy between the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine results, she said a key factor to consider was that the \"different vaccines were given to slightly different groups of people\".\n\n\"The Pfizer vaccine was rolled out initially, because it had to be kept at ultra-low temperatures, to - for example - healthcare workers, who tended to be younger,\" she said.\n\n\"This is an all-age study. Whereas AstraZeneca went out to older groups of individuals who were unable to come into main centres.\"\n\nAs the virus changes, protection against infection was always going to be the first thing that slips.\n\nSo the fact that the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines offer such a high degree of protection against the Indian variant after the second dose is very reassuring given experts expect it to become dominant.\n\nBut what are the implications of the drop in effectiveness of the first dose where the Indian variant is concerned?\n\nGiven it's expected to become the dominant variant in the UK, it's now even more important people get their second jab.\n\nThe more difficult question to answer is what this means for the speed of the route back to normality.\n\nIts ability to evade the vaccines even by a small degree will be a factor in how more transmissible this variant is here.\n\nThere are also other biological reasons why it might find it easier to spread.\n\nBut this does not necessarily mean we will see a surge in cases and, crucially, hospital admissions - the protection vaccines give us against serious illness will be much much higher than their ability to block mild infections.\n\nThe Indian variant certainly gives the virus a bit more of an advantage, but it doesn't mean the vaccines won't win out.\n\nThe study looked at data from all age groups from 5 April, to cover the period since the Indian variant emerged.\n\nThere is not enough data to estimate how effective the vaccine is against severe outcomes for the Indian variant, PHE said.\n\nDr Jamie Lopez Bernal, consultant medical epidemiologist at PHE and the study's lead author, said there was higher confidence in the data from the first vaccine dose than that from the second as \"there are bigger numbers that have been vaccinated with one dose\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, PHE's Covid-19 strategic response director, said the data trend was \"quite clear\" and was heading in the \"right direction\".\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\nMore than 37 million people in the UK have now had their first vaccination, and 22 million have had their second.\n\nSome 13,000 deaths and 39,100 hospitalisations have been prevented in the UK due to the vaccination programme up to 9 May, according to PHE analysis.\n\nIt comes as more than 1.3 million more people in England have become registered users of the NHS app since it was announced that it would allow them to show proof they had received a Covid-19 vaccine, taking its user base to 4.8 million.\n\nThe app is separate from the NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app.", "After a year of lockdowns, home schooling and a bout of Covid, Kate and Matthew (not their real names) were hoping for better times as 2021 dawned.\n\nInstead, one January morning, there came a knock on the door from the police who were investigating a very serious crime, involving images of child abuse being posted online.\n\nThe couple insisted they had nothing to do with it.\n\nBut the next few months were \"utter hell\" as they attempted to clear their names.\n\nAnd it was only when the case was dropped in March, with no further action, that they realised the most likely explanation for the false accusation was their wi-fi router - and its factory-set password.\n\nBack in January, there was confusion and shock when three police officers and three detectives banged on the door of their London flat with a search warrant.\n\n\"They took everything: our desktop computer, both our laptops, our mobile phones, a laptop I had borrowed, even old mobile phones that were lying around in drawers,\" said Kate.\n\nTheir children, aged five and seven, were allowed to keep their tablets.\n\nThe police later told the couple that four photos depicting category B child abuse - the second-most-serious kind - had been uploaded to an online chat site a year ago.\n\nInformation passed to the National Crime Agency suggested it had come from their IP address.\n\nThe couple were at a loss to explain how it had happened. As far as they were aware, no-one else had access to their wi-fi at the time.\n\nThey were told their devices would need to be checked for evidence and would be returned in \"a few days\" - but it was the middle of March when they finally got them all back.\n\nManaging without devices posed many problems for the couple during lockdown\n\nThat presented practical problems: Kate and Matthew were working from home and their children were home-schooling.\n\n\"We had no way of contacting anyone other than from the landline,\" said Kate, who works as a private tutor.\n\nAt the time, England was in the middle of a lockdown. Non-essential shops were shut, so there was no chance to pop out and buy new gadgets.\n\nBut it soon became apparent that the case was going to have a far greater impact on their lives.\n\nThe police needed to unlock Matthew's work laptop, which was encrypted. He had to tell his boss about the case in order to get the decryption key.\n\nAnd the police had also informed social services and the children's school about the investigation, meaning Kate was suspended from her role as a governor there.\n\nWhen their children went back to school in March, the couple were told they were not allowed on the premises other than to drop their children off.\n\nIt took a toll on their mental health.\n\n\"What got to me was the not-knowing, and as the weeks went on I got more anxious,\" said Matthew, who was signed off work with stress.\n\nKate is more blunt about the trauma: \"It was months of hell. And during it, we both had suicidal thoughts.\"\n\nThe couple live in a block of flats, meaning their wi-fi could have been accessed by a neighbour or someone sitting in a car outside\n\nIn February, a conversation with a friend who worked in cyber-security alerted them to the possibility that their router, supplied by their broadband provider Vodafone, might hold clues to what had happened.\n\nThey had not changed the default passwords for either the router itself or the admin webpage, leaving it susceptible to brute force attacks.\n\n\"We think of ourselves as competent users but we are not IT experts,\" said Matthew. \"No-one told us to change the password and the setting up of the router didn't require us to go on to the admin menu, so we didn't.\"\n\n\"It came with a password, so we plugged it in and didn't touch anything.\"\n\nKen Munro, a security consultant with Pen Test Partners, told the BBC that it can take \"a matter of minutes\" for criminals to piggyback on insecure wireless connections.\n\n\"First, a hacker would need to 'crack' the wi-fi password - and if that hasn't been changed from the one written on a sticker on the side of the router, and the router is more than a year or two old - then it would take a matter of minutes to crack it,\" he said\n\nThat would allow the hacker on to a private individual's home network - although they would have to be within about 20 metres of the house.\n\n\"Second, to do anything particularly sinister on the home network, the hacker will need to change the router configuration. That needs the router admin password,\" explained Mr Munro.\n\nThe couple's router had an insecure wi-fi password, which may have been accessed by a criminal\n\n\"Most people don't even know the router has an admin password, let alone change it from the one written on the side of the router.\n\n\"So what I guess has happened here, is that the hacker has cracked the wi-fi password and then made changes to the router configuration, so their illicit activities on the internet appear to be coming from the innocent party.\"\n\nIn March, when the couple's devices were returned and the case closed, the police officer assigned to liaise with them seemed to corroborate that unauthorised use of their wi-fi was to blame.\n\nBut it couldn't be proved.\n\nThe couple submitted a subject access request to Vodafone, to see if they could find evidence that there had been unauthorised use of their wi-fi.\n\nThe case remains on file, including on their children's school records, and they want closure.\n\nVodafone told them that it did not have a record of their internet activity. It has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe router was several years old. The HHG2500 model in question has been highlighted as having a weak default password in a recent report by Which? into security issues around older routers.\n\nThe problem is industry-wide, points out Mr Munro.\n\n\"Internet service providers have started to improve matters to make these attacks harder, by putting unique passwords on each router. However, it will take years for all of the offending routers to be replaced,\" he said.\n\nDoing so costs money - which could be another reason it has taken so long, he adds.\n\nThe government plans to ban default passwords being pre-set on devices, as part of upcoming legislation covering smart devices.\n\nKate Bevan, Which? computing editor, said the new laws needed to be introduced \"as soon as possible, and backed by strong enforcement\".\n\nMeanwhile, internet service providers needed to \"encourage their customers to upgrade devices that pose security risks\" and consumers should set \"strong, unique passwords\" for their routers.\n\nFor Kate and Matthew, it has been a tough learning curve.\n\n\"It was devastating for us. And because there's no evidence about how this took place, whoever is responsible for this awful crime totally got away with it.\"\n• None Millions at risk of hacking from old routers", "Violence in Gaza and Israel shows no sign of abating amid continued rocket fire, air strikes and civil unrest among Jewish and Israeli Arab mobs.\n\nBBC reporters are on the ground in Gaza, Lod and Jerusalem.", "The woman and her hospital trust cannot be named for legal reasons\n\nMedics can use force to take a pregnant woman who has agoraphobia to hospital to give birth, a judge has ruled.\n\nThe 21-year-old has an \"overwhelming\" fear of leaving her home, the Court of Protection in London heard.\n\nShe wants a home birth - unless there is an emergency. But the NHS wants her to have the baby in a \"planned way\" in hospital, due to the increased risks if she gives birth at home.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Holman said his ruling was in the woman's best interests.\n\nHe concluded that \"proportionate\" force could be used by specially-trained staff if she refused to leave home on a specified day near her due date.\n\nThe woman, who the judge said lived \"far from London\", has barely left home in four years and had her scan at home.\n\nThe judge said the woman's partner and mother thought she should give birth in hospital.\n\nThe woman and the NHS trust cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nMr Justice Holman said evidence showed there was a risk there could be a \"catastrophe\" if she had a home birth.\n\n\"I think you should go to hospital and have this baby,\" he told the woman and her partner who watched on video link.\n\n\"It will avoid potential risks and disaster if something goes wrong. I think it is better than some awful rush job in the middle of the night.\"\n\nHe added: \"I know it will be an ordeal for you.\"\n\nMr Justice Holman concluded that the woman's agoraphobia meant that she did not have the mental capacity to make decisions about the birth of her baby.\n\nAgoraphobia is a condition which may include fears of leaving a \"safe\" place, being left alone or in a situation where sufferers feel trapped.\n\nPeople can seek advice from NHS Choices. their GP or the charity Anxiety UK.\n• None How an agoraphobic travels the world\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Howard Beckett is standing to be the next Unite general secretary\n\nThe home secretary's immigration policies are \"disgusting\", union official Howard Beckett has said following his suspension from Labour.\n\nThe suspension came after the Unite assistant general secretary tweeted that Priti Patel \"should be deported\".\n\nMr Beckett later apologised to Ms Patel and deleted the post.\n\nBut he told Sky News his suspension was \"completely inappropriate\" and insisted he would not pull out of the race to lead Unite.\n\nHe added that he had not received any notice of his suspension from Labour, but had found out about the move on social media.\n\nHe also said Labour was becoming \"the party of the establishment\" and accused party leader Sir Keir Starmer of failing to \"show leadership\".\n\nWhile suspended from the party Mr Beckett is not allowed to take up his place on Labour's ruling body.\n\nHe sits as a union representative on Labour's National Executive Committee - a role that requires membership of the party.\n\nMr Beckett is a candidate in the race to succeed longstanding leader Len McCluskey at Unite, one of Labour's biggest financial backers.\n\nHis tweet was a response to the Home Office detaining two Indian immigrants in Glasgow on Thursday over \"suspected immigration offences\".\n\nThe Home Office defended its actions, saying: \"The UK government is tackling illegal immigration and the harm it causes, often to the most vulnerable people by removing those with no right to be in the UK.\"\n\nIn his now-deleted twitter message, Mr Beckett wrote: \"Priti Patel should be deported, not refugees. She can go along with anyone else who supports institutional racism. She is disgusting.\"\n\nIn a later apology posted on Twitter, he said: \"My earlier tweet, deleted after half an hour, was never intended to be literal.\"\n\n\"My intention was to emphasise that racist policies should be rejected and have no place in society,\" he added.\n\n\"The wording was wrong, offensive and I apologise unreservedly to Priti Patel. No-one should be deported.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, he said his language had been \"inappropriate\" adding: \"I don't look at Priti Patel and see her migrant background and colour of her skin, I look at Priti Patel and I see a racist agenda, the racist policies that are being carried out, the institutional racism that is now becoming the norm in society.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't have a racist bone in my body.\"\n\nA Labour spokesperson had earlier said it was taking the matter \"extremely seriously\" and pledged \"appropriate action will be taken\".\n\nConservative MP Steve Baker said it was \"an extraordinary, absolutely intolerable remark\" which must have a \"robust response\" from Labour.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Unite for a comment.", "Pupils have lost months of education due to Covid\n\nSome £13.5bn is needed to reverse the damage to pupils' education caused by the pandemic, a think tank has said.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute says the money is needed as pupils have lost up to two months of learning in reading, and up to three months in maths.\n\nIt is calling on the government to extend the school day and increase funding for poor pupils, as part of a series of measures to help recovery.\n\nThe government has already given £1.7bn for catch-up support in England.\n\nThis week, the Prime Minister promised to address the learning pupils have missed during the pandemic, and ensure every child is able to fulfil their potential.\n\nThe report points out this will require significant investment.\n\nIt says the government will need to put in place an ambitious programme of support to run over a number of years, to help pupils who have lost months of education since schools were first closed in March 2020.\n\nThe report calculates the total cost to help pupils catch up is £13.5bn over three years, which compares with the annual schools budget for England of £48bn.\n\nIn total, it is estimated the lost learning could result in total lost lifetime earnings of between £62bn and £420bn, across the eight million school children in England.\n\nThe researchers argue that extra support should be kept in place for a number of years to address the inequalities in education that existed before the pandemic, and to improve the results of pupils.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute (EPI) research shows that even before Covid, poorer pupils were already 18 months of learning behind their more affluent classmates by the time they took their GCSEs - with that attainment gap already starting to widen.\n\nThe impact of school closures meant that by autumn 2020, pupils had lost up to two months in reading overall, and up to three months in maths in primary schools.\n\nBut following school closures before Christmas and in early 2021, losses are likely to have increased further, the report suggests.\n\nTo make up for the loss of so much time in school, the report recommends a number of measures that should be part of the recovery plans the government is working on.\n\nThese include longer school days, so that children can take part in a range of education, sports and social activities.\n\nOther suggestions include summer activities to help well-being, more one-to-one and small group tuition, extra funding for pupils from poorer families and mental health support.\n\nThe recovery should also include support for younger children in the early years, where high-quality education and care can play a decisive role.\n\nAnd much more funding is needed for 16 to 19-year-olds in further education colleges and those studying apprenticeships, the researchers recommend.\n\nNatalie Perera, chief executive of the EPI, says if the government is committed to dealing with the harmful and long-term consequences of Covid, then it needs to provide a serious funding boost.\n\n\"We are calling on the government to implement a series of effective, evidence-based policies from this September to support children and young people - not only with their learning, but with their well-being and mental health too.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government's response has been utterly insufficient.\n\n\"The government must prioritise education in the forthcoming Spending Review so that schools can increase the number of properly qualified teachers on staff, and bring down our historically high class-sizes. The solution to Covid cannot be yet more austerity.\"\n\nA government spokesman highlighted its initial £1.7bn investment in a catch-up plan for pupils, adding: \"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 as quickly and comprehensively as possible - and we have appointed Sir Kevan Collins as education recovery commissioner to advise on this work.\"", "Cases of the Indian Covid variant have more than doubled in the past week, figures from Public Health England show. Bolton in Greater Manchester is one town that has seen a sharp spike in infections since mid-April. So how concerned should we be?\n\nLike much of north-west England, Bolton saw a rise in coronavirus cases in October, a lull over Christmas, and then another wave in January.\n\nBy mid-April, lockdown had forced daily infections back almost to single figures locally. Then something worrying happened.\n\nRates started rising sharply again - doubling in the last week of April, then doubling again in the first week of May.\n\nNo one knows for sure how this spike in infections started.\n\n\"We've got higher rates in the younger age groups, but the increases are now happening across all the under 60s,\" says Lynn Donkin, the assistant director of public health in Bolton.\n\n\"That suggests to me that we've got transmission within households and that's now part of the situation here.\"\n\nSamples from Bolton were sent to scientists at Public Health England who identified a variant of the virus - now known as B.1.617.2 - that was first spotted in India earlier this year.\n\n\"Initially we did see some cases linked to international travel,\" says Ms Donkin.\n\n\"But we've now got a picture of widespread community transmission, associated with all sorts of different settings.\"\n\nThose settings are thought to include a number of schools which have sent home classes to self-isolate.\n\nWe're in a different place, perhaps, to where we were in September time. We have vaccination in place\n\nViruses mutate all the time, producing different versions of themselves.\n\nMost of these mutations are insignificant - but others can make the virus more contagious or harder to vaccinate against.\n\nThere is still a lot we don't know about B.1.617.2 - recently named the fifth variant of concern in the UK.\n\nPublic Health England scientists believe it is \"at least\" as transmissible as the so-called Kent variant now dominant across Europe. Others think it may be able to spread substantially faster.\n\nWork is still under way in labs across the world but there is currently no evidence it causes more severe disease or can evade Covid vaccines in any way - the single biggest concern of scientists.\n\nIn Bolton, the B.1.617.2 variant now makes up the majority of new coronavirus cases.\n\nAttention has been focused on just a handful of neighbourhoods to the south of town centre - Rumworth, Deane and Great Lever.\n\nAbout half of new cases detected in Bolton over the last week have come from those three areas alone.\n\n\"It's is an incredibly busy part of the town,\" says Yasmin Qureshi who was elected as the local Labour MP in 2010.\n\n\"It's very urbanised with major bus and train routes. There is a university, a sixth form college and a community college. There are some deprivation issues with a lot of people in social housing; some people not working or in low-paid jobs.\"\n\nIt's areas like this, with dense urban housing, that have been vulnerable to coronavirus since the start of the pandemic - making it difficult to disentangle the effect of the variant from other factors.\n\nPeople line up outside a mobile vaccination centre in Bolton\n\nThe local council has been targeting the area for some weeks now, with mobile testing units, leaflets in Hindi and Gujarati, and door-to-door visits, handing out self-testing kits.\n\nEnhanced contact tracing has also been put in place, meaning those who have been close to a positive case are tested rather than simply told to self-isolate.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can, and we've got a comprehensive plan in place to control the spread,\" says Ms Donkin.\n\n\"Our schools have already reached out to us, for example, to say they want to continue with face coverings for the time being, and we would very much support that.\"\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\nOverall, Bolton's infection rate is now sitting at 192 cases per 100,000 people - the highest in the country.\n\nIt is younger age groups who are far more likely to test positive, perhaps in part because school children are routinely tested twice a week.\n\nEncouragingly, rates in those most at risk from a serious Covid infection - the over 60s - have not risen significantly so far, and hospital admissions are still well below the levels recorded earlier this year.\n\n\"We have seen an increase in people attending the emergency department with confirmed or suspected Covid over the last week,\" says Dr Rauf Munshi, clinical lead for acute medicine at the Royal Bolton hospital.\n\n\"Cases are highest in the younger age group, but we know from dealing with previous waves that this will eventually start to affect older and more vulnerable people. This is also a cause for concern.\n\n\"We do know that there is usually a delay of around 14 to 19 days between rising cases and admissions to hospital, so we are prepared for this eventuality in the coming days.\"\n\nWhat doctors in Bolton, and scientists across the country, hope is that here is where the vaccination programme will kick in.\n\nThe latest data suggests both the AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid vaccines are extremely effective at preventing severe disease, hospitalisation and death, meaning the most vulnerable should be far better protected than they were in earlier waves of the pandemic.\n\nBut there is one stumbling block. In Bolton, the areas with the highest infections over the last week map very closely to areas with the lowest vaccination rates.\n\nThe NHS is now sending out a mobile vaccine bus into those parts of the town and it's thought door-to-door jabs are also being considered.\n\nAnd at a national level, the growth of this variant creates problems for the government.\n\nEngland is just days away from the single most significant relaxation of Covid restrictions so far - with indoor mixing starting again from 17 May.\n\nMinisters are thought to be considering a \"surge vaccination\" strategy - allowing areas with high case rates to open up jabs now to younger age groups rather than asking them to wait to be called forward.\n\nIt's an idea the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has been calling for over the past week.\n\nThe NHS is sending a mobile vaccine bus into parts of Bolton with high infections\n\nThe government could go further and impose stricter local rules on hotspot areas, similar to the tiered system of regional restrictions which existed last autumn.\n\nThat is likely to be strongly resisted in Bolton - where people have already lived under more weeks of lockdown than most of the country.\n\n\"I just don't think tiers work because people simply move from one area to another,\" says Ms Qureshi.\n\n\"I think we can sometimes get too anxious about things. I'm not saying we shouldn't be concerned and it is important to get vaccination rates up. But it's a judgement call for each individual and I think people are sensible enough to know who to hug.\"\n\nAs has been said many times before in this pandemic, the next few weeks will be key.\n\nIf infections can be controlled - and if the vaccines work as they should, with a lid kept on hospital admissions - then life can start to return to normal in Bolton as planned.", "Coronavirus vaccines have saved 11,700 lives and stopped 33,000 people becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 in England, research suggests.\n\nThe Public Health England analysis, up to the end of April, found people in their 70s and 80s had seen the biggest fall in deaths and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the figures were \"remarkable\".\n\nGetting a vaccine is \"one of the most important things you will be asked to do in your lifetime\", he added.\n\nExtra vaccination clinics are being set up in parts of Lancashire to offer more jabs to people aged 38 and over, and anyone with an underlying health condition who is over 18.\n\nThis is, in part, to help reduce the spread of the India variant, which is causing concern because scientists believe it could be at least as transmissible as the Kent variant.\n\nNine out of 10 people aged 40 and over have now had a first vaccine dose in England. The impact of the vaccines is likely to be similar across the UK, with more than 53 million doses administered in total.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) used data on how well the vaccines are working and the number of people being vaccinated in different age groups, to calculate deaths and illness prevented from Covid.\n\nIt is estimated that, thanks to vaccines:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens if I don't get the Covid vaccine? Laura Foster explains\n\nThe latest government data - based on evidence from the UK rollout - suggests one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine cuts the risk of infection by as much as 70%, and serious illness and death by even more.\n\nIf someone is less likely to become infected and have symptoms, then the spread of the virus between people is also less likely.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at PHE, said: \"The vaccine has already saved so many lives and we can now see the huge impact it has had on preventing people becoming seriously ill and therefore also protecting our hospitals.\n\n\"As these figures highlight, getting your vaccine could save your life or stop you becoming seriously ill from Covid-19.\n\n\"It will also significantly reduce your chances of getting infected and infecting others.\n\n\"It is vital to get both doses of your vaccine when you are offered it.\"", "The business empire of Liberty Steel owner Sanjeev Gupta is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).\n\nThe probe is over suspected fraudulent trading and money laundering, including its financing arrangements with failed company Greensill Capital UK.\n\nGFG Alliance, Mr Gupta's family conglomerate, said it would co-operate fully with the investigation.\n\n\"As these matters are the subject of an SFO investigation we cannot make any further comment,\" a GFG spokesperson added.\n\nGFG Alliance employs 35,000 people at companies stretching from Wales to Australia. Its Liberty Steel arm in the UK has about 3,000 staff.\n\nThe company's reliance on Greensill caused many to worry that it might itself be at risk following the finance firm's demise. GFG is in talks with finance firms about providing emergency loans. A request for a £170m from the UK government was rejected.\n\nOn Thursday, former prime minister David Cameron, who worked for Greensill and lobbied the government on its behalf, appeared before MPs to answer questions about his role.\n\nThe announcement of a Serious Fraud Office investigation into the workings of Sanjeev Gupta's metals-based empire has serious consequences, before any evidence is even heard.\n\nFirst, the BBC understands that the Department for Business feels vindicated that it did not agree to give the so-called \"saviour of steel\" a requested government bailout of £170m.\n\nSecond, and perhaps more importantly, it sets back Mr Gupta's attempts to raise new finance to replace the money it once received from the now defunct Greensill.\n\nThe government has promised to save the steel plants - owned by Gupta's GFG alliance that are now in dire financial straits - but this investigation makes the chance of it surviving in its current form an increasingly remote possibility.\n\nThe news comes a day after former prime minister and former Greensill employee, David Cameron, defended his role in lobbying the government to grant Greensill access to a government-backed Covid loan programme.\n\nIn its statement, GFG said it \"continues to serve its customers around the world and is making progress in the refinancing of its operations which are benefitting from the operational improvements it has made and the very strong steel, aluminium and iron ore markets\".\n\nGreensill's business model - called supply chain finance - worked by placing itself between customers and suppliers. It would immediately pay the invoices that suppliers gave to their customers, meaning those suppliers would not have to wait possibly for months for payment.\n\nThe Financial Times has claimed that one of Mr Gupta's companies had sent Greensill invoices for business it had supposedly done with four European metal companies. But those European companies told the newspaper they had not dealt with GFG.\n\nHowever, GFG said the invoices were for products it expected to perhaps sell in the future and that the financial arrangement was common for many of Greensill's clients.\n\nDuring Mr Cameron's appearance before the Treasury Committee on Thursday, he acknowledged that GFG had a very close relationship with Greensill, and said it was \"disturbing\" to read the reports about the invoices.\n\nMr Gupta was once hailed as the saviour of British steel when his company bought a struggling steel mill in South Wales, saving it from likely closure. Liberty Steel then went on to snap up several ailing UK plants and turn them around.\n\nGFG now operates in 30 countries, and has revenues of about £20bn.", "Femme Assise Pres d'Une Fenetre (Marie-Therese) is Picasso's fifth work to sell for more than $100m\n\nA painting by Pablo Picasso has sold for more than $100m - marking the fifth work by the Spanish artist to sell for a nine-figure sum.\n\nWoman Sitting Near a Window (Marie-Therese) sold for $103.4m (£73.5m) on Thursday at Christie's auction house in New York.\n\nThat figure comprises $90m for the painting itself, with fees and commissions on top, Christie's said.\n\nThe auction house had estimated the painting would sell for $55m.\n\nThe work, titled Femme Assise Pres d'Une Fenetre (Marie-Therese) in Spanish, was sold after 19 minutes of bidding.\n\nThe impressive sales figure is a sign of the art market's vitality, which will be a source of relief for the industry after an uncertain year amid the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nBonnie Brennan, president of Christie's America, said the success of Thursday's auction \"signals a real return to normal and also a message that the art market is really back on track\".\n\nPicasso's Les femmes d'Alger (The Women of Algiers) for $179m in 2015\n\nIt also confirms the continuing significance and popularity of works by Picasso, who was born in 1881 and died in 1973.\n\nThe painting, which depicts Picasso's young mistress and muse, Marie-Therese Walter, was acquired only eight years ago at a London sale for £28.6m ($44.8m), less than half the price it sold for on Thursday.\n\nThursday's auction marked the fifth work by Picasso to have sold for more than $100m.\n\nHe is one of a very small number of artists to have sold multiple works above this threshold, alongside Jackson Pollock, Vincent van Gogh and Francis Bacon.\n\nThe record for a Picasso is $179.4m (£127.6m), which was paid for his painting The Women of Algiers in 2015.\n\nThe last painting to fetch more than $100m was Claude Monet's 1890 work Meules, which reached $110.7m in New York in 2019.\n\nThis is the first time in two years that a work has broken the $100m mark since an 1890 Claude Monet Meules painting reached $110.7m (£78.7m) at Sotheby's, also in New York.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Portugal has yet to decide whether it will allow visits from UK holidaymakers as it extends its \"state of calamity\" until 30 May.\n\nFrom 17 May, travellers from England and Scotland won't have to quarantine upon their return from Portugal and other \"green list\" countries.\n\nBut those countries have their own restrictions on who can visit.\n\nHowever, some football fans may be able to go to the planned UEFA Champions League final in Porto on 29 May.\n\nPortugal's government has announced that it is extending its \"state of public calamity\" on the mainland - the second highest level of alert - for a further 15 days from Monday, until 30 May.\n\nUnder current plans, people from England and Scotland will be allowed to travel to Portugal for non-essential reasons from Monday.\n\nBut whether they will be allowed in by Portugal has not been decided yet by the Portuguese government, said cabinet office minister Mariana Vieira da Silva.\n\n\"I have no information to give yet,\" she said at a briefing when asked whether the UK restrictions would soon be lifted.\n\n\"Work is going on and as soon as there is a decision it will be announced, but no decision was taken in this cabinet meeting,\" she said.\n\nTravellers from the UK are one of the biggest markets for Portugal's tourism sector, along with those from Spain and France.\n\nMs Vieira da Silva did not say when a decision on the matter might be taken.\n\nAt present, Portugal allows flights to and from the UK, but only for essential travel, such as for business, study, family reasons, health or humanitarian reasons.\n\nFirms including Tui and Easyjet have been offering holidays and flights to green list countries, but online travel firm On The Beach has stopped selling all holidays for this summer due to Covid uncertainty.\n\nTui has 44 flights due to depart for Portugal between 17 and 30 May. These include 28 to the Algarve, a popular destination for UK summer holidays.\n\nThe UEFA Champions League final in Porto has not yet been officially announced, but is widely expected after Portugal's government agreed to allow a limited number of fans to attend, despite this not yet being the case at domestic games.\n\nMs Vieira da Silva said that a series of restrictions would apply.\n\nThere will be a 12,000 limit on numbers and tickets will be for named people in designated seats, which will spaced in line with health guidelines.\n\nFans will have to fly in on charters, arriving and leaving \"on the same day\" in what Ms Vieira da Silva described as \"a bubble situation\" - passing through a separate zone at the airport, as well as having to take a coronavirus test before travelling.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Sam Coates from Sky says the fourth test for the next step of the lockdown to go ahead is that there can't be variants of concern changing the assessment. But he asks given cases of the Indian variant have almost tripled in the last week how can you say you've passed that test?\n\nJohnson says: \"We are concerned about this variant...and we do think it certainly may cause disruption to our attempts to continue down the roadmap but it doesn't change the assessment to step three.\"\n\n\"If you look at the numbers, even in Bolton you're not seeing a significant increase in hospitalisations and the overall numbers across the country remain low so they're not changing the assessment at present.\"\n\nProf Whitty says we are broadly in the same territory with regards to the four tests.\n\nThe thing that has changed is the \"very clear view\" that the Indian variant is more transmissible. \"We expect over time this variant will overtake and come to dominate in the UK in the way that the Kent variant did,\" he says.\n\nWe need some time to gather the data but if it is a lot more transmissible that would imply we could have a really significant surge, Whitty says.\n\nWe also do not know what impact the vaccines will have in practice, he says.", "Discover the story behind a viral video as Andi comes out, graduates high school and celebrates life as a trans teen.\n\nFor one full year, Andi Bernabe granted the BBC access to the most formative moments of his life. To find out what happened when Andi went to college and why he still hasn't changed his legal name, watch the full documentary on BBC Reel.\n\nProduced and edited by BBC News video journalists Hannah Long-Higgins and Shrai Popat, illustrations and animation by Elena Perez", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: New variant \"may cause disruption to our attempts to continue down the roadmap\"\n\nThe Indian virus variant could pose \"serious disruption\" to lockdown easing in England on 21 June, the PM says.\n\nBoris Johnson said if it was found to be \"significantly\" more transmissible there could be \"some hard choices\".\n\nThe wait between jabs will be cut from 12 weeks to eight for the over-50s and clinically vulnerable because of concern over the variant, he added.\n\nCases of the Indian coronavirus variant have nearly tripled in the past week, Public Health England figures show.\n\nSurge testing is already taking place in 15 areas across England, including Bolton, Blackburn, London, Sefton and Nottingham.\n\nAccording to Friday's government figures, a further 17 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test and another 2,193 coronavirus cases have been recorded.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing alongside the UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, Mr Johnson said first Covid vaccine doses will also be prioritised \"for anyone eligible who has not yet come forward\". Currently, England's vaccination rollout is open to people over the age of 38.\n\nThe prime minister said he did not believe that the \"present evidence\" showed a need to delay the next stage in the easing of lockdown in England on Monday - when pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve customers indoors and six people or two households can meet in a private home.\n\nBut Mr Johnson warned: \"I have to level with you that this new variant could pose a serious disruption to our progress and could make it more difficult to move to step four in June.\"\n\nHe added: \"But I urge everyone to exercise the greatest caution because the choices we each make in the coming days will have a material effect on the road ahead.\"\n\nHe said he did not believe it was \"impossible\" to go ahead with step four of England's roadmap to ease coronavirus restrictions, but \"we have to be utterly realistic\" and there was \"the risk of disruption and delay\".\n\nThe government's aim with the fourth and final step of the roadmap is to remove all legal limits on social contact on 21 June - meaning there will be no limits on gatherings indoors or outdoors - nightclubs will be allowed to reopen and there will be no limits on weddings.\n\nThe government has said easing restrictions on 21 June depended on its four tests being met - including that vaccines continue to be effective and the risks are not fundamentally changed by new variants.\n\nAfter months of positive news, including falling cases and a hugely successful vaccination campaign, the tone has shifted.\n\nThe full relaxation in June is in jeopardy and there is the looming spectre of greater pressure on the NHS.\n\nIt is important to remember we are in a dramatically different situation than at the start of the year, due to the huge success of the vaccination campaign.\n\nBut we are in a race between the virus and the vaccine. Easing restrictions on Monday and a more transmissible variant means the virus will move even faster.\n\nThe faster the virus spreads, the more people will get infected and the more people could end up in hospital. This is because vaccines are great, but not perfect and not every vulnerable person has had one.\n\nSage estimates a variant that is 40% more transmissible could put pressure on hospitals and that it is possible the variant that emerged in India spreads even more quickly than that.\n\nThe problem, though, is even greater for countries which haven't got successful vaccination programmes, where even more transmissible variants could be hugely damaging.\n\nMr Johnson added that there was \"no evidence to suggest that our vaccines will be less effective in protecting people against severe illness and hospitalisation\".\n\nThe Army will be deployed on the streets of Blackburn and Bolton to give out tests to help the surge testing efforts.\n\nThere will be an acceleration of the vaccine rollout there, Mr Johnson said, including longer opening hours at vaccination centres.\n\nProf Whitty said delays to the vaccination programme for younger people were not expected with the prioritisation of second doses for older age groups.\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\nHe warned that if the variant first discovered in India proved to be more transmissible than other variants, the UK could see \"a really significant surge\" in Covid-19 cases, adding: \"That's a really critical question to which we do not yet have the answer.\"\n\n\"We expect over time this variant will overtake and come to dominate in the UK in the way that the Kent variant did,\" he added.\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has said there is a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant could be as much as \"50% more transmissible\" than the Kent strain.\n\nCases of the Indian variant found in the UK to date have nearly tripled in the past week to 1,313, Public Health England said.\n\nMost of the cases - 1,255 - are in England, while there are 35 in Scotland, 12 in Northern Ireland and 11 in Wales, according to PHE.\n\nIt said four people have now died with the Indian variant - officially designated a variant of concern - as of 12 May.\n\nSurge testing is taking place in 15 areas across England, including in Bolton\n\nMobile testing units have been set up in Bolton, PHE said, and door-to-door PCR testing had been offered to 22,000 residents. A PCR test is the most accurate way to check for Covid.\n\nMore doses have been delivered to the town, which has also set up a vaccine bus to increase uptake among those who are eligible. A rapid response team of 100 nurses, public health advisers and environmental health officers has also been sent in.\n\nMr Johnson warned those living in Bolton and other affected areas that there was \"now a greater risk from this new variant\" and he urged people to be \"extra cautious\".\n\n\"There will be targeted new activity in Bolton and Blackburn to accelerate vaccine take-up among eligible cohorts - including longer opening hours at vaccination sites,\" he said.\n\nExtra clinics will open in Blackburn and Darwen in Lancashire from next week to offer the vaccine to those who are eligible under national guidelines. The vaccination capacity of local pharmacies will also be increased.\n\nBut the area's public health director, Prof Dominic Harrison, said he was \"furious\" the government had refused a request to extend vaccinations in Blackburn.\n\nOn Thursday, the council initially said all over-18s would be offered a jab, before later stating only those with underlying conditions could book an appointment.\n\nWhen asked by Fergus Walsh, the BBC's medical editor, whether over-18s who live in hotspot areas should have a first vaccine dose, Prof Whitty said there had been \"debate\" on this point.\n\nHe said the UK's vaccine advisers believed the \"sensible thing to do\" was to prioritise jabs to \"those most at risk in all the places across the UK\", explaining that age remained the single biggest factor when it came to those who fell seriously ill or died from Covid.\n\nMeanwhile, the R number - or reproduction number - in England is estimated to have risen slightly from between 0.8 and 1.0 to between 0.8 and 1.1, according to the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nIf the R number is above one then the number of cases keeps increasing.\n\nElsewhere, the Welsh government has said it is \"confident\" its vaccination programme \"already has the flexibility it needs to respond swiftly and effectively and are not making any changes at this stage\".", "The parents of a baby who died after medical errors are to push for a new inquest into his death, after they say a \"cruel\" inquest denied them justice.\n\nHayden Nguyen died in 2016 after medics failed to treat an infection properly.\n\nBut despite the NHS trust admitting mistakes, coroner Shirley Radcliffe concluded the infant died of natural causes, after raising concerns about the hospital's initial investigation.\n\nThe coroner has refused to comment on her actions.\n\n\"What the coroner did was kill Hayden a second time,\" Hayden's father, Tum, told the BBC.\n\n\"It was premeditated and extraordinarily cruel.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents Tum and Alex Nguyen say the inquest into the death of six-day-old Hayden was \"unjust\"\n\nHayden was six days old when his parents took him to the Chelsea and Westminster hospital in west London in August 2016.\n\nHe initially had a fever but rapidly deteriorated; he had a cardiac arrest and died within 12 hours of arriving there.\n\nAn internal NHS investigation concluded eight errors were made in Hayden's care, and the root causes of his death were:\n\n\"When they had completed the investigation, they sat us down and took us through it line by line,\" says Alex Nguyen, Hayden's mother.\n\n\"Although the content was incredibly disturbing, it was in a way healing and it helped a little bit with the grieving process.\"\n\nAlex Nguyen with her son's coffin - he died aged six days\n\nAn inquest at Westminster Coroner's Court, conducted by Dr Radcliffe, followed.\n\nHowever, the coroner, who has overseen inquests into the deaths of celebrities such as Amy Winehouse and Dolores O'Riordan, was not happy with the hospital's investigation.\n\nUnbeknown to Tum and Alex, Dr Radcliffe contacted the Chelsea and Westminster to express her concerns.\n\nHer actions prompted the hospital to issue a second report into Hayden's care, which halved the number of errors, and said the root cause of his death was the infection \"which is known to have a high mortality\".\n\nArmed with this second report, the coroner concluded that Hayden had died of natural causes.\n\n\"What the clinicians did was negligence, possibly neglect,\" says Tum.\n\nCoroner Shirley Radcliffe concluded that Hayden died of natural causes\n\n\"But I don't think they did it in a premeditated fashion. I think what the coroner did was premeditated and cruel.\"\n\nWhen they overcame their astonishment at the coroner's actions, the parents, who work in social media and IT, pursued the case by taking legal action against the hospital.\n\nThe Chelsea and Westminster acknowledged that failures had contributed to Hayden's death.\n\nA letter from its lawyers says: \"The expert evidence obtained on behalf of the trust indicates that had the severity and progression of Hayden's condition been recognised and acted upon earlier, he would have survived beyond 07:15 on 25 August 2016\".\n\nNeither the hospital nor the coroner responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThere are virtually no avenues for families to challenge the conduct of coroners.\n\nThe chief coroner's office explicitly says it does not comment on coroners' conclusions, and in each of the past three years only 0.2% of complaints against judicial office-holders were upheld by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.\n\nPeter Walsh, who leads the charity Action against Medical Accidents, has supported scores of families who have been failed by the NHS.\n\nWhile he says coroners have huge latitude in how they conduct inquests, he says he is surprised by what happened here.\n\n\"I've never heard of another case where an investigation led by a hospital trust, finding and admitting mistakes, is challenged by the coroner at an inquest,\" said Mr Walsh.\n\nAlex Nguyen, older son Harrison and husband Tum with baby Hayden in 2016\n\nTum and Alex appealed to the attorney general for permission to go to the High Court to get a new inquest, a request that has now been granted.\n\nOf the first inquest, Alex says: \"If you read back over the conclusions, it looks like Hayden was only six days old, was quite ill, he got appropriate care and he couldn't have been saved.\"\n\nBut, she adds: \"That is what is on the record and it's not just and it's untrue\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron was challenged over his lobbying for Greensill\n\nDavid Cameron has said he was paid \"far more\" as a part-time adviser to now-collapsed Greensill Capital than when he was prime minister.\n\nHe told MPs he had had a \"big economic investment\" in the finance company, including shares.\n\nBut he insisted he was not motivated by money when he lobbied ministers on behalf of the firm - and he believed he had acted in the national interest.\n\nMr Cameron was paid £150,402 a year when he quit as prime minister in 2016.\n\nSpeaking via video link to the Treasury Select Committee, he repeatedly declined to reveal his exact salary at Greensill, which he joined two years after leaving Downing Street, calling it a \"private matter\".\n\nThe panel of MPs is among three parliamentary committees that have launched inquiries into the company, following its collapse in March.\n\nMr Cameron told the Treasury Committee he had not broken any rules when he tried to influence ministers and officials on behalf of Greensill Capital around the start of the Covid pandemic in spring last year.\n\nHe said it had been \"appropriate\" for him to call and text ministers and officials directly, as financial schemes were being designed quickly at a \"time of extraordinary crisis\".\n\nBut he conceded that in future \"prime ministers should only ever use letter or email, and should restrict themselves far more\".\n\nAnd he backed a tightening up of the rules for ministers and officials who take jobs in industry.\n\nMr Cameron has previously said he began working as a \"part-time senior adviser\" to Greensill Capital in August 2018.\n\n\"I was paid an annual amount, a generous annual amount, far more than what I earned as prime minister, and I had shares - not share options but shares in the business - which vested over the period of time of my contract,\" he told the committee.\n\nHe described reports he had been set to make £60m from Greensill before its collapse as \"completely absurd\".\n\nMr Cameron also said the demise of Greensill Capital was a \"great regret\" to him, and there were \"important lessons to be learned\" from it.\n\nHe added that he had conducted \"quite a lot of due diligence\" before taking up the advisory role, including asking questions about \"every aspect of the business\".\n\n\"I had a big economic investment in the future of Greensill, so I wanted the business to succeed,\" Mr Cameron told MPs. \"I wanted it to grow.\"\n\nHe said his economic interest in the firm had been \"important\" but was not relevant to the MPs' inquiry into its collapse and its contacts with government.\n\nAnd he said he had felt the firm's proposals would help small businesses access cash during an economic crisis, and were \"absolutely in the public interest\".\n\nIn a separate hearing, with the the Public Accounts Committee, Mr Cameron said he had only learned that Greensill Capital was in financial difficulty towards the end of last year.\n\nHe added that the past few months, during which his work for the company has come in for widespread criticism, had been \"very difficult\", but said he felt more sorry for the hundreds of staff who had lost their jobs.\n\nThe former prime minister repeatedly texted ministers and officials, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, asking for the firm to be included in a Covid-related government loan scheme.\n\nBut his attempts to involve Greensill in the Covid Corporate Financing Facility were ultimately unsuccessful after they were rebuffed by the Treasury.\n• None What is lobbying? A brief guide", "Mary Beard wants classics to be not just for \"posh people\"\n\nHistorian Mary Beard is to fund scholarships for two disadvantaged students to study classics at Cambridge University, as a \"retirement present\".\n\nThe Cambridge professor is stepping down next year after almost 40 years of teaching and research.\n\nShe described the £80,000 donation as her \"payback time\".\n\n\"I am very conscious of what I've gained from classics, no-one from my family had a university degree,\" said Dame Mary.\n\nThe historian and television presenter wants to help widen the reach of classics as a subject, so it's not \"just for posh people who've done Latin for ages\".\n\nMost people approaching retirement might expect the present to be heading in their direction, but Dame Mary - no stranger to doing things her own way - wants to mark her departure with her own donation.\n\n\"It's a pledge, that we really do want people from more diverse backgrounds to study classics. Classics is a subject that has changed, is changing, but needs to change more.\n\n\"But you still walk around the faculty and it looks, although not entirely, very white,\" said Dame Mary.\n\nThe television historian brought the classics to a mainstream audience\n\nThe funding, £40,000 for each of two students, will help with living costs through their degree course, and will be available to students from low-income families or under-represented groups.\n\nDame Mary has not named the awards after herself, but after one of her classics tutors, Joyce Reynolds.\n\nShe said her former tutor at Cambridge, now aged 102, had been a \"fantastic fighter for the rights of women in what was then a very male subject\".\n\n\"I have no illusion that giving a couple of scholarships is the solution, but it's a way of showing we're serious about equality of opportunity,\" said Dame Mary.\n\nShe said classics students are \"trained to think hard, to express themselves, to write well - qualities that a hell of a lot of employers are looking for\".\n\nThe subject also offered a way of \"thinking about the world differently\", with different perspectives on philosophy, culture, gender and race.\n\nHer BBC television series, such as Julius Caesar Revealed and Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit, have brought ancient history to a wider, modern audience.\n\nShe has also faced threats and abuse on social media, and what she's called \"sexist rants\" online.\n\nDame Mary said her own interest in classics was through an early enthusiasm for archaeology, and she remembers the excitement of finding a Roman coin and \"holding the past\".\n\nOne of her earliest memories, she said, was being taken by her mother to the British Museum as a small child, and an attendant being kind enough to open a display case to let her hold a piece of ancient Egyptian carbonised cake.\n\nShe now wants to help open up classics for another generation of young people.\n\nZaynab Ahmed, a current third-year classics student at Newnham College, Cambridge, said a barrier was the lack of state schools teaching the subject.\n\nShe said that was why the Cambridge four-year course was more accessible, with a foundation year to support students who might not have studied Latin at school.\n\n\"Classics is a subject I've fallen in love with. It's about the past, but it's also about how we understand ourselves now,\" she said.", "After months of good news, including falling Covid cases and a hugely successful vaccination campaign, the tone has shifted.\n\nEngland's full relaxation of rules in June is in jeopardy and there is the looming spectre of greater pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe thorn in the plans is the variant of coronavirus that emerged in India - B.1.617.2 - and has started spreading around the world.\n\nConcerns have been mounting over the past week and, for the first time, the scientists advising the UK government are now confident it does spread more easily.\n\nThe expectation is the variant will edge out the one that emerged in Kent and eventually \"dominate\" cases in the UK.\n\nWe are in a race between the virus and the vaccine. Easing restrictions on Monday and a more transmissible variant means the virus will move even faster.\n\nBut there is still huge uncertainty about exactly how much better the B.1.617.2 variant is at spreading.\n\n\"That's a really critical question to which we do not yet have the answer,\" said Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nIf it is just a smidge faster than the Kent variant, which still makes up the overwhelming majority of cases in the UK, then there's not much to worry about.\n\nHowever, the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) says there is a \"realistic possibility\" it could spread 50% faster, which is a lot.\n\nThere are some higher estimates of 60% coming out of India, but these are based on published genetic sequences from viral samples and its not clear how representative of the overall picture they are.\n\nSage estimates the problems would really start with a variant that was 40% more transmissible as it \"would lead to a substantial resurgence of hospitalisations\" and put pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe uncertainty is reminiscent of last year when the new variant in Kent was first detected and raised questions about the approach to controlling the virus.\n\nBut it is important to remember we are not in the same situation as last year.\n\nMore than 19 million people - a third of the adult population - have had both jabs of their vaccine. Another 17 million have had one. Vaccines are weakening, if not eliminating, the link between infection and severe disease.\n\nAnd overall cases are also far lower. The Office for National Statistics estimates fewer than 50,000 people currently have the virus. The figure was 1.25 million at the start of the year. Currently there are only around 1,000 people in hospital with Covid.\n\nThe concern is that while vaccines are great they are not perfect and not everyone who is vulnerable has had one. So if there was another wave of cases from the combination of relaxing and a new variant then a worrying number of people could still end up in hospital.\n\nNote these predictions are not crystal balls. Earlier mathematical models had predicted a summer wave, but suddenly became far more optimistic once it became clear vaccinated people were less likely to spread the virus.\n\nPlans to reopen are going ahead, but the vaccination campaign is being tweaked to give more vulnerable people more immunity more quickly.\n\nThe hope is if the variant is going to pose a problem then there will be time to spot any further warning signs - such as a rise in hospital admissions - and then act.\n\nThe prime minister, Boris Johnson, said that if the Indian variant proves to be \"significantly more transmissible\" than other strains then \"we're likely to face some hard choices\" in the UK.\n\nBut the problem posed by more transmissible variants is far greater in countries that haven't got successful vaccination programmes, where they could be hugely damaging.", "A building in Gaza City collapsed during a live BBC TV report after being hit by an Israeli strike.\n\nBBC Arabic reporter Adnan Elbursh and his team kept broadcasting, unaware of what was about to happen.\n\nThe report, for presenter Mohamed Seif, came on Wednesday as the fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants continued to escalate.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed that international travel for any reason would resume in Wales on Monday, the same as England and Scotland, although he would prefer people to stay within Wales.\n\nHe said there will be a traffic-light system introduced for international travel as in other parts of the UK.\n\n\"This lets people know what the quarantine and testing requirements are when they come home,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"We want to do everything we can to prevent coronavirus re-entering Wales as a result of international travel.\"\n\nHe added that everyone returning from a green-list country will have to book and pay for a test on their return, and travellers and their households are reminded to use lateral flow tests.\n\nMr Drakeford said there will be \"no English-style test-to-release scheme for Welsh travellers returning from amber list countries... because around a third of people who have developed coronavirus linked to travel have done so five days after arriving in Wales\".\n\nUrging people to consider whether to travel or not, he said: \"I know many people have been looking forward to a holiday abroad, but travel will be very different to what it was before the pandemic.\n\n\"I believe this is the year to holiday at home and enjoy everything that our wonderful Wales has to offer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Joe Biden: 'It's a good day for the country, we aren't done yet'\n\nPresident Joe Biden has hailed a \"great day for America\" as US officials said vaccinated people can go mask-less in most indoor and outdoor settings.\n\nThe president removed his mask in the Oval Office with Republican lawmakers as the guidance was being announced.\n\nThe advice still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes and hospitals.\n\nThe Biden administration has faced pressure to ease restrictions on fully vaccinated people.\n\nIn another major step for the US in returning to pre-pandemic life, the president of the 1.7m-member American Federation of Teachers labour union called for schools to reopen fully in the autumn.\n\nIt comes after Pfizer's vaccine was approved for children aged 12 to 15.\n\nThe US coronavirus caseload has fallen to its lowest point since last September, with deaths at their fewest since last April.\n\nAccording to the new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), physical distancing can also cease for the fully vaccinated.\n\nMr Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris and staff went without facial coverings during a White House Rose Garden event to trumpet the new guidelines.\n\n\"We're not going to go out and arrest people,\" added Mr Biden, urging non-vaccinated Americans to wear masks.\n\nHis Twitter account posted: \"The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.\" The US president has no power to order Americans to get vaccinated or wear masks.\n\nThe latest rules come with about 35% of Americans now fully vaccinated, though the roll-out has been losing momentum.\n\nCDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday at the White House: \"Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask.\n\n\"If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things you have stopped doing because of the pandemic. We have all longed for this moment, when we can get back to some sense of normalcy.\"\n\nThe guidance does not apply to healthcare facilities or places such as prisons and homeless shelters. Masks are also still advised for planes and other public transport.\n\nThe CDC's advice does not supersede local ordinances, and some businesses may still require customers and workers to wear masks.\n\nIn April, the CDC said masks can be avoided for most outdoor activities, but recommended their use in crowded settings.\n\nDr Walensky said that immuno-compromised people may want to consider continuing to wear a mask outdoors.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The White House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The White House\n\nThe CDC defines \"fully vaccinated\" as two weeks after receiving a second jab of a two-dose vaccine, or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.\n\nThe move could alarm some Americans, with less than half of the population fully vaccinated and no way to confirm whether someone has received their shots or not.\n\nPresident Biden has set a 4 July goal of vaccinating 70% of Americans with at least one jab. Around 250m jabs have been given so far, according to latest estimates.\n• None France calls on US to drop vaccine export bans", "A cyber attack on Irish health service computer systems is \"possibly the most significant cybercrime attack on the Irish state\", a minister has said.\n\nSpeaking on broadcaster RTÉ, Ossian Smyth said the attack \"goes right to the core of the [health] system\".\n\nHowever, he also said that it was \"not espionage\".\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin said that he had consulted with cyber security experts and that the state would not be paying a ransom.\n\nHe said it would \"take some days\" to assess its impact.\n\n\"What's important is people cooperate with the HSE,\" he said, and added that emergency services remain open, and the vaccine programme continues uninterrupted.\n\nThe health service has temporarily shut down its IT system to protect it after the attack.\n\nMr Smyth, who is minister for public procurement and eGovernment, said it was an international attack.\n\nHe added: \"These are cyber criminal gangs, looking for money.\n\n\"What they're attempting to do is to encrypt and lock away our data, and then to try to ransom it back to us for money.\"\n\nThe Health Service Executive (HSE) said it had taken the precaution of closing down its systems to further protect them and assess the situation.\n\nMr Smyth said the Irish government is \"deploying everything\" in its response.\n\n\"It's widespread. It is very significant, and possibly the most significant cybercrime attack on the Irish State.\"\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said the HSE became aware of a significant ransomware attack on some of its systems in the early hours of Friday morning and the NCSC was informed of the issue and immediately activated its crisis response plan.\n\nIreland's Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said the incident was having \"a severe impact on [the] health and social care services\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Donnelly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnne O'Connor of the HSE told RTÉ on Friday afternoon that if \"this continues to Monday, we will be in a very serious situation and we will be cancelling many services\".\n\nA number of hospitals in the Republic of Ireland are reporting disruption to services.\n\nThe HSE is tweeting about what services have been affected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stephen Donnelly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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, Mr Donnelly said his department is working to ensure the systems and information is protected.\n\nHe added that Covid-19 vaccinations and testing would proceed as normal.\n\nEarlier, HSE chief executive Paul Reid told RTÉ's Morning Ireland it is working to contain a sophisticated human-operated ransomware attack on its IT systems.\n\nHe said that the cyber attack was affecting all national and local systems involved in all core services.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 HSE 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Reid said the attack is focused on accessing data stored on central servers.\n\nHe said it is a major incident, but that no ransom demand has been made at this stage.\n\nComputer viruses that threaten to delete your files unless you pay a ransom are known as ransomware.\n\nDublin's Rotunda Hospital has taken the precaution of closing down its IT systems to further protect them\n\nLike other computer viruses, it usually finds its way onto a device by exploiting a security hole in vulnerable software or by tricking somebody into installing it.\n\nRotunda Hospital Master Professor Fergal Malone said they had discovered during the night that they were victims of the ransomware attack, which is affecting all of its electronic systems and records.\n\nProf Malone said he believed it could also have affected other hospitals, which was why they had shut down all of their computer systems.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Rotunda Hospital\n\nProf Malone said all patients are safe and the hospital had contingency plans in place so it can function normally using a paper-based system.\n\nHe added that this would slow down the processing of patients, which is why the hospital was looking to limit the numbers attending appointments on Friday.\n\nHe said life-saving equipment was in operation and it was computers with healthcare records that have been affected.\n\nThe child and family agency, Tusla, said its IT systems are not operating as a result of the attack, as the agency is hosted on the HSE network.\n\nIt said any person wishing to make a referral about a child can do so by contacting the office in their area.\n\nThe HSE tweeted that the National Ambulance Service is \"operating as per normal with no impact on emergency ambulance call handling and dispatch nationally\".\n\nProf Seamus O'Reilly, oncologist at Cork University Hospital, said all of its computers had been switched off due to the cyber attack.\n\nProf O'Reilly said cancer care was time dependent on technology and the hospital is anxious to proceed with treatment.\n\nKrysia Lynch, chair of the Association for the Improvement in Maternity Services in Ireland, said it was time to ask the HSE if they have patient records stored in a robust way and if they have proper cyber defences for this type of ransomware.", "The submarine was deliberately sunk in 1918 to help with Royal Navy training\n\nThe wreck of a British submarine used in World War One has been given protection.\n\nThe submarine, which was deliberately sunk in 1918, was used to boost Britain's defensive power in the war.\n\nThe protected status of the wreck, off the coast of Dartmouth, Devon, means it can be dived, but its contents are protected by law and must not be moved.\n\nA team of specialist divers found the submarine during an investigation and reported the find to Historic England.\n\nLead diver Steve Mortimer, who was part of the team searching for the remains of German U-boats when they came across the wreck, said: \"Every diver dreams of identifying a historically important wreck.\"\n\nMulti-beam images have been used to look at the newly protected D-class submarine\n\nAt the start of World War One, HMS/m D1 was used to protect the coast of Dover and monitor German shipping movements before it was delegated to training duties.\n\nIn October 1918 it was deliberately sunk and used as a training target for Royal Navy training exercises detecting enemy submarines.\n\nIt is upright and remains largely intact on the seabed.\n\nHistoric England's chief executive Duncan Wilson said: \"This is a fascinating survival which deserves protection as an important part of our seafaring history.\"\n\nMr Mortimer said they were expecting to find the remains of a German U-boat but were \"thrilled to discover a ground-breaking British submarine instead\".\n\n\"It's tremendous that D1 is now protected but divers can still visit.\"\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has granted protection to the wreck, on advice from Historic England.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "\"The one where they get back together\" will see the actors re-unite for unscripted special\n\nThe much-anticipated reunion special of Friends has finally got a US release date and trailer after a lengthy delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFriends: The Reunion will be available on the HBO Max streaming service from 27 May after the sitcom's original cast were able to film together last month.\n\nFriends was one of the biggest sitcoms of the 90s and ended in 2004.\n\nThe 10-series show has found a new generation of fans thanks to re-runs and streaming services like Netflix.\n\nAll six members of the original cast - Matthew Perry (Chandler), Jennifer Aniston (Rachel), Courteney Cox (Monica), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe), Matt LeBlanc (Joey) and David Schwimmer (Ross) - are set to take part, though it's not yet been announced how it can be viewed in the UK.\n\nThey will feature alongside other supporting stars including Maggie Wheeler (Janice), James Michael Tyler (Gunther), Reese Witherspoon (Jill) and Tom Selleck (Richard), as well as Elliott Gould and Christina Pickles, who played Ross and Monica's parents, Jack and Judy.\n\nCelebrity guests, including David Beckham, Lady Gaga, BTS, Cara Delevingne, Mindy Kaling, James Corden, Malala Yousafzai and Justin Bieber, are also expected to appear.\n\nA trailer for the reunion, released on Thursday, shows the six actors walking together to a melodic version of the show's iconic theme-tune of I'll Be There For You by The Rembrandts.\n\nA caption then teases the special as: \"The One Where They Get Back Together\".\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 HBO Max 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\nRumours of a reunion originally swirled back in November 2019. It was originally due to air in May 2020 but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed production throughout the year.\n\nFilming for the special eventually took take place last month on the show's original soundstage on the Warner Bros lot in Burbank, California, in front of a live audience.\n\nJennifer Aniston shared the trailer on Instagram on Thursday, adding: \"It's official! The #FriendsReunion premieres May 27th on @HBOMax - could we BE any more excited?!\"", "MPs have warned they will be \"extremely disappointed\" if the PM fails to produce a plan to reform adult social care in England by the end of the year.\n\nThe warning follows this week's Queen's Speech which did not include detailed proposals for long-term reform.\n\nThe cross-party Commons health and social care committee said the lack of funding detail could undermine plans to integrate health and care services.\n\nThe government has been asked for a response.\n\nMPs on the committee have been scrutinising the plans for integrated care systems in the forthcoming Health and Care Bill.\n\nThe new systems mean local NHS and social care teams work together more closely, helping to reduce bureaucracy and focusing services better around patients' needs.\n\nBut they say it is an omission to fail to give full details about the reform.\n\nBoris Johnson had originally promised to \"fix\" the system when he became prime minister in July 2019 and has said he will bring forward proposals \"later in the year\".\n\nThe committee said the forthcoming Health and Care Bill should include a statutory requirement for the health secretary to publish a detailed 10-year plan within six months of the legislation receiving royal assent.\n\nIn the report, the MPs said: \"The absence of a fully-funded plan for social care has the potential to destabilise integrated care systems and undermine their success.\n\n\"However, we note that the prime minister has committed the government to producing a 10-year plan later this year; and we would be extremely disappointed if detailed plans for this were not published before the end of the calendar year.\"\n\nIt added that the problems faced by the care sector over the past two decades \"will not be solved\" without \"secure, long-term funding\".\n\nThere is a fundamental question being asked by MPs in this report. Can you really improve the way health and care systems work together for the people who need them, if one of those services is on its knees?\n\nThe problems for social care run deep. It has an underpaid, undervalued workforce leading to staff shortages.\n\nFewer people get council support now than a decade ago, even though an ageing population means more people are asking for help. And those who pay for their own care are charged extra to subsidise a system which has been underfunded for years.\n\nThe prime minister said nearly two years ago that he had a clear plan to \"fix the crisis in social care once and for all\". In the Queen's Speech on Tuesday, just nine words were used to repeat the promise of reform, but again, no detail or timetable.\n\nThis influential group of MPs is warning that without a vision for the future of care, plans for the future of the NHS are also being put in jeopardy.\n\nCommittee chairman and former health secretary Jeremy Hunt said if the issues were addressed, then the government had \"an opportunity to deliver a post-pandemic watershed 1948 moment for the health and care system, matching the significance of the year the NHS was founded\".\n\nHe added that if they were not addressed, it would be \"a wasted opportunity to deliver the truly integrated care required by an aging population\".\n\nIn 2019, 1.9 million people made requests for social care - including both older people and working age adults with disabilities, according to the King's Fund.\n\nIts chief executive Richard Murray said the reforms set out in the white paper could give the NHS \"greater flexibility to deliver joined-up care\" but said they would only go so far, however.\n\n\"The government has yet to say how it will tackle staff shortages, redress deep-seated health inequalities, or bring forward long-overdue reform of the social care sector,\" he added.", "The NHS is sending a mobile vaccine bus into parts of Bolton with high infections\n\nSecond vaccine doses could be brought forward and local restrictions introduced to help tackle the Indian variant in the worst-affected areas, the UK government has said.\n\nMinister Nadhim Zahawi said steps could also include vaccinating younger people in multi-generational households.\n\nMeanwhile, a top scientist has warned lifting restrictions on 21 June is in doubt because of the Indian variant.\n\nCases in the UK have more than doubled to 1,313, Public Health England said.\n\nThe figures released on Thursday have risen from 520 cases recorded by PHE up to 5 May.\n\nMost of the cases - 1,255 - are in England, while there are 35 in Scotland, 12 in Northern Ireland and 11 in Wales, according to PHE.\n\nHowever, Prof Paul Hunter, who sits on a number of Covid advisory committees for the World Health Organization, said current figures were around two weeks out of date and would now be higher.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Indian variant was now in most regions of the UK, with the possible exception of Yorkshire and Humber and north-east England.\n\nMore than 30% of cases are in London, followed by 25% in north-west England, 12% in eastern England, 10% in the East Midlands and 8% in the South East, PHE said.\n\nFour people have now died with the Indian variant of concern as of 12 May, according to PHE.\n\nAccording to Friday's government figures, a further 17 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test and another 2,193 coronavirus cases have been recorded.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said there was \"no firm evidence yet to show this variant has any greater impact on severity of disease or evades the vaccine\".\n\nBut experts believe it may be more transmissible.\n\nAnd the department said ministers could not rule out imposing local restrictions if they were necessary to suppress a variant which vaccines are less effective against.\n\nVaccines Minister Mr Zahawi said the government was also considering reducing the gap between vaccine doses for people in areas where the variant is spreading.\n\nHe added that pilots of vaccinating younger people in multi-generational households in Luton had been successful.\n\nProf Hunter said there was \"possibly\" a case for targeting vaccines in certain areas - but jabs took two to three weeks to work. This would mean diverting doses from other areas, where the Indian variant could also soon be spreading.\n\nHe added that he thought it was more important to administer as many first doses as possible than boost the number of second doses at this stage.\n\nOn Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was no evidence to suggest England's planned lockdown easing could not go ahead.\n\nThe next major easing of restrictions is due to take place on 17 May.\n\nBut Prof Hunter said step four of the roadmap out of lockdown, which is due on 21 June and would see all legal limits on social contact lifted, \"is in doubt\".\n\nCurrently, he said the Indian variant was spreading in younger, unvaccinated people but if cases increased in the elderly so would hospital admissions, putting pressure on the NHS.\n\nMr Zahawi said easing restrictions on 21 June depended on the government's four tests being met - including that vaccines continue to be effective and the risks are not fundamentally changed by new variants.\n\nWhy could the Indian variant be a problem when the vaccination programme is doing so well?\n\nThe issue is that we are only part way through even though those most at risk have been prioritised.\n\nThere is still debate about how transmissible the new variant is.\n\nBut modelling by the University of Warwick has estimated that a 30%-40% more transmissible variant combined with relaxing restrictions in May and June could lead to more hospital admissions than in the first wave.\n\nIt would be a very different situation if we were in the autumn when overall levels of immunity would be making it harder for the virus to spread.\n\nInstead, we are in the delicate phase where restrictions are being eased as the vaccine is taking over the burden of suppressing the virus.\n\nOne option being considered is closing the gap between the first and second doses.\n\nThis would give vulnerable people, who have already been offered their first jab, extra protection more quickly.\n\nHowever, there could be a trade-off as studies suggest the current 12-week gap between doses leads to a better immune response than the originally planned three-week gap.\n\nAsked whether local lockdowns were being considered, Mr Zahawi said nothing was \"off the table\", including further regional or national measures.\n\nHowever, he said surge testing was the \"most effective way\" of dealing with variants.\n\nSurge testing is already taking place in 15 areas across England, including Bolton, Blackburn, London, Sefton and Nottingham.\n\nThis is when increased testing and enhanced contact tracing is carried out in specific locations to try to prevent the spread of outbreaks.\n\nGreater Manchester's Labour Mayor Andy Burnham told BBC Breakfast local lockdowns \"can't be the answer\" and urged ministers to deliver more vaccines to areas where case rates are highest.\n\nThe Conservative leader of Bolton Council, David Greenhalgh, also appealed to the government not to enforce a local lockdown, saying people would simply travel to pubs and restaurants in neighbouring areas.\n\nHe said he had also asked the health secretary for more resources and vaccines, including for younger people, to tackle the surge.\n\nMr Greenhalgh said talks on the introduction of vaccines for younger age groups had been \"very constructive\" and \"all the soundings\" were that the government was looking to progress this as soon as possible.\n\nPHE said mobile testing units had been set up in Bolton, and door-to-door PCR testing had been offered to 22,000 residents. A PCR test is the most accurate way to check for Covid.\n\nMore doses have been delivered to the town, which has also set up a vaccine bus to increase uptake among those who are eligible.\n\nExtra clinics will open in Blackburn and Darwen in Lancashire from next week to offer the vaccine to those who are eligible under national guidelines.\n\nBut the area's public health director, Prof Dominic Harrison, said he was \"furious\" the government had refused a request to extend vaccinations in Blackburn.\n\nOn Thursday, the council initially said all over-18s would be offered a jab, before later stating only those with underlying conditions could book an appointment.\n\nMeanwhile, the R number - or reproduction number - in England is estimated to have risen slightly from between 0.8 and 1.0 to between 0.8 and 1.1, according to the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nIf the R number is above one then the number of cases keeps increasing.", "The violence in the occupied West Bank marked a widening-out of the conflict following days of hostilities\n\nViolent clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians have spread across much of the occupied West Bank, following days of hostility in Gaza.\n\nAt least 10 Palestinians are reported to have died in the West Bank unrest, while hundreds have been injured.\n\nIsraeli forces used teargas, rubber bullets and live fire, as Palestinians threw petrol bombs.\n\nThe confrontations in the West Bank mark a broadening out of some of the worst violence in the region in years.\n\nThe conflict began on Monday and followed weeks of spiralling Israeli-Palestinian tension in East Jerusalem. The increased hostilities culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas - the militant Islamist group which rules Gaza - began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.\n\nAt least 126 people have been killed in Gaza and eight have died in Israel since the fighting began.\n\nMany towns and cities in the occupied West Bank were convulsed by angry protests on Friday, prompting international calls for calm.\n\nThere were running battles between Israeli soldiers and young Palestinians, who appear newly emboldened by the events of the past week, the BBC's Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher says.\n\nMeanwhile, there were protests at the Jordanian and Lebanese borders with Israel, in support of the Palestinians, on Friday. One man died after being hit by Israeli shell fire while protesting, state media in Lebanon reported.\n\nThe Israeli military said it conducted an operation overnight to destroy a network of Hamas tunnels that it dubbed \"the metro\", but no troops had entered Gaza. It added that - over the course of Thursday evening and Friday morning - 220 more projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip.\n\nIn southern Israel, an 87-year-old woman died after falling on her way to a bomb shelter near Ashdod. Other areas including Ashkelon, Beersheba and Yavne were also targeted.\n\nThere have been running battles between Israeli troops and young Palestinians\n\nGaza's health ministry said 31 children were among those killed since fighting began, and many other civilians have died. Another 950 Gazans have also been wounded. Israel says dozens of those killed in Gaza were militants, and some of the deaths were caused by misfired rockets from Gaza.\n\nOn Friday, the United Nations said that an estimated 10,000 Palestinians had left their homes in Gaza since Monday because of the conflict.\n\nThe conflict has also seen Jewish and Israeli-Arab mobs fighting within Israel itself, prompting the president to warn of civil war. Defence Minister Benny Gantz ordered the security forces to suppress the internal unrest on Thursday, and more than 400 people were arrested.\n\nPolice say Israeli Arabs have been responsible for most of the trouble and have rejected the accusation that they are standing by while gangs of Jewish youths target Arab homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC reporters are on the ground in Gaza, Lod and Jerusalem\n\nIn Gaza, Palestinians fearing an incursion by Israeli troops have been fleeing areas close to the border with Israel. Residents who had left Shejaiya in Gaza City said shells had been falling on homes.\n\n\"We felt like we were in a horror movie,\" said local resident Salwa Al-Attar, who escaped the bombardment with her family. \"The planes were above us, and the tanks and navy were bombing - and we could not move. The children, women and men were screaming.\"\n\nIn a statement released early on Friday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military operation against Palestinian militants would continue for \"as long as necessary\". He added that Hamas would pay a heavy price, as would other \"terrorist groups\".\n\nA Hamas military spokesman said the group was ready to teach Israel's military \"harsh lessons\" should it decide to go ahead with a ground incursion.\n\nOn Thursday, Israel's military called up 7,000 army reservists and deployed troops and tanks near its border with Gaza. It said a ground offensive into Gaza was one option being considered but a decision had yet to be made.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken of Israel waging a battle on two fronts.\n\nBut he may not have been doing justice to the swirling array of conflicts currently raging across Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. Rarely in recent years has violence erupted in all of these places at the same time.\n\nA week ago, the fear that Palestinians in east Jerusalem might be evicted to make way for Jewish settlers, coupled with repeated raids by Israeli security forces on the area surrounding Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, galvanised opinion among Israeli Arabs and triggered waves of rocket attacks by Hamas.\n\nLong-simmering resentments among Israel's Arab minority exploded in several of the country's mixed cities. Violent gangs, Jewish and Arab, exploited the tension.\n\nBy Friday, the violence had circled back to the West Bank where the death toll in clashes with the Israeli army has crept up.\n\nJerusalem, land rights, holy places and decades of unresolved conflict: this week's spasm of violence has highlighted them all.\n\nAs fighting entered its fifth day, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres called for \"an immediate de-escalation and cessation of hostilities in Gaza and Israel\".\n\nHis plea echoed that of other diplomats - including from Israel's ally the US - but appeals to Israeli and Palestinian leaders have so far failed to produce a ceasefire agreement.\n\nMissiles from Israel's Iron Dome defence system rise to intercept rockets fired from the Gaza Strip\n\nA senior Hamas official has said the group is ready for a \"reciprocal\" ceasefire if the international community pressures Israel to \"suppress military actions\" at the disputed al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.\n\nHowever, a senior adviser to Mr Netanyahu told the BBC that international calls for restraint were misplaced.\n\n\"We didn't want this conflict, but now that it's started it has to end with a sustained period of quiet,\" said Mark Regev. \"That can only be achieved by Israel taking out Hamas - their military structure, their command and control.\"\n\nThe fighting between Israel and Hamas was triggered by days of escalating clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at a holy hilltop compound in East Jerusalem.\n\nThe site is revered by both Muslims, who call it the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), and Jews, for whom it is known as the Temple Mount. Hamas demanded Israel remove police from there and the nearby predominantly Arab district of Sheikh Jarrah, where Palestinian families face eviction by Jewish settlers. Hamas launched rockets when its ultimatum went unheeded.\n\nPalestinian anger had already been stoked by weeks of rising tension in East Jerusalem, inflamed by a series of confrontations with police since the start of Ramadan in mid-April.\n\nIt was further fuelled by Israel's annual celebration of its capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war, known as Jerusalem Day.\n\nThe fate of the city, with its deep religious and national significance to both sides, lies at the heart of the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict. Israel in effect annexed East Jerusalem in 1980 and considers the entire city its capital, though this is not recognised by the vast majority of other countries.\n\nPalestinians claim the eastern half of Jerusalem as the capital of a hoped-for state of their own.\n\nAre you in Israel or Gaza and affected by these events? 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.", "Hamas was formed in 1988 after the outbreak of the first Palestinian uprising\n\nHamas is the largest of several Palestinian militant Islamist groups.\n\nIts name is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, originating as it did in 1988 after the beginning of the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Under its charter, it is committed to the destruction of Israel.\n\nHamas originally had a dual purpose of carrying out an armed struggle against Israel - led by its military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades - and delivering social welfare programmes.\n\nHamas set up the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades to pursue its political goals militarily\n\nBut since 2005, when Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza, Hamas has also engaged in the Palestinian political process. It won the legislative elections in 2006, before reinforcing its power in Gaza the following year by ousting the rival Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas.\n\nSince then, militants in Gaza have fought four major conflicts with Israel, which along with Egypt has maintained a blockade on the strip to isolate Hamas and to pressure it to stop attacks.\n\nHamas as a whole, or in some cases its military wing, is designated a terrorist group by Israel, the United States, European Union and United Kingdom, as well as other powers.\n\nHamas came to prominence after the first intifada as the main Palestinian group opposed to the Oslo peace accords signed in the early 1990s between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the body representing most Palestinians.\n\nDespite numerous Israeli operations against it and clampdowns by the Palestinian Authority (the main governing body of the Palestinians) Hamas found it had an effective power of veto over the process by launching suicide attacks.\n\nHamas has carried out multiple deadly bus bombings in Israel\n\nIt carried out multiple bus bombings, killing scores of Israelis, and stepped up its attacks after Israel assassinated its chief bomb maker Yahya Ayyash in December 1995.\n\nThe bombings were widely blamed for turning Israelis off the peace process and bringing Benjamin Netanyahu - a staunch opponent of the Oslo accords - to power in 1996.\n\nIn the post-Oslo world, most particularly following the failure of US President Bill Clinton's Camp David summit in 2000 and the second intifada which followed shortly thereafter, Hamas gained power and influence as Israel clamped down on the Palestinian Authority, which it accused of sponsoring deadly attacks.\n\nHamas organised clinics and schools, which served Palestinians who felt let down by the corrupt and inefficient Palestinian Authority, dominated by the Fatah faction.\n\nHamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli missile strike in 2004\n\nMany Palestinians cheered the wave of Hamas suicide attacks in the first years of the second intifada. They saw \"martyrdom\" operations as avenging their own losses and Israel's settlement-building in the West Bank, territory wanted by Palestinians for a future state of their own.\n\nIn March and April 2004, Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and his successor Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi were assassinated in Israeli missile strikes in Gaza.\n\nThe death of Fatah leader Yasser Arafat that November saw the Palestinian Authority newly led by Mahmoud Abbas, who viewed Hamas rocket-fire as counter-productive.\n\nIsmail Haniyeh (L), seen here with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is the overall leader of Hamas\n\nWhen Hamas scored a landslide victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006, the stage was set for a bitter power-struggle with Fatah.\n\nHamas resisted all efforts to get it to sign up to previous Palestinian agreements with Israel, as well as to recognise Israel's legitimacy and to renounce violence.\n\nHamas's charter defines historic Palestine - including present-day Israel - as Islamic land and it rules out any permanent peace with the Jewish state.\n\nThe document also repeatedly makes attacks on Jews as a people, drawing charges that the movement is anti-Semitic.\n\nIn 2017, Hamas produced a new policy document that softened some of its stated positions and used more measured language.\n\nThere was no recognition of Israel, but it did formally accept the creation of an interim Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - what are known as pre-1967 lines.\n\nThe document also stresses that Hamas's struggle is not with Jews but with \"occupying Zionist aggressors\". Israel said the group was \"attempting to fool the world\".\n\nAs a result, the new Hamas-led government was subjected to tough economic and diplomatic sanctions by Israel and its allies in the West.\n\nAfter Hamas ousted forces loyal to Fatah from Gaza in 2007, Israel tightened its blockade on the territory, and Palestinian rocket-fire and Israeli air strikes continued. Egypt also closed its border crossing with Gaza and has only opened it intermittently since.\n\nHamas wrested control of Gaza from forces loyal to Palestinian Abbas during a bloody conflict in 2007\n\nIsrael holds Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from the strip, and the two sides have been in a constant state of conflict ranging from deadly incidents around the border to full-scale hostilities.\n\nThe deadliest round, in 2014, saw at least 2,251 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians, killed during 50 days of fighting. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed.\n\nMost recently, an 11-day conflict in May 2021 killed at least 256 people in Gaza and 13 in Israel before it ended with an Egyptian-brokered truce.\n\nYears of rocket-fire from Gaza has been a major security issue for Israel\n\nRepeated attempts at reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah have failed, and the first Palestinian elections for 15 years, in which Hamas was due to compete, were called off by President Abbas in April 2021.\n\nMeanwhile, the humanitarian situation for the two million Palestinians in Gaza has deteriorated. The strip's economy has collapsed, and there are shortages of water, electricity and medicine.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThe Turkish Grand Prix has been cancelled just two weeks after it was put on the Formula 1 calendar and replaced by a second race in Austria.\n\nTurkey was added to the F1 schedule on 11-13 June to replace the Canadian Grand Prix, which was cancelled because of travel restrictions in Canada.\n\nBut Turkey has now become unworkable after being put on the UK's travel red list of high-risk countries.\n\nInstead, the Styrian Grand Prix will run at the Red Bull Ring on 25-27 June.\n\nThat date was originally scheduled for the French Grand Prix, which has now been moved a week earlier to 18-20 June.\n\nThe move means there will now be races on three consecutive weekends - the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard, followed by the Styrian Grand Prix and then the Austrian Grand Prix, both at the same track.\n• None Hamilton wants new Mercedes contract this summer\n\nF1 president Stefano Domenicali said: \"We were all looking forward to racing in Turkey but the travel restrictions in place have meant we are not able to be there in June.\n\n\"F1 has shown again that it is able to react quickly to developments and find solutions and we are delighted that we will have a double header in Austria, meaning our season remains at 23 races.\"\n\nF1 has a series of protocols aimed at minimising the risk of spreading Covid-19 and says it has conducted 17,000 tests this year with only 15 positive cases, a rate of 0.1%. It says it will \"continue to operate in a way that protects the safety of our personnel and the communities we visit\".\n\nA number of F1 insiders had hoped that the sport's owners, Liberty Media, would not replace Turkey with another event.\n\nTeams are already finding the combination of a record 23-race planned schedule and the restrictions on movement imposed on personnel when they return to the UK exhausting.\n\nSome senior figures believe that there is no need to keep the number of races so high, when the sport has never had a season this long before.\n\nBut F1 feels that it makes sense to maintain the number of races that had been planned in the first half of the year because they have concerns about the viability of a number of late-season races.\n\nFor different reasons, there are uncertainties over the Singapore, Japanese, US, Mexican, Brazilian and Australian Grands Prix.\n\nThose races currently comprise the sport's entire schedule for October and November.\n\nThere are financial implications involving both sponsors and broadcasters that would hit F1's finances - and the prize money paid to teams next year - if the number of races falls too far.\n\nBrazil and Mexico are a concern because the scale of the pandemic in those countries means F1 may feel it cannot justify going there.\n\nDoubts over Singapore, Japan, the US and Australia are more to do with travel restrictions imposed on foreign visitors by those countries.\n\nThe calendar reshuffle means former F1 driver Romain Grosjean will no longer be able to do his demonstration run in a Mercedes F1 car at the French Grand Prix, as it clashes with the Indycar race at Road America in Wisconsin that weekend.\n\nHowever, Grosjean's test in Lewis Hamilton's 2020 car is still scheduled to go ahead at Paul Ricard on 29 June.\n• None Paul Massey's rise in the criminal underworld through violence and extortion\n• None Dive into 2010s nostalgia with our quiz: How much do you remember about music from the last decade?", "Government advice on wearing masks in schools is due to change on Monday in England\n\nSecondary school pupils and college students in parts of north-west England will continue wearing masks because of concerns about the Covid-19 Indian variant.\n\nPupils and students across Lancashire are being advised to use face coverings until 21 June. Bolton and Bury councils have also said masks will remain.\n\nThe advice comes following a surge in coronavirus cases across the region.\n\nElsewhere masks will no longer be required in classrooms from Monday.\n\nThe Indian variant has been detected in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in Blackburn, Lancashire and in Sefton, Merseyside, which have all seen rates rise rapidly.\n\nIn a coronavirus briefing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the variant could pose \"serious disruption\" to lockdown easing in England on 21 June, but added that he did not believe that the \"present evidence\" showed a need to delay the next stage in the easing of lockdown in England on Monday.\n\nDr Sakthi Karunanithi, Lancashire County Council's director of public health, said recommending that masks remain in use was \"very tough\", given that it comes as other restrictions ease nationally, but the \"increase in prevalence of this variant... means we need to take some prudent steps to help reduce its spread\".\n\n\"Wearing face coverings in schools and colleges for a few weeks longer will help to contain this and ensure the variant doesn't take hold,\" he said.\n\n\"This is vital, so we can build on the good work to keep levels of infection, hospital admissions and the numbers of people becoming seriously ill low.\"\n\nA letter from the council to parents in Bolton, which currently has the highest rate of cases in England, said it was \"asking schools to retain the use of face coverings, as per the current arrangements, until further notice\".\n\nThe letter, from the council's children's services and public health directors, said there had been \"instances where young people attending school or college have contributed to the spread of the virus\".\n\nAs such, it said, \"we believe it would be irresponsible to wait until we have higher levels of the newer variants... circulating before we act\".\n\nIn a similar letter, Bury Council's interim assistant director of education and inclusion, Julien Kramer, said there was a risk that progress made in reducing case numbers could be \"undermined by the spread of this more infectious variant\".\n\n\"I am sure that you will understand the need for caution at this time,\" he added.\n\nSefton's public health team has also advised that masks should be worn in schools beyond Monday in areas experiencing outbreaks.\n\nThe move has been supported by the Association of School and College Leaders teaching union.\n\nGeneral secretary Geoff Barton said there was \"clearly a great deal of concern about the variant...and the situation is obviously going to be fluid in the immediate future with regards to face masks\".\n\n\"We back schools in the decisions they make,\" he added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Martin Bashir has stepped down from his role as the BBC's religion editor, the corporation has confirmed.\n\nBashir, 58, has reported on religious affairs for the BBC since 2016, and previously worked for programmes including Panorama.\n\nThe corporation said he was leaving due to ongoing health issues.\n\nHis departure comes after questions were raised about how he secured an interview with Princess Diana for Panorama in 1995.\n\nThe deputy director of BBC News, Jonathan Munro, said: \"Martin Bashir has stepped down from his position as the BBC's Religion Editor, and is leaving the corporation.\n\n\"He let us know of his decision last month, just before being readmitted to hospital for another surgical procedure on his heart. Although he underwent major surgery toward the end of last year, he is facing some ongoing issues and has decided to focus on his health.\"\n\nHe added: \"We wish him a complete and speedy recovery.\"\n\nBashir is one of the most well-known journalists in the UK, having made news headlines for his interviews with Michael Jackson and Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nIt was during her 1995 interview with Bashir that Princess Diana admitted to having had an affair and also spoke of Prince Charles's relationship with the then Camilla Parker-Bowles.\n\n\"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,\" she told Bashir on Panorama, in a programme watched by millions globally.\n\nHowever, Bashir had recently come under scrutiny after it emerged mocked-up bank statements had been produced in an attempt to secure the interview with the princess.\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the use of the statements, but has insisted they played \"no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".\n\nBashir will not face a criminal investigation. But retired Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson has carried out an inquiry into the incident.\n\nA spokeswoman for Lord Dyson said he had concluded his investigation and that the report had been \"passed to the BBC for publication in due course\".\n\nA BBC spokesman said the report would be published \"very soon\".\n\nBashir, aged 58, had been absent from his role in recent months after contracting Covid-19 and undergoing quadruple bypass surgery.\n\nIn the first of his two most famous interviews, Princess Diana also talked frankly about her difficulties with post-natal depression and bulimia.\n\nIt made headlines around the globe and was watched by 22.8m in the UK, winning Bashir a Bafta TV award.\n\nHe was also named Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year in 1996.\n\nIn 2003, Bashir also interviewed pop singer Jackson for an ITV documentary.\n\nThe journalist asked him about reports of multiple plastic surgery and the \"baby dangling\" incident, when the star held his baby son over a balcony to show waiting fans beneath.\n\nMichael Jackson was another of Bashir's famous interviewees\n\nThe programme, for which Bashir trailed the singer for eight months, was watched by 14m viewers.\n\nBashir's career began as BBC news correspondent from 1987 to 1992. He then joined the corporation's investigative programme Panorama, and also worked on shows including Songs of Praise and Public Eye.\n\nIn a 1998 Panorama programme he interviewed Louise Woodward, the British au pair convicted of the manslaughter of Matthew Eappen, a baby she was looking after in the US.\n\nThe exclusive interview, in which she declared her innocence, was recorded after she was released from a US prison, when her conviction was reduced from murder to involuntary manslaughter.\n\nHe went on to interview Louise Woodward, the British au pair convicted in the US of involuntary manslaughter\n\nBashir also interviewed the five men suspected of killing London teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1999, having moved to ITV in 1998 to work on Tonight with Trevor McDonald.\n\nHe went on to speak to disgraced Tory peer Lord Archer, Tony Martin the Norfolk farmer who was jailed for killing a burglar and former footballer George Best, as well as making a series of documentary films about the serial killer doctor, Harold Shipman.\n\nOther interviewees included Michael Barrymore and Major Charles Ingram, also known as \"the coughing major\", infamous for his appearance on TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?\n\nIn 2004, Bashir moved to New York, where he worked on ABC News, and later MSNBC as a political commentator, where he worked until 2013.\n\nThe reporter appeared on the celebrity version of The X Factor in 2019\n\nHe quit MSNBC when he became the controversial focus of attention himself, for remarks he made about former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.\n\nHe then broadcast an apology on his show saying his remarks were \"ill-judged\".\n\nBashir returned to the UK and was appointed the BBC's Religious Affairs correspondent in 2016. In 2019, he took part in a celebrity version of ITV's X Factor, which replaced the traditional X Factor series, and was eliminated in the third week.", "Is Israel’s military operation in Gaza, dubbed “Guardian of the Walls”, nearing its conclusion? Not obviously. Benjamin Netanyahu says attacks are continuing with “full force” and will “take time”.\n\nIn a news conference this afternoon, Israel’s prime minister admitted there were “pressures” but thanked US President Joe Biden, in particular, for his support.\n\nMr Netanyahu has so far resisted calls for a ceasefire with Hamas Image caption: Mr Netanyahu has so far resisted calls for a ceasefire with Hamas\n\nMr Biden’s envoy, Hady Amr, has been in Israel since Friday, discussing the crisis with Israeli officials. Unusually, at the end of a week that has also seen an alarming spate of inter-communal violence in mixed Jewish-Arab cities, he also met Israeli-Arab leaders.\n\nSince the US, like Israel and many other countries, regards Hamas as a terrorist organisation, Mr Amr will not be meeting one of the two warring parties. Any messages for Hamas will have to go through traditional interlocutors, like Egypt or Qatar.\n\nLocal reports suggest Hamas has been offering some kind of ceasefire for several days, only to be rebuffed by Israel, which clearly wants to inflict as much damage as it can on the militants before the fighting is finally brought to a close.\n\nThese episodes follow a familiar pattern: Israel presses home its undoubted military advantage until the international outcry over civilian casualties, and a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, demand that the operation end.\n\nIn Israel’s estimation, we have not yet reached that point.", "US tech giant Amazon is to go on a hiring spree in the UK as online shopping continues to boom in the pandemic.\n\nAmazon is to hire 10,000 UK employees as it opens more warehouses in the north and south of England.\n\nIt is also creating a number of corporate roles in Cambridge, Edinburgh, London and Manchester.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the move was \"a huge vote of confidence in the British economy\".\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has accelerated a trend towards online shopping, and tech giants such as Amazon have reaped the benefits.\n\nNow the firm, which has come under criticism over working conditions and over the amount of tax it pays, is further entrenching its position in the UK.\n\nThe addition of 10,000 new roles, including thousands in its warehouses, will take its UK workforce to more than 55,000 by the end of the year.\n\nAmazon said pay for operations roles was £9.70 per hour, or £10.80 in London, with other benefits.\n\nIts profits tripled in the first three months of the year to $8.1bn (£5.76bn), up from $2.5bn a year ago.\n\nThe online retail giant will open new \"fulfilment\" warehouses in Dartford, Gateshead, Hinckley and Swindon, and a \"parcel receive\" warehouse in Doncaster.\n\nIt will recruit in its offices for roles in fashion, digital marketing, engineering, video production, software development, cloud computing, AI and machine learning.\n\nThe company will also be recruiting for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing business and its operations network.\n\nAmazon continues to face scrutiny over how much tax it pays in the UK, which prompted the government to launch a digital services tax in April 2020.\n\nThe online retail giant has insisted that it pays all taxes required in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, it won a court battle overturning an order for it to pay €250m (£215m) in back taxes to the EU.\n\nIn March, the Unite union demanded that Amazon give its British workers a \"new deal\", including allowing them to unionise and have a greater share of the firm's profits.\n\nAt the same time, it also launched a confidential hotline for Amazon workers to call to whistleblow on working conditions.\n\n\"Amazon continues to be plagued by reports of poor working conditions and anti-union tactics,\" said Unite's executive officer Sharon Graham at the time.\n\n\"Unite has written to Jeff Bezos to call on him to guarantee workers the freedom to talk with and form a union without fear.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng heralded Amazon's plans as making a \"prime investment in our retail sector\", which will \"open up a wide range of opportunities for even more workers\".\n\nAmazon will also invest £10m over three years into a scheme to train 5,000 employees in subjects including accountancy, HGV driving and software development, in a bid to give them transferable skills.\n\nAmazon will pay 95% of tuition and associated fees for adult education courses, up to £8,000 over four years.\n\nLocal chambers of commerce will work with Amazon to identify regional skills shortages.\n\nShevaun Haviland, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: \"Providing staff with training to plug the skills gaps that exist within the local business community is going to be a key driver to increasing productivity and boosting the economy as the UK recovers from the pandemic.\"\n\nAmazon's UK Country Manager John Boumphrey said: \"We're proud of the front-line roles we offer across Amazon, and we also know that they will be a stepping stone for some in their career journey.\"", "Stephen Bear is due in court over the charges on 2 July\n\nReality TV star Stephen Bear has been charged with sharing sexual images.\n\nThe 31-year-old, of Loughton, Essex, faces allegations of voyeurism, disclosing private, sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress and harassment without violence.\n\nHe is due to appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court on 2 July.\n\nMr Bear won Celebrity Big Brother in 2016 after appearing on MTV's Ex on the Beach in 2015 and 2016.\n\nHe also co-presented Just Tattoo Of Us with Charlotte Crosby on MTV in 2017, appeared on Channel 4's Celebs Go Dating in 2017 and featured in an episode of BBC Three's Eating with My Ex in 2019.\n\nA statement from Essex Police said: \"A man has been charged in connection with an investigation into the disclosure of intimate photographs without consent.\n\n\"Stephen Bear, 31, of Bryony Close, Loughton was arrested in January.\n\n\"He has now been charged with voyeurism, disclosing private, sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress, and harassment without violence.\"\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\nFrom Monday, you'll get a chance to see the most famous space rock in Britain.\n\nThe meteorite that fell on the Gloucestershire town of Winchcombe in February is going on public display at London's Natural History Museum.\n\nScientists are busy studying the rock because it holds within it chemistry that existed at the formation of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago.\n\nBut they've got enough material to enable a 100g chunk to also be shown off to museum visitors.\n\nTo the uninitiated, the display meteorite looks like a small piece of half-burnt coal. Lean in close, though, and you can see some strands of grass and even some mud. This is something that fell out of the sky into a field.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Helena Bates: \"We hope this will reinvigorate meteorite science in the UK\"\n\nVictoria Bond, whose land that was and who's donated the rock fragment to the museum, is still surprised by the discovery.\n\nShe'd given permission for scientists to come on to her farm to perform a systematic sweep, but doubted anything would be found among all the sheep faeces that covered the ground.\n\n\"They were moving like zombies, pacing back and forth in a line, looking for the meteorite,\" she recalls. \"And as I left that morning in my car, I could see them jumping for joy.\n\n\"How they found it is amazing. I'm thinking of putting a plaque in the field because the footpath, the Cotswold Way, is no more than 100 yards away.\"\n\nThe thrill of it: It's difficult to overstate the importance of this find\n\nFrom the many videos of the incoming fireball that were recorded that Sunday night, and also from the thousands of eyewitness accounts, researchers had been able to correctly identify where in England rocky debris might come down. And the subsequent searches turned up trumps. It was Mira Ihasz in a University of Glasgow-led sweep of the Bond land that spotted something precious among the sheep poo.\n\nThat discovery may have been the single biggest chunk recovered in the Winchcombe area, but the museum has many more pieces now in its collection - roughly 500g.\n\nThey are kept in a special box to keep them dry. Each piece is in a little bag. Lumps larger than a pea are wrapped in foil first.\n\nMuch of the material comes from the driveway of the Wilcock family. Their home was in the crosshairs of the fireball.\n\nRob, his wife Cathryn and daughter Hannah had carefully picked up some of the debris that went splat on the tarmac. Museum scientists then came in to sweep up the remaining dust using a toothbrush and an empty cottage cheese pot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Ashley King: \"Winchcombe takes us back to 'year zero' for the Solar System\"\n\nBelieve it or not, those plastic ephemera are now part of the national collection, too. As will be a square of the dented Wilcock driveway when it's dug up. These artefacts are all part of the story and will eventually join the Bond fragment on display.\n\n\"It's fabulous to see the Winchcombe meteorite finally on show. It's so beautiful,\" says Cathryn. \"It's mind-blowing,\" adds Hannah.\n\nThere's some crazy money being offered online right now by privateer collectors seeking to buy or sell Winchcombe space rock.\n\nBut Rob says the family never thought of selling their share: \"We wanted the meteorite (to go to the museum) to inspire young people to get into science and do lots of good work. We owe a lot to scientists at the moment and I think we should inspire the next generation.\"\n\nDelicate rock: The Bond fragment broke in two when it was picked up\n\nDr Helena Bates, the interim curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum, certainly hopes that will be the case.\n\n\"This is the first meteorite to be observed to fall and then be recovered in the UK for 30 years,\" she tells BBC News.\n\n\"But the other thing is, we have not had a carbonaceous chondrite ever fall in the UK. Carbonaceous chondrites are really, really special, because they are basically some of the oldest, most pristine material we could possibly get to look at.\n\n\"They're like time capsules from the beginning of the Solar System. That piece of rock that fell in Gloucestershire has a 4.567-billion-year history.\"\n\nA section of the Wilcock driveway will be dug up for display\n\nScientists in the UK and abroad are subjecting the meteorite pieces to a battery of tests.\n\nYou might think that 500g - the weight of half a bag of sugar - represents an inadequate supply for all the researchers who want to examine it. But it's actually ample. Space missions sent to retrieve similar rock from asteroids would be thrilled to grab as much.\n\nThe museum's Dr Ashley King is bombarding a tiny bit with X-rays to reveal its mineral make-up.\n\n\"Each kind of mineral has its own characteristic X-ray pattern. It's like a fingerprint,\" he says.\n\n\"When the Solar System was forming, there was this huge cloud of gas and dust with the Sun at the centre, and then everything started accreting together to make bigger bodies, like the asteroids and the comets and eventually the planets. This meteorite tells us what minerals were present back then.\"\n\nThe Wilcock family: It's all about the science\n\nThe scientists know enough already about Winchcombe to make a submission to the international body that classifies meteorites.\n\nIt's very probably what's referred to as a CM carbonaceous chondrite. CMs are highly prized because they contain abundant organic, or carbon-rich, molecules. This, obviously, is chemistry that fascinates researchers because it lies at the basis of life.\n\nWe don't have traces of biological activity on Earth until almost a billion years after the Solar System's formation, but studying meteorites like Winchcombe could give us clues as to how life got going on our planet.\n\nThat's an amazing thought as you gaze at the 100g block in the museum's glazed display-case.\n\nThe Natural History Museum reopens to the public on Monday after its enforced Covid closure. To get in, visitors must book a free timed ticket in advance online at the museum's website.\n• None Winchcombe meteorite is first UK find in 30 years", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorthern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has been elected leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nHe succeeds Arlene Foster, who steps down as party leader on 28 May and will then leave her role as NI first minister at the end of June.\n\nMr Poots beat MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to take the top post in the party.\n\nIt is the first time in the party's 50-year history that a leadership contest has taken place.\n\nHe has said that he would like to remain as agriculture minister and would not take on the role of Northern Ireland first minister if elected party leader.\n\nNorth Belfast MLA Paula Bradley has been elected as the party's new deputy leader, after incumbent Lord Dodds announced he would not bid for re-election.\n\nShe beat MP Gregory Campbell by 18 votes to 16, and is the first woman elected to the post.\n\nOnly three people have held the role of DUP leader since the party was established in 1971 - its founder the late Ian Paisley, followed by Peter Robinson and its current leader, Arlene Foster.\n\nEdwin Poots and his new party deputy, Paula Bradley\n\nA secret party ballot of party MPs and NI Assembly members was held on Friday.\n\nMr Poots said it was an immense honour to be selected for the top post and he was looking forward to a \"positive relationship right across Northern Ireland with my party colleagues and indeed with people from other parties\".\n\nHe said Northern Ireland people had shown \"remarkable resilience\".\n\n\"I stand here very proud to be taking up the mantle as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and that brings with it a responsibility to all of unionism,\" he said.\n\n\"I will be a leader in unionism who will be reaching out to other leaders in unionism. I want to see unionism working together.\"\n\nHe said the Northern Ireland Protocol, which places a border down the Irish Sea, has proven to be a \"massive challenge for us\".\n\nHe said he wants to ensure that there is not the \"unionist bickering that we have had in the past\" and \"I will encourage all unionists to work with me\".\n\nLater, speaking to reporters outside Stormont, Mr Poots said he would speak to Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis on Friday night and meet him next week.\n\nThe DUP leader-designate cancelled media interviews and did not take any questions.\n\nPaula Bradley MLA is the first woman elected to the DUP deputy leader post\n\nMr Lewis, and Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, separately tweeted their congratulations to Mr Poots and said they looked forward to working with him.\n\nAhead of the party vote, in a message to MPs and Northern Ireland Assembly members, Mr Poots said that leading the DUP \"would be my greatest honour\".\n\nHe said he had been \"tried and tested over many years in political office\" and had a plan to \"reinvigorate unionism\".\n\nMs Bradley said she would serve the party to the best of her ability and give it \"her all\". She said she would support the leader, but would at times be a \"critical friend\".\n\n\"It's a great honour. I would never have thought just over a week ago that I would be standing in this position today,\" she said.\n\nThere has been concern in the past that it looked like the DUP's Westminster grouping seemed to have too much power and too much sway.\n\nClearly this is a signal that they want the power base shifted back to Stormont and that is what is going to happen from the end of the month.\n\nFor Edwin Poots, this has been a lifelong ambition for him. He is steeped in the DUP.\n\nHis father is a DUP founding member. He is also Free Presbyterian.\n\nHe has talked about reform being one of his key policies and clearly that has won some of those undecided DUP politicians over, in terms of getting behind him.\n\nThere has been a concern in recent years that some of the establishment and key central figures within DUP HQ held too much power.\n\nHe obviously wants to oversee all of that and that has been what he's promised them. Clearly the pitch has paid off.\n\nThe result of this also shows that there is still a split in the party.\n\nSome of those within Sir Jeffrey's camp are incredibly disappointed and very shocked by the result.\n\nThey were quietly confident that they were going to edge it.\n\nMr Poots became an MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) for the Lagan Valley constituency in 1998 and has also served on Lisburn City Council.\n\nHe has served as Northern Ireland minister for the environment, minister for arts, culture and leisure and as health minister over the course of his political career.\n\nAfter the DUP and Sinn Féin agreed to share power together and formed a government in 2007, Mr Poots was appointed as culture and arts minister in the executive.\n\nIt would be the first of a number of ministerial briefs he has held during his political career.\n\nEdwin Poots smiles as he leaves DUP headquarters on Friday\n\nThe DUP is a socially conservative party and Mr Poots's religiously-influenced views - including his belief that the earth is 6,000 years old - have also generated headlines in the past.\n\nA former police officer, canteen kitchen worker and social worker, Ms Bradley is arguably less known among the public than MP Gregory Campbell, who was also a contender for the deputy leader post.\n\nNorth Belfast MLA Paula Bradley is the party's new deputy leader\n\nShe currently chairs Stormont's Communities Committee. Prior to being elected to Stormont, she had been a councillor on Newtownabbey council.\n\nMs Bradley is one of the more socially liberal members of the party.\n\nDefeated leadership contender Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he has has no regrets about putting his name forward.\n\n\"They [party members] have made their choice and I respect that,\" he said.\n\n\"The party must now consider what that means for our way forward, what it means for the union that we cherish, and what it means for Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMP Ian Paisley, who backed Mr Poots for leader, said he was \"personally delighted\" for him.\n\n\"We have been boyhood friends, and are very, very close, and I am personally delighted for him,\" Mr Paisley said.\n\n\"I am also delighted for Paula. She is an absolutely excellent candidate for deputy leadership, she made one of the best speeches I have ever heard in a selection meeting today.\"\n\nHe said the differences between the leadership candidates were \"subtle\".\n\nDefeated leadership and deputy leadership contenders Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Gregory Campbell earlier on Friday\n\n\"It is important that people recognise that because the power base is at Stormont, and because most of the votes in the electoral college are based at Stormont, then clearly that is where the influence is going to be,\" he added.\n\nEast Antrim MP Sammy Wilson declined to say which candidate he had voted for, but congratulated Mr Poots and Mrs Bradley.\n\nHe described his election as \"very significant\" and said dealing with the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland and the Irish Sea border would be a \"massive issue\".\n\n\"Not only for unionists, but for people across the political spectrum. One of the big jobs Edwin has to do is to persuade the government that what they've done in signing the protocol is wrong and they've got to get it changed.\"\n\nArlene Foster will step down as DUP leader on 28 May\n\nMrs Foster announced her decision to resign after facing a revolt from DUP members.\n\nShe had led the party since December 2015 and was appointed first minister of Northern Ireland the following month.\n\nBBC News NI understands that she will sever her ties with the DUP when she stands down as first minister.\n\nSources close to her said she thinks it is no longer the party she joined.", "Kevin Guthrie arriving at court before being sentenced\n\nActor Kevin Guthrie has been jailed for three years for sexually assaulting a woman at a flat in Glasgow.\n\nThe Sunshine on Leith star, 33, had denied the charge and told Glasgow Sheriff Court he had only \"helped\" the woman after she fell ill.\n\nHowever, the jury was told that his DNA was found inside her underwear.\n\nSheriff Tom Hughes told Guthrie: \"The court must show that women can be protected from domestic sexual offences.\"\n\nHe added: \"The offence you have been convicted of caused distress and consequences to the young woman involved in this case.\n\n\"She was unwell and thought her drink had been spiked elsewhere that night.\n\n\"The jury accepted that you committed these heinous crimes and the only appropriate sentence is imprisonment.\"\n\nGuthrie, who also starred in the Fantastic Beasts films and Netflix series The English Game, was found guilty after a four-day trial and placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.\n\nKevin Guthrie starred in Sunshine on Leith and the Fantastic Beasts films\n\nThe attack happened at the flat of Scott Reid - a fellow actor, best known as Methadone Mick in BBC's Still Game - on 30 September 2017.\n\nThe 29-year-old woman had been due to meet the men at a bar in Glasgow but Mr Reid received a call from a taxi driver to collect her as she appeared ill.\n\nHe and Guthrie helped the woman into the flat in Glasgow's Kelvindale and put her on a bed.\n\nThe court heard Mr Reid called NHS 24 and left Guthrie in the room \"to make sure she was OK\".\n\nThe woman told the court: \"I remember my top being lifted up and my bra being held down.\"\n\nShe was groped by Guthrie before he performed a sex act on her.\n\nGuthrie carried out a further two sexual acts and kissed her on the mouth.\n\nThe court heard he would stop when Scott Reid came into the room.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has said he wants to \"break the cycle\" of the \"pain and suffering\" of his upbringing with his own children.\n\nPrince Harry, who is expecting a daughter with wife Meghan and is already father to their son Archie, said he did not want to pass on pain from his own experience.\n\nBut he said he did not think \"we should be pointing the finger\" at anybody.\n\nBuckingham Palace and Clarence House declined to comment on his remarks.\n\nDuring an appearance on the Armchair Expert podcast, Prince Harry compared his life to a mixture of the film The Truman Show, in which the main character unwittingly lives his life on a TV show, and being in a zoo.\n\nHe said in being born into the Royal Family \"you inherit every element of it without choice\", including that the UK media \"feel an ownership over you\".\n\nPrince Harry told American actor and podcast co-host Dax Shepard: \"I don't think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody, but certainly when it comes to parenting, if I've experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering that perhaps my father or my parents had suffered, I'm going to make sure I break that cycle so that I don't pass it on, basically.\n\n\"It's a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on,\" he said, adding that parents should be trying to stop that happening.\n\nHe said: \"I started to piece it together and go 'okay, so this is where he went to school, this is what happened, I know this about his life, I also know that is connected to his parents so that means he's treated me the way he was treated, so how can I change that for my own kids?'\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales ignored questions from a BBC reporter about his son's remarks, which were put to him as he arrived at a royal engagement in Cardiff earlier.\n\nThe duke and duchess stepped down as senior royals in January 2020\n\nThe 36-year-old duke said he was in his early twenties when he thought: \"I don't want this job, I don't want to be here. I don't want to be doing this. Look what it did to my mum, how am I ever going to settle down and have a wife and family when I know that it's going to happen again?\n\n\"I've seen behind the curtain, I've seen the business model. I know how this operation runs and how it works, I don't want to be part of this.\"\n\nIn the wide-ranging 90-minute interview, the prince said his family's move to the US had not been part of the plan but he had to put his family and their mental health first.\n\nOn his and Meghan's life in Los Angeles, California, he said: \"Living here now I can actually lift my head and I feel different, my shoulders have dropped, so have hers, you can walk around feeling a little bit more free, I can take Archie on the back of my bicycle, I would never have had the chance to do that.\"\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said, for the palaces, Prince Harry's comments come \"firmly on the private side of the curtain\".\n\n\"That's not to say that they don't talk about it behind the curtain. It's been put to me by various people in different quarters that this is largely as a result of Meghan, that Harry is - or was - happier in his role before Meghan,\" he said.\n\n\"But Harry himself says in this podcast... that Meghan was part of the process of him understanding that there was a different way, and a different place for him to be. So he's pretty open about that.\"\n\nDuring the episode, Prince Harry says he decided to go to therapy after a conversation with Meghan. \"Suddenly it was like the bubble was burst,\" he said.\n\n\"I plucked my head out of the sand, gave it a good shake off and I was like, 'Okay, you're in this position of privilege, stop complaining or stop thinking as though you want something different. Make this different, because you can't get out.'\"", "Despite full GCSE and A-levels being cancelled, many schools have scheduled assessments to collect evidence for grades\n\nPupils taking important A-level and GCSE tests are having to self-isolate due to positive Covid cases in schools.\n\nThis summer's results are being determined by teachers after exams were cancelled but many schools have scheduled assessments to collect evidence for grades.\n\nHead teachers and pupils have spoken of the pressures of the system which sees grades decided by schools and colleges.\n\nQualifications Wales said it offered \"flexibility\" and fairness.\n\nAt the end of April, a positive Covid case meant sixth formers at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern in Cardiff were sent home in the middle of important tests.\n\nMost pupils were able to return to school after close contacts were identified and only 18 had to isolate.\n\nQualifications Wales says the new system offers flexibility and fairness\n\nHead teacher Iwan Pritchard said it had an impact on assessments, though the school had put arrangements in place to catch up with any missed work.\n\n\"We've got a system in place whereby the last week of this half-term, we've set aside for pupils to catch up with their assessments.\n\n\"We also use a lot of live learning so any pupil who is absent will be able to access their lessons online.\n\n\"But it does mean that departments can't really moderate and standardise their assessments correctly until every pupil has completed those assessments.\n\n\"So it will affect the pupils, it will affect the teachers and it will affect the timetable for the work that leaders in schools will have to put in before we produce the results in early June.\"\n\nConcerns have been voiced about the system of centre-determined grades, with some head teachers and unions claiming it creates undue pressure to provide evidence to back up the grades schools and colleges give pupils.\n\nIn practice it has meant pupils in many schools have been doing a series of assessments since the Easter holidays.\n\nSchools will release provisional results in June, and more details of how a controversial appeals system will work are expected in coming days.\n\nOne Flintshire mother, who did not want to be named, said the grading process had caused \"a lot of stress\" for her daughter studying A-levels and son doing GCSEs.\n\nHer son had to isolate after his classmate tested positive for Covid.\n\n\"He was in for seven days, started his assessments then got sent home,\" she said.\n\n\"He doesn't know whether he's coming or going. My son is basically taking exams - OK they are old exam papers, but they are exam standards that were expected two years ago.\n\n\"I can't see how that could be fair, when they haven't had the support children were getting then.\n\n\"My son's suffered very badly. Every time he was settling into learning at school he was sent home and then he would be back in school - he's spent a year constantly trying to settle into something new.\n\n\"It's affected his mental health and his ability to learn.\"\n\nThere are far fewer Covid cases being reported by schools and colleges, reflecting the very low levels of the virus in the community, though isolated cases can lead to larger groups having to isolate.\n\nSecondary age pupils have been taking rapid Covid tests in order to try to identify more cases when people are not showing symptoms.\n\nThe latest Public Health Wales data, published on 12 May, recorded 152 positive cases across all schools and colleges in the previous 21 days - significantly lower than the peak in December.\n\nChairman of Qualifications Wales, David Jones, said everyone was operating in \"very challenging\" circumstances, including some young people still having to isolate.\n\n\"I think the most important thing that's built into the approach of this summer is flexibility,\" he said.\n\n\"That flexibility is there in order to try and at least minimise the burden for teachers and lecturers and also to focus on the well-being of learners.\n\n\"I'm confident that the approach we've taken this year, which involved a huge amount of collaboration right across the system, is fair and it's going to put us in a good position to make sure that we give young people every opportunity to move on to the next stage.\n\n\"But saying that, I don't underestimate how difficult it is, how difficult the next four or five months are going to be.\"\n\nCai Parry says assessments vary between schools and colleges\n\nIn January, 17-year-old Cai Parry campaigned for formal assessments to be scrapped.\n\nThat system - which originally replaced exams - was also ditched as schools remained closed at the start of the year, but he said pupils found themselves doing different types of tests, some not dissimilar to exams.\n\n\"At my college we've been doing all internal assessments - some of them we would be able to look at notes - some of them we weren't,\" he said.\n\n\"Some times we've had coursework-type elements to it, but I understand that there have been a lot of varying ways of assessment depending on which college or school.\"\n\nMr Pritchard said, overall, pupils' well-being had suffered, despite everyone's best efforts.\n\n\"The stress that the whole situation has created with some pupils will have an effect on them for months and years to come,\" he said.\n\n\"That's something that we as schools and as the education system really need to acknowledge and to get to grips with - and to put things in place where we address some of those wellbeing issues that pupils will be showing for many, many months to come.\"", "The WHO's Dr Tedros has warned that the second year of the pandemic is likely to be deadlier than the first\n\nWealthier nations should postpone plans to give children and teenagers Covid vaccines and instead donate supplies to low-income countries, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday urged countries to supply more vaccines to the global fair-access scheme Covax.\n\nSince the first vaccines were approved in December, wealthier countries have bought up most of the supply.\n\nMany are racing to vaccinate as much of their population as possible.\n\nSpeaking at a virtual conference in Geneva on Friday, the WHO's Dr Tedros said he understood why some countries wanted to vaccinate children and adolescents, but said \"right now, I urge them to reconsider\".\n\n\"In low and lower-middle income countries, Covid-19 vaccine supply has not been enough to even immunise healthcare workers, and hospitals are being inundated with people that need lifesaving care urgently,\" he said.\n\nLast week, US President Joe Biden laid out plans to begin coronavirus vaccine shots for 12- to 15-year-olds as soon as possible. He also said he hoped that 70% of US adults would receive at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine by 4 July, when American families are expected to come together to mark Independence Day.\n\nMeanwhile, Canada has authorised the use of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for children aged between 12 and 15. The province of Alberta, which has the highest rate of the virus in the country, has already started offering the jabs to citizens over the age of 12.\n\nIn Switzerland, some places began offering Covid vaccination appointments to 16-year-olds last week.\n\nSo far, the US and China have administered the highest number of vaccine doses overall, with India in third place. But while nearly all of Europe and the Americas have begun vaccination campaigns, a few countries in Africa are still to get started.\n\nThe Covax scheme was developed with the aim of first vaccinating 20% of the population in the 92 poorer countries that signed up, starting with health workers.\n\nThe scheme is co-led by the WHO, the Global Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (Cepi), with the UN children's fund, Unicef, as key implementation partner.\n\nDuring Friday's conference, Dr Tedros also warned that the second year of the pandemic was likely to be deadlier than the first, and that the situation in India was of grave concern.\n\nIn India, many health workers on the frontline dealing with coronavirus patients have not been vaccinated, and some are dying. The severe shortage of doses comes amid a deadly second Covid wave and warnings of an impending third wave.\n\nThe WHO says this is a moral catastrophe, which could greatly impact more low-income countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India's capital is reeling from a deadly second wave of Covid-19 infections", "A growing number of cases in Glasgow has given cause for concern\n\nThe number of Covid cases in Glasgow has risen further as the first minister prepares to announce if restrictions will ease in the city and in Moray.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 population in Glasgow is 80.4, while in Moray it has fallen to 68.9.\n\nThree other council areas are also narrowly above 50 cases per 100,000, a key benchmark for deciding the appropriate tier of restrictions.\n\nThe Scottish government is due to announce its decision on Friday.\n\nOn Tuesday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Moray was likely to remain under level three Covid restrictions when the rest of mainland Scotland moves down to level two next week.\n\nHowever, since then a growing number of cases in Glasgow has given cause for concern.\n\nMeetings took place on Thursday with local public health teams, and national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said the outbreak in the south of Glasgow was \"relatively contained\".\n\nMeanwhile, NHS Grampian said Moray's outbreak was showing \"signs of improvement\".\n\nPublic Health Scotland publishes data from three days ago, because more recent figures are often revised upwards later. On 11 May the rates per 100,000 population were:\n\nThe Glasgow cases are concentrated mainly in the south of the city with one district, Pollokshields West, seeing 47 positive cases over the previous seven days, giving a local case rate of 1,008 per 100,000 population.\n\nMost of mainland Scotland is scheduled to move to level two Covid restrictions on Monday, which will allow people to hug and visit other households indoors. Most islands will move to level one.\n\nProf Leitch said earlier that people should be concerned about the increasing numbers in Scotland's largest city.\n\nBut he added: \"It is relatively contained, not yet exponential growth like we have seen with this virus before.\"\n\nThe reasons behind the increase in cases in Glasgow are not yet known, although it is suspected the so-called Indian variant has played a role.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow Clyde and Glasgow City Council is writing to all households in the G41 and G42 areas, asking people to get tested regardless of whether they have symptoms.\n\nDr Linda de Caestecker, director of public health at the health board, said the south of the city appeared to be affected and there had been a \"cluster of outbreaks\" linked to household transmission.\n\nA leading epidemiologist told BBC Scotland the latest spikes in Glasgow and Moray showed \"a loss of control of the pandemic\".\n\nDr Deepti Gurdasani, from Queen Mary University London, warned against restrictions being eased and said \"the government should be considering the opposite\".\n\nShe told the Good Morning Scotland programme: \"In Scotland as a whole, we have actually seen the number of new cases double in the last week.\n\n\"While the cases are so low, it's hard to see exponential rises. This is what early exponential rises look like and we're seeing loss of control of the pandemic.\n\n\"The situation is likely much wider and other places will follow unless action is taken to prevent and pre-empt this now.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon and other leading politicians have also issued words of caution this week around celebrations of Eid - one of the biggest holidays in the Muslim calendar.\n\nIn the north of Scotland, outbreaks have also been seen in areas such as Lossiemouth and Aberlour.\n\nAdditional mobile testing units are to be deployed in communities.\n\nThe reasons behind the increase in cases in Glasgow are not yet known\n\nDeputy director of public health for NHS Grampian, Chris Littlejohn, said the number of people coming forward for testing had increased and that it was possible the outbreak in Elgin may be starting to plateau.\n\nHe added: \"Despite a fourfold increase in the numbers being tested, the positivity rate has stayed broadly the same, which is encouraging and means the outbreak isn't currently any worse than we already feared.\"\n\nElgin - which has seen dozens of cases associated with Elgin Academy - and Keith are said to have been been particular hotspots.\n\nThe vaccination of younger adults in Moray was earlier accelerated because of the coronavirus surge in the area.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Glasgow and Moray 'need more time in level 3'\n\nGlasgow and Moray will remain under level three Covid restrictions for at least another week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.\n\nShe said the \"difficult\" decision in Glasgow followed a rise in cases.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the situation in the city was causing even more concern than Moray, which had already been warned it was likely to stay in level three.\n\nThe decision means nearly 730,000 people in Glasgow and Moray will not move down to level two.\n\nMs Sturgeon said initial research suggested that the outbreak centred in the south side of Glasgow was being driven by the Indian variant of the virus.\n\nThe first minister added that people were being asked not to travel in or out of Glasgow and Moray for the coming week, unless the journey was for permitted purposes.\n\nThe rest of mainland Scotland will drop down to level two from Monday, and most islands will be placed in level one.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It is inevitable that as we continue to navigate our way through this pandemic, we will hit bumps in the road.\n\n\"However, if we exercise suitable caution as we're seeking to do today, then even though that is difficult, we are much more likely to stay on the right track overall.\"\n\nThe seven-day rate of cases per 100,000 population in Glasgow is 80.4, while in Moray it has fallen to 68.9.\n\nThe rates are above 50 cases per 100,000, a key benchmark for deciding the appropriate tier of restrictions.\n\nThe latest Public Health Scotland data shows that on 11 May, the rates per 100,000 population were also above that level in East Renfrewshire (52.3), Midlothian (50.8) and Clackmannanshire (50.4).\n\nThe Glasgow cases are concentrated mainly in the south of the city, with one district, Pollokshields West, seeing 47 positive cases over the previous seven days, giving a local case rate of 1,008 per 100,000 population.\n\nThe move to level two Covid restrictions on Monday in the rest of mainland Scotland will allow people to hug and visit other households indoors. Pubs and restaurants can also sell alcohol indoors.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Indian variant of the virus had been detected in Glasgow, which caused increased concern among public health advisers and the government.\n\n\"We do not yet have a full understanding of the impact of this variant, including on the protection afforded by the vaccines,\" she said.\n\n\"I do want to stress that nothing at this stage suggests it is causing more severe illness.\n\n\"However, it is thought that this variant could be significantly more transmissible than even the Kent variant that was identified before Christmas - and that alone calls for an appropriate degree of caution.\"\n\nShe added that public health teams were \"optimistic that enhanced testing and vaccination will be capable of getting this situation under control\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also said there were \"grounds for cautious optimism that the situation is improving\" in Moray.\n\nHowever, the number of cases is still more than double the Scottish average.\n\nThe first minister said it was \"prudent\" to keep the area in level three for another week \"so we can be more confident that the situation is firmly under control\".\n\nThe deputy director of public health at NHS Grampian, Chris Littlejohn, said: \"The current restrictions and interventions appear to be working.\n\n\"This is not the moment to lower our guard - but we hope we can see the end of the current outbreak not too far ahead if we stick with it.\"\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is encouraging all people in the hotspot areas to visit a Covid testing centre. It said it was \"actively pursuing\" ways to ensure vaccination uptake was as high as possible.\n\nGlasgow Chamber of Commerce's chief executive, Stuart Patrick, said the decision was \"deeply disappointing\" and that many businesses would have been \"caught up in developments outside their control\".\n\nAndrew McRae, from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Scotland, said local businesses and customers in Glasgow and Moray would be \"crushed\".\n\n\"The damage of this change, especially in Glasgow, is exacerbated by the lateness of this announcement,\" he said.\n\nStephen Montgomery of the Scottish Hospitality Group said: \"We're in exactly the situation we wanted to avoid. Staff are getting ready for their shifts or have been working flat out to prepare for opening.\n\n\"You can't just turn this stuff on and off like flicking a light switch.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said: \"This decision will come as a disappointment to many, but I fully understand and appreciate the need for this action.\n\n\"If the right action is taken now, we can get Glasgow and Moray back on track and into level two as soon as safely possible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anum Qaisar-Javed pays tribute to her pupils and says she hopes her win can inspire others\n\nThe SNP has held one of its Westminster seats in a by-election after seeing off a challenge from Labour.\n\nAnum Qaisar-Javed won the Airdrie and Shotts seat for the SNP with a reduced majority of 1,757 over her Labour opponent.\n\nHer victory brings the total number of SNP MPs in the Commons back to 45.\n\nThe by-election was held after sitting MP Neil Gray resigned in order to stand in last week's Scottish Parliament election.\n\nMs Qaisar-Javed is a 28-year-old modern studies teacher who was a Labour activist until the independence referendum in 2014. She becomes Scotland's second-ever female Muslim MP.\n\nHer win follows the SNP's landslide victory in last week's Scottish Parliament election - which saw the SNP's Kaukab Stewart and Pam Gosal of the Scottish Conservatives become the country's first women of colour to be elected to Holyrood.\n\nThe by-election saw Ms Qaisar-Javed receive 10,129 votes, with Labour second on 8,372 - a majority of 1,757.\n\nThe SNP's share of the vote was 46.4% - 1.4 percentage points higher than in the 2019 election - with Labour's share increasing by 6.5 percentage points to 38.4%.\n\nThe Conservatives finished third with 2,812 votes, with the Liberal Democrats fourth on 220.\n\nTurnout was 34.3% - lower than the average of 46.5% for a by-election in the last parliament - with counting being done overnight.\n\nMr Gray won the seat for the SNP with a majority of 5,201 in the last general election in 2019.\n\nHe was elected as the MSP for the Airdrie and Shotts seat in the Scottish Parliament last week - with SNP rules meaning he had to quit as an MP in order to stand for Holyrood.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Qaisar-Javed said she hoped to be a role model for other people from minority backgrounds - and also pledged to \"fight for independence\" after being elected.\n\nShe said she taught her students about why there are fewer people from minority communities in politics, adding: \"We talk about reasons such as a lack of role models, and it has taken until 2021, but now we have two women of colour in the Scottish Parliament.\n\n\"But I don't just want women of colour to look at me, or people of colour, I want anyone from any minority group to be able to look at me and say 'if she can do it, so can I'.\"\n\nCounting was done overnight at the Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility\n\nIn a speech made after votes were counted at the Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, she added that the \"initial priority has to be the Covid recovery\".\n\nBut she said: \"As we move through the pandemic and when the time is right, then yes of course we will be looking to campaign for another independence referendum, as is the right of people of Scotland.\n\n\"Whatever the result is of that referendum, so be it, but that choice is of paramount importance.\"\n\nThe contest was the first Westminster by-election to be held in Scotland since 2011.\n\nThis was the SNP's first ever Westminster by-election defence, and one they have handled fairly comfortably - albeit with a reduced majority.\n\nIn theory this could have been a closer contest, with Labour coming within 195 votes of regaining the seat in 2017, but it increasingly seemed like the forgotten election as polling day approached.\n\nIt was perhaps understandable that it would fly under the radar in terms of the political debate in Scotland, coming as it did one week after a crucial set of Scottish Parliament elections.\n\nBut the same was true from a Westminster angle, with the contest in Hartlepool a week earlier seeming to take on far greater significance in the eyes of Labour, particularly in the wake of their defeat.\n\nAirdrie and Shotts was once a Labour stronghold, and a textbook example of Scotland's importance to the party's position in government. It was the base first of the Scottish Secretary, Helen Liddell, and then the Home Secretary, John Reid.\n\nTonight, it has once again been held by the SNP, the new dominant political force in this part of the world - while UK Labour's focus appears to be on bickering over the results of elections elsewhere.", "From 17 May, hospitality businesses in Wales are expecting to be able to reopen outdoors\n\nA pub and restaurant group is calling for all significant restrictions on trading to be lifted before July.\n\nMark Drakeford's cabinet discussed which Covid restrictions to lift next when it met for the first time since Labour's Welsh election win.\n\nAllowing pubs and restaurants to serve customers indoors from 17 May is the next Covid rule set to be relaxed.\n\nBut a group representing the hospitality sector says social distancing rules should be scrapped.\n\nThe outcome of Monday's cabinet meeting will not be known until later in the week, with the latest plans for lockdown restrictions due to be announced in the Welsh government's next three-week review on Friday.\n\nMr Drakeford is to lead a Labour-only Welsh government after the party won half of the Welsh Parliament's 60 seats.\n\nHe is to be formally sworn in as Wales' first minister when the Senedd returns on Wednesday.\n\nWales' Covid infection rate of 8.6 cases for every 100,000 people is the lowest since August.\n\nPatients in Welsh hospitals with coronavirus are at record lows and more than a quarter of the Welsh population have now had both doses of a Covid vaccine.\n\nUnder current plans and providing rates remain low, on 17 May indoor attractions, cinemas and theatres will open alongside pubs and restaurants serving customers inside.\n\nIn an open letter to ministers, the Welsh Independent Restaurant Collective (WIRC) renewed its call for Covid restrictions to be eased on the hospitality sector and for financial support at least matching that available in England and Scotland.\n\nThe group, representing more than 400 cafes, pubs, restaurants and hotels, urged the Welsh government to allow any six people to sit together indoors and to scrap the 2m social distancing rule.\n\nThe letter said it was \"not a case of following England for its own sake, but a recognition that the science is the same there as it is here\".\n\n\"The closer we align our rules across the UK, the easier it is to communicate those rules to an increasingly confused public,\" it added.\n\nPubs, bars, cafes and restaurants are calling for clarity on who they can serve and where\n\nThe letter also said there should be \"an immediate announcement to signal a restart grant at least as generous as those in Scotland and England\".\n\n\"That support needs to acknowledge that in Wales we have been under the heaviest trading restrictions of any of the UK nations and that the gap in funding that has persisted since March 31 needs to be filled,\" the letter added.\n\nMinisters were expected on Monday to decide what to ease next from Wales' lockdown rules.\n\nLocal Government Minister Julie James said discussing restrictions around foreign holidays was also \"very much part of the package of discussion for Monday\".\n\nThe UK government has announced plans in England to allow tourists to visit a green list of 12 destinations, including Portugal, Israel and Gibraltar.\n\nThe Welsh government is yet to confirm if they will align with the plans or take a different approach.\n\nWales' chief medical officer Frank Atherton told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales the risks he saw around international travel centred on \"too rapid a relaxation of the social distancing rules, and possibly around waning in immunity\".\n\nHe added: \"We can do things about these, but some of them, we just have to be cautious, bide our time, keep to our low rates, and that will keep Wales safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health minister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh NHS's recovery from Covid was \"going to be a huge task\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the recovery of the NHS from Covid was \"going to be a huge task\" that he thought would \"take a full Senedd term\".\n\nSpeaking at a distribution centre in Newport that was preparing to send life-saving equipment to India, he said the pandemic was \"not quite over yet\", with ongoing pressure from long Covid, for example.\n\nThe NHS was also facing a huge backlog of treatment and operations that had been delayed because of coronavirus, he said.\n\nMr Gething said: \"You simply can't recover in a matter of months - and that's the level of honesty I think we need with the public and with our staff.\"\n\nHe warned the recovery of the NHS would take time \"partly because of capacity but importantly because our staff need to be cared for as well\".\n\nWelsh Labour has budgeted to spend at least £1bn extra on NHS recovery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Saturday that Wales' response to the Covid pandemic had been a major part in Labour's election win as they were returned as the largest party for the sixth successive time since devolution in 1999.\n\n\"A government I lead will continue to follow the science to do what our medical advisers tells us we should do, and that does mean doing things in a way that continues to keep Wales safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh government controls Wales' Covid response and the relaxing of restrictions - such as meeting inside pubs and restaurants and travel rules - has tended to have been more cautious in Wales.\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that people from different households would be able to meet up and hug from 17 May in England.\n\nIt is up to individuals whether they socially distance with close family and friends from that date in England.\n\nThe UK government said it wanted to let people in England exercise personal judgement as more of life returns to normal, but people are still urged to remain cautious and remember some people are more vulnerable to Covid than others.\n\nAddressing the issue of hugging in Wales, Dr Atherton said: \"Prevalence rates are really quite low at the moment, and being close to a member of your family is less risk now - but with strangers, I would be very cautious still.\n\n\"I think there are other ways to greet people than to give everybody a hug, so there are ways to do that and to do it safely - don't spend too long making face-to-face contact, make it a brief hug.\n\n\"But to be honest, I think it is quite right - I understand that grandparents want to hug their grandkids, of course they do, and that's only natural.\n\n\"But we have learned over the last year that there are other ways to interact socially, and perhaps… hug cautiously.\"\n\nThe new Senedd is meeting for the first time on Wednesday to elect a presiding officer and deputy presiding officer to conduct proceedings.\n\nThen, once those posts are filled Labour will then be able to re-nominate Mr Drakeford as first minister - with no significant challenge from the opposition expected to his reappointment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford is set to remain as first minister of Wales as his party wins 30 seats in the Senedd\n\n\"We have demonstrated over a number of governments that you can govern successfully on 30 seats, but I'm open to working with any party where there is common ground between us,\" he said.\n\nLib Dem leader Jane Dodds, their only Senedd member, has ruled out joining the Welsh government like her predecessor Kirsty Williams did.", "Police investigating the death of community support officer Julia James have charged a 21-year-old man with her murder.\n\nMs James, 53, was found dead on 27 April near Akholt Wood, Snowdown, near Dover, having suffered serious head injuries.\n\nCallum Wheeler, from Aylesham, was arrested at 21:30 BST on Friday.\n\nHe remains in custody and is due to appear via video link at Medway Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nMs James had worked for Kent Police since 2008, and her family said she was \"fiercely loyal\" and \"loved with her whole heart\".\n\nShe died from severe head injuries and had been walking her dog near her home at the time, police said.\n\nPolice officers were in the Aylesham area, about a mile from where Ms James' body was found, on Monday as the probe into her death continued.", "Nearly there. It's been quite the marathon.\n\nAt this point, we're just awaiting results from a handful of Police and Crime Commissioner elections.\n\nThere are nine more announcements to go, which we're expecting by the end of the day.\n\nSo at this point, we're going to wrap up this live page.\n\nOf course, do keep following the BBC News website as these last results are declared - you will find them all here, along with a breakdown of the results from all the mayoral, council, Scottish and Welsh elections.\n\nAnd any further developments, and analysis of what it all means, can be found on our politics pages.\n\nThank you for joining us.", "Boris Johnson took the holiday in Mustique with his partner Carrie Symonds\n\nBoris Johnson is being investigated by the MPs' standards watchdog over the funding of a Caribbean holiday in 2019.\n\nCommons standards commissioner Kathryn Stone has confirmed she is looking into whether the prime minister correctly declared how the trip was paid for.\n\nMr Johnson has previously declared he received accommodation worth £15,000, covered by Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister had acted correctly and transparently.\n\nBut Labour said there were \"questions\" over Mr Ross's \"generosity\".\n\nThe commissioner normally investigates whether MPs have failed to declare a financial interest, not declared it correctly, or declared it late.\n\nMr Ross initially said he had not paid \"any monies\" for the trip Mr Johnson took with his partner Carrie Symonds to the private island of Mustique - part of St Vincent and the Grenadines - between Boxing Day 2019 and 5 January 2020.\n\nHe later clarified that he had \"facilitated\" accommodation for the prime minister.\n\nMr Ross added that Mr Johnson's declaration of a \"benefit in kind\" in the February 2020 MPs' register of MPs' interests had been \"correct\".\n\nBut Labour asked for the standards commissioner to investigate, saying Mr Johnson's entry appeared \"to be incorrect\".\n\nOn Monday, Ms Stone confirmed that the prime minister was among nine MPs currently being investigated for potential breaches of the MPs' code of conduct.\n\nShe is examining whether Mr Johnson followed Commons rules on declaring financial interests relating to trips outside the UK.\n\nThese state that MPs have to register visits costing more than £300, where these have not been wholly covered by MPs themselves or the taxpayer.\n\nMs Stone will report her findings to the Commons Standards Committee, which can order MPs to apologise or pay back money if they are found in breach of the code.\n\nIn extreme cases it can recommend MPs are suspended, although this requires approval from the whole Commons and has only happened a handful of times.\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"The public have a right to know who paid for Boris Johnson's luxury Caribbean holiday and the renovation of his flat. Most importantly, we need to know what these donors were promised or expected in return for their generosity.\"\n\nBut a Downing Street spokesman said: \"The prime minister transparently declared the benefit in kind in the Commons register of interests.\"\n\nHe added: \"Clearly the rules are set out and it's important that everyone abides by them, as the prime minister has done throughout.\"\n\nLabour has also asked Ms Stone to investigate the prime minister over how a renovation of his official Downing Street flat was initially paid for.\n\nIn April 2019, Mr Johnson was rebuked by the parliamentary commissioner for standards for failing to register a share of a Somerset property within 28 days of acquiring it.", "A nurse accused of murdering eight babies and attempting to murder another 10 has appeared in court.\n\nLucy Letby, 31, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, is charged with murdering five boys and three girls at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nShe is also accused of the attempted murder of another five boys and five girls.\n\nThe 31-year-old spoke only to confirm her name and that she could hear proceedings.\n\nThe hearing dealt with case management ahead of a trial next year.\n\nMs Letby was arrested in 2018 and 2019 as part of a police investigation at the hospital, which began in 2017.\n\nShe will remain in custody and is due to appear at the same court on 17 May.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister answered questions from the public and journalists at the briefing Image caption: The prime minister answered questions from the public and journalists at the briefing\n\nNow the prime minister is asked whether it would be irresponsible for Scotland to hold a second referendum during this stage of the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson says he had good conversations with the heads of the devolved nations and everyone’s number one priority was to come out of the pandemic and \"build back better\".\n\nProf Chris Whitty is asked about the threat of one of the Indian variants in the UK. He says cases of it have gone up sharply and that’s a \"reason to be very careful about it\".\n\n\"What we know with all the variants is that things can come out of the blue sky - you’re not expecting it and then it can happen.\"\n\nHe adds that at this point in time “our view is that this is a highly transmissible variant” but it is less likely to be able to escape vaccination, although the data is incomplete.", "Bev Standing felt violated when she discovered how her voice was being used\n\nAn actor is suing TikTok for using her voice in its text-to-speech function.\n\nIt converts writing into speech, which can then be played over videos uploaded to the app, often for comedic effect.\n\nBev Standing recorded about 10,000 sentences of audio for the state-backed Chinese Institute of Acoustics research body to use in translations, in 2018.\n\nThe legal action claims her voice can now be heard in viral videos featuring “foul and offensive language”, causing her reputation “irreparable harm”.\n\nStanding, from Ontario, Canada, told BBC News no permission had been given for these recordings to be used in any other applications or resold.\n\n“My voice is my product - it's my business,\" she said.\n\n\"You can’t just use it and not reimburse me for what I do.\n\n“If you want to use someone's voice, pay for it.\"\n\nUsers can type any words into the tool, to be read out by a virtual assistant\n\nStanding, who does not use TikTok, felt \"violated\", after several videos were sent to her by friends, family and colleagues.\n\n“When I realised you could get me to say anything you want... that's when I kind of got upset,” she said, describing the content as “totally against brand.”\n\n“I'm certainly hoping it doesn't affect my business in a negative way.\n\n\"Clients may stop hiring me because they recognise that voice.\"\n\nRobert Sciglimpaglia, the lawyer representing Ms Standing, told BBC News: “The technology exists where anyone's voice can be replicated through artificial intelligence.\n\n“This is not an issue just about celebrities or voice actors, who of course will be hugely impacted because their livelihood is literally being taken away from them.\n\n“This is also about ordinary people.\"\n\nNeither TikTok nor parent company Bytedance had responded to the legal filing, issued in New York last week, he added.\n\nStanding’s voice is used on the North American version of the app.\n\nBut in other regions, local accents - a British male voice in the UK, for example - are used.\n\nA TikTok representative told The Telegraph, which first reported the story, it did not comment on continuing litigation.\n\nThe company told BBC News it had nothing further to add.\n\nThe Chinese Institute of Acoustics did not respond to a request for comment.\n\n\"Actors' performances, including vocal performances, are protected by copyright,\" Jowanna Conboye, intellectual property and technology partner at Spencer West, said.\n\nSo a voice artist should have a claim under copyright if their performance is used without their permission\n\n\"A key question is where the voice artist's content was obtained from.\n\n\"In commercial situations, copyright is often assigned to another business.\n\n\"But even if that is the case, the voice artist or actor normally retains moral rights, which should ensure that they are recognised as the person performing.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says it would be \"absurd\" if things ever got close to the point of taking the SNP to court.\n\nScotland's first minister has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that a second independence referendum is \"a matter of when - not if\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon spoke directly with Mr Johnson for the first time since the SNP won an emphatic victory in Thursday's Holyrood election.\n\nEarlier, Ms Sturgeon said she did not expect the debate to end up in court.\n\nA senior UK government minister appeared to suggest it would not mount a legal challenge to her plans.\n\nDuring a phone call with Mr Johnson on Sunday afternoon, the first minister pledged to work with the UK government on steering the country through the Covid pandemic towards recovery.\n\nThe SNP said the leaders also agreed the importance of both governments working together \"closely and constructively\" to make the forthcoming UN climate conference in Glasgow a success.\n\nBut a party spokeswoman added: \"The FM also re-iterated her intention to ensure that the people of Scotland can choose our own future when the crisis is over, and made clear that the question of a referendum is now a matter of when - not if.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has invited Ms Sturgeon to a summit on a UK-wide approach to recovery from the pandemic\n\nThe UK Government said Mr Johnson spoke to the first minister to \"congratulate her on her party's success\" in the Scottish Parliament election.\n\nA spokesman said the prime minister emphasised \"the importance of focusing on Covid recovery at this time\".\n\nHe added: \"They both agreed that their immediate focus should be on working together to build back from the pandemic.\n\n\"The Prime Minister reiterated his invitation for the first minister to join a summit meeting to discuss our shared challenges on Covid recovery and how we can overcome them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Nicola Sturgeon was questioned whether she would introduce a referendum bill as early as next spring based on predictions that the UK will have recovered in terms of coronavirus circulation and GDP.\n\nShe said: \"That would certainly work for that timescale of within the first half of the parliamentary term.\n\n\"I desperately hope those predictions are correct but we have to judge that as we go through this year. We've still got significant challenges ahead. I wouldn't rule that out but I'm not sitting here saying that is the timescale.\"\n\nMr Johnson earlier invited Ms Sturgeon and her Welsh counterpart Mark Drakeford to a summit to discuss a UK-wide approach to recovery from the pandemic.\n\nHe has said it would be \"reckless and irresponsible\" to have a referendum right now, and the UK government is not currently expected to grant formal consent for a vote to be held - as it did ahead of the 2014 referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon congratulated five of the SNP's new MSPs on Sunday morning\n\nThere has been speculation that the row could end up with the courts being asked to rule on whether the Scottish government has the power to hold a referendum without the UK government's agreement.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she did not believe either side wanted a legal battle over the issue.\n\nShe said: \"The UK government knows that if we ever get into a situation where this is being determined in the courts then actually what the UK government is arguing is that there is no democratic route for Scotland to have independence.\n\n\"The implications of that would be very grave indeed. If the argument of the unionist side is that Scotland is trapped it strikes me that that is one of the strongest arguments for independence.\"\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\nMs Sturgeon also said it would be \"absurd and completely outrageous\" if the UK government went to court over the issue and that it was \"up to the Scottish people\" to decide the country's future.\n\nHer party stood on a manifesto to steer the country out of the pandemic, and to then hold a referendum, which she said people had \"voted overwhelmingly for\".\n\nShe added: \"The fact that we are sitting here having a debate about whether or not that outcome is going to be respected says a lot about the lack of respect for Scottish democracy that this UK government has demonstrated for quite some time now.\"\n\nAlso appearing on the programme, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said he would \"not go near\" the issue of the UK government potentially challenging a referendum bill in court.\n\nHe said: \"Whatever parties we come from, the priority at the moment is not court cases, it's not independence legislation - it is recovery from the pandemic.\"\n\nWhen asked if Scotland was allowed to leave the UK, he said: \"Of course it is, through a legal referendum which would allow people to make that choice.\"\n\nBut he also insisted that the SNP's failure to win an overall majority showed that the people of Scotland were not \"agitating\" for a referendum.\n\nThe SNP finished on 64 seats in Thursday's Scottish election - one short of a majority but one more than it won in 2016 - while the Conservatives won 31, Labour 22, the pro-independence Scottish Greens eight and Liberal Democrats four.\n\nBut Mr Gove said a majority of voters - 51% - had backed parties that were opposed to independence in the constituency ballot - although the same percentage voted for pro-independence parties in the regional list ballot.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove appeared on Marr during a visit to Scotland\n\nBBC Scotland's Sunday Show later asked Mr Gove to clarify the indication he gave to Marr that the UK government would not mount a legal challenge to a Scottish independence referendum bill.\n\nMr Gove said: \"We are not going to go down the route of talking about independence or legal challenges or anything like that now when our principal focus and exclusive attention is going on pandemic recovery.\n\n\"At the moment all we want to do is work with the first minister to concentrate on dealing with the consequences of the pandemic and the need to recover and build back better.\"\n\nMr Gove denied he was giving the Scottish government a green light to pass a referendum bill, saying \"we are concentrating on recovery at the moment\".\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Sturgeon said her priority was leading the country through the pandemic - but said she still intended to hold an independence referendum once the crisis has passed.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Sturgeon published on Saturday night, the prime minister invited Ms Sturgeon to \"discuss our shared challenges\", adding \"we will not always agree - but I am confident... we will be able to build back better, in the interests of the people we serve.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the country needed to \"show the same spirit of unity and co-operation that marked our fight against the pandemic\" in engineering a Covid-19 recovery.\n\nBut he warned it would be a \"difficult journey\", adding: \"The broad shoulders of the UK have supported jobs and businesses the length and breadth of the country, but we know that economic recovery will be a serious shared responsibility.\"", "The trial at St Albans Magistrates' Court was delayed for two hours\n\nA trial of six people over an Extinction Rebellion protest was delayed when a defendant glued himself to a table in court.\n\nLiam Norton, 36, also began filming with his phone at St Albans Magistrates' Court.\n\nIt took police two hours to remove him before the trial could continue.\n\nAll six defendants face a charge of obstruction of the highway, which they deny, over a demonstration at a newspaper printers in Hertfordshire.\n\nDistrict judge Sally Fudge said: \"[Mr Norton's] behaviour was particularly disruptive and I take the view there is a high likelihood he should become disruptive again were he allowed to attend court for a trial again.\"\n\nThe court heard activists used vehicles and bamboo lock-ons to block roads near Newsprinters' Broxbourne site, thereby halting deliveries of newspapers, on 4 September.\n\nNewsprinters produce the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corporation's titles including the Sun and the Times, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the London Evening Standard.\n\nPC Josh Wilson, who arrived on scene at 23:30 BST, told the court he saw protesters suspended from the bamboo structures with \"rock-climbing-like\" equipment, while other activists stood below.\n\nHe was told by activists the structures had taken seven minutes to assemble.\n\n\"They said they had been trained, and no-one was to touch it,\" said PC Wilson.\n\n\"If it fell it would have fallen on the people beneath it.\"\n\nThe court heard protesters also asked police to \"get Rupert Murdoch\" down to the site.\n\nInsp Matthew Barton said protesters had been given the option to let police facilitate a lawful protest by moving them out of the road.\n\nHe was told they would consider leaving an hour earlier than their planned departure time of 11:00 BST, which he described to the court as \"not a significant compromise\".\n\nFour of the five remaining defendants were represented by Raj Chada, with Timothy Speers, 35, representing himself.\n\nMr Speers cross-examined the police officers, asking them their understanding of the climate emergency.\n\nHe added: \"I just do not know why you have not arrested Rupert Murdoch when you have arrested us.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reshuffles are moments when leaders have a chance to assert their authority - to show they are in charge.\n\nEven the most ardent political obsessive would acknowledge (probably) that opposition reshuffles are not necessarily noticed by the public.\n\nBut they matter to the mood and atmosphere of parties and Parliament.\n\nAnd for a party to win favour with voters over time, it needs to show the public trusted and favourite faces, to give the impression of an organisation ready for government - a group of people who we can all imagine in charge.\n\nSir Keir Starmer's first reshuffle, however, has been a very messy affair.\n\nIt began badly with a bust up with his deputy, Angela Rayner, who was being moved from one of her roles - in charge of campaigns.\n\nHer allies said she was being sacked. Sir Keir's team said she was being moved. They can't both be telling the whole truth.\n\nBut there was a late night howl of backlash to the notion she was being ousted, putting pressure on the leader to find a way to make her stay.\n\nIt took all day for the two to agree. That may seem astounding given that Sir Keir is meant to be the boss.\n\nRemember, however, that Ms Rayner's position as deputy leader is an elected one, and even the suggestion of her losing part of her role had already provoked outrage.\n\nClearly, she was in no mood to compromise.\n\nWhether it was settled in the end by an arm wrestle, a staring match, or screaming and shouting, the length of time it took created a massive vacuum - which Sir Keir's critics on the left of the party filled, almost with glee, to push him for a change in direction.\n\nAnd even some of his backers felt anxious, cross about the delays, concerned about the competence of the so called \"brains trust\" - a nickname for his team of advisers, not always used in a very complimentary way.\n\nIt took all of Sunday for Angela Rayner and Sir Keir Starmer to agree on her future role\n\nAfter a day of dispute and delay, in the end, the list emerged.\n\nSome important changes, but not a sweeping recasting of the team - you can read about the changes here.\n\nMs Rayner did stay in the end, with a prominent job, and - according to her allies - a newfound confidence.\n\nWithin minutes, they were briefing that her power has been boosted, implying she was the victor in the stand-off with the boss.\n\nOne of her supporters said: \"On Friday Keir couldn't answer a simple question about what Labour's vision is, what our offer is and how we will win back the voters in our heartland seats.\n\n\"Angela can answer that question and is the best person to lead the fight back in the Red Wall.\"\n\nAlthough an accommodation of sorts has been reached over her job, it doesn't seem like the two have reached a truce.\n\nIt's easy for moments like these to be overplayed as seismic and massively significant, when in a few months, the mood calms, events fade.\n\nBut these last few days have been an important political test for the Labour leader.\n\nIn a statement, Sir Keir said: \"The Labour Party must be the party that embraces the demand for change across our country. That will require bold ideas and a relentless focus on the priorities of the British people.\n\n\"Just as the pandemic has changed what is possible and what is necessary, so Labour must change too.\"\n\nThe election results were expected to be grim, but the handling of the reshuffle was a mess that could have been avoided - and a knock to his authority he didn't need.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPortugal is set to host the Champions League final after Uefa failed to receive the guarantees of exemptions it wants if it is to move the game to Wembley.\n\nUefa, UK government officials and the Football Association met on Monday to discuss moving the game between Chelsea and Manchester City from Istanbul.\n\nUefa has decided it will be moved after Turkey was put on England's red travel list meaning fans cannot travel. Portugal is on the green list so fans would be allowed to attend on 29 May.\n\nPorto's Estadio do Dragao is expected to be named as the venue on Thursday because Uefa would prefer not to stage the match in Lisbon, which hosted last year's final.\n\nEuropean football's governing body believes holding the match in Portugal will make it easier to gain access for sponsors and broadcasters, who would need to be compensated if they were unable to attend the game.\n\nHowever, Uefa is still not in a position to confirm the switch, which would see Istanbul given the 2023 final, having originally been due to host last year before the move to Lisbon.\n\nThe match could still be played at Wembley but it would require a major shift from the UK government, which has so far failed to reach an agreement with Uefa.\n\nTravellers from England to green-list countries must follows rules before departure but do not have to quarantine on their return.\n\nUK citizens returning from red-list countries are required to quarantine at a government-approved hotel for 10 days.\n\nSuch a quarantine would have an impact on players involved in Euro 2020, which starts on 11 June.\n\nOn Friday, transport secretary Grant Shapps said Covid-19 red-list countries \"should not be visited except in the most extreme circumstances\".\n\nUefa had hoped to give both clubs a minimum of 4,000 tickets each for the game at Ataturk Olympic Stadium.\n\nShapps said that the FA was in talks with Uefa about switching the game, but that it is \"ultimately a decision for Uefa\".\n\nChelsea Supporters Trust has said it will meet Uefa and will request that the final is moved to the UK, while Manchester City fan groups said they will be renewing their calls to move the game from Istanbul.\n\nThere is also a fixture issue to resolve, as Wembley is scheduled to stage the Championship play-off final on 29 May. However, it is understood the EFL would consider moving the match if asked by Uefa, and its board would make the final call.\n• None Fan favourite hard-hitting drama about the crack epidemic in 1980s LA is streaming now\n• None How are Gen Z learning to adapt and thrive?: Young entrepreneurs find new ways to make money in Covid times", "Average house prices have climbed about £20,000 in the last year, the Halifax says, as the buying frenzy prompted by the stamp duty holiday continues.\n\nPrices are up 8.2% in the last 12 months, the highest annual growth rate for five years, it said.\n\nAltura mortgage broker Rob Gill said \"fear of missing out\" (FOMO) was driving the surge.\n\n\"There's a fear among buyers that they could miss out if they don't hurry up and buy before prices spiral,\" he said.\n\nThe Halifax said that prices rose sharply in April, up by 1.4% compared with March. The average price of a UK home hit £258,204, a record high.\n\nAt the Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak extended the stamp duty holiday to June. The property purchase tax has been suspended on the first £500,000 of all sales in England and Northern Ireland since July to support the market.\n\n\"The stamp duty holiday continues to add impetus to an extremely active market, magnifying the current shortage of available homes as buyers aim to take advantage of the Government scheme,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at Halifax.\n\nHe predicted that the influence of the stamp duty holiday will fade gradually over the coming months as it is tapered out but that low stock levels, low interest rates and continued demand is likely to continue to underpin prices in the market.\n\nKirsty Kirby is a first-time buyer in South Yorkshire who has been planning to move house since 2018. But the 37-year-old pharmaceutical worker says even getting a viewing for a property is a challenge.\n\n\"I ring for many properties,\" she says. \"I'm like a hawk on Rightmove, I must refresh it several times an hour, just to see what's on.\"\n\nKirsty says most homes she enquires about already have multiple viewing bookings within minutes of appearing online and estate agents warn her the house will be going to 'best and final' offers.\n\nBest and final is a system where buyers put in one offer for the seller to choose from, in order to avoid a bidding war between prospective home-owners.\n\nKirsty says, in her experience, anytime a property goes to best and final \"it goes way above the asking price because people get crazy\".\n\n\"This market isn't standing still for a second,\" said analyst Lucy Pendleton of estate agents James Pendleton. \"The feeding frenzy for property was already feeling pretty ferocious but then along comes another big leap in the annual rate of [house price] growth.\"\n\nShe said the current state of the market means timing is crucial for buyers and not wasting time is essential.\n\n\"In a blazing hot seller's market like this, most buyers don't even compare prices locally to make their offer, they work out what they can afford and they go for it.\"\n\nNicky Stevenson, managing director at estate agent Fine & Country, said: \"Buyers need to be incredibly determined to succeed in a market like this.\"\n\nShe predicted that the market rally will continue with optimism being complemented by improving weather, the imminent loosening of Covid restrictions, low interest rates, a yearning for more space and the fact that many homeowners have saved thousands of pounds not being able to go anywhere.\n\n\"This won't be the last record high we'll see this year by a long stretch,\" she said.", "Anneliese Dodds will be replaced by her Labour colleague Rachel Reeves\n\nSir Keir Starmer has sacked his shadow chancellor in a shake-up of his team after poor election results in England.\n\nAnneliese Dodds will now become the Labour Party's chair - replacing deputy leader Angela Rayner, whom Sir Keir fired from the role on Saturday.\n\nMs Rayner will instead replace Rachel Reeves in shadowing Michael Gove at the Cabinet Office, as Ms Reeves is promoted to the shadow chancellor role.\n\nThe Labour leader chaired a meeting of the shadow cabinet on Monday.\n\nSources said Sir Keir told them there was no escaping the scale of the defeats which said \"something profound about the size of the journey we have to go\".\n\nHe was said to have told the meeting: \"To be clear, I take responsibility. Nobody else. I lead the Labour Party and it is entirely on me.\"\n\nSir Keir said that his deputy, Ms Rayner, had \"a big, new role, taking the fight to the Tories\".\n\nShe later tweeted that she was \"looking forward to rolling my sleeves up and getting to work\" in order to \"reconnect with the voters that have lost faith in the Labour Party, especially in our traditional heartlands\".\n\nBut the reshuffle, announced late on Sunday following hours of wrangling behind closed doors, is already facing criticism from figures within the party.\n\nThe moves came after Labour lost control of eight councils overall in English local elections, and suffered an historic defeat to the Conservatives at a by-election in Hartlepool.\n\nThe party fared better in Wales, where it won half the seats in Welsh Parliament elections, as well as in several mayoral races in England.\n\nLabour also took the West of England and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral posts off the Tories, and prevailed in the first race for the new West Yorkshire mayor.\n\nLabour MP and former actress Tracy Brabin - the first woman to become a metro mayor - has stepped down from her role in Westminster to take up the new post.\n\nBut this means the party will soon face another by-election in her seat of Batley and Spen, which has been held by Labour since 1997.\n\nLabour was also re-elected in Greater Manchester, where its successful mayoral candidate Andy Burnham urged the party to learn the lessons of its victories.\n\nHe added that the party was too focused on a \"civil war\" between figures from different factions, which would prove \"absolutely pointless and destructive.\"\n\nA row broke out on Saturday after Angela Rayner was sacked by Sir Keir Starmer from two roles in the party\n\nLabour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, Shabana Mahmood, has taken on Ms Rayner's other former role as campaign coordinator.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast the party had to \"immerse ourselves in the communities that we currently represent - and that we want to represent once again - and to earn their trust\".\n\nBut Ms Rayner remains deputy leader of the party as it is an elected post voted for by members - and will be given additional duties to focus on the future of work and \"levelling up\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Burnham: Labour needs to stop \"pointless and destructive\" internal civil war\n\nFormer shadow home secretary Diane Abbot hit out at the \"drawn-out\" reshuffle, which she said \"hasn't been fantastically successful\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said Ms Rayner's removal from her campaign role was a sign Sir Keir was trying to make her \"carry the can for the poor results\".\n\nAnd Labour's Liverpool Riverside MP Kim Johnson called the decision a \"despicable act of cowardice\" from the Labour leader.\n\nAn ally of Ms Rayner said she had come out \"significantly more powerful, both in terms of the party and policy\", while a Labour insider told the BBC: \"Who would want to be national campaign coordinator in name only with no power when you're just made the scapegoat for the failures of Keir's team?\"\n\nIn response to the change in role, Ms Rayner tweeted: \"I will work tirelessly to reform our party and deliver a policy agenda that will enable us to reconnect with the voters that we need to win, especially in our traditional heartlands, and show that the Labour Party speaks for the working class.\"\n\nShe also thanked \"friends from all across the Labour Party and our movement\" who had contacted her over the weekend, adding: \"United we stand, divided we fall.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer's first reshuffle has been a very messy affair.\n\nIt began badly with a bust up with his deputy, Angela Rayner, who was being moved from one of her roles - in charge of campaigns.\n\nHer allies said she was being sacked. Sir Keir's team said she was being moved.\n\nThey can't both be telling the whole truth. But there was a late night howl of backlash to the notion she was being ousted, putting pressure on the leader to find a way to make her stay.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nOther movements in the reshuffle include:\n\nLisa Nandy is expected to remain as shadow foreign secretary, while Jonathan Ashworth will stay in his role as shadow health secretary.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Brown - who was chief whip under five Labour leaders - said the MP thought it was \"a reasonable time for Nick to move on\", adding he and Sir Keir had \"parted on good terms, with mutual respect\".\n\nThe party confirmed there would be no further appointments announced.", "A time capsule containing a sample of rock and dirt as old as the Solar System will drop from outer space into the Utah desert on 24 September 2023.\n\nThat is what Nasa has planned for its historic Osiris-Rex asteroid probe, which began its trek home on Monday.\n\nIts precious cargo of 60g of ancient debris from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu is the largest sample collected since the Apollo Moon missions.\n\nScientists believe it may provide clues on the formation of the Solar System.\n\nNasa's Osiris-Rex started its two-and-a-half-year return journey from Bennu on Monday at 16:16 EDT (21:16 GMT).\n\nThe spacecraft launched in 2016 off the Florida coastline. Its destination: the asteroid Bennu, some 185m miles (297m km) away.\n\nThe probe has been mapping the surface of Bennu since 2018, breaking the record for the closest ever orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft.\n\nIts historic \"touch-and-go\" sample grab from the ancient asteroid's surface in October 2020 lasted only a few seconds but left scientists \"exuberant\".\n\nThey hope the debris from this very primitive object will tell them more about the chemistry that brought the Sun and the planets into being more than 4.5bn years ago.\n\nBennu, first discovered in 1999, is about half a kilometre wide at its equator - only just wider than the Empire State Building's height, according to Nasa. It makes a close approach to Earth every six years.\n\nWith its payload now secured, the spacecraft will circle the Sun twice so it can catch up to Earth and then deposit its debris capsule into Earth's atmosphere.\n\nNasa says this departure sequence will be its \"most significant manoeuvre\" since it arrived on the asteroid. The craft must change velocity by 595mph (958 km/h) in order to intersect Earth, and will eventually travel 1.4bn miles (2.3bn km) on its journey home.\n\n\"There is no straight path back to Earth,\" the space exploration agency said in a statement. \"Like a quarterback throwing a long pass to where a receiver will be in the future, Osiris-Rex is travelling to where the Earth will be.\"\n\nOnce the capsule touches down, it will be taken to Nasa's Johnson Space Center facility in Houston, Texas for further study.\n\nNasa says it plans on keeping 75% of the samples for future generations to study \"with technologies not yet created\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Controllers at Lockheed Martin celebrate the touch and go", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nFulham were relegated from the Premier League after a defeat by Burnley that saw the Clarets secure their top-flight status for another season.\n\nFor the first time in the Premier League era all the relegation places have been confirmed with three games to go, with the Cottagers joining Sheffield United and West Bromwich Albion as the clubs to drop into the Championship.\n\nThe damage was done before the break as Burnley struck twice in the final 10 minutes of the first half at Craven Cottage.\n\nFirst the Clarets hit their hosts on the counter-attack as Matej Vydra showed neat footwork before picking out Ashley Westwood to roll the ball into an empty net.\n\nChris Wood then lashed in a second from the edge of the area to score his 50th goal for Burnley and consign Fulham to the drop.\n\nIt leaves Scott Parker's side 10 points from safety with three games remaining and heading back to the Championship at the first time of asking.\n\nBurnley, who will play Premier League football for the sixth successive season, climb to 14th in the table.\n• None Reaction as Fulham are relegated in Burnley loss\n\nFulham still have three games to play as a Premier League team but the Cottagers will already have to start thinking about how they plot a return to the top flight of English football.\n\nIn Parker they have a manager who has already achieved the feat, guiding his side to promotion via the play-offs last season after they were relegated the previous year.\n\nThe problem for Parker and Fulham is that some of his top performers this season, those that would certainly stand out in the Championship, are only at the club on loan.\n\nIn fact, four loan players started against Burnley, with another two coming off the bench.\n\nAdemola Lookman was one and the former Everton winger looked the most likely to make something happen for the hosts while another, goalkeeper Alphonse Areola, made several fine saves before Burnley's opener.\n\nParker has been praised for his side's style of play and, of the three sides to go down, the Cottagers may feel the most unfortunate after a number of narrow defeats and impressive victories away at Liverpool, Everton and Leicester City.\n\nBut they have lacked both consistency and especially a serious goal threat, scoring just 25 times in 35 games - with only Sheffield United hitting the target fewer times this season.\n\nParker sought to fix that on Monday by turning to Aleksandar Mitrovic - who scored 26 goals in Fulham's promotion campaign - but the forward was unable to add to his three goals this season in what was only his fifth league start since the turn of the year.\n\nThe hosts did show fight in the second half and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa was unfortunate to see his effort bounce on the goalline and away after rattling the crossbar.\n\nBut Parker's side were unable to break down Burnley as they drew another blank, having scored just nine times at home in the league this season.\n\nHaving clawed their way back to a position where they were level with 17th-placed Brighton after that win at Anfield, Fulham's relegation comes after taking just one point in the seven games since then.\n\nEvery season spent in the top flight is an achievement for Burnley given they always have one of the league's lowest budgets and the club can now look forward to their sixth successive campaign among the biggest names in English football.\n\nThis was Dyche's 350th league game in charge of the Clarets and the fact he has spent the majority of those in the highest division is testament to his ability to extract the best from his players despite operating on a lower budget than clubs his side finishes above.\n\nBut, after a 10th-placed finish last term, the 49-year-old will be relieved his side are no longer in the relegation conversation this campaign.\n\nThe visitors did well to fend off a lively Fulham start, with James Tarkowski making a goal-saving tackle on Lookman, before imposing themselves on the game.\n\nBurnley's goal had been coming and Wood was denied twice in quick succession. First, his header was deflected agonisingly wide by Tosin Adarabioyo before Areola made an excellent save from the New Zealand forward at the subsequent corner.\n\nMoments later, a direct ball behind the Fulham defence found Vydra and he skipped beyond Joachim Andersen before picking out Westwood for a simple finish with Areola stranded, before Wood fired a second beyond the on-loan Paris St-Germain goalkeeper.\n\nWith Ben Mee, who was making his 350th appearance for the club, alongside Tarkowski in central defence the Clarets then stood firm as Fulham applied some pressure in the second half as they sought to keep their slim survival hopes alive.\n\nDyche can now look forward to a summer transfer window under new owners and the prospect of some, albeit not huge, investment in his squad.\n\n\"I'm pleased for a lot of people at the club,\" said Dyche. \"It is important for the club, it is important for the town. It's been a real challenging season with the sale of the club.\n\n\"There was not a lot of investment from the outgoing owners and we've had a lot of injury problems.\"\n\n'I have nothing but sadness'\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker speaking to BBC Sport: \"It has been looming but it doesn't hide the disappointment, hurt and sadness I feel tonight. I am gutted.\n\n\"This year at times, while we have had some big improvements and pushed on in certain elements, the facts are we have fallen short. We have not been quite good enough.\n\n\"At this moment in time I have nothing but sadness. Now and in the coming days we will have a long, hard think and regroup. My job is to make sure these games end in the right way.\n\n\"The club needs to make big decisions. We've had a relegation, a promotion and a relegation. The rollercoaster of that and the highs and lows is not something you want.\n\n\"As a football club we need to make good decisions and work out where we want to go.\"\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche speaking to BBC Sport: \"Fulham changed their style, putting the ball forward a lot quicker than they have been doing.\n\n\"We dealt with that well and scored two good goals. The second half became a dogfight and we are good at that.\"\n\nRelegation wrapped up in record time - the stats\n• None Burnley have won on five of their last eight Premier League trips to London (lost three) after enjoying just three victories on their previous 30.\n• None Fulham have failed to score in 11 home league games in a season for just the second time in their history (also 11 in the third tier in 93-94).\n• None They are the first side to do so in the top flight since Manchester City in 2006-07 (13 in total).\n• None Burnley named an unchanged starting XI for the seventh time in the Premier League this season, with only Leeds (10) and Aston Villa (8) doing so more often.\n• None Six of Ashley Westwood's seven Premier League goals for Burnley have come away from Turf Moor.\n• None The midfielder scored in consecutive away appearances for the second time with the Clarets in the top flight.\n• None Matej Vydra registered his 10th Premier League goal involvement for Burnley (6 goals, 4 assists in 57 apps) with five of those in his last nine games (3 goals, 2 assists).\n\nFulham visit Southampton on Saturday (15:00 BST), while Burnley host Leeds United on the same day (12:15).\n• None Attempt blocked. Josh Maja (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aleksandar Mitrovic.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Joachim Andersen tries a through ball, but Ademola Lookman is caught offside.\n• None Mario Lemina (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Burnley. Jack Cork tries a through ball, but Jay Rodriguez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. André-Frank Zambo Anguissa (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hard-hitting drama about the crack epidemic in 1980s LA streaming now\n• None How Gen Z is learning to adapt and thrive: Young entrepreneurs find new ways to make money in Covid times", "Boris Johnson is promising a skills \"revolution\" for England, with loans for adults wanting to retrain and more powers to deal with failing colleges.\n\nThe measures are being unveiled in the Queen's Speech, which sets out the government's programme for the next year.\n\nIt includes 30 bills with pledges to overhaul the asylum system and reform planning laws in England.\n\nMPs are set to debate the proposed new laws this afternoon.\n\nThe Queen's Speech is part of the State Opening of Parliament, normally the grandest of Westminster occasions.\n\nBut it was pared back this year because of Covid, with fewer MPs and peers than normal gathering in the House of Lords to hear it - and the Queen arriving by car rather than the usual carriage.\n\nIt is the monarch's first major public engagement since the death of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nLabour has called for detailed plans to fix the \"broken\" social care system.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the government would \"bring forward a long-term plan to strengthen and reform social care\".\n\nThe government says its main focus is on helping the country recover from the pandemic, after the economy shrank by 9.9% last year., and spreading opportunity more evenly across the UK.\n\nA range of bills will aim to help industrial and post-industrial areas in particular, where the Conservatives have been picking up support recently.\n\nThe speech, written by ministers but delivered by the monarch, will promise to bring in a \"lifetime skills guarantee\".\n\nPart of this will be allowing all adults to get a \"flexible loan\" for higher-level education and training at university or college, \"useable at any point in their lives\".\n\nThis will be used to provide the equivalent of up to four years' study and can be used for full-time or part-time courses.\n\nBusinesses and trainers will be encouraged to target \"local needs in sectors including construction, digital, clean energy and manufacturing\".\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the government had \"lots of talk but little action\" about levelling up and creating jobs.\n\nShe said: \"It's great to hear that they want people to be able to retrain, but where are the jobs that people need...the good-quality jobs that allow people to earn decent money to look after their families, and to be able to spend in their local communities and on their high streets?\"\n\nAhead of the speech, the prime minister said: \"These new laws are the rocket fuel that we need to level up this country and ensure equal opportunities for all. We know that having the right skills and training is the route to better, well-paid jobs.\n\n\"I'm revolutionising the system so we can move past the outdated notion that there is only one route up the career ladder, and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to retrain or upskill at any point in their lives.\"\n\nThe government will introduce the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill - detailing the plans - next week.\n\nThe Queen's Speech will include 30 pieces of legislation, although several of them are carried over from the previous session.\n\nLabour and local government leaders have demanded detailed plans for the reform of social care.\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt said there was a \"live debate\" going on inside No 10 and the Treasury and tensions over the costs of changing the system, including introducing a cap on people's care costs.\n\nBut the Conservative chair of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee added that \"this is not about the immediate problem in public finances caused by pandemic because the costs will build up later\" and said the government needed to come up with \"a comprehensive solution\".\n\nMr Hancock said strengthening the social care system was \"close to the prime minister's heart\" but the pandemic had meant the government \"weren't able to put as much focus on [plans] as we would have done\".\n\nOn his first day as prime minister Boris Johnson made a promise to \"fix social care\" and shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has told the Daily Mirror that the Queen's Speech would be a test as to whether he \"delivers on his word\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"We must also see detail on long-promised plans to fix the broken social care system, reduce the shocking levels of violent crime and narrow the gap between different parts of the country.\n\n\"For 11 years we have had lots of rhetoric and the endless promise of jam tomorrow. That must now be turned to action.\"\n\nThis year's speech will also include changes to the policing of protests, including setting time and noise limits. A previous discussion of this by MPs earlier this year led to angry demonstrations.\n\nCritics say the measures impose disproportionate controls on free expression and the right to protest - but ministers say the proposals will respect human rights and will only affect very disruptive gatherings.\n\nThe speech is expected to include a bill restricting the future prosecution of British soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.\n\nAnd there is likely to be a Sovereign Borders Bill, aimed at dissuading asylum seekers from crossing the English Channel.\n\nA ban on so-called conversion therapy - attempts to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity - is proposed too. This will be preceded by a public consultation, the BBC understands.\n\nThe speech will include a commitment to introducing voter ID for future general elections, which has raised concerns among many MPs and civil rights groups.\n\nLegally binding environmental targets are also expected to feature, as is a planning bill to ease controls in England and increase housebuilding.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are concerned this legislation will leave people in some areas with less say over new developments.\n\nNational Trust director general Hilary McGrady has warned the prime minister over plans to drive development of homes, saying that \"the stakes are high and reforms need to be carefully considered\".\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph she said: \"The planning system is the most important tool that we have for shaping our physical environment.\n\n\"It is a mistake to characterise it as simply a blocker to new homes, growth and development in general.\"", "Chan is known for her role as robot Mia in Channel 4 drama Humans and her film appearances in the likes of Crazy Rich Asians\n\nGemma Chan has given her backing to a campaign raising money for the East and South East Asian (ESEA) community amid an increase in anti-Asian hate crime.\n\nThe actress said her Chinese parents had faced verbal assaults since the beginning of the pandemic and called for increased awareness and support.\n\n\"Like many others, I worry for family members every time they leave the house or use public transport,\" she revealed.\n\nActor Henry Golding has also pledged support for the GoFundMe initiative.\n\n\"Asian hate has been seeping into all parts of the world, not just in America,\" Chan's Crazy Rich Asians co-star wrote on Instagram.\n\nIn her own Instagram post, Chan said the \"disturbing\" rise in hate crimes against people of ESEA appearance in the UK showed the issue was a global one.\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\"In London alone attacks have tripled over the past year,\" said the Humans and Captain Marvel star, citing the 2020 attack on Singaporean student Jonathan Mok among others.\n\n\"What's even more concerning is that the recorded figures are likely an underestimation because many incidents go unreported, both to the police and in the media,\" Chan continued.\n\nThe 38-year-old said her mother had worked for the NHS for most of her life yet had still been followed and subjected to verbal abuse by unidentified parties.\n\nChan said the ESEA Community Fund would issue grants to grassroots organisations supporting ESEA and broader communities.\n\nAs of Monday lunchtime, the fundraiser had raised £38,300 of its stated £50,000 goal.\n\nKilling Eve actress Sandra Oh is among other stars of East Asian heritage to voice concern about the rise in crime against the Asian community.\n\nOne US advocacy group said it had received more than 2,800 reports of hate incidents directed at Asian Americans last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "More than 40,000 people from the Philippines have been recruited to front British companies as part of schemes costing the UK \"hundreds of millions of pounds\" in lost taxes.\n\nBBC Radio 4's File on 4 discovered more than 48,000 of these companies have been created in the past five years.\n\nSome staff at Covid test centres run by G4S have been employed by subcontractors in this kind of scheme.\n\nG4S said that, when this came to its attention, HMRC was notified.\n\nThe company said it was taking steps to ensure that all agency workers were employed directly and not via a subcontractor.\n\nAt the start of the pandemic, \"John\" - not his real name - was looking for employment.\n\nAs the pandemic grew, he saw an advert for staff at his local Covid testing site run by G4S.\n\nHe rang an employment agency called HR GO, got the job, and - as the second wave of infections hit - started to work. The job was stressful, he says, but the money wasn't bad - £10 an hour.\n\nIt wasn't until his payslip arrived that he noticed something odd was happening.\n\nHe had not been paid by G4S or HR GO, the agency that recruited him. Instead, he had been paid by a company he had never heard of.\n\nHe looked it up on Companies House and found it had been only set up a month before he had started his job - and its director was from the Philippines.\n\nHe started to think something \"sketchy was happening\". So why was John employed in such a convoluted way?\n\nEmployers pay 13.8% in National Insurance contributions on most of their employees' earnings, if the employee earns more than £170 a week.\n\nBut File on 4 discovered the way in which John is employed is used by recruitment agencies to cut their National Insurance bill.\n\nIt works by exploiting the government's Employment Allowance - an annual discount of £4,000 per company on National Insurance contributions. The allowance was meant to encourage companies to take on more workers.\n\nHowever, recruitment agencies exploit the allowance by employing temporary workers through a series of mini umbrella companies - or \"MUCs\".\n\nEach individual MUC has only a small number of workers and qualifies for the tax relief. These kind of arrangements can cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions in lost tax revenue a year.\n\nHMRC warned against them as early as 2015, saying schemes designed to exploit the Employment Allowance were \"too good to be true\" and \"simply did not work\".\n\nA G4S spokesperson said: \"To deliver these services, G4S works with employment agencies which are Recruitment and Employment Confederation accredited and members of the government's Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework.\"\n\nIt said their payments to agencies include all of the appropriate national insurance contributions - and all staff working on the G4S contracts pay their national insurance contributions correctly.\n\nHR GO said they were satisfied that the way they have managed their supply chain is \"legal and in harmony with the guidance on supply chain management issued by HMRC Threat Response Unit\".\n\nFile on 4 found that more than 48,000 \"mini umbrellas\" have been created in the UK in the past five years, each following a particular pattern.\n\nThe companies are originally incorporated with a British director recruited via private groups on Facebook. They resign as directors after a short period of time and a Filipino director is appointed in their place.\n\n\"Emma\", who did not want to use her real name, lives in south-east England and says she was at her lowest ebb when she took part.\n\n\"At the time, I had broken up with my son's dad. And he left me in the flat with all the bills to pay. And I only had a part-time job because I had a six-month-old baby,\" she said.\n\n\"I started doing it just purely to sort of pay the bills.\"\n\nEmma signed up to the scheme four times, each time being paid £150 for \"fronting\" six companies.\n\nHer only job was to upload letters she received by post from HMRC and Companies House to an online portal run by a company called WRS Formations.\n\nShortly after that, she would resign as the director of the six businesses and start all over again.\n\nOn the same day she resigned, a Filipino director would be appointed to \"front\" these companies. It can be harder for HMRC to pursue companies with directors in other jurisdictions.\n\nFile on 4 discovered that tens of thousands of Filipinos from some of the poorest regions in the country are being recruited through Facebook and word of mouth.\n\nThe only qualifications to get the job are an internet connection, a mobile phone number, an email address and an ID document.\n\nThey have to review and sign the British company's documents through an online portal run by a company called Compass Star Limited.\n\nOne Filipino director - who didn't want to be named for fear of losing his income - said he signed up last year to support his wife and a baby.\n\nHe said it was \"really very easy\" and the extra cash was \"a big help\". It paid his bills and daily expenses.\n\nBut he couldn't remember the name of the company he is the director of and doesn't know what the company does.\n\nWhen its name was disclosed to him by File on 4, he said: \"Ah yes… I've seen it [in the portal].\"\n\nThousands of companies fronted by Filipinos are then used to employ workers in the UK, including supply teachers and Covid testers.\n\nCompass Star Limited and WRS Formations did not respond to the BBC's letters.\n\nJo Maugham, a tax QC and the founder of the campaigning group the Good Law Project, said the number of companies File on 4 discovered were set up in this way was \"staggering\".\n\n\"It's not as though this is some tiny piece of tax avoidance - you know, where your local minicab firm isn't declaring all of the fares that it receives. This is industrial scale tax abuse,\" he said.\n\n\"I mean it's really absolutely extraordinary, hundreds of millions of pounds if not billions of pounds is likely to have been lost due to HMRC's apparent disinclination to tackle this abuse.\"\n\nAnneliese Dodds, former shadow chancellor, called upon HMRC and the government to do more to tackle these schemes.\n\n\"We do need to see greater action being taken by HMRC… and the Conservative government really should have been facing up to this, because certainly, the alarm bell has been rung by many over many years,\" she said.\n\nHMRC said it was using both its criminal and civil powers to challenge what it called \"MUC fraud\" - and recently deregistered more than 22,000 mini umbrella companies thought to be involved in such schemes.\n\nIt says it has made a number of arrests and taken steps to recover unpaid tax from businesses which knew or should have known about fraud in their supply chain.\n\nClarification: This story has been updated to make clear G4S works with employment agencies which are Recruitment and Employment Confederation accredited and members of the government's Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework.", "A police car blocking an entrance to the Dunedin Central Countdown, where the stabbing took place\n\nFour people have been injured, three of whom are now in a critical condition, after a stabbing attack at a New Zealand supermarket.\n\nThe stabbing took place at a Countdown store in the city of Dunedin on the South Island.\n\nBystanders tackled the attacker, who was then arrested.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the motive was not clear but that there was no indication it was a domestic terror event.\n\nHe said it was \"nothing short of heroic\" that shoppers and staff had stopped the attacker.\n\nIncidents of mass violence are rare in New Zealand but the country saw the 2019 Christchurch shooting when a white supremacist killed more than 50 people at two mosques.\n\nLocal media reports say the four injured on Monday are made up of both supermarket employees and customers.\n\nPolice said the suspect sustained a minor injury and was receiving medical attention under police guard. He has not not yet been charged.\n\nThe names of the victims and the suspect have not been made public.\n\nWitnesses described chaotic scenes at the supermarket as the attack unfolded.\n\n\"We just heard a scream and thought someone must've fallen, but it got louder and louder and more people were screaming,\" an unnamed woman told the Otago Daily Times.\n\n\"I saw one red hand among the people; a bloody hand, and everybody started running towards the exits.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by New Zealand Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by New Zealand Police\n\nCountdown said in a media statement that it was \"shocked and devastated by the events in our store\" in Dunedin - a city with a population of about 130,000.\n\n\"Our priority right now is our injured team members and caring for our wider team in the wake of this extremely traumatic event,\" it said.\n\n\"We are deeply upset that customers who tried to help our team members were also injured.\"\n\nIt added that the store would remain closed for the rest of Monday and on Tuesday.\n• None Christchurch killer to stay in jail until he dies", "Lockdowns, social distancing, working from home, furloughs and job losses - the pandemic has put an extra strain on people's lives, relationships and mental wellbeing.\n\nAccording to a study by the Mental Health Foundation published in February, anxiety and worry because of the pandemic actually declined, as people became more hopeful about lockdowns lifting. But amongst vulnerable groups, there are still high levels of anxiety.\n\nSee how you would react in this scenario, where someone is struggling:\n\nAs we emerge from restrictions and start interacting with colleagues, friends and family more than we have done over the last few months, looking out for someone's mental health is just as important as their physical health. Around one in five adults experienced some form of depression in the first few months of this year, more than twice as many as before the coronavirus pandemic struck.\n\nSee how you would react in this scenario, where someone is struggling:\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support, here are some organisations and charities that may be able to help:\n\nThe scenario tools have been produced with guidance from Mental Health First Aid England, a social enterprise which offers training courses and resources.\n\nProduced by Chi Chi Izundu and Dominic Bailey with illustrations by Sandra Rodriguez Chillida", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCampaigners have called on the government to stop delaying the ban of so-called conversion therapy.\n\nThe ban for England and Wales was announced in the Queen's Speech - but it will be preceded by a consultation.\n\nIt will consider religious freedoms and how to protect accredited professionals in a move welcomed by some groups.\n\nA document signed by a number of health groups defined conversion therapy as the attempt to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nSome campaigners were disappointed that the government did not announce an immediate and wide-ranging ban on the practice.\n\nLGBT rights charity Stonewall says the practice must be banned in all forms \"including religious and faith-based settings\", and that any delay leaves LGBT groups \"at further risk of abuse\".\n\n\"We've had three years of talking,\" she said.\n\n\"What we really need is action that will protect young and old LGBT people right now, not this Groundhog Day of constantly being told that we're going to consult and listen.\"\n\nFormer equality adviser Jayne Ozanne says action is needed \"right now\"\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrists said it would be taking part in the consultation to \"highlight why conversion therapy is both unacceptable and harmful\" and to \"ensure clinicians can still help people fully explore their gender identity where appropriate\".\n\nThe ban - which was first pledged in 2018 - is set to include both sexuality and gender identity in its definition, and will protect people from \"coercive and abhorrent practices\".\n\nBut the government has said the short consultation will be held before the legislation is published, asking the public and interested parties how best to address the problem while still \"protecting the medical profession, defending freedom of speech, and upholding religious freedom\".\n\nIt also said it wants \"legitimate forms of pastoral support\" to be allowed to continue, including prayer to help someone explore their sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nThe Evangelical Alliance, which represents 3,500 churches, said it welcomed the consultation process.\n\n\"We want to avoid the situation where a person can be accused of conversion therapy for praying with someone who freely chooses and asks for prayer,\" Peter Lynas, the group's UK director, said.\n\nA number of health organisations and patient groups signed a document in 2017 warning all forms of conversion therapy were \"unethical and potentially harmful\".\n\nThe practice can take many forms, some of which - like \"corrective\" rape - are already illegal.\n\nAbout 5% of the 108,000 people who responded to a 2018 LGBT government survey said they had been offered some form of conversion therapy, while 2% had undergone it.\n\nMore than half said it was conducted by a faith group, while one in five received it from healthcare professionals.\n\nAs well as the ban in England and Wales, a support fund for victims of the practice will be made available.\n\nNorthern Ireland has passed a non-binding motion calling for a ban on gay conversion therapy \"in all its forms\".\n\nThe Scottish government \"fully supports moves by the UK government to end conversion therapy\", a spokesperson said.\n• None What is conversion therapy and will it be banned?", "Doug Beattie, a retired Army captain, said he was the right person to be able to \"rekindle the fortunes\" of the UUP\n\nUpper Bann MLA Doug Beattie has put his name forward to be the next leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).\n\nThe party has begun the process of appointing a new leader after Steve Aiken announced his resignation.\n\nMr Aiken said the party was \"not breaking through\" and had \"not been working as well as it should be\".\n\nMr Beattie, a retired Army captain, said he was the right person to \"rekindle the fortunes\" of the UUP and give a clear vision for the future.\n\nHe told BBC Newsline he would have a different style and would be \"able to reach out to all people in Northern Ireland regardless of what your religion is, sexual orientation or ethnicity\".\n\nMr Beattie, who was elected MLA for Upper Bann in 2016, said people underestimated Mr Aiken, whom he described as a strong unionist with liberal views.\n\n\"I share [those views] with him,\" he added. \"Maybe the presentation might be slightly different and maybe we have to work on how we get our message out to people.\"\n\nMr Beattie said the Northern Ireland Protocol, the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland which places a border in the Irish Sea, must be replaced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Unionism needs to get its act together - Steve Aiken\n\nHe said it was damaging to the Good Friday Agreement but the party had an alternative ready to go.\n\n\"I do not want a hardened border on the island of Ireland. But neither do I want a border in the Irish Sea,\" Mr Beattie said.\n\nEarlier, outgoing leader Mr Aiken said unionism needed to \"get its act together\" and there was now a time for reflection.\n\nMr Aiken will remain in charge temporarily until his successor is found.\n\nA virtual meeting of the party's ruling executive will be held on Tuesday night to discuss the leadership process.\n\nMr Aiken has been in charge since November 2019.\n\nSteve Aiken told a press conference in Stormont that the UUP had \"not been working as well as it should be\"\n\nMr Aiken said the UUP continued to do what was right not only for unionists but for all in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said his resignation as party leader was a \"bittersweet moment\".\n\n\"I am, however, self-aware enough to realise that our party, despite our strengths, is not breaking through,\" he said.\n\n\"I am also very aware of my limitations. And despite the successes over the last 19 months, I realise that a change of leadership is needed.\"\n\nUpper Bann MLA Doug Beattie (right) has been tipped as a possible successor to Mr Aiken (left)\n\nMr Aiken said the UUP was a team in which all parts needed to work effectively.\n\n\"Quite frankly, it hasn't been working as well as it should be. That is down to me,\" he said.\n\n\"Rather than being the perceived problem, I want to be part of the solution.\"\n\nParty chairman Danny Kennedy thanked Mr Aiken for his leadership, describing him as a \"dedicated Ulster Unionist\".\n\nLagan Valley assembly member Robbie Butler, who is the party's chief whip, has also been mentioned as a possible contender.\n\nIn his letter of resignation, Mr Aiken said he had taken the party as far as he could.\n\nHe said it had been a \"privilege to lead in these difficult and trying times\" and he took pride in the party's decision to take on the challenging health minister portfolio when Stormont was restored in 2020.\n\nHis departure follows the resignation of Arlene Foster as DUP leader and first minister after an internal revolt.\n\nMore than 20 DUP NI Assembly members and four MPs signed a letter voicing no-confidence in her leadership.\n\nResponding to Mr Aiken's decision to step down, Mrs Foster said she found him \"very straightforward and honourable\" as a fellow party leader.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe police, fire crews and the RNLI have worked through the night to try to free a whale stranded in the River Thames in south-west London.\n\nThe whale, believed to be a baby Minke, was spotted in Richmond Lock on Sunday evening - and has since been moved.\n\nA vet will now assess whether it is strong enough to be released back to sea.\n\nThe BBC's Matt Graveling, at the scene earlier, said the future of the whale \"still hangs in the balance\".\n\nIt is thought the whale was first spotted earlier on Sunday a few miles up the river near Barnes Bridge, before becoming stuck on the lock's boat rollers in Richmond.\n\nThe Port of London Authority, which owns and operates the lock, said the whale had become stranded at about 19:00 BST.\n\nRNLI rescuers arrived at about 21:00 to help the animal, which is approximately 3-4m long, off the concrete.\n\nThey were joined by fire crews and marine rescue divers, who tried for several hours to float the whale before it was successfully moved to a safer location.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Graveling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGareth Furby, at the scene, tweeted: \"The rescuers need to be sure it will survive if taken back upriver. The whale has some injuries.\"\n\nAnd Jake Manketo, 20, from Richmond, earlier said: \"Everyone here is just hoping they get it out.\n\n\"We couldn't believe our eyes when we first saw the poor fella, not every day something like this happens in Richmond.\"\n\nMinke whales are the smallest of the great whales, growing to about 10m and can usually be found throughout the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.", "Face coverings were introduced when schools returned earlier this year\n\nFace masks will no longer be required in secondary school classrooms in England after 17 May, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed.\n\nFace coverings have been recommended since the return to school in March - but that will end as part of the phasing out of lockdown measures.\n\nThere have been concerns that masks obstruct communicating and learning.\n\nBut head teachers warned the decision to remove masks was \"hard to reconcile\" with the evidence on safety.\n\nThe prime minister's briefing also confirmed the return of students to university campuses in England from 17 May - although surveys suggest that in practice most students have already returned to their term-time addresses.\n\nAbout half of students have been studying online since January - and they will be able to return to face-to-face teaching, although some courses might already have effectively stopped teaching by this stage of the university year.\n\nThe next stage of relaxing lockdown measures in England, to be implemented from 17 May, will mean that pupils will no longer be expected to wear face coverings in classrooms and in communal areas of schools.\n\nMr Johnson suggested the improving picture on the pandemic meant that the roadmap for unlocking could go ahead as planned.\n\nAbout half of students have been taught online since the Christmas holidays\n\nThe Department for Education said \"the latest data shows infection rates continuing to decrease\" and not having to wear masks would \"improve interaction between teachers and students\".\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said: \"It is obviously better for communication and learning if we don't need to have children wearing face masks in classrooms.\n\n\"But any decision to this effect must follow the scientific advice, and it is very worrying that the government's decision appears to contradict the published evidence.\"\n\n\"We don't understand why the government is in such a rush over this issue,\" said Mr Barton.\n\n\"Parents, pupils and staff will want to understand why removing the requirement for face coverings in classrooms is considered appropriate when it is not for other enclosed spaces,\" said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\nBut the Children's Commissioner, Rachel de Souza, welcomed the decision.\n\n\"Wearing a mask during lessons has been one of many sacrifices children have made over the last year in our fight against the pandemic and I know they will welcome this latest step towards a return to normal school life,\" Dame Rachel said.\n\nLast week a group of scientists and unions, including the National Education Union, wrote to the Department for Education to say they were \"extremely concerned\" at the prospect of face coverings no longer being required in secondary schools.\n\nThey argued that masks were still required in shops and public transport and there was a lack of evidence that it was time to withdraw their use in schools.\n\nKevin Courtney of the National Education Union said schools \"should be permitted to retain mask wearing in the classroom if they think it necessary\".\n\nJohn Simpson of Public Health England, said: \"It's important to strike a balance between Covid-19 protection and student well-being\" and that \"scientific studies show that Covid-19 transmission in schools remains low\".\n\nEngland's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said the latest steps meant people would be able to mix indoors again - and \"in line with the latest data, we no longer need to recommend that face coverings are worn in the classroom.\n\n\"Over the past year we have always put the wellbeing of pupils and staff first, and this step is now the right one,\" said Mr Williamson.", "With all the results now in, the SNP have secured a fourth consecutive win in the Holyrood election, only narrowly missing out on an outright majority. Covid precautions meant the count was held over two days but now the shape of the new parliament is clear, here are the headlines:\n\nPam Duncan-Glancy is the first permanent wheelchair user to become an MSP\n\nSIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The whale was filmed by onlookers in Teddington on Monday morning\n\nA juvenile minke whale that became stranded in the River Thames has been put down.\n\nHundreds of people gathered along riverbanks in south-west London after the whale was first spotted on Sunday.\n\nIt was first freed from Richmond Lock but became stranded a second time in Teddington.\n\nRescuers earlier said the mammal's condition had deteriorated \"rapidly\" and a vet team had been working to \"end its suffering\".\n\nRescuers had been looking after the mammal which has become stuck against a wall\n\nA vet from the Zoological Society of London administered the injection shortly after 18:00.\n\nThe whale is now being moved and a post-mortem examination is due to be carried out.\n\nThe minke, which measured between 3m (10ft) and 4m (13ft), was first spotted near Barnes Bridge and became stranded on Richmond Lock's boat rollers at about 19:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nRNLI teams managed to remove it but it escaped as it was being towed and was seen swimming between Richmond and Teddington earlier on Monday before becoming stuck.\n\nBritish Divers Marine Life Rescue previously said the whale had been having difficulty swimming as its \"strength reserves seem to be compromised\".\n\nThey said a veterinary team had been \"on stand by to euthanise the animal to end its suffering\".\n\nThe RNLI earlier said the whale had been \"displaying concerning behaviours\"\n\nJulia Cable, national co-ordinator of the BDMLR, said the mammal had not been \"acting the way it did last night\" and had \"basically lost any energy that it had left in it\".\n\nShe added: \"It's also got another stranding injury which along with ones from yesterday all adds up really.\"\n\nDan Jarvis, also of BDMLR, said: \"It's for a very good reason they've come ashore. Sometimes it is by accident, they do get stranded, but usually sadly it is the case that they're already seriously ill or badly injured.\n\n\"And there's not a great deal we can do in that situation.\"\n\nOnlookers crowded onto a bridge and the towpath at Teddington to look for the whale\n\nLiz Sandeman, co-founder of Marine Connection, said the whale's welfare had to be considered as it was not just a case of getting it back to sea if it was a young animal.\n\n\"It wouldn't know how to feed. It learns everything from its mother - how to navigate, how to hunt,\" she said.\n\nThe juvenile whale is between 3m and 4m in length\n\nMinke whales are the smallest of the great whales, growing to about 33ft (10m), and are usually found throughout the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.\n\nTheir range extends from the ice edge in the Arctic during the summer to near the equator during winter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTravel disruption caused by the discovery of cracks in some high-speed trains is expected to continue this week.\n\nRobert Nisbet, of the Rail Delivery Group, said initial inspections of 183 trains taken out of service on Saturday should conclude by the end of Sunday.\n\nBut he warned that disruption was expected to \"carry on for a few days\".\n\nGWR advised against travel on Monday, while LNER urged people with bookings to check before they travelled.\n\nHitachi Class 800 trains used by the firms were taken out of service for safety inspections.\n\nAndrew Barr, CEO of Hitachi Rail, apologised to passengers and said the trains were withdrawn because of cracks found on the metal that linked the train's body with the underside of the train, known as the bogie.\n\nOn Sunday evening, the UK government asked Hitachi to set out a comprehensive plan to identify the extent of the cracking and outline a longer term repair strategy.\n\nWhile this sort of problem doesn't affect the structural integrity of the train - so it's not a danger to passengers - I'm told the risk is more about the possibility of something falling off.\n\nGWR is the most affected network. As the first operator in the country to introduce the Hitachi 800 in 2017, its trains are older.\n\nIts fleet of 93 is also much bigger than other operators', meaning more trains to check and fix.\n\nSome are already back in service - and we're told inspections should be done by the end of Sunday.\n\nAnd Hitachi Rail's boss told me the company would periodically reinspect the trains while a permanent solution is found.\n\nDisruption on long distance routes will go on for at least the next few days. That's partly because some trains and crew won't be in the right place.\n\nAlso, some carriages won't be able to go straight back into use because they need repairing. We don't yet know precisely how many yet. It's possible some which aren't yet showing a crack might also need remedial work.\n\nMr Nisbet, whose organisation represents train operators and Network Rail, also apologised for the disruption.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that rail firms were running as many services as possible, including rail replacement services, putting on extra staff at affected stations, relaxing ticket acceptance rules and offering compensation for delays.\n\nHe said it was \"gratifying to see the speed\" at which initial inspections were taking place but said it was impossible to say how long the checks would take. \"We don't want to rush it,\" he said.\n\nMr Nisbet said the cracks - measuring millimetres - \"didn't pose any particular danger to passengers\" but had the potential to develop if left untreated.\n\nThe Department for Transport said independent safety regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) will be closely involved in overseeing Hitachi's plans for safety inspections for the Class 800 fleet.\n\nRail Minister Chris Heaton Harris said: \"I expect operators to explore all options for replacement services to help people complete their journeys.\" He thanked passengers for their patience in the meantime.\n\nAnna Celac had hoped to see a friend in London\n\nInstagram photographer Anna Celac hoped to travel from Cardiff to London Paddington to see a friend she hadn't seen since last year.\n\nWhen she bought her ticket on Saturday night, she said the website she booked with didn't report any disruption.\n\nShe says she was disappointed when she had to cancel her trip, as the replacement bus service would have left her with too little time in the capital.\n\nOnly around 10% of Great Western Railway's long-distance services ran on Sunday, with a similar service expected on Monday, the operator said.\n\nGWR said customers for long-distance services should not travel on Monday and refunds would be issued.\n\nLocal services have been running, but they were expected to be very busy and rail replacement services were limited.\n\nThe company earlier said cracks were detected on \"more than one\" Hitachi 800 train, so all 93 in its fleet were being inspected as a precaution.\n\nIt comes after six of the trains were taken out of service by GWR last month after hairline cracks were found in the suspension system during routine maintenance.\n\nLondon North Eastern Railway apologised to customers, saying it was experiencing \"significant disruption\" due to the checks.\n\nIt is running a limited service on the East Coast Main Line, between Edinburgh, Newcastle, York and London, and will be unable to run trains between Edinburgh and Inverness/Aberdeen until Saturday 15 May at the earliest.\n\nLNER added that some services would also be cancelled on Monday - and passengers should check before setting off to the station.\n\nGreat Western Railway services in and out of London Paddington were cancelled on Saturday\n\nHull Trains said checks on its trains had been completed and services would resume as normal.\n\nBut the operator added it expected services to be \"extremely busy\" and could not guarantee that social distancing guidelines would be adhered to. Refunds were being offered for its Sunday morning services, according to its website.\n\nTransPennine Express said it was now running a normal service, but advised customers travelling between York and Newcastle to check for any knock-on impact before travelling.\n\nLNER passengers affected by cancellations can use their tickets on the following operators' services instead:\n\nRail replacement coaches are operating at York, Newcastle and Edinburgh, and also between Doncaster and Peterborough.\n\nLNER says affected customers' tickets will be valid up to and including Sunday 16 May, though new reservations will need to be made.\n\nGWR passengers can use their tickets on the following services:\n\nAre you a passenger who was due to travel on one of the affected trains? 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.", "Lockdowns, social distancing, working from home, furloughs and job losses - the pandemic has put an extra strain on people's lives, relationships and mental wellbeing.\n\nAccording to a study by the Mental Health Foundation published in February, anxiety and worry because of the pandemic actually declined, as people became more hopeful about lockdowns lifting. But amongst vulnerable groups, there are still high levels of anxiety.\n\nSee how you would react in this scenario, where someone is struggling:\n\nAs we emerge from restrictions and start interacting with colleagues, friends and family more than we have done over the last few months, looking out for someone's mental health is just as important as their physical health. Around one in five adults experienced some form of depression in the first few months of this year, more than twice as many as before the coronavirus pandemic struck.\n\nSee how you would react in this scenario, where someone is struggling:\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support, here are some organisations and charities that may be able to help:\n\nThe scenario tools have been produced with guidance from Mental Health First Aid England, a social enterprise which offers training courses and resources.\n\nProduced by Chi Chi Izundu and Dominic Bailey with illustrations by Sandra Rodriguez Chillida", "The damage caused to a vehicle whose driver was innocently caught up in a collision\n\nAn estimated 170,000 car insurance claims in 15 months are suspected to have been linked to \"crash for cash\" gangs, investigations suggest.\n\nCrash for cash is the name given to a fraud when criminals deliberately cause a road collision to claim compensation.\n\nThe Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB), which shares intelligence within the sector, said that parts of Birmingham were the centre of these cases.\n\nInsurers said the fraud cost meant premiums increased for all motorists.\n\nThe IFB said there were 2.7 million motor insurance claims across the UK from October 2019 to the end of last year, of which 170,000 could be linked to suspected crash for cash networks.\n\nIt said the main hotspots were the B25, B34 and B8 postcode areas of Birmingham, and the BD7 and BD3 areas of Bradford.\n\nIt hoped that by pinpointing crash for cash hotspots, people would be encouraged to be vigilant as more drivers start to take to the roads.\n\nMany innocent drivers are caught up in these collisions.\n\nIFB investigations have found single gangs can be behind thousands of orchestrated collisions in some areas, with the combined value of their fraudulent claims running into the millions.\n\nJames Dalton, director of general insurance policy at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: \"These criminal gangs are often highly organised and put lives at risk.\n\n\"The amounts that they fraudulently claim can be huge, and can impact on the motor premiums paid by honest motorists.\"\n\nBetween 2011 to 2018, more than 150 people were convicted in south Wales for submitting bogus claims, as part of a £2m car insurance scam.\n\nThe Yandell family's \"crash for cash\" swindle went undetected for years due to the sheer number of people they roped into the scam.\n\nIt centred around using vehicles in staged accidents so the fraudsters could submit bogus and exaggerated insurance claims.", "Banking giant HSBC plans Zoom-free Friday afternoons for some UK staff in an effort to tackle stress caused by working from home during the pandemic.\n\nThe trial programme follows similar plans announced by other firms to boost well-being among employees.\n\nIt applies to its commercial banking unit, which covers current accounts, loans, mortgages and credit cards.\n\nThe move comes as HSBC pursues plans to shrink its office space by 40% in a post-pandemic shake-up.\n\nHSBC confirmed it was testing the idea as part of a taskforce looking at the future of work in its UK bank, as first reported by the Telegraph newspaper.\n\n\"The trial will involve a number of people committing to not setting up Zoom meetings on a Friday afternoon to allow space for other work,\" said a spokesperson for the bank.\n\nThe issue of work-life balance has been highlighted by one HSBC employee, 45-year-old Jonathan Frostick, who shared his thoughts on social media after suffering a heart attack.\n\nMr Frostick, a regulatory programme manager, was taken to hospital on a Sunday afternoon after falling ill while preparing for the new working week.\n\n\"I got to the bedroom so I could lie down, and got the attention of my wife who phoned 999,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had decided while recovering that he would restructure his approach to work, adding: \"I'm not spending all day on Zoom anymore.\"\n\nHis post on LinkedIn struck a chord with users of the platform, attracting more than 11,000 comments.\n\nOne respondent said: \"Companies continue to push people to their limits without concern for your personal well-being.\"\n\nWith more people working from home as coronavirus curbs discourage the daily commute to the office, video conferencing apps such as Zoom provide a necessary means of enabling staff to meet.\n\nHowever, they have also given rise to talk of \"Zoom fatigue\", as concern grows about the extent to which work can encroach on people's home lives under lockdowns.\n\nOther firms, such as Citigroup, have already brought in Zoom-free Fridays, with chief executive Jane Fraser speaking out against the \"blurring of lines between home and work and the relentlessness of the pandemic workday\".\n\nOther firms tackling the issue of hybrid working include accountancy giant KPMG, which has told its 16,000 staff they can leave early one day a week.\n\nEven Zoom boss Eric Yuan has acknowledged there is a problem.\n\nLast week, he told the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit (held on Zoom) that he suffers from Zoom fatigue and no longer schedules back-to-back meetings.\n\nAt the same time, HSBC worldwide 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\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 Queen says she was \"very proud to wear the badge\" when she received her respirator award in 1941\n\nThe Queen has fondly remembered becoming the first young person in the Commonwealth to receive a junior lifesaving award from the Royal Life Saving Society.\n\nAs Princess Elizabeth, she was 14 years old when she earned the junior respiration award in February 1941.\n\nHer Majesty, 95, learnt she was the very first to receive the award during a call last week with the society.\n\nWhen told 80 years had since passed, she proclaimed: \"That's terrible!\"\n\nThe Queen smiled and looked in good spirits during last Thursday's virtual meeting, just days after she began official engagements following the death of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes as she prepares to carry out her first major public ceremonial duty since Prince Philip's death in April, when she attends a scaled-back and Covid-secure state opening of Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nThe fact she was the first young person to receive that particular award appeared to have been news to the monarch, who responded with surprise during the call with the society.\n\nThe Queen learnt she was the very first to receive the award during a call last week with the society\n\nShe said: \"I didn't realise I was the first one. I just did it, and had to work very hard for it. It's a very long time ago, I'm afraid, I think it's changed a lot.\"\n\nClive Holland, deputy Commonwealth president of the society, told her: \"Your Majesty, when you say it was a long time ago, it was in fact 80 years ago.\"\n\nThe monarch also met Sarah Downs, a 20-year-old student who saved a child's life when she was on duty as a lifeguard at a swimming pool in Exeter in 2018.\n\nMs Downs asked the Queen about her experience of qualifying as a junior lifesaver, training for which took place at a private members' club in Mayfair, central London.\n\nThe Queen said: \"Well, it's a very long time ago. I do remember it was of course all done in the Bath Club in the swimming pool.\n\n\"And I suppose I didn't really actually realise quite what I was doing, you know, because I think I must have been 12 or something, 12 or 14, or something like that.\n\n\"But it was a great achievement and I was very proud to wear the badge on the front of my swimming suit. It was very grand I thought.\"\n\nMs Downs, a physiotherapy student at Manchester Metropolitan University, won the society's Russell Medal for resuscitating a boy at the Middlemoor Pool in Exeter.\n\nThe Russell Medal is awarded annually to someone under 18 for displaying bravery and quick-thinking under pressure.\n\nMs Downs said that a boy had a fit underwater as she was getting some arm bands.\n\nShe added: \"So when I came back to the shallow end, being notified of this child under the water and then getting him out of the pool, I completed CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on him to resuscitate and bring him back around.\"\n\nThe monarch also praised the bravery of another young lifesaver, Tanner Gorille, from Cape Town, South Africa, and congratulated Dr Stephen Beerman, from Canada, for his outstanding contributions to the prevention of drownings.\n\nThe Queen is patron of the Royal Life Saving Society, which was founded in London in 1891.", "The next stage of lockdown easing is likely to see the reopening of indoor hospitality\n\nIndoor hospitality and household mixing are set to return from next Monday, as the PM is due to confirm the next stage of lockdown easing in England.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to say the data supports a further relaxation of measures at a 17:00 BST Downing Street news conference later.\n\nIt could also include guidance that it is now safe to hug friends and family.\n\nHealth Minister Nadine Dorries said she was \"hopeful\" hugging could be allowed but urged people to act \"cautiously\".\n\nAhead of the Downing Street briefing, the UK reduced its Covid alert level from level four to three, meaning the virus is in general circulation but transmission is no longer high or rising exponentially, so restrictions can be gradually reduced.\n\nUnder the next stage of the government's road map for lifting England's lockdown, people will be able to meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors, while six people or two households can meet indoors.\n\nPeople are also likely to be allowed to stay overnight with those not in their household or bubble. Pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues such as cinemas and soft play areas are set to be permitted to reopen indoors.\n\nA government science adviser said that if the guidance does allow hugs, they should be selective, brief, and should avoid face-to-face contact to minimise the risk of spreading the virus.\n\nBut Ms Dorries said \"the data is looking extremely positive\" when she was asked if the guidance would be relaxed to allow hugging between friends and family.\n\n\"We've all missed the hugs, we've all missed the close and intimate contact we've had with friends and family and so I'm hopeful that we will be hugging and kissing again indoors,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe stressed that people should take this step \"a little bit cautiously\" to protect people who may be vulnerable and avoid a resurgence of the virus, however.\n\nIt is a sign of how successful the country has been in getting infection rates down that there is no doubt that the next unlocking will take place.\n\nAllowing indoor mixing was always the step that concerned experts the most in the roadmap - given how much easier the virus spreads indoors compared to outdoors.\n\nModelling earlier this year warned there could be a deadly summer surge - but that now looks overly pessimistic.\n\nLockdown and social distancing has done most of the hard work in getting infection levels low, but now the vaccines are going to take the load.\n\nFrom the evidence gathered so far, they are more than up to the job in combating the dominant virus in the UK.\n\nEarly signs are also promising for the variants.\n\nSome scientists are even suggesting the UK could be on brink of reaching herd immunity.\n\nAs always with this virus, it would be foolish to get too far ahead of ourselves. But the signs look very promising.\n\nAs part of other measures set to be relaxed, the rest of the accommodation sector is to reopen, along with indoor group sports and exercise classes.\n\nAnd up to 30 people are to be allowed to attend weddings, receptions and wakes, as well as funerals.\n\nForeign holidays will also return. On Friday, the government announced that 12 destinations would be placed on England's travel green list, meaning anyone returning from those areas will not need to quarantine from 17 May.\n\nMonday's announcement of lockdown easing will be stage three of the road map announced by the government in February, with the final stage scheduled for 21 June, when the government hopes to remove all legal restrictions on social contact.\n\nThe long wait for an indoor pint Millions of people in England have not been able to sit indoors in a pub since last October\n• None Longerfor all the people who were living under the toughest tier rules last December\n• None Last Octoberfor people in many areas like Greater Manchester, because of tier rules\n• None Drink onlyAnd in many areas where indoor drinks were allowed, they had to be drunk with food\n\nEach stage has been separated by a gap of several weeks to allow scientists to assess the impact of previous changes, which in stage two included the reopening of non-essential shops and outdoor service in pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe government has to be satisfied that its four tests have been met before progressing to the next stage.\n\nThese tests rest on the successful rollout of vaccines; evidence that jabs are reducing serious illness and death; infection rates being under control and the risk from coronavirus variants not changing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Catherine Noakes, from the University of Leeds, says we should hug safely\n\nThe government said the latest data suggested that easing restrictions from 17 May was unlikely to risk a resurgence in infections. It said infection rates were at the lowest level since September 2020 and hospital admissions were continuing to decrease.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded another two deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test and a further 1,770 cases.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The data reflects what we already knew - we are not going to let this virus beat us.\n\n\"The roadmap remains on track, our successful vaccination programme continues - more than two-thirds of adults in the UK have now had the first vaccine - and we can now look forward to unlocking, cautiously but irreversibly.\"\n\nMore than 35.3 million people have received one Covid vaccine dose and 17.6 million people have had both doses.\n\nProf Cath Noakes, a member of the Sage committee that advises the government, told the BBC on Sunday that if people hugged their friends every time they see them, it would \"perpetuate an awful lot of additional close contact that could spread the virus\".\n\nBut she said the risk from grandparents who are fully vaccinated hugging their grandchildren was likely to be low in most cases.\n\nThe devolved nations are working to their own timeframe for easing restrictions.\n\nIn Wales, indoor hospitality such as pubs, cafes, restaurants, cinemas, theatres and museums are expected to reopen from 17 May. All tourist accommodation is due to reopen and wedding receptions can have up to 30 people indoors and 50 outdoors.\n\nIn Scotland from 17 May, indoor hospitality venues are expected to resume with alcohol being served until 22:30. Cinemas, amusement arcades and bingo halls should reopen and indoor group exercise restart.\n\nMore restrictions may be lifted in Northern Ireland on 24 May, including the reopening of indoor hospitality, B&Bs and hotels. Indoor group exercise could resume and wedding receptions and funeral wakes restart.\n\nWhat are your plans for the next stage of lockdown easing on 17 May? You can share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Families began to bury some of the victims on Sunday\n\nAfghan families have been burying their children who were killed in explosions outside a secondary school in the capital, Kabul, on Saturday.\n\nMore than 60 people, mostly girls, are now known to have died in the attack that hit students as they left class.\n\nNo-one has admitted carrying out the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi, an area often hit by Sunni Islamist militants.\n\nThe Afghan government blamed Taliban militants for the attack, but the group denied involvement.\n\nThe exact target for Saturday's bloodshed is unclear. The blasts come against a backdrop of rising violence as the US looks to withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by 11 September.\n\nThe neighbourhood in western Kabul where the blasts occurred is home to many from the Hazara minority community, who are of Mongolian and Central Asian descent and are mainly Shia Muslims.\n\nAlmost exactly a year ago, a maternity unit at the local hospital was attacked, leaving 24 women, children and babies dead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Malala This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHeather Barr, who works for Human Rights Watch, tweeted a series of videos and photos of what she said was the school in Kabul - including a tour of the site given by one of the students. Ms Barr said the group had filmed a documentary there in 2017.\n\nNobel Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai - who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 - posted about the \"horrendous attack\" on Twitter.\n\n\"My heart is with the Kabul school victims' families,\" she wrote.\n\nThe first burials took place at \"Martyrs Cemetery\", where Hazara victims are laid to rest.\n\nMourners in a state of shock watched in grief as the girls' bodies in wooden coffins were lowered into graves, AFP news agency reported.\n\nOne of the residents of the area was quoted by AFP as saying: \"I rushed to the scene and found myself in the middle of bodies. All of them were girls. Their bodies piled on top of each other.\"\n\nThe explosions are believed to have been caused by a car bomb and two improvised explosive devices planted in the area.\n\nOne survivor, Zahra, told reporters she was leaving the school as the blasts took place.\n\n\"My classmate died. A few minutes later there was another explosion, and then another. Everyone was screaming and there was blood everywhere,\" she said.\n\nA woman is carried to hospital after the attack\n\nMore than 150 people were injured in the attack. Reports from Kabul say the city was busy with shoppers ahead of celebrations for Eid al-Fitr this coming week.\n\nThe Taliban announced on Sunday that they would observe a three-day ceasefire for the Muslim festival, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.\n\nThe insurgents said they would be \"halting all operations against the enemy to provide a peaceful and secure atmosphere\".\n\nThe Afghan government is expected to reciprocate with a truce.\n\nAfghanistan is seeing increasing violence as the US and Nato prepare to pull out all remaining forces from the country on 11 September.\n\nOn Saturday the US state department condemned \"the barbarous attack\" outside the school.\n\n\"We call for an immediate end to violence and the senseless targeting of innocent civilians,\" it said.\n\nThe European Union's mission in Afghanistan said on Twitter that \"targeting primarily students in a girls' school, makes this an attack on the future of Afghanistan\".\n\nSo many places in Afghanistan have endured so much pain, but the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood in Kabul has suffered horrendously.\n\nThe neighbourhood is populated by members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority. As followers of Shia Islam, the Islamic State group (IS) views them as heretics, and has carried out a vicious campaign, attacking the softest of targets.\n\nDozens have been killed in bombings at sports halls, cultural centres, and places of education in particular.\n\nLast year, and in 2018, IS suicide bombers struck tuition centres in the area killing more than 70 people. IS is not part of the peace talks between the Taliban and Afghan government, which in any case are currently stalled.\n\nAs of yet, there's been no claim for the attack on Saturday. However, IS continues to carry out assassinations and bombings in Kabul and the city of Jalalabad, despite having recently lost much of the territory it once controlled in the east of the country.\n\nYou may also be interested in...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Afghanistan, four women were killed for working at a TV station", "The only way for there to be a successful referendum on Scottish independence is if both sides agree.\n\nThat's how they did it in 2014 with the Edinburgh agreement and the alternatives are messy and risky for both sides.\n\nIf the current stand-off between Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson cannot be resolved, the first minister intends - at some point - to pass a referendum bill at Holyrood.\n\nShe dares the UK government to challenge the legislation in court which it may feel obliged to do because it considers such a vote to be beyond devolved powers.\n\nThe UK constitution - including the union between Scotland and England - is a matter reserved to Westminster by law.\n\nHowever, it could be argued that reservation does not explicitly prevent Holyrood from consulting the public on independence.\n\nThen again, a \"yes\" vote in any referendum would create an expectation that major constitutional change would follow, as it did in the advisory vote on Brexit.\n\nThese are the arguments the UK Supreme Court would have to work through.\n\nAt the weekend, both the UK cabinet minister Michael Gove and the first minister downplayed the prospect of a legal battle but that is what would inevitably happen unless the two sides make a deal.\n\nNicola Sturgeon would prefer to see support for independence running higher\n\nUK government sources have made clear that just because they are not seeking to take legal action does not mean they would not go to court if a specific referendum proposal emerged.\n\nEven if the UK government did not challenge, somebody surely would. The whisky industry tied up minimum alcohol pricing legislation in court for five years.\n\nIf the court ruled in Nicola Sturgeon's favour, that might enable a referendum but it could still face a unionist boycott which would de-legitimise the outcome.\n\nIf the court ruled in Boris Johnson's favour, that would thwart a referendum because Ms Sturgeon has made clear she would not hold an illegal vote.\n\nHowever, Nicola Sturgeon could argue in those circumstances that the union was being held together by force of law rather than consent which would be a rotten look for the UK.\n\nThat might lead to a rise in support for independence.\n\nThe UK government could pass legislation to explicitly prevent Holyrood from having a referendum or to organise its own vote - options that carry similar risks.\n\nThe UK strategy for the moment seems to be to play for time by arguing that there can be another referendum at some unspecified point in the future but not now.\n\nThey make the case that it would be irresponsible to have a referendum while we are still in a pandemic.\n\nOn that point, Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon agree and appear to be in tune with Scottish public opinion.\n\nThere are other reasons the first minister is not in a rush. She wants to win a referendum and so would prefer to see support for independence running higher.\n\nPolls suggested there was a sustained majority for a \"yes\" vote throughout much of last year but that has dipped in recent months. The country appears split down the middle.\n\nIt also became clear during the election that the Scottish government needs time to work out detailed plans for what independence would mean for trade and borders in the aftermath of Brexit.\n\nIn short, they are not ready to fight a referendum however desperate some in the independence movement are for it to happen.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has told Boris Johnson she considers indyref2 a matter of \"when - not if\". Officially she still favours having the vote by the end of 2023.\n\nThere is unlikely to be any immediate effort by the Scottish government to begin preparations. The SNP is likely to start working on refreshing the independence case before civil servants are given instructions.\n\nAs Holyrood returns to business, expect to see the SNP and Greens demonstrate the majority they now have for indyref2 in a symbolic way at an early stage.\n\nWith 64 SNP votes and eight from the Greens, support for independence is as high as it has ever been in the 129-seat parliament, matching the \"yes\" majority after the 2011 election.\n\nThe two parties made explicit commitments to hold a referendum in their election manifestos. The two parties have more votes and seats than before.\n\nThat is their mandate for indyref2. By contrast, pro-UK parties got 51% of the constituency vote in this election which they take as a mandate to oppose it.\n\nAny referendum legislation would need to be certified as within Holyrood's powers by Scotland's top law officer, the lord advocate, and parliament's presiding officer who is elected on Thursday.\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 choice of a new minister for the constitution and external affairs to replace Mike Russell will also be significant when the first minister gets round to a reshuffle.\n\nHer immediate priority is a review of Covid rules to be announced on Tuesday.\n\nThe election result means there will be a big wrangle over indyref2 in the next few years. It could be resolved through negotiation and agreement or a showdown in the courts.\n\nThis constitutional clash is not immediate. The dispute is deferred. Pandemic first will be the mantra on all sides in the period ahead.\n• None Sturgeon tells PM referendum is 'when - not if'", "Maria Jane Rawlings had attended King George's Hospital on Monday evening, police said\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a mother of two who was found dead near a hospital in east London.\n\nMaria Jane Rawlings, 45, who lived in the Chelmsford area of Essex, was found in a shrubbery in Romford on 4 May by a man who had been walking his dog.\n\nValentin Lazar, from Barking, has been charged with her murder, the Met Police said.\n\nThe 20-year-old is due to appear in custody at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nFlowers were left at Little Heath in Romford where Maria Jane Rawlings was found dead by a man walking his dog\n\nMs Rawlings had attended the King George Hospital in Goodmayes, Ilford, on the evening of 3 May before she left on foot to Barley Lane in the direction of the A12.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave her preliminary cause of death as neck compression and possible blunt-force head trauma.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deputy leader Angela Rayner was the campaign co-ordinator for Labour through the local election period\n\nLabour's deputy Angela Rayner has been sacked from her roles as party chair and campaign coordinator following poor results in the English local elections.\n\nThe party lost control of several councils and suffered defeat to the Tories in the Hartlepool by-election.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to reshuffle his frontbench team in the next few days.\n\nMs Rayner will remain deputy leader of the party as it is a position directly elected by the party members.\n\nShe is also expected to be offered another shadow cabinet role.\n\nA Labour source said: \"Keir said he was taking full responsibility for the result of the elections - and he said we need to change.\n\n\"That means change how we run our campaigns in the future. Angela will continue to play a senior role in Keir's team.\"\n\nBut Labour's former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the decision to sack Ms Rayner was a \"cowardly avoidance of responsibility\" and accused Sir Keir of \"scapegoating everyone apart from himself\".\n\nAnd shadow cabinet source said they were \"totally shocked\", adding, \"everyone is gobsmacked\".\n\nLabour's shadow schools ministers Wes Streeting said he had a lot of respect for Ms Rayner adding that she had a \"big responsibility\" along with Sir Keir to \"lead the party to victory at the next general election\".\n\nHe said it was \"time to take a cold hard look at ourselves to make sure we are changing Labour for the good\".\n\nLabour's Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham spoke out against Sir Keir's decision to sack Ms Rayner, tweeting: \"I can't support this.\"\n\nSpeaking after his re-election on Saturday, Mr Burnham warned that Labour was still too \"London-centric\".\n\nMr Burnham said the party needed to connect with voters differently, and support more powers for English regions.\n\n\"I'm getting a bit fed up of saying this to them, but they really do now need to listen and make real changes,\" he added.\n\nThe results in England contrast to Wales, where Mark Drakeford led Labour to its best performance in elections to the Welsh Parliament, falling just short of an overall majority by one seat.\n\nLabour has been in power in Wales - either in coalition or a minority - for the past 22 years.\n\nThursday's votes, including council and mayoral elections in England, are Labour's first major test since its crushing defeat at the 2019 general election.\n\nInstead of recovering ground, the party suffered a series of setbacks in England, including losing overall control of councils including Durham, Sheffield and Plymouth.\n\nThe Conservatives also picked up control of several councils, including Nottinghamshire and Basildon, as well as winning Harlow from Labour.\n\nIn former heartland Tees Valley, Labour suffered a huge defeat to incumbent Tory mayor Ben Houchen, who increased his share of the vote to 73%.\n\nBut Labour did win mayoral contests in a number of areas, including taking the West of England from the Tories, while retaining others including London, Liverpool, Liverpool City Region, Doncaster and Salford.\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\nOn Saturday, the party's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Labour had to do more to listen to voters who had abandoned the party.\n\nHe added that the party needed to \"accelerate\" changes under Sir Keir's leadership, and would be launching a \"root and branch policy review\".\n\nHe contrasted the party's performance in England to a better showing in elections to the Welsh Parliament, where he said as a party in power it had a \"credible, radical policy offer\" to put to voters.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Sir Keir Starmer said Labour had \"lost the trust of working people.\"\n\nHe added the party had \"not made a strong enough case to the country\", but he took responsibility for \"fixing things\".\n\nFigures on the left of the party have accused him of not doing enough to challenge the government since taking over as leader last year.\n\nQuestioned about leadership ambitions, Mr Burnham said he loved the job he had just been re-elected to do and that was his priority.\n\nHe added: \"I'm not just going to put myself forward unless they needed me one day in the future. But we're not at that day.\"\n\nThe Labour leadership's response to poor results in England will be both political and organisational.\n\nThere will be a reshuffle of the shadow cabinet, and more staff will be moved out of London to regional offices.\n\nThe policies Sir Keir Starmer inherited from his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn will also be formally reviewed.\n\nLabour peer Lord Mandelson - who has advised Sir Keir's team - called for this review and envisaged the process running for 18 months to two years.\n\nLabour sources say that Sir Keir could use the exercise not just to distance himself from the 2019 manifesto, but to move away from some of the policy pledges he made in last year's leadership contest - which had been designed to appeal to the party's left.\n\nAmong those to criticise the party's direction under Sir Keir is Khalid Mahmood, who quit as a shadow defence minister around a month ago.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, he said Labour had been \"captured\" by a \"London-based bourgeoisie\" and had \"lost touch with ordinary British people\".\n\nThe Birmingham Perry Barr MP said the party needed to focus on supporting jobs, particularly in advanced manufacturing, in areas that felt left behind.\n\nAnd former leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has been suspended as a Labour MP under Sir Keir, said the party needed to present a \"real, radical alternative\".\n\n\"Offering nothing, offering insipid support for the government, causes people either to vote for somebody else or simply to stay home and disappear,\" he said.", "Some of the fake endorsement scams the NCSC has taken down\n\nMartin Lewis and Sir Richard Branson are the celebrities whose names are used most in fake endorsement scams, a report has found.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) removed more than 730,000 websites running the tricks in 2020.\n\nMr Lewis, founder of the website Money Saving Expert, said the whole issue sickened him.\n\nExperts at the cyber-agency, which is part of intelligence agency GCHQ, say it's a growing problem.\n\nCriminals create fake news articles claiming that celebrities are backing new investment schemes.\n\nThe articles are spread through mass email campaigns, SMS texts, or adverts on social media.\n\nThey come with a link to websites which encourage victims to invest in the unscrupulous programmes.\n\nAlthough the theme of these attacks is often cryptocurrency, the template can be used to promote any type of fake investment opportunity.\n\nMr Lewis said: 'It's the worst flattery I've ever had. These thieves and con artists leach off the reputation for trust I've built up by trying to help and protect consumers, in order to try and steal money off vulnerable people.\n\n'The concept makes me feel nauseous. We must step up our fight to stop these scams which destroy millions of people's finances and mental health.'\n\nThe news comes from the NCSC's annual Active Cyber Defence report which outlines the actions the agency took to prevent fraud, scams and cyber-attacks.\n\nThe NCSC says it began taking action against the websites in April 2020, and by the end of the calendar year it had taken down 286,322 separate campaigns across 731,080 URLs.\n\nThe cyber-agency says the relatively new scams are a global issue.\n\nUK victims see curated content with recognisable British figures, but if you were to view the same article from France, the content served would probably appear as an article in a fake French newspaper featuring a celebrity from the country.\n\nIan Levy, the NCSC's technical director, said Mr Lewis and Mr Branson made up \"a decent chunk\" of all the celebrity endorsement scams they discovered.\n\n\"They're really convincing and it's no surprise that people fall for them. Criminals use both newspaper brands and celebrities combined to make these articles look really good,\" he said.\n\n\"Martin Lewis and Sir Richard Branson are used because they are famous and because they are related to money. It must be horrible for them.\"\n\nMr Lewis is urging the government to reverse its decision not to include scams in the future Online Safety Bill, which is expected to be in the Queen's Speech this week.\n\nThe NCSC says it took down more than 139,000 scam online shops\n\nIn 2019 Mr Lewis agreed to drop legal action against Facebook for allowing his name and photo to be used in fake adverts on the platform.\n\nIn return, Facebook agreed to donate £3m to set up an anti-scam programme.\n\nElsewhere in the NCSC's report, it says it carried out a 15-fold increase in campaign takedowns in total.\n\nThe agency it took action against nearly 1.5 million web addresses from fake shops to phishing sites pretending to be government services.\n• None Why can't Google get a grip on rip-off ads?", "Council leaders from across the political divide in England are urging ministers to make good their promise to \"fix social care\" by setting out plans in Tuesday's Queen's Speech.\n\nThe Local Government Association has sent a cross-party letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, saying failure to act now would be \"a bitter blow\".\n\nThe promise was made by Boris Johnson on his first day as prime minister.\n\nMinisters have previously said plans will be brought forward this year and, when quizzed, have maintained that cross-party agreement on social care reform will be vital - the LGA's letter shows that at work.\n\nIt comes amid increasing concern that long-promised reform will only get the briefest of mentions in the Queen's Speech, where the government sets out its legislative programme for the coming year.\n\nIn the letter, council leaders from across the political spectrum call on the government to put the reform and funding of the adult care system at the centre of its thinking on how we emerge from the pandemic.\n\nLocal authorities fund many care services and they want investment which moves the system from being based around care homes and hospitals, to one which focuses on prevention and community support.\n\nThe letter says reform needs to pool the risk of having high care costs after developing a condition such as dementia, with funding provided through taxation or a social-care premium.\n\nIt argues that this is an investment in people, rather than \"a cost that is too difficult or too high\".\n\nIt urges the government to:\n\n\"All of us in local government, across the political divide, want to see the Queen's Speech finally set out the plans we have been waiting for,\" said LGA Chairman James Jamieson.\n\n\"This is about an investment in people, in all of us.\n\n\"A failure to act will be a bitter blow to everyone connected to social care.\"\n\nThe pandemic has increased pressure on an already fragile care system, which provides support for older and disabled people in care homes and in their own homes.\n\nResidential and nursing homes saw a particularly high number of deaths in the first wave of Covid-19.\n\nThe pandemic also highlighted existing problems, such as the low pay and long hours of care staff in a sector that struggles to recruit enough workers.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Improving the adult social care system remains a priority for this government and we are committed to ensuring every person receives care that provides the dignity they deserve.\n\n\"Throughout the pandemic we have provided almost £1.8bn in specific funding for adult social care including infection prevention and control measures.\n\n\"We've also provided free PPE and additional testing and prioritised health and care workers for the vaccine.\"\n\nThe LGA letter coincides with polling for a care charity which suggests there is public support for greater focus on social care by government.\n\nResearchers for MHA, which runs care homes and community services, questioned just over 2,000 UK adults online and, of these, found:\n\nMHA chief executive Sam Monaghan said the devastating effect of Covid-19 on care homes had made people question \"what's important and the kind of society we want to be\".\n\n\"What we now need is decisive action from government...\n\n\"We have a growing population of older people who deserve respect and certainty for the future.\"\n\nFiona Carragher, director of research at Alzheimer's Society, called on the government \"to completely overhaul our social care system\".\n\nShe said she wanted to see \"free, personalised care... on an equal footing with the NHS\", together with plans to develop a workforce with the skills \"to deliver the best care\" for people with dementia.", "Counting was held across Scotland for two days after Thursday's election\n\nAs the dust settles after a marathon two-day count and the winners prepare for life at Holyrood, we look at the facts and figures behind the story of the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.\n\nThe SNP has been handed a fresh five-year term in government at Holyrood, their fourth in a row.\n\nBy the time it is up in 2026, the party will have been in government for 19 years - and Nicola Sturgeon may be asking for votes from people who were born after she first entered government.\n\nThe proportional representation system used for Holyrood elections essentially did its job of producing a parliament which roughly mirrors the way people voted as a whole across Scotland.\n\nThe SNP took just under half of the vote, and won just under half of the seats in parliament.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has been handed a fresh five-year term in government at Holyrood\n\nThe Conservatives took 23.5% of the \"peach party vote\" they based much of their campaigning on, and were rewarded with 24% of the seats.\n\nLabour meanwhile had 19% of the regional list vote and 17% of the seats, while the Greens got 8% of the vote and 6% of the seats.\n\nThe Lib Dems took all four of their seats from constituency contests, but still based on list tallies across Scotland ended up with 3% of the seats from 5% of the vote.\n\nThis has been an election where not much has changed - only three of the 73 constituencies changed hands, compared to 18 in 2016.\n\nRanking the results by how narrow the winning margin was, there were 16 seats with a single-digit majority - generally considered a \"marginal\" seat.\n\nThis is the same number as there were before the election, and indeed 10 of them are the very same seats. We may spend election night in 2026 talking about Eastwood, Aberdeenshire West and Dumbarton all over again.\n\nThe difference is that after 2016, nine of the 10 most marginal seats were SNP targets. Now, only three are - and they are defending the other seven.\n\nIt may seem an obvious point given they now hold the lion's share of constituencies, but there are fewer easy targets for Nicola Sturgeon's party in future - and far more wobbly seats to defend, including the country's most marginal in Ayr which they won by just 170 votes.\n\nAs previously, these close contests are mostly SNP-Conservative affairs. Labour was not in second place in a single constituency with a single-digit majority before the election, and they only have one now - East Lothian, the seat they lost to the SNP.\n\nThis means there is little in the way of obvious target seats for Anas Sarwar to start building towards challenging in 2026.\n\nOne striking change between the 2016 and 2021 results was that in Shetland - which has gone from the safest seat in Scotland, with a 44.3% majority to the ninth most marginal, with a cushion of just 6.8%.\n\nThese figures exclude the fact there was a by-election midway through the term, but it is still a big shift in a Lib Dem stronghold.\n\nThe safest seat now belongs to Shona Robison in Dundee City East with a 41.4% majority - with her Dundee City West neighbour Joe Fitzpatrick in second spot on 40.2%.\n\nAnas Sarwar now has few obvious target seats for Labour at the next election\n\nFinance Secretary Kate Forbes has also constructed something of a fortress in Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, with the biggest majority in terms of raw votes - 15,861 of them.\n\nPerhaps the rise of tactical voting in this election means we need a new way to talk about \"safe\" seats, though. Contests have increasingly become a race between the SNP and whichever other party is best placed locally to challenge them.\n\nOn that front, there were 29 seats where the SNP won more than 50% of the vote - so much that even if the opposition clubbed together and backed one candidate, they would still not win.\n\nThe Conservatives only had one seat with a margin this wide - Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire - and Labour had none.\n\nOddly though, the smallest party, the Lib Dems, had three. And their fourth seat was not far behind, on 48.6%. They seem to have become the party of extremes, because they also lost their deposit in 50 of the 73 constituencies, by polling under 5% of the vote.\n\nKate Forbes' seat in Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch had the biggest majority in terms of raw votes\n\nWhile nothing much has changed in the makeup of the parliament, the existing parties rather entrenched their positions.\n\nThere was a lot of talk of smaller parties during the campaign, with Alex Salmond launching the Alba Party to great fanfare, but ultimately they barely made a dent in the figures with 1.7% of the regional ballot.\n\nGeorge Galloway's All for Unity group similarly flopped, managing 0.9% of the vote.\n\nAnd UKIP - now dedicated to shutting down Holyrood - secured just 3,848 list votes, 0.1% of the 2.7m cast around Scotland - and behind the rather more bluntly-titled Abolish the Scottish Parliament Party on 0.3%.\n\nWith turnout high and social distancing in place, some Scots - including Patrick Harvie - had to queue outside polling stations\n\nOne of the big stories across Scotland was how many people came out to vote.\n\nTurnout hit a record high for a Holyrood election, at 63.2%. It was up in every single constituency, and indeed at least half of the registered electorate took part in every seat.\n\nIt was over 60% in 54 of the 73 constituencies, and over 70% in four.\n\nThe overall figure is ten points up on the average of the five previous Holyrood elections, and well in advance of the previous high of 59% in 1999.\n\nHowever it still lags behind the levels recorded in recent general elections north of the border - turnout was 68.1% for the Westminster election in December 2019 - and a good way off the massive engagement in the 2014 referendum, which was 84.6%.\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", "It is perhaps understandable that there is lots of talk of independence and referendums the morning after a Holyrood election, given the SNP have won big once again.\n\nHowever, there is an argument to be made that the constitution is not necessarily the most interesting storyline in the wake of the polls.\n\nThere is still a pro-independence majority at Holyrood, and there is still an intense debate about mandates and process. But for all that, neither side actually wants anything to happen immediately, while there is still a pandemic to be dealing with.\n\nThe arguments being exchanged this morning are really rather familiar, and there is little incentive for anyone to change their tune straight away – not until the facts on the ground change, such as with the passing of a referendum bill at Holyrood.\n\nAnd there are some really pressing issues for the SNP in the coming days and weeks as it forms a new administration.\n\nTo start with – who will take up key Cabinet posts left vacant by retiring MSPs? These include the health secretary, during a pandemic; the constitution secretary, as Brexit unfolds; and the environment secretary, in the year of COP26.\n\nAnd then there are the other big ideas in the SNP manifesto – things like a National Care Service, a minimum income guarantee, publicly-owned rail services.\n\nThe constitution was clearly a big issue in the campaign and thus it is no surprise that it is the focus of intense discussion today.\n\nBut there is a lot more to Scottish politics than just the question of independence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Catherine Noakes, from the University of Leeds, says we should hug safely\n\nPeople should take precautions when hugging others, says an expert, amid expectations of a further easing of England's Covid restrictions this week.\n\nProf Cath Noakes said hugs should be selective, short, and avoid face-to-face contact.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said No 10 wants to see \"friendly contact\" between people restored.\n\nHe said the PM will on Monday confirm an easing of England's rules from 17 May.\n\nUnder the next stage of the government's roadmap for lifting England's lockdown, people can meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors, while six people, or two households, can meet indoors.\n\nPeople will also be allowed to stay overnight with those not in their household or bubble. Pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues will be permitted to reopen indoors.\n\nSome foreign holidays are set to be allowed. On Friday, the government announced that 12 countries would be added to England's travel green list, meaning anyone returning will not need to quarantine from 17 May.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded another two deaths within 28 days of a positive test and a further 1,770 cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hugging after lockdown: 'It's been too long'\n\nProf Noakes, a member of the Sage committee that advises the government, said the risks of grandparents who are fully vaccinated hugging their grandchildren are likely to be low in most cases.\n\nSpeaking in a personal capacity, she said it would worry her \"if we were advocating we could hug all of our friends every time we meet them again\" as it would \"perpetuate an awful lot of additional close contact that could spread the virus\".\n\n\"The reality is that when you hug someone you are very close to them and we know the virus is in people's breath and you are very close to that breath at that moment.\"\n\nShe advised that if people are going to hug others, it should be restricted \"to very small numbers of close family who perhaps you really value a hug from.\n\n\"I think don't hug too frequently, keep it short, try and avoid being face to face, so perhaps turn your face away slightly, and even wearing a mask could help,\" she said.\n\nProf Noakes warned that, even after vaccination, someone could get infected and could transmit it to others while unaffected themselves,\n\n\"So that's why we still need to be a bit cautious for a while yet. We've come a long way with this. The virus, although it's now very low prevalence, hasn't gone away.\"\n\nThe scientists and engineers advising the government realise that their caution about hugging might not be popular.\n\nThey know how many people see hugs as an essential form of bonding with their nearest and dearest.\n\nBut they've also studied how the virus spreads - how an infected person releases it in their breath.\n\nThat means that if someone gets very close, there's an increased chance of them inhaling the infectious particles floating in the air.\n\nThe tips for reducing those risks won't be popular - they go right against the grain of human instinct.\n\nBasically, hug as few people as possible and don't linger over it. And maybe wear a mask if someone is vulnerable.\n\nThat's why the prime minister talks of us using common sense about this.\n\nBut in the excitement of reunions, after so long apart, that might not be easy.\n\nCurrent social distancing rules advise people to stay 2m (6ft) away from those they don't live with, or are in a social bubble with.\n\nIn England, if it's not possible to stay 2m apart, the \"one-metre plus\" guidance means people should be at least 1m (3ft) apart with extra precautions in place (such as face coverings).\n\nEarlier, Mr Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that \"all being well\" Prime Minister Boris Johnson would confirm on Monday that there will be a relaxation of restrictions starting 17 May.\n\nHe also hinted that closer contact between family and friends could soon be allowed.\n\n\"Without prejudice to a broader review of social distancing, it is also the case that friendly contact, intimate contact, between friends and family is something that we want to see restored,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile Prof Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford vaccine institute, told Andrew Marr that he believed it is the right time to ease England's restrictions.\n\nAsked whether it would be safe for family and friends to hug on 17 May, he said the country has seen the \"extraordinary success\" of both the Covid vaccine rollout and the \"prolonged\" lockdown.\n\n\"I think it is time to start, based on the very careful modelling that's been done, relaxing some of those restrictions,\" he said.\n\n\"That means we're in a very fortunate position here in the UK.\"\n• None What are the social distancing rules?", "Police cordons were put in place around the canal where the baby was found\n\nThe body of a newborn baby has been found in a canal in north west London, the Met Police has said.\n\nOfficers and paramedics were called at 13:19 BST to the Grand Union Canal near to Old Oak Lane after the baby was seen in the water.\n\nThe baby was pronounced dead at the scene and the Met has launched an \"urgent\" investigation.\n\nA Met spokesman said: \"We urge the baby's mother to seek medical assistance by dialling 999.\"\n\nWitnesses said dozens of police, ambulance and fire vehicles attended the scene, close to an industrial estate in Park Royal.\n\nThe Met Police has urged the baby's mother to seek medical assistance by dialling 999\n\nA number of roads and pathways have been cordoned off and officers have said the cordons could be in place for \"hours\".\n\nEmergency staff wearing diving suits could also be seen walking close to where the discovery was made.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: \"We sent a number of resources to the scene: an incident response officer, an advanced paramedic practitioner, a clinical team manager and two ambulance crews.\n\n\"We also dispatched our hazardous area response team. Sadly, an infant was confirmed to be deceased at the scene.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zero coronavirus deaths have been announced in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nWales recorded four deaths meaning that, overall, the UK showed a slight increase on the two deaths recorded on Sunday.\n\nIt comes as Boris Johnson has confirmed England will proceed to lift more lockdown restrictions next week.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's coronavirus alert level has been lowered from four to three on the advice of experts.\n\nAlert level three means that although the virus is still in general circulation, transmission is no longer high or rising exponentially.\n\nExperts say cases, hospital admissions and Covid-related deaths have all decreased and vaccines are having the desired protective effect, with the latest figures showing a third of UK adults are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and two-thirds have had their first of two doses.\n\nThe UK moved to the highest Covid alert level - five - in January as the nation was put into lockdown and there was a real risk of the NHS becoming overwhelmed. By late February, the alert was lowered to four.\n\nThe alert system, which follows recommendations by the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC), is independent from government decisions on easing or tightening restrictions.\n\nIn stage three of the government's road map for lifting England's lockdown, starting on 17 May, people will be able to meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors, while six people or two households can meet indoors.\n\nThe long wait for an indoor pint Millions of people in England have not been able to sit indoors in a pub since last October\n• None Longerfor all the people who were living under the toughest tier rules last December\n• None Last Octoberfor people in many areas like Greater Manchester, because of tier rules\n• None Drink onlyAnd in many areas where indoor drinks were allowed, they had to be drunk with food\n\nPeople will also be allowed to stay overnight with those not in their household or bubble. Pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues, such as cinemas and soft play areas, will be permitted to reopen indoors.\n\nAnd up to 30 people are to be allowed to attend weddings, receptions and wakes, as well as funerals.\n\nForeign holidays will also return. On Friday, the government announced that 12 destinations would be placed on England's travel green list, meaning anyone returning from those areas will not need to quarantine from 17 May.\n\nEach stage on the roadmap out of lockdown has been separated by a gap of several weeks to allow scientists to assess the impact of previous changes, which in stage two included the reopening of non-essential shops and outdoor service in pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe government is satisfied that its four tests have been met:\n\nThe devolved nations are working to their own timeframe for easing restrictions.\n\nIn Wales, indoor hospitality such as pubs, cafes, restaurants, cinemas, theatres and museums are expected to reopen from 17 May. All tourist accommodation is due to reopen and wedding receptions can have up to 30 people indoors and 50 outdoors.\n\nIn Scotland from 17 May, indoor hospitality venues are expected to resume with alcohol being served until 22:30. Cinemas, amusement arcades and bingo halls should reopen and indoor group exercise restart.\n\nMore restrictions may be lifted in Northern Ireland on 24 May, including the reopening of indoor hospitality, B&Bs and hotels. Indoor group exercise could resume and wedding receptions and funeral wakes restart.\n• None UK alert level raised to four - what does that mean?", "The SNP has won 64 seats in the Scottish Parliament election - one short of a majority but one more than it won in 2016.\n\nNicola Sturgeon hailed her party's fourth consecutive victory as a \"historic and extraordinary\" result.\n\nWe look at the picture across Scotland and the shape of the new Scottish Parliament.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nScotland's electoral map gives you a pretty good idea of who has won the election - it is swathed in SNP yellow. But look closely and you can see why they fell just short of an outright majority.\n\nThe seats they failed to win are islands in regions otherwise dominated by the SNP, meaning it was all but impossible for them to win seats back from the regional list, in the swings and roundabouts of the Holyrood system.\n\nTwo of the constituencies they did gain, in Ayr and East Lothian, were in a region where they already had list seats, two of which were subsequently lost.\n\nThe small strongholds that other parties have scattered across Scotland ultimately proved decisive.\n\nThe fact the SNP did not win a majority will make a real difference to the next five years at Holyrood. A minority government needs support from other parties to pass budgets and all its major reforms.\n\nIf it had been a majority, we could have put every other manifesto in the bin and taken the SNP's manifesto to be the definitive guide to the term ahead.\n\nThe Scottish Greens in particular - who were the SNP's partner of choice last term - will be looking forward to potentially having some of their policy priorities passed in return for crucial votes.\n\nIt also means the SNP will not have a majority on any Holyrood committee, meaning their legislation will not necessarily sail through the parliament with ease.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives retained their position in second place in a vindication of the party's strategy to target the \"peach vote\" - the colour of the regional list ballot paper\n\nThere were initially some nerves that they might have neglected the \"lilac\" constituency vote, but they ultimately held their key seats with the help of transfers from other pro-union parties.\n\nTactical voting may have had a huge impact overall - every seat seems to have become a race between the SNP and the party that was judged most likely to beat them locally.\n\nLabour - the party which may have the most to do to come up with a convincing answer to the constitutional question - finds itself marooned in third place again.\n\nThe Lib Dems meanwhile have slumped to just four seats due to their failure to pick anything up from the regional lists.\n\nThey have a number of strongholds in different parts of Scotland, but these are so tightly focused that the party's constituency wins in those areas make it very hard for them to pick up list seats too.\n\nIn an election of continuity, there was one surprise result which was quite different from previous years - turnout.\n\nSome 63% of the electorate came out to vote, a full ten percentage points above the average for previous Holyrood polls.\n\nIt is hard to say exactly why this happened, but a number of factors will likely have been at play.\n\nThe rise in postal vote registrations could be one, as could the expansion of the franchise to new groups including refugees.\n\nAnd the pandemic may have ultimately boosted turnout, rather than held it down, as many had predicted.\n\nPeople might have had more time to engage with activists or go out to vote due to lockdown.\n\nIndeed lockdown itself may have encouraged some to vote, having been a very clear example of the powers that governments can exercise.\n\nHolyrood's diverse representation had somewhat stalled in recent years - but that has all changed now.\n\nThe class of 2021 includes a record number of 58 female MSPs. The SNP now has 34 women, Labour have 10, the Conservatives have eight, the Scottish Greens have five and the Lib Dems have one female MSP.\n\nIt has chiefly been driven by the SNP's policy of having all-women shortlists for many seats where male MSPs were retiring - meaning a lot of older male MSPs have effectively been replaced by younger women.\n\nAmong those are the first women of colour elected to Holyrood, the SNP's Kaukab Stewart and Pam Gosal of the Scottish Tories.\n\nLabour's Pam Duncan-Glancy became the first wheelchair user returned to Holyrood, in what may be the most diverse parliament to date.\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", "A view from the heart of the 'red wall'\n\nDudley is at the heart of the so-called' red wall' - the belt of Midlands and Northern seats that returned Labour politicians for decades. But like many of its neighbours, it is starting to turn blue: it already has two Tory MPs, and the council is run by a minority Conservative administration. For Radio Four's World at One, BBC political reporter Rob Mayor has been finding out what people think of the upcoming elections: Council leader Patrick Harley is hoping to win a Conservative majority on Thursday. He says it will allow the town to attract investment from central government, as it has been doing for the last few years. But leader of the Labour group, Cllr Qadar Zada, says unemployment is \"up by 75%\" during the pandemic, with 20,000 young people out of work. Residents are also worried about crime, he says. Wendy Farmer, who has run a stall in the town's market for 30 years, says trade has fallen as all the big shops have closed. The council has not helped during the pandemic, she says. But she supports the prime minister. \"Those that criticise, I'd like to see them them do what he's had to put up with in the last 12 months,\" she says. A full list of all the candidate standing in the area can be found here .", "Mr Johnson previously met with the Prime Minister of India at the 2019 G7 summit\n\nThe prime minister has announced new trade and investment deals with India worth £1bn.\n\nIt includes more than £533m of new investment from India into the UK, which is expected to create about 6,000 jobs.\n\nDowning Street said the new partnership would \"pave the way\" for a future UK-India Free Trade Agreement.\n\n\"The economic links between our countries make our people stronger and safer,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nThe deal, announced ahead of a virtual meeting with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, includes a £240m investment by the Serum Institute of India, which will support clinical trials, research and possibly the manufacturing of vaccines.\n\nSerum has already started phase one trials in the UK of a one-dose nasal vaccine for coronavirus, in partnership with Codagenix.\n\nIndian investment deals will create 1,000 new UK jobs each at health and tech firms Infosys, HCL Technologies and Mphasis.\n\nSome 667 UK jobs will be created at Q-Rich Creations, 500 jobs at Wipro and 465 at 12 Agro.\n\n\"Each and every one of the more than 6,500 jobs we have announced today will help families and communities build back from coronavirus and boost the British and Indian economies,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nTrade Secretary Liz Truss told the BBC that the jobs would be created \"within the next year or so\".\n\nShe said those commitments were \"very different\" from a free-trade deal, which the two governments will start negotiating on this autumn. Discussions will include lowering tariff barriers and new agreements on \"digital and data\".\n\nThe announcement on 6,000 jobs \"is really the tip of an iceberg\" Ms Truss said.\n\nTrade between the UK and India is worth about £23bn per year, and the government hopes to double that by 2030.\n\n\"What we need to do is get the huge tariffs removed on products like whisky, which is over 100%; cars, which is over 100% - that is where the real opportunities lie for us,\" she said.\n\nThe do that, the UK is likely to have to relax immigration rules between India and the UK, Ms Truss added.\n\n\"We've already made significant steps in improving the immigration regime with the post-study work visa. We've seen a massive rise in Indian students coming to the UK.\"\n\n\"Business mobility is a key part of trade. Particularly as the UK and India are both very strong in services, you need to make sure you're able to get your professionals over to the country,\" Ms Truss added.\n\nIn recent years, the UK has sold more to Belgium or Sweden than India. But the government hopes that closer ties with one of the most populous and fastest-growing major economies could have huge long-term potential - especially as tensions with China mount.\n\nIt believes that this announcement, which boosts access to India for producers of British fruit and medical devices - and means investment in the UK from India's vaccine producers - is just a taste of what could be achieved.\n\nBut economists warn that getting a full deal with Delhi that lowers tariff and non-tariff barriers won't be easy. India is likely, for example, to want UK entry visa requirements for its workers and students to be eased.\n\nAttempts by the European Union, Australia and New Zealand to strike free trade deals with India have all stalled.\n\nBut as that nation grapples with the economic damage caused by the pandemic and the rising threat from China, it may now take a more pragmatic approach to brokering an agreement.\n\nMeanwhile, British businesses have secured export deals with India worth more than £446m, which are expected to create more than 400 British jobs.\n\nThey include a £200m deal involving CMR Surgical, which will create 100 new UK jobs.\n\nThe company's next-generation 'Versius' surgical robotic system - which helps surgeons perform minimal access surgery - will be rolled out to hospitals in India.\n\nTrade between the UK and India is already worth around £23bn a year, supporting more than half a million jobs, according to the government.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"In the decade ahead, with the help of new partnership signed today and a comprehensive free trade agreement, we will double the value of our trading partnership with India and take the relationship between our two countries to new highs.\"\n\nTrade body the CBI said the updated trade partnership \"shows the world the strength of our relationship\".\n\nCBI president Lord Bilimoria said the talks would \"unlock opportunities for businesses, boost job creation and growth across the country\".\n\nMr Johnson had been forced to cancel a planned visit to Delhi as it battles with a brutal second wave of coronavirus cases.\n\nThe visit was designed to foster closer ties between the two countries and had first been scheduled for January.\n\nIt was delayed after the UK's higher wave of Covid infections over winter.\n\nA four-day trip was scheduled for April before being cut back to just one day in Delhi, before being postponed indefinitely last month, with India subsequently added to the UK's travel \"red list\".\n\nOn Monday, authorities in Delhi called for help from the army. The government wants it to run Covid care facilities and intensive care units.\n\nAcross India, case numbers since the start of the outbreak are closing in on 20 million.\n\nIn response to India's coronavirus surge, the British Asian Trust has raised more than £1.6m in the last week through its emergency appeal.", "A resignation note left by a cleaner for her boss has gone viral on Twitter, with people speaking out against the poor treatment of support staff.\n\nJulie Cousins walked out of her job as a cleaner for HSBC last Friday after 35 years, according to her son Joe.\n\nIn her note, the 67-year-old wrote that she was leaving due to being \"dressed down\" in the office by a manager.\n\nHSBC told the BBC it could not comment on individual personnel issues but was working to understand what happened.\n\nMs Cousins, from Southampton, wrote in the note that the treatment she experienced was \"nothing more than aggressive and cruel\".\n\n\"So going forward, please all of you remember - in a world when you can be anything, be kind, because you are all no better than the cleaner.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sonia Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe told the Mail Online that she was retiring, and that although some people might think it was \"just a little cleaning job\", she had relied on the work during the five years she spent at the HSBC branch.\n\nMs Cousins stressed that she felt cleaners were often \"forgotten\" by others in the workplace.\n\nShe added that she decided to leave after the upsetting incident with the manager, as she wanted to work with people she felt comfortable with.\n\nHer son's Twitter post sharing Ms Cousins' resignation note struck a chord on the social network, attracting more than 3,000 comments.\n\nMany users said their parents, children and colleagues had been treated badly working in support staff roles such as cleaners, caretakers, janitors, security guards and receptionists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 ™️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"When interviewing people for jobs, I always asked the reception staff how they were treated by the candidate. A few failed the 'attitude test',\" said Tim, a retired businessman and engineer in the West Midlands.\n\nCleaner Tracy Sadler said that she \"loved\" the note that Mrs Cousins wrote.\n\n\"I am a cleaner [with] three part-time jobs, and sometimes people can be cruel,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"We as cleaners have kept this world and all their buildings and shops and homes clean - cleaners matter also.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Tracy Sadler This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMultiple users said that that it was important to make an effort to chat to cleaners and other support staff in the workplace, treating them as colleagues, rather than inferior workers.\n\nThey added that doing so led to a pleasant working environment, a sense of camaraderie, and even cleaner offices to work in.\n\nTrades Union Congress general secretary Frances O'Grady told the BBC: \"Cleaners have played a vital role during this pandemic keeping workplaces and public spaces safe, often at great personal risk.\n\n\"Employers and the government must do more to value the contribution these overlooked key workers make.\"\n\nShe added that more needed to be done to improve pay and conditions: \"It's not right that so many cleaning staff are on low pay and insecure contracts.\"", "Hillary Clinton said the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan could lead to the \"resumption of activities by terrorist groups\"\n\nFormer US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned of \"huge consequences\" of President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan.\n\nMrs Clinton told CNN there was a risk the Taliban - the Islamist group ousted in 2001 by the US-led invasion - could retake control.\n\nThe US aims to complete the withdrawal by 11 September.\n\nHowever, the Taliban have been carrying out more attacks.\n\n\"This is what we call a wicked problem,\" Mrs Clinton told CNN. \"There are consequences both foreseen and unintended of staying and of leaving,\" she said.\n\nMrs Clinton, like Mr Biden a Democrat, was a strong supporter of the US intervention in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.\n\nMr Biden wants to complete the withdrawal by the 20th anniversary of the attacks later this year.\n\nAt least 2,500 US troops are currently deployed as part of the 9,600-strong Nato Afghan mission.\n\nThe president said the US pull-out was justified as American forces had ensured that the country could no longer be a base for foreign jihadists to plot against the West.\n\nAsked about the president's decision by CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, Mrs Clinton said, \"Our government has to focus on two huge consequences\", notably the resumption of activities by extremist groups and a subsequent outpouring of refugees from Afghanistan.\n\nShe said the potential collapse of the Afghan government and a possible takeover by the Taliban could result in a new civil war.\n\nMrs Clinton said it was also important to protect the \"many thousands of Afghans\" who had worked with the US and Nato during the conflict, and said a large visa programme should be set up to provide for any refugees.\n\nThe remaining US troops in Afghanistan began formally withdrawing on 1 May, amid escalating violence.\n\nAfghan security forces are on high alert for reprisal attacks.\n\nOn Monday, Afghan officials said at least seven soldiers had been killed in a Taliban attack on a military outpost in the south-western Farah province.\n\nThey said militants had blown up the post after digging a tunnel for about 400m (1312ft) to access it from a nearby house. One soldier had been captured by the insurgents, they said. Other reports put the Afghan army casualties much higher.\n\nThis 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\nSpeaking at a press conference in London on Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration was \"very focused on a deliberate, safe and orderly\" withdrawal of troops, but that the US would continue to assist the Afghan government.\n\n\"Even as our forces are pulling out of Afghanistan, we are not withdrawing - we are not disengaging,\" he said, adding that if US troops were attacked before leaving the country, \"decisive action\" would be taken.\n\nHillary Clinton represents the view of foreign-policy experts: The US should show its strength and deploy its military. Her criticism of Biden's plan reflects this sensibility.\n\nHer criticism matters, in part because so many in the foreign-policy establishment, both Democrats and Republicans, agree with her. Condoleezza Rice, who served as secretary of state under President George W Bush, has also warned about the risks of withdrawing troops, and the threat of terrorism.\n\nYet liberals, such as Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, do not think the troops should be there. Nor do many Americans. A 2019 Gallup poll showed 58% of Democrats think the war in Afghanistan has made the US less safe from terrorism.\n\nClinton's views are important, but Biden has the support of many Americans. Plus, he's the president, and has made his decision. His views are the ones that matter now, not hers.\n\nAs vice-president to Barack Obama, Mr Biden frequently opposed a large US presence in Afghanistan.\n\nHe has said that the US will continue to support Afghan government forces - and encourage peace negotiations with the rebel Taliban leaders. However, correspondents say that may not be enough to ensure stability in the region.\n\nLast year, then-President Donald Trump - who was keen for US troops to return home and criticised US military interventions for being costly and ineffective - set in motion a full US withdrawal from Afghanistan by 1 May this year.\n\nThe US then started withdrawing troops after the Taliban promised to stop carrying out attacks on international forces and \"soft targets\", and said it would not allow al-Qaeda or other militants to operate in areas it controls.\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\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\n• None US starts withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City reached their first Champions League final as they overcame Paris St-Germain at Etihad Stadium to secure a commanding victory over two legs.\n\nIn a game played in unseasonal snow, the brilliant Riyad Mahrez capped a sweeping move started by goalkeeper Ederson's 60-yard pass to extend their 2-1 advantage from the first leg in Paris.\n\nPSG suffered a serious blow before kick-off when world-class forward Kylian Mbappe was restricted to the bench because of injury. They did not lack endeavour or intent and had early hope when a penalty was awarded for a handball by Oleksandr Zinchenko before it was correctly overturned, but with Neymar subdued and City throwing bodies on the line in defence, Mauricio Pochettino's side could not find a way through.\n\nMahrez punished them again just after the hour when he turned in Phil Foden's cross at the far post to effectively end the contest.\n\nPSG, as they did when Idrissa Gueye was sent off late in the first leg, lost their discipline and Angel di Maria was shown a red card for a senseless stamp on Fernandinho following a touchline tangle.\n\nCity were in full control, avoiding further mishap to set up the Champions League final they and manager Pep Guardiola have craved, against either Chelsea or Real Madrid in Istanbul on 29 May.\n• None Last five years 'now makes sense', says Pep Guardiola\n\nMan City within touching distance of the great prize\n\nThe celebrations when Manchester City scored and at the final whistle illustrated the significance of what these players and Guardiola have achieved.\n\nGuardiola and City have been sweeping up domestic titles on a regular basis, with his third Premier League title a formality which could be confirmed with victory against Chelsea here on Saturday.\n\nThis tournament, however, has been the one code an outstanding team has been unable to crack, with hard-luck stories to tell and crucial slips when the pressure is on, such as when they lost 3-1 to underdogs Lyon in a one-off quarter-final last season.\n\nCity have shown great maturity and development this season, keeping their nerve when under pressure against Borussia Dortmund in the last eight and also surviving a PSG surge in Paris six days ago to recover for an outstanding win.\n\nHere, early nerves were settled by Mahrez's goal and any further PSG threats were repelled with resilience and, when needed, desperate defending to ensure the lead they worked so hard to establish was well protected.\n\nThe Champions League has always been regarded as confirmation that Manchester City were a European superpower - now this high-class side will have the opportunity to confirm that status in Istanbul.\n• None 'Every Man City player could have been man of the match'\n• None Relive Manchester City v Paris St-Germain as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n\nCity's success has been built on a squad effort, as proved by the way those who missed out on the starting line-up, such as Rodri, Aymeric Laporte, Joao Cancelo and Raheem Sterling, provided noisy support and encouragement from the sidelines.\n\nInevitably, though, there were stand-out performers and the list included match-winner Mahrez, the precocious Foden and the often unsung defender Zinchenko.\n\nMahrez took his time to settle in the early days of his City career but he is now a key component in Guardiola's line-up, a creator and scorer of important goals, such as the two here. In eight Champions League starts this season he has scored four goals, including in both legs of this semi-final.\n\nThe first goal was classic Manchester City, started by remarkable vision from Ederson and finished emphatically by Mahrez.\n\nThe Algerian was a huge threat all night, tormenting PSG, and Foden was not far behind, as he grows in stature with every game. He has strength, vision on the ball and an end product, providing a perfect delivery for the second goal.\n\nZinchenko got the nod ahead of Cancelo and delivered a superb display, a threat going forward and top class in defence, with one crucial block from Neymar in the second half.\n\nAbove all, this was a team effort and Manchester City richly deserve their place in the Champions League final.\n\nHaving taken one giant stride forward in Europe by reaching the Champions League final last campaign, this season feels like two steps back for the French side.\n\nWhile obviously disappointed to lose to Bayern Munich in Lisbon, it will at least have felt like a display and achievement to build on.\n\nBut there is little they can take away from this semi-final loss, which not only saw them beaten by a superior and savvier side, but also inexcusably lose their discipline in both legs.\n\nThey now face an unfamiliar battle on home soil, in the shape of Lille's strong challenge to their Ligue 1 dominance and a French Cup semi-final with Montpellier on 12 May.\n\nLose both and the unthinkable may happen on Pochettino's watch - a season without league or European success. An inquest of sorts is inevitable. How severe and deep it is depends on the next 11 days.\n\n'Getting to the final makes sense of what we've done in the past four or five years' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola said: \"I'm incredibly proud and my first thoughts are with the players who didn't play today. They all deserved to play, everyone has made a contribution and now it is time to enjoy it. We have to win the league and we have two or three weeks to prepare for the final.\n\n\"They put a lot of players in the middle and we struggled a lot in the first half to high press and we changed at half-time. We recovered the ball better in the second half and we were much better in the way we played and 4-1 on aggregate against a team that beat Barcelona and Bayern Munich means a lot to us.\n\n\"People believe it's easy to arrive in the final of the Champions League. Getting to the final now makes sense of what we have done in the past four or five years.\"\n\nAnother English team in the final - the stats\n• None Manchester City are the ninth different English team to reach the European Cup/Champions League final; three more than any other nation (Germany and Italy - six sides).\n• None City manager Pep Guardiola ended a run of four consecutive Champions League semi-final eliminations, reaching the final for the first time since 2010-11 with Barcelona.\n• None City have won their past seven Champions League matches, the longest winning run by an English team in European Cup/Champions League history. Three other sides had won six in a row: Manchester United (1965-66), Leeds United (1969-70) and Arsenal (2005).\n• None City are also the first English side to win 11 games in a single European Cup/Champions League campaign.\n• None Mauricio Pochettino has lost more games against Pep Guardiola than he has versus any other manager in his managerial career (12). Guardiola's total of 12 wins versus Pochettino is his joint most against a single manager in his career as a top-flight manager (level with Manuel Pellegrini and Sean Dyche).\n• None PSG are the third team to receive a red card in both legs of a Champions League semi-final tie, after Deportivo v Porto in 2003-04 and Lyon v Bayern Munich in 2009-10.\n• None Phil Foden is the sixth different Premier League player to record double figures for both goals (14) and assists (10) in all competitions this season, and the only Manchester City player to do so this term.\n• None Attempt missed. Neymar (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Danilo Pereira (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Neymar.\n• None Presnel Kimpembe (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why Kwabena's dream job might mean risking it all\n• None Fidel Castro's Cuba as told by the spies, revolutionaries and diplomats who shaped it", "Stuart Lubbock died following a party at TV presenter Michael Barrymore's home near Harlow in March 2001\n\nPolice are preparing a file for prosecutors to consider whether to charge a man arrested on suspicion of murdering a guest at Michael Barrymore's home in 2001.\n\nStuart Lubbock, 31, died after being found unconscious in the TV presenter's pool in Roydon, Essex.\n\nA man, in his 50s, was released under investigation in March.\n\nEssex Police said a file would be submitted \"imminently\" to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nThe man, who has not been named, was arrested in Cheshire on suspicion of indecent assault as well as on suspicion of murder after \"significant new information\" emerged, the force said.\n\nMichael Barrymore, 69, hosted a gathering at his house and Stuart Lubbock was found unconscious in his swimming pool\n\nMr Lubbock, a butcher from Harlow, was at a party with eight other people at Mr Barrymore's home on 31 March 2001 when he died.\n\nA post-mortem examination showed he suffered severe internal injuries which suggested he had been sexually assaulted.\n\nA spokesman for the force said: \"Following our substantial and detailed investigation, we will imminently be submitting a file to the CPS for their consideration and decision.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The Duchess of Sussex is set to publish a children's book about father-son relationships, as seen through the eyes of mothers.\n\nThe Bench will be published on 8 June and is said to be inspired by the bond between her husband Prince Harry and their son Archie.\n\n\"The Bench started as a poem I wrote for my husband on Father's Day, the month after Archie was born,\" the duchess said in a statement.\n\n\"That poem became this story.\"\n\nShe added: \"My hope is that The Bench resonates with every family, no matter the make-up, as much as it does with mine.\"\n\nThe story is accompanied by images from the award-winning illustrator Christian Robinson\n\nThe story will be accompanied by images from the award-winning illustrator Christian Robinson.\n\nThe duchess will also voice an audio version of her book.\n\nThe publishers, Penguin Random House, said the book aimed to evoke \"a deep sense of warmth, connection, and compassion\".\n\nIt added: \"It gives readers a window into shared and enduring moments between a diverse group of fathers and sons - moments of peace and reflection, trust and belief, discovery and learning, and lasting comfort.\"\n\nThe book is the latest in a number of ventures the Sussexes have taken up since their decision to step away from royal duties in 2020 to move to the US and pursue an independent life.\n\nThe couple have since launched their own charitable foundation, Archewell, and the duchess voiced the Disney nature film, Elephant. Archewell inspired them to begin a podcast of the same name in which they aim to foster wellbeing and kindness.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have recently signed deals with Netflix and Spotify\n\nThey have also secured commercial contracts thought to be worth millions, including a Netflix deal to produce TV projects and a Spotify deal for podcasts.\n\nTheir first project for Netflix will focus on the Invictus Games, a competition for injured military personnel and veterans that was championed by the prince.\n\nHe also recently announced he was joining mental health and life coaching start-up BetterUp as a \"chief impact officer\".\n\nThe duchess's book is not her first venture into writing.\n\nShe used to write a lifestyle blog called The Tig - which shut down after she began her relationship with Prince Harry.\n\nArchie turns two on Thursday and the couple are expecting their second child, a girl, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "On Monday, a senior official from India's federal government told journalists that there was no shortage of oxygen in Delhi or anywhere else in the country.\n\nAs he spoke, several small hospitals - only a few miles from where he stood in the capital - were sending out desperate messages about them running out of oxygen, putting patients' lives at risk.\n\nThe chief doctor of one of the hospitals - a specialist paediatric facility - told the BBC that \"our hearts were in our mouths\" because of the risk of children dying. They got supplies just in time, after a local politician intervened.\n\nAnd yet, the federal government has repeatedly insisted that there was no shortage. \"We are only facing problems in its transportation,\" Piyush Goyal, a senior official from India's home ministry, said.\n\nHe also advised hospitals to \"ensure judicious use of oxygen as per the guidelines\". Several doctors who have spoken to the BBC say they are giving oxygen only to patients who need it, but there is not enough.\n\nBut experts say that the shortage of oxygen is just one of the problems which shows both federal and state governments were not prepared, having failed to do enough to stop or minimise the damage of the second wave.\n\nA street in Delhi in early March, when, despite warnings, India’s health minister said the country was in the “endgame” of Covid-19\n\nWarnings have in fact been repeatedly issued, including:\n\nDespite this, on 8 March, the country's health minister announced that India was in the \"endgame of the pandemic\".\n\nSo, where did it go so wrong?\n\nIn January and February, the national number of daily cases fell to under 20,000 from peaks of around 90,000 in September last year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Covid beaten, and all places of public gathering opened.\n\nAnd soon, people were not adhering to Covid safety protocols, thanks in part to confused messaging from the top.\n\nWhile Mr Modi asked people to wear masks and follow social distancing in his public messages, he addressed large unmasked crowds during his election campaigns in five states. A number of his ministers were also seen addressing large public gatherings without wearing masks. The Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival - which attracts millions - was also allowed to go ahead.\n\nThe Kumbh Mela religious festival in mid-April, which, like political rallies at the time, were attended unmasked\n\n\"There was complete disconnect between what they practised and what they preached,\" says public policy and health systems expert Dr Chandrakant Lahariya.\n\nProminent virologist Dr Shahid Jameel says \"the government just did not see the second wave coming and started celebrating too early\".\n\nBut there is more to the story: the devastation has also exposed the underfunding and neglect of the public healthcare system in India.\n\nThe heart-breaking scenes that have been witnessed outside hospitals - people dying without getting treatment - shows the grim reality of India's healthcare infrastructure.\n\nAs one expert puts it, India's \"public health infrastructure was always broken, the rich and the middle class are just finding out\". Those who could afford it have always relied on private hospitals for treatment, while the poor struggle to get even a doctor's appointment.\n\nRecent schemes, like health insurance and subsidised medicines for the poor, are not helping because very little has been done in decades to increase the number of medical staff or hospitals.\n\nIndia's healthcare spending, including both private and public, has been around 3.6% of GDP for the past six years, the lowest percentage in the five Brics countries: Brazil spent the most at 9.2%, followed by South Africa at 8.1%, Russia at 5.3% and China at 5% in 2018.\n\nDeveloped nations spend a far higher proportion of their GDP on health. In 2018, for instance, spending in the US was 16.9% and Germany 11.2%. Even smaller nations like Sri Lanka (3.76%) and Thailand (3.79%) spend more than India.\n\nAnd India has fewer than 10 doctors per 10,000 people, and in some states the figure is less than five.\n\nSeveral \"empowered committees\" were last year looking at the preparations needed to tackle the next coronavirus wave, so experts are baffled by the shortages of oxygen, beds and drugs.\n\n\"When the first wave was tapering, that's when they should have prepared for a second wave and assumed the worst. They should have taken an inventory of oxygen and [the drug] remdesivir and then ramped up manufacturing capacity,\" Mahesh Zagade, former health secretary of Maharashtra state, told the BBC.\n\nOfficials say India produces enough oxygen to meet the spike in demand but transportation was the problem. Experts say this should have been fixed much earlier.\n\nThe government is now running special trains carrying oxygen from one state to another and stopping use of oxygen in industries - but only after many patients died because of a lack of oxygen.\n\nVery ill patients have been stuck outside hospitals as they wait for beds to become available\n\n\"The outcome has been that desperate family members are spending thousands of rupees to secure an oxygen cylinder on the black market and then stand for hours in a queue to get it filled,\" points out Dr Lahariya.\n\nMeanwhile, those who can afford it are also paying hefty amounts to procure drugs like remdesivir and tocilizumab.\n\nAn executive from a pharmaceutical company which manufactures remdesivir said \"demand had dried up\" in January and February. \"If the government had placed an order, we would have stockpiled and there wouldn't have been any shortage. We have ramped up production but demand has grown significantly,\" he said.\n\nIn contrast, the southern state of Kerala planned for the surge in advance. Dr A Fathahudeen, who is part of the state's Covid taskforce, says there was no shortage of oxygen in the state as necessary steps were taken in October last year.\n\nRelatives of patients have been refilling oxygen cylinders themselves\n\n\"We also procured sufficient stock of remdesivir and tocilizumab and other drugs well in advance. We also have a surge plan in place to tackle any exponential rise in the numbers in the coming weeks,\" he says.\n\nMr Zagade says other states should have also taken similar steps \"to avoid the suffering\".\n\n\"Learning means someone else has done it and you can do it now, but that means it will take time,\" the former health secretary for Maharashtra said.\n\nBut time is running out as the second wave is now spreading to villages where healthcare systems are not equipped to deal with the surge.\n\nGenome sequencing of the virus is an important step in identifying new variants that could be more infectious and deadly. The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortia (INSACOG) was set up last year and it brought together 10 labs in the country.\n\nBut the group reportedly struggled to get funding initially. Virologist Dr Jameel says India started seriously looking at mutations fairly late, with sequencing efforts only \"properly started\" in mid-February 2021.\n\nIndia is sequencing just over 1% of all samples at the moment. \"In comparison, the UK was sequencing at 5-6% at the peak of the pandemic. But you can't build such capacity overnight,\" he said.\n\nHowever, India's main hope was always vaccination.\n\nThis woman wanted to record the moment of vaccination\n\n\"Any public health specialist will tell you there is no practical way to strengthen an already broken public healthcare system in a matter of months,\" one woman, whose family runs a large private hospital in Delhi, told the BBC.\n\n\"The best and most effective alternative to battle Covid was to vaccinate the population as quickly as possible so the majority wouldn't need hospital care and hence not overburden the healthcare system.\"\n\nIndia initially wanted 300 million people vaccinated by July, \"but it seems the government did not do enough planning to secure vaccine supply to run the programme\", Dr Lahariya says.\n\n\"On top of it, it has opened the vaccination for all adults without securing vaccine supplies.\"\n\nSo far, only about 26 million people have been fully vaccinated out of a population of 1.4 billion, and about 124 million have received a single dose. India has millions more doses on order, but still far short of what it actually needs.\n\nThe federal government needs 615 million doses to vaccinate everyone above the age of 45 - about 440 million people. There are 622 million people between the age of 18 and 44, and 1.2 billion doses are required to vaccinate them.\n\nThe government has also cancelled exports, reneging on international commitments.\n\nThe government has enlisted other firms like Biological E and the state-run Haffkine Institute to produce vaccines. It has also given credit support of $609m to the Serum Institute of India, which produces the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab which is being made in India as Covishield, to ramp up production.\n\nBut that funding should have come earlier, Dr Lahariya says, saving precious lives. \"It will take months before we have enough vaccines to speed up the programme. In the meantime, millions will continue to be at risk of getting Covid,\" he adds.\n\nExperts say it is ironic that India is known as the world's pharmacy and it is now facing shortages of vaccines and drugs.\n\nAll of this, Dr Lahariya says, should serve as wake-up call for for both federal and state governments, which should invest drastically more in the healthcare sector because \"this definitely is not the last pandemic we will have to fight against\".\n\n\"The future pandemic may come earlier than any model can predict,\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it's like working in an emergency room in India, as its devastating second Covid wave continues", "Pubs and other hospitality venues in England will be able to seat customers indoors from 17 May if the government meets its Covid targets\n\nIt is unlikely that there will be more lockdowns in the UK, the scientist whose modelling led to the first nationwide restrictions has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC the UK is \"likely to be on a steady course now out of this pandemic\".\n\nHowever, he said there could be a \"roll back\" of some freedoms if any new variants proved resistant to vaccines.\n\nMinisters have said further lockdown easing will go ahead in England if the data supports it.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government's coronavirus dashboard recorded 1,946 new infections, as well as four deaths within 28 days of a positive test across the UK.\n\nThe recorded number of deaths is often lower immediately after weekends and bank holidays due to reporting lags.\n\nMore than 50 million Covid vaccinations have been given in the UK so far, with 34,667,904 first doses and 15,630,007 second doses.\n\nCovid restrictions are expected to be further eased on 17 May in England, Scotland and Wales, subject to government approval. In Northern Ireland, more restrictions may be lifted on 24 May.\n\nProf Ferguson, an expert on the spread of infectious diseases who sits on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said that data on falling Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths was encouraging.\n\nHe told BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym that while another lockdown \"can't be completely ruled out\", he has become increasingly \"optimistic\" over recent months.\n\n\"In the worst case scenario, if we have a new variant pop up which does manage to evade the vaccines, say late summer early autumn, there may be a need to roll back on some of these measures at least temporarily until we can boost people's immunity,\" he said.\n\n\"Do I think it's likely to happen? No, I don't. I think we are much more likely to be on a steady course now out of this pandemic, at least in this country.\"\n\nProf Ferguson said variants would need to be monitored \"carefully\", but the UK has gone from a \"terrible situation\" in January to a \"remarkably good situation now\".\n\nLife would \"feel a lot more normal\" by early summer, he said, although questions remain over whether summer holidays abroad would be possible.\n\n\"We will have many fewer restrictions. Whether we have none at all it's too early to say,\" he added.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson's modelling led to the first lockdown in March 2020\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested there could be some \"opening up\" of foreign travel for people in England on 17 May - but said \"we have got to be very, very tough\".\n\nForeign holidays are currently banned, but a traffic light system of rules will be introduced with countries classed as green, amber or red.\n\nFurther details are expected this week, after the government said it will \"set out by early May\" how countries will be categorised.\n\nMr Johnson also said there was a \"good chance\" the 1m plus social distancing rule could be scrapped on 21 June in England, when the nation reaches the final step of its roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nHe said the results of the vaccine rollout were \"really starting to show up in the epidemiology\" - but any change would depend on the data.", "\"A number of people\" were trapped as a result of the destruction, police said\n\nSeven people have been injured after an explosion left residents trapped in a row of terraced houses.\n\nThe front of a property in Mill View, Willesborough, Kent, was totally destroyed in the blast, which started a fire on the street at 08:00 BST.\n\nTwo people were taken to hospital to London with serious injuries, South East Coast Ambulance Service said.\n\nFive others were taken to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford with injuries thought to be less serious.\n\nHouses nearby were evacuated after the explosion shook the area\n\nKent Police said \"a number of people\" were trapped in the rubble and rescued, but all residents are now accounted for.\n\nThe blaze is now under control, and the operation has been scaled back. Fire crews are working to extinguish any remaining hotspots and make the scene safe.\n\nThe cause of the fire is yet to be established but it is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nParamedics attended to people at the scene\n\nChantel Weller, from Osborne Road, adjacent to the road where the explosion occurred, said: \"We all felt our houses shake along this road. The whole house shook, and it felt like something had blown into the side of it.\n\n\"It wasn't very loud but it was a strange feeling.\n\n\"People said they thought it might be a gas explosion, and it looks like the houses have been evacuated\n\n\"The whole area is cordoned off.\"\n\nA large hole has been left within the row of terraces\n\nThe Salvation Army set up a centre at a local village hall to provide support to those whose homes were evacuated.\n\nPeople were advised to avoid the area and keep windows and doors closed.\n\nAt its height, seven fire crews were called to the site, as well two road vehicles from the air ambulance.\n\nGas engineers were also brought in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chantal Weller This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Pandora is launching its lab-made diamonds in the UK ahead of a global rollout\n\nThe world's biggest jeweller, Pandora, says it will no longer sell mined diamonds and will switch to exclusively laboratory-made diamonds.\n\nConcerns about the environment and working practices in the mining industry have led to growing demand for alternatives to mined diamonds.\n\nPandora's chief executive, Alexander Lacik, told the BBC the change was part of a broader sustainability drive.\n\nHe said the firm was pursuing it because \"it's the right thing to do\".\n\nThey are also cheaper: \"We can essentially create the same outcome as nature has created, but at a very, very different price.\"\n\nMr Lacik explains they can be made for as little as \"a third of what it is for something that we've dug up from the ground.\"\n\nIn 2020, worldwide lab-grown diamond production grew to between 6 and 7 million carats.\n\nMeanwhile the production of mined diamonds fell to 111 million carats last year, having peaked at 152 million in 2017, according to a report from the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) and the consultancy Bain & Company.\n\nProduction fell most in Russia, Canada, Botswana and Australia.\n\nLab-grown diamonds such as these from the French company, Diam-Concept are growing in popularity\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the diamond industry. De Beers, which produces about one-fifth of the world's mined diamonds, says production fell 18% last year.\n\nEconomic uncertainty and lockdowns led to a slump in demand and falling prices, although there has been something of a recovery since.\n\nPandora's lab-made diamonds are being made in Britain, and the UK is the first country where they will be sold.\n\nThe new diamond jewellery will start at £250 ($350). Although diamonds have traditionally only been a very small share of the 100 million pieces Pandora sells worldwide each year, Mr Lacik believes that will be boosted by lower prices.\n\n\"Pandora jewellery today is much more of an everyday type of jewellery, even though a large proportion of it is gifted. The way the diamond industry has kind of been created to a large degree has been very much about gifting, and in particular around when people get engaged or married\".\n\nPandora CEO Alexander Lacik thinks lab-grown diamonds can help the whole industry grow\n\n\"We're trying to open up this playing field and say, you know, with the type of value equation that we offer, you can use this everyday if you want.\"\n\nHe expects people to buy gifts more often for themselves instead.\n\n\"What might very well happen is actually that the total demand for diamonds is going to increase. So it may actually not be a question of, we steal somebody else's lunch\".\n\nPandora hopes that the lower price of lab-made diamonds will lead to increased sales\n\nOlya Linde, the lead author of the Bain report, agrees that there is room for both.\n\n\"I believe that natural diamonds and lab grown diamonds can wonderfully coexist and grow the overall diamond market. There's clear demand for each type of product.\"\n\nBetter design and lower prices are, says Ms Linde, the top reasons why customers pick lab-made diamonds over their naturally occurring counterparts.\n\nConcerns about the environmental, sustainability and ethical impact of mined diamonds didn't make the top five.\n\nHowever, Bain's survey found that concerns about sustainability were more important to \"Millennials\" and \"Gen-Z\" than older age groups when buying diamond jewellery.\n\nOne problem with lab-made diamonds, though, is that they can take a lot of energy to produce.\n\nBetween 50% and 60% of them come from China, where they are made in a process known as \"high-pressure, high-temperature technology\". The use of coal powered electricity is widespread.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laboratory-made diamonds are today all but indistinguishable from the real thing\n\nHowever in the United States, the biggest retail market for lab-grown diamonds, there is a greater focus on using renewable energy.\n\nThe largest US producer, Diamond Foundry, says its process is \"100% hydro-powered, meaning zero emissions\".\n\nBoth types are chemically and physically identical to mined diamonds.\n\nBut conflict-free production is still a big concern for customers across different age groups, according to Bain.\n\nIt's now more than 20 years since the Kimberley Process came into force. The UN-backed process aims to stop diamonds being used to fuel conflicts after years of that happening in countries such as Angola, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.\n\nActor Leonardo DiCaprio invested in Diamond Foundry after starring in Hollywood thriller \"Blood Diamond\"\n\nLast year, a report by Human Rights Watch found that some major jewellery companies were doing better at sourcing mined diamonds, \"but most cannot assure consumers that their jewellery is untainted by human rights abuses\".\n\nIt found that Pandora was one of the best performers, having taken significant steps towards responsible sourcing.\n\nBut for the World Diamond Council (WDC), which represents the mined diamond industry, lab-made diamonds are not the answer.\n\nIt says any suggestion they \"would have a role in preventing trade in conflict diamonds is spurious and not based on fact\".\n\nThe WDC adds that for people living in artisanal and small-scale diamond mining communities stopping the mining of diamonds \"would remove a primary source of income\" and \"would have devastating impacts on their livelihoods, causing poverty and further unrest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPandora chief Mr Lacik says the long term is what matters when it comes to the company's approach to sustainability.\n\n\"Whether consumers are buying more or less today, right now is actually not the key driver,\" he says.\n\n\"We want to become a low-carbon business. I have four children, I'm leaving this earth one day, I hope I can leave it in a better shape than maybe what we've kind of created in the last 50 years or so.\"", "Politicians are visiting constituencies around Wales ahead of Thursday's vote\n\nParties are focusing their campaigning on key north Wales battlegrounds with just two days to go before the Welsh Parliament election.\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer visited Vale of Clwyd, Delyn and Wrexham, constituencies that the Tories gained from Labour at Westminster in 2019.\n\nWelsh Conservatives' Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies and Plaid's Liz Saville Roberts are also in the north.\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats are in Ceredigion.\n\nSIGN UP FOR WALES ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\nSir Keir visited a military equipment manufacturer in St Asaph in the Vale of Clwyd constituency - a seat held by Labour at Senedd level but by the Conservatives in Westminster.\n\nIt was one of six seats the Conservatives won from Labour at the Westminster election two years ago.\n\nSir Keir said it was his \"job\" to \"rebuild trust\" after the party \"lost very badly in December 2019\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales he asked voters to \"reflect\" on Welsh Labour's Mark Drakeford \"and the way he has led Wales over the last 14 months during this pandemic\".\n\n\"Very many people recognise that careful, reassuring way in which he has led Wales.\"\n\nHe said he and Mr Drakeford both wanted \"more power and responsibility in Wales, decisions closer to people in Wales, a strong Wales in a fair United Kingdom\".\n\nAsked whether he would be happy if Labour worked with Plaid after the election, he added: \"What we're fighting for is a Labour-led Welsh government to continue the good work that has been done through the pandemic and lead us through the recovery.\"\n\nIn the three seats Sir Keir Starmer is visiting today, Labour is defending majorities that are smaller than the number of votes polled by UKIP at the last Welsh parliament election five years ago.\n\nThe biggest study of its kind suggests the vast majority of 2016 UKIP voters went to the Conservatives at the general elections of 2017 and 2019.\n\nIf those people vote Tory again they could really help Andrew RT Davies.\n\nI spoke to an experienced Labour politician in this part of the world who has been out on the doors during the shortened campaign. She sounded confident Labour's vote was holding up.\n\nBut that may not tell you much about what is happening on the other side of the spectrum, where the Conservatives are trying to convince people to keep up the habit of voting Tory.\n\nThe incumbent first minister Mark Drakeford, meanwhile, has spent Tuesday visiting the constituencies of Rhondda, Llanelli and Bridgend.\n\nBridgend is held by the Conservatives in Westminster but Labour in the Senedd, while Plaid Cymru is hoping to capture Llanelli from Labour.\n\nPlaid holds Rhondda - which Labour is campaigning to win back.\n\nWhile campaign director Ms Saville Roberts was campaigning in Aberconwy in the north, Plaid leader Adam Price was campaigning in Neath, a seat held by Labour in Cardiff Bay since devolution in 1999 and for more than a century at Westminster.\n\nHe claimed voters - \"particularly traditional Labour voters\" - were \"saying they're coming over to Plaid because they feel it's time to give someone else a chance to take Wales in that new direction with new ideas and new leadership that puts us on a different path\".\n\nHis party, said Mr Price, would \"deliver opportunity for our young people, dignity for old people and give everyone in Wales the chance for a better life\".\n\n\"People are really inspired, I think, by our positive message of hope and change and belief in Wales, there's no problem in Wales that Wales cannot solve.\"\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\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies was campaigning in the Aberconwy constituency - a target for Plaid Cymru in north Wales.\n\nThe Tories hold the seat, but held only a 754-vote majority over Plaid in the 2016 Senedd election.\n\nMr Davies said north Wales \"has been too often ignored by Labour\".\n\n\"We have a clear plan to tackle our creaking infrastructure and fragile economy, and create jobs, prosperity and opportunity for people across Wales,\" he said.\n\nWelsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds was in Ceredigion on Tuesday.\n\n\"The last year has brought into sharp focus the significant challenges in our rural economy,\" she said.\n\n\"From poor digital and transport connectivity, housing costs, and the challenges of running small businesses, rural Wales faces a difficult period ahead.\n\n\"Welsh Liberal Democrats are fighting this election with pledges to invest in tackling broadband and mobile phone connectivity to help both businesses and those choosing to work remotely.\"\n\nJanet-Finch Saunders and Andrew RT Davies were canvassing in Penrhyn Bay\n\nThe leader of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party (ATWAP) said voters were telling the party \"we need UK support, not more and more devolution\".\n\nRichard Suchorzewski, leader of ATWAP, said: \"This week speaking to businesses in north Wales, I have heard how their prospects have been hit by the Welsh Assembly with low investment, poor transport infrastructure and less Covid financial support than England.\n\n\"In the valleys, where Abolish received the support of Nigel Copner, who almost won Blaenau Gwent for Plaid Cymru last time, people are telling us we need UK support, not more and more devolution.\"\n\nReform UK accused Welsh Labour of \"dithering and delaying\" in easing Covid restrictions. \"Wales is paying the costs,\" said Reform's James Wells.\n\n\"Each day the cost of keeping business from fully reopening grows with a total bill from furlough alone around £2bn in Wales. Job losses are also contributing to the growing mental health crisis. This simply isn't good enough.\"\n\nThe Wales Green Party asked Labour voters not to place a \"wasted vote\" for the party on the regional list.\n\nThe party said over the next couple of days Amelia Womack would be campaigning in Newport and surrounding areas, while Anthony Slaughter would be between Barry, Penarth and Cardiff.\n\nMr Slaughter said a \"big priority for us is explaining to traditional Labour voters that Labour is a wasted vote on the regional list\", adding: \"It makes sense for Labour voters to lend their vote Green on the regional list.\"\n\nUKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton was campaigning in Merthyr Tydfil on Tuesday.\n\nA spokesman said the party was \"standing on a platform of decency, honesty and fairness\".\n\n\"Twenty-two years of Labour government has devastated Wales and left behind communities in the south Wales valleys and north Wales,\" the spokesman added.\n\nUKIP won seven seats at the last Welsh Assembly election in 2016. After a series of defections Mr Hamilton remained the only UKIP Senedd member in the last term.\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", "Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole has been described as a hero by family and friends\n\nA man who died trying to save a drowning woman should get a medal for bravery, a fellow rescuer has said.\n\nJoaquin Garcia and Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewol went into the River Thames at London Bridge after hearing a scream at about midnight on 24 April.\n\nThe woman and Mr Garcia were rescued by the coastguard. Mr Olubunmi-Adewol's body was found six hours later.\n\nMr Garcia said he would \"totally support\" calls for the 20-year-old to be awarded the George Cross.\n\nHe said he backed \"the campaign that there is for Jimi to take a medal for his honour and his braveness\".\n\n\"I think he deserves that.\n\n\"I think it would be really good for the family as well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joaquin Garcia joined Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole in jumping into the River Thames to save a drowning woman\n\nHe said he had been walking nearby when he saw Mr Olubunmi-Adewol - who was known as Jimi - pointing into the river and shouting \"she's there, she's there\".\n\nHe said the 20-year-old asked him if he was going to jump, and after he said he was, \"Jimi started to count and said 'let's do it'.\n\n\"I couldn't think on it, so I just jumped... and that's the last time I saw Jimi.\"\n\nAfter being pulled from the water, Mr Garcia called his parents in Spain while in hospital.\n\nHe said he did not hear what his mother said as she was crying, but his father had said he was \"very good for being like you are\", before adding: \"Don't do it again\".\n\nFlowers were left near the spot where the two men entered the river\n\nThe City of London Police have asked the Royal Humane Society to put Mr Olubunmi-Adewol forward for an award for his \"bravery and selfless actions\".\n\nAlmost 150,00 people have also signed an online petition for a plaque to be put on London Bridge, recognising what he did.\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. 'Politics is a brutal game' - Arlene Foster speaks out after resignation\n\nArlene Foster will quit the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) when she stands down as Northern Ireland's first minister, BBC News NI understands.\n\nSources close to her said she thinks it is no longer the party she joined and it is moving in a different direction.\n\nMrs Foster is to resign as DUP leader on 28 May and end her tenure as first minister at the end of June.\n\nOn Thursday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots declared his intention to stand for the party leadership.\n\nBy Friday evening five of the party's Northern Ireland Assembly members and one of its MPs had publicly announced their support for his campaign.\n\nMrs Foster announced her resignation after about 80% of the DUP's Stormont and Westminster ranks signed a letter of no confidence in her leadership.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, she said that none of her colleagues who signed the letter of no confidence had spoken to her since then.\n\nShe also said that some of her colleagues - including some \"good friends\" - had not signed the letter.\n\nEdwin Poots is the first candidate to announce a bid to lead the DUP\n\nShe said she would wait until she stepped down as first minister before making public her decision about whether she would remain in the DUP.\n\nMrs Foster has led the DUP since December 2015.\n\nThe following month she was appointed first minister, becoming the first woman and the youngest person to hold both jobs.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson is expected to enter the DUP leadership race this weekend.\n\nEdwin Poots has been quick out of the blocks with his bid and has been building support - all of his backers so far were always likely to take his side.\n\nWhat will be key will be the floating voters among the party members entitled to have a say in this contest.\n\nIt is understood that Sir Jeffrey is confident he will get his fellow DUP MPs to support his campaign.\n\nBut he has lots of work to do to get the remainder of the Stormont ranks into his corner.\n\nIn her resignation statement on Wednesday, she said she was preparing to leave the political stage.\n\nBBC News NI understands that means not only quitting as a Stormont assembly member but severing her ties with the party she has led since December 2015.\n\nOn Thursday she informed her constituency association in Fermanagh and South Tyrone of her decision.\n\nQuestioned on Friday about whether she intended to become a member of the House of Lords, she said that was a matter for other people to determine.\n\nAsked about the future of the DUP, she wished her successor and the party well.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Foster has endured several major challenges during her time at the helm of the party, including division among members on social issues and significant recent pressure resulting from the fallout from Brexit, which the party supported.\n\nThe post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland - which have included a trade border being imposed between Great Britain and Northern Ireland - have been deeply unpopular with the party's core voters.\n\nBBC News NI understands that DUP officers will meet on Tuesday to discuss the timetable and the procedure for electing a party leader.\n\nAnnouncing his desire to succeed Mrs Foster, Mr Poots said he was looking forward to the \"engagement and the debate\" in the leadership contest.\n\nHe has secured the backing of senior Stormont assembly members, the first of which was Christopher Stalford, who said his friend had the \"experience and talents to take our country and our party forward\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers DUP politicians who have declared their support for Mr Poots include assembly members Jonathan Buckley, Paul Frew, Paul Givan, Mervyn Storey and the MP Paul Girvan.\n\nWinning the support of a majority of the party's 27 members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) will be crucial to Mr Poots' hopes of replacing Mrs Foster.\n\nOnly a small number of the DUP's membership - its MLAs and MPs - will get to vote in a leadership contest.", "The fee to apply for a gender recognition certificate has been cut to £5, the government has announced.\n\nMinisters pledged in September to slash the cost of legally changing gender from £140 after deciding against wider reforms.\n\nWomen and Equalities Minister Liz Truss said the reduction removed a \"barrier\" for transgender people.\n\nWhile cost has been cited as an obstacle to applying, some LGBT groups say more work is needed.\n\nThe BBC revealed last month that the cost would be reduced to single figures from early May.\n\nA consultation was set up in 2018 to explore potential reforms to the way transgender people can apply for a gender recognition certificate (GRC) 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.\n\nThe government estimates there are between 200,000 and 500,000 transgender people in the UK, although the actual figure is not known.\n\nA total of 5,871 full GRCs have been granted since 2005, according to the latest official figures.\n\nIn September 2020, following a highly charged debate about the potential impact of changing the law, the government announced it would not fundamentally reform the process.\n\nAt the time, Ms Truss said there were \"proper checks and balances in the system\" - but pledged to make applying \"kinder and more straightforward\", including reducing the fee.\n\nIn a statement after the reduction came into force, Ms Truss said: \"As we build back better, we want transgender people to be free to live and to prosper in modern Britain.\"\n\n\"In the National LGBT Survey, 34% of transgender people told us that the cost of applying for a certificate was holding them back from doing so,\" Ms Truss said.\n\n\"Today we have removed that barrier, and I am proud that we have made the process of getting a certificate fairer, simpler and much more affordable.\"\n\nGovernment sources have previously told BBC News that making the service completely free would take longer because it would require primary legislation.\n\nThe government has also said it is working \"at speed\" to move the application process online.\n\nHowever, some LGBT charities have called for more fundamental reform.\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\nNancy Kelley, chief executive of Stonewall, said reducing the cost and streamlining the application process were not substitutes for \"meaningful reform to the Gender Recognition Act\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nThe Indian Premier League (IPL) has been suspended after an increase in coronavirus cases among players.\n\nMonday's match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore was postponed after two KKR players tested positive.\n\nIn a statement, the IPL said it had \"unanimously decided\" to postpone the season after an emergency meeting.\n\n\"The BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) does not want to compromise on the safety of the players, support staff and the other participants involved in organising the IPL,\" it said.\n\n\"This decision was taken keeping the safety, health and wellbeing of all the stakeholders in mind.\n\n\"These are difficult times, especially in India and while we have tried to bring in some positivity and cheer, however, it is imperative that the tournament is now suspended and everyone goes back to their families and loved ones in these trying times.\n\n\"The BCCI will do everything in its powers to arrange for the secure and safe passage of all the participants in IPL 2021.\"\n\nWednesday's match between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals had earlier been called off after Chennai bowling coach Lakshmipathy Balaji tested positive.\n\nThe IPL is the richest franchise tournament in world cricket, with eight franchises representing different Indian cities in matches of 20 overs per side.\n\nThe Twenty20 tournament features global cricketing superstars purchased by the franchises at auction, including India icon Virat Kohli. Fourteen England players were signed up for the 2021 season.\n\nOver the weekend, India recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began.\n\nThe country has recorded more than 20 million cases, and so far reported more than 222,000 deaths from the virus.\n\nThe IPL was taking place across six venues in India, with players travelling between them on charter and private flights.\n\nTeams are staying within secure areas of hotels and resorts in the various cities and do not have contact with people outside the bubble.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has no plans to arrange a charter flight for the England contingent in India as it is the responsibility of the franchises to get the players and staff home.\n\nWhen the players do leave India, they will have to be tested before departure and upon arrival in the UK, and then quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.\n\nNone of those connected to England are thought to have tested positive for Covid-19, but it is unknown whether any have been in close contact with those who have.\n\nAn ECB spokesperson said: \"We are in close contact with our players and staff in India as arrangements are put in place for them to return home safely.\"\n\nCricket Australia (CA) said it was working with the BCCI to ensure the \"safe accommodation and repatriation\" of its players back to Australia.\n\nLast week, Australia banned all flights from India until 15 May and CA said it \"will not seek exemptions\".\n\nCricket South Africa said it would ensure all South African players were helped to get home.\n• None Why Kwabena's dream job might mean risking it all\n• None Fidel Castro's Cuba as told by the spies, revolutionaries and diplomats who shaped it", "A metro overpass has partially collapsed in Mexico City. Officials say at least 23 people are dead, and dozens injured.\n\nEmergency medical crews attended the scene near the Olivos station on the metro's 12 Line.\n\nBBC's Mexico correspondent Will Grant said there were shocking scenes with \"the carriages, the bridge crumpled into each other on to the highway below\".", "Used - and abused: Discarded disposable face masks could be leaching heavy metals and nano-plastics into our environment\n\nDisposable face masks could be releasing chemical pollutants and nano-plastics into the environment, researchers have warned.\n\nScientists said there needed to be better regulation and more research carried out.\n\nThe Swansea University team found heavy metals and plastic fibres were released when throw-away masks were submerged in water.\n\nThe researchers said the public health impact needed more investigation.\n\n\"Before the pandemic, we were looking at reducing the use of plastic straws, reducing packaging, but now we are looking at hundreds and thousands of these masks being disposed,\" said the project leader, Dr Sarper Sarp, of the university's College of Engineering.\n\n\"We need to sort our priorities - first of all we need to get over the pandemic and protect each other and the public health. Then, in the meantime, we need to take steps to protect the environment.\"\n\nBack in November last year, the researchers were only originally interested in the plastic waste impact on our environment.\n\nBut as they tested more and more masks, they uncovered more chemicals.\n\nThe Swansea researchers found disposable masks leached chemicals and plastics when submerged\n\nThe pollutants were often linked to dyes used in producing the masks, mostly made in southern Asia, and China in particular.\n\nThe team found traces of lead, antimony and cadmium - all heavy metals which can be toxic in low doses.\n\nThey said the levels found were in the range of parts per million or parts per billion.\n\n\"On an environmental scale with the amount of production of these things - it all accumulates,\" warned Dr Geraint Sullivan, technology transfer fellow at the university.\n\nDr Geraint Sullivan said the results of the research were \"quite shocking\"\n\nHe said the heavy metals found were also \"bio-accumulative\", which means they are not removed from aquatic systems and they build up over time.\n\n\"That's what's quite shocking really - even though they are at such trace levels, the amount of material being produced out there is going to have an effect on the wider environment,\" added Dr Sullivan.\n\nThe impact of throw-away face coverings needs more research, say the Swansea project team\n\nProject leader Dr Sarp, who is also a member of the Welsh government's Covid technical advisory group of scientists, said there was much more work to be done on the face masks.\n\n\"It might not be a big issue now but accumulation is a problem we will face in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The benefits of wearing the masks are huge, so we need to keep wearing them, but we need to be looking at different regulations and standardisation of the masks and the quality of the materials we use.\n\n\"We need to look at how they are produced, how we can test these, and how to standardise their quality.\"\n\nDr Sarp said with that information, they would be able to educate and inform the public about the masks, and ensure they are safer for individuals and the environment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hospitality bosses have lost a legal challenge for a faster reopening for indoor dining in England.\n\nThe High Court ruled in favour of the government after a case was brought by Punch Taverns founder Hugh Osmond, and Sacha Lord, the night-time economy adviser for Greater Manchester.\n\nPubs and restaurants were allowed to reopen - but only outdoors - on 12 April, along with non-essential shops.\n\nMr Lord said they were disappointed by the outcome.\n\nMr Lord and Mr Osmond argued there was no justification or scientific basis for hospitality to be kept closed for five weeks, after retailers in England were allowed to serve customers indoors from mid-April.\n\nMr Lord said: \"While this fight has always been an uphill battle... we are pleased that the case has shone a light on the hospitality sector and the unfair and unequal guidance within the recovery roadmap.\"\n\n\"Despite the outcome, we will continue to hold the government to account and demand evidence-based decisions, rather than those drafted without detailed analysis or based on bias or whim.\"\n\nThe government has insisted the lockdown easing must be cautious if it is to be irreversible, adding that it will driven by \"data and not dates\".\n\nA date - 17 May - has been set as the next stage for relaxing restrictions in England.\n\nPubs, cafes and restaurants will be able to serve customers indoors.\n\nIn Scotland, pubs and restaurants are already allowed to open indoors until 20:00 - but alcohol can only be served to those seated outside.\n\nIt is hoped venues in Wales will be able to open indoors on 17 May. In Northern Ireland, hospitality may reopen on 24 May.\n\nThe hospitality bosses pointed to recent findings by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which suggested that the hospitality sector was associated with a relatively low risk of Covid-19 transmission, although it was slightly higher than leisure and retail.\n\nIn statement, the two men also expressed disappointment that the call for faster reopening dates was described as \"academic\".\n\nMr Osmond, a former director of Pizza Express, said: \"This case is not 'academic' for an industry that is losing £200m every day it remains closed, for the over three million people who work in our industry, or for the tens of thousands of businesses, suppliers, landlords and contractors forced into bankruptcy by Government measures.\"\n\nThe sector has been one of the worst-affected by coronavirus shutdowns.\n\nTrade body UK Hospitality warned recently that about that £2bn in rent is owed by hospitality businesses with 40% of premises still currently negotiating over unpaid rent with landlords.\n\nAbout 20 to 30% are still in talks over how to settle debts from 2020 lockdowns, it said, calling for the government to step in as a ban on evictions for commercial tenants and business rates holidays end.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Our roadmap sets out a cautious approach to easing restrictions, based on the best scientific evidence available at the time. We published a full range of scientific papers alongside it, on 22 February.\"\n\n\"It is widely acknowledged that the risk of transmission outdoors is significantly less than indoors, which is why businesses have already been able to open in some outdoor settings, ahead of indoor hospitality later this month,\" they said.\n\nThey added that the government has provided support to the sector through schemes such as the Restart Grant scheme, the furlough scheme and VAT cuts.\n\nAbout 750,000 business in \"hospitality and other sectors\" had benefitted from business rates relief, they said.", "Odeon has become the latest cinema chain to say it will reopen on 17 May following months of lockdown closures.\n\nFollowing a similar announcement from Cineworld, Odeon said it would open most of its 120 UK sites with new safety measures in place.\n\nThe industry has been hit hard by Covid and Odeon's owner AMC warned last month it was running out of cash.\n\n\"We've all missed the magic that the cinema brings to movie watching,\" said Odeon managing director Carol Welch.\n\nThe chain - Britain's largest - said it would be reopening the \"vast majority\" of its sites, including flagship cinemas at London's Leicester Square, Manchester's Trafford Centre and Birmingham's Broadway Plaza.\n\nThe company hopes film fans will flock back to cinemas to see host of new 2021 film releases, including Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, Fast & Furious 9, Marvel's Black Widow and the long-awaited Bond film No Time to Die.\n\nThe chain will also screen Oscar-winning films that have been offered at no extra charge on screening services, such as Sound Of Metal (Amazon Prime) and Nomadland (Disney+).\n\nCineworld - which has around 100 sites - will mark its reopening with a new deal with Warner Bros to show films in theatres before they are streamed. Godzilla vs. Kong will be the first film to make its UK debut on Cineworld screens as part of the deal.\n\nSound of Metal, starring Riz Ahmed, will be one of the first films Odeon shows\n\nAt Odeon cinemas seats will be limited, guaranteeing unoccupied seats between parties to meet social distancing requirements.\n\nVisitors will be expected to wear face masks but will be allowed to remove them in auditoriums when eating or drinking.\n\nMeanwhile, show start times will be staggered to reduce queues and the cinemas no longer accept cash, which means only contactless payment is accepted and cinemagoers are advised to pre-book seats online.\n\nGodzilla vs Kong Hollywood set a new global record for pandemic-era filmgoing when it opened in the US last month\n\nThe cinema industry has been one of the worst hit sectors during the pandemic with many screens closed for extended periods or operating at reduced capacity.\n\nGlobal box office takings in 2020 fell by more than 70% from the previous year to $12.4bn, according to film technology firm Gower Street Analytics.\n\nMajor releases have been delayed because of Covid, including the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, which was put off a number of times. It will now debut globally on 8 October but had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.\n\nThe much-anticipated sci-fi movie Dune, starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya, was originally slated to be released in December 2020 but is now set to appear at cinemas in October.\n\nIn December, Odeon's US owner, AMC Entertainment Holdings, had to raise $100m (£76m) in emergency funds after warning it was running out of cash.\n\nIt said it was burning through $125m a month as concerns about Covid-19 shut some cinemas and kept audiences away.\n\nThe firm said attendance has dropped 92% in the US and 86% internationally.", "In a change of pace, the party leaders are asked to put their hands up if they have no fixed plans to increase income tax.\n\nDouglas Ross, Anas Sarwar, Nicola Sturgeon and Willie Rennie raise their hands, while Patrick Harvie says his party takes the view that this is not the time to do it.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says the issue is \"more complicated\" than hands up or hands down, and asks \"can we not have a proper debate?\" She says that given the economy will be recovering from the Covid pandemic, tax stability really matters and states: “We have no plans to raise tax in the next parliament”. The SNP leader says that based on assumptions made about growth and tax revenues, the SNP’s manifesto commitments can be funded - and that it is important to invest for the future and the transition to net-zero carbon emissions.\n\nDouglas Ross attacks the SNP, claiming its manifesto is “uncosted” and that it isn’t being “honest” with the public. He says the priority is Covid recovery, but by the end of the parliament he would like to see parity in the tax system. The Scottish Conservative leader says 1.1 million people in Scotland are paying more tax than they would if they lived south of the border.\n\nAnas Sarwar says Douglas Ross would rather give himself a tax-cut, rather than people across the country, and says Labour do want to raise tax by taxing online giants like Amazon. The Scottish Labour leader says he still supports the principle of a more progressive tax system. However, the presumption would be to not increase income taxes through the course of the recovery and thereafter raise income tax on those earning more than £150,000.\n\nWillie Rennie says his party have an “aspiration” towards a universal basic income but the priority for the next parliament will be to put the recovery from Covid first and invest in more mental health services and 3,500 more teachers, as well as a youth jobs guarantee. The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader insists this could all be done within the medium term financial strategy already set out by the Scottish government.\n\nPatrick Harvie says most people recognise that the recovery phase from Covid is a chance to create a fairer and greener Scotland. The Greens' co-leader says the focus shouldn’t just be on income tax – he wants a reform of council tax to create a “fairer wealth tax”. He says all the main political parties have agreed there needs to be a deep look at all aspects to taxation not just to create investment, but also a fairer distribution of wealth.", "Mothers of brides and grooms in England and Wales will now be added to marriage certificates for the first time.\n\nUntil now, the document only included the names of the fathers of the couple, but a change to the Marriage Act means both parents will be included.\n\nThe Home Office said the move would \"correct a historic anomaly\".\n\nMarriages will also be recorded electronically, rather than written in a registry book, as part of the biggest changes to the system since 1837.\n\nThe government said the creation of a single electronic register, which goes live on Tuesday, would speed up the process and remove the need for any details to be extracted from hard copies.\n\nMarriages were previously recorded by the couple signing a register book - there are around 84,000 held at register offices, in churches and chapels, and at registered religious premises.\n\nThe changes to the Marriage Act were made in consultation with the Church of England.\n\nThe Reverend Dr Malcolm Brown, director of mission and public affairs for the Church of England, said he believed the new regulations would become second nature very quickly.\n\n\"Changing practices that go back many years is never straightforward, but we believe the new system changes as little as possible in terms of the couple's experience of their church wedding,\" he added.\n\nMPs from all parties have spent several years attempting to bring about a change in the law to allow both parents to have their names and occupations recorded.\n\nThe move brings England and Wales into line with the rest of the UK.\n\nIn Scotland and Northern Ireland, couples are already asked to give the names of both parents on marriage documentation. The same applies for those entering a civil partnership.\n• None Mums' names to go on marriage certificate", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nWatch the best shots as Mark Selby beat Shaun Murphy to win the snooker World Championship Mark Selby claimed his fourth World Championship title with an 18-15 victory over Shaun Murphy at a sold-out Crucible Theatre. Selby, who led 14-11 prior to the final session, is now three Crucible crowns off Stephen Hendry's record of seven. Runs of 66, 68 and a superb 120 helped him break Murphy's resistance in a high-quality encounter. Selby, 37, collects £500,000 in prize money and moves up to second in the world behind Judd Trump. Having been perched at the top of the world rankings during the period in which he claimed three world titles in four years, Selby's dominance once looked unquestionable. And while those days appeared to have gone, his return to form under Chris Henry, who also coaches Murphy, and the quality of his all-round game suggests he is more than capable of continuing to win snooker's biggest prizes. Now level with Scotland's John Higgins on four, only Hendry (seven), Ronnie O'Sullivan, Steve Davis and Ray Reardon (all six) have won more world titles than Selby in the modern era. And while he is now likely to turn his attention to usurping Trump, Selby's 20th major ranking title also cements his place among the greats in Triple Crown events - equalling Higgins' tally of nine, placing him behind only Davis, Hendry and O'Sullivan. \"To win it once against Ronnie O'Sullivan for the first time was a dream come true - to win it four times is something I could only have dreamed of,\" Selby said on BBC Two. \"Every time you get to a world final you always try your hardest - it's such a tough tournament to get there and you never know whether it's going to be your last. \"My aim is to get back to world number one. You still have goals in your career. I'm going in the right direction.\" With the coach of both players Henry an intrigued spectator, Selby had earlier maintained his control of the match in Monday afternoon's session. 'The Crucible roar like never before!' - capacity crowd for final 'Life has been difficult' - Murphy thanks capacity Crucible crowd The concluding sessions of the Championship marked a notable sporting milestone with a capacity crowd returning to a major UK sporting event for the first time since March 2020. And as well as adding a semblance of normality, the 980 fans brought a return of the Crucible roar and added to the nervous tension, particularly when Murphy threatened an improbable comeback - turning thoughts towards a first final-frame decider since Peter Ebdon's 18-17 win over Hendry in 2002 - with back-to-back centuries. With Selby on the verge of victory at 17-13, Murphy clawed himself back to 17-15 with a superb show of under-pressure potting, but a missed red down the left cushion when well placed ended his hopes of adding to his 2005 title. Watch the conclusion to an entertaining last frame at the World Snooker Championship \"Mark is super-granite, unfortunately for me,\" Murphy said on BBC Two. \"I started well but he went into super-hard mode. He broke me last night with that three-frame lead which was a tough lead to give him in a match of this calibre. \"Life has been difficult for everybody over the last 12 months but I want to say a very deep and personal thank you for every one of you who has bought a ticket over the last 17 days. \"Sport is nothing without fans and we've been thrilled to have everyone back and a full house tonight. It's been very tough for me this year with the travel restrictions but you've brought me back.\" As well as the consolation of a runners-up cheque worth £200,000 and a £15,000 prize for the tournament's top break of 144 in his second-round clash with Yan Bingtao, Murphy can leave Sheffield with his head held high. Elaine Murphy had expressed her pride in her husband in a BBC interview earlier on Monday and those sentiments are likely to be shared by fans who were delighted by the raw emotion he showed at times as well as his attacking style. Was this the best shot of the World Championship? Sign up to My Sport to follow snooker news on the BBC app.\n• None This Time with Alan Partridge is back: Stream his second series on iPlayer now", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency crews attended the collapse late on Monday near the Olivos station on the metro's 12 Line\n\nA metro overpass has collapsed in Mexico City as a train was travelling over it, killing at least 23 people, including children, the mayor said.\n\nTwo train carriages were seen hanging from the structure, above a busy road. At least 79 people were injured, and seven are in a serious condition.\n\nOne person trapped in a car underneath the wreckage was pulled out alive.\n\nThis is the deadliest incident in decades in the city's metro system, one of the busiest in the world.\n\nLocal media broadcast CCTV footage showing the overpass collapsing, sending up clouds of debris. The crash happened at around 22:00 local time on Monday (03:00 GMT) near the Olivos station on the metro's Line 12, in the south-east of the city.\n\nMexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said an external company would investigate the cause of the incident. Earlier, she said it appeared a girder had given way on the overpass. The line, inaugurated less than a decade ago, will remain closed while a structural survey is carried out.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference alongside the mayor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador offered his condolences to the relatives of the victims and said that \"nothing would be hidden\" from the Mexican people.\n\nResidents had reported cracks in the structure after a deadly 2017 earthquake, according to local media. Mexico's El Universal newspaper says transport authorities made repairs following the reports.\n\nThe injured were taken to local hospitals\n\nA crane was sent to the scene to stabilise the carriages amid concerns they could fall onto the road, which forced officials to temporarily halt rescue efforts at night.\n\nIn chaotic scenes, anxious friends and relatives of those believed to be on the train gathered in the area. Efraín Juárez told AFP news agency that his son was in the wreckage. \"My daughter-in-law called us. She was with him and she told us the structure fell down over them.\"\n\nGisela Rioja Castro, 43, was looking for her 42-year-old husband, who always takes that train after work and had not been answering his phone. She said the authorities had no information about him. \"Nobody knows anything,\" she told the Associated Press.\n\nImages show the site of the incident now and in 2019\n\nA passenger, 26-year-old Mariana, told El Universal that she and other people trapped among the carriage's twisted metal managed to escape through a window.\n\n\"We only heard a loud thunder, and everything fell apart,\" she said of the moment of the incident. \"There were many people standing and sitting in the carriage, and when the carriage fell, we went flying and hit our heads on its roof.\"\n\nThe search operation had to be paused for some time amid fears of a further collapse\n\nThe area around the crash site has been sealed off\n\nOne eyewitness told Mexico's Televisa TV network: \"Suddenly I saw that the structure was shaking.\"\n\n\"When the dust cleared we ran... to see if we could help. There were no screams. I don't know if they were in shock,\" the witness said.\n\nMexico City's metro system is one of the most used in the world, carrying tens of millions of passengers a week. In North America, only New York's subway carries more people every day.\n\nYet the incident did not occur on one of the older lines, which have been through at least two major earthquakes in the past 35 years. Rather it happened on Line 12, completed as recently as October 2012.\n\nThere will be difficult questions for the mayor's office to come about the construction of the line, including for several former mayors.\n\nThey include Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, who was in office when Line 12 was unveiled and who championed the metro's expansion. He called the accident a \"terrible tragedy\".\n\nHowever, those questions must wait until later. The moment now is solely about the rescue operation as Mexicans pray the number of victims does not rise any further.\n\nLast year, one person was killed and more than 40 injured in a collision between two metro trains in Mexico City.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness what happened? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "From the moment he was arrested in August 2002 in connection with a young woman’s murder, Omar Benguit has protested his innocence.\n\nAt first glance, the case against him looked cut and dried. A large number of witnesses testified against him. Omar was a drug addict with 60 criminal convictions, including one for stabbing another man. At his trial, the main prosecution witness told the jury she’d driven him, covered in blood, to a crack house, after the murder of South Korean student Jong-Ok Shin, known as Oki. Omar was said to have stabbed her as she walked home alone on a Bournemouth street, after she refused to come to a party with him.\n\nBut as I found out in 2018, the prosecution’s case against Omar couldn’t be trusted. The main witness, who can’t be identified for legal reasons, so we’ll refer to her as BB, was a drug addict with a history of making false allegations. Her testimony was the only evidence putting Omar at the scene of the crime. There was no CCTV or forensic evidence. Other witnesses, who were also drug addicts, came forward to say they felt coerced into giving false evidence against him.\n\n￭ Omar Benguit was not at murder scene, lawyers claim\n\nOmar becomes eligible for parole in 2022 and if he confesses to the killing, he could be set free. But he told me he’d rather die in prison than admit to the murder.\n\nIn a new programme, Unsolved: An Alibi for Omar? for BBC Three, I discover new evidence that could provide him with an alibi. I also find more prosecution witnesses who claim the police pressured them to tell lies about Omar in court.\n\nDorset Police say there was sufficient evidence to charge Omar Benguit and that he was unanimously convicted by a jury.\n\n'I was a criminal, but I’m telling the truth'\n\nEver since Omar’s conviction, his sister Amie Benguit has been fighting to overturn his conviction. She believes her brother has been fitted up for the murder. I met her in 2018 when I started looking into the case, and over the ensuing years, her battle has taken its toll.\n\n“I had to leave my home,” she tells me, when I arrive back in Bournemouth to investigate this possible new alibi. “They [her neighbours] didn’t want to be associated with a neighbour involved in something like this. Druggies, murder. I felt uncomfortable, and I had to leave.”\n\nAmie showed me the remaining boxes of evidence related to Omar’s trial. Many of the documents have already been scrutinised by lawyers, but she’s convinced the piece of the puzzle that could prove Omar’s innocence is there.\n\n“I know they’ve missed something,” she says.\n\nOki, 26, had been to a nightclub with friends on the night of the murder. She was just one street away from her house when she was attacked.\n\nIn the last hours of her life, the student told police everything she could remember about the attack. A man wearing a mask had stabbed her from behind then ran off, she said. Omar and his sister insist this man was not him.\n\nThe conviction hinged on the testimony of BB. She told police that three men, including Omar, forced her to give them a lift, and as they had driven past Oki, Omar and the two other men had jumped out of the car to ask her to come to a party with them. When she refused, he stabbed her. BB said that the men got back in the car, and made her drive them to a crack house, where Omar cleaned the blood off himself.\n\nI hadn’t managed to speak to BB before, but while making this latest programme, I tracked her down. She insists she was telling the truth.\n\n“I’m not lying, I’m not mistaken,” she says. But she admits that, as a former heroin addict, she can see why people doubt her testimony.\n\n“I don’t trust addicts. You can’t. You’d rob your own mum when you’re an addict. Back then I was a criminal,” she says. “But it doesn’t mean I wasn’t telling the truth.”\n\nAsked what she’d say to Omar’s family, she simply responds: “I know, one hundred per cent, that he’s guilty.”\n\n'I was coerced into saying it'\n\nWhile BB stands by her story, many of the prosecution witnesses now have serious doubts.\n\nI have spoken to 12 witnesses who think the police gathered evidence unfairly against Omar. They say officers were convinced he was guilty and wanted witnesses to back that up.\n\nFive of those prosecution witnesses admit lying about Omar in court.\n\nBeverley McNeilly claims she was pressured by police to make a false statement about a bag of clothes discovered in the River Stour.\n\nPolice believed they were worn by the killer, but there was no forensic evidence linking them to Omar.\n\n“They were saying, about the clothes, to say yes you did give them [to him],” says Beverley. “They wanted me to say all this stuff that they were telling me to say. I was coerced into saying it.”\n\nBeverley McNeilly had a long criminal record and she said she was worried she would be victimised if she didn’t cooperate with the police.\n\n“The next time I'd have been in court I'd have got longer. They wanted it all sewn up, that was their words. They wanted the case all sewn up.”\n\nAnother prosecution witness, Leanne Meyers, claims the police pressured her to lie about a knife she had seen Omar carrying.\n\nShe says they got her to change her description of the knife so that it matched the murder weapon: “They would write out the statements of what they wanted me to say and that's what I would do. And I hate myself for it.”\n\nAmie, meanwhile, uncovered CCTV images that could back up Omar’s initial statement to the police. He said he’d been to Slam nightclub that night, and Amie got hold of footage from inside the bar. It shows a man that strongly resembles Omar in the bar just after 10pm.\n\nThat doesn’t provide an alibi, as the murder happened around 2.50am, but something I’ve found might. Further CCTV images from Charminster Road at 3.15am on the night of the murder show a man that could be Omar – and if it is him, it means he can’t have been at the crack house cleaning up after the murder. While you can’t see the man’s face, his clothes and body shape bear a striking resemblance to the other images of Omar from that night.\n\nAn expert who visually compared all the images told the BBC there were strong similarities between the man pictured in all footage.\n\nAmie Benguit has now lodged an application for a third appeal with the Criminal Case Review Commission (CCRC) based on the evidence Unsolved uncovered.\n\nOmar's lawyer Des Jenson said that some of the witnesses I tracked down had now retracted their evidence. “It's hugely significant, because you have to ask yourself, ‘Where did the information that found its way into those statements come from?’ Because it didn't come from them,” he says.\n\n“When I first picked up this case and read into it, my initial impression was that this is a miscarriage of justice. Everything that I've read since then, everyone that I've spoken to, and everything that I've seen has only further convinced me that my initial impression was the right one, that this is a grave miscarriage of justice.”\n\nDorset Police declined to be interviewed for the programme, but Detective Chief Superintendent Ben Hargreaves said in a statement that the investigation into Jong-Ok Shin’s death had been thorough, detailed and very complex.\n\n\"Benguit appealed against his conviction, but this appeal was dismissed in July 2005 by judges at the Court of Appeal.\n\n\"The case was reviewed by the Criminal Case Review Commission (CCRC) and referred to the Court of Appeal for a second time on the basis of the reliability of a prosecution witness and the suggestion of a possible alternative suspect. The appeal was dismissed in April 2014.\n\n\"This case has been through a series of reviews and any matter surrounding concerns regarding this conviction is ultimately a matter for the CCRC. Dorset Police would follow the direction and instigate investigations if directed by the courts and responsible authorities.\n\n\"As always, our thoughts are with Oki’s family and friends who remain devastated by their loss.\"\n\n\"They wanted it all sewn up.\"\n\n\n\nUncover new evidence and shocking revelations in this brand new update to the documentary series.#Unsolved: An Alibi For Omar? streaming on 5 May @bbciplayer pic.twitter.com/FMkKqihw1U — BBC Three (@bbcthree) April 29, 2021", "Investor Warren Buffett has confirmed that Berkshire Hathaway's vice-chairman, Greg Abel, will succeed him as chief executive.\n\nAlthough he is 90 years old, Mr Buffett has given no indication he plans to step down.\n\nHowever, there has been speculation for more than a decade about who will succeed him.\n\n\"The directors are in agreement that if something were to happen to me tonight, it would be Greg who'd take over tomorrow morning,\" Mr Buffett confirmed to CNBC.\n\nSince 2018, the Canadian has been a vice-chairman, overseeing Berkshire Hathaway's non-insurance businesses.\n\nVice-chairman Charlie Munger may have tipped the company's hand by accident at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting over the weekend.\n\nWhen answering questions about the company's decentralised business model, Mr Munger emphasised its importance and said, \"Greg will keep the culture.\"\n\nMr Munger made no mention of Ajit Jain, another well-regarded contender for the job who had overseen Berkshire's insurance businesses.\n\nMr Jain's age appears to have played a role in the decision.\n\nAt 58 years old, Mr Abel is a decade younger than Mr Jain, and Mr Buffett told CNBC that Abel's relative youth was significant.\n\n\"The likelihood of someone having a 20-year runway though makes a real difference,\" he said.\n\nMr Buffett is arguably the world's most successful investor.\n\nBerkshire Hathaway owns more than 60 companies, including insurer Geico, battery-maker Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen.\n\nIt also has major stakes in Apple, Coca Cola, Bank of America and American Express, among others.\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\nIn March, Mr Buffett joined the exclusive $100bn (£72bn) club after Berkshire Hathaway shares hit record levels.\n\nMicrosoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk have also passed the milestone.\n\nMr Buffett has given away billions of his wealth to charity.", "Funeral pyres have been burning non-stop in Varanasi\n\nThe region around Varanasi, one of the holiest cities in the world for Hindus, is among the worst affected by the second wave of coronavirus sweeping India.\n\nMany angry citizens of the region, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, are now asking where their MP, Narendra Modi - India's prime minister - is in their hour of need.\n\nIndia's devastating second wave has pushed the country's total number of infections to 20 million and the death toll to more than 220,000. In Varanasi, with the health infrastructure swamped, patients can no longer find hospital beds, oxygen, or ambulances, and getting a Covid test can take up to a week. In the past 10 days, most pharmacies have run out of basic medicines like vitamins, zinc and paracetamol.\n\n\"We are inundated with calls saying help us get a bed or oxygen,\" said a local medical professional, who did not want to be named. \"With the most basic medicines in short supply, people are even taking expired drugs,\" he said. \"They say it's a little less effective, but at least it's something.\"\n\nCity residents say the first signs of trouble became visible in March. As cases spiked in Delhi and Mumbai and authorities there began imposing restrictions, migrant workers began returning home to their villages in and around Varanasi on overcrowded trains, buses and trucks.\n\nMany came home for the Holi festival on 29 March or to vote in the village council elections on 18 April - held against advice from experts. Reports say more than 700 teachers on poll duty died in the state and the elections helped spread the virus.\n\nVaranasi's hospitals were soon overwhelmed and people left to fend for themselves. Rishabh Jain, a 25-year-old businessman based in the city, told the BBC that when his 55-year-old aunt fell sick he had to drive 19 miles (30km) every day to queue for up to five hours to refill an oxygen cylinder.\n\n\"We panicked when her oxygen levels fell below 80,\" he said. \"We couldn't find a hospital bed so the family started phone bashing to find an oxygen cylinder. We tried 25 numbers for 12 to 13 hours and finally with help from social media and the district administration, we managed to get a cylinder. She's recovering now.\"\n\nMigrant workers have returned to their villages from Mumbai and Delhi in overcrowded trains, buses and trucks in recent weeks\n\nAlarmed by the situation, the Allahabad high court on 19 April ordered a week's lockdown in Varanasi and four other cities in the state, saying the pandemic had \"virtually incapacitated our medical infrastructure\". The state refused to enforce it and challenged the order in the Supreme Court, arguing it had to \"protect both lives and livelihoods\".\n\nCritics now say the government has failed to do either. With the district administration imposing intermittent weekend curfews and with most businesses and shops shut from fear, thousands are losing their livelihoods and the virus is still spreading.\n\nVaranasi has so far recorded 70,612 infections and 690 deaths. But 46,280 - or 65% - cases were recorded since 1 April. The official Covid death toll for the district hovers most days around 10-11. On Sunday, the government data put it at 16. But everyone I spoke to in Varanasi dismissed these numbers as a fiction.\n\nA long-time city resident, who lives close to the Harishchandra and Manikarnika ghats - the two main cremation areas on the banks of Ganges river - says funeral pyres have been burning non-stop for the past month.\n\nEarlier, the two locations between them would have 80-90 cremations a day, but for the past month, the resident said, he believed the number has risen to roughly 300-400 a day.\n\n\"How do you explain this increase?\" he asked. \"These people are also dying of something? Most reports say they had a cardiopulmonary failure. How are so many people, including young healthy individuals, suddenly dying from a heart attack?\"\n\nA recent video shared by a Varanasi resident showed corpses lined up on either side of a narrow lane leading up to the cremation ground, stretching up to a kilometre. The authorities opened two new cremation grounds about 10 days ago, but reports say they are operating around the clock.\n\nThe tragedy has not stopped at the city of Varanasi: the second wave has made deep inroads into smaller towns and remote villages in the state. Sudhir Singh Pappu, chief of Chiraigaon block, a cluster of 110 villages with a population of 230,000 on the outskirts of Varanasi, told the BBC that each village had reported five to 10 deaths in recent days. In some villages, he said, the toll was as high as 15 to 30.\n\n\"There is no hospital in the block, no oxygen and no medicines,\" he said. \"There's no space in government hospitals, private hospitals ask for a deposit of 200,000 rupees (£1,953; $2,705) to 500,000 rupees even before they look at a patient. We have nowhere to go.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Singh: It's been a really, really, difficult time\n\nKamal Kant Pandey, a resident of Aidhe village, said he thought the situation in his village was worse than in the city. \"If you tested everyone in my village of 2,700 people, at least half would be positive. So many people have cough, fever, pain in the lower back, weakness, loss of taste and smell,\" he said.\n\nDeaths in Aidhe were not making it onto the official database because \"there's no testing here\", said Mr Pandey, who was himself sick with the virus but made a full recovery.\n\n\"Imagine, this is the prime minister's constituency and even then we are gasping for breath,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi has often talked about his \"special bond\" with the river Ganges, the ancient city of Varanasi, and the city's people. But as the virus has ravaged the city and the medical infrastructure collapsed, Mr Modi has stayed clear of his constituency.\n\nResidents have watched as their MP made 17 trips to the key political state of West Bengal between February and April, to campaign for the assembly elections there, which he lost badly on the weekend.\n\nAn angry restaurant owner described Mr Modi's review meeting to discuss the Covid crisis in Varanasi on 17 April - a day before the village council elections - as a \"farce\".\n\n\"The prime minister and the chief minister have gone into hiding, abandoning Varanasi and its people to their own fate,\" the restaurant owner said. \"The local BJP leaders are in hiding too. They have switched off their phones. This is the time people need them to help with a hospital bed or an oxygen cylinder but it's total anarchy here. People are so angry.\"\n\nMr Modi has been an MP from Varanasi since 2014\n\nThe blame \"lies with no-one else but the prime minister\", said Congress politician Gaurav Kapoor. \"The buck stops with him. The blame for every single death in the past month and a half in Varanasi - and in India - lies at his doorstep\" Mr Kapoor said.\n\nLike many city residents, Mr Kapoor too has suffered personally - he lost an aunt and an uncle a fortnight back to Covid and a friend's brother is now battling for life in a hospital. When I called him for the interview on Friday, he was isolating in a room at home, infected with coronavirus.\n\nHe said when the numbers first began rising, he was inundated with calls seeking help in finding a hospital bed or an ambulance.\n\n\"But people have realised that it's pointless. The calls now are for oxygen cylinders,\" he said.\n\nThe situation, by all accounts, is likely to get worse before it gets better. Varanasi is in chaos, and the picture on the outskirts and in the rural areas, where supplies are even more scarce, is worse.\n\n\"Doctors there tell me they don't even have oximeters, so patients are dying in their sleep when their oxygen levels plummet,\" said the owner of a diagnostic centre in Varanasi.\n\n\"When my wife and child were infected, I called our doctor and did everything he advised. But what about the illiterate man in the village who has no doctor on his speed dial? You know how he lives? He lives by God's mercy.\"", "Marcel Stellman, creator of Channel 4's long-running gameshow Countdown, has died at the age of 96.\n\nBelgian-born Stellman was also a record producer and lyricist who wrote songs for stars including Cilla Black, Charles Aznavour and The Shadows.\n\nAmong his best-known tracks was the Max Bygraves hit Tulips From Amsterdam, released in 1958.\n\nCountdown was Channel 4's first show at its 1982 launch and has become one of the world's most enduring game shows.\n\nStellman's nephew wrote on Twitter: \"It is with our deepest sorrow we share with you news of the death of our beloved Uncle - Marcel Stellman, 96, who passed away late last night. Marcel is survived by his beloved wife Jean.\"\n\nFormer Countdown star Carol Vorderman, who appeared on the show for 26 years from 1982 until 2008, was among those paying tribute, crediting Stellman with making Countdown a \"juggernaut\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Carol Vorderman 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVorderman added Stellman had had \"a great life well lived\" and recalled \"many very happy decades together\".\n\nThe pair's working relationship was close, and when she left the show after contract negotiations turned sour Stellman expressed his \"upset\".\n\nCarol Vorderman was the first host of the numbers and letters corner on Countdown\n\n\"This is a person I have known for 26 years who started Countdown. If I am Mr Countdown, she is Mrs Countdown,\" he said.\n\nAlso paying tribute was dictionary corner's Susie Dent, who said the show had lost its \"patriarch and most passionate advocate\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Susie Dent 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStellman was born in Belgium in 1925 and worked as a producer and international manager at Decca Records from the mid-1950s up to 1989.\n\nHe worked alongside many big names including Sir Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck and Dame Vera Lynn.\n\nIn the 1940s and 50s, Stellman also worked on children's programmes for the BBC.\n\nStellman brought Countdown to the UK in 1982, inspired by French TV series Des Chiffres et Des Lettres (Numbers and Letters).\n\nRichard Whiteley was a popular host on Countdown but died in 2005\n\nHe pitched the concept to several networks and it was ultimately picked up by Yorkshire Television, which commissioned a series of eight shows.\n\nThe series was later bought by a fledgling Channel 4, becoming the first programme to be aired following its launch in November 1982, hosted by Richard Whiteley.\n\nWhiteley died in 2005 and has since been followed in the position of host by a number of famous faces including Des Lynam, Des O'Connor, Jeff Stelling and most recently Nick Hewer. Former Weakest Link host Anne Robinson is set to take over from Hewer in June.\n\nHewer also paid tribute to Stellman, remembering him as \"kind and supportive\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nick Hewer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStellman appeared on the programme's celebrations for its 2,000th episode in 1997, its 3,000th episode in 2001 and 5,000th episode in 2010.\n\nAlthough Countdown was Stellman's most notable TV success, his association with the small screen began in the 1940s and 1950s.\n\nHis work for BBC children's programming included the show Pinky And Perky, where he selected the songs the two pig puppets would sing.\n\nStellman was a recipient of a Basca Gold Badge Award in 1988 and received an Ivor Novello Award as lyricist for Dance On by Kathy Kirby in 1963.\n\nHe lived in London for many years and is survived by his wife Jean.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Bars and restaurants are struggling to recruit enough staff and some may not be able to fully reopen in May, after thousands of workers left the sector.\n\nVenue owners say they are expecting huge demand from customers, but staff shortages may mean they have to limit opening hours.\n\nFigures suggest more than one in ten UK hospitality workers left the industry in the last year.\n\nRecruitment site Caterer.com said the pandemic and Brexit were to blame.\n\nSome have managed to find alternative employment, but a high proportion may have left the UK altogether, the recruiter said.\n\nSo, although many hospitality workers were laid off during the last 12 months, restaurateurs are now finding it hard to fill places.\n\nCelebrity chef Michael Caines is one of those finding recruitment difficult.\n\nHe operates two restaurants on the Cornish coast and a hotel in Exmouth. A beach bar and restaurant in Exmouth is also due to open.\n\nHe is currently trying to hire 20 new staff members across the group.\n\n\"Without question, recruitment is a challenge,\" he said.\n\n\"All of the businesses are extremely busy. For the next three, four months our hotel is completely booked up, so we're desperately trying to recruit enough staff.\"\n\nMr Caines said Brexit and the pandemic have led European workers to leave and not return, but he said another problem is the number of workers still on furlough.\n\nWhile they are waiting to return to work they are less willing to switch employers.\n\n\"A lot of people feel very concerned about leaving a job where they qualify for furlough to take the new job where they wouldn't qualify for furlough if there was another lockdown,\" he explained.\n\n\"So there's a bit of nervousness from an employee's point of view.\"\n\nMr Caines is hoping roles will be more easily filled when students break up from college and university and start looking for summer work.\n\nRestaurants and bars have been allowed to serve food and drink outdoors since 12 April, while indoor dining is expected to restart from 17 May. And many UK hospitality venues are hoping pent-up demand and a more UK-focused holiday season to translate into a bumper summer.\n\nAs a result, recruitment was a \"growing issue\", said UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls. It was more acute in some areas, such as London, than others, she added, and could mean some venues struggle to reopen.\n\nThe trade association said chef vacancies are among the most difficult to fill. But restaurant owners have reported staff shortages across all types of roles.\n\nSpecialist recruiter, Caterer.com, said the number of vacancies on its website had grown by more than 85% in the last few weeks, with 22,000 roles now being advertised.\n\nBut it pointed to figures from the Office for National Statistics suggesting 355,000 fewer people were employed in hospitality than a year ago. Pre-pandemic around 3.2 million were employed in the sector including bars, restaurants and hotels.\n\n\"Many restaurants, pubs and bars have experienced a sudden surge in business due to built-up customer demand and an increase in consumer confidence which is great news for the hospitality industry,\" said Caterer.com director Neil Pattison.\n\n\"However, the impact of the pandemic, combined with Brexit has the potential to create a significant recruitment challenge for the sector and we are likely to see the skills shortage it once faced starting to return.\"\n\nColum Maher left hospitality and now works in customer services\n\nOne person who turned his back on a full-time job in hospitality after work dried up due to Covid, is 42-year-old father-of-one Colum Maher.\n\nHe has 20 years of experience working in bars and restaurants, but last December he took up a full-time job in customer services with Sky.\n\nHe now says something very special would have to come along for him to go back into hospitality full-time.\n\n\"I've had 15 to 20 jobs in the hospitality sector over the years, from bartender to bar manager to chef, so it's an industry I love and know inside out.\n\n\"However, I found myself with no work during the pandemic and I needed to find some job security. Now I'm able to work every week, Monday to Friday, so I have no plans to change that now.\"\n\nBut he hasn't turned his back on the industry completely - he's registered with a speciality hospitality recruitment website Coople, to look for weekend work.\n\n\"I personally think it's going to take the hospitality industry three to four years to get back on its feet,\" he says.\n\n\"I'm at a stage of life when I cannot afford to wait for opportunities to start appearing again - I don't think a lot of pubs will even reopen.\n\n\"However, if this doesn't work out, then I know I have something I can hopefully fall back on.\"\n\nBefore Brexit a lot of the UK's hospitality workforce was made up of workers from overseas, including from the EU, but hundreds of thousands of foreign workers have left the UK over the last year and it is unclear whether they will return.\n\nLuke Garmsworthy says his restaurants will struggle to open up properly in May if he can't recruit more staff\n\nLuke Garnsworthy, who owns Crockers Henley, a hotel and fine dining restaurant in Oxfordshire, and Crockers Tring in Hertfordshire, said he is struggling to recruit enough staff for when his restaurants open fully next month.\n\nAs well as chefs, he is hoping to hire front-of-house staff and waiters.\n\n\"I've put adverts out and I thought I was putting the net out into a sea full of fish but it's not been like that at all.\"\n\nMr Garnsworthy would like to employ between 45 and 50 staff at his Henley venue where the headcount is currently only at 12.\n\nHe said senior team members will step in to fill roles where necessary, but the restaurant was only likely to be able to open five days a week instead of seven.\n\nRecruitment in hospitality has always been a challenge, even before the pandemic, but is \"definitely worse now\", according to Mr Garnsworthy.\n\n\"We are perceived as unskilled, so the country looks down their nose… and young people are not interested.\"\n\nHe wants them to know that although it is hard work \"the days of Gordon Ramsey shouting\" are over at least.\n\nRestaurant owner and Masterchef The Professionals finalist Sven-Hanson Britt also operates several venues.\n\nHe said staff turnover in hospitality is normally high, but he too said furloughed staff are sticking with their existing employer.\n\n\"There's not that ebb and flow with talent because people are staying put.\n\n\"It's very difficult at the moment and finding anyone for senior positions is hard.\"\n\nMr Britt is hoping to recruit pastry chefs, chocolatiers and a sommelier.\n\n\"We can't seem to find anyone in that arena,\" he added.\n\nThe business took on a number of staff in October but application rates this time around are far lower.\n\n\"Some businesses closed or went bust and people felt let down by their employer or the industry as a whole,\" he said.\n\n\"I know a lot of people who have moved on to something different.\"", "The secondhand areas in Ikea stores will be called Circular Hubs\n\nIkea has launched its long-awaited furniture buy-back and re-sale scheme, in an attempt to reduce the number of products going to landfill.\n\nThe move is part of the retail giant's sustainability drive to become \"climate positive\" by 2030.\n\nCustomers will get vouchers to spend in-store if items they no longer need are returned in good condition.\n\nIkea admitted the scheme was a learning curve, but decided to launch it after successful trials in several cities.\n\n\"I'm not saying we have all the answers, but we learned enough from the pilots to tell us that this could be something of real value to us and our customers,\" Hege Saebjornsen, an environmental and sustainability expert at Ikea, told the BBC.\n\nThe initiative, originally scheduled to launch in November but postponed because of the pandemic, is now available in Ikea stores across the UK. It is also being launched in the other 26 countries in which Ikea operates.\n\nUsed products returned in as-new condition with no scratches will be bought for 50% of the original price, while items with minor scratches will be bought for 40%. Furniture that is well used with several scratches will be bought for 30%.\n\nThe items will be sold in separate areas of the stores, although Ikea has also announced a new partnership with Gumtree to sell second-hand products via the online marketplace.\n\nProducts eligible for buy-back include dressers, cabinets, bookcases and shelf units, small tables, dining tables and desks.\n\nThe Swedish company has already announced it wants to become fully \"circular\" - eliminate waste through the continual use of materials - by 2030. Ingka Group, Ikea's parent company, recently announced it was investing €4bn in renewable energy.\n\nCustomers wanting to sell back furniture go to Ikea.co.uk to fill out an online form, which generates a preliminary offer, and then take items to a store.\n\nIkea is trialling Pre-Loved Labels, giving customers information about an item's past.\n\nMs Saebjornsen, a former sustainability manager at the retailer and now an Ikea adviser on the forthcoming COP26 climate summit, said that exactly what the consumer uptake will be is unknown.\n\nBut she said the trials, including in Sydney, Lisbon, Edinburgh and Glasgow, \"were really successful. It taught us a lot about the appetite for this and how people behave\".\n\nThe second-hand market generally - from clothing to homeware - is growing rapidly as shopping habits change, and Ikea hopes to tap into this, she said.\n\nOne potential drawback was that furniture must be delivered fully-assembled, a possible impediment for people who have heavy and bulky items.\n\n\"We still found people are taking us up on it [the scheme],\" she said.\n\nIkea is working on how to improve the disassembly of products.\n\n\"Some are better than others. Products can get damaged when taken apart, so we can only really accept assembled products. It maintains the security and quality of the item,\" she said.\n\nAlthough Ikea is offering vouchers, not cash, the scheme is not being introduced as a profit driver for the retailer, she said. Still, doesn't it reinforce a buy-new, disposable culture?\n\n\"We've taken all of that into account,\" Ms Saebjornsen said.\n\n\"It's really important to highlight that the voucher has no use-by date. They can be used to buy another second hand item, or food.\n\n\"The real consideration here is that it's about how we make sustainable and healthy living easy, accessible and affordable, and really mainstream.\n\n\"Ikea is such a large company with massive potential to reach millions of customers.\n\n\"We are not saying that we have all the answers. But small actions can make a difference.\"\n\nThe buy-back service is available in full-sized Ikea stores nationwide, excluding order and collection points in Tottenham Court Road, Norwich and Aberdeen. The service will launch in Reading and Belfast on 17 May.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Edwin Poots are in the running for the DUP leadership\n\nThe vote to elect the next leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will take place on 14 May, the party has said.\n\nParty officers met on Tuesday to discuss the procedure and timetable for the election of both a new leader and deputy leader.\n\nAgriculture Minister Edwin Poots and MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson are bidding to succeed Arlene Foster.\n\nShe steps down as DUP leader on 28 May and first minister at the end of June.\n\nIt is the first time in the party's 50-year history that a leadership contest has taken place.\n\nAn announcement on the next leader is expected by 17:00 BST on 14 May, the party said.\n\nThe meeting, to be overseen by party chairman Lord Morrow, will be conducted virtually.\n\nThe party said contenders for both leader and deputy leader must submit their expression of interest by 17:00 BST on 6 May.\n\nThe current deputy leader of the party is Lord Dodds.\n\nMr Poots began his leadership bid last Thursday, while Sir Jeffrey announced his bid on Monday, the 100th anniversary of the formation of Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday evening, Lord Morrow said the date of 14 May was chosen to reflect the fact that Covid restrictions are due to be reviewed at a meeting of the NI Executive on 13 May, and that the Queen's speech will take place in Parliament on 12 May.\n\nHe said DUP representatives will be required to attend both commitments.\n\n\"In accordance with the constitution and rules of the Democratic Unionist Party, only party members, who are also members of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the House of Commons, are entitled to vote for the leader or deputy leader.\"\n\nThere are 28 DUP MLAs (Members of the Legislative Assembly) and eight MPs.\n\nSouth Down DUP MLA Jim Wells, who lost the whip in 2018 after he criticised the party leadership in the media, told BBC News NI he had received the letter that went to all DUP MLAs and MPs on Tuesday evening, informing them about the process for the vote.\n\nHe said he was \"delighted\" his vote would count and reiterated he would be supporting Mr Poots.\n\nArlene Foster will step down as DUP leader on 28 May\n\nSeveral senior DUP Stormont assembly members and the MP Paul Girvan have declared their support for Mr Poots.\n\nSpeaking in the Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday, the Lagan Valley MLA confirmed he had \"no desire\" to hold the position of first minister should he be elected DUP leader.\n\nIt is understood he would want to remain agriculture minister.\n\nSir Jeffrey, the MP for Lagan Valley, has the backing of MPs Gavin Robinson and Jim Shannon as well as Education Minister Peter Weir and Junior Minister Gordon Lyons.\n\nCampaigners for both contenders claim their candidate has significant support within the party ranks.\n\nSitting in the Stormont chamber on Tuesday, Arlene Foster cut a lonely figure on the benches where she once ruled.\n\nShe was socially and politically distant from previously loyal supporters who signed a letter of no confidence in her leadership last week, forcing her to quit.\n\nApart for the odd polite smile to those opposite wishing her well for the future, she showed no emotion.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster (in yellow jacket) in the assembly chamber on Tuesday\n\nAs she exited the chamber, one of the men who wants to replace her as leader entered through another door.\n\nUnlike Mrs Foster, Edwin Poots shared the benches with those who have already expressed support for his leadership bid.\n\nIn order to become party leader, a candidate must secure the support of at least 18 of the party's assembly members and MPs.\n\nMrs Foster announced her decision to resign after facing a revolt from DUP members last week.\n\nShe had led the party since December 2015 and was appointed first minister of Northern Ireland the following month.\n\nBBC News NI understands that she will sever her ties with the DUP when she stands down as first minister, with sources close to her saying she thinks it is no longer the party she joined.\n\nMrs Foster did not take part in a Tuesday morning meeting with her assembly team.\n\nThe first minister was in the assembly chamber later as Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill responded to questions to the Executive Office.", "Julia James's body was found near her home in Snowdown\n\nPeople have left lit candles on their doorsteps and posted tributes online in memory of murdered PCSO Julia James.\n\nA week on from the discovery of the 53-year-old's body in woodland near Dover, Kent, police have no motive for her killing and have made no arrests.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Ms James' daughter Bethan Coles said she had been asked about a vigil and was \"so grateful for people wanting to remember her\".\n\nMs Coles said she wanted \"all police resources to be concentrating on the investigation\".\n\nShe said she was \"very conscious that any gathering would need to be policed, if it was even allowed,\" adding: \"I've discussed this with my family and we are in agreement that we would prefer all police resources to be concentrating on the investigation as there is so much work to be done.\"\n\nA lit candle was placed outside Ms James' family home\n\nThose wishing to remember Ms James were invited to light a candle for her and leave it on their doorstep at 19:00 BST.\n\nA lit candle was left outside Ms James' family home in Snowdown, while others posted tributes on Twitter.\n\nA flame was also lit in Canterbury Cathedral in memory of Ms James.\n\nThe prime minister's tweet said: \"Tonight we remember PCSO Julia James. My thoughts are with her friends and family.\"\n\nJulia James' son Patrick visited the spot where people have been leaving tributes for his mother\n\nAbout 10 people gathered at Market Square in nearby Aylesham to light candles where flowers have been laid in the days following her death.\n\nThey were joined by Ms James' son Patrick who also visited the site.\n\nMs Coles previously said the vigil would act as \"a beautiful nod to Mum in a way that doesn't intrude on the police investigation\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Julian This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVehicles in the area where Ms James' body was found were stopped by police on Tuesday, as officers looked to speak to people who had not yet come forward.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Crime Agency has helped the investigation, giving advice on specialist forensic search techniques, Kent Police said.\n\nCandles were also lit where tributes have been laid in memory of Ms James\n\nChief constable Alan Pughsley said Ms James' death had an \"immense\" impact on the force, adding: \"We are in deep shock and trying to do all we can to find the offender.\n\n\"It's a bit raw when it's one of your own, but we will do everything we can, as we would with any murder.\"\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. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nOn Monday, Kent Police advised people living near Akholt Wood, Snowdown, to tell someone where they are going if they leave their home, and to plan their route.\n\nCh Insp Dan Carter said people should \"remain cautious, vigilant and aware of your surroundings when you are out and about\".\n\nThe body of Ms James, who had left home to walk her dog, was found a few hundred yards from her house.\n\nA white police tent has been put up near the search area\n\nOn Sunday, Ms James's uncle Michael Turnbull appealed on social media for help to find her killer, whom he referred to as a \"monster\".\n\nMs James's family have described her as a \"fiercely loyal\" wife, mother, daughter and grandmother who loved people \"with her whole heart\".\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.", "Delhi hospitals are struggling to cope with huge numbers of Covid patients\n\nThe authorities in the Indian capital Delhi have called for help from the army as the city grapples with a brutal second wave of Covid-19 cases.\n\nHospitals in the city are in crisis, with intensive care beds full and an acute shortage of medical oxygen.\n\nDelhi's government wants the army to run Covid care facilities and intensive care units.\n\nAcross India, case numbers since the start of the outbreak are closing in on 20 million.\n\nThe country has seen more than 300,000 new cases a day for nearly two weeks straight while deaths stand at 220,000.\n\nExperts say total Covid cases and deaths in India are likely to be much higher, citing lack of testing and patients dying at home without being seen by doctors.\n\nDelhi, which this weekend reported record daily deaths at more than 400, wants the army to run medical care with oxygen facilities for around 10,000 patients, and a further 1,000 intensive care units.\n\nDeputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that with healthcare \"overwhelmed... it will be a timely help to the people of Delhi if the Ministry of Defence, with the considerable resources at its command, is tasked with the responsibility to provide and man the additional Covid health facilities\".\n\nHe also asked for \"urgent\" help transporting much-needed oxygen.\n\nIndia has already ordered its army to send its oxygen from army reserves to hospital while retired military medical personnel have been called up to help.\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 like others is facing oxygen shortages\n\nDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has repeatedly said that the city is not getting enough oxygen from the federal government, which allocates oxygen quotas to states.\n\nBut federal officials deny there are shortages, saying the challenge has come from transportation.\n\nIndia produces thousands of tonnes of oxygen a day, but some experts say the supply crunch comes from a lack of investment in distribution networks.\n\nDelhi hospitals have resorted to sending SOS messages on social media to secure supplies. For residents, hours spent in queues to top up portable canisters have become part of daily life.\n\n\"It's a battle we are fighting every day,\" said Dr Gautam Singh, who runs the Shri Ram Singh hospital.\n\n\"Half of my hospital staff are on the road with cylinders to get them filled every day, going from one place to another.\"\n\nThere are severe strains outside of the capital too. In the southern state of Karnataka, 24 people died in one hospital, but the government there has denied reports that all of them died due to a shortage of oxygen.\n\nIndia's Covid crisis has been compounded by a sluggish vaccination campaign.\n\nDespite being the world's biggest producer of vaccines, there is a shortage of supplies. Since January, just over 10% of India's 1.4 billion people have had one dose and only about 2% two doses.\n\nMuch of India's population is still awaiting a vaccine\n\nThe chief executive of India's Serum Institute, the world's biggest vaccine manufacturer, has warned shortages will last for months.\n\nAdar Poonawalla told the Financial Times the institute had been unfairly maligned over the lack of supplies.\n\nHe had not boosted capacity earlier, he said, because \"there were no orders, we did not think we needed to make more than 1bn doses a year\".", "A new \"breathing space\" scheme has begun in England and Wales to shield people in problem debt from further interest and charges.\n\nPeople receiving debt advice can apply for the break, which lasts for up to 60 days, to prevent them falling into a spiral of debt.\n\nThe Treasury has estimated that up to 700,000 people could be helped by the scheme in its first year.\n\nPeople receiving treatment for mental health issues can get more help.\n\nThe separate system for those receiving mental health crisis treatment lasts for the length of that treatment, plus another 30 days.\n\nDebt charities have campaigned for years for the full introduction of a breathing space scheme, after watching people borrow more money to pay the interest and charges on existing debt.\n\nUnder the scheme, these extra costs will be paused and no enforcement action can be taken, if a debt adviser agrees that a breathing space period is appropriate.\n\nIt can only be used once during a 12-month period, and the government has stressed that it is not a payment holiday. Regular bills such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and taxes should still be paid.\n\nLee lives in southeast England, and ended up owing nearly £20,000 after he lost his job and his marriage ended.\n\n\"It was general living expenses really, I wasn't being lavish and partying, or going on expensive holidays,\" he said.\n\n\"It was my fault, and mismanagement of credit cards.\"\n\nLee said the situation was \"scary\".\n\n\"Looking back, hindsight being the wonderful thing that it is, I should have done something earlier, but I didn't, and I thought I could manage it.\n\n\"It's trying to put out fire with fire,\" he added. \"You're using a credit card to try and pay everything. It's just crazy, really.\"\n\nLorraine Charlton, a debt expert at Citizens Advice, said: \"If you have unmanageable debts, the new scheme could give you the time to get the advice that will help, and to start taking action.\n\n\"Breathing space isn't a temporary fix to simply keep your creditors at arm's length. You'll need to work with your debt adviser to try and make a plan to deal with your debts.\"\n\nA similar system is already operating in Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It just spiralled, it spiralled out of control\"\n\nJoanna Elson, the boss of the Money Advice Trust, which runs the National Debtline added that the launch marked a \"a major milestone in improving the help available to people struggling with debt.\"\n\nJohn Glen, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, said: \"This scheme will give people a breathing space from charges, distressing letters and bailiff visits, so they can tackle their problem debt with support from a professional debt adviser.\"\n\nThere is greater support under the mental health breathing space system. It is more open-ended and someone can use it more than once a year.\n\nUnder the scheme, an approved mental health professional can certify that an individual is receiving treatment and then a debt adviser can consider whether they are eligible for the scheme.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency crews attended the collapse late on Monday near the Olivos station on the metro's 12 Line\n\nMexican authorities have promised a full investigation into the collapse of a metro overpass in Mexico City, as questions mount over the line's safety.\n\nPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador said \"nothing would be hidden\" while the mayor said an external company would be involved in the inquiry.\n\nThe elevated track on Line 12 fell on to a road, killing at least 24 people.\n\nConcerns over possible structural failures had been raised since the line was inaugurated, in 2012.\n\nThere were concerns about design problems and construction standards, as well as allegations of corruption.\n\nAt a news conference, President López Obrador said the investigation, to be carried out by federal and Mexico City prosecutors, should be done quickly. \"We cannot get into speculation, much less blame the possible perpetrators without having proof,\" he said.\n\nThe line was built when Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, a close ally of the president, was mayor of the capital. Speaking alongside the president, Mr Ebrard said it was a \"very sad day for everyone\".\n\nCurrent Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum also said it was too soon to say who was responsible for what happened. Earlier, she said it appeared a girder had given way on the overpass. The line will remain closed while a structural survey is carried out.\n\nImages show the site of the incident now and in 2019\n\nCCTV footage showed the overpass collapsing as a train was travelling over it, sending up clouds of debris and sparks. The crash happened near the Olivos station, in the south-east of the city, on Monday night.\n\nFernando Espino, secretary-general of the union representing metro workers, said the incident was related to a construction problem.\n\n\"This is a structural failure... We don't know if it's related to the material with which this [section] was built. We need to see what happened,\" he said, according to El Universal newspaper.\n\nElevated parts of the line, including the collapsed overpass, had to be closed for multiple repairs in 2014. Residents also reported cracks in the structure after an earthquake in 2017, and transport authorities made repairs following the reports.\n\nIn 2017, the then director of the city's metro, Jorge Gaviño, said the line \"was born with endemic problems that would never be solved in its life\" and that it would require \"permanent\" maintenance.\n\nCranes were deployed to stabilise and remove the train carriages from the structure\n\nThe overpass collapsed as a train was travelling over it\n\nOn Tuesday, cranes were deployed to stabilise and remove the two train carriages that remained hanging from the structure.\n\n\"We never had much faith in this metro [line],\" 62-year-old Maria Concepcion, who heard the collapse from her house, told Reuters news agency.\n\nCCICSA, one of the firms involved in the construction of the line, said in a statement to Reuters it was \"going to wait for the official expert opinion\". French train maker Alstom said it was willing to \"co-operate with and to aid authorities responsible for investigations in any way necessary\".\n\nAt least 79 people were injured, including one person who had been pulled out alive from a car underneath the wreckage. The mayor said the dead included children, but she did not give details.\n\nMexico City's metro system is one of the most used in the world, carrying tens of millions of passengers a week. In North America, only New York's subway carries more people every day.\n\nYet the incident did not occur on one of the older lines, which have been through at least two major earthquakes in the past 35 years. Rather it happened on Line 12, completed as recently as October 2012.\n\nThere will be difficult questions for the mayor's office to come about the construction of the line, including for several former mayors.\n\nThis is the deadliest incident in decades for the city's metro system. In 1975, two underground trains collided, killing 31 people.\n\nLast year, one person was killed and more than 40 injured in a collision between two metro trains elsewhere in Mexico City.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness what happened? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Carwyn Jones was first minister from 2009 to 2018 Image caption: Carwyn Jones was first minister from 2009 to 2018\n\nFormer first minister Carwyn Jones has suggested that any post-election coalition deal in Wales should take “a few weeks” to agree.\n\nMr Jones took over from Rhodri Morgan as first minister in 2009, when Labour was already running the Welsh government in coalition with Plaid Cymru.\n\nLabour governed alone after making gains in the 2011 election, but after the 2016 poll Lib Dem Kirsty Williams and former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Elis-Thomas joined his administration.\n\nThere is speculation that a new coalition could be needed if Labour loses ground in Thursday’s election, although Plaid Cymru have ruled out a “simple re-run” of 2007-11 when they were the junior partner.\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales’ The Leaders’ Lounge: “Once everyone sees the numbers, everyone will be making calculations, then there will be a game of chicken – who rings who first? And then the advisers will speak to each other first and prepare the ground. All that can happen in a situation like this.\"\n\nAsked how long talks might take, he said: “Expect a few weeks.\n\n\"If you have coalition negotiations, my view has always been you have to have as much detail as possible in a coalition agreement.\n\n\"In 2007, we had a very detailed coalition agreement with Plaid, which meant that really there wasn’t much argument within that coalition – there was the odd disagreement here and there but nothing public because everybody knew the detail of the agreement.\n\n“In 2010, the Tory-Lib Dem coalition [UK government] – I remember saying at the time this is not a very detailed agreement, this is a recipe for people to interpret it in different ways, and a recipe for chaos, and that ‘s the way it turned out, to my eyes.\n\n“If there is going to be a coalition - nobody knows that – best that it takes a few weeks to put together with a detailed agreement than signing a piece of paper that’s one side of A4.”\n\nMr Jones stood down as first minister in 2018, and was standing down as MS for Bridgend at this election.\n\nYou can hear more from him on The Leaders’ Lounge on BBC Radio Wales at 1830 BST on Tuesday, and on BBC Sounds.", "A police cordon was put in place around the hotel during the protest\n\nA man has been charged over a protest against Manchester United's owners, which took place outside a hotel where the team's players were staying.\n\nThe protest at Salford's Lowry Hotel was staged at the same time as one at United's Old Trafford stadium before the club's match on Sunday.\n\nThe game was later postponed after about 200 fans entered the ground.\n\nA man from Manchester has been charged with throwing fireworks in a street and using threatening behaviour.\n\nThe 28-year-old, who was also charged with wilfully obstructing the highway, is due to appear before Manchester and Salford magistrates on 25 May.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the man's arrest, which was filmed and circulated on social media, had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct to \"ensure complete transparency and independence in this investigation\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There is a \"good chance\" the 1m plus social distancing rule can be scrapped on 21 June in England, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said the results of the vaccine rollout are \"really starting to show up in the epidemiology\" - but any change would depend on the data.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer agreed that caution was necessary.\n\nMr Johnson also suggested there could be some \"opening up\" of foreign travel on 17 May.\n\nDuring a campaign visit to Hartlepool the prime minister said ministers would say more about travel \"as soon as we can\" but \"we have got to be very, very tough\".\n\nHe said that \"the way things are going\" with the vaccine rollout, the 1m plus rule - which allows people to be 1m apart if they take extra precautions such as wearing face coverings - could end when England reaches the final step of its roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson said 50 million doses of coronavirus vaccine have been administered. That includes more than 34 million people who have had a first dose and more than 15 million who have had a second, according to the latest government figures.\n\nHe said he felt as though the next stage of reopening on 17 May - which covers indoor hospitality, entertainment and possibly foreign travel - would \"be good\".\n\n\"I think we have got a good chance of being able to dispense with the 1m plus from 21 June,\" he added.\n\n\"That is still dependent on the data, we can't say it categorically yet. We have got to look at the epidemiology as we progress, we have got to look at where we get to with the disease. But that's what it feels like to me right now.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said any easing of social distancing measures would have to be \"cautious and careful\".\n\n\"All of us want to see the restrictions eased but also want to make sure we don't go into another lockdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I will listen to what scientists say - there are a number of weeks to run until 21 June. I hope we get to situation we can ease restrictions but have got to be led by science.\"\n\nAre we are on the brink of beating the virus? Talk of foreign travel and the end of social distancing raises the very real prospect we are.\n\nIt would be foolish to say, categorically, this is it.\n\nEven with the continued successful rollout of the vaccination programme, there is still scope for the virus to spread, given the jabs are not 100% perfect and not everyone will get vaccinated.\n\nVariants could also still cause problems - although there is plenty of evidence to suggest these will be more limited than sometimes seems to be the case. Experts remain confident that even if the mutations help the virus dodge some of the immune response from the vaccines, the jabs will still be very effective at preventing serious illness.\n\nSo while the virus is not going away (cases are certainly going to rise again) the risk it poses has been dramatically reduced.\n\nAnd that means our response to it can be, too, so some of the non-Covid harms of the past year can really start to be tackled.\n\nIn Scotland, the government timetable for lifting Covid restrictions suggests physical distancing will be in place beyond \"Level 0\" - the lowest level of curbs - currently expected from late June.\n\nIn Wales, where \"alert level 3\" restrictions are in place, even its lowest alert level 1 suggests people should still observe \"social distancing rules with people you do not live with or who are not in your exclusive extended household\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive has described social distancing as part of the \"personal responsibility to protect ourselves and others\" that could be required \"for some time\".\n\nThe British Beer and Pub Association said the prime minister's comments offered the sector \"hope of a return to normality and viability\".\n\nChief executive Emma McClarkin said: \"Given pubs are financially unviable under the current restrictions they face, being able to reopen without any restrictions at all from 21 June is going to be vital to their survival.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our recovery only begins when the restrictions are removed.\"\n\nSpeaking before Mr Johnson's comments, Kate Nicholls, chief executive of trade body UKHospitality, said recommencing unrestricted trading on 21 June would be \"critical\" and would allow companies to \"come off life support\".\n\n\"We urge the government to confirm reopening dates and these plans at the earliest opportunity, which will boost confidence and allow companies to step up planning and bring staff back,\" she said.\n\nAsked about international travel, Mr Johnson said experts were assessing which countries were safe.\n\n\"We do want to do some opening up on 17 May, but I don't think the people of this country want to see an influx of disease from anywhere else,\" he said.\n\n\"I certainly don't and we have got to be very, very tough and have got to be as cautious as we can whilst we continue to open up.\"\n\nMr Johnson's comments came after a group of MPs called on the government to keep travel rules in England in place beyond mid-May.\n\nForeign holidays are currently banned, but a traffic light system of rules will be introduced with countries classed as green, amber or red.\n\nTravellers to green countries will not need to isolate on their return, but they will need to take a Covid test.\n\nArrivals from amber countries will need to quarantine, while red-list countries have the strictest rules, with only UK or Irish nationals allowed to return and they must pay to stay in a government quarantine hotel.\n\nFurther details are expected this week, after the government said it will \"set out by early May\" how countries will be categorised.\n\nMany in the travel industry are hopeful for holidays this summer, while countries such as Spain, France, Greece, Portugal and Cyprus are preparing to open to tourists.\n\nThe European Commission has also recommended opening up to travellers who have received both doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe boss of Thomas Cook earlier told the BBC he expected many popular destinations, particularly in Europe, to be open to UK holidaymakers this summer as they were making \"great progress\".\n\nThe first ministers of Scotland and Wales have previously argued that 17 May would be too early for foreign holidays to resume, and no date has yet been set for rules to be relaxed. Northern Ireland's executive has not said anything about when it expects to make an announcement.\n\nBut a representative from the travel industry in Scotland has said any plan needs to be agreed between the four nations.\n\n\"There's no way it's going to work [with] Scotland operating a different system to England when you can freely travel across the border and fly out of an English airport - and that's exactly what will happen,\" said Alan Glen, from the Scottish Passenger Agents Association.\n\nThe next stage of England's lockdown easing is expected in a fortnight, on 17 May. As well as the possibility of international travel, people will be able to meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors, while six people or two households can meet indoors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel urged people to cherish every second of life, and not to \"rush back into things\" as restrictions ease\n\nA 46-year-old father of three children who died with Covid was \"the kindest, most caring human being\", his wife has said.\n\nEric Ohene-Adjei had been treated for the virus at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales for seven weeks.\n\nHis wife Rachel said it showed people still needed to respect the dangers posed by the illness.\n\nShe urged everyone: \"Don't take life for granted. Cherish every second you've got.\"\n\nRachel said their three children, Isaac, 12, Jacob, nine, and Ebony, eight, had been asking for their father \"every day\".\n\nShe said she had been comforted by a stream of tributes to her husband, who worked at a Tesco supermarket in the city.\n\n\"I've had private messages on social media, with people telling me stories how they met Eric and what he meant to them,\" said his wife.\n\n\"It has given me comfort to know he gave to other people, what he gave to us as a family. \"\n\nShe praised the care he had received in hospital, but described it as \"seven weeks of torture\".\n\nEric died on 17 April, after his wife was told to return to his intensive care ward as it was \"not looking good\".\n\nEric's children asked about their father while he was in hospital \"every day\"\n\n\"The doctors were amazing. They let me stay as long as I wanted,\" said Rachel.\n\n\"It was horrendous, but I'm honoured I got to say goodbye to him because there's loads of families that didn't get that opportunity.\n\n\"He wasn't on his own, and I got to hold him and tell him how much we all loved him and missed him and that we were going to be OK.\"\n\nRachel said there had been \"amazing\" support for her husband, who was born in Ghana, in West Africa.\n\n\"The primary school that my two youngest go to held a 'joys of Ghana day' last Friday,\" said Rachel.\n\n\"Everyone wore the Ghana colours. They learned all about Ghana and it was all in memory of their dad.\n\n\"That was amazing, the support we've had off everyone has been phenomenal.\"\n\nBut she said it also reminded her that as more Covid restrictions are eased in Wales, people must remain aware of the dangers the virus still poses.\n\n\"I think it's good the world is opening back up again. I just think people need to be very careful and not rush into things,\" she said.\n\n\"Just be careful. Please wear your facemasks, keep your 2m distance and don't take life for granted.\"\n\nEric's funeral will take place on Friday and Rachel said it would be a \"celebration\" of his life.", "Deacon and Mr Clarke are both previous recipients of Bafta's Rising Star award\n\nActor Adam Deacon has said he stands by the women who have accused Noel Clarke of sexual harassment, claiming his former co-star sabotaged his career.\n\nDeacon claimed to have been Mr Clarke's \"victim\" for 15 years and said his mental health had suffered as a result.\n\nMr Clarke has \"vehemently\" denied any sexual or criminal wrongdoing after 20 women came forward to accuse him.\n\nDeacon appeared with Mr Clarke in 2006's Kidulthood and its 2008 follow-up Adulthood, which Mr Clarke also directed.\n\nThe pair fell out in 2010 over a spoof film Deacon wanted to make called Anuvahood, which was made and released the following year.\n\nIn 2015 Deacon was found guilty of harassment without violence after sending Mr Clarke abusive messages on social media.\n\nLast week Mr Clarke, 45, was suspended by Bafta after extensive allegations of sexual harassment were published in The Guardian.\n\nMr Clarke was suspended by Bafta last week, after allegations were published by The Guardian\n\nBafta also suspended the outstanding British contribution to cinema prize it had given the actor and film-maker on 10 April.\n\nFollowing the claims, the Met Police confirmed they had received a third party report relating to allegations of sexual offences by a man.\n\nThe allegations also led to ITV pulling the final episode of its crime drama Viewpoint, in which Mr Clarke played the leading role.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Deacon said he believed \"every single word\" Mr Clarke's accusers had said about their allegedly \"harrowing\" experiences.\n\nThe 38-year-old said he had spoken out about Mr Clarke's \"sociopathic\" behaviour on multiple occasions, only to have his claims dismissed.\n\n\"I only wish that everyone had taken more notice of my words,\" he continued, saying it might have stopped Mr Clarke's \"horrific abuse of power\".\n\nHe said the events of the past week had served as \"a small vindication\" and that he was \"now looking towards a fresh start\".\n\nMr Clarke is known for playing Mickey Smith in Doctor Who from 2005 to 2010 and for his work in Sky crime drama Bulletproof.\n\nSky said last week it had halted Mr Clarke's involvement in any of its future productions, including Bulletproof's planned fourth series.\n\nMr Clarke has said he is \"deeply sorry\" for some of his actions while continuing to deny any sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing.\n\nHe said he would be seeking professional help \"to educate myself and change for the better\".\n\nMr Clarke and Deacon are both previous winners of Bafta's rising star award, having received the honour in 2009 and 2012 respectively.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Clarke for comment.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the \"close alignment\" between foreign policy in London and Washington during their meeting earlier, No 10 has said.\n\nA No 10 spokeswoman said the PM and Mr Blinken agreed UK-US co-operation would be \"instrumental\" in tackling Covid-19.\n\nThey also welcomed their nations' joint work on areas like trade and defence.\n\nIt came as G7 powers met in London for their first face-to-face meetings in over two years.\n\nThe group is discussing challenges including climate change and threats to human rights. The talks, held amid tight Covid restrictions, will finish on Wednesday.\n\nThe G7 group - the world's seven largest so-called advanced economies - is made up of the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.\n\nAustralia, India, South Korea and South Africa have also been invited as guests, as the UK tries to deepen ties with the Indo-Pacific region.\n\nThe UK, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the G7, will host a leaders' summit in Cornwall next month.\n\nAt their meeting, Mr Johnson and Mr Blinken agreed that UK-US co-operation would be \"instrumental\" in making progress in the fight against coronavirus, alongside \"protecting the environment and other international priorities\", the spokeswoman said.\n\nThey also agreed that the global rollout of coronavirus vaccines would be key in beating the pandemic, and emphasised the \"importance of G7 work in this area, including efforts to increase international manufacturing capability\".\n\nThe spokeswoman added that foreign policy issues, including Afghanistan, Iran and China, were also discussed, and Mr Johnson \"looked forward to welcoming\" US President Joe Biden to the UK when he attends the leaders' summit in June - his first overseas trip since his election victory.\n\nEarlier, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the summit of foreign ministers \"demonstrates that diplomacy is back\", and showed the importance of \"getting countries together\".\n\nMr Raab, wearing a face mask, welcomed counterparts earlier at Lancaster House in London, with forearm bumps replacing the usual handshakes.\n\nAfter talks on Myanmar on Tuesday morning, the G7 discussed issues including the crisis in Libya and the war in Syria.\n\nPoliticians kept their distance for the traditional group photo\n\nMr Raab was expected to urge stronger co-operation between the G7 and the guest nations at a working dinner on Tuesday evening.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the dinner on Tuesday, he told reporters the summit provided a \"good opportunity\" to talk to India, a guest at the summit, about how G7 nations could help the country amid its spike in Covid cases.\n\nThis included a chance to seek \"positive answers\" about what developed nations would do with surplus domestic supplies of vaccines, he added.\n\nLancaster House in central London has played host to many historic negotiations, but rarely will it have seen such diplomatic speed dating as it will later.\n\nFor the next few days, foreign ministers will scurry round the clock from meeting to meeting, doing as much business face to face as they can after months of virtual diplomacy.\n\nThey will discuss the world's big geopolitical issues: from China to Myanmar, Ethiopia to Ukraine, Syria to the Sahel.\n\nThe underlying theme will be how they can best organise to defend international rules and open societies against the threat of autocratic regimes.\n\nAnd for the UK, the meeting's host, it's a big test to see if its global foreign policy can live up to its name.\n\nThe summit comes amid criticism over the UK's decision to cut overseas aid spending from 0.7% of national income to 0.5% - a reduction of more than £4bn.\n\nMr Raab said this had been a \"difficult decision\" but that the UK still had scope \"to be an even greater force for good in the world\".\n\nOn Monday, it was announced that the G7 would use the summit to commit to investing $15bn (£10.8bn) to help women in developing countries.\n\nThey are also expected to agree a new target of sending 40 million more girls from low and middle-income countries to school within five years.", "Nezahualcóyotl is home to more than a million people\n\nFlying over Nezahualcóyotl in a police helicopter gives a sense of the challenges its residents face.\n\nOriginally built on the drained bed of Lake Texcoco, the suburb stretches out below in a patchwork of low-income housing with more than a million people crammed inside.\n\nCiudad Neza, as it is commonly known, is now the most densely populated place in Mexico, part of the vast urban sprawl outside Mexico City.\n\nThe suburb stretches far into the surrounding hills\n\nOver the years. criminal networks have taken hold, often with the complicity of local police.\n\nMunicipal officers insist they have changed, saying that their force has been purged, that corruption is being weeded out and replaced with a sense of civic duty.\n\nThe man they credit for the turnaround is Jorge Amador, a former sociology professor turned police chief.\n\n\"I think we've broken with the traditional way of thinking on local policing here,\" he says, in a rare show of pride.\n\n\"Unfortunately all too often in our country police chiefs and politicians have seen security not as a public service but as a business, as a way to make money.\"\n\nWhen he was first appointed to oversee security in Neza a decade ago, Jorge Amador began by removing more than 100 corrupt or unfit officers.\n\nJorge Amador started by purging the local force of corrupt officers\n\nHe also improved wages and conditions for those who stayed. Some of his ideas were considered unorthodox, such as promoting literature and chess among his officers.\n\nBut the intention, he says, was to combat \"inertia\", a term he uses often.\n\n\"We had to tackle that inertia, and dignify the role of a police officer once again.\"\n\nChess competitions and poetry readings among police officers is all well and good, but as many analysts point out, Mexico's problems run deep.\n\nLast year was the most violent year in the country's drug war with more than 23,000 people killed.\n\nWith their key leaders either dead or arrested, several drug cartels splintered and battled each other for control.\n\nFor two consecutive administrations, the Mexican army has been deployed to try to bring peace to the streets, often playing the role of the police in many communities.\n\nSeeing soldiers on patrol in Mexico is not unusual\n\nNow the Mexican government wants to make that role permanent by law.\n\nThe \"Interior Security Law\" is deeply controversial given the army's poor human rights record and prominent activists such as José Antonio Guevara have grave reservations.\n\n\"In carrying out these police duties over the past 12 years, the army has tortured thousands of people and has disappeared and summarily executed many thousands more,\" he argues.\n\nSpecifically he referred to notorious incidents like the disappearance and subsequent murder of 43 student teachers in Ayotzinapa in 2014.\n\nThe BBC requested an interview with the Mexican military and the ministry of interior but none was granted.\n\nAt the local level, Mr Amador also does not think that the answer lies with the army.\n\n\"For us, security comes from bringing society closer together, from a closer relationship between the people and their institutions.\"\n\nSo he tried two other approaches in Neza instead. The first was to introduce new technology.\n\nOfficers monitor the CCTV footage and deploy officers accordingly\n\nIn a nerve centre at police headquarters, the officers can see every corner of Neza via a sophisticated system of CCTV cameras. A network of neighbourhood watch groups was also set up, which is directly in touch with the patrols via WhatsApp.\n\nThere was also a return to some very basic community policing.\n\nFor example, the municipality was divided up into smaller units comprised of just three or four blocks. The local officers now hold regular neighbourhood meetings in the evenings so people can air their grievances in the open.\n\nResidents gather outdoors to discuss problems in their neighbourhoods\n\nAt one such meeting, it was clear that although car theft and violent crime are well below the national average, no-one was under the impression that Neza was now crime-free.\n\nResidents did say that had noticed some improvements though. \"It's not perfect but we've started to work together at last,\" Sandra said.\n\n\"At least when we ask the officers for help, they come out much quicker than before.\"\n\nHer neighbour, Gerardo, pointed to a street alarm installed by the police. \"We report anything strange or suspicious that we see. And when that alarm goes off, I've seen neighbours come out half dressed and with a spade in their hands to defend our street from criminals!\"\n\nIt is an election year in Mexico and security remains a key campaign issue.\n\nMany Mexicans believe their local police cannot be trusted.\n\nWhile in much of the country that may be true, Neza's unconventional police chief claims he has proven officers are not all bad apples, rotten to the core.\n\n\"We have to challenge this idea that police in Mexico are corrupt, inefficient, criminal, abusive. That this is how they are and how they'll always be.\"", "World must help India through current crisis - Fauci\n\nThe chief medical adviser to US President Joe Biden, Dr Anthony Fauci, has told the BBC that other countries must step up to help India through the current health crisis and to ramp up vaccination rates. \"The number of people needing hospitalisation and not being able to get a hospital bed, the lack of oxygen, the lack of equipment, it is really a very desperate situation. We really need to get a concerted effort of other countries to try and help India out. \"Not only to help them from outside to within, but to help them to be able to get their own situation (under control), namely to produce more vaccines, and to get people vaccinated. \"Only 2% of the population is fully vaccinated and about 9-10% have partial vaccination. For a country of so many people, we've got to do better than that and we've got to do better than that quickly, because that's going to be the solution. That's the intermediate and long-range solution.\"", "There remains \"little association\" between technology use and mental-health problems, a study of more than 430,000 10 to 15-year-olds suggests.\n\nThe Oxford Internet Institute compared TV viewing, social-media and device use with feelings of depression, suicidal tendencies and behavioural problems.\n\nIt found a small drop in association between depression and social-media use and TV viewing, from 1991 to 2019,\n\nThere was a small rise in that between emotional issues and social-media use.\n\n\"We couldn't tell the difference between social-media impact and mental health in 2010 and 2019,\" study co-author Prof Andrew Przybylski. said.\n\n\"We're not saying that fewer happy people use more social media.\n\n\"We're saying that the connection is not getting stronger.\"\n\nAnd this was a warning to regulators and lawmakers focusing on commonly held beliefs about the harmful effects of technology on young people's mental health.\n\nParticipants, in the US and UK, graded their own feelings using set questions with sliding scale responses.\n\nAnd they were asked about the duration of social-media or device activity but not more specifically how they had spent that time.\n\nThe paper is published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science.\n\nIn January 2021, a study suggested heavy social-media use was linked to negative well-being and self-esteem among teenagers.\n\nAnd the UK government has announced a £500m investment in mental-health services, with £79m earmarked for children and young people.", "Former Aston Villa striker Dalian Atkinson died in 2016 in Telford, Shropshire, at the age of 48\n\nAn ex-footballer was Tasered by a PC for six times longer than standard, before being kicked - leaving bootlace prints on his forehead, a jury heard.\n\nBenjamin Monk is charged with the murder of Dalian Atkinson during an altercation in Shropshire in 2016.\n\nHis co-accused, PC Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, is charged with assault.\n\nOpening the trial, prosecutors read witness statements which claim Mr Atkinson was kicked or struck by the officers after falling to the ground.\n\nPC Benjamin Monk deployed a Taser three times - the first two attempts failed and the third incapacitated Mr Atkinson\n\nPC Monk and 31-year-old PC Bettley-Smith, officers with West Mercia Police, arrived at Mr Atkinson's father's house in Meadow Close, Telford, shortly before 01:30 BST on 15 August after neighbours had reported Mr Atkinson acting strangely and shouting in the street.\n\nWhen the officers arrived, PC Monk attempted to deploy his Taser when Mr Atkinson, who had serious health problems, opened the door of his father's home, acting erratically and claiming to be the Messiah.\n\nIt failed and Mr Atkinson then came out of the property and went to the end of the drive. PC Monk deployed a second Taser cartridge, which again failed.\n\nMr Atkinson had been suffering with high blood pressure, heart disease and end-stage renal failure, the court heard\n\nThe prosecution said Mr Atkinson then punched the glass pane in his father's door, which shattered, leading to a further confrontation with the officers and PC Monk deploying his Taser for the third time.\n\nProsecutors said the default setting for a Taser is five seconds but PC Monk, 42, continued to press the trigger, overriding the system for 33 seconds.\n\nThe third cartridge was effective, incapacitating Mr Atkinson who then fell to the ground.\n\nWhile he was unresponsive, jurors heard the police officers \"set about him\".\n\nMary Ellen Bettley-Smith allegedly struck Mr Atkinson with a baton while he was incapacitated by the Taser\n\nPC Monk kicked him in the head with such force imprints of his bootlaces were left in two parts of Mr Atkinson's forehead, while PC Bettley-Smith used her baton to strike him \"a number of times\" while he lay still in the road, the court was told.\n\nSummarising witness accounts, prosecution counsel Alexandra Healy QC said one thought Mr Atkinson was unconscious \"because of the speed with which he collapsed.... pinning his arms under his body when he fell\".\n\nAnother described how \"tentative\" kicks by PC Monk were followed by \"a final massive and powerful kick\" as Mr Atkinson lay motionless on the floor.\n\nMs Healy said of the witness: \"He described the motion as similar to the sort of kick that would have been required to move a ball up field with significant force.\n\n\"He said at the same time the female officer was striking the man with her extendable baton.\"\n\nKenroy Atkinson, the brother of former footballer Dalian Atkinson, was seen arriving at Birmingham Crown Court\n\nOther officers were called to the scene after PC Bettley-Smith pushed her emergency activation button.\n\nMs Healy said PC Mark Bedford, who was on scene first, had seen her \"raise her police baton over her shoulder and strike Dalian Atkinson three times around the waist area\".\n\nAnother officer, PC Ben Wright, said he had witnessed PC Monk with his \"right foot rested on Dalian's head\", she added.\n\nBoth officers, who jurors heard were in a relationship at the time of the incident, deny wrongdoing. However, it is the prosecution's case their use of force was excessive and sustained while Mr Atkinson posed no threat.\n\nMs Healy said PC Monk was an experienced police officer of 14 years and would have known he risked causing Mr Atkinson \"really serious injury\" by kicking him in the head.\n\nShe said PC Monk had not been acting in self-defence but had been \"angry\" to have been \"put in fear by this man\".\n\n\"He chose to take that anger out on Dalian Atkinson by kicking him in the head.\"\n\nPC Bettley-Smith too, she said, \"was not acting in self defence or in defence of her colleague but also taking out her anger on a man who had earlier put her in fear, with the weapon she had been entrusted with to use lawfully\".\n\nMs Healy said the officers were \"entitled to use reasonable force to protect themselves\" and their conduct prior to the discharge of the third Taser cartridge was not criticised.\n\nHowever, she urged jurors to \"consider with great care\" the defendants' case they feared for their safety and were therefore entitled to use such force.\n\nDalian Atkinson started his career in Ipswich in the 1980s\n\nThe court was told Mr Atkinson remained handcuffed when he went into an ambulance as a police constable \"was concerned that Mr Atkinson might be feigning illness\".\n\nThe striker, who had a long sporting career at a number of clubs including Ipswich Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa and Manchester City, died at about 02:45 on the morning of the altercation.\n\nHe had been suffering with high blood pressure, heart disease and end-stage renal failure, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution said although pathologists agreed his underlying health conditions meant Mr Atkinson was \"at a greatly increased risk of dying\", he would have survived \"were it not for the third Taser deployment and the kicks to his head\".\n\nPC Monk denies murder as well as an alternative charge of manslaughter. PC Bettley-Smith denies assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\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 Covid pandemic has led to the loss of about 660,000 jobs in the UK's hospitality sector this year, the industry's trade body has told MPs.\n\nUK Hospitality chief Kate Nicholls said that at the end of 2019, the sector was the third-largest employer in the UK.\n\nThe industry was forecast to generate one-in-six net new jobs this year, she said, but instead some 20% of the sector's 3.2 million jobs had gone.\n\nHospitality sector revenue is down 40% compared with last year, she said.\n\nMs Nicholls said businesses should be enjoying a \"golden\" time of year, since more than a third of annual revenue is usually earned between Halloween and New Year's Eve.\n\nBut instead she said the sector was in \"intensive care\" and called for pubs and restaurants to be able to open with as few restrictions as safely possible in December.\n\nBusiness leaders from a range of industries were giving evidence to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee of MPs.\n\nThe boss of the British Retail Consortium, Helen Dickinson OBE, said there had been job losses across big and small retailers, particularly in clothing and footwear stores.\n\n\"I spoke to one business yesterday who has seen their turnover fall from $200m to $160m. They are on their third round of redundancies,\" she said.\n\nClothing and footwear stores have been hit particularly hard\n\nEarlier, the chair of the BEIS Committee, Darren Jones, said it was unfair that some big retailers were able to keep trading during lockdown, while many small shops were closed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC 5 Live's Wake Up To Money programme, Mr Jones said: \"It's evidently unfair that some retailers can sell everything and others cannot sell anything at all.\"\n\nHe said it was \"unfortunate\" ministers had been unable to set out a mechanism for retailers to continue to operate in a Covid-secure way during lockdown, while other countries such as Germany had done so.\n\nThe Labour MP also called for more financial support to go to businesses forced to close, and criticised some supermarkets - which have stayed open during lockdowns - for accepting public money for help with business rates.\n\n\"Christmas is the most important time of the year for retailers and we don't just want them to survive the Christmas shopping period but to be able to survive into the new year,\" he said.\n\n\"Ministers need to quickly be able to get to a position where they can allow retailers to operate in a Covid-secure way.\"", "The signed picture from Mark Hamill to Dave Prowse was one of the standout items at the auction\n\nA rehearsal script for the classic film, The Empire Strikes Back, has sold for £23,000 at auction.\n\nThe script for the 1980 Star Wars film was part of a collection of memorabilia belonging to Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse.\n\nPart of the proceeds of the auction, which raised more than £400,000, will go to Alzheimer's research.\n\nProwse died in November after a short illness but had been living with Alzheimer's for about 10 years.\n\nAuctioneer Andrew Stowe said more than 2,000 bidders had competed for the 600 lots which went under the hammer at East Bristol Auctions on 4 May - known as Star Wars Day.\n\nProwse, a former professional bodybuilder, grew up on the Southmead estate in Bristol.\n\nMr Stowe said the script was not just movie memorabilia but \"part of world history\".\n\nA picture of Star Wars character Luke Skywalker, signed by Mark Hamill, the actor who played him, sold for £15,000.\n\nThe message on the Luke Skywalker pictured read \"For David - You'll Always Be 'Dad' Vader To Me, Your Loving Son.... Mark Hamill 07\".\n\nA Darth Vader helmet given to Prowse by a fan was part of the auction\n\nA Star Wars cast list sold for £10,000 and a replica lightsaber also went for £10,000.\n\nAlso in the sale was a photograph with a personal message from Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia.\n\nThe message on the photograph, which sold for £8,000, read: \"For Daddy Dave - My Preferred Father - Much Love, Carrie Fisher.\"\n\nMr Stowe said: \"The love for Star Wars is still as strong as it was back in 1977 - and today's auction was proof of that.\n\n\"The fact that Mr Prowse was born just a few miles away from our saleroom is what made this such a special event. It really felt like his collection 'came home'.\"\n\nDave Prowse played Darth Vader in the original three Star Wars films\n\nOverall the auction generated more than £400,000\n\nThe picture signed by Carrie Fisher was one of the most expensive sales at the auction\n\nProwse's friend and assistant Julian Owen took about two months to sort through the items at the actor's London home.\n\nHe said it had been \"an honour\" to organise them, after working with Prowse for more than a decade.\n\nMr Owen said Prowse's wife Norma had \"said from the start that she wanted some of the money raised to go to Alzheimer's Research UK\".\n\nProwse became the face of the Green Cross Code campaign in the 1970s\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stephen Hawking (front row, second from left) during his student days at Oxford University\n\nProf Stephen Hawking's scientific papers and personal possessions are to be saved for the nation.\n\nThe objects include childhood letters, scripts from his TV appearances and Prof Hawking's ground-breaking research into black holes.\n\nThe 10,000-page archive will be kept in perpetuity at Cambridge University library.\n\nHis office will be reconstructed in the Science Museum next year and selected highlights will go on display.\n\nProf Hawking's son, Tim, said that the family was delighted that his body of work and memories of his life were being safeguarded for future generations.\n\n\"Our father would be really pleased,\" he said. \"It was really important during his lifetime that science be opened up to the widest possible number of people and be democratized and not be the preserve of the elite few.\"\n\nThe collection encompasses Prof Hawking's personal and professional life. Particularly touching is a letter by Hawking to his father on family-headed notepaper that was written when the future professor was six years old.\n\nIn child-like lettering, with several crossings out, the young Stephen tells his father a story about pirates loading treasure. He signs off with hugs and kisses.\n\nTim Hawking saw the note for the first time only recently.\n\n\"I would write my dad letters along those lines,\" he reminisces fondly. \"It was quite nice to see it being passed along the generations and appreciating that he had a loving relationship with his dad, as I did when I was (that) age. It shows a tenderness in his relationship with his father which I hadn't fully understood until now.\"\n\nA letter written by the six-year-old Stephen relates a story about pirates\n\nProf Hawking was a prolific letter writer. He communicated with popes, US presidents and Nobel laureates.\n\nThe letters, however, show his handwriting deteriorating after a diagnosis of motor neurone disease in 1963. Its progression is captured by the increasingly misshapen letters and inkblots on the page.\n\nProf Hawking made an immense contribution to science. But his status as the world's most famous scientist was partly because of his appearances on popular TV programmes such as Star Trek and Big Bang Theory. Among the archive is Hawking's personal script from his first appearance on the Simpsons, in 1999.\n\nIn the episode, Prof Hawking and Homer Simpson go to Moe's Tavern for a drink. Prof Hawking becomes intrigued by Homer's theory of a \"doughnut-shaped Universe\" and wonders if he can steal it. Homer imitates him, in an attempt to make him pay the bar bill and gets punched by a boxing glove on a spring, concealed in Prof Hawking's wheelchair.\n\nDr Jessica Gardner, who is Cambridge University's director of library services said the scripts reflect an important aspect of Prof Hawking's contribution to the communication of science.\n\nThe script of Prof Hawking's first appearance on the Simpsons is included in the archive\n\n\"He had an enormous sense of humour. He was willing to be in the Simpsons, to let fun be taken, if what that did was to help communicate science and help people get excited about it,\" she explained.\n\nTo have these scripts shows the celebrity part of his life, but also that he was determined to break down the barriers to science.\"\n\nThe star attraction for historians will be Prof Hawking's research papers and correspondence with his collaborators. They are a record of how his unique mind worked, cataloguing corrections and changes in his ideas over time.\n\nProf Paul Shellard, who worked with him at Cambridge University, said that the collection of papers had a profound influence on our understanding of space-time and the Universe.\n\n\"It's a wonderful thing that historians of science can get an idea of how Stephen thought about these problems,\" Prof Shellard explained. \"He saw further than others and I hope that (his) intuition and way of thinking will come through in the archive and be remembered in perpetuity.\"\n\nA section from Prof Hawking's breakthrough paper, along with a hand written equation. They suggested that black holes were not completely black\n\nThe collection contains a glowing letter, from Prof Hawking's PhD supervisor, to the 22-year-old budding researcher's dad, Frank.\n\n\"It is such a pleasure to supervise him,\" writes Prof Denis Sciama, a noted physicist at the time who is credited as a father of modern cosmology. \"Indeed, I'm at a stage... that I am learning from him\".\n\nAccompanying a seminal 1974 scientific paper, on how black holes are not completely black, is a cover letter to the editor of one of the world's leading scientific journals, Nature. In it we see a confident, if not downright cocky young man, in little doubt about the importance of his research paper.\n\nA cover letter from the confident young Hawking to the editor of one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world\n\nThe contents of Prof Hawking's office, including his custom-built wheelchairs, communications equipment, and office furniture, will be transferred to the Science Museum. According to the museum's director, Sir Ian Blatchford, although rooms of decorative or artistic interest are often kept for posterity, spaces relevant to scientific discovery are rarely saved.\n\n\"By preserving Hawking's office, future generations will be able to delve deep into the world of a leading theoretical physicist who defied the laws of medicine to rewrite the laws of physics and touch the heart of millions,\" Sir Ian said.\n\n\"These remarkable items might even inspire the next Hawking to wonder about the world around us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MGM is home to the James Bond movie franchise and the Handmaid's Tale TV series\n\nAmazon has agreed to buy the historic MGM studios for $8.45bn (£5.97bn).\n\nMGM is one of Hollywood's most famous studios, having produced classic films such as Some Like It Hot and Singin' In The Rain.\n\nThe sale will give the tech giant's Prime streaming service access to a huge back catalogue of content.\n\nAn Amazon executive said on Wednesday: \"It's very exciting and provides so many opportunities for high-quality storytelling.\"\n\nMike Hopkins, senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, added: \"The real financial value behind this deal is the treasure trove of Intellectual Property in the deep catalogue that we plan to re-imagine and develop together with MGM's talented team.\"\n\nThe deal will boost Amazon Prime Video's offering with about 4,000 films, including the James Bond franchise and Legally Blonde, as well as 17,000 television shows such as the Handmaid's Tale TV series.\n\nThe producers behind James Bond have said, however, that the sale would not affect the upcoming release of No Time to Die in cinemas, according to Variety magazine.\n\n\"We are committed to continuing to make James Bond films for the worldwide theatrical audience,\" said Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson.\n\nMGM Holdings, the parent company of MGM Studios, had reportedly been exploring a sale since 2020.\n\nAmazon said in a statement that the deal would allow MGM, founded in 1924 and recognised by its roaring Leo the Lion logo, \"to continue to do what they do best: great storytelling.\"\n\nKevin Ulrich, Chairman of the Board of Directors of MGM, said: \"I am very proud that MGM's Lion, which has long evoked the Golden Age of Hollywood, will continue its storied history.\n\n\"The opportunity to align MGM's storied history with Amazon is an inspiring combination.\"\n\nBut Amazon's streaming service now faces a long list of competitors, such as Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV - all hoping that any binge-watching habits developed during lockdown will stick.\n\nAmazon Studios is looking to build on the success of some of its original films, such as the Oscar-winner Sound of Metal\n\n\"Amazon is seeking to become a more prominent player in the entertainment world, and there's no better way to do that than by buying one of the most iconic movie studios in Hollywood,\" said Jesse Cohen, a senior financial analyst at Investing.com.\n\n\"It's all about content as the streaming war heats up.\"\n\nThe Amazon-MGM deal comes within weeks of telecoms giant AT&T agreeing a $43bn deal to combine its WarnerMedia unit with Discovery to create a new streaming giant.\n\nThe tie-up brings one of Hollywood's biggest studios and Discovery's channels under the same ownership - but also marks the entry of another player into the market.\n\nAmazon's takeover of MGM will also need to be approved by regulators, at a time when the firm is under scrutiny in the European Union and in the US over its business practices.\n\nThe acquisition marks Amazon's second-biggest after it bought upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods Market for $13.7bn in 2017.", "Sara says she was \"physically and mentally tortured\" in Pakistan for a year\n\nA woman who was \"pawned off like cattle\" into a forced marriage by her dad said it was \"absolutely horrific\".\n\nSara (not her real name) was 19 when she went with her family to Pakistan for her elder sister's wedding but once there, learnt she was getting wed too.\n\nOne charity has warned there could be a spike in cases as international travel restrictions ease and the UK Border Force should be \"on alert\".\n\nUK Border Force said it trains officers in protecting vulnerable people.\n\nSara, from south Wales, said that years later she was still affected by what happened.\n\nShe told Wales Live: \"I wanted a life, a career and everything else, and I'm being told I'm getting married to somebody I don't even know.\n\n\"I felt upset, angry. I was just being pawned off to somebody, like I was basically cattle.\n\n\"It was a big punch in the guts, a very big punch.\n\n\"You're angry because you're in that situation, but then you're also fearful because you don't know this person, you don't know what they're going to do to you or how they're going to be with you.\n\n\"And then, obviously, it's the emotional side of the relationship and the physical side too.\n\n\"Because if you don't know this person and they want to be laying down with you, if you like, your resistance to that only results in physical violence, and rape of course.\n\n\"It was absolutely horrific. At the time I was 19, so I was a virgin, and to have your virginity taken away by rape stays with you basically forever.\"\n\nSara was in Pakistan for a year and said she was \"physically and mentally tortured\". She was only able to come back to Wales when her visa ran out.\n\nShe moved back in with her family and one day, she heard a car outside.\n\n\"I was getting ready for work and I looked out of the window. My dad got out and then my husband got out the other side,\" she added.\n\n\"They had gone to the airport to get him, but I'd had no idea he was coming here.\"\n\nSara's father tried to make her continue in the marriage.\n\n\"I went to my father and I told him what was going on, and his reply back to my plea for help was 'get on with it, this is what happens, get on with it'.\n\n\"The way I see it was I was thrown to the wolves, because obviously when it was just me and him, he was able to do what he wanted to.\n\n\"I've been held by my ankles over a well, I've looked down the barrel of a gun and I've had a gun pointed to my head and someone flicking the trigger, like they're playing Russian roulette.\n\n\"And having to go through experiences like that, knowing that those experiences have only happened to you because of your family - not my family as a whole, a few of the members of my family - it changes you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rubie Marie was told her trip to Bangladesh was a holiday, when in fact she was about to be forced to marry a man twice her age\n\nSara managed to escape with the help of a friend and went to a refuge run by the charity Bawso, which offers support and refuge to victims of forced marriage.\n\nBawso said \"escape routes\" have been shut down during the pandemic.\n\nFrom March 2020 to January 2021, Bawso supported 49 victims of honour-based violence and forced marriage compared with 151 victims in the year to March 2020.\n\nAccording to UK government figures, the number of forced marriage protection orders issued in Wales has plummeted since the start of the pandemic, going from 60 in 2019 to fewer than five in 2020.\n\nThese orders allow young people to apply to the courts for protection by, for example, stopping their family taking them out of the UK, while keeping them out of the criminal system.\n\nNancy Lidubwi from the charity said she expected a spike in cases when international travel restrictions eased and the UK Border Force should be \"on alert\".\n\n\"We all just have to be on the lookout. We all have to work collaboratively - schools, social services, police, UK Border Agency has got to be looking at young people going out of the country and ask those key questions,\" she added.\n\n\"Don't shy away from asking if they see there is a young person and they look like they are under duress and they are travelling with a family out of this country.\"\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"No-one should be forced to marry and our Border Force officers are always on high alert to ensure they can safeguard victims from so-called honour-based abuse.\n\n\"All Border Force officers receive mandatory training in protecting vulnerable people, which includes learning how to identify potential victims of forced marriage. We also have a cadre of specialist safeguarding officers operating at the border who are on hand to assist potential victims.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham: \"This would appear to be in my view a fairly major communications error\"\n\nA hospital in Bolton has said it is taking \"urgent action\" to manage a surge in patients with Covid-19.\n\nRoyal Bolton Hospital said it had experienced \"one of the busiest days ever\" and urged people to attend A&E only \"if absolutely necessary\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the government made a \"major communications error\" in not announcing new Covid travel advice for the town.\n\nBolton is among the areas hardest hit by the Indian variant of the virus.\n\nThe town recorded 452 cases per 100,000 people in the week to 21 May, the highest in England.\n\nThere were 865 cases recorded in the week to 14 May, rising to 1,300 the following week.\n\nRoyal Bolton said it was also placing an \"increased focus on discharges to free bed space\".\n\nDeputy chief executive Andy Ennis said a number of patients were discharged overnight but 41 patients with Covid remained on the wards, with eight in critical care.\n\nManchester City Council leader Sir Richard Leese, who is also health and care lead for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, said the number of Covid patients at the hospital was still less than a third of what it was at the peak of the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Even though there is a high proportion of cases, that high proportion of cases is not translating into significant increases in hospitalisation, and, more importantly, it is not leading to more people in ICU.\"\n\nHe said those being admitted included people aged 35 to 60, and although some would have been eligible for one or two vaccinations, a bigger number of patients had only recently become eligible for the jab.\n\nMr Ennis said the hospital was \"taking urgent actions to ensure we can continue to manage this demand effectively\".\n\n\"Going into the bank holiday weekend and half term, which is always a busy time for the NHS, we anticipate this pressure continuing,\" he said.\n\n\"We urge the public to continue to take all necessary steps to protect themselves and others, follow the relevant national guidance, and to only attend our emergency department if absolutely necessary.\"\n\nAdvice against non-essential travel to Bolton in Greater Manchester and for people there to meet outside where possible was issued on 14 May.\n\nThe advice for Blackburn, Burnley, Kirklees, Bedford, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside was published online on Friday, on a page in a section of the government's website which deals with the Covid-19 restrictions, and urges \"an extra cautious approach\".\n\nIn a joint statement, public health directors from all eight areas reiterated that the advice was guidance only.\n\nThey said they had been assured by government officials there were no legal restrictions on travel in or out of each of the areas and \"no local lockdowns\".\n\n\"We are all working together to boost testing and vaccination and to support self-isolation,\" they said, and also urged people to continue taking \"sensible public health precautions\".\n\nSpeaking during a virtual press conference, Mr Burnham said: \"It would appear guidance was reissued on Friday but has been amended and it would appear to put more emphasis around travel, hence the confusion that has been created.\n\n\"Nobody in our system was told about this change in the presentation of the guidance.\"\n\nRoyal Bolton Hospital said there were 41 patients with Covid on its wards\n\nAsked if residents should cancel holidays, Bolton Council leader David Greenhalgh said they should \"just behave sensibly\".\n\nHe said after speaking with government officials \"there are no added restrictions coming to Bolton, there is no local lockdown\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said the government website would be updated to \"make it clearer\" local restrictions were not being imposed.\n\nAdvice about additional precautions people can take living in the areas would also be added, he said.\n\n\"This includes, wherever possible, trying to meet outdoors rather than indoors, keeping two metres apart from anyone you don't live with and minimising travel in and out the area.\"\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.", "Sasha Johnson was left in a life-threatening condition following the shooting on Sunday\n\nFive people have been arrested after a prominent Black Lives Matter activist was shot in the head at a party in south London.\n\nSasha Johnson, 27, is critically ill in hospital after being shot at a house party in Peckham on Sunday.\n\nThe Met said five males, aged between 17 and 28, have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, as well as other offences.\n\nSearches are also being carried out at two addresses in Peckham.\n\nMs Johnson was left in a life-threatening condition following the shooting at the property in Consort Road at about 03:00 BST.\n\nThe party was being held in the garden of a house in Peckham\n\nOfficers first arrested a 17-year-old boy on Tuesday afternoon following a stop-and-search in south London.\n\nHe was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and possession with intent to supply class A drugs.\n\nFurther investigations led police to an address in Peckham where three men, aged 18,19 and 28, were all arrested on suspicion of affray and possession with intent to supply class B drugs.\n\nA 25-year-old man was held later in the evening following a police chase.\n\nThe Met said he had been arrested on suspicion of affray and failing to stop for police.\n\nAll five were later also arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remain in custody, the force added.\n\nForensic officers have been carrying out searches in the area where Ms Johnson was shot\n\nSupt Kris Wright said the arrests had been \"the result of instinctive local police work, combined with fast-time intelligence gathering\".\n\n\"Local officers, supported by specialist teams, will continue to be in and around the Peckham area in the coming days and I continue to urge anyone with concerns to engage with them,\" she added.\n\nSome 30 people had been at the party when Ms Johnson was shot.\n\nAnother man, who was thought to be in his 20s, also suffered a \"superficial knife injury\" during the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Richard Leonard said the \"arrests show that progress is being made\" in the investigation but it remains \"in its early stages\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nDavid de Gea failed at the end of a marathon penalty shootout as Villarreal dashed Manchester United's hopes of Europa League glory in Gdansk.\n\nThis was a disappointing contest lacking in quality and producing only three shots on target across 120 minutes - but drama arrived with the spot-kicks.\n\nAll 20 outfield players converted their penalties in the longest shootout in a final of any Uefa competition, and in an increasingly tense stadium Villarreal goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli blasted home his effort and then denied De Gea, who was crestfallen at the end.\n\nIt gave Villarreal a first major trophy in their history and saw former Arsenal boss Unai Emery lift the Europa League for an unprecedented fourth time.\n\nHowever, on the anniversary of both Sir Matt Busby's birth and the epic Champions League final in 1999 that earned Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hero status among the Old Trafford faithful, there was to be no new 26 May landmark as United complete a fourth year without silverware.\n\nUnited simply did not do enough, despite the massive gulf in transfer fees and salaries between the two clubs.\n\nSolskjaer's side did not start well and fell behind to a soft goal from Gerard Moreno.\n\nEdinson Cavani dragged United level 10 minutes into the second period after a Marcus Rashford shot had been deflected into his path, but United failed to build on that momentum and by the end Solskjaer was introducing Juan Mata and Alex Telles purely to take penalties in the shootout.\n\nBoth players scored. Although given De Gea had failed to save any of the previous 21 penalties he had faced, maybe Solskjaer should have followed the example of former United boss Louis van Gaal, who famously brought on Tim Krul purely for a shootout at the 2014 World Cup, which the Netherlands went on to win\n• None 'They are a million miles away' - how pundits reacted\n• None Relive the Europa League final between Villarreal and Man Utd\n\nFor most of this season, no-one has been quite sure which United were going to turn up. It felt like that across the whole game in Gdansk, as they alternated between inventive and passive almost with each passing minute.\n\nEvidently, Solskjaer felt he had no choice other than to stick with it.\n\nIn the final game of last season, he waited until the 87th minute of the semi-final defeat by Sevilla before making a change.\n\nBy then, his side were losing, so it was not a shock the Norwegian had not used any of the six he was allowed on this occasion as extra time began.\n\nThe brutal truth is, having gone with his strongest offensive starting XI, there was no-one on the bench Solskjaer felt confident could improve the situation.\n\nIn Cavani and Mason Greenwood, two of United's best performers were attackers. But Rashford had a poor game, which was summed up by the England man failing to convert when Greenwood had given him a clear sight at goal.\n\nAny goal would have been ruled offside but Rashford was not to know that as his scuffed effort rolled wide.\n\nScott McTominay's midfield industry outshone both Bruno Fernandes and Paul Pogba, who both flitted in and out of the game without producing anything truly remarkable.\n\nIt would be easy to point to the absence of captain Harry Maguire as the key factor in Moreno's opener.\n\nBut Maguire was on the pitch when United conceded a very similar kind of goal against Everton in February.\n\nOn that occasion it was Dominic Calvert-Lewin who slid the ball past De Gea as United's defence failed to deal with a free-kick floated from a deep position into their penalty area.\n\nThis time Moreno's run into the box went unchecked, allowing him to get in front of Victor Lindelof and turn Dani Parejo's free-kick into De Gea's goal.\n\nIt is the kind of routine situation Solskjaer's team have been vulnerable to all season and seemed to be something Emery had worked out given the number of times Villarreal put themselves in situations to deliver such crosses, without quite getting their execution right.\n\nNot that nervous United defending was limited to set-pieces. The sight of Eric Bailly attempting an overhead-kick inside his own six-yard box in the opening stages of the second period would have been only marginally less worrying had he actually connected with the ball.\n\nIt could be argued Solskjaer should have addressed the issue before now. Some may claim it was for the powers-that-be to deal with it for him.\n\nNow, having failed to win a trophy in two and a half seasons as manager, the familiar questions about his own ability will follow the Norwegian around all summer.\n• None Villarreal are the first side to win in their first appearance in a major European final since Shakhtar Donetsk in the 2008-09 Uefa Cup.\n• None Manchester United have lost six of their last seven penalty shootouts in all competitions, only winning against Rochdale in the League Cup in September 2019 in that time.\n• None Villarreal boss Unai Emery is the first manager to win either the Uefa Cup or Europa League four times, surpassing Giovanni Trapattoni.\n• None Villarreal became the 13th side in Europe's big five leagues to hit the 100-goal milestone in all competitions this season (100).\n• None The three shots on target produced in the game (one for Villarreal and two for Manchester United) was the lowest tally in a Europa League final since Porto v Sporting Braga in 2011 also saw just three.\n• None Gerard Moreno netted his 82nd goal in all competitions for Villarreal, joining Giuseppe Rossi as the club's all-time top-scorer.\n• None Moreno became the first player to score 30+ goals for Villarreal in a single season in all competitions since Giuseppe Rossi in 2010-11 (32).\n• None Manchester United striker Edinson Cavani became just the third player aged 34 or above to score in a major European final for an English club, after Gary McAllister (36) for Liverpool in the Uefa Cup final versus Alaves in 2000-01 and Didier Drogba (34) for Chelsea in the Champions League final versus Bayern Munich in 2011-12\n• None Manchester United's Edinson Cavani has scored 16 goals in his last 11 starts in the Europa League.\n• None Manchester United's Mason Greenwood made his 52nd appearance this season in all competitions, the joint-most of any teenager with a team from Europe's big five leagues along with Barcelona's Pedri.\n• None Penalty saved! David de Gea (Manchester United) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(11), Manchester United 1(10). Gerónimo Rulli (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(10), Manchester United 1(10). Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(10), Manchester United 1(9). Pau Torres (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(9), Manchester United 1(9). Axel Tuanzebe (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(9), Manchester United 1(8). Mario Gaspar (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(8), Manchester United 1(8). Luke Shaw (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(8), Manchester United 1(7). Francis Coquelin (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(7), Manchester United 1(7). Daniel James (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(7), Manchester United 1(6). Raúl Albiol (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(6), Manchester United 1(6). Fred (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(6), Manchester United 1(5). Moi Gómez (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(5), Manchester United 1(5). Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(5), Manchester United 1(4). Daniel Parejo (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(4), Manchester United 1(4). Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(4), Manchester United 1(3). Alberto Moreno (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(3), Manchester United 1(3). Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(3), Manchester United 1(2). Paco Alcácer (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None 'The UK is all I've ever known': Panorama looks at the impact of immigration status on those born or raised in Britain\n• None Three youngsters embark on the wildest activities Scotland has to offer", "Patrick Ennis was one of three paramedics to work at the scene of the blast\n\nA paramedic first on the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing did not give immediate treatment to casualties because his role was to assess the scene, an inquiry has heard.\n\nPatrick Ennis was one of three paramedics to work at the blast scene.\n\nHe explained he did not immediately start treating people because it was his job to prepare for a wider major incident response.\n\nMr Ennis said his training was to assess who was most in need of help.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at about 22:30 BST on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry heard Mr Ennis arrived at the scene 21 minutes after the bomb had gone off.\n\nHe said he spent 90 minutes triaging patients and deciding who was most in need of urgent care.\n\nMr Ennis explained to the hearing as the first person from the ambulance service on the scene, treating the injured \"would occur sometime into the incident\", and added \"it was not practical at that stage\".\n\nMr Ennis agreed that some people may see it as a \"brutal way to approach the situation\" but that was the way he had been trained to provide an \"overall grip\" on a major incident.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nThe advanced paramedic said although he expected more colleagues to follow him into the foyer, he realised it was going to take some time.\n\n\"I think the numbers that we had available at that time just simply didn't allow for any deployment of large number of paramedics into the City Room.\"\n\nMr Ennis told the inquiry he was made aware by firearms police officers that they did not think that area was safe.\n\n\"I believe that's one of the reasons why it wasn't possible to deploy further paramedics as they arrived into that area,\" he said.\n\nMr Ennis said the decision to move critically injured people from the foyer down to the station concourse was why only two more paramedics went into the bomb scene.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "France has lifted more coronavirus restrictions in recent weeks\n\nFrance has become the latest European country to introduce restrictions on UK tourists due to the spread of the Indian coronavirus variant.\n\nThe French government has announced that from 31 May only essential travel from the UK will be allowed. A week's self-isolation is also required.\n\nGermany imposed a two-week quarantine on UK arrivals last week. Austria has banned direct UK flights from 1 June.\n\nBy last week, the UK had recorded 3,424 cases of the B.1.617.2 variant.\n\nThat number had risen by 2,111 cases from the previous week.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has said the Indian variant is \"more transmittable\" than the UK variant first identified in Kent, which was responsible for the UK's deadly wave of coronavirus infections this winter.\n\n\"We expect, over time, this variant to overtake and come to dominate in the UK,\" he said.\n\nHowever, a study earlier this week found that two injections of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines offered a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as from the Kent one. But protection after a first dose was lower in the Indian variant compared with the Kent variant, with 33% and 50% effectiveness respectively.\n\nFrance, Germany and Austria are all on England's \"amber\" list, meaning that the government advises against travel there and passengers must quarantine upon return.\n\nHowever, France had planned to allow fully vaccinated travellers from the UK - or those who had tested negative - to visit from 9 June, when travel restrictions around the EU are set to be eased. The decision to allow only essential travel, for example for bereavement or childcare, from 31 May is a setback to anyone in the UK who had planned to go on holiday in France.\n\nUK travellers to France are already required to self-isolate in a designated hotel for seven days, but tighter quarantine restrictions, such as proof of quarantine location and possible police checks, will not be imposed.\n\nSpain, another amber country, has already reopened to UK tourists.\n\nLast week, the EU agreed on a pass to allow travel across the bloc's 27 countries for all those who have been fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine, recently tested negative or recovered from an infection. It is expected to launch by July.", "Artwork: Mast Upgrade has been testing an innovative design\n\nInitial results from a UK experiment could help clear a hurdle to achieving commercial power based on nuclear fusion, experts say.\n\nThe researchers believe they now have a better way to remove the excess heat produced by fusion reactions.\n\nThis intense heat can melt materials used inside a reactor, limiting the amount of time it can operate for.\n\nThe system, which has been likened to a car exhaust, resulted in a tenfold reduction in the heat.\n\nThe tests were carried out at the Mast (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) Upgrade nuclear fusion experiment at Culham in Oxfordshire. The £55m device began operating in October last year, after a seven-year build.\n\nNuclear fusion is an attempt to replicate the processes that power the Sun - and other stars - here on planet Earth.\n\nBut the trick is getting more energy out of the reactions than you put in. This goal continues to elude teams of scientists and engineers around the world, who are working to make fusion power a reality.\n\nExisting nuclear energy relies on a process called fission, where a heavy chemical element is split to produce lighter ones. Fusion works by combining two light elements to make a heavier one.\n\nOne common fusion approach uses a reactor design called a tokamak, in which powerful magnetic fields are used to control charged gas - or plasma - inside a doughnut-shaped container.\n\nInside the tokamak, where plasmas are controlled by magnetic fields\n\nAn international fusion megaproject called Iter is currently under construction in southern France. Prof Ian Chapman, chief executive of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), said it would be crucial for demonstrating the feasibility of bringing fusion power to the grid.\n\nBut he added that Iter's size and cost meant that \"if every time you wanted to build a unit, you had to raise that sum of money, then the penetration into the market would be determined by economics, not technology\".\n\nMast Upgrade is one attempt to come up with a template for more compact, cheaper fusion reactors. It makes use of an innovative design known as a spherical tokamak to squeeze the fuel into a 4.4m-tall, 4m-wide space. By comparison, the containment vessel Iter will use to control its fusion reactions is 11.4m tall and 19.4m wide.\n\nBut Mast Upgrade's bijou dimensions come at a price: \"You're making something that's hotter than the Sun... in a smaller volume. How you then get the heat out becomes a big challenge,\" said Prof Chapman.\n\nThe core of the plasma within the tokamak reaches temperatures of 100 million C. Without an exhaust system that can handle this unimaginable heat, materials in the design would have to be regularly replaced - significantly affecting the amount of time a power plant could operate for.\n\nThe new exhaust system being trialled at Culham is known as a Super-X divertor. This would allow components in future commercial tokamaks to last for much longer; greatly increasing the power plant's availability, improving its economic viability and reducing the cost of fusion electricity.\n\nTests at Mast Upgrade have shown at least a tenfold reduction in the heat on materials with the Super-X system.\n\nResearchers said the results were a \"game-changer\" for the promise of fusion power plants that could provide affordable, efficient electricity. Against the background of climate change, fusion could offer a clean and virtually limitless source of energy.\n\nDr Andrew Kirk, lead scientist on Mast Upgrade, said the results were \"the moment our team at UKAEA has been working towards for almost a decade\".\n\n\"We built Mast Upgrade to solve the exhaust problem for compact fusion power plants, and the signs are that we've succeeded.\n\n\"Super-X reduces the heat on the exhaust system from a blowtorch level down to more like you'd find in a car engine. This could mean it would only have to be replaced once during the lifetime of a power plant.\"\n\nThe success of the exhaust system for Mast Upgrade delivers a boost to plans for a prototype fusion power plant in the UK called Step. It is expected to come online sometime in the 2040s.\n\nThe Mast Upgrade facility will have its official opening ceremony on Wednesday, where guest of honour, astronaut Tim Peake, will create his own artificial star by running a plasma test on the machine.", "Michelle Hadaway said Martin Bashir did not return her murdered daughter's clothing\n\nThe mother of a murdered girl wants the BBC to investigate the way she was treated by journalist Martin Bashir.\n\nMichelle Hadaway gave Mr Bashir items of her daughter's clothing for DNA testing in 1991, but said no tests were done and the clothes were not returned.\n\nKaren Hadaway and Nicola Fellows, both nine, were murdered by Russell Bishop in 1986, in a case that became known as the Babes in the Wood murders.\n\nThe BBC has agreed to speak to Ms Hadaway about the lost items.\n\nA spokesman for the corporation said: \"We appreciate how distressing this must be for Ms Hadaway and we will of course discuss this matter with her if and when she wishes to do so.\"\n\nMs Hadaway said Mr Bashir denied taking the clothes, despite signing a receipt.\n\n\"Over the years I have been so angry with the fact this man has never apologised to me, never contacted me,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\n\"The denials have been going on for quite a long time,\" she added.\n\nMs Hadaway said she was persuaded Mr Bashir was going to have the clothes DNA tested as part of a BBC documentary exploring the impacts of advances in forensic testing.\n\nMartin Bashir returned to the BBC in 2016\n\nWoman's Hour said it had been unable to reach Mr Bashir for comment.\n\nWhen asked about the claims by The Times, he said: \"I may have lost it, but I don't remember.\"\n\nThe BBC is to review its editorial practices and investigate how it came to rehire the journalist as religion correspondent in 2016, after an inquiry into his interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nLord Dyson's report found the BBC had covered up \"deceitful behaviour\" used to secure the interview.\n\nKaren Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows (right) were killed in Wild Park, Brighton, in 1986\n\nMs Hadaway said she would \"of course\" welcome an investigation of her interactions with Mr Bashir, and said she intended to consult lawyers to \"see what can be sorted about him\".\n\nShe said she had trusted Mr Bashir with \"the last thing that I had to do with my daughter, which was her clothes\".\n\n\"To not give them to me back, or to not have them DNA tested, is a bit shameful,\" she said.\n\nIn 1987, Bishop was cleared of murdering and sexually assaulting Karen and friend Nicola Fellow, both nine, in woods in Brighton, East Sussex.\n\nHe went on to attack a seven-year-old girl in 1990.\n\nIn 2018, he was convicted of the murders after double jeopardy laws were changed, permitting a second trial.\n\nMs Hadaway said the family had always mantained Bishop was guilty and would have considered taking civil action if DNA tests had been conducted and evidence was found against him.\n\nShe said she would like Mr Bashir to apologise, adding: \"There's been no apology, even back when I found the receipt and he was approached about it with the receipt, he's still saying 'I don't remember'.\"\n\nA BBC spokesperson told Woman's Hour: \"When people raise concerns of this kind about our programmes, of course we look into them.\n\n\"The BBC has changed radically over the past 25 years and has significantly better processes and procedures in place to protect contributors, but we also know that it is important to keep learning.\"\n\nSussex Police said it was aware of claims Mr Bashir had not returned items of clothing, but said it had \"no material impact on the investigation then or later, or on the 2018 prosecution\" of Bishop.\n\nIt said that forensic evidence had already been obtained in 1986, before the clothing was returned to Karen's family at their request.\n\nMaterial obtained from the clothing before it was returned included DNA evidence \"which only became accessible many years later due to advances in forensic technology and which was crucial in securing Bishop's eventual conviction\", it said.", "Claims the government put a protective shield around care homes at the start of the pandemic were \"complete nonsense,\" Dominic Cummings has said.\n\nThe former government adviser told MPs he was shocked, in April 2020, to find residents were not being tested before going back to care homes.\n\nHe said Health Secretary Matt Hancock had previously agreed Covid testing would take place.\n\nThe government said it had taken a number of steps to protect care homes.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said: \"We have always been guided by the latest advice at that time, and we have taken a number of steps to protect care home residents and those being discharged from hospitals into care homes.\"\n\nThe PM's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, faced questions about early decisions around care homes, at a hearing of the Commons Health and Social Care and Science and Technology committees.\n\nHe told MPs: \"We were told categorically in March that people would be tested before they went back to care homes. We only subsequently found out that that hadn't happened.\n\n\"The government rhetoric was we put a shield around care homes - it was complete nonsense.\n\n\"Quite the opposite of putting a shield around them - we sent people with Covid back to the care homes.\"\n\nMr Cummings said the situation was made worse because care home staff did not always have adequate PPE or testing equipment.\n\nNadra Ahmed, of the National Care Association, said Dominic Cummings' remarks about care homes were disappointing.\n\nShe told the PA news agency: \"It is with great sadness that listening to Mr Cummings, it emerges that our initial thoughts and the evidence that was around us was right - that there was no shield around care homes, there was no thought on the impact on the vulnerable people that we care for.\"\n\nAsk almost anyone who works in care, those who need services and their families, whether the government put a \"protective ring around the care sector from the very start\" of the pandemic, as it claims, and their response is one of disbelief - even of derision.\n\nSo for many today's comments from Dominic Cummings will have confirmed their memories.\n\nGiven the vulnerability of the people they look after, in early March 2020 many care providers started asking for guidance on how to protect against Covid.\n\nWith each week that passed those voices got louder. They struggled to get protective equipment, felt official guidance was too slow and had almost no testing.\n\nSome homes complained of being pressurised to take patients from hospitals. And the government only published its plan for social care when deaths among care home residents were already at a peak.\n\nFor the families of care home residents who died and care workers, today's testimony will have further underlined the importance of the coming inquiry into what happened.\n\nShadow social care minister, Liz Kendall, said the government was too slow to act to protect residents and staff.\n\nShe added: \"Over 30,000 care home residents have died of coronavirus during this pandemic - 25,000 elderly people were discharged from hospitals to care homes without any tests whatsoever, and frontline care workers were left without PPE.\n\n\"As we emerge from this pandemic, ministers must put in place a plan to transform social care, and ensure that care homes never again face a crisis of this scale.\"\n\nNatasha Curry, of the health think-tank the Nuffield Trust, said serious questions needed to be asked about the timing and effectiveness of measures in place for social care.\n\nShe said: \"The government was reportedly warned as early as January last year that the care home sector in particular would be hit hard by what was known about the virus, yet routine testing, adequate PPE and a plan for the sector came much later.\n\n\"Care homes were left often ill-prepared and sadly the extension of testing to social care staff and care home residents in late April came far too late to protect many of the most vulnerable.\"\n\nA National Audit Office report in June 2020 said about 25,000 hospital patients were discharged into care homes in England at the height of the pandemic, without them all being tested for Covid-19.\n\nAfter initially saying a negative result was not required before discharging patients from hospitals to care homes, the government later said on 15 April that all patients would be tested.\n\nRegular testing for staff and residents in care homes in England was rolled out in July.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die\", Dominic Cummings told MPs\n\nThousands of people died needlessly as a result of government mistakes in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Dominic Cummings has said.\n\nThe PM's former top aide said Boris Johnson was \"unfit for the job\", claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also claimed Matt Hancock should have been fired for lying - something denied by the health secretary.\n\n\"Tens of thousands of people died, who didn't need to die,\" Mr Cummings added.\n\nAt a marathon seven-hour evidence session, the former Downing Street insider painted a picture of policy failure, dithering and a government that had no useful plan for handling a pandemic.\n\nHe told MPs: \"The truth is that senior ministers, senior officials, senior advisers like me fell disastrously short of the standards that the public has a right to expect of its government in a crisis like this.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would like to say to all the families of those who died unnecessarily how sorry I am for the mistakes that were made and for my own mistakes at that.\"\n\nMr Cummings - who was forced out of Number 10 at the end of last year after an internal power struggle - said those on the front line of the pandemic were like \"lions\" being \"led by donkeys\".\n\nBut he claimed Mr Johnson had told him he liked to be surrounded by \"chaos\" in Downing Street, because it meant everyone had to look to the PM \"to see who is in charge\".\n\nAsked if he thought Mr Johnson was a \"fit and proper person\" to get the UK through the pandemic, Mr Cummings replied: \"No.\"\n\nMr Johnson hit back at some of his former aide's allegations at Prime Minister's Questions, insisting that the government's priority had always been to \"save lives\".\n\nBut Mr Cummings said that despite nearly losing his own life to Covid, the PM thought the first national lockdown, on 23 March last year, had been a mistake - and he was against a so-called \"circuit breaker\" lockdown in autumn 2020 for economic reasons, despite scientific advice.\n\nAsked on what basis the PM had taken this decision, Mr Cummings said: \"He wasn't taking any advice, he was just taking his own decision that he was going to ignore the advice.\"\n\nHe added: \"The cabinet wasn't involved or asked.\"\n\nAsked if the prime minister had said he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" than take the country into a third lockdown, as reported by the BBC, Mr Cummings said: \"I heard that in the prime minister's study.\"\n\nThe former adviser reserved his most savage criticism for Matt Hancock, claiming the health secretary should have been fired for \"15 to 20\" different things - accusing him of \"criminal, disgraceful behaviour that caused serious harm\".\n\nHe said he had repeatedly called on Mr Johnson to sack Mr Hancock, calling him \"completely incapable of doing the job\".\n\nThe prime minister had been furious when he came back to work after recovering from coronavirus to find that untested patients had been discharged to care homes in England, thereby allowing the virus to spread, Mr Cummings claimed.\n\nBoth he and the PM had been told \"categorically in March that people will be tested before they went back to care homes\".\n\nSubsequent government claims about putting a \"shield\" around care homes were \"complete nonsense\", he said.\n\nMr Cummings also attacked Mr Hancock over PPE shortages, and accused him of \"disgraceful behaviour\" in setting a \"stupid\" target of offering 100,000 Covid tests a day, which he said had disrupted wider work to establish the test and trace system.\n\nCommittee chairman Greg Clark said Mr Cummings must provide written evidence to back up his claims about Mr Hancock, who will be quizzed by the MPs in two weeks' time.\n\nMr Hancock said he had not seen Mr Cummings' evidence in full adding \"instead I've been dealing with getting the vaccination rollout going, especially to over-30s, and saving lives\".\n\nHowever he added that he would have \"more to say\" when he gives a statement to the House of Commons on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"I haven't seen the performance today in full\"\n\nEarlier, a spokesman for Mr Hancock said: \"We absolutely reject Mr Cummings' claims about the health secretary.\n\n\"The health secretary will continue to work closely with the prime minister to deliver the vaccine rollout, tackle the risks posed by variants and support the NHS and social care sector to recover from this pandemic.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the \"very grave allegations\" appeared to be \"well-founded\" and the health secretary \"needs to give us an explanation\" if the country is to \"maintain confidence in him\".\n\nIn other explosive claims, Mr Cummings said:\n\nMr Cummings was questioned by the Health and Science select committees, for their inquiry into \"lessons learnt\" on the government's response to the pandemic.\n\nBefore the hearing began, he tweeted a picture of a whiteboard on which the government's \"plan B\" for the first wave of the virus was sketched out.\n\nDominic Cummings has tweeted a series of whiteboard images relating to Covid meetings\n\nHe told the MPs the original plan had been for limited intervention, with the hope of achieving \"herd immunity\", and he was \"completely baffled\" by Downing Street's denial of this.\n\nHe said the herd immunity strategy was abandoned when the scale of the death toll that would result from it became clear.\n\nMr Cummings was frank about some of his own failings - and admitted that his defence of a trip to County Durham during the first lockdown had \"undermined public confidence\".\n\nBut he said he had made the journey due to threats against his family - and he defended his claim that he had driven his family to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight, saying the story was too \"weird\" to have been made up.\n\nHe also gave his version of his departure from Downing Street, saying his relationship with Mr Johnson had broken down after the second national lockdown in October.\n\n\"The fact that his girlfriend (Carrie Symonds) also wanted rid of me was relevant but not the heart of the problem,\" he told MPs.\n\nHe said he regarded Mr Johnson as \"unfit for the job\" and that he had been \"trying to create a structure around him (the PM) to try and stop what I thought were extremely bad decisions and push other things through against his wishes\".\n\nHe also described how a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee on 12 March had been disrupted by US President Donald Trump wanting to start a \"bombing campaign\" against Iraq.\n\nAt the same time, he added, Mr Johnson's partner Carrie Symonds was \"going crackers\" about a \"completely trivial\" story in the Times regarding the dog she co-owned with the prime minister.\n\nResponding to Mr Cummings' evidence, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"Boris Johnson's casual disregard for the safety of the British people has had fatal consequences.\n\n\"From care homes to borders, repeatedly locking down too late and failing to learn from his mistakes, the PM's decisions and failures resulted in tens of thousands of avoidable deaths.\"\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson told MPs: \"The handling of this pandemic has been one of the most difficult things this country has had to do for a very long time and none of the decisions have been easy,\" he said.\n\n\"To go into a lockdown is a traumatic thing for a country, to deal with a pandemic on this scale has been appallingly difficult, and we have at every stage tried to minimise loss of life, to save lives, to protect the NHS and we have followed the best scientific advice that we can.\"\n\nHe added that he had not seen Mr Cummings' evidence to the select committee.\n\nConservative MP Tobias Ellwood defended the prime minister, saying that ministers should be free to speak their minds and even ask \"silly questions\" without \"fear that one day they may be quoted or misquoted back to you\".\n\n\"That completely diminishes the competence of the No 10 machine,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nMore than 127,000 people diagnosed with coronavirus have died in the UK since the start of the pandemic.", "People aged 30 and 31 in England are being invited to book to have their first dose of Covid vaccine.\n\nThe NHS is urging these million or so to take up the offer of a jab at one of the 1,600 available locations, including mosques, museums and rugby grounds, as well as pharmacies.\n\nNearly three-quarters of adults in the UK have already had one dose, and more than two-fifths have had two.\n\nThe government plans to offer first doses to all adults by the end of July.\n\nTwo doses are needed for strong protection against Covid, particularly the variant first found in India - also known as B.1.617.2 - that is driving some regional outbreaks in parts of the UK.\n\nOver-50s and those considered clinically vulnerable are having their second doses brought forward to eight weeks after their first - rather than 12 - following concerns about the variant.\n\nSurge testing is also happening, to try to stop it spreading.\n\nGuidance for Bedford, Blackburn with Darwen, Bolton, Burnley, Kirklees, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside says people in these areas should try to avoid meeting indoors, as a precaution.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock said: \"Our vaccination programme is moving at such a phenomenal pace and I am delighted that less than six months after Margaret Keenan received the first authorised jab in the world, we are now able to open the offer to everyone in their thirties and over.\n\n\"I want to say a huge 'thank you' to everyone who has rolled up their sleeves to help us roll out this life-saving jab. The NHS is booking record numbers of appointments and it is fantastic to see the public come forward in such exceptional numbers.\"\n\nPeople who cannot go online to book can call the service on 119 instead.\n\nPeople aged 39 and under who are eligible, and pregnant women, will be offered the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.\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", "James Newman says competing at the Eurovision Song Contest has been \"life-changing\" - despite his entry Embers getting zero points.\n\nIt's only the second time in history the UK has failed to get a single point at the event.\n\nItaly won this year's contest in Rotterdam with rock band Måneskin's anthemic Zitti E Buoni.\n\nAsked if he'd do anything differently, James said he \"wouldn't change a thing\" about his performance.\n\nBut clearly something didn't work for the United Kingdom. Was it the song? The staging? Did politics come into it?\n\n\"Maybe people just didn't like my music,\" says James.\n\n\"We tried as hard as we could. I need time to process what it is that we could have done better.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Road to Rotterdam: Behind the scenes at Eurovision 2021\n\nThe result means the UK has now come bottom in the last two contests (2019 and 2021).\n\nOn the night, the points are revealed in two halves.\n\nThe national juries are the first to give their scores and because James got zero from them, he became the first act to receive the public's scores.\n\nWith pauses for dramatic effect, host Jan Smit announced: \"The United Kingdom… gets… from the public… zero points.\"\n\nThe news was met by a huge cheer in the arena.\n\n\"I genuinely had the best night of my life. I loved the crowd's reaction because I got a standing ovation and everyone was cheering,\" says James.\n\nSpain, the Netherlands and Germany also received 'nil points' from the public, but James came bottom because they'd at least got a few points from the juries.\n\nSome have criticised the song and others commented on the staging, which included giant trumpets\n\nAfter years of middling to low results for the United Kingdom, the BBC had tried a different approach to Eurovision by getting record label BMG on board to help pick the act.\n\nJames was originally chosen for the 2020 contest with a ballad called My Last Breath. It was cancelled so after reselection, he entered an upbeat, dance track - Embers.\n\nSpectator editor and Eurovision enthusiast Fraser Nelson wrote: \"The UK was simply outsung and outclassed by smaller countries who made more effort.\"\n\n\"We have to keep showing Europe that we care about the Eurovision Song Contest,\" says James.\n\n\"I suppose if you look at a lot of the songs that did well, they might have been a little less pop than what I was doing. We just have to keep trying.\"\n\nItaly won the contest for the first time since 1990\n\nFor the first time in years, none of the top three songs were sung in English. Italy won, with France in second and Switzerland in third (both sung in French).\n\nIn fourth place was the much-hyped Daði Freyr for Iceland, and fifth went to Ukraine's techno-banger Shum by Go_A.\n\nJames says he was \"trying to start a process of showing people that we were bringing the British music industry to the stage\" and \"putting in songs at Eurovision that stand up to the radio and streaming services\".\n\n\"If I was choosing, I'd probably try and carry that strategy on.\"\n\nEmbers is on course to enter this week's Official Chart Top 40, along with the Italian winners Måneskin.\n\nJames' manager said Chris Martin from Coldplay wanted to wish him the best\n\nJames says he's got support from loads of people, including Coldplay's Chris Martin, who Facetimed him on Monday morning.\n\n\"He told me to not take the result personally, said I was amazing and told me to keep my chin up. I've grown up listening to him, he's an amazing songwriter so it made me feel so much better.\"\n\nJames has watched his performance back and says he \"couldn't have done any better\".\n\n\"The dancers nailed it every time and I think it looked great.\"\n\nLaughing, he says \"someone called me James Nil-man the other day. It was funny but I don't want that to catch on.\"\n\nLooking forward, James says he's going to working on new music and \"getting back to a normal life after this rollercoaster I've been on for the past two years\".\n\nAnd whether he embraces it or not, he'll always be a small part of Eurovision history - just probably not in the way he'd hoped.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland in 2019 after Westminster acted during the absence of devolution\n\nDelays in implementing Northern Ireland's abortion laws have been a \"deeply troubling exercise in finger-pointing\", a court has heard.\n\nAbortion became legal in 2020, following a vote by MPs during the collapse of devolution.\n\nStormont has since been under pressure to establish a permanent, central abortion service, but this has not happened yet.\n\nIt is being challenged in a judicial review at the High Court in Belfast.\n\nThe NI Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) is taking the case against the Northern Ireland Executive, the Department of Health and the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.\n\nRepresenting the NIHRC, David Blundell QC said there had been an \"abdication of legal responsibility\" by all three parties.\n\nHe told Mr Justice Colton that the main factor in taking the case was the protection of women's human rights.\n\nMr Blundell said without a fully-funded and staffed model, Northern Ireland health trusts have only been able to operate a \"skeleton service\" for early medical abortions - up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nWomen seeking a termination beyond that gestation have still been required, in some circumstances, to travel to England during the coronavirus pandemic, the court was told.\n\nThe judicial review has been brought by the NI Human Rights Commission against Stormont and Westminster\n\n\"Much was known about the truly terrible impact on such women, but has not led to any service being provided,\" said Mr Blundell.\n\nHe also said the Northern Ireland secretary had a \"clear statutory obligation\" in law to ensure full abortion services were commissioned by Stormont \"expeditiously\", and that this had not happened.\n\nIn March, Mr Lewis took powers that would allow him to direct Stormont to set up services but he has not done so yet.\n\nThe government has said it wanted \"concrete progress\" from the executive by this summer.\n\nMr Blundell said the NIHRC is calling for the laws to be implemented fully by September, but that the Department of Health has suggested that it could take eight to 12 months to establish services.\n\n\"In practice, women in Northern Ireland do not have access to abortion services to which they're entitled by law - it's been 14 months without them,\" he added.\n\nThe court was also told the Northern Ireland Executive had \"totally failed to engage\" with the Department of Health in relation to the commissioning of services.\n\nNorthern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann has maintained that he cannot set it up without support from the Stormont Executive, as the matter is controversial and cross-cutting - the responsibility of more than one department.\n\nThe court heard that evidence from the department suggested the First Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster, whose party opposes abortion, had \"made clear\" that proposals were not going to be passed by the executive.\n\nRobin Swann maintains he cannot set up full abortion services without executive consent\n\nMr Blundell said the executive's position was a \"driving factor\" in contributing to the delays, along with financial challenges raised by the health minister with Westminster.\n\nThe case is scheduled to last for two days.\n\nIt is expected to hear from representatives for the secretary of state, as well as lawyers for the Department of Health and the Stormont Executive.\n\nReserved judgement is expected to be delivered in the next few months.\n\nMeanwhile, in a separate development, BBC News NI understands that a paper from Mr Swann on the commissioning of abortion services was blocked from executive discussion last week.\n\nOne short-term option suggested exploring if Irish health authorities could provide Northern Ireland women with early medical abortion access.\n\nIt is believed Mr Swann had proposed whether it would be possible for Northern Ireland to quickly commission a limited early medical abortion service.\n\nThat would allow women in the early stages of a pregnancy - up to 10 weeks - to take abortion pills at home following a consultation with a doctor.\n\nThe service, known as telemedicine, has been in place in other parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, BBC News NI understands that Mr Swann's paper did not make it onto the executive's agenda to be considered by all ministers.\n\nAny paper can be blocked from discussion, if it does not have support of both the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nThe DUP is staunchly opposed to abortion.\n\nSinn Féin has previously called for abortion services to be commissioned promptly.", "Activists hugged in court after the judge delivered the verdict\n\nA court in the Netherlands has ruled in a landmark case that the oil giant Shell must reduce its emissions.\n\nBy 2030, Shell must cut its CO2 emissions by 45% compared to 2019 levels, the civil court ruled.\n\nThe Shell group is responsible for its own CO2 emissions and those of its suppliers, the verdict said.\n\nIt is the first time a company has been legally obliged to align its policies with the Paris climate accords, says Friends of the Earth (FoE).\n\nThe environmental group brought the case to court in 2019, alongside six other bodies and more than 17,000 Dutch citizens.\n\nThough the decision only applies in the Netherlands, it could have wider effects elsewhere. BBC Netherlands correspondent Anna Holligan tweeted that it was a \"precedent-setting judgement\".\n\nA Shell spokesperson said they \"fully expect to appeal today's disappointing court decision\" and added that they are stepping up efforts to cut emissions.\n\n\"Urgent action is needed on climate change, which is why we have accelerated our efforts to become a net-zero emissions energy company by 2050,\" the spokesperson said, adding that Shell was investing \"billions of dollars in low-carbon energy, including electric vehicle charging, hydrogen, renewables and biofuels\".\n\n\"This is really great news and a gigantic victory for the earth, our children and for all of us,\" FoE director Donald Pols said in a statement. \"The judge leaves no doubt about it: Shell is causing dangerous climate change and must now stop it quickly.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Friends of the Earth Europe🌍 #BlackLivesMatter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Friends of the Earth Europe🌍 #BlackLivesMatter\n\nUnder the terms of the Paris Agreement on climate change, nearly 200 nations agreed to keep global temperatures \"well below\" 2C above pre-industrial levels.\n\nThe legally binding treaty came into force on 4 November 2016. The US withdrew under former President Donald Trump but has since rejoined under President Joe Biden.\n\nA number of groups around the world are now trying to force companies and governments to comply with the accords through the courts.\n\nShell has previously said it wants net zero emissions for itself and from products used by its customers by 2050.\n\nIn December its defence lawyers told the Dutch court the company was already taking \"serious steps\" to move away from fossil fuels, and said there was no legal basis for the case.\n\nOther major oil companies are also making changes amid a greater global focus on cutting emissions.\n\nOn Wednesday Chevron investors voted in favour of a proposal to cut its customer emissions, while shareholders at Exxon elected two climate activists to its board after months of wrangling over its business direction.\n\nThe Shell verdict is a massive win for environmental campaigners, and other industrial giants will be scrambling to figure out how it could affect them.\n\nBecause suddenly it's not good enough for firms to comply with the law on their emissions - in an extraordinary case like this, they have to comply with global climate policy too.\n\nThe company's defence is that if people feel progress towards cutting emissions is too slow, they should lobby governments - not Shell - to change policies and introduce financial incentives.\n\nThe judges have clearly decided that Shell should be taking responsibility itself for cutting emissions much faster.\n\nThe firm will surely appeal - and it might well win the case in a higher court.\n\nBut this verdict alone will be a warning to companies round the world that the battle against climate change may be spelling the end of anything resembling \"business as usual\".\n\nShell - full name Royal Dutch Shell - is a British-Dutch multinational. Because its headquarters are in The Hague, FoE was able to bring a case to a Dutch court.\n\nEarlier this year another Dutch court ruled that Shell was responsible for damage caused by oil leaks in the Niger Delta, and ordered the company to pay compensation to farmers.\n\nShell, however, has said the leaks were the result of \"sabotage\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The photo shows Lothian MSP Lorna Slater - from Edinburgh - seated at a pub table with a man; West of Scotland MSP Ross Greer - from East Dunbartonshire - standing by the table; and the back of Glasgow MSP Patrick Harvie as he walks towards the table\n\nScottish Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater have apologised after being pictured in a pub, breaking Covid rules on indoor social gatherings.\n\nThe two leaders, along with fellow MSP Ross Greer and another man, were seen in an Edinburgh bar on Tuesday.\n\nEdinburgh's Covid restrictions means only three households are allowed to be together in indoor hospitality.\n\nThe Scottish Greens said its MSPs had made a \"honest mistake\".\n\nThe story was first reported by The Scottish Sun which said the gathering took place in a pub in the city's George Street close to Nicola Sturgeon's official Bute House residence on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement to The Scottish Sun, the co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater said: \"We attended a work-related meeting in a venue in central Edinburgh on Tuesday evening, where the three-household limit was not upheld.\n\n\"This was an honest mistake, we're kicking ourselves and we apologise unreservedly.\"\n\nSpeaking to ITV Border at Holyrood on Wednesday, Ms Slater said: \"It does look like we broke the rules, that was a mistake and I am very sorry for that.\n\n\"It was definitely a mistake for us to have a work meeting under those circumstances.\n\n\"We had been meeting all day of course those of us because we're work colleagues, but that meeting was a mistake and I'm very sorry for that.\"\n\nLorna Slater is an MSP for the first time while fellow co-leader Patrick Harvie was returned on the Glasgow regional list at the recent Holyrood election\n\nMr Harvie lives in Glasgow, the only part of Scotland subject to level three restrictions where bars are not allowed to serve alcohol indoors.\n\nThe regulations state that people can only leave or enter a level three area for a permitted reason, such as going to work.\n\nThe Scottish Greens said the meeting inside the bar was work-related and his presence was therefore covered by the exemption.\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. Second in line for the jab at University Hospital in Coventry was 81-year-old William Shakespeare\n\nThe second person in the world to get the Pfizer-BioNTech jab has died of an unrelated illness.\n\nBill Shakespeare, 81, received his first Covid vaccine in December at University Hospital Coventry shortly after 91-year-old Margaret Keenan.\n\nCoventry councillor Jayne Innes, a friend of Mr Shakespeare, said he had died on Thursday and added the \"best tribute to Bill is to have the jab\".\n\nMr Shakespeare had worked at Rolls-Royce and was a parish councillor.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had served his local community in Allesley for more than three decades, died of a stroke, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust said.\n\nMr Shakespeare, who had lived in Brownshill Green, was an inpatient on the hospital's frailty ward at the time of his first jab, and said it had been \"wonderful\".\n\nMr Shakespeare was \"hugely proud\" of being among the first to have the vaccine, his wife said\n\nIn a tribute, released through the trust, his wife, Joy, said: \"Bill was so grateful for being offered the opportunity to become one of the first people in the world to be given the vaccine.\n\n\"It was something he was hugely proud of - he loved seeing the media coverage and the positive difference he was able to make to the lives of so many.\n\n\"He often talked to people about it and would always encourage everyone to get their vaccine whenever he could.\"\n\nAs well as his wife of 53 years, Mr Shakespeare leaves their two adult sons and grandchildren.\n\nHe was a talented photographer and loved all kinds of music, especially jazz and regularly attended gigs to take pictures of the musicians.\n\nMrs Shakespeare added: \"Bill loved meeting people and helping them in any way possible.\n\n\"Most of all he was a wonderful husband, father and grandfather, nicknamed Pop Pops by the grandchildren. He left a huge imprint on everyone who knew him and will be greatly missed.\"\n\nMs Innes wrote in a post on Facebook: \"Bill will be remembered for many things, including a taste for mischief.\"\n\nShe said he had always been proud to be from Coventry and had served as a governor at Allesley Primary and Coundon Court schools.\n\nWest Midlands Labour group said on Twitter: \"Bill made global headlines as [the first] man to have Covid vaccine.\n\n\"His decades of service to the party were recently recognised by Keir Starmer.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Joy and Bill's family and friends.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by West Midlands Labour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCouncillor Angela Hopkins said Mr Shakespeare had helped her when she had campaigned for the Bablake ward.\n\n\"He was very thoughtful and always, in his work as a parish councillor, very much putting forward the concerns and views of the local residents in his area,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The substances mimic the effects of illegal drugs such as ecstasy and cannabis\n\nPsychoactive drugs such as Spice are easier than ever to buy, despite a ban which came into force five years ago, drugs charities have warned.\n\nThey said trade had gone to the dark web, making them \"more available\" and \"more dangerous\" for problem users.\n\nSince it became illegal to make, sell or supply such drugs, just 28 people have been convicted in Wales.\n\nThe Home Office said the new law had \"eliminated\" the open sale of drugs in shops and on UK-based websites.\n\nThe offence carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.\n\nThe drugs are known as new psychoactive substances (NPS), but used to be called \"legal highs\".\n\nData obtained from Welsh police forces by BBC Wales under the Freedom of Information Act showed 124 arrests were made in the past five years, leading to 86 charges and 28 convictions.\n\nFormer North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones said psychoactive substances were \"under the radar\", with enforcement more concentrated on heroin and cocaine.\n\nMr Jones, who is also a campaigner on drugs, believes the legislation is counter-productive and the UK should look to decriminalisation.\n\n\"Psychoactive substances is very much a problem in two countries, the UK and Turkey,\" he said.\n\n\"Look at the Netherlands, where they decriminalised cannabis many years ago, would Spice and mamba be a problem in the UK if we decriminalised cannabis 30 years ago? I think not.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Craig uses the drop-in centre but said it is hard to kick the Spice habit\n\nDrugs charity Kaleidoscope said the legislation had \"failed in its first objective to reduce harm\" because the number of users in Wales had not gone down.\n\nChief executive Martin Blakebrough said it had made the job of drug agencies more difficult as - before the ban - new psychoactive drugs were being sold openly in head shops.\n\nHe said if a \"bad batch\" of drugs was causing overdoses or deaths, sellers could be warned to take them off the market.\n\nThe legislation has \"driven this market underground, but also made it incredibly accessible\", he added.\n\nHe said hundreds of anonymous websites, mainly linked to large manufacturers in China, were selling directly into the UK market so, with the \"click of a button, the postman will deliver these drugs to you within 24 hours, causing people who have problems with drugs more significant issues\".\n\nMr Blakebrough called the legislation \"purely a publicity stunt to show the UK government was doing something\".\n\nNicky Lane has experienced the impact substances such as Spice have on lives\n\nNicky Lane, 40, from Newport, struggled with an addiction to Spice for three years and ended up living on the streets before being sent prison.\n\nHe said even after it was made illegal it was \"easy to get a hold of and quite cheap\" but as his addiction worsened he was spending up to £40 a day.\n\nNicky said Spice was being smuggled into prison, with a liquid form being sprayed onto personal letters to prisoners.\n\n\"I was having money sent to people that were selling it on the wing so as soon as the money landed your Spice landed,\" he said. \"So it's as easy as that if you've got the money.\"\n\nNicky said Spice leaves people \"totally out of it\" so some homeless use it to numb themselves from the pain and boredom of life on the streets.\n\nHe said Spice \"ripped away everything\" from his life and he warned people to \"leave it alone\".\n\nHe added: \"I believe they made the right decision in banning it because it's one of the worst drugs out there, but for people addicted it's hard.\"\n\nMr Blakebrough added: \"But let's be honest, when we saw the scenes of Spice being used in Wrexham, for example, you know where people were zombies - I mean that terrified local communities, much more than if you're selling it from a head shop.\n\n\"America is now legalising cannabis and, across Europe, it's a similar picture.\n\n\"Britain is standing on its own by still saying the best way of controlling drugs is by hitting people with legal sanctions when the evidence doesn't show that is effective and we've got the highest drug-related deaths in Europe.\n\n\"I don't want to see a free-for-all of drugs in our streets, but what we need to do is regulate it.\"\n\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics indicated there were seven deaths in Wales involving an NSP in 2019, nearly as high as the eight deaths in 2015, a year before they were banned.\n\nNPS deaths made up just over 3% of the 240 drug-related deaths in Wales in 2019, below the number caused by opiates (121), cocaine (30), benzodiazepine (22), amphetamine (12) and Ecstasy/MDMA (8).\n\nThe drug analysis laboratory in Cardiff, Wedinos, said most NPS deaths were now linked to Spice.\n\nPublic Health Wales' head of substance misuse, Josie Smith, said making psychoactive substances illegal had deterred some users.\n\nShe said substance missuse also needed to be treated as a \"health issue\" with problem users quickly identified and given help.\n\n\"We are now in a global borderless environment in terms of the manufacturing and transport of drugs, and psychoactive drugs, particularly,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to address the challenges to that in a much more holistic way.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the UK government was committed to preventing drug use in communities, including tackling the supply of illegal drugs.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Since the Psychoactive Substances Act has come into force, hundreds of suppliers have been arrested and convicted, retailers have either stopped selling psychoactive substances or closed down and action by the National Crime Agency has resulted in the removal of psychoactive substances being sold by UK-based websites.\"\n• None Ban on legal highs comes into force", "Tenby and other popular Welsh resorts have started welcoming tourists again\n\nVisitors planning to take a holiday in Wales are being urged to pack lateral flow tests if they live in areas of the UK with higher rates of coronavirus.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said visitors from Covid hotspots, including areas with high levels of the Indian variant, should help keep Wales safe.\n\nIt comes as the UK government asked people living in eight areas of England to minimise travel out of their area.\n\nHowever, no restrictions on people's movement have been imposed.\n\nThe Indian variant of concern is concentrated in Bolton, Blackburn, Kirklees, Bedford, Burnley, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside.\n\nWales' tourism sector is preparing for the late spring bank holiday this weekend and the start of the summer season.\n\n\"Our tourism businesses will be looking forward to a busy week and the start of the summer season,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"I urge anyone planning a break in Wales from an area with higher rates of coronavirus, to test themselves regularly, using the free Covid-19 lateral flow tests, before they travel.\n\n\"Only those who have a negative test result and no symptoms of coronavirus should travel.\n\nHe accepted that visitors making sure they test themselves regularly was \"an additional measure to help keep Wales safe\".\n\n\"Lateral flow testing kits are also available locally throughout Wales,\" he added.\n\nLatest figures show there have been more than 3,200 cases of the India variant of concern identified in England while there have been 57 cases in Wales.\n\nThe Pfizer and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines have been found to be highly effective against the variant identified in India, after two doses.\n\nTwo jabs of either vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the Kent one that was identified at the beginning of the year.\n\nHowever, both vaccines are only 33% effective against the Indian variant in three weeks after a first dose has been administered.", "Tasmanian devils have been born on the Australian mainland for the first time in thousands of years.\n\nConservationists introduced the species back into a sanctuary north of Sydney in late 2020.\n\nNow, around 3,000 years after the marsupials vanished from the mainland, the first joeys have been born in the wild.", "China has overtaken Germany to become the UK's biggest single import market for the first time since records began.\n\nGoods imported from China rose 66% from the start of 2018 to £16.9bn ($24bn) in the first quarter of this year, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nImports from Germany fell by a quarter to £12.5bn in the same period.\n\nThe change came as trade with the European Union was disrupted by Brexit and the pandemic boosted demand for Chinese goods.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) report aimed to assess the impacts of Brexit and the coronavirus on the UK's trade in goods.\n\nIt found evidence that trade had been disrupted at the start of the new relationship between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe ONS said German imports to the UK had fallen since April 2019, amid uncertainty over the details of Britain's exit from the EU.\n\nGermany's motor industry also felt the impact of the pandemic as both vehicle production and global exports were hit.\n\nIn the UK, demand for new vehicles slumped as car showrooms were shut due to lockdown measures.\n\nExports of goods to Ireland saw the greatest proportionate fall of the UK's top five exporting partners after the EU transition period, the ONS said.\n\nSince modern records began in 1997, Germany had been the UK's biggest source of imports, except for a six month period at the end of 2000 and the start of the following year when the US briefly took the top spot.\n\nDespite a 23.1% fall in total trade with European Union countries as a whole in the period, the EU remains the UK's biggest trading partner, the report found.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nThe figures also showed there was a jump in imports from China of textiles used for face masks and other personal protective equipment, as well as stronger demand for electrical devices.\n\nChina was the only major economy to see its global trade grow last year as it became the first big country to emerge from the pandemic.", "British subscription site OnlyFans is failing to prevent underage users from selling and appearing in explicit videos, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nUnder-18s have used fake identification to set up accounts, and police say a 14-year-old used a grandmother's passport.\n\nThe UK's most senior police officer for child protection also says children are being \"exploited\" on the platform.\n\nOnlyFans says its age verification systems go over and above regulatory requirements.\n\nThe platform has more than a million \"creators\" who share video clips, photos and messages directly with subscribers for a monthly fee.\n\nIn return for hosting the material, OnlyFans takes a 20% share of all payments.\n\nThere is a range of content on the site but it is best known for pornography, and requires users to be over 18.\n\nOnlyFans was a big winner during the pandemic, exploding in popularity as much of the world was housebound. The social media platform has grown nearly 10-fold since 2019, and now has more than 120 million users.\n\nSome creators have become millionaires from their accounts, yet for most it has been a lifeline or a second income during the pandemic.\n\nBut BBC News has investigated concerns that under-18s are selling explicit videos on the site, despite it being illegal for individuals to post or share indecent images of children.\n\nAs part of our investigation, we found that one 17-year-old from a suburb in the south-east of England had sold videos of herself masturbating and playing with sex toys, while an under-18 participated in graphic videos hosted on an adult account in Nevada, US, in breach of the company's terms and conditions.\n\nWe were also able to set up an account for an underage creator, by using a 26-year-old's identification, showing how the site's age-verification process could be cheated.\n\nOnlyFans says it has now shut down the accounts. But BBC News has also heard from child protection experts across the UK and US, spoken to dozens of police forces and schools, and obtained anonymised extracts from Childline counsellor notes, about underage experiences on OnlyFans. The notes included one girl who told counsellors she had accessed the site when she was just 13.\n\nThese sources told BBC News about a number of serious cases:\n\n\"It is increasingly clear that OnlyFans is being used by children,\" says chief constable Simon Bailey, the UK's child protection lead.\n\n\"The company is not doing enough to put in place the safeguards that prevent children exploiting the opportunity to generate money, but also for children to be exploited.\"\n\nIn a statement, OnlyFans says it could not respond specifically to the anonymous reports we were told about without the account details.\n\nIt says its efforts to stop children accessing its site limits the likelihood of them being exposed to blackmail or exploitation, and if it is notified about these behaviours it takes swift action and disables accounts.\n\nLeah, 17, was able to set up an account using a fake driving licence and sell explicit videos.\n\nShe told her mum Caitlyn about being on OnlyFans, on the way to Tesco's near their home in south-east England in January.\n\nThat week Leah's bank account had been frozen after she received a payment of more than £5,000 from selling explicit videos on the site, Caitlyn says.\n\nCaitlyn says she was as shocked as \"any parent\" would be. \"I don't understand why people are paying so much money for this,\" she told the BBC.\n\nLeah had \"big issues\" growing up and missed a lot of education, Caitlyn says. Naked photographs of her were once shared around school without her consent.\n\nShe told her mum she originally intended to only post pictures of her feet after making money selling them on Snapchat. But this soon escalated to explicit videos of her masturbating and playing with sex toys.\n\nIn tweets advertising her OnlyFans account - some of which include teaser videos - people call her \"beautiful\" and \"sexy\", and ask if she would meet up.\n\n\"Post a pussy shot and I'll subscribe,\" is another typical response.\n\nCaitlyn says she doesn't approve of her daughter using the site, but can see why people go on it, given how much money can be made.\n\nLeah used most of the money to buy presents for her boyfriend, including more than £1,000 on designer clothes. They have since broken up.\n\nIn a statement, OnlyFans said that Leah's ability to access the site was an \"oversight\", and her fake driving licence did not trigger a red flag. It said her account was approved during a transition \"from one effective ID and age verification system to a new exceptionally effective\" one.\n\nLeah's age was directly reported to OnlyFans by an anonymous social media account in late January. The company says this led to a moderator reviewing the account and double-checking her ID. As it appeared legitimate, no further action was taken.\n\nCaitlyn says it was stated \"everywhere\" on other online accounts that her daughter was 17. There is no obligation for a website to investigate, but OnlyFans told the BBC it checks social media when verifying accounts.\n\nLeah stopped posting on OnlyFans, but her account remained active on the site four months later, with more than 50 archived pictures and videos. She had logged on as recently as late April.\n\nAfter being contacted by BBC News, OnlyFans shut down her page. It says it has also refunded all active subscriptions to her account. But images from her account have already been leaked all across the internet.\n\nLeah's now anxious about leaving the house for fear of being recognised, her mum says. Her plans to go to college have been delayed.\n\n\"She won't go out at all, really,\" Caitlyn says. \"She doesn't want to be seen.\"\n\nBBC News also heard of other cases of underage children gaining access to OnlyFans.\n\nHertfordshire Police told us that a 14-year-old girl had managed to use her grandmother's passport and bank details to sell explicit images. They say she then redirected money from that account to her own.\n\nOnlyFans says the account was \"fraudulent\" and involved the help of others. The site says it is assisting police and has since updated its age-verification system to \"further reduce the chance\" of this happening again.\n\nBut BBC News tested the site's \"new exceptionally effective\" system in April. While a fake ID did not work, we were able to set up an OnlyFans account for a 17-year-old by using her 26-year-old sister's passport. The girl never had access to the account.\n\nThe site requires applicants to pose next to an ID card and then submit a photograph holding it up to their face. But the age verification system failed to distinguish between them at any stage of the process, despite the age gap.\n\nAfter setting up an account, creators must provide bank details to receive payment through OnlyFans. However, this does not prevent them posting images and videos.\n\nBBC News has found that creators can share content and then arrange payments through alternative providers, in violation of company guidelines. One of the most popular is Cash App, which allows users to transfer money by mobile phone. We found scores of accounts advertising this.\n\nWe were then able to send a direct message to a subscriber and request payment through Cash App, using a common alternative spelling (Ca$happ).\n\nOnlyFans says its list of prohibited words on the site already includes a number of variations of \"Cash App\". It says this list has now been expanded.\n\nOnlyFans requires creators making \"co-authored\" material to have documentation showing that all participants are over 18 years old. All contributors must also be registered creators on the site.\n\nBBC News has discovered that under-18s are also appearing in explicit videos on accounts run by adults in violation of OnlyFans' guidelines.\n\nAaron was 17 when he started making videos on the site with his girlfriend in Nevada, US.\n\nAccording to his friend Jordan, Aaron didn't have his own account, but instead \"got sucked into\" appearing in explicit videos posted by his girlfriend, Cody, who was a year older than him.\n\nAaron soon started bragging about the amount of money he was making. \"He was actually very proud of doing it,\" Jordan says.\n\nThe content included sex filmed in one of their bedrooms. They shared $5,000 between them from a single video, his friends say.\n\n\"[He] was elated that they were making such an amazing amount of money for just having sex on camera for other people to watch,\" says a woman who has known Aaron for many years.\n\nShe says he had a tough childhood and was \"very vulnerable to exploitation\". Cody had previously showered him with gifts on his 16th birthday, and admitted to earning the money by selling nudes online \"to some old guy\", she added.\n\nJordan says Aaron had encouraged him to make videos on OnlyFans, even though he was also underage.\n\n\"He used to say: 'Bro, you can do it, we make so much money a week, it's easy, you don't have to work ever.'\"\n\nBBC News was told the account was reported to police in the US in October 2020 but had not been removed until we contacted OnlyFans about the case this month.\n\nIn its response, OnlyFans says all active subscriptions would now be refunded. It said it is now liaising with the police, but had not previously been contacted about the account.\n\nAaron is now 18 and has broken up with Cody. His friends say he now plans to begin his own OnlyFans account.\n\nAs a part of the investigation, we also spoke to schools, police forces and child protection experts who told us they are hearing from under 18-year-olds whose experiences on the site have had serious consequences.\n\nOne school in London says it became aware of the site after a 16-year-old pupil openly boasted to her careers adviser about how much money she was making from it, asking why she should listen to their advice.\n\nThe girl later revealed to staff that she had been posting \"very sexualised, pornographic\" images, says the school's head of safeguarding, who also told us about a 12 year-old girl who said she had used the site to contact adult creators and asked to meet up.\n\nThe deputy head asked to be anonymous to protect the identities of the children.\n\nHe said the 16-year-old girl had used Instagram to show-off her \"exuberant\" spending and build a large number of followers.\n\nChildline counsellors have come across a number of cases in which under-18s, some of whom are vulnerable, reference their use of OnlyFans. It shared anonymised extracts from counsellor notes with BBC News.\n\nChildren using the site who contacted the service reported being victims of prior sexual abuse, while others presented \"mental health issues including anger, low self-esteem, self-harm and suicide ideation\".\n\nOne girl told a counsellor she had been on OnlyFans since she was 13.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\n\"I don't wanna talk about the types of pictures I post on there and I know it's not appropriate for kids my age to be doing this, but it's an easy way to make money,\" she said according to the notes, which have identifying details removed.\n\n\"Some of the girls have thousands of followers on Instagram and they must be raking it in,\" she added. \"I wanna be just like them.\"\n\nWhile most of Childline's cases referred to girls, counsellors also heard from boys who said they subscribed to the site, including one who said it had affected his opinions of sex.\n\nAnother, who was 16, said he had lost sleep and was \"worried to the point of throwing up\" about someone discovering he had bought nudes on the site.\n\nBecause the reports were provided to the BBC without any identifying details of the children or OnlyFans accounts in question, we were unable to provide the platform with account names. It said it could not comment on the cases without those details.\n\nIt also said it manually reviews every application to stop under-age access, and has increased staffing numbers in compliance, in line with the growth of the site.\n\nThe UK's national lead for child protection policing Chief Constable Simon Bailey, says it is \"increasingly clear\" that OnlyFans is being used by children.\n\nWhile it is illegal to post or share explicit images of someone under the age of 18, Mr Bailey says the police are extremely reluctant to criminalise children for such offences. He says he is more concerned about the risks children are exposing themselves to by appearing on the site.\n\n\"The company are not doing enough to put in place the safeguards that prevent children exploiting the opportunity to generate money, but also for children to be exploited,\" Mr Bailey says.\n\nBBC News asked police forces about complaints they had received involving children appearing on the site.\n\nOne 17-year-old girl in South Wales complained to police that she was blackmailed into continuing to post nudes on OnlyFans, or face photographs from the site being shared with her family.\n\nThree children also complained to police that their images had been uploaded to the site without consent, including a 17-year-old in Surrey who said her face had been edited onto someone else's body.\n\nOnlyFans says it cannot respond to these cases without being provided with account details, which the police were unable to pass on to us. It says it has a number of systems in place to prevent children from accessing the site and continues to look for new ways to enhance them.\n\nBut there are also concerns about the welfare of vulnerable young people outside UK.\n\nMissing children are increasingly being linked to OnlyFans videos, says the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), known as a global clearing house for reports of child sexual exploitation.\n\n\"In 2019 there were around a dozen children known to be missing being linked with content on OnlyFans,\" says its vice president, Staca Shehan. \"Last year the number of those cases nearly tripled.\"\n\nWhile much of the content on OnlyFans featuring children involves teenagers uploading their own content, NCMEC says it is also finding evidence of child sexual exploitation and trafficking.\n\nIn January, a couple from Florida who were in their 20s were charged with human trafficking after allegedly selling a topless photograph of a 16-year-old girl on OnlyFans.\n\nOnlyFans says it works with online exploitation agencies like NCMEC to raise any potential issues with the relevant authorities.\n\nStories about OnlyFans have become a fixture in the press. Tabloids are fascinated by the fortunes made on the site, and the intrigue of nurses and teachers signing up.\n\nElsewhere, broadsheets have marvelled at the platform's business model and impact on the digital landscape.\n\nThe Financial Times recently called it \"the hottest social media platform in the world\". The newspaper reported that OnlyFans' revenue grew by 553% in the year to November 2020, and users spent £1.7bn on the site.\n\nMen's lifestyle magazine GQ says \"innovations like OnlyFans have undoubtedly changed Internet culture and, by extension, social behaviour forever\".\n\nAndy Burrows, the NSPCC's head of policy for child safety online, sees its impact differently. He says the site blurs the lines between influencer culture and sexualised behaviour on social media for young people, and presents a \"toxic cocktail of risks\".\n\n\"OnlyFans underlines why it's so important that we see regulation so that it's no longer a choice for platforms about whether and how they protect children using their services,\" he says.\n\nTwo years ago, the UK government published a proposal to tackle the dangers posed by online content. The Online Safety Bill, announced in May, would see companies fined £18m or 10% of their global turnover if they fail to keep children safe on their platforms.\n\nBut there are concerns about how long it will take for the law to come into effect and whether the deterrent is sufficient for wealthy tech companies. The NSPCC says there is no accountability placed on senior managers, unlike the regulation of financial services where directors of companies can be criminally liable.\n\nIn a statement in response to our investigation, the government was highly critical of OnlyFans. The website has \"failed to properly protect children and this is completely unacceptable\", a spokesperson said. \"Our new laws will make sure this no longer happens.\"\n\nWe asked the department for culture, media and sport what specifically in the draft online safety bill would stop such underage use of OnlyFans and similar websites in the future. It said all companies hosting user-generated content would need to put measures in place to prevent underage users seeing inappropriate content.\n\n\"The question is whether or not this bill will have sufficient teeth and power,\" says John Carr, secretary of the Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety. \"That is still far from clear.\"\n\nHe believes there are still no guarantees that legislation will require OnlyFans to do more than it currently does and says it's \"a bit rich\" of the government to blame companies themselves.\n\n\"In a sense, the real culprit here is the government for not having acted sooner and that's why the prospect of three, four years further delay is [itself] completely unacceptable,\" he added.\n\nOnlyFans declined our request for an interview. In a statement it said:\n\n\"We use a combination of state-of-the-art technology together with human monitoring and review to prevent children under the age of 18 from sharing content on OnlyFans.\n\n\"This is something that we take very seriously. We constantly review our systems to ensure they are as robust as possible.\"\n\nIt added that its systems continue to evolve as new technology becomes available to \"help us to reduce incidences of under-18-year-olds becoming OnlyFans users\".\n\nThe pandemic has transformed many people's online lives in ways they might never have imagined.\n\nBut the consequences of children sharing explicit images - especially when the content could be leaked - may continue to haunt them for a long time to come.\n\nAll names of children and adults associated with them have been changed to protect their identities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Cummings says he is now \"extremely sorry\" for the handling of the trip to Durham with his family last year\n\nDominic Cummings' controversial trip to County Durham during lockdown was due to security threats, not just childcare reasons, the ex-No 10 aide has said.\n\nSpeaking to MPs, Mr Cummings said he moved his family out of London after his wife received death threats from a gang of people outside his home.\n\nHe said not explaining this at the time was \"a terrible, terrible mistake\".\n\nHe described the episode as \"a major disaster for the government\" which had \"undermined public confidence\".\n\nMr Cummings faced considerable criticism when it emerged he had travelled from his London home to his family's farm on the outskirts of the City of Durham, during the coronavirus lockdown in spring 2020.\n\nAt the time he defended his actions, explaining he left to ensure his son could be looked after when he and his wife caught Covid.\n\nHowever, appearing before the Health and Science committee on Wednesday, Mr Cummings said he had first moved his family out of the home for six weeks in autumn 2019 following security threats.\n\nHe then said that on 25 February he received a call from his wife who told him \"there was a gang outside the family home saying 'they're going to break into the house and kill everybody inside'.\"\n\nHe continued, saying that on 22 March a \"fake quote\" appeared in a news story \"saying I was happy for everyone to die\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"After that weekend I then said to my wife...we've got to get out here by Friday - it had already been decided that I was going to move my family out of London regardless of Covid rules.\"\n\nWhen, in May, the story emerged that Mr Cummings had left London, he said \"the prime minister and I agreed that because of the security things, we would basically just stonewall the story and not say anything about it.\"\n\nHowever, he later gave a press conference in Downing Street's rose garden to defend his actions.\n\nRecalling the event he said: \"What I said was true but we left out a kind of crucial part of it all.\n\n\"The whole thing was a complete disaster and the truth is... if I just basically sent my family back out of London and said here's the truth to the public, I think people would have understood the situation.\n\n\"It was a terrible misjudgement not to do that - the prime minister got that wrong, I got that wrong.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings: 'I wish I’d never heard of Barnard Castle, and I wish I had never gone'\n\nDuring the press conference, Mr Cummings also defended making a 30 mile journey from his family's home in County Durham to Barnard Castle, explaining he wanted to test his eyesight before returning to London.\n\nAsked by committee chair Jeremy Hunt if the trip was actually a birthday celebration for his wife rather than to test his eyesight, Mr Cummings replied: \"If I was going to make up a story I would come up with a better one than that.\"\n\n\"If you're going to drive 300 miles to go back to work, popping down the road for 30 miles and back to see how you feel... it didn't seem crazy.\"\n\nMr Hunt asked if it seemed \"crazy to do the trip with your wife and son\", Mr Cummings said no.\n\n\"I wish I'd never heard of Barnard Castle... I can only apologise for the whole debacle,\" he added.", "Dominic Cummings was never going to go quietly after being forced out of Downing Street at the end of last year.\n\nBut the number, and seriousness, of his claims about what went on at the heart of government, as ministers battled to get on top of the coronavirus crisis, are unprecedented in modern times.\n\nRarely has a former adviser made so many potentially damaging revelations about a sitting prime minister.\n\nHis critics say Mr Cummings is motivated by revenge against Boris Johnson, and will not rest until the PM has been removed from No 10.\n\nMr Cummings insists he is driven by a desire to make what he views as a broken and chaotic government machine work better in future.\n\nHe left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare.\n\nIn his final year at Downing Street, Mr Cummings had a £40,000 pay rise, taking his salary to between £140,000 and £144,999.\n\nThere was speculation that the 49-year-old would seek a post-politics career as the first head of Aria, the UK's new \"high risk\" science agency, which had been one of his pet projects.\n\nBut he appears to have a different career path in mind.\n\nIn February, he started a technology consultancy firm, Siwah Ltd. He is the sole director of the firm, according to Companies House, and it is registered at an address in his native Durham, in north-east England. This would appear to be a successor to Dynamic Maps, his previous tech consultancy.\n\nBut in recent months, most of his time appears to have been taken up with spilling the beans on his time in government.\n\nThe BBC did not pay Mr Cummings for his exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd he has not yet taken the time-honoured route of selling his story to a newspaper, or signing a book deal.\n\nBut he has found a way of generating income through online platform Substack, where he has launched a newsletter.\n\nHe plans to give out information on the coronavirus pandemic and his time in Downing Street for free, but \"more recondite stuff on the media, Westminster, 'inside No 10', how did we get Brexit done in 2019, the 2019 election etc\" will only be available to subscribers who pay £10 a month.\n\nHe is also offering his marketing and election campaigning expertise, for fees that \"slide from zero to lots depending on who you are / your project\".\n\nThis new venture has incurred the wrath of Whitehall watchdog Lord Pickles, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which vets jobs taken by former ministers and top officials.\n\nIn a letter to Cabinet Office Minister Micheal Gove, he says Mr Cummings has sought advice on working as a consultant.\n\nBut he adds: \"It appears that Mr Cummings is offering various services for payment via a blog hosted on Substack, the blog for which he is also receiving subscription payments.\n\n\"Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee's advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.\n\n\"Failure to seek and await advice before taking up work is a breach of the government's rules.\"\n\nThere are few repercussions for failing to consult Acoba, however.\n\nLittle was heard from Mr Cummings for several months after his departure from Downing Street - but that all changed in April.\n\nAfter being named in media reports as the source of government leaks, he launched a scathing attack on Mr Johnson via a 1,000-word blog post in April.\n\nAs well as denying he was behind the leaks, he went on to make a series of accusations against the PM and questioned his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe following month, Mr Cummings expanded on his criticisms at a seven-hour select committee appearance, declaring Boris Johnson \"unfit for the job\", and claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also turned his fire on then-health secretary Matt Hancock, who he said should have been fired for lying.\n\nThis sparked a bitter war of words with Mr Hancock, who flatly denied all of Mr Cummings's allegations.\n\nIt thrust Mr Cummings back into the spotlight for the first time since his now infamous visit to County Durham, four days after the start of the first national lockdown, in March last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile staying with his family at his father's farm, he made a 30-mile road journey to Barnard Castle, which he later said had been to test his eyesight before the 260-mile drive back to London.\n\nThis revelation - at a specially-convened press conference in the Downing Street garden - made Mr Cummings a household name and led to furious allegations of double standards at a time when the government had banned all but essential long-distance travel.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Cummings said that, during the Barnard Castle trip, he had been trying to work out \"Do I feel OK driving?\"\n\nHe also said he had decided to move his family to County Durham before his wife fell ill with suspected Covid because of security concerns over his home in London.\n\nAsked why he had given a story that was \"not the 100% truth\" when he held a special press conference in the Downing Street rose garden on 25 May, Mr Cummings admitted that \"the way we handled the whole thing was wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test vision\n\nBoris Johnson stood by his adviser throughout the Barnard Castle episode - to the consternation of some of his supporters, who feared it was undermining his attempts to hold the country together during a national crisis.\n\nSome said the episode burned through the political capital the prime minister had generated months earlier during the 2019 general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBut it is hard to overstate how important Mr Cummings was to the Johnson project.\n\nThe two are very different characters - Mr Johnson likes to be popular, Mr Cummings appears indifferent to such concerns - but they formed a strong bond in the white heat of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU, which Mr Cummings led as campaign director.\n\nThe combination of Mr Johnson, the flamboyant household-name frontman, with Mr Cummings, the ruthless, data-driven strategist, with a flair for an eye-catching slogan, proved to be unbeatable.\n\nMr Cummings was credited with formulating the \"take back control\" slogan that appears to have struck a chord with so many referendum voters, changing the course of British history.\n\nYet some were surprised when Mr Cummings was brought into the heart of government as Mr Johnson's chief adviser, given his past record of rubbing senior Tory politicians up the wrong way.\n\nIt proved to be a shrewd move. It was Mr Cummings who devised the high-risk strategy of pushing for the 2019 election to be fought on a \"Get Brexit Done\" ticket, focusing on winning seats in Labour heartlands, something no previous Tory leader had managed to do in decades.\n\nMany of the policy ideas that have shaped the Johnson government's agenda have his fingerprints all over them.\n\n\"Levelling up\" - moving power and money out of London and the South East of England - is a Cummings project, as are plans to shake-up the civil service, take on the judiciary and reform the planning system.\n\nThe team that surrounded Mr Cummings at Downing Street, some of whom are Vote Leave veterans, were fiercely loyal to him and shared a sense that they were outsiders in Whitehall, battling an entrenched \"elite\".\n\nLee Cain, the former Downing Street and Vote Leave communications chief, left No 10 just before Mr Cummings did.\n\nMr Cummings watches the PM in action at a coronavirus briefing\n\nThere had been rumours of a rift between the Vote Leave veterans and other No 10 aides, who didn't like Mr Cummings's and Mr Cain's abrasive style.\n\nThere were tales of crackdowns on special advisers suspected of leaking to the media and angry, dismissive behaviour towards Tory MPs, civil servants and even secretaries of state.\n\nNone of this will have come as much of a surprise to veteran Cummings watchers.\n\nMr Cummings has been in and around the upper reaches of government and the Conservative Party for nearly two decades, and has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom and challenging the established order.\n\nBut he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, or any party, and appears to have little time for most MPs.\n\nA longstanding Eurosceptic who cut his campaigning teeth as a director of the anti-euro Business for Sterling group, Mr Cummings's other passion is changing the way government operates.\n\nHe grabbed headlines when he posted an advert on his personal blog for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government, arguing that the civil service lacked \"deep expertise\" in many policy areas.\n\nThe Vote Leave bus was one of its most notable campaign tactics\n\nMr Cummings is a native of Durham, in the North East of England. His father, Robert, was an oil rig engineer and his mother, Morag, a teacher and behavioural specialist.\n\nHe went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. He graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in modern history and spent some time in Russia, where he was involved with an ill-fated attempt to launch an airline, among other projects.\n\nHe is married to Spectator journalist Mary Wakefield, the daughter of aristocrat Sir Humphry Wakefield, whose family seat is Chillingam Castle, in Northumberland.\n\nAfter a stint as campaign director for Business for Sterling, Mr Cummings spent eight months as chief strategy adviser to then Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who fired him.\n\nHe played a key role in the 2004 campaign against an elected regional assembly in his native North East.\n\nIn what turned out to be a dry run for the Brexit campaign, the North East Says No team won the referendum with a mix of eye-catching stunts - including an inflatable white elephant - and snappy slogans that tapped into the growing anti-politics mood among the public.\n\nHe is then said to have retreated to his father's farm, in County Durham, where he spent his time reading science and history books in an effort to attain a better understanding of the world.\n\nMr Cummings facing questions from the media outside his home\n\nHe re-emerged in 2007 as a special adviser to Michael Gove, who became education secretary in 2010 and turned out to be something of a kindred spirit.\n\nThe pair would rail against what they called \"the blob\" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in their opinion, to frustrate their attempts at reform.\n\nHe left of his own accord to set up a free school, having alienated a number of senior people in the education ministry and the Conservative Party.\n\nHe once described former Brexit Secretary David Davis as \"thick as mince\" and as \"lazy as a toad\" and irritated David Cameron, the then prime minister, who called him a \"career psychopath\".\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch was widely praised for his portrayal of Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War\n\nHis appointment as head of the Vote Leave campaign - dramatised in Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - was seen as a risk worth taking by those putting the campaign together but he left a controversial legacy.\n\nVote Leave was found to have broken electoral law over spending limits by the Electoral Commission and Mr Cummings was held in contempt of Parliament for failing to respond to a summons to appear before and give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nLike most advisers, he shunned media interviews when he was in government, and his rare appearances before MPs were characterised by animosity on both sides.\n\nAll that has changed in recent weeks, but it would be a brave person who said he had now joined the ranks of the former Westminster insiders who make their living as pundits - a class he appears to view with as much disdain as he does his former colleagues in government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die\", Dominic Cummings told MPs\n\nNot the prime minister, nor the health secretary, nor the government's top scientists, nor the Whitehall machine, nor even Mr Cummings himself, escaped the barbs today.\n\nThe hours of testimony gave a disturbing sense of an administration simply overwhelmed by the scale of the Covid crisis at the start of last year - scrambling, and failing to keep up on many fronts.\n\nIn one sense, given that the situation was unlike any other event in recent history, that was not surprising.\n\nWith the success of the vaccination programme, there is little sign that much of the public right now is in a strong mood to punish the prime minister for those early mistakes.\n\nBut the extent of the problems is now out there for all to see in gory and tragic Technicolor - the way the official plan woefully underestimated the scale of the problem, the prime minister's private hesitancy about accelerating to lockdown, Mr Cummings' claim about his offer to be injected live on TV by Chris Whitty, a bizarre script in a pandemic version of the Truman Show, the mistakes in testing policy, the decision to send patients back to care homes, the list goes on and on and on.\n\nIt confirms No 10's fiercest critics' most trenchant views of the prime minister.\n\nIt provides particularly tricky questions for the health secretary who he repeatedly said had misled the public - claims Matt Hancock's team rejected.\n\nChris Whitty and Patrick Vallance are also likely to be asked, when they next appear in front of a microphone, did they, as the former aide suggested, argue with him for a short sharp lockdown in the autumn?\n\nBut the testimony also showed that Mr Cummings himself had only told the partial truth about his own journey out of lockdown.\n\nHis bizarre press conference all those months ago in the Rose Garden was not \"the truth, and nothing but the truth\", as today he cited security concerns about his family, rather than just his wife falling ill.\n\nMr Cummings defending his journey to County Durham in May 2020\n\nIt is the first time that one of those involved in making the decisions during those risky months has admitted in public that so many mistakes were made.\n\nIt is the first time that some of Boris Johnson's most controversial alleged comments about Covid have been put on the record, despite the prime minister's denial.\n\nAnd it is the first time, most importantly perhaps, that someone who wielded significant power has said publicly that tens of thousands of people lost their lives in this country unnecessarily.\n\nImagine what that must have felt like for a bereaved family, or care home staff to hear.\n\nMinisters right now refer to the public inquiry that won't get under way until next year.\n\nBut at some point, that is a claim they will have to answer in full.\n\nThe relationship between Mr Cummings and Mr Johnson is bitter, and broken.\n\nThe former adviser's suggestion now, that the prime minister is not fit for office, is both extraordinary but not, in fact, surprising given how toxic it became.\n\nAnd remember, Mr Cummings' own reputation is not stain free.\n\nHe had a reputation for picking a fight in an empty room, as hated by some in Westminster as he was loyally followed by a tight tribe.\n\nAnd today, he displayed precisely why some of the prime minister's old allies were appalled that he hired him in the first place.\n\nTheir fear back then? Mr Cummings' desire to wield influence would trump loyalty every time.\n\nLastly, looking back, how does the former adviser himself justify helping put Mr Johnson into No 10 when he quite clearly believed he was flawed?\n\nIn the short term, the government is unlikely to do anything other than brush off the claims.\n\nBut whatever the true balance of Dominic Cummings' motivations, the multiple very public accusations of failure can't be dismissed out of hand.", "A man was captured on a doorbell camera walking past a house as its gable collapsed on to a street.\n\nThe man, who appeared to be uninjured, continued on his journey along the street in Christchurch after the incident, in which a car was badly damaged.\n\nDorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue service tweeted that the road was closed due to the \"unsafe structure\" after the incident on 21 May.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "More than a million households are struggling to pay their water bills, a consumer group has said.\n\nSome people have even had to skip meals to pay for water, the Consumer Council for Water (CCW) said.\n\nIt is calling for a single \"social tariff\", based on a percentage of people's incomes to lower the costs.\n\nThe government said it would work with industry to \"build a stronger, better and fairer water service for those who need it most\".\n\nAccording to the CCW, there are about 1.7 million people in \"water poverty\", which it defines as having to spend more than 5% of their income after housing costs on water bills.\n\nHowever, about three million households are in danger of slipping into this category.\n\nThese include people on Universal Credit, where any small shocks to their income could tip them over the edge, said Andy White, senior policy manager at CCW.\n\nHe said about 260,000 people were getting help with their bills from a patchwork of social schemes run by water companies.\n\nHowever, it is a \"postcode lottery\" as to how much help people can get - and the watchdog believes a social tariff would tackle this.\n\nThere has been significant focus in recent years on fuel poverty, and pressure placed on private companies to make sure the most vulnerable are protected. This research shifts that spotlight onto the affordability of another essential utility - water.\n\nWhether you are part of the 1.5 million households classed as currently in water poverty or the 3 million who are on the cusp of it, where you live can make a huge difference to the help you receive.\n\nSome companies ask struggling households to pay just 20% of a bill, while in other areas they still face the full charge. Some have a lowest bill guarantee, but many companies don't, and only half of the providers have a crisis fund for those most in need.\n\nAlthough most of these changes could be implemented immediately by companies themselves, the government would have to bring in new laws to create a social tariff which standardised that basic payment rate.\n\nCCW chief executive Emma Clancy said: \"We have a golden opportunity to create a simpler and fairer system and end the indignity of people skipping meals or other essentials to pay their water bill.\n\n\"Many people are craving certainty in these difficult times and these proposed changes would give millions of households one less thing to worry about and greater peace of mind - whatever the future holds.\"\n\nThe tariff would either be taxpayer funded, or taken from a single pot created by taking money from everyone's water bill in England and Wales.\n\nCCW has conducted independent reviews of water affordability in England and Wales. It found that five out of six customers who cannot afford their water bills are not getting the help they need, despite a significant rise in company support schemes over the past decade.\n\nIt also found that some of the schemes were hampered by insufficient funding and large regional variations in eligibility criteria.\n\nThose who are eligible get an average bill reduction of £190.\n\nCCW also urged the industry to do more to prevent households slipping into water poverty.\n\nThat could include giving customers greater choice over how they pay their water bills through technology, and providing tailored financial help.\n\nCompanies should also write off water charges while benefits claimants are awaiting their first Universal Credit payment, it added.\n\nEnvironment minister Rebecca Pow said she would consider the recommendations and work with the sector \"to build a stronger, better and fairer water service\".\n\nChristine McGourty, chief executive of Water UK, which represents water companies, said: \"Levels of support for customers have never been greater.\n\n\"Over the past year water companies have gone to unprecedented lengths to help hundreds of thousands of household customers who could least afford their bills, with support such as payment breaks and extra assistance for those most in need - but we know there's more to be done.\"\n\nGillian Cooper from Citizens Advice said: \"Water is essential, but sadly we know not everyone can easily afford it.\n\n\"As households continue to feel the impact of the pandemic, people facing financial difficulties need better support to help them pay their bills.\n\n\"CCW's proposal to establish a single social tariff would help make water bills affordable for all households on low incomes.\"", "Building materials are running short in the UK, leaving DIY projects in doubt and building companies under pressure.\n\nThe Construction Leadership Council has warned that cement, some electrical components, timber, steel and paints are all in short supply.\n\nIt blamed \"unprecedented levels of demand\" that are set to continue.\n\nThe Federation of Master Builders said that some building firms may have to delay projects and others could be forced to close as a result.\n\n\"Small, local builders are being hit hardest by material shortages and price rises,\" said chief executive Brian Berry.\n\n\"We can't build our way to recovery from the pandemic if we don't have the materials.\"\n\nRoland Glancy, managing director of design service Peek Home, advised people to delay home improvement projects until autumn.\n\n\"The last thing you want is to knock through a wall and then struggle to get hold of a bag of plaster to complete your vision leaving you living in a building site, just when we should be enjoying our new freedoms,\" he said.\n\nThe supply problems stem from a number of factors. Construction industry projects have surged since lockdown began easing which has led to skyrocketing demand for already scarce materials.\n\nThere are also issues hitting specific products, such as the warmer winter affecting timber production in Scandinavia while the cold winter weather in Texas affected the production of chemicals, plastics and polymer.\n\nThere has also been a sharp rise in shipping costs, said Noble Francis, economics director of the Construction Products Association.\n\n\"Shipping costs have risen sharply due a shortage of empty containers from Covid-19-related issues and the sharp recovery in global demand,\" he told the BBC.\n\nFor instance the cost of shipping a 40ft container from Asia to Northern Europe soared from $1,500 (£1,061) in summer 2020 to more than $8,300 (£5,873) by May 2021, he said.\n\nWith demand globally increasing and the UK importing many of its raw materials, lead times for orders are lengthening while prices are shooting up.\n\nMohsen Kashan of Milton Keynes has been waiting nine months to have his bathroom renovated after a leak.\n\nBut with problems getting parts and tradespeople he told the BBC he now simply can't afford the rising costs he is being quoted.\n\n\"It's a simple job for a small bathroom just 2 metres by 2.5 meters. But we have been quoted £10,000 for what used to be less than £5,000.\n\n\"To expect to pay between £8,000 and £10,000 for a small bathroom seems too much,\" Mohsen said.\n\nHe's been struggling since September to get the repairs done.\n\n\"We've tried B&Q, a couple of other stores, as well as installers and half a dozen fitters.\n\n\"Either the cost of the materials has been too high, the cost of labour too high or materials are simply unavailable.\"\n\nThe Office for National Statistics has projected a rise of 7-8% in material prices, with increases for certain materials, such as timber, expected to more than double during the course of the year.\n\n\"My members are experiencing price rises of 10-15% across the board, rising to 50% on timber and 30% on cement,\" said Mr Berry.\n\nAmy Archer says her firm has never experienced such severe shortages\n\n\"It is really challenging in terms of supplies. It's nothing that we've ever experienced before,\" said Amy Archer, deputy managing director of the Swift Group, based in Cottingham near Hull, which makes caravans, motorhomes and holiday homes.\n\nShe said there are two issues: \"The first is a shortage of materials in the first place and the delays that we've seen through the ports because of shipping container shortages.\"\n\nThe second is rising prices: \"Commodity prices are going up because there's such a huge demand for products.\"\n\nBooming activity domestically hasn't helped too, she said. \"Lots of people are doing home improvements such as new kitchens and that's all draining the materials that are available.\"\n\n\"This really is unprecedented,\" said Chris Husband, commercial director at wood supplier Bayram Timber. \"The sheer volume of timber that's being demanded at the moment, they are struggling to keep pace with it in Scandinavia, where we source most of our raw material.\"\n\nHis company, based in North Ferriby near Hull. competes against others across the globe for the timber and is \"having to wait in line\", he said. \"It's having a huge inflationary effect on the raw material price and obviously the lead times as well.\"\n\nIs the current situation here to stay? \"We're pretty much certain that this is with us for the rest of this year,\" he said.\n\nBrexit has also affected the UK's timber supply as 80% of softwood comes from Europe, said Thomas Goodman, construction expert, from MyJobQuote.\n\nSteel is also in short supply, as global demand exceeds supply. \"Many steel manufacturers have stopped taking orders, as they are worried that panic buying will result in extremely low stock,\" he said.\n\nThe shipping costs issue is likely to subside in the next three to six months but global demand is likely to remain high for the next six to nine months, predicted Mr Francis.\n\nMr Berry pointed out that small builders can't stockpile or plan jobs far in advance, unlike larger firms, so they need to be assured that the materials will be at the merchants when they need them.\n\n\"Consumers must be aware that shortages are causing delays to projects, and that costs may change in the months ahead because of this pressure,\" he said.\n\nBuilding materials supplier Travis Perkins said: \"In instances where we have seen some challenges posed by global demand for raw materials or inflationary pressures, we continue to work closely with our suppliers and partners to ensure healthy stock availability for our customers.\"\n\nBut with higher material prices for the moment, many homeowners and builders are choosing to delay work until the necessary resources become more affordable.", "The whiteboard picture, tweeted by Dominic Cummings, ahead of his committee hearing\n\nFormer adviser Dominic Cummings is to be questioned by MPs about the government's response to the pandemic.\n\nMr Cummings, who left Downing Street last autumn, has been highly critical of the government in recent weeks.\n\nHe is also expected to claim later that Boris Johnson was keen to visit the Queen in person five days before the first Covid lockdown began.\n\nDowning Street has denied this happened and said their conversation on 18 March last year took place on the telephone.\n\nThe Queen went from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle shortly afterwards.\n\nThis happened in order to protect the then 93-year-old monarch from the danger of catching coronavirus.\n\nMr Cummings will appear before a joint parliamentary committee looking into the handling of the pandemic.\n\nHe has already claimed that \"secrecy\" within Whitehall \"contributed greatly to the catastrophe\".\n\nAhead of his meeting, Mr Cummings tweeted a picture which he called the \"first sketch of Plan B, PM study, Fri 13/3 eve - shown PM Sat 14/4\".\n\nIt appears to show a whiteboard with sketches from attendees at the meeting. Mr Cummings promised to reveal further details later.\n\nThe questioning of Mr Cummings will take place at a joint session of Parliament's health and social care and the science and technology select committees.\n\nMr Cummings - who gave evidence to one committee in March - will be grilled by MPs at 09:30 BST for around four hours, with live coverage taking place on the BBC News website.\n\nQuestions are expected to cover a range of topics including decision-making in the early months, the timings of lockdowns and other restrictions and the procurement processes.\n\nIt is likely that Mr Cummings will also face questions about his controversial trip to Barnard Castle during the first lockdown in 2020, when he said he wanted to check his eyesight before driving back to London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Dominic Cummings and does he matter?\n\nLast week, he tweeted the government's pandemic plan had been \"part disaster, part non-existent\" and he called for more scrutiny of policy to ensure the Indian variant is dealt with.\n\nAnd in March, he described the department of health as a \"smoking ruin in terms of procurement and PPE (personal protective equipment)\" at the start of the pandemic.\n\nAhead of Mr Cummings's committee appearance, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he would \"leave others to judge how reliable a witness that former adviser happens to be\".\n\n\"I think most people will have come to their own conclusions a long time ago about [this] particular adviser and the reliability of statements and the rest of it,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"There was no manual to deal with a pandemic - and it's easy to be captain of hindsight on these things but we had to work on things day by day,\" he added.\n\nDominic Cummings was in the room when decisions about lives and deaths were made during the Covid emergency.\n\nHe's made no secret of his frustration now, at the speed of decision-making when the virus had arrived in the UK, blasting the level of preparations and the government's original plan.\n\nThe former adviser's real fire today is expected to be turned on the prime minister's attitude to bringing back restrictions in September when Covid was again taking hold, but No 10 did not act until later on.\n\nIt is understood he will share his belief that the failure to toughen the rules led to a much bigger outbreak of the disease.\n\nAnd he will suggest that was Boris Johnson's terrible mistake because the government by then had a much better understanding of the virus, could have predicted what would happen and could have prevented much of it.\n\nYet Mr Cummings cannot extricate himself from what went wrong.\n\nFew others had more influence over the decisions that were made.\n\nMore than 127,000 people diagnosed with coronavirus have died in the UK since the start of the pandemic, but 72% of the adult population has had one vaccine jab and 44% have had two doses.\n\nAccording to the government's \"roadmap\", the remaining restrictions on social contact in England are set to end on 21 June.\n\nThe government says it was always guided by the \"best scientific data\".\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"There is a huge task for this government to get on with.\n\n\"We are entirely focused on recovering from the pandemic, moving through the roadmap and distributing vaccines while delivering on the public's priorities.\n\n\"Throughout this pandemic, the government's priority has been to save lives, protect the NHS and support people's jobs and livelihoods across the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThis session is not part of a proposed independent public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic, which the prime minister says will be held in spring 2022.", "Protesters gathered outside the school with some calling for the teacher to be sacked\n\nA teacher who was suspended after showing children a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad can return to the classroom.\n\nProtests were held outside Batley Grammar School after the teacher showed an image during a religious studies lesson in March.\n\nAn independent investigation found the teacher did not intend to cause offence by showing the image.\n\nThe school said it would offer more guidance and training for staff.\n\nThe image was shown on more than one occasion to students during lessons earlier this year, the investigation found.\n\nDemonstrators gathered outside the school gates on two occasions, with some calling for the teacher to be sacked.\n\nIn an executive summary of the report, the trust said teaching staff \"genuinely believed that using the image had an educational purpose and benefit\".\n\nBut the trust said it recognised that using the image did cause \"deep offence\" to a number of students, parents and members of the school community, adding that it \"deeply regrets the distress\" caused.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Batley Multi Academy Trust said the school would put the recommendations from the report \"into practice immediately\".\n\nShe added: \"The findings are clear, that the teaching staff involved did not use the resource with the intention of causing offence, and that the topics covered by the lesson could have been effectively addressed in other ways.\n\n\"In the light of those conclusions, the suspensions put in place while the investigation was under way will now be lifted.\"\n\nThe National Education Union said it was \"pleased the correct decision has been reached\" following the lifting of the suspension.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said parents, families and the local community should \"welcome and support the trust's comprehensive plan to strengthen its oversight of the curriculum\".\n\nHowever, in a statement, Batley Parents and Community Partnership (BPCP), said while they \"acknowledge and welcome the lessons learnt\" they were \"disappointed at the lack of clarity, transparency and rationale behind some of the findings\".\n\nThe statement said \"given the background of this caricature\", the report \"fails to address how it is possible that teachers were unaware of the offence it would cause\".\n\nThe group also claimed representatives were supposed to have \"played an active role\" in the investigation and drafting of the report, something it said \"didn't transpire\".\n\nThe statement added that parents and the wider community needed to \"come together calmly\" to review the next steps.\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.", "UN data says 630 people are known to have died trying to cross the central Mediterranean this year alone\n\nImages of dead children and women washed up on a beach in Libya have been shared by a Spanish charity.\n\nThe NGO Proactiva Open Arms received some of the photos from inside Libya and said they are of people who had tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, a dangerous route for migrants.\n\nThey show the partially clothed bodies of small children and a woman, bloated and half buried in the sand.\n\nAt least 743 migrants are known to have died in the Mediterranean this year.\n\nAccording to the data published by UN's International Organization for Migration, there have been 630 recorded deaths in the central Mediterranean alone in 2021, compared with 289 deaths for the whole sea in 2020.\n\n\"We are in shock,\" Open Arms head of communications Laura Lanuza told the BBC. \"When people try to flee from Libya they shouldn't be taken back or left adrift in the Mediterranean. There should be a search and rescue operation... to protect lives at sea.\"\n\n\"The Mediterranean is the biggest graveyard in the world,\" she said. \"It shouldn't be like this.\"\n\nReacting to the photos, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said: \"Images of bodies of babies and toddlers washed up on a beach in Libya are unacceptable.\"\n\nOne of the images posted online shows a small child in a polka dot one-piece sleepsuit. Sand has partially obscured the body.\n\nAnother photo is of a woman in green trousers spread eagle on the sand, her top pulled up over her head.\n\nOscar Camps is the founder of Proactiva Open Arms. He tweeted photos of the bodies on Monday, of \"young children and women who had only dreams and ambitions to live\", saying they had been left there for three days.\n\nFreelance journalist Nancy Porsia - who has also posted images of the bodies online - tweeted however that a contact of hers found the bodies on Saturday and informed the authorities, who buried them the same day in Abu Qamash cemetery.\n\nEurope is grappling with a fresh influx of people heading to the continent across the Mediterranean. Some 13,000 people have already arrived in Italy this year, with warmer weather in the area raising fears of even more people trying to make the crossing.\n\nAnd in the western Mediterranean last week, some 8,000 people including children swam or waded around a border fence to get to the Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco. Authorities returned several thousand soon after.\n\nIn 2015, the image of drowned three-year-old Aylan Kurdi sparked global outrage. The Syrian child was photographed lying face down on the sand in Turkey after his family tried to reach Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In May Spanish troops were deployed when thousands of migrants entered Ceuta, a Spanish North African enclave.", "Science Committee Chair Greg Clark asks if the possibility of Covid variants were being discussed in September.\n\nCummings says he knew of variants in September, and if he knew about it then others would have too.\n\n\"I had specific warnings... from scientists who had been repeatedly proved right\" on the possibility of Covid variants, he states.\n\n\"The government is still not acting properly, we still don't have a proper border policy,\" he warns.\n\nCummings says \"as soon as you make the decision that you have to lock down\" then the decision needs to be enacted \"today\".\n\nHe says this is what the data team was saying to the prime minister in September.\n\nHe says the PM was \"enraged\" when in September it looked like cases had risen again.\n\nCummings says he was of the view that \"you need to whack [Covid] hard\" immediately.", "L-R: Alan Foster, Donald Denton and Peter Metcalf were accused of altering police statements\n\nTwo retired police officers and an ex-solicitor accused of altering police statements after the Hillsborough disaster have been acquitted.\n\nRetired Ch Supt Donald Denton, retired Det Ch Insp Alan Foster and former solicitor Peter Metcalf had denied perverting the course of justice.\n\nMr Justice William Davis ruled they had no case to answer.\n\nMargaret Aspinall, whose son James died in the disaster, said the ruling was \"an absolute mockery\" and a \"shambles\".\n\n\"We're always the losers no matter what the outcome today,\" she said.\n\nNinety-six Liverpool fans died as a result of the crush at the FA Cup semi-final match at Sheffield Wednesday's ground on 15 April 1989.\n\nMr Denton, Mr Foster and Mr Metcalf were accused of trying to minimise the blame placed on South Yorkshire Police in the aftermath of the disaster by altering statements.\n\nHowever, the judge said the statements had been prepared for the public inquiry chaired by Lord Taylor in 1990.\n\nHe said this was not a statutory inquiry and therefore not considered \"a court of law\", so it was not a \"course of public justice\" which could be perverted.\n\nProsecutor Sarah Whitehouse QC said they would not seek leave to appeal against the judge's decision.\n\nNinety-six Liverpool fans died as a result of the disaster on 15 April 1989\n\nSpeaking at the Hillsborough memorial at Anfield, Ms Aspinall said: \"We've got the death certificate with 96 unlawfully killed but yet not one person has been held to account.\"\n\nShe said she felt there was \"a cover-up over a cover-up\" but she said the Hillsborough families \"could go no further\".\n\n\"They are tired, they are getting old, a lot of them have gone to their graves tormented and to me that is a disgrace,\" she said.\n\nMary Corrigan, whose 17-year-old son Keith McGrath died in the tragedy, said she was \"so angry\".\n\nShe also criticised the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for their lack of support for the families.\n\nLiverpool FC said the decision was a \"huge disappointment\" and victims had been \"let down yet again\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, who campaigned with the Hillsborough families, said: \"We've all given it our all but our all was not enough to secure any accountability for the 96 unlawful deaths on British soil.\"\n\nHe said the scales of justice were \"weighed against ordinary people\" and called for Hillsborough Law to be introduced.\n\nIt would place a duty of candour on all public officials and require parity of legal funding for bereaved families and public bodies, he said.\n\nLiverpool City Region metro mayor Steve Rotheram said the decision was a \"stain on the judicial system\" and \"yet another kick in the teeth\" for the families.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is the angriest I've ever really felt\"\n\nSue Hemming, from the CPS, said they were \"right to bring this case and for a court to hear the evidence of what happened in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster\".\n\nShe said what had been heard in court would have been \"surprising to many\".\n\n\"That a publicly funded authority can lawfully withhold information from a public inquiry charged with finding out why 96 people died at a football match, in order to ensure that it never happened again - or that a solicitor can advise such a withholding, without sanction of any sort - may be a matter which should be subject to scrutiny.\"\n\nFlowers and tributes were left at the Hillsborough Memorial after the collapse of the trial\n\nClaire Bassett, from the IOPC, added: \"Serious questions must remain over the public and moral duty of police in helping authorities to understand and prevent a further disaster like Hillsborough.\"\n\nMr Denton, 83, of Sheffield; Mr Foster, 74, of Harrogate; and Mr Metcalf, 71, of Ilkley, had all denied two counts of perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe three men were on trial at the Nightingale Court at the Lowry Theatre in Salford for more than four weeks.\n\nThe collapse of this trial will anger and distress many of those who've spent 32 years campaigning for \"Justice for the 96\".\n\nIt's likely that it will mark the end of the legal road for them, which has been long and winding, with few ups and many downs.\n\nIn 2016 they celebrated the inquests verdicts which found that the 96 had been unlawfully killed, and that the fans were not to blame.\n\nThere were high hopes for accountability. But the match commander David Duckenfield was acquitted after two trials, and the collapse of this aftermath trial means that no one has been convicted for the alleged cover-up.\n\nOver the last three decades there have been four trials, two sets of inquests, a public inquiry and several other investigations and reviews.\n\nDespite all of those proceedings, it remains the case that the bereaved families feel let down by the system. They feel that they know the truth of what happened to their loved ones, but they haven't had justice.\n\nJonathan Goldberg QC, who represented Mr Metcalf, said \"there was no cover-up at Hillsborough\" and the three men had been exonerated by Lord Justice Stuart-Smith in 1998.\n\n\"Despite this, the witch hunt has continued to resurrect the same tired accusations by prosecuting three old men,\" he said.\n\nMike Rainford, solicitor for Mr Denton, said the pain and suffering for the families was \"unimaginable\" but this trial \"should never have taken place at all\".\n\nThe ruling brought an end to the \"myth of the Hillsborough cover-up once and for all\", he said, after \"years of lies, half-truths and rumours\".\n\nMr Foster's solicitor Paul Harris said the trial had been a \"shameful waste of public resources\".\n\n\"This narrative of an alleged cover-up, when every document was meticulously preserved and maintained, was not borne out by the evidence,\" he said.\n\nAndy Burnham, Margaret Aspinall and Steve Rotheram gave their reaction outside Anfield stadium\n\nThe Hillsborough inquests concluded in 2016 that the 96 football fans who died as a result of the crush were unlawfully killed.\n\nThe original inquests in 1991 had ruled the deaths were accidental but those conclusions were quashed following the 2012 Hillsborough Independent Panel's damning report into the disaster.\n\nThree other men were also charged in 2017 following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) into allegations of a cover-up by police following the tragedy.\n\nAll charges against Sir Norman Bettison, who was accused of trying to blame Liverpool fans, were dropped in 2018.\n\nSheffield Wednesday's former club secretary Graham Mackrell was found guilty of a health and safety offence in May 2019.\n\nThe match commander on the day, David Duckenfield, was cleared of gross negligence manslaughter in November 2019.\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.", "PSNI officers issued 57 fines under Covid-19 regulations at a Black Lives Matter Protests in Londonderry last June\n\nThe Police Ombudsman is to investigate a complaint of \"race discrimination\" around how police handled two events last year during lockdown.\n\nMarie Anderson will look into \"allegations of inconsistencies\" in how the PSNI dealt with a Black Lives Matter protest compared to the funeral of senior republican Bobby Storey.\n\nIt follows a complaint from a member of the public.\n\nOfficers handed out spot fines at the protest in Londonderry last June.\n\nA total of 57 fines for breaching health regulations were issued to demonstrators who attended the protest in Derry's Guildhall Square.\n\nBut weeks later police did not intervene at the funeral of Mr Storey that was attended by about 2,000 people.\n\nBobby Storey's funeral caused a row at Stormont over potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations\n\nA statement read: \"The Police Ombudsman has a statutory duty to investigate qualifying complaints about police conduct and is satisfied that the complaint, received on 6 April 2021, is one that she is required to investigate.\n\n\"The investigation will focus on matters related to the engagement of the PSNI with the organisers of the Black Lives Matter protest in Guildhall Square, Derry/Londonderry in advance of the event.\n\n\"The investigation will examine if this engagement was consistent with the PSNI's approach to the organisers of Bobby Storey's funeral.\"\n\nMarie Anderson's investigation will look at how officers engaged with organisers before the event\n\nThere have already been separate reviews of both events involving the Policing Board and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.\n\nBelfast City Council has also carried out an inquiry into one aspect of Mr Storey's funeral, the service at Roselawn Cemetery.\n\nNo timeframe has been put on the ombudsman's investigation.", "Elliot Page posted the first public picture of himself post-top surgery.\n\nElliot Page has won praise for posing bare-chested for the first time since coming out as trans in December.\n\nAn Instagram post shared by the actor showed him smiling while posing in a pool in swimming shorts alongside the words #transjoy and #transisbeautiful.\n\nPage, 34, previously described his top surgery - where breast tissue is removed - as \"life-saving\".\n\nSpeaking to Oprah Winfrey last month he said it made him \"feel comfortable\" in his body \"for probably the first time\".\n\nThe Umbrella Academy star tearfully explained why his chest had brought him the \"most joy\" in transitioning.\n\n\"It's getting out of the shower and the towel's around your waist and you're looking at yourself in the mirror and you're just like, 'There I am'. And I'm not having the moment where I'm panicked,\" he said during the Apple TV interview.\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\nPage's Instagram post has already received over two million likes and a wave of supportive celebrity comments praising his new appearance.\n\n\"Dude I see why you crushed me on that workout!\" actor Justin Cornwell commented. \"Hot\" added singer Miley Cyrus, alongside a heart emoji.\n\nThe Vampire Diaries' Nina Dobrev said: \"You look amazing… and most of all happy.\" Julianne Moore, who starred with Page in the film Freeheld, wrote: \"Happy summer\" accompanied by a flame emoji.\n\nThe Good Place star Jameela Jamil also posted in recognition, tweeting that she was pleased to see Page \"thriving\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jameela Jamil 🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWinfrey, meanwhile, shared her support by reposting the image on the Oprah Daily Instagram account.\n\n\"This is what happiness looks like!\" she wrote. \"Looks like Elliot will be shining brighter than the sun this summer.\"\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\nPage, a prominent LGBT advocate, also used the pair's April interview to reveal how the surgery had given him a new energy in fighting for trans rights, \"because it is such a freeing, freeing experience\".\n\n\"Not only has it been life-changing for me, I do believe it's been life-saving and it's the case for so many people. And because there is such an attack on trans healthcare right now, when already there's such lack of access,\" he continued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I feel comfortable in my body for the first time.\"\n\nPage was referring to laws in Arkansas and further legal fights across the US threatening to ban young transgender people from accessing certain medical treatments.\n\nKirrin Medcalf, Trans Community Engagement Lead at LGBT charity Stonewall, said the photo emphasised the positive impact that gender affirmation procedures can have upon a person's mental health.\n\n\"It's fantastic to see Elliot looking so comfortable and happy in his latest photo. Elliot's has always been a role model to a huge number of people, and it is wonderful that he can share his trans joy with the world.\n\n\"Seeing moments of gender euphoria also highlights how important it is for all trans people to be able to access appropriate and timely gender affirming healthcare,\" he said.\n\n\"Looking at Elliot's image, it makes me feel proud to see another trans person - especially a celebrity in the public eye - proudly showing off their top surgery scars, as it increases a wider scope of positivity.\n\n\"However, as a person who has had to delay surgery due to the unbearable waiting times on the NHS, it makes me frustrated that people with more money and resources - such as celebrities - do not have to struggle in the same ways as people relying on state healthcare.\n\n\"In the UK, it can often up to 10 years, if not longer, to fully medically transition. We should not have to wait this long to feel comfortable in ourselves.\n\n\"I have been waiting to medically transition since I was 14. I am 20 now and haven't got anywhere. I am now planning to go to Poland after crowdsourcing funds to complete the surgery privately. I should not have to be at such inconvenience in order to be myself.\n\n\"That said, I think the wider impact of Elliot's post is good, as long as we keep having this conversation about privilege and how it plays into securing a medical transition. With each celebration of Elliot's visibility, I hope people will recognise those relying on personal crowdfunds.\"\n\nPage, who is Canadian-born, made his film breakthrough starring as a pregnant teenager in 2007's Juno - landing an Oscar nomination.\n\nOther major films include Inception and the X-Men series, before most recently starring as Vanya Hargreeves in Netflix superhero show Umbrella Academy.\n\nPage came out as gay in 2014, telling an audience in Las Vegas: \"I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission.\" After three years of marriage he announced his divorce from choreographer Emma Portner in February.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "North Tyneside is one of eight areas in England where people are being asked to minimise travel\n\nMinisters have backtracked over travel advice for eight areas worst hit by the Indian virus variant, after a change in guidance led to widespread confusion.\n\nThe amended advice asks people to minimise travel into and out of Bolton, Blackburn, Kirklees, Bedford, Burnley, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's official spokesman said: \"We've updated the guidance online to make it clearer that these are not local restrictions and we do acknowledge the confusion this caused [on Tuesday].\"\n\nIt came as Mr Johnson's former chief adviser Dominic Cummings gave evidence to a joint Commons committee hearing on key government decisions during the pandemic.\n\nMany people cancelled plans at short notice after it emerged on Monday that advice specifically for the eight areas had been published the previous week without any government announcement, which included asking people to avoid non-essential travel.\n\nThe new advice - updated on Tuesday evening - asks people in the affected areas to meet outdoors and stay two metres apart from anyone in other households, wherever those things are possible.\n\nThat advice also refers people to their local authorities' Covid guidance and says anyone travelling to red or amber list countries should arrange \"a testing or managed quarantine package\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary and MP for Wigan Lisa Nandy said people in many areas had \"stopped listening\" to official advice and that confused messaging had undermined public trust.\n\n\"We woke up on Monday morning to find apparently that guidance had been in force on the government's website since Friday, telling us not to move in and out of affected areas but nobody had bothered to tell us,\" she said.\n\nShe said that \"to treat us as an afterthought on a government website is to treat people's lives with absolute contempt.\"\n\nDr Bharat Pankhania, an infectious disease expert who advises local authorities on health plans, said confusion was leading to a fall in cooperation from the public.\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today programme that \"when people like us in local authorities start changing the game plan or do things without really explaining our actions, they stop eventually listening to us.\"\n\nHounslow in west London is another area where people are being asked to meet other households outdoors rather than indoors\n\nAmong those considering cancelling plans as a result was Julie Suttar, from Aberdeen, who told the BBC on Tuesday that she had booked a non-refundable hotel in Leicester to visit family she had not seen for more than a year.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I've been on the phone to my sister, in tears. Where's this come from? Where's the notice?\" she asked.\n\nThe uncertainty prompted a swift denial from Downing Street that it was imposing local lockdowns by stealth.\n\nThat came after several of the local authorities affected by the new advice said they had not been consulted about it - and only learned of its existence from journalists.\n\nIt has become an accepted fact that public health messaging during the pandemic needs to be clear and concise.\n\nOn that test, government communications to people in the eight identified hotspot areas in England failed in recent days.\n\nPeople in most of those communities were simply unaware of tighter new guidelines posted on the government website on a Friday afternoon.\n\nWhen they emerged late on Monday evening there was understandable frustration with the suggestion that people should not leave their council areas unless for essential reasons.\n\nThen it took nearly 24 hours for officials to clarify and amend the guidelines to simply minimising travel.\n\nThe row will blow over but it raises bigger long-term questions.\n\nMinisters say they want to shift from legal restrictions to public guidance as the roadmap progresses in England - in other words not using the law to dictate behaviour but giving the public enough information to allow them to moderate their own behaviour.\n\nThis sounds fine in theory but recent events in the hotspot areas reveal the potential risks of this approach.\n\nFailure to provide clarity on what people can or cannot do at a time of uncertainty might potentially cause confusion and frustration - the opposite of what is intended.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, local councils for the eight areas - which together represent more than two million people - emerged from a meeting with government officials and insisted there were no restrictions on travel in their areas and \"no local lockdowns\".\n\nThey said they were working to increase vaccination and testing - with Kirklees the latest area to announce door-to-door testing - as well as to support people self-isolating.\n\nGreater Manchester's Labour mayor Andy Burnham said the confusion over the advice was a \"major communications error\" which had a \"major effect on people's lives\".\n\nNorma Redfearn, Labour mayor of North Tyneside, said \"after a day of confusion\" it had been confirmed the area was \"at the same stage of the road map as the rest of the country\".\n\nOverall cases of Covid are at their highest rate for six months in Bolton, at 452.1 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nThe original guidance, published on a page titled \"what you can and cannot do\", advised people in the eight areas of England to meet outside where possible and avoid travelling in and out unless essential.\n\nIt was first published on 14 May to cover Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen and Bedford, before being updated, without an announcement, to include the six other areas on Friday.\n\nEfforts to contain the virus come as people aged 30 and 31 in England are being invited to book an appointment to receive their first dose of Covid vaccine.\n\nThe NHS is urging these million or so to take up the offer of a jab at one of the 1,600 available locations, including mosques, museums and rugby grounds, as well as pharmacies.\n\nNearly three-quarters of adults in the UK have already had one dose, and more than two-fifths have had two.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK reported 15 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test and 2,493 new confirmed cases. Figures for reported deaths early in the week are sometimes higher due to weekend reporting delays.\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. Carey Mulligan: \"We feel a promise has been broken\"\n\nAn international charity working to prevent children being trafficked from Afghanistan says a delay to promised UK government funding is \"devastating\".\n\nThe government had agreed to pay War Child £500,000 from July this year in a much-publicised donation match scheme.\n\nBut they now say they will not pay out the money until April 2022.\n\nActress Carey Mulligan, a patron of War Child, said the \"damaging decision\" needed reversing - but the government said it had to take \"tough\" decisions.\n\n\"The children at risk of abuse and exploitation need our support now not next year,\" the star of the Great Gatsby and Promising Young Woman told BBC Two's Newsnight.\n\nThe government must \"keep their word to the public who donated so generously in such a challenging year, and most importantly the children we all committed to helping\", she added.\n\nUK Aid Match is a government scheme which is designed to allow the British public have a say in how UK aid is spent overseas, whilst helping the poorest people in developing countries.\n\nFor every £1 donated to a UK Aid Match charity appeal, the UK government will also contribute £1 of UK aid, up to £2 million.\n\nLast year War Child launched an urgent appeal in Afghanistan, which it said would have reached 3,430 children and their families.\n\nThey raised £500,000 from the public and the additional funding from the government was due to be used to reunite children with their families and build two multipurpose support centres in the local community to provide training, help children return to formal education.\n\nWar Child chief executive Rob Williams told Newsnight: \"A delay of a year is a disaster and it is a major breach of faith because all those people who raised money in response to the government's promise that they would match the money have basically been let down.\"\n\n\"Whilst the government might think a delay of a year is a reasonable proposition, the project means that we won't be able to stop about three thousand children being trafficked into Iran over the next 12 months or so,\" he added.\n\nGovernment sources told Newsnight that all affected charities have been given cast iron guarantees that they will receive the money next year.\n\nNewsnight's Political Editor Nick Watt said that, in Whitehall, that is seen as significant in light of what is described as difficult spending decisions.\n\nWar Child works to help the thousands of Afghan children, some as young as eight, who every year are forced to leave their families in search of work. After decades of war in the country, many families have little financial security and parents stay at home to care for the youngest in their families.\n\nChildren cross the border to Iran on dangerous journeys to find work to support their families and are left vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"The seismic impact of the pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take tough but necessary decisions, including temporarily reducing the overall amount we spend on aid.\n\n\"We will still spend more than £10 billion this year to and improve global health, fight poverty and tackle climate change.\n\n\"We have protected War Child's UK Aid Match funding because we value their work and the results they will deliver.\n\n\"All UK Aid Match commitments will be protected, as set out in the foreign secretary's written ministerial statement. In some cases there will be a delay in releasing the guaranteed funding\".\n\nFollowing the economic shock of the coronavirus crisis, the chancellor last November cut the UK foreign aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% of total national income - a reduction of around £4bn.\n\nRishi Sunak said the government had to make \"tough choices\". Even with the reduction UK is still be the second-highest aid donor in the G7 group of major economies.", "Housing charity Shelter has called on the government to build 90,000 good-quality social homes a year.\n\nIt commissioned a survey which suggested that around a third of adults do not have safe or secure homes, based on criteria including whether the accommodation had enough bedrooms, was mouldy or structurally unsound.\n\nThe UK government said it is spending £12bn over the next five years on affordable housing.\n\nAnd the Welsh government said it had invested £2bn over the last Senedd term to exceed its target to deliver 20,000 affordable homes.\n\nThe Scottish government said Scotland had \"led the way across the UK with almost 100,000 affordable homes delivered since 2007 and we are committed to delivery of a further 100,000 by 2032\".\n\nOver the course of a week last month, Shelter, via polling organisation YouGov, asked 13,000 people about their home and housing experiences and combined the results with government data on homelessness to calculate that 34% of adults in Britain did not have safe or secure homes.\n\nPeople were defined as being affected if they agreed with at least one of the following statements:\n\nShelter said black people were 70% more likely to be affected by housing issues or homelessness than white people, while Asian people were 50% more likely.\n\nIts survey also suggested that more than half (54%) of people with a significant disability did not have a safe or secure home, compared with 30% of people without a disability.\n\nAnd nearly two-thirds (65%) of single mothers did not have a safe or secure home under the criteria, it said.\n\nThe charity also found that 23% of the people it surveyed were living in homes with significant damp, mould and condensation, or cannot keep warm in winter, while one in 12 reported that they were regularly cutting back on essential items to pay their housing costs.\n\nShelter chief executive Polly Neate said: \"Decades of neglect have left Britain's housing system on its knees.\n\n\"A safe home is everything, yet millions don't have one.\n\n\"Lives are being ruined by benefit cuts, blatant discrimination and the total failure to build social homes.\"\n\nA Ministry of Housing statement said it was \"unacceptable for people to live in unsafe accommodation\" and said the government had given councils stronger tools to crack down on rogue landlords as well as announcing reforms to support tenants, including its charter for social housing residents\".\n\nThey added it was providing £750m this year to help tackle homelessness and rough sleeping.\n\nLabour's shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell said Shelter's report came as no surprise \"after a decade of neglect and failure by ministers on housing\".\n\nShe said the Covid pandemic had shown \"deep inequalities in our housing system\", with those in insecure, overcrowded homes more at risk of the health and economic impacts of the crisis.\n\nA Welsh government statement said legislation on tenancy laws, due to come into force around spring next year, would require landlords to ensure the properties they rent are \"fit for human habitation, tackling the poor conditions in some rented properties\".\n\n\"We are now looking to build a further 20,000 new, low carbon social homes and will be announcing further details shortly,\" they said.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said it would carry out an audit of its housing and homelessness legislation to ensure it met the needs of everyone and said its Housing to 2040 report outlined its long-term housing strategy.\n\nIn a statement the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland said communities minister Deirdre Hargey had begun the \"biggest reform of social housing in over 50 years\", which included building more homes with 2,403 social housing starts in 2020/21 - the highest annual figure for more than a decade.\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. Tracy Brabin on new Covid travel guidelines in Kirklees.\n\nSurge testing for Covid will begin in parts of Kirklees on Wednesday, amid criticism of \"chaotic and confusing\" government travel guidance.\n\nThe advice for areas hardest hit by the Indian variant was published online on Friday without an announcement, with local leaders not formally notified.\n\nWest Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin called the decision to update the guidance without fanfare as \"shocking\".\n\nThe government said it intended to take a national approach to lifting rules.\n\nSpeaking in Dewsbury, Ms Brabin said: \"The community of Kirklees has absolutely suffered [over] this last year. We've been in some version of restrictions for over a year.\n\n\"Businesses have gone bust, people have lost loved ones, they've not been able to see the people they care about - and now a Friday teatime announcement that can change people's lives.\n\n\"It just feels so disrespectful.\"\n\nDoor-to-door testing is going to take place in Savile Town and Thornhill Lees, with people aged over 11 being invited to take PCR tests, Kirklees Council said.\n\nAll adults in those areas are being offered the chance to be vaccinated if they have not already received a first dose, it added.\n\nJonathan Hughes, 58, lives in Gomersal and planned to go to Edinburgh on 1 June to visit his son, but said the trip is now \"unlikely\" after the latest advice.\n\nMr Hughes, who has terminal cancer, said: \"There is a large point of me that would like to go 'to hell with what the rules are' but I've spent my life caring what the rules are so it's difficult for me to go all cavalier about it and not care about it now.\n\n\"A year ago, my oncologist advised that I plan for 'quality of life - not quantity'. The government's lack of clarity means that I'm increasingly unlikely to see much of either.\"\n\nJo Richmond at the Old Bridge Inn said there was a lack of clarity about what was expected of the hospitality industry\n\nJo Richmond, general manager of the Old Bridge Inn in Holmfirth, said: \"I don't think this has been communicated very well at all - I only found out about it because it came up on the news on my phone this morning.\n\n\"We've just had a brilliant opening week and it's a major worry that bookings could now be affected with people travelling into the area to stay at the hotel.\"\n\nShe said it seemed unfair that Holmfirth, which had a small number of Covid cases, was treated the same as larger towns like Dewsbury and Huddersfield because they were all within the Kirklees district.\n\nRakiya Maqsoon and her husband say they will continue to commute to Dewsbury\n\nRakiya Maqsoon, 45, who commutes with her husband from Bradford to Dewsbury to run a market stall, said: \"If we're not meant to be commuting in and out, we've not been made aware of it.\n\n\"If it's not in law, what does it actually mean - how does it affect us? We'll still wear masks, keep hands clean and keep a social distance, but we'll still be commuting in.\n\n\"You've got to continue at some point to live a normal life,\" she added.\n\nMuhammad Muhammad said residents in Kirklees \"were just have to take every day as it comes at the minute\"\n\nMuhammad Muhammad, from Dewsbury, 55, said: \"Not everyone knows how to use the government website, a lot of my friends don't because we're old-school, we still use old mobile phones.\n\n\"It is concerning, everyone's getting ready for a grand reopening but I don't think there's going to be normality, is there, how things are going.\"\n\nCases in Kirklees have increased by 45% in the last seven days, compared with the previous week.\n\nIn the most recent data, the area had the fourth highest rate of infection in England, standing at just below 100 weekly cases per 100,000.\n\nThis isn't as extreme as some other parts of the country, such as Bolton, but the number of new cases being recorded do not show signs of slowing.\n\nThe majority of these cases seem to be in the younger age groups and to the north, such as Dewsbury Savile Town and Thornhill Lees, but not exclusively and there are hotspots appearing in the south in places like Honley and Brockholes.\n\nThought by the government to be one of the areas where the variant B.1.617.2 is \"spreading fastest\", according to the most recent data released, three of the 12 cases examined in Kirklees were identified as being from this variant, first identified in India.\n\nHowever, this only covers up to the 15 May, so it is possible more cases have been identified since.\n\nAdvice against travelling to Bolton in Greater Manchester and nearby Blackburn with Darwen, other than for essential reasons, and for people there to meet outside where possible, was issued on 14 May.\n\nIt was updated to include six more areas - Kirklees, Bedford, Burnley, Leicester, Hounslow and North Tyneside - on Friday.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government wanted to encourage the public \"to exercise their good judgement\", rather than issuing \"top-down edicts\".\n\nKirklees Council leader Mr Pandor said he hoped it had been \"an error\" as the district's hospital rates and death rates were low.\n\n\"We are doing whatever we can to respond to the pandemic but the responsibility overall is the government's, he said.\n\n\"We will step up and do our part but we can't do it when there's no trust or no confidence in how they communicate with us. It's not on.\"\n\nShabir Pandor said described the lack of an announcement as \"completely unfair\"\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said she was \"surprised\" to hear local leaders declare they had not been told about the fresh guidance.\n\n\"We have been working in close contact, so I'm surprised to hear people think this has come out of the blue - it hasn't,\" she told Sky News.\n\n\"It is about formalising on the record the guidance we believe people can and should follow in order to make sure we tackle and don't have more spread of the Indian variant.\"\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.", "Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt in 2016\n\nBrad Pitt has been granted joint custody of his children with Angelina Jolie following a lengthy court battle.\n\nMs Jolie filed for divorce in 2016 and the pair have since been engaged in a custody battle largely shielded from public view.\n\nA private judge hired to oversee the case, John Ouderkirk, ruled in Mr Pitt's favour.\n\nThe ruling would \"significantly increase\" his time with the children, a source told the Press Association.\n\nMr Pitt, 57, and Ms Jolie, 45, are parents to Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14 and 12-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.\n\nThe oldest, 19-year-old Maddox, is not subject to the custody decision.\n\nThe ruling was a \"tentative decision\" and Ms Jolie is continuing her legal fight, a source told the Page Six website.\n\nMs Jolie had not objected to joint custody but there were \"other issues of concern\", it reported.\n\nThe trial lasted for several months and there were a large number of witnesses, experts and therapists, another source said.\n\nMs Jolie has criticised the judge's decision not to allow their children to testify in custody hearings.\n\nBrad and Angelina pictured with their children in November 2011\n\nMs Jolie cited \"irreconcilable differences\" when she filed to end the marriage, and the pair became embroiled in a bitter child custody battle in the months following the announcement.\n\nMr Pitt was investigated for possible child abuse after losing his temper in front of some of the children, but was later cleared of the allegations.\n\nThe couple were known as \"Brangelina\" by fans and met on the set of the 2005 film Mr and Mrs Smith.\n\nThe marriage was Mr Pitt's second - he had previously wed Friends star Jennifer Aniston - and Ms Jolie's third after actors Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt through the years\n\nSpeaking to Vogue last year, Ms Jolie said she left Mr Pitt for the \"wellbeing\" of her family.\n\n\"It was the right decision,\" Ms Jolie said. \"I continue to focus on their healing.\"\n\nSpeaking to GQ in 2017, Mr Pitt spoke about his decision to quit drinking and smoking marijuana.\n\n\"For me every misstep has been a step toward epiphany, understanding, some kind of joy,\" he said.", "Police said paramedics tried to save Rayon Pennycook, but he died at the scene\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death, with three teenagers arrested on suspicion of his murder.\n\nRayon Pennycook was killed on Constable Road in Corby on Tuesday evening.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police was called at about 19:00 BST and, despite the best efforts of paramedics, he died at the scene.\n\nOfficers have arrested three boys, one aged 15 and two aged 17, on suspicion of murder and the force said the inquiry was moving at a \"fast pace\".\n\nA police forensics team was working inside a large cordoned-off area on Constable Road/Reynolds Road on Wednesday\n\nRayon's family said his death had left them \"devastated\".\n\n\"There are no words which can accurately describe the pain we are suffering,\" they said in a statement.\n\nThe family said the teenager had \"his whole life ahead of him\" and was in the process of applying for an apprenticeship.\n\n\"Rayon is not a statistic and he will not be remembered as such - he was a unique human being with a beating heart who was loved so dearly by his mum, dad, siblings, niece, nephew and friends.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left at the scene on the town's Hazel Leys estate\n\nA wide cordon remained in place on Wednesday and an officer was standing guard outside a property on the adjacent Reynolds Road.\n\nDet Ch Insp Joe Banfield said he was \"aware that there may be some pertinent video footage of last night's incident taken\" and urged anyone with mobile phone, CCTV or dashcam footage to send it to police.\n\nHe said: \"Our inquiries into this murder are still progressing at a fast pace and we remain absolutely committed to bringing those responsible for Rayon's death to justice.\n\n\"This is an exceptionally sad and tragic incident in which a young boy with his whole life ahead of him has died.\n\n\"Whilst we do believe that this was an isolated incident, high-visibility police patrols will be taking place in Corby to reassure the local community and I would encourage anyone with concerns in the area to approach one of our officers who will be happy to help.\"\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said inquiries were progressing \"at a fast pace\"\n\nA tent was erected on Reynolds Road on Wednesday\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.", "Eric Carle said The Very Hungry Caterpillar was \"a book of hope\", in a BBC interview in 2019\n\nEric Carle, the US author of best-selling children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died aged 91.\n\nHe died last Sunday, his family said.\n\n\"In the light of the moon, holding on to a good star, a painter of rainbows is now travelling across the night sky,\" a family statement said.\n\nCarle's most famous book, which tells the story of a ravenous caterpillar, was published in 1969 and has sold more than 50 million copies.\n\nThe simple but everlasting tale - just 224 words long - has been translated into 62 languages.\n\nCarle's son Rolfe told the New York Times his father had died in Northampton, Massachusetts, of kidney failure.\n\nCarle, who was born in Syracuse, New York, began writing children's books in his late 30s.\n\nIn 2019, he told the BBC why he thought the story endured for five decades.\n\n\"For many years, my publisher and editor and I did not know the reason for The Very Hungry Caterpillar being so popular,\" he said.\n\n\"But over time, I've come to feel that it is a book of hope. And it is this hopeful feeling that has made it a book readers of all ages enjoy and remember.\"\n\nBorn in upstate New York to German immigrant parents, Carle moved as a child with his family to Stuttgart in the mid-1930s because his mother was homesick, only for his father to end up drafted into the army during World War Two and get taken prisoner by the Soviets.\n\nExperiencing the trauma of war gave Carle a different way of seeing the world.\n\nHe eventually moved back to New York and worked as a graphic designer and then at an advertising agency, before collaborating on his first picture book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?\n\nThe Very Hungry Caterpillar show has been seen by a million children across the world\n\nThe first version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar was called A Week With Willi Worm, inspired after Carle used a hole punch to create circles into a stack of paper.\n\nIt gave him the idea of a bookworm but Carle said his editor was not keen on a worm so various other animals were discussed. Finally they settled on a caterpillar and butterfly.\n\nNo US printers would publish the book because of the differently shaped pages with the holes, but eventually a printing company in Japan was found.\n\nIt is estimated that nowadays Carle's book is being bought every 15 seconds.\n\nIt is not just the book that remains popular, there are animated versions of the story, various merchandise spin-offs and a stage production that to date has been watched by a million children.", "Rob Roberts had sexually harassed a member of his staff, a panel found\n\nMPs suspended for sexual misconduct could in future face a recall petition too, as the UK government considers plugging a loophole in the rules.\n\nIt follows a recommendation that Tory Delyn MP Rob Roberts be suspended for six weeks for harassing an employee.\n\nThe process for handling such complaints does not include the power to trigger a recall petition.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was a decision for MPs but he felt \"this loophole does need to be closed\".\n\nThe former employee of Mr Roberts told BBC Wales the MP repeatedly propositioned him and asked him to be \"less alluring\".\n\nMr Roberts, who has had the Conservative whip withdrawn, said he apologised for a \"completely improper\" breach of trust \"in the MP-staff relationship\".\n\nMPs must decide whether to back the suspension recommended by an independent panel, but Labour and Plaid Cymru have urged Mr Roberts to resign.\n\nThey are expected to vote on the suspension on Thursday.\n\nCurrently the sanction of a recall petition on whether the MP should face a by-election only applies to cases assessed by the House of Commons Standards Committee.\n\nComplaints of bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct are investigated by a separate process, the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Gerald Jones calls on the PM to close the loophole in the rules\n\nLabour has called this an \"absurd and unjust\" anomaly.\n\nShadow minister for domestic violence Jess Phillips told BBC Wales: \"Sexual harassment and abuse is not being considered at the same level as the misuse of Parliamentary paper and Parliamentary envelopes for example, or going on holidays paid for and not being declared.\"\n\nWhile such examples were \"very, very serious\", she said they \"in no way can compare to the safety issues even, that are presented to the thousands of people who work in and around Parliament\".\n\nOn whether the Delyn MP should stand down, Ms Phillips said: \"I think Rob Roberts should without question, if he had even a single bone of decency in his body, resign his position.\"\n\nThe independent panel was established to look at bullying and harassment cases back in November\n\nEarlier, Mr Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while a change in the rules would be a decision for MPs, he added: \"I rather agree that this loophole does need to be closed.\n\n\"I don't think there's any place for this kind of behaviour in the House, or indeed in society, so I think that's very straightforward.\n\n\"I really praise the individual who came forward quite bravely on this as well.\n\n\"I think that this should not have the exemption from recall, just because it's gone through this newly-independent process.\"\n\nAsked about the matter at Prime Minister's Questions, Boris Johnson said that having the Conservative whip withdrawn was \"condign\", or appropriate, punishment in this particular case.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"A case of this severity highlights the need to look again at whether the process is striking the right balance between protecting the confidentiality of complainants and ensuring consistency with other types of conduct cases.\n\n\"The central aim of the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme is to help improve the working culture of Parliament and it will need to continue to evolve and improve over time.\n\n\"The Leader of the House will invite the relevant bodies to consider whether any changes could be made in future to the process to enable recall to be triggered.\"", "Estate agent Mel John said times were tough for first time buyers\n\nHouse buyers are making offers on homes before viewing them in order to gain an edge in a \"mad\" housing market, estate agents and sellers have said.\n\nWales has seen the biggest house price growth in the UK, up by an average of 11% in the past year.\n\nMany estate agents claim some properties sell within hours, sometimes with dozens of offers on the table.\n\nBut the rapid sales have also left some sellers stuck as they have not had enough time to find new homes.\n\nMegan Davies, 32, a midwife and mother-of-two from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is hoping to find a family home with her partner.\n\nLast month demand for some properties in the town saw people queueing overnight outside an estate agents.\n\nMs Davies sold her house within hours of putting it on the market and her partner was made an offer on his property before any viewings. However the pair have now been unable to find anywhere to move on to.\n\n\"The properties that we've been to see, they're going for £20,000 to £30,000 over the asking price,\" Ms Davies told BBC Wales Live.\n\n\"There's so much competition out there at the moment and Aberdare is just mad, it's just gone mad.\n\n\"We've seen a house today that's gone live 15 minutes ago, we were told 'we've got no bookings left'.\n\n\"We've gone through agents, we've gone through social media, we've gone through the selling pages for houses, Rightmove etc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Somebody just would always pip you to the post'\n\n\"I'm at the point now where I think, do we do flyers in the estates that we want to live on? That's the point we're at. There's nothing around. It really does take over your life.\"\n\nRhiannon Williams, 30, said she had given up trying to buy her first home near Caerphilly after struggling for months with high asking prices.\n\n\"The first house viewing looked amazing on the photos, but when I viewed I wasn't sold by the property. The estate agent said someone had put an offer in on the house and hadn't viewed it,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought that was absolutely insane as the asking price was already the top end for that area.\n\n\"I had two viewings booked for this week, both have been cancelled as they have now been sold.\n\n\"It's a huge step to purchase your first home, I think the prices are so high at the moment and people are offering over the asking price too, so I don't stand a chance to get on the ladder.\"\n\nMel John, an estate agent in Caerphilly, said she had been hearing more stories of practices like \"gazumping\" - where a seller goes back on a verbal agreement and accepts a higher offer.\n\n\"I've walked away from a number of properties where the sellers would have encouraged gazumping, as an estate agent I wouldn't want to be any part of that,\" she said. \"I don't think it's ethical really for anybody to go down that route.\"\n\nMs John said the property market boom was great news for many, but she had sympathy for buyers who were frequently missing out.\n\n\"There's a lot of buyers out there,\" she said.\n\n\"When a property comes on the market we'll do a block booking of viewings on that property and whoever makes an offer, we'd be looking for their best and final offer.\n\n\"Of course it's not nice telling people that they can't buy the properties, that the seller has decided to go with someone else.\n\nMany people want to move to Wales from over the border, estate agents say\n\n\"It is really difficult and especially with young first-time buyers who can only afford a certain amount - which is more or less in the investors price range.\n\n\"They're desperate to get on the property ladder and they've got so much competition.\"\n\nIn north and west Wales the current housing market boom has re-energised debates around second homes.\n\nHowever James Skudder, the director of Country Living Estate Agents in Pembrokeshire, said the landscape among his clients had significantly shifted from second-home buyers, with many now moving over the border to make Wales their permanent home.\n\n\"Since Covid has hit, the market hasn't stopped,\" said Mr Skudder.\n\n\"I would say on a daily basis 95% of the enquires are from people outside of the area.\n\n\"Pembrokeshire has always had a pull with second-home buyers, whereas now people are relocating for their primary residence.\n\n\"What we're finding is if you've holidayed in an area for 20 or 30 years and now you're finding you can work from home - people are saying to each other 'look let's make the dream move we've always wanted to'.\n\n\"People are relocating themselves and they're relocating their businesses.\n\n\"They're now moving their businesses online because it's an easier way to live and it can bring happiness to the business and the family.\n\n\"People have just had an awakening to what's going on surrounding Covid and certainly this is what's helping push the pricing in the area, people being unhappy over working long hours and being stuck in the city. An area like this is being pushed through the roof.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's a crazy market, right the way from low end, right up to the premium market.\"", "A section of the TransPennine line will be electrified as part of the plan\n\nNew stations, faster journeys and more reliable services have been promised as part of a £401m government investment in rail travel.\n\nMost of the money will be used to upgrade the TransPennine route between York, Leeds and Manchester.\n\nThe plan will also see new stations in Leeds and Exeter and increased freight capacity at the Port of Southampton.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the money would help deliver services \"passengers can count on\".\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said a £317m boost would see the TransPennine line electrified between York and Church Fenton and tracks doubled around Leeds and Huddersfield to \"improve connectivity\".\n\nAbout £69m will pay for the first stage of the Oxford Phase 2 project to improve freight capacity from Southampton into the Midlands and the North and the final £15m will provide new stations at Marsh Barton in Exeter, and White Rose and Thorpe Park in Leeds.\n\nMr Shapps said the aim was to create \"a modern, green and innovative railway\".\n\nThe funding announcement coincided with the completion of the first phase of the £1.5bn Midland Main Line Upgrade, which has supported the launch of East Midlands Railway's (EMR) first electric services on the route between Corby in Northamptonshire and London St Pancras.\n\nThe project will see journey times between Sheffield and London cut by up to 30 minutes, the DfT said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Rail improvements in north to get £600m kick-start\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marks & Spencer has said it plans to close another 30 shops over the next 10 years as part of its turnaround plan.\n\nM&S has already closed or relocated 59 main stores, as well as cutting 7,000 jobs across stores and management.\n\nThe chain has reported big losses for last year as the pandemic took its toll on clothing sales.\n\nBut food sales were up thanks to its Ocado tie-up, contributing to \"a resilient financial performance in a year of disruption\".\n\nM&S made a pre-tax loss of £201.2m in the 52 weeks to 27 March, down from a £67.2m profit in the previous year.\n\nThe High Street stalwart currently has 254 full-line stores, selling clothing, homewares and food. It says that a number of them are in long-term decline and cannot justify future investment.\n\nAbout 30 stores will gradually close over the next decade, while another 80 will be moved to better locations or merged with nearby shops.\n\nThe group will open 17 new or expanded main stores over the next two years, including a number of former Debenhams sites.\n\n\"We are committed to stores and believe they can be a true source of competitive advantage,\" chief executive Steve Rowe told investors and journalists on a conference call.\n\n\"But they need to be the right stores, in the right location, with the right services.\"\n\nAfter accounting for one-off restructuring costs, the business made a profit of £41.6m, but this was still down almost 90% on the previous year.\n\nThe M&S losses were mainly due to the performance of its clothing division, which suffered as non-essential retail was closed during lockdown.\n\nThe 137-year-old chain said clothing and homeware sales had fallen by 31.5%, reflecting the \"heavy impact\" of lockdowns on stores.\n\n\"In most of this time, our operations have been severely constrained by the change in day-to-day living, the effects of social distancing and partial or full closure of large parts of our store estate,\" M&S said.\n\n\"This has resulted in substantial changes to the mix of products customers have bought and a wide divergence of store formats and channels.\"\n\nHowever, M&S said clothing and home sales had been growing since reopening.\n\nThe store chain also took heart from improved figures in its food division as its tie-up with online grocer Ocado took effect.\n\nIt said food delivered \"strong underlying like-for-like growth\" of 6.9%, after adjusting for the closure of hospitality and the adverse impact on franchise sales.\n\n\"In a year like no other, we have delivered a resilient trading performance,\" said chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\n\"In addition, by going further and faster in our transformation through the Never the Same Again programme, we moved beyond fixing the basics to forge a reshaped M&S.\n\n\"With the right team in place to accelerate change in the trading businesses and build a trajectory for future growth, we now have a clear line of sight on the path to make M&S special again. The transformation has moved to the next phase.\"\n\nLike many other retailers, Marks & Spencer has endured a difficult 12 months thanks to the pandemic. But there are signs in these results that the ordeal may have started to forge a stronger company, one more attuned to customer tastes and the move to online shopping.\n\nM&S traded profitably, but posted an overall loss of £201m because of the cost of its restructuring plans. It is closing shops, laying off staff and investing heavily in the internet.\n\nFood sales were up 7%, clothing sales down by one third, with sales in High Street and city centre outlets sharply down. One of the new online ventures, a joint venture with Ocado, is proving a success. One quarter of every Ocado delivery is now M&S products, and the partnership contributed £78m of profit.\n\nInvestors liked the idea of a revival plan at M&S that for once seems to have some bite: the shares were up 4% at 162p in early trading.\n\nM&S said it had received government support of £306.1m, which had partly offset the effect of lost trade and enabled it to keep its employees on.\n\n\"The figures show the catastrophic effect the pandemic has had on business with retail stores on the High Street,\" Catherine Shuttleworth, founder of retail consultancy Savvy Marketing, told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"There is some glimmer of hope as we come out of it, but it's one of those years that we can't draw too many conclusions from, because it's been so unbelievably different and something that no retailer could have reasonably planned for.\"\n\nBut she added that \"real benefits\" were starting to come from the M&S turnaround programme.\n\n\"Ocado's driven an awful lot of income and is really introducing a whole new group of shoppers to M&S and there's never a better time than to tie up with a food delivery business than during a pandemic,\" she added.", "A gate of what is officially known as a \"vocational skills education centre\" in Xinjiang\n\nA camera system that uses AI and facial recognition intended to reveal states of emotion has been tested on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the BBC has been told.\n\nA software engineer claimed to have installed such systems in police stations in the province.\n\nA human rights advocate who was shown the evidence described it as shocking.\n\nThe Chinese embassy in London has not responded directly to the claims but says political and social rights in all ethnic groups are guaranteed.\n\nXinjiang is home to 12 million ethnic minority Uyghurs, most of whom are Muslim.\n\nCitizens in the province are under daily surveillance. The area is also home to highly controversial \"re-education centres\", called high security detention camps by human rights groups, where it is estimated that more than a million people have been held.\n\nBeijing has always argued that surveillance is necessary in the region because it says separatists who want to set up their own state have killed hundreds of people in terror attacks.\n\nXinjiang is believed to be one of the most surveilled areas in the world\n\nThe software engineer agreed to talk to the BBC's Panorama programme under condition of anonymity, because he fears for his safety. The company he worked for is also not being revealed.\n\nBut he showed Panorama five photographs of Uyghur detainees who he claimed had had the emotion recognition system tested on them.\n\nData from the system purports to indicate a person's state of mind, with red suggesting a negative or anxious state of mind\n\n\"The Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories,\" he said.\n\nAnd he outlined his role in installing the cameras in police stations in the province: \"We placed the emotion detection camera 3m from the subject. It is similar to a lie detector but far more advanced technology.\"\n\nHe said officers used \"restraint chairs\" which are widely installed in police stations across China.\n\n\"Your wrists are locked in place by metal restraints, and [the] same applies to your ankles.\"\n\nHe provided evidence of how the AI system is trained to detect and analyse even minute changes in facial expressions and skin pores.\n\nAccording to his claims, the software creates a pie chart, with the red segment representing a negative or anxious state of mind.\n\nHe claimed the software was intended for \"pre-judgement without any credible evidence\".\n\nThe Chinese embassy in London did not respond to questions about the use of emotional recognition software in the province but said: \"The political, economic, and social rights and freedom of religious belief in all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are fully guaranteed.\n\n\"People live in harmony regardless of their ethnic backgrounds and enjoy a stable and peaceful life with no restriction to personal freedom.\"\n\nThe evidence was shown to Sophie Richardson, China director of Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"It is shocking material. It's not just that people are being reduced to a pie chart, it's people who are in highly coercive circumstances, under enormous pressure, being understandably nervous and that's taken as an indication of guilt, and I think, that's deeply problematic.\"\n\nAccording to Darren Byler, from the University of Colorado, Uyghurs routinely have to provide DNA samples to local officials, undergo digital scans and most have to download a government phone app, which gathers data including contact lists and text messages.\n\n\"Uyghur life is now about generating data,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone knows that the smartphone is something you have to carry with you, and if you don't carry it you can be detained, they know that you're being tracked by it. And they feel like there's no escape,\" he said.\n\nMost of the data is fed into a computer system called the Integrated Joint Operations Platform, which Human Rights Watch claims flags up supposedly suspicious behaviour.\n\n\"The system is gathering information about dozens of different kinds of perfectly legal behaviours including things like whether people were going out the back door instead of the front door, whether they were putting gas in a car that didn't belong to them,\" said Ms Richardson.\n\n\"Authorities now place QR codes outside the doors of people's homes so that they can easily know who's supposed to be there and who's not.\"\n\nThere has long been debate about how closely tied Chinese technology firms are to the state. US-based research group IPVM claims to have uncovered evidence in patents filed by such companies that suggest facial recognition products were specifically designed to identify Uyghur people.\n\nA patent filed in July 2018 by Huawei and the China Academy of Sciences describes a face recognition product that is capable of identifying people on the basis of their ethnicity.\n\nHuawei said in response that it did \"not condone the use of technology to discriminate or oppress members of any community\" and that it was \"independent of government\" wherever it operated.\n\nThe group has also found a document which appears to suggest the firm was developing technology for a so-called One Person, One File system.\n\n\"For each person the government would store their personal information, their political activities, relationships... anything that might give you insight into how that person would behave and what kind of a threat they might pose,\" said IPVM's Conor Healy.\n\n\"It makes any kind of dissidence potentially impossible and creates true predictability for the government in the behaviour of their citizens. I don't think that [George] Orwell would ever have imagined that a government could be capable of this kind of analysis.\"\n\nHuawei did not specifically address questions about its involvement in developing technology for the One Person, One File system but said: \"Huawei opposes discrimination of all types, including the use of technology to carry out ethnic discrimination.\n\n\"As a privately-held company, Huawei is independent of government wherever we operate. We do not condone the use of technology to discriminate against or oppress members of any community.\"\n\nThe Chinese embassy in London said it had \"no knowledge\" of these programmes.\n\nIPVM also claimed to have found marketing material from Chinese firm Hikvision advertising a Uyghur-detecting AI camera, and a patent for software developed by Dahua, another tech giant, which could also identify Uyghurs.\n\nDahua said its patent referred to all 56 recognised ethnicities in China and did not deliberately target any one of them.\n\nIt added that it provided \"products and services that aim to help keep people safe\" and complied \"with the laws and regulations of every market\" in which it operates, including the UK.\n\nHikvision said the details on its website were incorrect and \"uploaded online without appropriate review\", adding that it did not sell or have in its product range \"a minority recognition function or analytics technology\".\n\nDr Lan Xue, chairman of China's National committee on AI governance, said he was not aware of the patents.\n\n\"Outside China there are a lot of those sorts of charges. Many are not accurate and not true,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I think that the Xinjiang local government had the responsibility to really protect the Xinjiang people... if technology is used in those contexts, that's quite understandable,\" he said.\n\nThe UK's Chinese embassy had a more robust defence, telling the BBC: \"There is no so-called facial recognition technology featuring Uyghur analytics whatsoever.\"\n\nHu Liu feels his life is under constant surveillance\n\nChina is estimated to be home to half of the world's almost 800 million surveillance cameras.\n\nIt also has a large number of smart cities, such as Chongqing, where AI is built into the foundations of the urban environment.\n\nChongqing-based investigative journalist Hu Liu told Panorama of his own experience: \"Once you leave home and step into the lift, you are captured by a camera. There are cameras everywhere.\"\n\n\"When I leave home to go somewhere, I call a taxi, the taxi company uploads the data to the government. I may then go to a cafe to meet a few friends and the authorities know my location through the camera in the cafe.\n\n\"There have been occasions when I have met some friends and soon after someone from the government contacts me. They warned me, 'Don't see that person, don't do this and that.'\n\n\"With artificial intelligence we have nowhere to hide,\" he said.\n\nFind out more about this on Panorama's Are you Scared Yet, Human? - available on iPlayer from 26 May", "Council and NHS staff have started going door-to-door in parts of Dewsbury in the Kirklees area offering coronavirus tests after the so-called Indian variant was found.\n\nAll people aged over 11 in Savile Town and Thornhill Lees are being asked to take PCR tests and all adults offered vaccinations, Kirklees Council said.\n\nKirklees, in West Yorkshire, has one of the highest infection rates in the country.\n\nIn the week to 21 May there were 107 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 people in the area - a rise of 51% on the week before.\n\nKirklees is also one of the eight hotspot areas in England subject to new guidance.\n\nAdditional testing centres are also being rolled out from Wednesday.\n\nRead more on this story here - and you can read a guide to surge testing and where in England and Scotland it is taking place here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has voiced his support for a ceasefire after eight days of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.\n\nMr Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US was working with Egypt and other countries on halting hostilities.\n\nBut the US again blocked a UN Security Council statement calling for a cessation of violence.\n\nThe conflict is now in its second week, with little sign of ending.\n\nIsrael conducted further air strikes on Gaza early on Tuesday. Its army said dozens of rockets were fired into its territory overnight.\n\nAt least 212 people, including almost 100 women and children, have been killed in Gaza, according to its health ministry. In Israel 10 people, including two children, have been killed, its medical service says.\n\nOn Tuesday Israel said at least 150 militants were among those killed in Gaza. Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that runs the territory, does not give casualty figures for fighters.\n\nAccording to a White House statement on Monday, Mr Biden \"encouraged Israel to make every effort to ensure the protection of innocent civilians\".\n\n\"The two leaders discussed progress in Israel's military operations against Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza,\" it added.\n\nPresident Biden \"expressed his support for a ceasefire and discussed US engagement with Egypt and other partners towards that end\", it said.\n\nWorld leaders and humanitarian organisations have called for measures to prevent the deaths of residents and the chaos wrought by the destruction of buildings and infrastructure.\n\nIsrael should try to protect innocent civilians, Mr Biden said\n\nThe US - which is one of Israel's strongest allies - has once again blocked efforts at the UN Security Council to issue a statement calling on Israel to stop its military offensive, stressing instead its own diplomatic efforts.\n\n\"Our calculation at this point is that having those conversations behind the scenes... is the most constructive approach we can take,\" White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.\n\nThe UN Security Council is due to hold its fourth emergency meeting on the violence on Tuesday.\n\nJoe Biden is a traditional pro-Israel Democrat. That's different from Donald Trump who actually changed US policy to adopt Israel's positions in its conflict with the Arabs. Biden has quietly begun to reverse some, although not all, of that.\n\nBut when it comes to air wars with Palestinian militants, he is following a familiar pattern. All US administrations strongly support Israel's right to defend itself against rocket fire.\n\nAnalysts say in the initial phase they generally refrain from public criticism of Israeli air strikes, including at the United Nations, apparently allowing a window of time for Israel to take out militant leaders and infrastructure. However, if the conflict goes on and civilian deaths mount, sometimes they become more critical and start pressing Israel to wind down its military campaign.\n\nIn this case Hamas' firepower has been more sustained and intense than before. But President Biden has now publicly expressed support for a ceasefire in his call with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and discussed with him \"progress in Israel's military operations against Hamas.\"\n\nSo perhaps this is the beginning of new phase.\n\nThe United Nations has also expressed concerns about the damage to infrastructure in the already impoverished Gaza Strip, home to two million people. It said that 40 schools and four hospitals had been \"completely or partially destroyed\" in recent days. It also warned that fuel supplies there were running out, threatening basic services.\n\nThe World Health Organization's emergencies chief, Dr Mike Ryan, said all attacks on healthcare needed to stop immediately.\n\nThe outbreak of violence began after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem that culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.\n\nThe Israeli military conducted further air strikes on Tuesday and, shortly after dawn, two buildings in Gaza City were destroyed.\n\nA spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said another 15km (nine miles) of Hamas tunnels had been destroyed in the latest operation.\n\nThere were no immediate reports of casualties.\n\nBuildings in Gaza were destroyed in Israeli air strikes early on Tuesday\n\nSimilar strikes before dawn on Monday also damaged roads, power lines and houses. At least seven Palestinians were killed in the bombing.\n\nMohammad Abu Rayya, a paediatrician in Gaza, told the BBC of the devastation on the ground there. \"We don't have a morgue here big enough for the killed and the dead bodies,\" he said.\n\n\"We need at least 10 years more to build what has been damaged here in Gaza,\" he added.\n\nPalestinian militants fired rockets into Israel later on Tuesday morning. It set off warning sirens in cities in the south, sending people running for shelters.\n\nBut the rocket fire from Gaza appeared to be less frequent that in previous nights, according to a Reuters correspondent in the region.\n\nRockets were also fired at Israel from Lebanon, but the army said they did not reach its territory. The Israeli Air Force said it had shot down what it described as a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) that approached its border from Jordan.\n\nIsrael has vowed to continue its air strikes on Gaza. On Monday, it said more than 3,000 rockets had been fired into the country over the past week.\n\nThe country's Iron Dome defence system is said to have intercepted 90% of the rockets. Israeli emergency services have reported an overall total of 311 injuries, six of them severe.\n\nAn Israeli tech executive and father of three, Eitan Singer, told the BBC: \"It is not easy - seven days in a row when we go to sleep and almost every evening, every night, we get the kids out of bed, run to shelters. We have 30 seconds to 60 seconds to find a shelter.\"\n\nThe worst violence in years between Israel and the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip has seen dozens killed. It follows a month of spiralling tensions before open conflict broke out. Here is what happened in the lead-up to the fighting. Clashes erupt in East Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israeli police. Palestinians are angry over barriers which had been placed outside the Damascus Gate entrance to the Jerusalem‘s Old City preventing them from gathering there after prayers at the Old City’s al-Aqsa Mosque on what is the first night of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Palestinian discontent had been stoked earlier in the day when President Mahmoud Abbas called off planned elections, implicitly blaming Israel over voting arrangements for Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Hamas - Mr Abbas' Islamist rivals who control Gaza and were running in the elections - react angrily to the postponement. Violence around Damascus Gate and elsewhere in East Jerusalem continues nightly. Rockets are fired from Gaza at Israel, which responds with air strikes after a relative period of calm between Israel and the Palestinian enclave. Clashes spread to the mixed Arab-Jewish port city of Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv. In Jerusalem, Jewish youths, angry over a spate of filmed assaults by Palestinians on Orthodox Jews posted on the TikTok video-sharing app, attack Arabs and chant anti-Arab slogans. Israeli security forces clash with Palestinians outside the Damascus Gate Hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews shouting “Death to Arabs” march towards Damascus Gate in protest at the Arab assaults on Jews. Clashes erupt at the site between Palestinians and police trying to separate the two groups, injuring dozens of people. Violence between Arabs and Jews spreads to other parts of the city. Militants fire dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza, drawing retaliatory air strikes. President Abbas' Fatah faction and Hamas condemn the looming threatened eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah district of East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers ahead of a planned court hearing. Hamas calls on Arabs to form “human shields of resistance” there. In the days that follow, police and protesters repeatedly clash at the site as it becomes a focal point for Palestinian anger. Militants in Gaza begin sending incendiary balloons into Israel over successive days, causing dozens of fires. Two Palestinian gunmen are shot dead and a third is wounded after opening fire on Israeli security forces in the northern West Bank. Israeli authorities say the group planned to carry out a “major attack” in Israel. The al-Aqsa mosque has been a frequent flashpoint for violence Later on after Friday prayers - the last of Ramadan - major clashes erupt at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, injuring more than 200 people. Israel's police force says it used “riot dispersal means”, firing rubber bullets and stun grenades after officers came under a hail of stones and bottles. A second night of violence erupts in East Jerusalem after tens of thousands of worshippers prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque for Laylat al-Qadr, the holiest night of Ramadan. Police and protesters clash at Damascus Gate, with police using water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas against crowds of Palestinians, some throwing stones. More than 120 Palestinians and some 17 police are injured. Israel's Supreme Court postpones the hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah case following calls to delay it because of the growing unrest. Tensions remain high though and more clashes take place between Israeli police and Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and at Damascus Gate. Early morning clashes break out between police and Palestinians at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, where crowds throw stones and officers fire stun grenades. Palestinian anger has been inflamed by an annual Jerusalem Day march planned for later in the day by hundreds of Israeli nationalists to celebrate Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967. The march is due to pass through predominantly Arab parts of the Old City in what is seen by Palestinians as a deliberate provocation. It is rerouted at the 11th hour, but the atmosphere remains volatile with more than 300 Palestinians and some 21 police injured in the violence at the holy site. Hamas issues an ultimatum to Israel to “withdraw its soldiers... from the blessed al-Aqsa mosque and Sheikh Jarrah” by 18:00. When the deadline passes without an Israeli response, rockets are fired towards Jerusalem for the first time in years. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the group has “crossed a red line” and Israel retaliates with air strikes, killing three Hamas fighters. A continuing exchange of rocket-fire and air strikes quickly escalates into the fiercest hostilities between the two sides since they fought a war in 2014.", "Residents of two tower blocks in a west German town have been quarantined after a woman in the building tested positive for the Indian variant of Covid-19.\n\n\"We just saw a mass of public order officers suddenly turn up and we were locked in,\" said a woman from the town of Velbert.", "Ella also wears a hat around the house as a \"comfort blanket\", her family said\n\nA teenager with a rare illness that has caused her hair to fall out can now wear a cap to school after pupils protested when her request was denied.\n\nElla Goodwin's father said the 13-year-old was told a cap or hoodie was not part of the uniform policy at Heritage High School in Clowne, Derbyshire.\n\nThe row led to a protest outside the school involving dozens of Ella's fellow pupils on Monday morning.\n\nThe school confirmed it has been agreed Ella can wear a cap and hoodie.\n\nHowever Ella said she was frustrated that the school did not agree to her request earlier.\n\n\"Rules should be bent for someone going through something like this.\n\n\"But it was an amazing feeling just to know how many people supported me.\n\n\"I'm not ashamed... but wearing a cap and hoodie just gives me confidence and comfort. I would not have gone back to school without it,\" she said.\n\nElla was diagnosed two years ago with CRMO (chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis), a disease where the immune system attacks the bones and causes pain and swelling.\n\nRecently, her hair has started falling out. Her father Shaun Goodwin said doctors are unsure if the hair loss is a symptom or a side effect of medication she has to take.\n\nElla has had her head shaved and was given a wig by the Little Princess Trust, but Mr Goodwin said she did not feel comfortable in it.\n\nHe said he and partner Joanna Davies had a meeting with the school last week in which they were told a cap - including one with school branding - was not part of the uniform policy.\n\nThe row sparked a backlash among parents and pupils, and 25 to 30 children protested the decision on Monday morning, many of whom wore caps and hoodies in solidarity.\n\n\"We went up to the school to support Ella and the amount of children and parents stood there with hats on - it's amazing.\n\n\"The support of the community is outstanding.\"\n\nJoanna Davies, Ella's father's partner, also shaved her hair to help the schoolgirl feel comfortable at home\n\nMs Davies added: \"She [Ella] doesn't want to have to wear the cap but her hair loss is beyond her control.\n\n\"Even though everyone knows she's lost her hair, she uses the hat and hoodie to control who sees it and says when she is shielding it she feels in control.\n\n\"Even in the house she wears the hat, it's like her comfort blanket.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Two Counties Trust - which the school is part of - said: \"We are happy to confirm that we have now been able to speak to Ella's family and have agreed with them that Ella can wear a cap and a hoodie to ensure she feels as comfortable and supported as possible when at school.\n\n\"We will continue to do everything we can to ensure Ella and her family are appropriately supported through this challenging period. No student has been sanctioned around this matter.\"\n\nMr Goodwin said: \"It's amazing, but it shouldn't have got to this in the first place.\n\n\"They ought to have come to this decision quicker, but I'm well chuffed.\n\n\"Seeing the protest and the amount of support she had brought a lump to my throat.\"\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.", "Ministers hope the scheme will create opportunities for a younger, more eco-savvy, generation to own farmland\n\nOlder farmers in England will be paid to retire under a UK government scheme to bring new blood into the trade.\n\nThe average farmer could receive a lump sum payment of £50,000 - capped at £100,000 for farmers with most land.\n\nIt is part of a massive overhaul of farm grants, incentivising farmers to protect the environment.\n\nSome older farmers are resistant to new \"green\" methods, Environment Secretary George Eustice believes, and he wants them to move on.\n\nCurrently, under the old EU system, farmers receive grants based largely on the amount of land they farm.\n\nThe average farmer currently receives about £21,000 in grants - although those who own large amounts of land, such as the Queen, have been receiving more than half a million pounds each year.\n\nFarmers in Wales are expected to be able to benefit from a similar scheme to the England plans announced by Mr Eustice. Plans in Scotland and Northern Ireland will be different.\n\nMr Eustice says the EU's grants system encourages some farmers \"to coast, to take no risks\" and hold on to their land in order to collect the subsidy.\n\nHence the need for help for older farmers to move on.\n\nAt the Oxford Farming Conference earlier this year, Mr Eustice said some veteran farmers were \"standing in the way of change\" and coasting along on state subsidies.\n\nHe said: \"I understand the burden of expectation that can exist to loyally continue the family tradition (of farming) and how this sometimes stands in the way of change.\"\n\nBut, he said: \"A fresh perspective can make a world of difference. New entrants are the lifeblood of any vibrant industry and farming is no exception.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), told BBC News: \"There's evidence that farmers who wish to leave farming can find it difficult to generate capital to do so.\n\n\"So, a lump sum payment could help contribute to the costs of moving somewhere new or moving into an alternative sector.\"\n\nNearly four in 10 UK farmers are over the age of 65, with an average age of 59.\n\nThe agriculture sector accounts for about 9 per cent of the UK's annual greenhouse gas emissions\n\nThe Tenant Farmers' Association sought the views of 360 farmers and reported that three-quarters of them were seriously interested in the proposed retirement scheme, which is launched in a consultation today.\n\nThe organisation's chief executive, George Dunn, told BBC News he supported the plan for a lump sum for farmers based on the grants they would have received if they'd stayed in business.\n\nBut he warned: \"The government have got to make it easy enough for people to take up the scheme - not drown them in bureaucracy.\n\n\"The payments on their own won't be enough - but when you tie in other factors such as selling livestock, some farmers will want to take it up.\n\n\"For people on larger holdings, it won't be very attractive - but a lot of owner-occupiers might find it attractive.\"\n\nAt the launch of today's consultation, Mr Eustice explained: \"We need to address the twin challenges of helping new entrants fulfil their dream and gain access to land, while also helping an older generation retire with dignity.\n\n\"Our exit scheme will offer farmers real incentive to confront what can often be a difficult decision and will help them clear bills and settle debts.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the National Farmers' Union (NFU) said: \"As our agricultural support is overhauled, farm businesses across the country will be making life-changing decisions about the future of their farm.\"\n\nThey added: \"We want to see a fair transition which allows farmers who are considering leaving the industry to have sufficient time and information to make those life-changing decisions.\"\n\nAbout £3bn of state subsidy is paid to UK farmers each year, but this will be phased out. An estimated 61% of farm income comes from subsidy.\n\nUnder the new post-Brexit scheme, grants will be used to incentivise so-called \"public goods\", such as protecting water supplies; holding floodwater on land; capturing carbon in soil and trees, and increasing wildlife.\n\nThe government believes that younger farmers will be more open to new nature-friendly ideas and more inclined to seek income by diversifying into businesses such as camping or glamping.\n\nClarification 8th March 2022: This article was amended on the day of publication to make clear that the scheme is for older farmers in England and that farmers in Wales are expected to be able to benefit from a similar scheme, while plans in Scotland and Northern Ireland will be different.", "There were more than a million hospital admissions for obesity-related treatment in England in the year leading into the global pandemic, figures reveal.\n\nThe record number provides the clearest indication yet of the scale of the obesity problem as coronavirus started to spread across the UK.\n\nBeing overweight is one of the most significant risk factors for severe Covid.\n\nExperts say the data should be a wake-up call for tackling obesity.\n\nThe figures, published by NHS Digital, show a 17% increase in hospital admissions where obesity was a factor, compared with the year before.\n\nThis amounts to almost 150,000 more instances of people being admitted to hospital over the course of a year.\n\nThe number of admissions where obesity was recorded as the main cause actually fell to 10,780 last year, from 11,117 in 2018-19.\n\nBut this is mainly due to a fall in the number of bariatric surgeries (including gastric bands and bypasses) being performed.\n\nWomen accounted for two-thirds (64%) of admissions where obesity was a factor.\n\nNaveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine, at the University of Glasgow, says obesity is \"the strongest risk factor for [Type 2] diabetes\".\n\n\"It's a strong risk factor for heart disease, for heart failure, for lung disease, for kidney disease, for multiple other conditions,\" he says.\n\n\"If we now add to that obesity is a strong risk factor for this acute viral pandemic which is killing people worldwide, then... this is a wake-up call.\n\n\"Many health systems and government really do now need to pay attention to obesity.\n\n\"We do need to tackle obesity and we need to take it seriously.\"\n\n'They told me I could die'\n\nAnd when he developed coronavirus, last year, he ended up needing intensive care.\n\n\"It was horrible,\" Mr Skeates says.\n\n\"As I was taken out of the house, I said goodbye to my wife.\n\n\"I was crying my eyes out in the ambulance.\n\n\"My thoughts were I may not see her again.\n\n\"They'd actually told me if I caught Covid, there was every chance that I would die.\"\n\n\"On the ward, I saw two people pass away.\n\n\"It really made me think I need to address this.\"\n\nPhil has now lost more than six stone.\n\n\"I paid the price,\" he says.\n\n\"I've come through it and I'm not going back.\"\n\nScientists are still trying to understand why the coronavirus poses such a risk to those significantly overweight.\n\nProf Sattar says there is some evidence heavier people have a higher viral load or more virus in their bodies than others and the virus triggers a dangerous response by the immune system.\n\n\"There may be a critical interaction between fat cells and the immune response which increases the likelihood of that immune response being exaggerated and harmful,\" he says.\n\n\"We also know that people who are heavier have thicker blood to begin with, and this hyper-response thickens the blood even more.\n\n\"So the likelihood is that this thickness will clot off blood vessels and block blood vessels.\n\n\"People who are overweight, effectively have less capacity to deal with the damage Covid causes.\"\n\nAnd for many people, the pandemic has led to weight gain, early evidence suggests.\n\nNHS England medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: \"Today's shocking figures are a growing sign of the nation's obesity crisis which is putting hundreds of thousands of people at greater risk of becoming severely ill with Covid, as well as heart attacks, stroke, cancer and other deadly diseases\".\n\nThis is a real concern, Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population, at Oxford University, says.\n\n\"People have gained 2-3kg but that is very unevenly spread - some people have gained much more,\" she says.\n\n\"And it seems to be a particular problem for women, for younger people and for those living in deprived areas.\"\n\nPressure is piling on the government to take radical action to address the obesity problem.\n\nLast month, doctors, academics, campaigners and public-sector experts wrote to the prime minister, urging him to stick to a landmark government proposal to ban junk-food advertising online and on social media - after fears it could be ditched.\n\nThe government says it has a clear plan to introduce a ban on junk-food adverts on television before 21:00.\n\nIt has now finished a consultation with industry and how far it is prepared to go with restrictions online will be revealed in the next few weeks.\n\nHave you needed hospital care for obesity? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The government has no plan to meet the \"huge challenge\" of persuading motorists to switch to electric vehicles, MPs have warned.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said the official target of banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 could be missed without urgent action.\n\nIt also argued that electric vehicles were still too expensive and there were not enough charging points.\n\nThe government said it was on track to meet its targets.\n\nA spokesman said it was investing £2.8bn to help the car industry and drivers make the switch to electric.\n\nSales of electric vehicles are by far the fastest growing segment of the car market, but they still only account for only 11% of new registrations.\n\nThe committee warned that this would not get to 100% unless prices fell and charging infrastructure was installed quickly.\n\nOnly 13 electric car models on sale in the UK at the moment cost less than £30,000, its report said.\n\nIt pointed out that the majority of charging took place at home and claimed the government had not focused enough on helping people who do not have off-street parking.\n\nThe committee also said the government needed to develop the skilled workforce and electric power infrastructure needed to support the transition.\n\nIts chairwoman, Labour MP Meg Hillier, said the UK had \"a mountain to climb\" to meet its targets.\n\nChallenges included making the car industry \"environmentally and socially compliant\", but getting the government \"wean itself off carbon revenues\" could be the biggest obstacle, she added.\n\n\"What we've got is a government throwing up a few signs around base camp, and no let-up in demand for oversized, petrol-guzzling vehicles,\" Ms Hillier said.\n\nBut the government said it had a \"highly ambitious and world-leading approach to increasing the uptake of zero-emission cars\".\n\nA spokesperson said the \"progress we're making in this area will help us to meet our targets\".\n\nThe government had allocated £1.3bn over the next four years to support the roll-out of charging points on motorways and major A roads, in homes and businesses and on streets, they added.\n\nThe cost of electric vehicles would fall as production scaled up around the world, the spokesperson claimed.\n\nThe RAC motoring group said it expected sales to grow further as new models came out.\n\nIt called for the government to look at \"ways to incentivise take-up\", adding that the plug-in grant - under which motorists are given help in purchasing zero-emissions vehicles - was not guaranteed to continue beyond 2023.\n\nSales of new hybrid vehicles are to be banned from 2035, under government plans.", "As lockdown rules ease in England, Wales and most of Scotland, millions of people can now socialise indoors in limited numbers, hug loved ones and visit pubs and restaurants inside again.\n\nSome people couldn't wait for morning. Here, Rosie Delaney, Isobel Loan and Rebecca Mitchell have their first drink inside a pub for a long while, at 00:11, at the Showtime Bar, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.\n\nAt the The Oak Inn, in Coventry, West Midlands, customers enjoy a pint, a game of pool and a hug.\n\nThese changes come with a note of caution, with the variant identified in India spreading in some areas. \"We must take this next step with a heavy dose of caution,\" Prime Minister Boris Johnson warns, urging people to be tested regularly.\n\nFor some, the changes mean a chance to exercise indoors. At Park Road Pools & Fitness in London, a group takes a high-energy barbell class, just after 00:00.\n\nHousekeeper Zusanna Gulierrez prepares a room at the Brighton Metropole, as the Hilton group reopens its 130 hotels across England.\n\nPassengers prepare to board an EasyJet flight to Faro, Portugal, at Gatwick Airport, after the ban on international leisure travel for people in England was lifted to some destinations.\n\nThe National Youth Choir of Scotland, with founder and conductor Christopher Bell, meet on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, as most of Scotland moves to level-two - high - restrictions, enabling up to 30 people to meet outside to sing.\n\nThe digital message: \"Less URL, more IRL. Welcome back,\" is displayed on the BT Tower, above the streets of London.\n\nCustomers inside the Mile Castle pub, in Newcastle, enjoy breakfast as indoor hospitality and entertainment venues reopen.\n\nAt Barbarella's cafe, in London, a customer takes a selfie to mark the return to indoor dining.\n\nCharlotte Griffiths, 25, and her three-year-old son are among the first people to visit the Great North Museum, in Newcastle, following its reopening.\n\nA man wearing a face covering echoes the pose within Seurat's Bathers at Asnières painting inside the National Gallery, in London.\n\nThe first passengers board the London Eye, as the attraction reopens.\n\nYork Minster opens its doors once again to tourists.\n\nIt's eyes down for a full house at the Apollo Bingo Hall in the seaside resort of Rhyl, Denbighshire. It's an industry worth hundreds of millions of pounds a year in Wales, with 36 dedicated bingo halls across the country.\n\nFans gather to watch the runners and riders during the Racing TV Straight Mile Fillies' Handicap at Redcar Racecourse, North Yorkshire.\n\nA small crowd attends a screening of Ingmar Bergman's Persona in the BFI Southbank cinema in London.\n\nMembers of the Durham Strikes Bowling team enjoy a game at the Hollywood Bowling alley in Washington, County Durham.\n\nAs the evening drew in, people enjoyed drinks inside pubs and bars - such as this one in London - without having to sit outside on tables and chairs.\n\nIn Manchester's city centre, revellers danced in their seats to a live show at Albert's Schloss bar (above and below).\n\nAlso in Manchester, customers laughed together at Peaky Blinders bar.", "Offering children in some richer countries a coronavirus vaccine before some high-risk people in poorer ones is \"morally wrong\", a group of MPs has been told.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, who helped develop the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, said the \"inequity\" of vaccine distribution must change \"urgently\".\n\nThe US and Canada have made a jab available to children as young as 12.\n\nBut in many low-income countries those most at risk are yet to be vaccinated.\n\n\"The overall aim of a global vaccination programme in a pandemic is to stop people dying,\" said Prof Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, who led the trials for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\n\"I have worked in Nepal and Bangladesh and colleagues there are facing the most appalling circumstances - they're not working in a situation where there's an NHS to support them,\" he told the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus.\n\n\"It feels completely wrong to be in a situation morally where we are allowing that to happen whilst in many countries vaccines are being rolled out to younger and younger populations at very, very low risk.\n\n\"Children have near to zero risk of severe disease or death.\"\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine, which has been approved in the US and Canada, has completed trials in adolescents.\n\nAnd a number of other Covid vaccines are being tested on this age group and younger.\n\nBut Prof Pollard said: \"The main issue at the moment is to try and make sure the doses go to those in greatest need.\n\n\"This is a global problem which impacts our economies and puts pressure on health systems.\"\n\nStudies show over-50s, people with certain health conditions and healthcare workers are most likely to become seriously ill or die from coronavirus - but many in parts of Africa and South Asia are still waiting for a vaccine.\n\nCovax, the international scheme to ensure equal access to Covid vaccines, is currently short of 140 million doses, after a disruption in supply from India.\n\nUnicef and the World Health Organization have both called on wealthier countries to share their surplus supplies, as some have ordered enough to vaccinate their populations many times over.\n\nA Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson said £548 million has been provided to deliver more than a billion vaccines to more than 70 countries.\n\nThey added the UK will share the \"majority of any future surplus coronavirus vaccines from our supply with the COVAX pool, when these are available\".\n\nProf Pollard said his key message to the government would be to act with \"absolute urgency\" or \"many millions could die between now and September\".\n\n\"We can't wait until later this year to make decisions, he said.\n\n\"It has to be now that we look at redistribution and how we get doses to countries that have poor access at the moment - and that is through Covax.\"\n\nAnother witness told the MPs' panel richer countries were \"hoarding doses\" and he feared they would do the same with potential booster shots in the future.\n\nBut the production of vaccine in low- and middle-income countries would prevent this.\n\n\"We hear from so many manufacturers in places like Pakistan and Bangladesh and Indonesia - they're ready, they've got some capacity,\" Prof Gavin Yamey, director of the Centre for Policy Impact in Global Health, at Duke University, in the US, said.\n\n\"It's fine to continue donating - but there has to be a long-term vision.\n\n\"This pandemic could be with us for years.\n\n\"Is it really just going to be charity - drip, drip, drip of a few doses from rich countries?", "Graham McGill was 22 years old and on release from HMP Edinburgh when he murdered Mary McLaughlin in September 1984\n\nGraham McGill strangled Mary McLaughlin with her own dressing gown cord - and was back in his prison cell the morning after the murder.\n\nSex offender McGill was on the last night of temporary release from jail when he killed the mother-of-11 in her Glasgow flat.\n\nMary was found dead in her bedroom six days later, on 2 October 1984.\n\nAs a major investigation was launched, her killer was already locked up, less than 50 miles away in HMP Edinburgh.\n\nBy the end of the month McGill, who had just turned 23, was a free man with a dark secret.\n\nIt would be 35 years before a DNA breakthrough finally solved one of Scotland's most perplexing cold cases.\n\nNow McGill - who still maintains his innocence - has been sentenced to a minimum of 14 years in jail after being found guilty of Mary's murder.\n\nMary McLaughlin was last seen alive on a night out in Glasgow's west end\n\nMary McLaughlin spent her last night out drinking and playing dominos in the Hyndland Pub, now the Duck Club, which looks onto Mansfield Park in the west end of Glasgow.\n\nIt was 26 September 1984 and the 58-year-old was joined by one of her daughters.\n\nNow aged 73, Catherin Mullen gave evidence during McGill's trial at the High Court in Glasgow. Asked if Mary was drunk, she replied: \"She didn't act drunk - she was happy.\"\n\nCatherine left the pub to catch a bus home - and never saw her mother again.\n\nMary was last seen leaving the bar, on Hyndland Street, at about 22:45 to walk less than a mile home to her Partick flat.\n\nAlong the way she called into Armando's chip shop on Dumbarton Road, where she joked with staff as she bought fritters and cigarettes.\n\nDavid Seager, who knew her as Wee May, recalled that she walked in front of his taxi carrying her shoes in her hands.\n\nDuring the trial he was also asked if he thought a man he saw standing outside a shoe shop was following her.\n\nHe replied: \"Well yes. Every time Mary walked away he was always behind her.\"\n\nThe defence cast doubt on whether this was the accused, as Mr Seager did not mention the scar which runs from one of McGill's ears to his chin.\n\nBut what is certain is that a short time later McGill struck up a conversation with Mary and walked her back to the Crathie Court block on Laurel Street, where she lived alone.\n\nDetectives said McGill was a stranger to the area and to a woman who was more than double his age.\n\nProsecutor Alex Prentice QC told the jury: \"Mary McLaughlin was someone who was friendly and trusting and I would suggest that ultimately brought about her death.\"\n\nOnce inside the third-floor flat McGill launched what was described in court as a brutal, sexually motivated attack.\n\nIt ended with the grandmother being strangled and left lying on her back, covered with a green dress which had been put on back to front.\n\nAt the time McGill, who had been convicted of rape in 1981, was in the final weeks of a six-year sentence, which had been halved due to good behaviour.\n\nBBC Scotland can reveal he was granted temporary release from HMP Edinburgh, as part of a training for freedom programme, on 21 September 1984.\n\nMcGill returned to prison on 27 September - just hours after leaving Mary's flat and using her keys to lock the door behind him.\n\nIn an era before mobile phones, Mary was not in frequent contact with her large family who lived in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Ayrshire.\n\nOnce a week one of her sons, Martin Cullen, would call in to see her.\n\nBut when the then 24-year-old turned up at the flat on 2 October 1984, there was no answer and a \"horrible smell\" coming from inside.\n\nMr Cullen got a key from a neighbour but was still unable to get into the flat, so had to kick the door in.\n\nHis ex-partner went inside and came out screaming. Mr Mullen, now 60, told the jury: \"My mum was dead.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded that Mary had died after being strangled at least five days earlier.\n\nThe key pillars of a modern murder investigation - DNA, CCTV, digital forensics and social media - were not available to detectives in 1984 and they had very little to work with.\n\nThere were no witnesses and, despite taking hundreds of statements, officers from the then Strathclyde Police were met with a poor response from the local community.\n\nForensic science was always going to be the key to unlocking the case, but by 2008 four separate reviews had failed to yield a profile of the suspect.\n\nThe fifth review was launched in 2014 and the eventual breakthrough was made possible by a new DNA-profiling facility at the Scottish Crime Campus in Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire.\n\nPreviously experts could look at 11 individual DNA markers but the latest technology was capable of identifying 24.\n\nThis dramatically increased the odds of scientists obtaining a result from smaller or lower-quality samples.\n\nTom Nelson, director of forensics for the Scottish Police Authority, said in 2015 that the technology would make it possible to \"reach back in time, with the potential to rekindle justice for those who had all but given up hope\".\n\nAt the time of the murder experts only had very basic opportunities open to them, such as blood grouping and serum testing.\n\nForensic scientist Joanne Cochrane said: \"One of the benefits of a case from that era is that often very little was done with the productions.\n\n\"They have been kept almost untouched for a number of years, which leaves us with quite a lot of opportunities to explore.\"\n\nIn Mary's case experts decided in 2019 to untie a knot in the ligature that had been tightened by the killer 35 years earlier.\n\nThis time they were able to take advantage of technology she described as \"gold standard\".\n\nMs Cochrane told the trial: \"We felt that within the knot might be protected from contamination. We felt there was a possibility of retrieving DNA from within the knot.\n\n\"We did it very slowly... it was very difficult to unfasten.\"\n\nPeter Tobin was jailed in 2008 for the 1991 murder of Bathgate schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton. Her body was found in 2007, buried along with the remains of 18-year-old Dinah McNicol in the garden of Tobin's former home in Kent.\n\nAngus Sinclair raped and strangled 17-year-olds Helen Scott and Christine Eadie after a night out at the World's End pub on Edinburgh's Royal Mile in 1977. He was jailed for a minimum of 37 years in 2014 after becoming the first person in Scotland to be tried for the same crime twice after a change in double jeopardy laws.\n\nJohn Docherty murdered 16-year-old Elaine Doyle in Greenock as she made her way home from a nightclub in June 1986 - but he was not convicted until 2014. His case was the first to go to trial following an investigation by the Crown Office's cold case unit.\n\nPrevious examinations of the cord had only found Mary's DNA and a trace that was not possible to analyse.\n\nBut DNA24 analysis picked up a minor profile from the knot.\n\nAnd when it was run through the Scottish database, police finally had a prime suspect.\n\nThe jury heard the likelihood of the forensic sample on the cord belonging to someone other than McGill was 85,000 to one.\n\nProfiles were also found on a cigarette butt and on Mary's dress but this time the odds of it not being McGill soared to a billion to one.\n\nA fourth sample was found on a black bra he took from the flat but which was later found in a nearby garden.\n\nMary lived in Crathie Court in the Partick area of Glasgow\n\nDet Supt Suzanne Chow said McGill was confused when officers finally turned up at his door on 4 December 2019.\n\nShe said: \"He was quite tight lipped. You could tell he was shell-shocked and he probably wasn't expecting his past to come back and haunt him 35 years later.\"\n\nAt the time of his arrest he was still being managed as a sex offender, but was working in the Glasgow area as a fabricator for a company based in Linwood, Renfrewshire.\n\nAfter McGill's conviction last month, the court heard he was also jailed for life in 1999 for a brutal assault with intent to ravish and released on licence in 2007.\n\nDet Supt Chow described McGill as \"a sexual predator and a real danger to the public\".\n\nDuring the investigation Police Scotland's homicide governance review team trawled through his life and tracked down his ex-wife, Suzanne Russell.\n\nShe recalled a conversation from 1988 in which he confessed to killing a woman he met in a pub after going back to her flat.\n\nBut Ms Russell later told the jury that McGill threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone.\n\nShe added: \"He said he strangled her and said he just wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.\n\n\"He said he used her tights and said he was shocked how long it took to actually murder her.\"\n\nWHO KILLED EMMA? Sam Poling investigates the brutal murder of Emma Caldwell\n\nTHE DOORSTEP MURDER: The murder of Alistair Wilson is one of Scotland’s most baffling unsolved cases\n\nAfter three days of evidence, the jury in McGill's trial took just over two hours to return a unanimous guilty verdict.\n\nOn Tuesday, the 59-year-old was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years in prison.\n\nLord Burns said McGill had murdered Mary after a \"chance encounter\", and that he had shown no remorse.\n\nThe judge added that Mary's family had been forced to wait more than 35 years to discover who was responsible for her death - knowing that whoever was responsible was probably still at large.\n\n\"They have never given up hope,\" he said.\n\nAfter the sentence, Mary's son Martin Cullen said: \"Hopefully he dies in jail.\"\n\nPolice believe the prosecution will now give hope to other families waiting for justice.\n\nDet Supt Chow said: \"These cases are not forgotten about. Just because they are not resolved at the time doesn't mean that we don't still think about these people who have been victims of crimes and that we don't think about their families.\"\n\nShe added that McGill's conviction also sends out a powerful message to other cold case killers.\n\n\"Your past doesn't go away. It will come back and haunt you one day.\"", "A new emergency alert text system will be trialled this summer before being rolled out across the UK.\n\nWarnings will be sent directly to people's phones in the event a risk to life, such as flooding or fire.\n\nSimilar systems exist in other countries, including New Zealand, \"where it has been widely credited with saving lives,\" the government said.\n\nThe first trial will be in East Suffolk on 25 May, when residents will receive a test alert.\n\nA second test will be held in Reading on 15 June. If it is successful, the system will be rolled out across the UK.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said the alerts would issue a warning, details of the affected area, advice on what to do, and a link to further information.\n\nThe system will be a \"vital tool in helping us to better respond to emergencies,\" said Penny Mordaunt, the Cabinet Office minister.\n\nIt will \"allow us to more quickly and effectively get life-saving messages to people,\" she added.\n\nAlerts could be sent for situations including public health emergencies, severe floods, fires, industrial incidents and terror attacks.\n\nDuring the pandemic, text alerts were sent to remind people to stay at home.\n\nThe new system would use cell broadcasting technology, which the government says will ensure alerts are \"secure, free to receive, and one-way\".\n\nThe system does not use people's phone numbers, instead sending alerts to anyone in a specific area.\n\nThe alerts \"do not reveal your location and do not collect any personal data. Alerts can also only be sent by authorised governmental and emergency services users,\" the government said.\n\nMs Mordaunt said the government was working with the devolved administrations to ensure all emergency services have access to the system, as well as consulting the charity sector to make sure \"the needs of the elderly, vulnerable, young people and those with disabilities are fully considered as the new service is delivered\".\n\nIt will be possible to opt-out of some alerts through the phone's settings. However, the most important alerts will always come through and the government recommends that people do not opt-out.", "Google has unveiled a tool that uses artificial intelligence to help spot skin, hair and nail conditions, based on images uploaded by patients.\n\nA trial of the \"dermatology assist tool\", unveiled at the tech giant's annual developer conference, Google IO, should launch later this year, it said.\n\nThe app has been awarded a CE mark for use as a medical tool in Europe.\n\nA cancer expert said AI advances could enable doctors to provide more tailored treatment to patients.\n\nThe AI can recognise 288 skin conditions but is not designed to be a substitute for medical diagnosis and treatment, the firm said.\n\nIt has taken three years to develop, and has been trained on a dataset of 65,000 images of diagnosed conditions, as well as millions of images showing marks people were concerned about, and thousands of pictures of healthy skin, in all shades and tones.\n\nAs well as using images, the app also requires patients to answer a series of questions online.\n\nIt is based on previous tools developed by Google for learning to spot the symptoms of certain cancers and tuberculosis.\n\nCurrently none of these tools is approved as an alternative to human diagnosis.\n\nGoogle says there are some 10 billion searches for skin, hair and nail issues on its search engine every year.\n\nDermatology Assist has not yet been given clearance by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the US, but a similar machine-learning model built by British firm Optellum was recently approved by the FDA for use as an assistant in the diagnosis of lung cancer.\n\nProfessor Tim Underwood, head of cancer sciences at the University of Southampton, said such tools had the potential to provide more tailored treatments to patients.\n\n\"The application of AI, both in cancer and in other areas of medicine, informs the conversation around what the diagnosis might be and what treatment to offer to an individual,\" he said.\n\nThis is not the first AI in healthcare, but it is significant for putting the tool in the hands of the public rather than doctors.\n\nGoogle views this AI as better than searching for the information yourself, rather than a substitute for medical advice.\n\nWhether people use it like that is another matter - we already know the internet is a source of both medical panic and false reassurance. How people might use the AI has fed into a design that aims to prioritise safety.\n\nMedical tools like this, yes even those with an AI at the helm, have to strike a balance. Do you focus on catching everyone who has a disease or on ruling out those who are healthy to avoid unnecessary worry or treatments?\n\nOne always comes at the cost of the other.\n\nThe doctors and developers involved told me the AI has been optimised to avoid missing \"alarming or scary\" conditions such as skin cancer. The flip side is some people will be advised to check out something that will turn out to be benign.", "The BBC OS radio show on the World Service has been speaking to people across Israel and Gaza to hear their stories and experiences. Today they spoke to a Jewish Israeli mother in the city of Lod, which has seen unrest and violence.\n\nKaty Berman, a mother of seven and teacher:\n\n\"I personally did not leave the house for 4 days, I was so scared, scared I would get a rock thrown through my car window, scared someone would ambush me...\n\n\"When I met my (Arab) neighbour we spoke about how we felt the night before when we were woke up umpteen times by the sirens. Because rockets are coming, and on top of the rioting we’re having rockets sent over by Hamas in Gaza. So we spoke as two mothers you know, ‘how did you sleep at night?’ and ‘how did your kids sleep at night', and how scary is it.\n\n\"My older kids are very worried about the situation, they’re worried in the way they wish they were here and could help and do something. With my younger kids, they don’t really know what’s going on….. I’m not sure what to tell them, I’m not sure what they’ll understand, how they’ll go in the street – I don’t want them to be scared.\"", "The disappearance of 15-year-old Mary Bastholm in Gloucester in 1968 has been linked to murderer Fred West\n\nPolice searching a cafe for a suspected victim of serial killer Fred West have found six voids in the building they want to excavate.\n\nMary Bastholm went missing in Gloucester in 1968 and officers have been searching the cellar of the premises where she used to work.\n\nSix parts of a toilet area are to be excavated, Gloucestershire Police said.\n\nThe force is in contact with West's son Stephen, who said his father admitted killing the 15-year-old.\n\nOfficers were contacted on 7 May by a TV production company who were filming at The Clean Plate cafe in the city.\n\nWest, who took his own life in 1995 before he could stand trial for the murders of 12 women and girls, was a regular at the cafeteria, then called the Pop-In Cafe.\n\nMary Bastholm went missing after going to catch a bus near the Pop-In Cafe where she worked\n\nOfficers were seen removing furniture from the cafe earlier\n\nInitial searches of the cellar had revealed what looked like blue material. Miss Bastholm was wearing a blue coat, blue and white dress and was carrying a blue bag on the day she went missing, the force said.\n\nDet Ch Insp John Turner said the excavations, due to begin on Wednesday, would reveal \"once and for all\" if the teenager's remains were buried there.\n\nThe deepest of the structural anomalies - thought to be voids or empty spaces in the building - is half a metre below the floor.\n\nEach will be dealt with \"carefully and painstakingly\" one at a time by archaeologists and anthropologists over the next two weeks, Det Ch Insp Turner said.\n\nHe said: \"My job as an investigator is to search for the truth and that's why we're here now, on behalf of Mary's family, to look in the basement and find out what is in there.\n\n\"I'm not saying that Mary is in there, what I am saying is, there was sufficient evidence from the production team to justify the search.\"\n\nAsbestos has been found in the cafe cellar where archaeological experts will be searching\n\nGloucestershire Police said excavation work will begin at the Clean Plate Cafe on Wednesday\n\nHe dismissed media reports circulating on Monday evening that bones had been found as untrue and \"unhelpful and hurtful to Mary's family\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Turner said since West and his wife Rose were arrested in 1994, there had \"always been a story\" in Gloucester about a link between Miss Bastholm's disappearance and the cafe basement.\n\n\"The trouble is we [the police] have to pick out fact from fiction,\" he said.\n\nThere are no immediate plans to interview Rose West, who was convicted of 10 murders in November 1995 and is serving life, but officers have spoken to Stephen recently, Det Ch Insp Turner, said.\n\nIt \"could be a line of inquiry\" if any significant finds are made.\n\n\"His father did say he killed Mary, just before his death,\" he said.\n\n\"However, Fred told a lot of lies to police during the investigation and this is the problem we have - picking out fact from folklore and conspiracy theories.\"\n\nThe search began after a film crew alerted police to evidence a body could be buried at the cafe\n\nDet Ch Insp Turner said he had had lengthy discussions with Miss Bastholm's family in the past 24 hours.\n\n\"I cannot promise them what I am or am not going to find, but I have assured them I will do everything I can so that when we leave that basement, we will know for sure if Mary is or isn't there,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDUP leader-designate Edwin Poots has defended the ousting of Arlene Foster as the \"rough and tumble\" of politics.\n\nIn an interview with BBC News NI, Mr Poots said sometimes \"people are on the wrong side of it\".\n\nMrs Foster announced her resignation as DUP leader and first minister last month after an internal party revolt.\n\n\"That is how politics is and we do not get involved in discussing internal affairs of the DUP in a public way,\" Mr Poots said.\n\nMr Poots said he \"would assume at some stage it may well happen to me\".\n\n\"Politics is a rough and tumble game and sometimes people are on the wrong side of it,\" Mr Poots said.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to Mrs Foster and would speak on a one-to-one basis \"in due course\".\n\nMrs Foster is due to step down as DUP leader on 28 May and as first minister at the end of June.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Life, Mr Poots indicated he will consult with the party about whether Arlene Foster should stand down as first minister earlier than her intended departure date.\n\nMr Poots is not due to take over as leader until Arlene Foster steps down on 28 May\n\nThe DUP leader-designate said he wanted to split the DUP leader and first minister roles because he believes there is a \"real piece of work\" to do in building the party and he wants to give his attention to that.\n\nBut he added: \"We will see in due course. But I move forward with the commitment that I wasn't going forward as first minister... if in the future members think it would work better with me as first minister, then we will have that discussion. But for this time, I don't have any interest or intent to do that.\"\n\nMr Poots also signalled he has no intention of collapsing Stormont over the Northern Ireland Protocol, which places a border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHe said Stormont is an asset in making the arguments against the protocol.\n\n\"It gives us authority to make arguments. It takes us right to the centre of government in the United Kingdom and I have made these arguments.\"\n\nHe said the arguments would be put forward forcibly and that legally, every course that can be taken to tackle the protocol will be taken.\n\n\"We will take every reasonable exercise that we can to ensure that we can inflict damage to the protocol,\" he said.\n\nMr Poots has said he is keen to ensure a smooth transition when Mrs Foster steps down.\n\nHe has been holding individual meetings with DUP assembly members, seeking their views before beginning any shake-up.\n\nHis plans are thought to include changing the ministerial team, as well as the DUP chairs and vice-chairs of Stormont's committees.\n\nHe also met Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis on Tuesday.", "A local councillor who oversaw the Grenfell Tower refurbishment has admitted questioning the colour of the cladding - but not whether it was safe.\n\nRock Feilding-Mellen told a public inquiry that he believed safety was being handled by experts.\n\nHe said he only \"skimmed\" an email giving him safety advice, but he did send emails saying he didn't like the proposed \"champagne\" cladding colour.\n\nThe deadly fire in June 2017 has been partly blamed on dangerous cladding.\n\nThe second phase of the inquiry is looking into the cause of the disaster, including how Grenfell Tower came to be in a condition which allowed the fire to spread.\n\nMr Feilding-Mellen, a former Conservative councillor and deputy leader of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, oversaw housing policy and regeneration and became closely involved in design decisions during the refurbishment of the west London tower in 2014.\n\nHe told the Grenfell Tower public inquiry that he was attempting to resolve a hold-up in the refurbishment project, following concerns raised by planners about the colour of the cladding.\n\nA string of emails shown to the inquiry set out discussions between Mr Feilding-Mellen and the management organisation running the refurbishment project.\n\nIn one, he wrote: \"I am less convinced by the champagne colour. It's hard to tell in a drawing... but none of us chose that option as best when onsite.\"\n\n\"The lime green should be less neon and a bit more pastel shade of green/turquoise or a deeper/darker racing green... And I'd personally prefer the battleship grey.\"\n\nThe same day he stressed that \"the most important thing is to get cracking\".\n\nHowever, he admitted failing to follow the advice of the London Fire Brigade by asking detailed questions about fire safety when visiting Grenfell Tower.\n\nHe said he had \"only skimmed\" information from the fire service containing a \"councillor guide on fire safety for use during estate visits\".\n\nThis advice suggested councillors should ask about fire escape routes and the effect of modernisation work on safety.\n\n\"I failed to do that,\" Mr Feilding-Mellen told the inquiry.\n\n\"And based on what has happened I regret having failed to do that. I, at the time, was conscious there were many layers of people with what I thought was the relevant expertise and indeed the role to check that health and safety generally and the fire safety of a refurbishment project like this.\"\n\nRichard Millett QC, the inquiry's chief lawyer, said the former councillor had made an assumption the fire brigade documents specifically warned councillors not to make.\n\n\"That appears to be the case,\" Mr Feilding-Mellen said.\n\nMr Millett asked him whether he became too closely involved with subjective opinions about the colour.\n\n\"I've said in my statement that I got involved and expressed my personal subjective view about the colours,\" Mr Feilding-Mellen responded.\n\n\"I've also tried to make clear that the reason that I was having this conversation was to try to help resolve the blockage in the planning system.\"\n\nCorrection 20th May 2021: This article originally reported that Rock Feilding-Mellen told the inquiry that he hadn't opened an e-mail giving safety advice and this has been amended to make clear that he said he had skimmed it.", "Presenter Zoe Ball has announced she is leaving Strictly Come Dancing's spin-off programme It Takes Two.\n\nShe has presented the show, which is broadcast every weekday evening during Strictly's run, since 2011.\n\n\"Dance lovers, after 10 joyous years I am waltzing away from It Takes Two,\" Ball wrote on Instagram.\n\nShe said it was \"time for some new cha cha challenges\" and thanked \"the whole Strictly clan... I will miss you all immensely.\"\n\nBall continued to co-present the programme even after she began hosting the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show in 2019.\n\nHowever, she reduced the number of It Takes Two episodes she presented every week, with Rylan Clark-Neal fronting the programme on certain days in her place.\n\nBall also announced that professional dancer Ian Waite, who regularly appears on the show to critique the contestants, would also be leaving the programme after 10 years.\n\nIn her statement, Ball thanked Waite as well as other regular show contributors Gethin Jones and costume designer Vicky Gill.\n\n\"As a massive @BBCStrictly fan I have loved spending my Autumn teatimes with the celebrity dancers, the gorgeous & awesome pro dancers, the judges, my girl Vicky Gill, Rylan, Gethin & of course my main man Ian Waite,\" Ball said.\n\n\"Time now for some new cha cha challenges. I will continue to support the Strictly family on the Breakfast Show & can't wait to watch the Class Of 2021 from my sofa. Huge love & grateful thanks to Tess [Daly] & Claudia [Winkleman] & the whole Strictly clan, the It Takes Two fans, my Glam Squad, Eve Winstanley, Alex McLeod, the BBC2 gang, & of course the best telly crew ever. I will miss you all immensely.\"\n\nStrictly presenter Tess Daly was among those praising Ball for her presentation of It Takes Two\n\nThe BBC has not yet confirmed if Rylan will take over presenting the show full time, or if a new co-presenter will be brought in.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"We'd like to thank Zoe for an amazing decade on It Takes Two, and she'll always be part of the Strictly family. We will miss her sense of fun, passion for all things dance, and those amazing sequinned jumpers. We'll announce plans for the show in due course.\"\n\nTess Daly, who presents the main Strictly series on BBC One, was one of several high-profile figures who paid tribute to Ball.\n\n\"Oh nooo... We will miss you SO so much!\" Daly wrote in the Instagram comments. \"Loved every minute watching you on the show; laughing along with you and watching you get teary-eyed every now and then because your gorgeous big heart was bursting for them. You are just BRILLIANT XXXX.\"\n\nClara Amfo, who competed on the show last year, added: \"You do this job with such genuine joy and ease! Thank You for always making It Takes Two the sweetest addition to the experience!\"\n\nProfessional dancer and current Strictly champion Oti Mabuse said: \"We are going to miss you so much! You've always been a deep part of the family ❤️ looking forward to hearing you on the radio.\"\n\nBefore Ball took over presenting duties, It Takes Two was hosted by Claudia Winkleman, who later moved to Strictly Come Dancing after the departure of Bruce Forsyth.\n\nBall herself competed in the third series of Strictly. She made it to the final but cricketer Darren Gough eventually won the glitterball trophy.\n\nBall is the highest paid female star at the BBC, and earns more than £1m for presenting the Radio 2 breakfast show.\n\nHer salary for It Takes Two is not included in the corporation's annual report as it is produced by the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Studios.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jenny McGee with the prime minster at a Downing Street garden party last summer\n\nA nurse who cared for Boris Johnson when he was in intensive care with Covid has quit the NHS and criticised the government's handling of the pandemic and nurses' pay.\n\nJenny McGee said she was \"taking a step back\" from the NHS after her \"toughest year\" in the job, but hoped to return.\n\nShe told a Channel 4 documentary that nurses were not getting \"the respect and now pay\" they deserve.\n\nThe government has recommended a 1% pay rise for NHS staff this year.\n\nMs McGee also told the programme, The Year Britain Stopped, that \"a lot of nurses\" felt the government \"hadn't led very effectively\" and that there had been \"indecisiveness\" and \"so many mixed messages\".\n\nShe said it had been \"very upsetting\".\n\nMs McGee, originally from New Zealand, now plans to work abroad and spend time in her home country.\n\nShe told the documentary: \"Yes, we have put ourselves on the line and we have worked so incredibly hard, and there's a lot of talk about how we're all heroes and all that sort of stuff.\n\n\"But at the same time, I'm just not sure if I can do it. I don't know how much more I've got to give to the NHS.\n\n\"We're not getting the respect and now pay that we deserve. I'm just sick of it. So I've handed in my resignation.\"\n\nShe gave the comments to the programme recently and a spokeswoman for the hospital confirmed she has now left.\n\nIn a statement released through Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Ms McGee said: \"After the toughest year of my nursing career, I'm taking a step back from the NHS but hope to return in the future.\n\n\"I'm excited to start a nursing contract in the Caribbean, before a holiday back home in New Zealand later in the year.\n\n\"I'm so proud to have worked at St Thomas' Hospital and to have been part of such a fantastic team.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nurse Jenny McGee speaking last year about treating the PM\n\nMs McGee also told the documentary, being broadcast on 24 May, that Mr Johnson was surrounded by sick patients, \"some of whom were dying\", when he was admitted to hospital in April last year.\n\n\"I remember seeing him and thinking he looked very, very unwell,\" she said. \"He was a different colour really.\"\n\nShe described it as a \"surreal\" time, and added that as Covid patients are complicated to look after, \"we just didn't know what was going to happen\".\n\nAfter his release from hospital, Mr Johnson gave a statement in which he praised Ms McGee and fellow nurse Luis Pitarma for staying by his bedside all night.\n\nShe was invited to Downing Street in July for a garden party to celebrate 72 years of the NHS. In the documentary, the nurse said she was asked to take part in the clap for carers alongside the prime minister.\n\nIt would have been a \"good photo opportunity\" but she said she wanted to \"stay out of it\", adding: \"Lots of nurses felt that the government hadn't led very effectively - the indecisiveness, so many mixed messages.\"\n\nMs McGee has been speaking about her experience of the NHS during Covid in a Channel 4 documentary\n\nDowning Street said in a statement: \"Our NHS staff have gone above and beyond over the past year and this government will do everything in our power to support them.\n\n\"We are extremely grateful for the care NHS staff have provided throughout the pandemic in particular.\"\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the nurse's decision to leave the NHS was a \"devastating indictment of Boris Johnson's approach to the people who put their lives on the line for him and our whole country\".\n\nPat Cullen, acting general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said it was warning of \"an exodus\" from the profession. She said the government should \"demonstrate its respect by giving nurses a fair pay rise for the skilled work they do\".\n\nSara Gorton, head of health at the Unison union, said many more staff could quit \"unless the prime minister sees sense over pay\".", "Some of the world's biggest firms have signed up to a campaign which aims to tackle prejudice towards disabled people in the business world.\n\nCompanies with combined sales of more than $8 trillion and 20 million staff, including Apple, BP and Coca-Cola have joined the Valuable 500 initiative.\n\nBut founder Caroline Casey said the campaign was not just about employing more people with disabilities.\n\nFirms are losing $13tn in sales by ignoring disabled consumers, she said.\n\nMs Casey told the BBC: \"As we move out of this pandemic and we need to recover, why would any business look at leaving $13trn on the table?\"\n\nShe told the BBC that in the UK one third of FTSE companies did not have a website that was \"acceptable to people with disabilities and their families. Why would you do that?\"\n\nValuable 500 was launched at the 2019 World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos, with a goal of getting 500 international companies to commit to putting disability inclusion on their board agenda.\n\nAt the time, it published research which said 56% of global company boards had never had a conversation about disability and this was \"leading to leaving disabilities on the sidelines of business\".\n\nAccording to figures released on Tuesday, there are no executives or senior managers at FTSE 100 companies who have disclosed a disability, and only 12% of firms report the number of their employees who are disclosed as disabled.\n\nThe figures also show the average representation of people with disabilities among staff reported by FTSE 100 firms is just 3.2%.\n\nOther companies which have joined the Valuable 500 initiative include Google, Deloitte, Nestle, Microsoft and Unilever.\n\nAll of them have have made a public commitment to advancing disability inclusion within their organisations, either among staff, customers or their supply chains.\n\n\"We have an inequality crisis facing the disability community which is just huge and it can't be resolved without business meeting meaningfully at the table,\" said Ms Casey.\n\nHowever, she stressed Valuable 500 was not just about recruiting. \"We're looking at driving systematic change in the business system [in terms of] customers and suppliers and talent.\"\n\n\"If you want to be able to have access to that market you need to have that talent in your business and I think when we speak about disability business inclusions we always speak about employment and we forget the huge, huge value of this market globally.\"\n\nOver the last year or so, Ms Casey said lockdown had helped show that the group's objectives were achievable.\n\n\"It's proved the business system can change, hasn't it? Look how quickly our systems had to change because they wanted to and we can't unknow what we now know.\n\n\"Our systems can flex and they can change and as we move out into recovery why would any business, an intelligent business leader, leave behind 15-20% of the global population. It would be madness absolute madness.\"", "Even when students are back on campus, their lectures might still be online\n\nA number of UK universities are preparing to keep lectures online into the autumn term.\n\nIt raises the prospect of Covid disrupting another academic year - and will prompt more questions about fee refunds.\n\nStudents have called plans for another term of online lectures \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"Online teaching is in no way a substitute for in-person learning,\" says a petition launched by University of Leeds students.\n\nAbout half of students in England have only been able to return to face-to-face teaching this week, not long before the term ends - having been taught online since Christmas.\n\nBut a growing number of universities seem to be anticipating carrying on with a mix of online and in-person teaching into the autumn term.\n\nThe University of Liverpool says it wants as \"much face-to-face teaching as possible\", but is expecting a blend of online and in-person.\n\n\"In practice this may mean instead of coming on to campus for lectures you may be asked to watch some short pre-recorded videos created by your tutor which cover the same themes and topics as the original lecture,\" says Liverpool's plan for teaching next year.\n\nMany students have returned this week having been studying online since Christmas\n\nA University of Leeds spokesman said: \"We intend to give every student a substantial on-campus experience throughout next semester, including multiple face-to-face sessions each week.\"\n\nBut many lectures \"will be delivered online as part of an overall hybrid approach\".\n\nKeeping lectures online prompted an angry response from some students, who started a petition saying that it was \"ridiculous\" and a \"disgrace\" - and calling for a \"complete return to in-person teaching\".\n\nSupporters of the petition complained about the £9,250 tuition fees being charged and that many students have had very few hours of in-person teaching this year.\n\n\"Now children are in school full time, people are back in the workplace and the general public can visit pubs, theatres and cinemas... there is absolutely no need for any lectures to remain online,\" wrote a petitioner.\n\n\"My daughter has had an awful year stuck in her room… Get a grip please,\" wrote a parent backing the petition.\n\nThe students' union at Leeds says it is planning a survey of students' experience of online learning this year and what they want for next year.\n\nThe previous two academic years have been disrupted - with many students having to spend months off campus - but it seems as though the pandemic could mean a third year of changes.\n\nEven if students are back on campus they could still be watching lectures online.\n\nThe London School of Economics expects the \"vast majority\" of seminars and classes to be taught in-person, but lectures will be \"largely delivered online\".\n\nSt Andrews and the University of Edinburgh expect large lectures to be online - and the University of Manchester is planning a \"blended approach, with a mix of both on-campus and online elements\".\n\nSt Andrews says this \"interim\" guidance reflects the \"significant uncertainty\" about physical distancing requirements in the autumn.\n\nUniversity College London says courses on campus would \"prioritise interactive face-to-face teaching, such as seminars and workshops\".\n\nBut some modules \"will be mostly online and others completely online if all learning outcomes can be met this way\", says the information for next year's students.\n\nAn academic at a London university, speaking anonymously, contacted the BBC to suggest there would be financial savings for universities from reducing staffing levels and making a longer-term shift to keeping lectures online.\n\nBut the National Union of Students also said there could be some positive advantages in teaching online.\n\n\"Online lectures, remote access to resources and other digital provision has significantly improved access to education and, offered alongside in-person teaching, gives students greater choice over how they learn,\" said union vice president, Hillary Gyebi-Ababio.\n\n\"No matter what teaching methods universities and colleges use, they must provide consistently good courses for all students,\" said Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of the Office for Students.\n\nUniversities had to provide \"timely and clear information for students on how their courses will be taught next year\", she said.\n\nA spokeswoman for Universities UK said universities were trying to plan without knowing what restrictions will be in place in the autumn - and that even if lectures were online, students would still have access to facilities such as libraries and laboratories.\n\n\"Universities have a strong track record in delivering excellent blended tuition, and we have been clear that quality and quantity should not drop,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.", "Ministers will step up calls for people to book a Covid vaccination as soon as they are offered one, amid increasing concern about the Indian variant.\n\nThe health secretary said anyone who was unsure should look at Bolton, where most people in hospital with Covid were eligible for a jab but had not had one.\n\nMatt Hancock said 86 local councils had five or more cases of the variant that is thought to be more transmissible.\n\nIt comes as lockdowns eased in England, Wales and most of Scotland on Monday.\n\nYasmin Qureshi, the Labour MP for Bolton South East, challenged the suggestion that her constituents had refused the vaccine, blaming poor organisation instead.\n\nMore than 36.7m people have had their first vaccine dose in the UK and more than 20.2m have had their second.\n\nThe NHS website for booking a vaccination is now open to those aged 36 and over.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that surge testing was taking place in Bolton, while the government was \"keeping a very close eye\" on the football match at Old Trafford in Manchester later - where 10,000 fans are expected to gather.\n\nHe said the more people who are vaccinated, \"the greater the collective immunity that we have as a population\".\n\nMr Hancock told the House of Commons on Monday that there had been 2,323 confirmed cases of the Indian variant across the UK, saying it was now the dominant strain in Bolton and neighbouring Blackburn and Darwen, in Lancashire, and was rising in all age groups.\n\nHe said most people in hospital in those areas had been eligible for a vaccine but had chosen not to have it - and urged anyone not sure whether to get jabbed to \"look at what's happening in Bolton\".\n\nBut Ms Qureshi argued that the area was initially slow to get the right vaccine rollout infrastructure, telling BBC Newsnight on Monday that the rollout \"was done in one place in the town centre with only about six vaccinators to cover a huge area and a huge population\".\n\n\"Some people had to use two or three buses to get into the town centre,\" she said. \"A lot of these people were on zero-hours contracts or living in multi-generational homes and they weren't able to be contacted.\"\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\nMr Hancock also identified Bedford as another hotspot for the variant.\n\nVicky Head, Bedford's director of public health, told BBC Breakfast the town was experiencing a \"massive rise\" in cases of the Indian variant in what was a \"worrying time\".\n\n\"It's really important that people understand just how quickly the situation can change,\" she said.\n\nShe said they had been doing targeted testing in schools, setting up walk-in clinics for those eligible to get the jab, and making sure the right information was available.\n\nThe wait for more data begins.\n\nData on the variant from India: how quickly it spreads, how many fall seriously ill, how effective vaccines are against it.\n\nAnd data on the impact of the latest easing of restrictions in much of Britain.\n\nIt's likely to be a few weeks before an assessment can be made about what is done next.\n\nThe removal of all remaining restrictions in England is meant to be a little over a month away, but there's a consistent caution from ministers.\n\nThe government is desperate not to overpromise and disappoint; many businesses and some Conservative MPs are desperate the final shackles on our liberties are thrown off, on time.\n\nOne former minister, Conor Burns, said the country had tolerated \"the most profound curtailment of our freedoms in peacetime\" and \"it wouldn't be right to do so again\" because some people had refused the offer of a vaccine.\n\nProf Steven Riley, professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial College London, told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme that, so far, the evidence was that the vaccine was still effective against the Covid variant first found in India.\n\nHe said \"the messaging we're hearing\" is about getting people vaccinated, including those at-risk \"who for whatever reason they may have decided not to, it may have been very difficult for them for logistical reasons\".\n\n\"Now really is the time to reach as many of those people as we can in case we do have a little bit of a wave of infection now, and that will give them the best chance of getting protection,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday millions of people were able to enjoy new freedoms - such as indoor pints, hugs with loved ones and foreign holidays - for the first time in months, under the latest relaxation of rules across England, Wales and most of Scotland.\n\nBut amid concern over the variant first found in India the government has warned its next review of social distancing rules - set to take place by the end of May - may be delayed.\n\nAs part of its road map out of lockdown, the government's plan was to end all remaining restrictions on social contact by 21 June - which would mean unlimited numbers of guests at weddings, and venues such as nightclubs being allowed to reopen.\n\nMinisters are said to be considering contingency plans for local lockdowns if the variant cannot be brought under control, according to the Times newspaper.\n\nNHS England national medical director Stephen Powis said yesterday that there had been 930,000 appointments made since the vaccination programme was opened up to 38 and 39-year-olds, and he encouraged people to accept a jab when they are offered one.\n\n\"Getting vaccinated is the most important step we can take to protect ourselves, our families and our communities against Covid-19, so when it is your turn to get your first or second dose please do so,\" he said.\n\nA further 1,976 new infections were reported in the UK on Monday, and another five deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.", "UK farmers have sounded the alarm over reports the government plans a trade deal with Australia that would make its food and farming imports cheaper.\n\nThe move is being considered as part of a free trade pact with Australia the UK government hopes will be a springboard for similar pacts with other countries.\n\nBut UK farming unions have warned of \"irreversible damage\" from a bad deal.\n\nThere is speculation the Cabinet is split over the move, and Labour has accused the government of a \"sell-out\".\n\nAs with many countries, farming imports from Australia face tariffs - or taxes - making lamb and beef, for example, more expensive.\n\nBut in a post-Brexit world, the UK government is keen to strike free trade deals and has now indicated that farmers may have to prepare for the lowering of tariffs on agricultural imports.\n\nThe Department for International Trade (DIT) would not be drawn directly on reports it is willing to concede to zero tariffs in return for an Australia deal.\n\nHowever, it said a deal would be \"an important stepping stone\" to joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sprawling trade group that includes New Zealand, Chile, Japan, Vietnam, as well as Australia.\n\nA deal would \"allow UK farmers even greater access to growing consumer markets in Asia\", the DIT said, adding that it would not allow importers to undercut the farming industry or food standards.\n\nHowever, the National Farmers' Union warned that its members will struggle to compete if zero-tariff trade on lamb and beef goes ahead.\n\nNFU head Minette Batters said access to the UK market should not be given away lightly\n\nNFU president Minette Batters said: \"We know that if we're to open up the opportunities of new markets overseas for UK farmers, we will have to offer greater access to our own markets in return.\n\n\"However, this trade-off needs to be balanced, and we need to make sure concessions to our hugely valuable home market are not given away lightly.\n\n\"There is a very real risk that, if we get it wrong, UK farming will suffer irreversible damage rather than flourish in the way we all desire, to the detriment of our environment, our food security and our rural communities.\"\n\nFarmers' concerns are reportedly shared by some members of the Cabinet.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that Environment Secretary George Eustice and Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove are at loggerheads with International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Brexit minister Lord Frost over granting tariff-free access to Australian, and possibly New Zealand, farmers.\n\nAsked about the rift by the Press Association, Mr Eustice said: \"I'm not going to get into discussions that are going on in government about individual trade agreements.\n\n\"In any discussion on any part of government policy, and trade agreements are no exception, there's a discussion and there's a consensus.\n\n\"At the moment there's a very clear consensus in government that we want to do a trade agreement with countries like Australia, but obviously on the right terms.\"\n\nHowever, sources did not deny to the BBC that there were Cabinet divisions over the issue.\n\n\"It's perfectly normal that the Australian government should try to get the best possible deal for its agricultural mega-corporations,\" she said.\n\n\"But British family farmers have a right to expect that Liz Truss will do the same for them, not sell out their livelihoods for the price of a quick trade deal, and a cheap headline at the G7 summit.\"\n\nMs Truss was hoping to secure an Australia deal ahead of the G7 summit in June. She is about to start official trade talks with Canada and Mexico, adding to those under way with India and New Zealand.\n\nTrade deals are about countries trying to secure the best for their businesses and people. When working down the menu of issues, the hardest to digest - typically, agriculture - is normally left to the last.\n\nAustralia aims to get tariffs and quotas dropped for all goods, which on the UK government's own estimates could boost imports from that country by 83% - mainly due to beef and lamb.\n\nThat's worrying for some farmers - but the government says any liberalisation would take years, and Australia isn't taking full advantage of the tariff free quotas it's got now.\n\nBut the key is what it signals for other trade deals and policy. An agreement with Australia will likely be the first one struck by the UK with a nation with which it didn't have an agreement while part of the EU. And Trade Secretary Liz Truss is keen to strike it fast, as a springboard for membership of a wider trans-pacific trading bloc.", "After months of good news, including falling Covid cases and a hugely successful vaccination campaign, the tone has shifted.\n\nEngland's full relaxation of rules in June is in jeopardy and there is the looming spectre of greater pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe thorn in the plans is the variant of coronavirus that emerged in India - B.1.617.2 - and has started spreading around the world.\n\nConcerns have been mounting over the past week and, for the first time, the scientists advising the UK government are now confident it does spread more easily.\n\nThe expectation is the variant will edge out the one that emerged in Kent and eventually \"dominate\" cases in the UK.\n\nWe are in a race between the virus and the vaccine. Easing restrictions on Monday and a more transmissible variant means the virus will move even faster.\n\nBut there is still huge uncertainty about exactly how much better the B.1.617.2 variant is at spreading.\n\n\"That's a really critical question to which we do not yet have the answer,\" said Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nIf it is just a smidge faster than the Kent variant, which still makes up the overwhelming majority of cases in the UK, then there's not much to worry about.\n\nHowever, the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) says there is a \"realistic possibility\" it could spread 50% faster, which is a lot.\n\nThere are some higher estimates of 60% coming out of India, but these are based on published genetic sequences from viral samples and its not clear how representative of the overall picture they are.\n\nSage estimates the problems would really start with a variant that was 40% more transmissible as it \"would lead to a substantial resurgence of hospitalisations\" and put pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe uncertainty is reminiscent of last year when the new variant in Kent was first detected and raised questions about the approach to controlling the virus.\n\nBut it is important to remember we are not in the same situation as last year.\n\nMore than 19 million people - a third of the adult population - have had both jabs of their vaccine. Another 17 million have had one. Vaccines are weakening, if not eliminating, the link between infection and severe disease.\n\nAnd overall cases are also far lower. The Office for National Statistics estimates fewer than 50,000 people currently have the virus. The figure was 1.25 million at the start of the year. Currently there are only around 1,000 people in hospital with Covid.\n\nThe concern is that while vaccines are great they are not perfect and not everyone who is vulnerable has had one. So if there was another wave of cases from the combination of relaxing and a new variant then a worrying number of people could still end up in hospital.\n\nNote these predictions are not crystal balls. Earlier mathematical models had predicted a summer wave, but suddenly became far more optimistic once it became clear vaccinated people were less likely to spread the virus.\n\nPlans to reopen are going ahead, but the vaccination campaign is being tweaked to give more vulnerable people more immunity more quickly.\n\nThe hope is if the variant is going to pose a problem then there will be time to spot any further warning signs - such as a rise in hospital admissions - and then act.\n\nThe prime minister, Boris Johnson, said that if the Indian variant proves to be \"significantly more transmissible\" than other strains then \"we're likely to face some hard choices\" in the UK.\n\nBut the problem posed by more transmissible variants is far greater in countries that haven't got successful vaccination programmes, where they could be hugely damaging.", "Mary Bastholm used to work at the cafe in Southgate Street where Fred West was a regular customer\n\nExcavation work is to begin at a cafe where police have been searching for a teenager whose disappearance was linked to serial killer Fred West.\n\nMary Bastholm went missing in Gloucester in 1968 and police have been searching the cellar of the premises where she used to work.\n\nOfficers were called to The Clean Plate cafe on 7 May following suggestions a body may have been buried there.\n\nThere is enough evidence for excavation work to take place, police said.\n\nMiss Bastholm, 15, was wearing a blue coat when she disappeared - and police have now revealed a production company filming a documentary at the cafe tipped them off after finding an image of blue material in one area of the cellar.\n\nWest was a regular at the cafeteria, then called the Pop-In Cafe, and was previously suspected over her disappearance.\n\nDet Ch Insp John Turner, of Gloucestershire Police, said: \"The analysis from our experts and the material provided by the production company means there is enough evidence to justify excavation work beginning.\n\n\"I've spoken to the family and was so impressed by their quiet dignity and gratitude for all the work we've done and will be doing.\"\n\nFred West took his own life while awaiting trial for the murders of 12 people\n\nForensic archaeologists confirmed on Monday that there were a number of structural anomalies within the cellar that would be investigated, with work set to begin on Wednesday and last for several weeks.\n\nMs Bastholm's family said they were \"extremely happy\" that police were continuing the search.\n\n\"This gives us a chance to potentially put her at rest after all these years. We hope this is a chance to finally get closure for Mary,\" they said in a statement.\n\nGloucestershire Police have said officers could be at the site \"for a number of weeks\" and excavation work will begin\n\nSerial killer West, aged 53, tortured, raped and murdered an unknown number of women over a 20-year period, along with his wife Rose.\n\nIn 1994, West admitted murdering his daughter Heather. The confession came as police began to search 25 Cromwell Street, where they found the bodies of nine girls and young women.\n\nWest was charged with 12 murders, but took his own life in a Birmingham prison before his trial.\n\nRose West was convicted of 10 murders in November 1995 and is serving life.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bus was travelling from Tenby to Crymych in Pembrokeshire when the crash happened\n\nA car driver has been killed and 17 pupils hurt after a crash between a school bus and a car in west Wales.\n\nTwo of the children were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the two-vehicle collision, which happened at about 08:30 BST on Monday.\n\nThe bus was travelling on the A478 near Llandissilio in Pembrokeshire while taking children to school in Crymych.\n\nThe road between Llandissilio and Llanglydwen was shut for almost 12 hours as police investigated the crash.\n\nPupils were travelling to Ysgol y Preseli when the crash happened and the school said 17 had been hurt in the incident.\n\nEmergency services were called just after 08:30 BST on Monday\n\nPembrokeshire council said the children travelling on the number 636 bus from Tenby to Crymych had been injured but not seriously - and parents had been contacted.\n\nDyfed Powys Police said: \"Sadly the driver of the motorcar died at the scene.\n\n\"Next of kin have been advised and are being supported by specialist officers.\"\n\nThe police had earlier confirmed \"a number of children received minor injuries\" with two taken to hospital by ambulance with what are described as minor injuries.\n\nThe road between Narberth and Cardigan was closed between 08:30 BST and 20:30 on Monday\n\n\"It's a very sad day and there's a cloud over our community,\" said local Pembrokeshire councillor Huw George.\n\n\"It was obvious fairly early on this was an horrific accident because of the the number of emergency vehicles attending here this morning.\"\n\nCllr Huw George said there was a \"cloud over our community\"\n\nHe said the school had \"worked quickly\" and counsellors would be going to the school to help the children - and a classroom set aside for them.\n\nA helpline set up by the council is available to parents or guardians only of children travelling on the bus on 01437 775400.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bolton's vaccine hubs saw long queues across the weekend\n\nMore than 6,200 people were vaccinated in Bolton at the weekend amid concerns over the Indian Covid-19 variant.\n\nThe town has seen a sharp spike in infections since mid-April and the B.1.617.2 variant now makes up the majority of new cases.\n\nPrior to the push, about 10,000 people in the highest priority groups were yet to be vaccinated.\n\nDr Helen Wall, who is leading the town's vaccine rollout, said it had been \"emotional\" to see.\n\nShe said many who had been eligible for some time came for a jab over the last two days and she now hoped the programme had \"made a big dent\" in the list of outstanding eligible residents.\n\nBolton recorded 733 new cases of Covid-19 in the seven days to 11 May - the highest anywhere in the UK, the latest data shows.\n\nHowever, the rate of new cases among people in the town aged 60 and over is just 59.9, up from 35.3 a week earlier.\n\nBy contrast, the rate for those aged 10-19 in Bolton currently stands at 486.2 per 100,000, up sharply from 200.7 one week earlier, while for those aged 20-29 the rate has jumped from 147.9 to 310.\n\nThe efforts to get everyone eligible vaccinated saw long queues form at vaccination hubs.\n\nBBC presenter and comedian Paddy McGuinness shared a video of the queues in his \"strong\" hometown on social media.\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\nDespite the concerns over the Indian variant, the easing of lockdown rules has gone ahead as planned in England.\n\nThe easing allows people to socialise indoors in limited numbers, hug loved ones and visit pubs and restaurants inside.\n\nAlex McVey, who runs Odessa cafe in Bolton, said trade had been OK since reopening at 7:00 BST but, due to Covid measures, he had reduced the number of seats from 72 to 22.\n\n\"It has been a lot different this morning. It has taken ages and ages to get set up and everything in place,\" he said.\n\nMr McVey, who has been forced to make four members of staff redundant during the pandemic, said he was \"a little bit nervous\" about the reopening but remained hopeful.\n\nIn Bolton, a big push to get more people vaccinated is bearing fruit.\n\nHealth officials are targeting about 10,000 people who are eligible but have yet to come forward, but know that take-up of the vaccine in some parts of the town is lower than the national average.\n\nAnd they reject the charge that they are flouting the national rules on who can get a jab.\n\nIn February, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation - which sets the guidelines for the UK's vaccination roll-out - announced factors other than just health and age could be taken into account.\n\nSo deprivation, ethnicity and living in a multi-generational household with older, vulnerable relatives could mean that younger people are eligible.\n\nThis is not bending the rules, local leaders say. Rather, it is exactly what the rules are for.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday that a local lockdown in Bolton had not been ruled out due to a rise in cases.\n\nHe added that the \"vast majority\" of locals who had been hospitalised in recent days had not taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Dr Wall said the vaccination hubs were \"seeing people coming forward that clearly had the option to have the jab for some time - older people, disabled people - and they've chosen to come forward now\".\n\n\"I think in part that's because we brought this into the community as a trusted place, but also the things that are going on in Bolton are quite worrying for people,\" she said.\n\n\"I think that's given some push to people coming forward now for the vaccine.\"\n\nResidents in Bolton lined up outside the mobile vaccination centre\n\nSurge testing has already begun in other areas of north-west England where cases involving the Indian variant are on the rise.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" has also been detected in Blackburn, Lancashire, which neighbours Bolton, and in Sefton on Merseyside.\n\nBlackburn with Darwen's public health director said everyone over-18 should book a Covid vaccination in the area.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman said local areas should not vaccinate young people earlier than planned to stem the spread of the Indian variant of coronavirus.\n\nHe told a Westminster briefing the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation had said the best way to protect against the new variant was to ensure vulnerable groups got their second dose of the vaccine.\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\nDo you live in Bolton? What are your concerns about the Indian Covid-19 variant? 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.", "President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden's income fell last year compared with 2019\n\nJoe Biden has brought back a US presidential tradition by releasing his tax return, the White House said.\n\nThe filing shows he and his wife earned $607,336 (£430,000) last year and paid $157,414 in federal income tax.\n\nTheir income fell from 2019 when they earned $985,223 mostly from speeches, book sales and positions at higher education institutions.\n\nDonald Trump refused to release his tax returns, the first president not to do so since the Watergate era.\n\nMr Trump claimed he was not able to do so as he was being audited by the Internal Revenue Service, the US government's tax-collection agency.\n\nAhead of the tax filing's release on Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said: \"I would expect that we will continue to release the president's tax returns, as should be expected by every president of the United States.\"\n\nThrowing down the gauntlet to Mr Trump ahead of the 2020 election, Mr Biden released 22 years of tax filings.\n\nThe document, released on Monday, shows that during the busy election campaign year the Bidens paid a federal income tax rate of 25.9%, the White House said.\n\nThey also donated $30,704 to 10 charities in 2020. The biggest sum of $10,000 went to the Beau Biden Foundation, which campaigns against child abuse and is named after the president's son, who died aged 46 in 2015 of brain cancer.\n\nJoe and Jill Biden's previous tax returns have shown they donated $70,000 to charity in total over the two decades leading up to 2017.\n\nThe Bidens also have assets of between $1.2m and $2.88m, according to their financial disclosure form released on Monday.\n\nDuring last year's presidential race, Mr Biden's campaign said he and his wife made $11m in 2017 and $4.6m the year after.\n\nThe couple's previous tax filings have shown how they were able to lower their tax bill by funnelling book and speech income through so-called S Corporations, thereby benefiting from a tax loophole that the Obama administration - in which Mr Biden served as vice-president - tried and failed to close.\n\nThe Democratic president is proposing tax rises on Americans who earn more than $400,000 in order to help fund one of the biggest expansions of the welfare state in decades and a wide-ranging jobs plan.\n\nUS Vice-President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff also released their joint tax return for 2020.\n\nIt showed they had reported a federal adjusted gross income of $1,695,225, said the White House.\n\nThe couple paid $621,893 in federal income tax, amounting to a 2020 effective federal income tax rate of 36.7%. They gave $27,006 to charity.\n\nMs Harris received an advance of $359,000 for her book, The Truths We Hold.\n\nBefore the election, Mr Emhoff was a partner in entertainment and intellectual property at multinational law firm DLA Piper.", "Microsoft was investigating its co-founder Bill Gates over a 20-year-old affair shortly before he stepped down from the company's board last year.\n\nThe tech giant confirmed that it had launched a probe after concerns were reported about his behaviour.\n\nThe firm said it held an investigation with a law firm and provided support to the employee who made the complaint.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Gates denied that his decision to step back had anything to do with the investigation.\n\nNews of the investigation emerged after Bill and Melinda Gates announced their decision to divorce after 27 years of marriage.\n\nOn Monday, a spokesman for Microsoft said the software company had received a complaint in late 2019 that Mr Gates had \"sought to initiate an intimate relationship\" with a female employee in 2000.\n\n\"A committee of the board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm, to conduct a thorough investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern,\" he said.\n\nThe investigation did not reach a conclusion, as Mr Gates stepped down from the board before it was completed.\n\nIn a LinkedIn post in March of last year, Mr Gates said that he took the decision so he could spend more time on his charity work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It came three months after he was re-elected.\n\nAt the time, he wrote: \"With respect to Microsoft, stepping down from the board in no way means stepping away from the company. Microsoft will always be an important part of my life's work... I feel more optimistic than ever about the progress the company is making and how it can continue to benefit the world.\"\n\nHowever, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Microsoft's board had decided that Mr Gates's involvement with a female employee was inappropriate and he needed to step down.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Gates acknowledged the affair took place when asked by the newspaper, but denied it had anything to do his decision to step back.\n\n\"There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Bill's decision to transition off the board was in no way related to this matter. In fact, he had expressed an interest in spending more time on his philanthropy starting several years earlier.\"\n\nThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation told the BBC that it stood by that statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Michelle Fleury breaks down the story of Bill and Melinda Gates' relationship\n\nBill and Melinda Gates announced their decision to divorce earlier this month. The couple have spent billions on charitable causes around the world and have pledged to continue to work together at the foundation once their divorce is finalised.\n\nUS media reported that the two had agreed how to divide their property and assets before announcing their separation.\n\nMr Gates, 65, is the fourth wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes, and is worth $124bn (£89bn).\n\nHe co-founded Microsoft - now the world's biggest software company - in the 1970s and remained full-time at the firm until 2008.\n\nThe couple's estate is believed to include multi-million dollar properties in the states of Washington, Florida and Wyoming. Their main residence is a lakeside mansion in Medina, Washington that is reported to be worth at least $127m.", "Serious patient safety issues are being buried in confidential hospital reports, BBC Panorama has found.\n\nFreedom of Information requests revealed 111 reports, written by medical royal colleges, which NHS trusts have a duty to share.\n\nEighty reports were given to the BBC but only 26 had been shared in full with regulators, and 16 published.\n\nThe Department of Health would not comment on whether it might change the law to ensure publication.\n\nSince the 2015 Morecambe Bay maternity scandal in which 11 babies and a mother died, NHS Trusts are supposed to publish summaries of external reviews, and share them with the regulator.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup said the findings were \"a great disappointment\"\n\nAn earlier review into the hospital had previously identified concerns but had not been made public.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup, who led a 2015 investigation into the Morecambe Bay scandal, said Panorama's findings were a \"great disappointment\".\n\n\"People should know that there is something that is important enough to be looked at and they should know what the results of that scrutiny are.\n\n\"I can't understand what the rationale would be for withholding the existence of a report or the findings of the report. These are important matters of accountability in the public service.\"\n\nJames Titcombe, who became a patient safety campaigner after his baby son Joshua died due to failures of care at Morecambe Bay, said by not publishing reports \"there are possibly risks out there that the regulator is unaware of, and ultimately those risks can have tragic consequences\".\n\nFreedom of Information (FoI) requests were sent to all NHS Trusts in the UK requesting any Royal College reviews of services in the last five years.\n\nThe colleges set standards of care and can be commissioned to review how a health care provider is performing.\n\nOf the 80 reports released to the BBC, just 16 are in the public domain, and only 26 were shared in full with the regulators.\n\nIn another 22 cases the regulator was only aware of the review or had only seen part of it. Sixty-five of the 80 contained potential or actual patient safety concerns.\n\nThough the BBC had been told about 111 reports, the Royal Colleges told Panorama they had carried out about 260 reviews in the same period.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said she was \"dismayed\" summaries of reports were not being made public, and it had published guidance in 2016 saying reports dealing with safety or care concerns should be made public.\n\n\"If things are not being shared, and if that has implications for patient safety, that must be put right. The fact that a review is done should never be secret and indeed a summary of the findings should always be published\".\n\nThe vasculitis department at the Royal Liverpool Hospital treats people with a disease affecting the blood vessels.\n\nIn 2015, after concerns were raised by other clinicians, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) was called in.\n\nThe college recommended there should be an audit of patients treated during the previous two years \"without delay\" to ensure they were on the correct treatment.\n\nFoI requests reveal there were 400 patients under the care of the unit at that point.\n\nBut 18 months after the review, less than a quarter had been checked.\n\nOut of a group of 26 who were on powerful medications, two were found to have been given them \"inappropriately\", four were given \"possibly excessive\" doses and three had died while suffering side effects from the drugs.\n\nBBC Panorama has seen emails from the RCP threatening to tell the regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), if the audit wasn't completed, but it did not follow through.\n\nIn addition, the CQC was never told by the hospital or the college about the concerns or given the full report. Instead it was only told a review had happened.\n\nThe CQC said if it had known an audit was required, it would have monitored the outcomes.\n\nAnd the RCP said it was \"satisfied that the trust made reasonable attempts to complete the audits\" but was \"very disappointed with the speed of response and progress\", adding that the trust \"had a clear obligation to share serious ongoing concerns with patients and the regulator\".\n\nThe Royal Liverpool Hospital said it was \"committed to providing safe and excellent care\" and that the recommendations identified within the RCP's 2015 report have since been \"successfully implemented, or are part of longer-term actions currently in progress\".\n\nThe CQC does not currently have the legal power to compel trusts to share the reports or make the trust implement recommendations.\n\nProf Ted Baker, the CQC's chief inspector of hospitals, said: \"Both hospital trusts and the professional bodies undertaking invited reviews have a responsibility to ensure that any serious patient safety issues raised in an invited review are shared with CQC.\n\n\"It is extremely disappointing that despite this very clear expectation, we continue to see examples of a lack of transparency.\"\n\nDr Kirkup said a legal duty may have to be placed on trusts compelling them to disclose royal college reviews.\n\nNHS England and NHS Improvement said there are \"robust and transparent systems to ensure hospitals and other care providers learn and improve services\".\n\nIt said \"all independent reviews should be made available\" to health commissioners and regulators and it \"expects trusts to take prompt action to address recommendations made\".\n\nOut of 111 reports the BBC was made aware of, 100 came from NHS trusts in England.\n\nThe NHS in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland all emphasised the usefulness of the Royal College review system and stressed the importance of openness and transparency in healthcare.\n\nBBC News asked the Department of Health whether they would consider a change in the law to enforce publication and sharing with regulators but they declined to comment.\n\nYou can watch Panorama: Hospital Secrets Uncovered on BBC One at 19:30 BST or afterwards on BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The footage was shared on social media\n\nA Met Police officer who was filmed hugging a demonstrator at a march and shouting \"free Palestine\" is being investigated.\n\nThe footage shared on social media also shows the unnamed officer holding a white rose and raising her arm in apparent support of those gathered.\n\nThousands took part in the march through central London on Saturday.\n\nThe Directorate of Professional Standards has been informed, the Met Police said.\n\nPeople expressing support for the Palestinians marched through central London\n\nIn a statement, a Met spokesperson said: \"Whilst we expect officers to engage, they must remain impartial.\n\n\"Officers know they are not to actively participate or adopt political positions, and this is made clear in their training and in the oath that all police officers take. This is vital to ensuring the public have confidence in our officers.\"\n\nThe Met said the full circumstances of what happened would be investigated to determine what further action was appropriate.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There have been long queues for Covid vaccines in Bolton, where the spread of the Indian variant is being studied\n\nThere is \"nothing conclusive\" in the data that means England \"would have to deviate from the roadmap\" out of lockdown, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe government plans to end remaining legal limits on social contact from 21 June, but there is increasing concern about the Indian variant.\n\nThe situation, including data from hotspots such as Bolton, was \"under close review\", the prime minister said.\n\nMinisters will \"let people know in a few days' time\" after data is studied.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a vaccination centre in London, Mr Johnson continued to urge people to be cautious.\n\nHe said the situation with the Indian variant was \"under very careful, close review\", saying: \"We're looking at all the data as it comes in from places like Bolton, Blackburn, Bedford, Sefton.\"\n\nMr Johnson said they were trying to understand if the Indian variant was more transmissible and \"to what extent our vaccine programme has sufficiently fortified us\".\n\n\"We've got a few more days of looking at that data,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded another seven deaths within 28 days of a positive test and 2,412 new cases.\n\nOn Monday the government said 86 local councils in England had five or more cases of the variant first discovered in India, which is thought to be more transmissible.\n\nIn Bolton, a new vaccine centre has opened up and ministers have been stepping up calls for people to book vaccinations as soon as they are offered appointments.\n\nElsewhere, regional public health directors are concerned about rising cases of the variant in London. Cases have spread across a number of boroughs, although currently most are linked to foreign travel.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said that while the government was not ruling out measures such as local lockdowns at this stage, it was \"too early to speculate\" on what future measures it may need to take.\n\nAsked if a decision was expected sooner than 14 June on progressing to the final step of England's roadmap, the spokesman said that in relation to certification and social distancing, ministers \"do want to update pubs and businesses, if possible, before 14 June\".\n\nBut he added they needed to \"allow the experts to do their work\" and \"couldn't be more specific on timings\".\n\nDay by day the scientists are learning more about the Indian variant - and the implications for the UK.\n\nOn Friday it was reported the variant could be 50% more transmissible than the UK variant, which was responsible for the deadly winter wave.\n\nBut confidence in that figure was always a little shaky. In the past few days there are some tentative signs its advantage over the UK variant may not be so great.\n\nThat's important. There's estimated to be an eight-fold difference between the impact in terms of hospital admissions a variant with a 20% advantage will have compared to one with a 50% advantage.\n\nThat clearly has a major implication for what restrictions are needed while the vaccination programme continues to be rolled out.\n\nThe next significant update is expected on Thursday. It will be too soon for a definitive answer, but it should help us understand more about what the variant means for the UK.\n\nThe government has already warned its next review of social distancing rules - set to take place by the end of May - may be delayed because of concern over the variant.\n\nOn Monday millions of people were able to enjoy new freedoms - such as drinking indoors in pubs, hugs with loved ones and foreign holidays - for the first time in months, under the latest relaxation of rules across England, Wales and most of Scotland.\n\nBoris Johnson visited a vaccination centre at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London\n\nHowever, Labour has accused the government of \"giving out conflicting and confused advice\" about travel to countries on the amber travel list, where people must quarantine for up to 10 days on their return to the UK.\n\nGovernment guidance states people should not travel to amber list countries.\n\nBut earlier Environment Secretary George Eustice suggested in a BBC interview that people could travel to such destinations if they \"feel the need\" to visit family or friends.\n\nAsked about the issue, Mr Johnson said it was \"very important people grasp what the amber list is - not somewhere to go on holiday\".\n\nHe said travellers should only go to these countries for \"pressing family or business reasons\". Those who break their self-isolation period on returning to the UK from these destinations face £10,000 fines, he added.\n\nYvette Cooper, who chairs the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said the current traffic light system was \"very messy\" and \"clearly isn't working\", adding that it should be linked to legal restrictions.\n\n\"We all seem to be in a position where the government has opened up to summer holiday travel by accident, by making it possible, but at the same time, a day later, saying 'no, people should not be travelling to amber countries,'\" the Labour MP told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, which developed the AstraZeneca vaccine, has said it feels \"morally wrong\" that children in some richer countries are being offered a Covid-19 jab before some high-risk people in poorer countries.\n\nHe told the All Party Parliamentary Group on coronavirus: \"There are many unvaccinated people in the world whilst people whose risk is extremely low are being vaccinated, including children who have near to zero the risk of severe disease or death.\n\n\"That inequity is absolutely plain to see at this moment in a very troubling way.\"", "The European Union's drugs regulator has said the Pfizer Covid vaccine can now be stored at fridge temperature for much longer than it previously recommended.\n\nThe European Medicines Agency (EMA) said that once the vaccines thawed, unopened vials could be kept in the fridge for up to a month.\n\nThe current limit is just five days.\n\nThe increased flexibility is expected to have a significant impact on the vaccine roll-out across the EU.\n\nThe need for transport and storage at very low temperatures has been one of the major disadvantages of the Pfizer jab.\n\nThe previous storage requirements for Pfizer vaccines have made them harder to use in some parts of the world.\n\nIn February, the United States approved storage and transport of the Pfizer vaccine at standard freezer temperatures of -15 to -25C for up to two weeks, as opposed to between -80 to -60C that it usually requires.\n\nEarlier this month Canada authorised the use of the Pfizer vaccine for children between the ages of 12 and 15, becoming the first country to do so for that age group.\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?", "As restrictions are eased PHW has urged people to keep wearing masks and social distancing\n\nPeople are being warned \"not to become complacent\" after confirmed cases of an Indian variant of Covid-19 more than doubled in Wales in under a week.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said 25 cases of the \"variant of concern\" had now been confirmed, with most linked to international travel.\n\nWith numbers up from 11 in less than a week, PHW urged people to take precautions as lockdown eases.\n\nWales dropped to alert level two on Monday.\n\nPubs and restaurants were able to reopen indoors with social distancing, while cinemas, theatres, visitor attractions and indoor play centres could open for the first time in months.\n\nHowever, as the lockdown changes were announced, the first minister said he had \"held back\" on easing measures further due to concerns about the Indian variant.\n\nAnd although people are allowed to travel to a limited number of countries, Mark Drakeford has advised people to stay in the UK this year.\n\nOn Monday, England's health minister Matt Hancock told the House of Commons there were now 2,323 confirmed cases of the Indian variant in the UK, meaning a 77% increase of the variant in less than a week.\n\nFigures published last Thursday showed there were 11 confirmed cases of the variant of concern, which originated in India, in Wales.\n\nDr Giri Shankar, who is leading PHW's response to the pandemic, confirmed on Tuesday this had now increased to 25.\n\nHe said the majority were associated with travel, and \"robust contact tracing processes\" were in place.\n\n\"The emergence of another transmissible new variant is a reminder that we should not become complacent, even as rates of the coronavirus across Wales remain low,\" he said.\n\n\"Protect yourself and others by remaining at least two metres away from everyone else, washing your hands regularly, and by wearing a face covering where required.\n\n\"Self-isolate and get a test if you or anyone in your household develop symptoms.\"\n\nNew health minister Baroness Eluned Morgan previously said she had not ruled targeted vaccination programmes if cases continued to rise in communities.\n\nIt comes after more than 6,200 people were vaccinated in Bolton, at the weekend after a spike in cases of the variant, with Mr Hancock not ruling out a local lockdown in the area.\n\nThe weekly case rate for Wales now stands at 9.5 for every 100,000 people, while over 2m people have now had their first dose of a vaccine.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nIt will be a few days before the government can draw any conclusions about whether to deviate from England's current roadmap out of lockdown, the prime minister has said. There is increasing concern about the spread of the Indian variant but Boris Johnson said there was nothing conclusive in the current data to suggest the plan to end the remaining legal limits on social contact in England from 21 June needed to change. Health correspondent Nick Triggle has taken a closer look at why the UK is taking a risk with the variant.\n\nThere have been long queues for Covid vaccines in Bolton - a hotspot for the virus\n\nThe prime minister's former adviser, Dominic Cummings, has claimed that government \"secrecy\" in its handling of the Covid crisis \"contributed greatly to the catastrophe\". In a series of tweets Mr Cummings posted, apparently while in the waiting room for his first Covid jab, he attacked his former colleagues in government and the Civil Service. He said the government's handling of the pandemic was \"part disaster, part non-existent\". No 10 said it was always guided by the \"best scientific data\".\n\nHospital admissions for obesity-related treatment in England reached a record of more than a million in the year leading into the global pandemic, according to new figures. Experts say the pandemic should be a wake-up call to people - as being overweight is one of the most significant risk factors for severe Covid. The record number provides the clearest indication yet of the scale of the obesity problem as coronavirus started to spread across the country.\n\nPhil Skeates has worked to lose more than six stone since being admitted to intensive care with Covid\n\nLast year, Sandra Norman and her family spent nearly £5,000 booking a package deal for a villa in Rhodes for the end of May 2021. But Greece is still an amber-rated country under the government's traffic light system and the advice is to not travel to amber countries for leisure. Sandra asked the travel agent if they could move the booking to the same dates in 2022 but she says they refused to do that or issue a credit note. BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme has been contacted by other travellers in the same situation. Here is a reminder of the new rules for foreign travel.\n\nSandra Norman was told initially that she could not move her holiday back to 2022\n\nMeet Ralph Russell, who says he has visited every pub in the city of Birmingham in his 66 years as a pedlar - selling things like socks, toys and tea towels. Now that pubs have reopened, he has polished up his suitcase, stocked up with new wares and returned to his favourite stomping ground - Digbeth.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nCan two households now travel in one car? Find out the answer to that, other questions you may have, 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.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned people should not be holidaying in amber list countries, after a minister said people could go and visit friends.\n\nThe confusion arose after Environment Secretary George Eustice said people could go to those countries if they quarantined when they returned.\n\nIt comes after news that some holiday companies are refusing refunds to such destinations.\n\nThat is because it is now legal to travel to countries on the amber list.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important for people to grasp what an amber list country is: it is not somewhere where you should be going on holiday, let me be very clear about that.\n\n\"And if people do go to an amber list country, they absolutely have to for some pressing family or urgent business reason, then please bear in mind that you will have to self-isolate, you'll have to take tests and do your passenger locator form and all the rest of it.\"\n\nThe warning came amid reports that thousands of people had headed for destinations such as France, Greece, Spain and the US, with more than 150 flights reported to have departed on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile the European Union is expected to relax its travel rules for British holidaymakers.\n\nEU ambassadors are meeting on Wednesday to discuss whether to allow people who have been fully vaccinated to visit countries in the bloc without any restrictions.\n\nThey are also considering whether or not to lift the current ban on non-essential travel from the UK to Europe.\n\nAfter the legal ban on foreign holidays ended on Monday, Environment Secretary George Eustice said that people could go to those countries if they quarantined when they returned.\n\n\"We don't want to stop travel altogether and the reason, as [Health Secretary] Matt Hancock set out, that we have the amber list is there will be reasons why people feel they need to travel, either to visit family or indeed to visit friends,\" he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.\n\n\"They can travel to those countries but they then have to observe quarantine when they return and have two tests after returning.\n\n\"So people can travel to those areas, yes, but they will then have to subject themselves to the quarantine requirements on return.\"\n\nBut the prime minister's spokesman insisted travel to amber list destinations was only allowed for a strictly limited number of reasons.\n\nHe said people should not be going to those countries for holidays or leisure.\n\n\"The position remains that people should not travel to amber list countries and that is to protect public health,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"There are some limited reasons why it might be acceptable to travel - for work purposes, protecting essential services or compassionate reasons such as a funeral or care of a family member - but otherwise people should not be travelling to these countries.\"\n\nHe said holidays and leisure travel should be restricted to the short \"green list\" of destinations such as Portugal.\n\n\"We are working with the travel industry and others on this. All of us have a personal responsibility to protect one another as we cautiously reopen international travel,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"We are moving to a situation where the public can take responsibility for their actions. I think it is important to stress that, by and large, that is what we are seeing.\n\n\"Obviously we will keep this under review, we are keeping a careful eye on this and we will take further action if necessary.\"\n\nA health minister, Lord Bethell, advised people not to take a foreign holiday this year.\n\nAsked about reports that passengers at Heathrow had been forced to stand next to people arriving from red list countries, the minister told the House of Lords that \"segregation is unbelievably difficult during travel\".\n\nAnd he said that was why travelling was dangerous.\n\nHe told peers: \"The ultimate sanction here is that, particularly as we go into the summer, we tell people: travelling is not for this year. Please stay in this country.\"\n\nChief executive of Airlines UK Tim Alderslade accused the government of causing confusion.\n\n\"People should not travel to red countries, we know that, but to generalise against perfectly legal travel even to green countries is deeply unhelpful,\" he said.\n\nThe government's traffic light system is guidance rather than a legal requirement, and some travel companies have opted to still offer holidays to amber destinations so long as the Foreign Office has not advised against all but essential travel there.\n\nThat means some travel companies are refusing refunds for holidays booked last year for summer 2021, or that were moved from 2020 by tour operators - or even to defer the bookings.\n\nThe UK's largest tour operator, Tui, is currently offering holidays to amber countries such as Cuba, Barbados and Antigua and to some Greek and Spanish islands.\n\nThe company is offering customers free changes to holiday bookings if they don't want to travel, but they will be required to pay any price difference for the new dates, which can be more expensive because demand is high.\n\nFlying to an amber list country for a holiday isn't illegal - but it remains deeply frowned upon.\n\nUntil Monday, travelling without good reason was illegal - and you could be fined a great deal of money for doing it.\n\nNow, although you're technically allowed to travel, the government doesn't want you to - unless you go to a green list country.\n\nIf you find all this confusing, you're not alone, and reports suggest there are plenty of people for whom \"not illegal\" is a big green light for a holiday in France, Greece or the US.\n\nWith some travel companies refusing to refund would-be holidaymakers who pre-booked trips to countries which are now on the amber list, it's clear that in many cases there's a powerful incentive to disregard official advice.\n\nBut passengers should be clear about what they're letting themselves in for: mandatory self-isolation on their return, with possible fines if they don't; and the risk that if anything goes wrong, their insurance might not pay out.", "Four men have been bailed after they were arrested in connection with a video which appeared to show anti-Semitic abuse being shouted from a car in north London.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they were released \"pending further enquiries\".\n\nThe men were arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offences.\n\nWhile in custody in west London they were also arrested in connection with a similar incident in Manchester.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said the Manchester incident took place in the early hours of Sunday in the Broughton Park area of Salford, while the incident in the video appeared to be filmed on Sunday in the St John's Wood area of north London.\n\nSt John's Wood is an area in north London which is home to a Jewish community.\n\nOn Sunday, a video was posted on social media appearing to show a convoy of cars with Palestinian flags driving down a street, with a man apparently shouting anti-Semitic abuse from a megaphone.\n\nThe person who filmed the video - who wanted to remain anonymous - said they started filming when they heard \"excessive hooting\" outside their window in north London.\n\nIt comes as the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza continues in the worst violence in the region since 2014. The violence has entered its second week and killed more than 200 people in Gaza and 10 in Israel.\n\nThousands of people marched through London on Saturday to the gates of the Israeli embassy, while protests in support of the Palestinian people took place in other cities across the UK and Ireland.", "Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez appeared together in the video for her song, Stuck With U\n\nPop star Ariana Grande has married her fiance Dalton Gomez in a \"tiny and intimate\" wedding.\n\nThe 27-year-old American singer tied the knot in front of fewer than 20 people over the weekend, the PA news agency reported.\n\nMs Grande announced in December she was engaged to the Los Angeles estate agent, 25.\n\nTheir wedding took place at her home in California, according to reports.\n\nA representative for the singer told PA: \"They got married. It was tiny and intimate - [fewer] than 20 people.\n\n\"The room was so happy and full of love. The couple and both families couldn't be happier.\"\n\nThe TMZ website said the ceremony took place at Grande's property in Montecito, a celebrity hotspot in southern California where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex also live.\n\nMr Gomez was raised in southern California and has been working in the luxury real estate market for five years, according to his biography on the AKG website.\n\nMs Grande shared news of their engagement just before Christmas on Instagram, showing a pearl and diamond ring on her left hand.\n\n\"Forever n then some,\" she captioned the post.\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 arianagrande This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe has been dating Mr Gomez for just over a year.\n\nIn February 2020, she was spotted by the press kissing her new love interest, Mr Gomez, at a restaurant in Los Angeles.\n\nThen in May, they made their first public appearance together as a couple in the lockdown music video to Grande and Justin Bieber's collaboration, Stuck With U.\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 ArianaGrandeVevo This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe following month, she posted a picture of them in each other's arms on Instagram.\n\nLast October, Ms Grande released her sixth album, Positions, which topped both the UK and US charts.\n\nThe singer was previously engaged to US comedian and actor Pete Davidson, but they called off their high-profile relationship two years ago.\n\nThis weekend will mark four years since a terrorist detonated a suicide bomb following a Grande performance at the Manchester Arena, killing 22 people.\n\nThe star, who said she suffered PTSD as a result of the atrocity, returned to Manchester in 2019 to headline the city's Pride festival.", "Israeli air strikes have pounded Gaza for more than a week\n\nAs international outrage mounts over the number of civilians being killed in Gaza, Israel is trying to explain its actions.\n\nIn a flurry of briefings, senior military officials have been describing the objectives and timeline of an operation one of them said \"might stay like this for a while\".\n\nFirst, some numbers: Israel says it has hit 820 different targets in the first week of action, some of them repeatedly.\n\nThat compares with 180 targets in Gaza during the whole of last year (a reminder that for all the ferocity of the past week, this is a long-running war).\n\nIn return, Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants have fired more than 3,150 rockets. In 2019, by comparison, a total of 2,045 rocket launches were recorded (another reminder).\n\nIsrael's operation \"Guardian of the Walls\" began with attacks on Hamas tunnels close to the border fence with Israel. Defence of Israel's nearby communities, some of which are within a few hundred metres of the fence, was a top priority.\n\nNext came everything associated with missiles - including launchers, manufacturing centres - closely followed by an all-out assault on Hamas's entire military infrastructure, including hundreds of miles of underground tunnels Israel's military calls \"the Metro\".\n\nWhen this phase began, with a ferocious bombardment on Thursday night, terrified civilians fled, fearing an imminent ground invasion.\n\nIsrael has amassed artillery at the border with Gaza raising fears of a ground offensive\n\nIt's been during this crucial phase, described by Israeli officials as the centrepiece of the operation, that the number of Palestinians killed started to rise dramatically.\n\nA word, here, about who those people are. It's the subject of sharply differing narratives.\n\nJonathan Conricus, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), says at least 130 of the close to 200 Palestinians killed so far have been combatants. He says this is \"the most conservative estimate\".\n\nThis is obviously at variance with figures from the Palestinian health ministry, which in Gaza is controlled by Hamas. It says almost 100 of the dead are women and children, but never talks about fighters.\n\nIsrael admits that civilians are caught up in the violence, but lays the blame squarely at the feet of Hamas, which it says is guilty of cynically operating in and around the blameless citizens of Gaza.\n\nThe fate of the 11-storey al-Jalaa tower is a case in point. Home to the local offices of al-Jazeera and Associated Press news agency, it was also, Israel says, bristling with Hamas offices and equipment.\n\nThe journalists were warned that an attack was coming and given an hour to get out before the building was levelled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Gaza tower block housing news outlets destroyed in an Israeli strike\n\nIsrael insisted it had no choice but to attack the building and said the fact that no-one was killed was an example of the lengths to which its military will go to avoid civilian casualties.\n\nA senior commander had words of advice for the media. \"In Gaza, don't rent your office next to Hamas. It's a very bad idea.\"\n\nThe assault on the \"Metro\" presents other problems.\n\nEarly on Sunday morning, a series of devastating air strikes on Gaza's al-Rimal neighbourhood brought three residential buildings crashing to the ground, killing 42 people. It was the deadliest single attack so far.\n\nThe strike on Gaza's al-Rimal district reduced residential buildings to piles of rubble\n\nAgain, Israel blames Hamas and what one officer called \"this crazy underground infrastructure\".\n\nThe buildings were not the target, he insisted. It was the Metro. But when part of the tunnel network collapsed, nearby foundations collapsed too.\n\n\"That was very unfortunate,\" the officer said. \"We're trying to learn what happened.\"\n\nOn Monday morning, Gazans woke up to find craters in some of the strip's busiest roads. Naturally, they assumed their civilian infrastructure was now being attacked.\n\nNot so, Israel said. Again, it was all about the tunnels.\n\nAnd there's the problem. How do you fight a war in one of the poorest, most densely populated places on earth, against an enemy who uses this to his advantage? How do you defend your own population from harm when almost everything you do affects innocent civilians?", "Dominic Cummings has claimed that government \"secrecy\" in its handling of the Covid crisis \"contributed greatly to the catastrophe\".\n\nThe prime minister's former adviser tweeted that its performance had been \"part disaster, part non-existent\".\n\nMr Cummings, who will appear before a committee of MPs next week, also called for more scrutiny of policy to ensure the Indian variant is dealt with.\n\nThe government said it was always guided by the \"best scientific data\".\n\nThis had \"allowed us to secure early development of vaccines\", a spokesman added.\n\nMore than 127,000 people diagnosed with coronavirus have died in the UK since the start of the pandemic, but 36.7 million people have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAccording to the government's \"roadmap\", the remaining restrictions on social contact in England are set to end on 21 June.\n\nIn a series of tweets Mr Cummings posted, apparently while in the waiting room for his first Covid jab, he attacked his former colleagues in government and the Civil Service (abbreviations he used have been turned into full words here).\n\nLooking back at the start of the pandemic last year, he wrote: \"One of the most fundamental and unarguable lessons of February to March is that secrecy contributed greatly to the catastrophe.\n\n\"Openness to scrutiny would have exposed government errors weeks earlier than happened.\"\n\nMr Cummings claimed he and the UK government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, had \"supported opening up\" the Sage committee - the scientists who advise ministers on handling emergencies - earlier to greater scrutiny.\n\nHe wrote that delaying the release of its minutes until late May last year had been due to a \"cultural hostility to openness\" in Whitehall.\n\nAnd \"human challenge\" trials, where individuals are deliberately infected with the the virus, should have begun as soon as it was detected in the UK, he added.\n\nThis could have meant \"jabs in arms\" by last summer, Mr Cummings argued.\n\nMr Cummings quit his government job after a Downing Street power struggle in the autumn, and has been critical of the government since his departure.\n\nHe is expected to express further thoughts when he appears before the Commons Health and Social Care Committee and Science and Technology Committee - holding a joint inquiry into \"lessons learnt\" about coronavirus - on 26 May.\n\nMore than 36.7 million people in the UK have had a first Covid jab\n\nCovid restrictions eased in England, whose health policy is overseen by the UK government, on Monday, but there are concerns about the spread of the Indian variant.\n\nIt is feared this could be 50% more transmissable than the UK-originated strain involved in the deadly second wave of infections this winter, although this claim is still being investigated.\n\nMr Cummings urged MPs to push the government for details on how variants are to be tackled with vaccines, writing: \"The best hedge re: a variant escaping current vaccines is PUBLIC SCRUTINY of government plans.\n\n\"This will hopefully show it's been taken seriously. If not, better learn now that the government has screwed up again than when 'variant escapes' news breaks.\"\n\nHe also called for a review of contingency plans to prepare for \"more dangerous things than Covid\" in the future.\n\nOn a visit to a vaccination centre in London, Mr Johnson said there was \"nothing conclusive\" in the available data which might change plans to end restrictions on 21 June.\n\nBut information from Indian variant hotspots, including Bolton, and elsewhere was being analysed, meaning the situation would remain \"under close review\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government's \"approach to the pandemic throughout\" had been \"guided by the best scientific data\".\n\nThis had \"allowed us to secure early development of vaccines, allowing us to move through\" the easing of restrictions, he added.\n\nAsked about what Mr Cummings might tell MPs next week, the spokesman also said he would \"not speculate about what individuals may have and may or may not decide to present\".\n\nScotland and Wales, like England, eased Covid restrictions on Monday, while Northern Ireland is set to do so next Monday.\n\nThese changes will be subject to review.", "Last updated on .From the section QPR\n\nFormer QPR youth player Kiyan Prince has been added to Fifa 21 to mark the 15th anniversary of his death.\n\nHe was stabbed to death at 15 while trying to break up a fight at school.\n\nPrince will also be listed as a QPR squad member during the 2021-22 season and his likeness will feature on a special edition trading card.\n\nOn seeing his son as a 30-year-old, Dr Mark Prince OBE told BBC Breakfast: \"It was very emotional. I could see Kiyan in there. I'm really proud.\"\n\nSpecial effects studio Framestore virtually recreated Kiyan and the imagery will also feature on billboards as part of an advertising campaign.\n\n\"Kiyan Prince returns to life as the professional footballer he should have been,\" QPR tweeted.\n\nDr Prince set up the Kiyan Prince Foundation to educate young people about the consequences of knife crime, and in 2019, QPR renamed their Loftus Road ground after the charity.\n\n\"I want my son to be remembered not for the tragedy of his death but for the triumph of his achievements,\" he said.\n\n\"Through this campaign my hope is that the world finally gets to glimpse Kiyan's incredible potential fulfilled, we get to honour his talent and, hopefully, we can inspire other kids to honour their own talent too - whatever their own strengths might be.\"\n\nStill of Kiyan Prince during game action in Fifa 21\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, QPR's director of football Les Ferdinand said: \"If one person who plays Fifa can look at this and put his knife down, that's the important legacy we want.\"\n\nFerdinand explained that when the club renamed their stadium, they invited Kiyan's father to speak with their players.\n\n\"The squad were truly humbled by Mark's bravery and his dedication to use his pain to prevent others from having to walk the same path he has had to walk,\" added the former QPR and England striker.\n\n\"As a club, we have worked closely with the Kiyan Prince Foundation and it has been an honour to get to know Mark on a personal level during that time. What he has been through is every parent's worst nightmare and his response to such a tragedy has been truly inspiring.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Crystal Palace\n\nManager Roy Hodgson will leave Crystal Palace when his contract expires at the end of the season.\n\nThe 73-year-old former England boss said: \"The time is right to step away from the rigours of top-flight Premier League football.\"\n\nHodgson has been in charge of Palace since September 2017.\n\nHis final home game will be against Arsenal on Wednesday, and his last match will be against Liverpool, one of his former clubs, at Anfield on Sunday.\n\nAsked whether he was retiring, Hodgson said: \"One never knows. It is a dangerous thing to do when you still feel good about yourself to start making bold statements about retirement.\n\n\"I am certainly not leaving Crystal Palace with the idea of putting myself back on the market for another job.\n\n\"I really am stepping away from football for a while, but who knows what the future will be? It is a never-say-never moment.\n\n\"I've seen so many people retire with all the fanfare blazing, only to surface again somewhere in a fairly short period of time. I'd prefer not to do that.\n\n\"I am looking forward to spending a little bit more time with my wife and son and maybe listening to what they want to do for once, because it hasn't happened very much in the last 50 years.\"\n\nHodgson, who began his playing career at Palace and supported them as a child, replaced Frank de Boer as manager with the club bottom of the Premier League having lost their first four matches of the 2017-18 season without scoring a goal.\n\nDespite losing his first three games in charge, he guided Palace to 11th in the table. They finished 12th and 14th in subsequent seasons and are currently 13th with two games remaining.\n\nPalace chairman Steve Parish said: \"It has been an absolute privilege and pleasure to work alongside Roy, who is both a magnificent human and an outstanding football manager.\n\n\"I know how much it has meant to Roy managing the club he supported as a child, adding to his distinguished and unparalleled career in football management.\n\n\"His record with us simply cannot be overstated - he is the only Palace manager to secure four years in the Premier League and he has helped give us stability in the most turbulent of times.\n\n\"We will be forever grateful for his immense contribution.\"\n\nHodgson, who is the oldest person to manage in the Premier League, began his managerial career 45 years ago with Swedish side Halmstads.\n\nHe has managed 16 clubs in eight countries, including Inter Milan and Udinese, as well as the Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and Finland national sides.\n\nHe has also been in charge of Blackburn, Liverpool, West Brom and Fulham in the Premier League, guiding the Cottagers to the Europa League final in 2010.\n\nHe took the England job shortly before Euro 2012 and led them to the quarter-finals, but two years later they were knocked out at the group stage of a World Cup for the first time since 1958.\n\nHodgson's England won all 10 matches in qualifying for Euro 2016 but he stepped down after a 2-1 last-16 defeat by Iceland left him with a record of three victories from 11 games in major tournaments.\n\nA number of Premier League managers have being paying tribute to Hodgson in their pre-match news conferences.\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said: \"He's an absolute legend. What he's done for football, for English football, what he transmits as a manager and what he has done at different clubs is remarkable.\n\n\"He has been doing it for so long with the way he is always conducting himself. It's a great example for me as a young coach. He is someone I admire.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp described Hodgson as \"one of the very, very greats of our business\", adding: \"I knew about him long before I met him and he is a really nice guy. I couldn't have more respect for him and what he has done.\"\n\nEverton manager Carlo Ancelotti said: \"Roy is a good friend. He has had a fantastic career. In Italy they have good memories of him.\n\n\"He has helped football to be better and he also taught a lot of managers how to behave on and off the pitch.\"\n\nSpeaking before Hodgson confirmed his departure, former Blackburn striker Chris Sutton told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club that his successor faced an \"impossible job\".\n\n\"You have to look at the job Roy has done there - they have always stayed up pretty comfortably,\" said Sutton.\n\n\"He is not everybody's cup of tea because of the brand of football but in terms of doing a job and keeping owners happy he is the perfect fit.\n\n\"The squad will need a big overhaul with so many players out of contract.\"\n\nFormer Australia goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer, who played under Hodgson at Fulham, told 5 Live: \"When you look at his time, especially at Inter Milan, the Italians were renowned for having that defensive system, being very rigid, very organised - and Roy loved that.\n\n\"When we started that at Fulham, players were pulling their hair out because the training sessions were monotonous.\n\n\"It wasn't until about two or three months into that time that players started to realise - the penny dropped - this is just building an incredibly stable foundation, one to build upon, to have that flexibility in the final third.\n\n\"I'm sure the Crystal Palace fans who will be in the stadium on Wednesday will show their appreciation. The players and the staff all speak incredibly highly of Roy Hodgson.\"\n\nFrank Lampard, who was sacked as Chelsea boss in January, is the early bookmakers' favourite to succeed Hodgson.\n• None Searching for truth in the fog of war\n• None Watch as former rugby players take legal action over their brain injuries", "Sandra Norman was told initially that she could not move her holiday back to 2022\n\n\"We run businesses, we can't go on holiday and then come home and self isolate for 10 days.\"\n\nLast year, Sandra Norman and her family spent nearly £5,000 booking a package deal for a villa in Rhodes for the end of May 2021, to celebrate family birthdays.\n\nBut Greece is still an amber-rated country under the government's traffic light system and the advice is to not travel to amber countries for leisure.\n\nSandra asked the travel agent if they could move the booking to the same dates in 2022.\n\nShe says the company refused to move the booking or issue a credit note, so if they didn't go on the holiday then they stood to lose everything.\n\nBBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme has been contacted by people who booked holidays last year for summer 2021, or had holidays moved from 2020 by tour operators, who now feel they cannot travel due to government advice.\n\nHowever, the travel companies are refusing refunds or delays to the holidays.\n\nInternational travel restrictions for British holidaymakers were eased on Monday. 12 countries or territories have been given a green rating, meaning you can travel to them for tourism. But many tourist hotspots, such as France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Croatia, are amber countries.\n\nMany popular holiday destinations, such as Greece, remain on the amber list\n\nThe government's traffic light system is guidance rather than a legal requirement, and some travel companies have opted to still offer holidays to amber destinations if the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has not advised against all but essential travel.\n\nHowever, when you return from an amber country you have to self isolate at home for 10 days and take Covid-19 PCR tests on day two and day eight.\n\nFor Sandra and her family, it's not an option.\n\n\"My husband and son run a plumbing business, they have jobs booked in for the day we get back. I work, and we picked this time because the boys have an extra week off school. Now, when we come back they have to isolate, that's another week off school for the boys\".\n\nThe company who Sandra booked through, Villa Plus, told You & Yours: \"Government advice on amber destinations is not legislation and whilst we empathise with those that may now choose not to travel due to the entry requirements they face upon return to the UK, we cannot provide them with a refund or credit for monies paid and they should seek compensation from their travel insurance provider.\"\n\nThe company has agreed to make an exception in Sandra Norman's case, and has now offered to move the flights to the same dates next year and to issue a voucher for the value of the villa, which they can use to rebook once 2022 dates become available.\n\nThe UK's largest tour operator, Tui, is currently offering holidays to amber countries such as Cuba, Barbados and Antigua, and to some Greek and Spanish islands.\n\nLauren Bower and her family are due to fly to Gran Canaria on 4 June with Tui. They booked their holiday last summer, expecting things would be back to normal by now.\n\n\"I've got a five and a seven year old, we haven't got the option to quarantine when we get back, obviously with school and with my husband's work and my work.\"\n\nThe Bower family checked with their travel insurance provider and were told that their holiday insurance would be invalid if they travelled to an amber country against government guidance. Tui can offer the family travel insurance, but it will mean paying twice.\n\nThe company is offering customers free changes to holiday bookings if they don't want to travel, but they will be required to pay any price difference for the new dates, which can be more expensive because demand is high.\n\nLauren says her family would rather have a refund as their options to rebook are limited, having to use most of their annual leave from work to cover childcare in the school holidays.\n\n\"We can't do that because the one week we get off together as a family, my mother-in-law is getting married, so to go on holiday next year is not an option. And the price of holidays for next year have gone up already. If we were to go in the six-week holidays it would be an extra £2,200 on top of the price we've already paid.\"\n\nIn response to Lauren Bower's case, Tui said: \"We're sorry to hear that the Bower family will not be able to take their holiday to Gran Canaria as planned.\n\n\"We're offering as much choice and flexibility as possible; all customers due to depart before the end of August can change their holiday to another time for free before the end of October 2022.\n\n\"Unfortunately in line with our Tui Holiday Promise, their booking does not qualify for a refund or voucher. This would only happen if we have to cancel their booking for operational reasons, there's a change in FCDO travel advice, or their destination is on the red list prior to travel.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK job vacancies have hit their highest level since the start of the pandemic as the easing of lockdown measures has led employers to start recruiting.\n\nIn the February-to-April period there were 657,000 vacancies, up about 48,400 on the previous quarter.\n\nThe unemployment rate fell slightly to 4.8% in the three months to March, down from 4.9% in February, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nThe ONS said there were \"early signs of recovery\" in the jobs market,\n\nHowever, despite the rise in job vacancies over the past 12 months, the level remains almost 128,000 below its pre-pandemic level in the January-to-March quarter of 2020.\n\nThe official figures confirm several reports in recent weeks by recruitment companies that they are seeing a rise in job advertisements, leading to concern among some employers that they could face staff shortages.\n\nThe ONS said the number of workers on payrolls had risen by 97,000 between March and April, but was still 772,000 lower than before the pandemic struck.\n\nDarren Morgan, ONS director of economic statistics, said the number of employees on payroll \"rose strongly in April\" as the economy began to reopen, continuing an improvement from its November trough.\n\nBut he said: \"There remains, however, three-quarters of a million people fewer on the payroll compared with the pre-pandemic peak.\n\n\"With many businesses reopening, the recent recovery in job vacancies continued into April, especially in sectors such as hospitality and entertainment.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the latest figures showed the impact of the government's focus on protecting jobs during the pandemic.\n\n\"While sadly not every job can be saved, nearly two million fewer people are now expected to be out of work than initially expected - showing our Plan for Jobs is working.\"\n\nBusiness leaders welcomed the vacancy levels as positive signs for the economy, but warned there was still a long way to go.\n\nAs many experts have pointed out, Tuesday's positive jobs news does not disguise that many people in the labour market are still struggling.\n\nInterior designer Sheila Smith lost her job working for hospitality venues in October - and despite some 500 applications is still unemployed.\n\nShe worries that businesses are looking for someone younger and cheaper than her. \"I've been for a few interviews, which I haven't been successful at,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe said the most frustrating aspect of the job search was the lack of communication from potential employers.\n\n\"When you take time to go for a job interview, get yourself prepared, but then you hear nothing back - that's the most frustrating thing.\"\n\nAlthough the number of job vacancies is rising, they are still well down on pre-pandemic levels and Sheila reckons there's about 200 people applying for each post advertised.\n\n\"It destroys your confidence,\" she said. \"I've worked solidly for years in the industry, and you find yourself in this situation scrambling for jobs.\n\n\"You feel like you're stuck at square one.\"\n\nMatthew Percival, director of people and skills at the CBI business lobby group, said: \"Businesses are starting to report vacancies they're struggling to fill so government support for skills and retraining is essential.\"\n\nHe added that companies still needed clarity over the rules for the next stage of reopening the economy, which is currently planned for 21 June.\n\nResearch consultancy Capital Economics said the fall in the jobless rate showed that the jobs furlough scheme was \"insulating the labour market\".\n\nThe firm added that although it expects the unemployment rate to rise over the next few months, that would most likely be due to people returning to the labour market rather than people losing their jobs.\n\nThe most encouraging sign here is that vacancies over the three months to April averaged 657,000. The ONS said its experimental monthly vacancy statistics for April itself were \"at near pre-pandemic levels\". There are increasing numbers of employers expressing concern about recruitment difficulties.\n\nThe jobs data continue to show some signs of resilience and recovery, with unemployment down again to 4.8%, and employment up for the fifth consecutive month. It's so far a slow recovery based on gradual re-openings seen up until last month.\n\nThe pattern is, though, as uneven as the lifting of the restrictions. Hospitality and retail jobs are still well down on pre-pandemic levels, and this means all of the loss in payrolled jobs and more can currently be explained by what has happened to young workers. There are still over four million workers on the furlough scheme, who count as employed.\n\nAre you currently unemployed? 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.", "In an exclusive interview with BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has denied that his agency was linked to a massive cyber-attack in the US last year.\n\nSergei Naryshkin was responding to accusations from UK and US authorities that Russian intelligence carried out the SolarWinds attack, which was described as the world’s most sophisticated hack.\n\nMr Naryshkin suggested it was Western intelligence that may have orchestrated the operation. Russia’s spy chief also revealed that contact has been re-established with the head of Britain's secret intelligence service MI6, and that he hopes for a face-to-face meeting soon.", "Charles Grodin won several awards for his parts in TV and film productions\n\nCharles Grodin, an American actor whose comic roles in films such as Midnight Run and Beethoven brought smiles to faces for decades, has died at 86.\n\nGrodin died at his home in Wilton, Connecticut on Tuesday, the New York Times newspaper reported.\n\nThe actor's son, Nicholas, told the newspaper his cause of death was bone marrow cancer.\n\nKnown for his dry wit, Grodin was a familiar face in Hollywood comedies and prime-time talk shows in the US.\n\nTributes have been made on social media, including a tweet from fellow American actor Steve Martin, who described Grodin as \"one of the funniest people I ever met\".\n\nCharles Grodin had a career in acting, writing and comedy that spanned decades\n\nBorn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Grodin dropped his studies at the University of Miami to launch a career in acting.\n\nIt was a decision that paid off in the 1960s, when he started to land parts in plays on Broadway, including his debut in a production of Tchin-Tchin, which starred Anthony Quinn.\n\nHe soon moved to TV and film, building his profile with a small role in Rosemary's Baby, a 1968 psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski.\n\nBut the 1970s was the decade Grodin's career really took off. A series of roles in films including Catch-22 in 1970 and The Heartbreak Kid in 1972 cemented his status as one of Hollywood's go-to comedy actors.\n\nFor his role in The Heartbreak Kid - in which he plays an unlucky-in-love sporting goods salesman - he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for best actor.\n\nThe fact he didn't win the award may not have bothered him too much.\n\n\"I never complain about anything, because I'm aware of what's going on around me, and I'm also aware that there are a lot of very gifted people that never even get a job in show business,\" Grodin told the AV Club website in a 2009 interview. \"It's just because they can't handle the rejection, and I can handle it, and I'm used to it.\"\n\nGrodin played an angry dad in the 1992 film Beethoven\n\nGrodin had his share of success as well. He won best actor at the 1988 Valladolid International Film Festival for his role in Midnight Run. In that film, a 1988 action-comedy, he co-starred with Robert De Niro as an accountant who embezzled millions from a mob boss.\n\nGrodin also won an Emmy as a co-writer on a 1977 Paul Simon TV special, hosted his own 1990s chat show, and was a regular fixture on shows hosted by Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Jay Leno.\n\nOne of Grodin's most well-known roles was in the popular family film Beethoven in 1992. He plays a short-tempered dad who, to his fury, is bedevilled by a slobbering, accident-prone dog.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock says the Indian Covid variant is \"tending not to penetrate into older, vaccinated groups\"\n\nThere are now 86 local authorities with five or more confirmed cases of the Indian Covid variant, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\n\"This isn't just about Bolton and Blackburn,\" he said, referring to the areas seeing a spike in cases.\n\nIt comes as millions of people can now enjoy new freedoms as lockdown is eased in England, Wales and most of Scotland.\n\nBut the government has warned its next review of social distancing rules may be delayed.\n\nNo 10 said the Indian variant \"could pose a threat\" to the process of deciding whether all remaining lockdown restrictions could be eased on 21 June.\n\nMr Hancock told the House of Commons there were now 2,323 confirmed cases of the Indian variant in the UK.\n\nThis means there has been a 77% increase in confirmed cases of the variant over the last five days.\n\n\"There are now 86 local authorities where there are five or more confirmed cases,\" he said. There are 343 local authorities in England.\n\nMr Hancock said the Indian variant was now the dominant strain of the virus in Bolton as well as Blackburn and Darwen and was rising in all age groups.\n\nHe said most people in hospital in those areas had been eligible for a vaccine but had chosen not to have it - and urged anyone not sure whether to get jabbed to \"look at what's happening in Bolton\".\n\nBedford was also fast becoming a hotspot for the variant, Mr Hancock said, and surge testing would begin there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holidaying Brits touch down in Portugal: \"It feels unreal\"\n\nScientists believe the Indian variant does spread more easily, but early data suggests vaccines still work. The exact impact on vaccine efficacy - if any - is yet to be confirmed.\n\nPeople aged 37 and over in England will be able to get the vaccine from Tuesday, he said - and the rollout would continue to be expanded later in the week.\n\nThe lockdown changes on Monday - which are different in England, Wales and Scotland - have seen thousands of people heading off on foreign holidays, flocking to bingo halls and drinking inside pubs again.\n\nPeople have also taken the chance to finally hug loved ones as the guidance on close contact were changed. Hospital ward manager Viv Hudson, 58, wept with joy as she finally hugged her daughter, Theresa Fox, for the first time in more than a year.\n\n\"It's a bit weird - but a good kind of weird. I've missed this so much,\" said Theresa, 38, who also works for the NHS.\n\n\"It feels a bit naughty after all this time,\" says Theresa, 38, as she hugged her mum\n\nCinema goers in Cardiff wear masks and are socially distanced as they watch the Oscar-winning Nomadland\n\n\"While we can take this step today, we must be humble in the face of this virus,\" said Mr Hancock.\n\nHe pointed out that fewer than 1,000 people were now in hospital with the virus - the first time this has happened since last September.\n\nLatest figures show another 1,976 cases have been recorded across the UK and a further five people have died.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people who have received their first vaccine dose has topped 36.7 million, and more than 20.2 million second doses have been given.\n\nShould we be celebrating the easing of restrictions or worried by the continued spread of a new variant?\n\nThe big picture is we are in a much better place than the start of the year - when around 1.25 million people were estimated to have the virus and the NHS was feeling the pressure.\n\nNow there are fewer than 1,000 people in hospital with Covid - 97% lower than the peak.\n\nHowever, we are in a transitional phase as the burden of suppressing the virus is shifting from lockdowns to the vaccine. That process is not yet complete.\n\nIt means there is still the potential for a more transmissible variant to cause a spike in cases and people needing hospital treatment.\n\nThere is still uncertainty about how transmissible B1617.2 is and in turn how great a threat it poses.\n\nHowever, the planned easing in mid-June is already in significant doubt.\n\nThe government's plan was to end all remaining limits on social contact from 21 June - which would mean unlimited numbers of guests at weddings and nightclubs allowed to reopen.\n\nAhead of this happening, a review was set to happen by the end of May.\n\nBut earlier, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The Indian variant could pose a threat to this process - our decision will be based on latest data. We will set out plans as soon as the data allows.\"\n\nAsked whether ministers would consider a return to a tier system of rules, the spokesman said they did not want to talk about hypothetical situations but \"we don't want to rule anything out\".", "Jennifer Johnson denied perverting the course of justice in 1987\n\nThe ex-girlfriend of convicted Babes in the Wood murderer Russell Bishop faces jail after being found guilty of lying over evidence in his 1987 trial.\n\nJennifer Johnson admitted she lied over a sweatshirt found near the scene.\n\nThe 55-year-old said she had no choice after being threatened by her partner, but she was found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice.\n\nBishop was cleared in 1987 and not convicted of killing Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows, both nine, until 2018.\n\nJohnson is due to be sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Wednesday. Mr Justice Fraser said a custodial sentence was inevitable.\n\nThe jury reached a majority decision after 12 hours of deliberation.\n\nKaren Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows (right) were killed in Wild Park, Brighton, in 1986\n\nThe jury was told Johnson had lied \"prolifically\" and \"significantly undermined\" the trial in 1987.\n\nJohnson claimed she had acted under duress and \"had no choice\" but to lie during the trial more than 30 years ago.\n\nJurors heard Ms Johnson first told police a sweatshirt found near the scene belonged to Bishop, but later denied it in a witness statement and at his first trial.\n\nMr Justice Fraser said Johnson was \"infatuated\" with Bishop but the relationship had been \"problematic\".\n\nRussell Bishop faced a second trial in 2018 and was convicted\n\nKaren and Nicola's parents - Michelle and Lee Hadaway and Susan and Barrie Fellows - did not give up their fight for justice and in 1988 called on Sussex Police to reinvestigate the case.\n\nMr Fellows told the BBC at the time: \"There's a man out there (who) murdered two little girls.\"\n\nSome of the girls' family members wept as verdicts on Johnson were delivered.\n\nAfter his acquittal, Bishop went on to attack a seven-year-old girl on the South Downs in 1990. She was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and left for dead.\n\nBishop was sentenced to life in prison.\n\nHe was finally convicted of the murders of Karen and Nicola in 2018 following a DNA breakthrough that linked the sweatshirt to the girls and his home.\n\nMichelle Hadaway, Karen's mother, has sat through four court cases over the murder of her daughter\n\nFollowing Johnson's conviction, Libby Clark, senior crown prosecutor at the CPS, said: \"Jennifer Johnson's deception caused decades of distress to the families of Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway.\n\n\"Her actions were clearly those of someone who wanted their partner acquitted of murder, rather than a person living in fear.\"\n\nAfter the hearing, Sussex Police Ch Supt Nick May said Johnson's lies \"mattered\".\n\nHe said her lies had undermined a key part of the prosecution in 1987.\n\nDuring the trial, the prosecution claimed Johnson stood to benefit from Bishop selling his story as an innocent man to the News of the World for £15,000.\n\nAfter the verdicts, Nicola's family criticised the now-closed Sunday newspaper and said it \"provided encouragement for for Johnson to lie\".\n\nLorna Clary, Nicola's cousin, said: \"As a key witness in Bishop's 1987 trial, she [Johnson] lied knowing that there would be a huge financial reward if Bishop received two acquittals for the double child murders.\n\n\"He did indeed receive the wrongful acquittals. The News of the World got their stories. The perpetrators got their payday.\n\n\"Our two families were devastated again after those verdicts, yet on the same evening, Johnson and the Bishops celebrated with a funded champagne dinner at the Hilton Hotel. They should all hang their heads in shame.\"\n\nShe urged other historical murder families to \"take hope\", adding: \"The truth does eventually catch up with those who hide in plain sight.\"\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 government can keep the amount of public money spent on unusable personal protective equipment from two companies confidential, the High Court has ruled.\n\nThe Good Law Project and EveryDoctor are bringing legal action against the Department of Health and Social Care, claiming that contracts awarded to PestFix, Clandeboye and Ayanda Capital were given unlawfully at the height of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in April and May 2020.\n\nThe two groups allege DHSC has failed to provide proper reasons for why the contracts were awarded and say the government violated principles of equal treatment and transparency when making the deals, worth more than £700m.\n\nJason Coppel QC, for the groups, said approximately £595m was spent with PestFix and Ayanda, but it is not publicly known how much of this was spent on PPE which did not meet technical standards.\n\nThe breakdown of the spending on each type of PPE or the amount paid in pre-payments by the government to the companies has been kept confidential.\n\nThe DHSC argued they are commercially sensitive and Mrs Justice O'Farrell found the specific pricing details were not relevant to what the court has to decide and did not need to be disclosed to the public.\n\nA large part of the Good Law Project and EveryDoctor's claim is that the use of a \"VIP lane\" gave an unfair, unlawful advantage to some companies.\n\nDHSC is contesting the claim and has told the court that it \"wholeheartedly rejects\" the case against it.\n\nMichael Bowsher QC, for the DHSC, said in written submissions that at the time of lockdown and rising infection and death, it was their duty to secure unprecedented volumes of PPE and medical devices to save lives.\n\nHe said the government put together an unprecedented programme during a serious crisis when the pandemic had reshaped the PPE market.\n\nIn a statement, the department said the National Audit Office found no evidence ministers were involved in procurement decisions.\n\nThe case, which is being heard remotely by Mrs Justice O'Farrell, is expected to end on Tuesday next week.", "Traditionally, the biggest use of plastics is in packaging and it tends to be used just once before being thrown away\n\nJust 20 companies are the source of more than half of all the single-use plastic items thrown away globally.\n\nThat's the conclusion of analysis of the corporate network behind plastic production.\n\nThe study looked at approximately 1,000 factories that make the raw materials needed for single-use products.\n\nPlastic bottles, food packages and bags are among billions of items that are used once and then thrown away, often ending up in the oceans.\n\nThe research - carried out by a consortium including the London School of Economics - looked at which companies are at the base of the plastic supply chain and make polymers, the building blocks of all plastics.\n\nIt names 20 petrochemical companies which it says are the source of 55 per cent of the world's single-use plastic waste. The companies include ExxonMobil, Dow and Sinopec.\n\nThe study also assesses which countries generate most single-use plastic waste, based on per head of population.\n\nThe UK comes in fourth, with more than 40kg of plastic waste generated per person per year, the authors state, while Australia is top and the United States second.\n\nPart of the increase in demand for plastic stems from the need for masks and other protective and medical equipment to deal with the Covid crisis.\n\nPrevious research has focused on the impact of plastic waste on the natural world, or on the consumer companies making and selling consumer products packaged in plastic.\n\nBy contrast, this analysis tracks the flow of plastic through the supply chain, starting with the manufacturers of the basic ingredients that go into making single use items.\n\nThose ingredients, known as polymers, are mostly produced by processing fossil fuels including oil, gas and coal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Planet and Plastic: End of the Love Story?\n\nThe research was led by Australia's Minderoo Foundation and a consortium including LSE, market researchers Wood Mackenzie and the Stockholm Environment Institute.\n\nUS-based ExxonMobil is the biggest producer of single-use plastic, the report says, followed by: Dow, Sinopec, Indorama Ventures, Saudi Aramco, PetroChina, LyondellBasell, Reliance Industries, Braskem, Alpek SA de CV, Borealis, Lotte Chemical, INEOS, Total, Jiangsu Hailun Petrochemical, Far Eastern New Century, Formosa Plastics Corporation, China Energy Investment Group, PTT and China Resources.\n\nAccording to the foundation's director of finance and transparency, Dominic Charles, the research highlights \"how the future of the plastic waste crisis is in the hands of just 20 companies\".\n\nHe says: \"It's an extraordinary point of leverage for regulators, for finance institutions, to influence them in order that rather than producing from fossil fuels, they produce plastic that's recycled.\"\n\nHe adds that until now the emphasis of efforts to curb plastic pollution has been on the individual choices that consumers can make.\n\n\"But we need to go after the tap, to turn off the tap of fossil fuel plastics and we need to create plastics from recycled material.\"\n\nThe report finds that plastic production is set to expand by 30% in the next five years, increasing carbon emissions as well as creating more plastic waste.\n\nOne of the contributors is Prof Sam Fankhauser, a specialist in climate change economics at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.\n\nHe observes: \"Our reliance on oil and gas is not only fuelling climate change, but as the primary material used in the production of throwaway plastics also devastating our oceans.\n\n\"It is critically important petrochemical companies move towards circular economy-based alternatives if we are going to successfully tackle these interlinked crises.\n\n\"The benefits on offer are transformative and hugely beneficial, not only for our environment and ecosystems but also the communities living with the realities of plastic pollution.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe world's largest producer of plastic polymers, ExxonMobil, says it shares society's concerns about plastic waste.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"ExxonMobil is taking action to address plastic waste by increasing plastic recyclability, supporting improvements in plastic waste recovery - for example, through our founding membership in the Alliance to End Plastic Waste - and minimizing plastic pellet loss from our operations.\n\n\"We are also working on advanced recycling solutions that create and capture value from plastic waste with opportunities for lower overall greenhouse gas emissions over the full life cycle of the plastic.\"\n\nAnother large polymer producer, Ineos, was also asked for comment.\n\nAccording to its website, the company is working on ways to chemically recycle plastic, adding that \"the holy grail of plastic recycling is fast becoming a reality and will mean we can reduce our reliance on fossil fuels to make our products\".\n\nIt comes as Greenpeace reported yesterday that plastic waste collected for recycling from British households had been found dumped in Turkey.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Lady Sheridan had an asking price of £24.7m.\n\nWealthy people have so far spent more than £1bn on superyachts in 2021 as they seek to escape Covid lockdowns and travel restrictions, according to a luxury lifestyle publisher.\n\nBoat International said the surge is set to make this year the biggest yet in terms of second-hand sales.\n\nBut Oxfam said it was \"obscene\" that such wealth was not spent on vaccines.\n\nFor the cost of those superyachts, the population of Nepal could be fully vaccinated, the charity said.\n\nThe trend towards buying superyachts, which started last summer, is the \"hottest sales streak on record\", Boat International said.\n\nIt defines a superyacht as being longer than 24 metres and typically they need a crew.\n\nThese smaller superyachts - the bigger ones can be up to 180 metres - usually cost between €1m and €5m (£860,000 to £4.3m) second-hand, and have running costs of about €200,000 per year for crew, mooring fees and fuel, said Boat International editor-in-chief Stewart Campbell.\n\nThey can be kitted out with spa pools, sun decks, gyms, or anything else the owners want.\n\nThe sales surge was being driven by \"a cohort of very wealthy people\" who wanted to get away from travel restrictions and covid-related lockdowns by buying a yacht, Mr Campbell said.\n\nWhile the pandemic had made it more difficult for rich people to jet to the Mediterranean and cruise around, he said, \"it's a minor inconvenience in the scheme of things\".\n\nMore than 50% of superyacht sales are in the US, he said, so people there could cruise in US waters, avoiding travel restrictions.\n\nMany yacht owners \"did not want to go near land\" due to the pandemic, Mr Campbell added.\n\nHe said that it was a misconception that all superyachts were owned by oligarchs, and that the majority of people who owned them had earned their money ethically, and that many gave to charity.\n\nSuperyacht owners also contribute to the boat-building and tourism industries in places such as Germany and the Caribbean, he said.\n\nThe three biggest yachts sold second-hand this year were Solo, at just over £54m, Elixir, with an asking price of £33.5m, and Lady Sheridan, with an asking price of £24.7m.\n\nBut as superyachts go, they were tiddlers. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's superyacht is estimated to have cost about $500m (£350m).\n\nOxfam said the £1bn spent on second-hand superyachts in 2021 was enough to fully vaccinate entire countries.\n\nMax Lawson, head of inequality policy at Oxfam International, said: \"The £1bn spent in the last year by billionaires on superyachts is more than the cost of fully vaccinating a country like Nepal, where Covid is inflicting a terrible toll.\n\n\"It is obscene - a sign of a world that has its priorities badly wrong - that with so much wealth around poor countries cannot get the vaccines they need to protect their people.\"", "Spanish troops were sent to El Tarajal beach, near the Spanish-Moroccan\n\nSpain has deployed troops after record numbers of migrants entered its north African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.\n\nSome 8,000 people have reached Ceuta in two days, Spanish officials say.\n\nThey say the migrants - who include about 1,500 minors - either swam around the border fences that jut out into the sea or walked across at low tide.\n\nSpain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez has vowed to restore order. Spain says around half of the migrants have been sent back to Morocco.\n\nBy Tuesday evening, footage of the beach showed that nearly all migrants had been cleared.\n\nMr Sánchez travelled to Ceuta and Melilla to deal with the crisis, which exacerbated diplomatic tensions with Morocco.\n\nMorocco withdrew its ambassador for consultations after Spain's foreign minister told the envoy of her \"disgust\" at what had happened.\n\nMost of the migrants are said to be from Morocco. The Spanish troops have been deployed to the beach to help border police at Ceuta's main entry point - Tarajal, on the enclave's south side.\n\nDramatic scenes were captured offshore as families waded through the water and officers from Spain's Guardia Civil went into the sea to rescue young children.\n\nSpain's Guardia Civil posted pictures of a baby and toddlers being rescued from the sea off Ceuta\n\nInterior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said 200 troops, plus 200 extra police were going to assist Ceuta's normal 1,100-strong border force. The enclave has some 80,000 residents.\n\nBy evening reports said the number of people trying to enter by sea had decreased. Some migrants were voluntarily returning to Morocco while others could be seen being carried away by soldiers.\n\nSpain's Ceuta and Melilla enclaves have become magnets for African migrants trying to reach Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In May Spanish troops were deployed when thousands of migrants entered Ceuta, a Spanish North African enclave.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Moroccan security forces at Fnideq, the adjacent town to Ceuta, fired tear gas to disperse a large crowd of migrants at the border fence, AFP news agency reported.\n\nMr Sánchez has received support from senior EU officials, with European Council President Charles Michel tweeting: \"Spain's borders are the European Union's borders.\"\n\nEU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson described the number of arrivals in Ceuta as \"unprecedented\" and \"worrying\", noting that \"a big number of them [are] children\".\n\nAt the other enclave, Melilla, 86 sub-Saharan Africans entered on Tuesday via its southern jetty.\n\nMelilla has a formidable border fence, and several hundred more migrants were blocked by security forces, Spain's Efe news agency reports.\n\nSpanish officials quoted by Efe said Moroccan guards had helped the Spanish forces in Melilla.\n\nSpanish media said it was different in Ceuta, where Moroccan border guards stood by and watched as migrants took to the sea to try to reach the enclave.\n\nMost of the migrants were said to be young men, but there were also several families. Many had used inflatable rings and rubber dinghies.\n\nThey started arriving in Ceuta in the early hours of Monday. At least one died during the crossing.\n\nLast month, more than 100 migrants arrived at Ceuta's Tarajal entry point. Most were sent back, except about 30 minors whose ages were confirmed by medical tests.\n\nMigrants entered shallow water at Fnideq, a Moroccan border town, to get to Ceuta\n\nSince the 17th Century Ceuta and Melilla have been under Spanish rule, though they are long claimed by Morocco. They have semi-autonomous status, like some regions of mainland Spain.\n\nThe influx comes amid renewed tension over Western Sahara, a territory occupied by Spain until 1975, when Morocco annexed it. Since then it has been disputed between Morocco and the indigenous Sahrawi people, led by the Polisario Front.\n\nIn April, Spain allowed Sahrawi leader Brahim Ghali, 73, to be treated in hospital for Covid-19, reportedly in Logroño. He leads the Polisario Front, fighting for Western Saharan sovereignty against the claims of Morocco. The Moroccan government responded angrily and warned Spain that harbouring Mr Ghali would bring \"consequences\".\n\nSpanish Foreign Minister Arancha González said she was not aware of Morocco using the border issue to exert political pressure. But many see Monday's events, when Moroccan border guards appeared not to stop migrants from crossing, as evidence of a reprisal.\n\nSuch difficulties are likely to complicate the two neighbours' normally tight co-operation on the migrant issue. However, Spain says it has already repatriated about half of the migrants, following talks with Morocco.\n\nThe vast majority of those who reached Ceuta were Moroccan. Local police have clamped down on sub-Saharan migrants in northern Morocco in recent years, meaning they have sought other routes to Spain, such as across the Atlantic to the Canary Islands.\n\nThe EU border force Frontex reports that illegal migration to Spain's Canary Islands - off the Moroccan coast - has surged this year.\n\nHowever, the overall number of undocumented migrants reaching Europe so far this year remains far below the levels seen in 2015-2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aicha was found this year after three weeks drifting in the Atlantic trying to reach the Canaries", "Naomi Campbell was the first British black model to appear on the cover of British Vogue\n\nSupermodel Naomi Campbell has become the mother of a baby girl.\n\nThe 50-year-old announced the news on Instagram as she shared a picture of her hand holding the baby's feet.\n\n\"A beautiful little blessing has chosen me to be her mother, so honoured to have this gentle soul in my life,\" she posted on the social media website.\n\nDesigner Marc Jacobs was among those to congratulate the London-born model, who had not previously revealed that she was to become a mother.\n\nBritish Vogue editor Edward Enninful also offered his congratulations, writing: \"Seeing the two of you together made my year. You will bring each other so much joy.\"\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 naomi 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\nMs Campbell's mother, Valerie Morris Campbell, posted on Instagram: \"I'm beyond thrilled as I've waited a long time to be a grandmother.\"\n\nNo further details about the new baby have been made available, but during a 2017 interview with the Evening Standard, Ms Campbell spoke about wanting to become a mother.\n\nShe was quoted as saying: \"I think about having children all the time. But now with the way science is I think I can do it when I want.\"\n\nThe catwalk star was discovered as a schoolgirl and went on to become the first black British model to appear on the cover of British Vogue.\n\nShe is also known for her charity work, and in 2005 founded Fashion For Relief, a charity merging fashion and philanthropy.", "Sister Joanna Sloan received the first Covid-19 vaccine in Northern Ireland on 8 December\n\nMore than one million people in Northern Ireland have received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nThat is about 69% of the adult population.\n\nPatricia Donnelly, who leads NI's Covid vaccination programme, said she was \"determined to maintain momentum\".\n\nIt is almost six months since the first vaccine was administered to Sister Joanna Sloan at the Royal Victoria Hospital last December.\n\nThe 28-year-old County Down woman was applauded by colleagues after being given the Pfizer/BioNTech jab.\n\nMuch has happened since then.\n\nPatricia Donnelly said health officials \"will keep vaccinating people as quickly as supplies allow\".\n\n\"As we have stated, supplies are limited at present, but we expect that to improve in June.\n\n\"I would once again ask people waiting their turn to be patient. Keep checking the online booking portal as new appointment slots are being opened up on a regular basis.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccine effort ramped up with the opening of a mass vaccination centre at the SSE Arena in Belfast in March\n\nSeven vaccination centres were set up across Northern Ireland, while the SSE Arena in Belfast opened its doors as a regional centre on 29 March.\n\nGPs have also administered about 666,000 AstraZeneca vaccines, while the 350 community pharmacies have given out 47,000 of the jabs.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann received his first dose at his local pharmacy in Ballymena, County Antrim, in March.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Swann said he could not praise the programme \"too highly\", adding it was a \"massive logistical undertaking\".\n\n\"I have seen up close the dedication and the long hours that have been invested in making it work,\" he said.\n\n\"Vaccination saves lives. It is vital to our hopes of a better summer and of continuing progress against the virus. It has been central to the progress we have made.\n\n\"I would again urge everyone to get their first and second jabs when their turn comes. I am certainly looking forward to getting my second AstraZeneca jab in the coming weeks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUptake of the vaccine has been high in Northern Ireland, especially among older groups with 100% of those aged 80 and over having received it.\n\nIn the 70-79 age group about 96% have been inoculated while almost three-quarters (74.8%) of people aged 50 to 59 have received a jab.\n\nEarly booking for 30 to 39-year-olds opened this month and to date about 52% have had a vaccine.\n\nAlthough uptake has been high, it has slowed.\n\nIt is not clear whether this is to do with supplies or a reluctance among some people to get the vaccine.", "Counting has been slowed down this year by the Covid pandemic\n\nThe Conservatives have continued to sweep aside Labour in its traditional north-eastern English heartland.\n\nThe party lost control of Durham County Council, which it has run since 1925, losing 15 seats as the Tories took 14.\n\nThis follows the Conservatives winning the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election and receiving 73% of the vote in the Tees Valley mayoral election.\n\nBut, elsewhere, Labour has kept hold of its mayoralties in London and Greater Manchester.\n\nMost of the results of Thursday's local elections in England are now in.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have won St Albans council, Hertfordshire, which was previously under no overall control.\n\nAnd the Conservatives have taken Derbyshire's Amber Valley Borough Council from Labour.\n\nSo far, the Conservatives have made a net gain of 12 councils, while Labour has lost control of eight.\n\nThere was better news for Labour when Sadiq Khan was re-elected as London mayor, with the result coming late on Saturday, although his margin of victory over Conservative rival Shaun Bailey was not as big as opinion polls had predicted.\n\nThe party also beat the Tories to win the West of England mayoral election, and Labour's Andy Burnham was re-elected mayor of Greater Manchester in a landslide victory.\n\nBut Labour failed in its attempt to oust Conservative Andy Street as mayor of the West Midlands.\n\nAmong the results still to come are Bristol, where Labour is one seat off a majority, but where the Green Party are expected to do well.\n\nThe Conservatives would need to gain five seats to take control of Oxfordshire County Council, which is also expected to declare later on Sunday.\n\nThe results of the contest for the newly created role of West Yorkshire mayor will also be announced.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nThe elections are the biggest test of public opinion since the 2019 general election and the first electoral test for Sir Keir Starmer since he became Labour leader last year.\n\nBBC analysis estimated the Conservatives would have won a 36% vote share in a nationwide general election, if those who voted in England's local elections behaved in the same way.\n\nThe projection, based on detailed data from 1,000 key wards, estimated a 29% share for Labour, 17% for the Liberal Democrats and 18% for other parties.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said his party, which has lost a few council seats but held control of Cheltenham and Eastleigh, was \"moving forwards and making progress\".\n\nThe Green Party has picked up seats with 70 new councillors, with the party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, saying it felt like a \"green spring is happening\".\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 Conservatives picked up control of several councils, including Southampton, Cornwall, Nottinghamshire and Basildon, as well as winning Harlow from Labour.\n\nThe party also celebrated winning the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election on Friday, taking a Westminster seat which Labour had held since its creation in 1974.\n\nAnd it managed to keep the Tees Valley mayoralty - in an area once considered a Labour stronghold - with Ben Houchen increasing his share of the vote.\n\nLabour lost control of councils including Sheffield and Plymouth - although it retained areas including Liverpool, Manchester, Hastings and Exeter.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said Labour had been punished in Leave-voting areas by \"wrangling\" over Brexit in recent years.\n\nHe added that the Conservatives had also reaped the benefit from the successful roll-out of Covid vaccines.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Labour needed to be \"humble\" in the face of disappointing results, and would be carrying out a \"root and branch\" review of its policies.\n\nBut he added that the Covid crisis \"clearly has been a restriction on Keir being able to set out his own vision\" to voters in England.", "Jill Mortimer was elected as MP in Hartlepool with a majority of nearly 7,000 votes\n\nThe rickety folding tables looked like they could hardly cope with the weight of votes for the Tory candidate, and now elected MP, Jill Mortimer, in Hartlepool.\n\nThe result: more evidence for the Conservatives that they are digging further and further into territory where once they were total outsiders.\n\nThey didn't just win here, they romped home.\n\nHartlepool, as it's constituted now, has never had a Tory MP. It's also unusual that governments win by-elections - they are often moments when voters remind the administration of the day who is really in charge.\n\nBoris Johnson's party has also scooped up council seats in places like Harlow and Nuneaton, with swings - at what is still, remember, an early stage - that give the impression the Tories really are consolidating their dominance in England.\n\nDespite a bumpy few weeks, it's a reminder for the Tory party of Mr Johnson's record as an election winner.\n\nThe Hartlepool result is not a surprise for Labour. And it's important to remember that about 10,000 people voted for the Brexit Party in 2019 there, and at an early glance it seemed many of those voters switched across to the Tories.\n\nBut that doesn't mean it's not a setback. The result is more evidence of the long term shift in politics where areas that had chosen Labour for decades were less and less convinced.\n\nThat didn't start with Boris Johnson and didn't even start with Brexit.\n\nThe success of the vaccine programme has no doubt helped the 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\nBut Keir Starmer has questions to answer as well, even if results for his party in places like Trafford or Crawley come good in the long results process in the coming days. Why was a strong Remain candidate chosen for a seat were voters were massively in favour of leaving the EU?\n\nWould the party have been wiser to choose to hold the by-election on a different day to the Britain-wide ballots?\n\nBut beyond the local circumstances, even some of his allies would admit privately, the leadership has struggled to come up with a really compelling message that can grab voters, that magic ingredient that turns competent politicians into winners.\n\nThere'll be likely strife from the left in the next few days - several MPs, including Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon, front benchers under Jeremy Corbyn, already tweeting calls for a change in direction. One former member of the NEC this morning has even told me that the leader has to go.\n\nBut if anything, expect Starmer's team to make the case more aggressively that the party needs to change. Don't be surprised if there is a reshuffle, and a punchier approach to his critics on the left on the other side.\n\nRemember in all this however, we are in the early hours of a complicated and extensive set of elections. A lot still could change.", "The inquiry was launched in 2018 into a payment made to Stormy Daniels (pictured)\n\nAn inquiry into whether Donald Trump violated campaign financial law during the 2016 election has been dropped.\n\nThe case stemmed from an allegation that Mr Trump directed his former lawyer to pay Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress, to stop her speaking out about an alleged affair.\n\nThe lawyer, Michael Cohen, was later jailed on multiple charges.\n\nThe regulatory agency tasked with enforcing campaign finance law announced the case closure Thursday.\n\nIt came after the Federal Election Commission (FEC), which is split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, became deadlocked on taking action at a closed-door meeting in February.\n\nThe vote came months after an internal report recommended that there was \"reason to believe\" Mr Trump's campaign had knowingly violated campaign finance law.\n\nTwo Republicans who voted to dismiss the case said they had concluded it would not be \"the best use of agency resources\" while two Democrat-aligned commissioners criticised their decision.\n\n\"To conclude that a payment, made 13 days before Election Day to hush up a suddenly newsworthy 10-year-old story, was not campaign-related, without so much as conducting an investigation, defies reality,\" they wrote in a letter.\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\nCohen previously testified under oath that Mr Trump had directed him to make the payment of $130,000 (£100,000) just days before the election.\n\nMr Trump has acknowledged reimbursing the payment but denied the affair and any wrongdoing regarding campaign laws.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things Cohen said about Trump\n\n\"The hush money payment was done at the direction of and for the benefit of Donald J. Trump,\" Cohen said in a statement to The New York Times, responding to the case dismissal.\n\n\"Like me, Trump should have been found guilty. How the FEC committee could rule any other way is confounding.\"\n\nIn a statement issued through his website, Mr Trump thanked the commission for dropping what he described as a \"phony case against me...built on lies from Michael Cohen, a corrupt and convicted lawyer\".\n\nCohen, who once said he would take a bullet for Mr Trump, was given a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to multiple offences in 2018, including violating campaign finance laws and lying to Congress.\n\nLegal wrangling over the allegations involving Ms Daniels, who alleges she had sex with Mr Trump in 2006, were ongoing throughout the Trump presidency.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited the leaders of the devolved nations to a summit on how \"Team UK\" can recover from the pandemic.\n\nIt follows the SNP's fourth Scottish Parliament election win in a row and Labour's win in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nThe SNP's Nicola Sturgeon said there was \"no democratic justification\" for blocking an independence vote.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said talk of \"ripping our country apart\" would be \"irresponsible and reckless\".\n\nHe has telephoned Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford and Ms Sturgeon, who has confirmed she will attend the summit.\n\nAn SNP spokesman said Scotland's First Minister had \"re-iterated her intention to ensure that the people of Scotland can choose our own future when the crisis is over, and made clear that the question of a referendum is now a matter of when - not if\".\n\nIn letters sent to the leaders, the prime minister highlighted the Covid vaccine rollout as an example of \"Team UK in action\" and called for a continued \"spirit of unity and cooperation\".\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 SNP fell one seat short of an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament elections, but with eight Scottish Greens elected, Holyrood will have a pro-independence majority.\n\nScotland held a referendum on leaving the in 2014 - billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" event - with just over 55% voting to remain part of the UK.\n\nBut after the UK backed leaving the EU in 2016, Ms Sturgeon began pushing for another referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show she did not believe any bid for a second referendum would end up in a legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nShe also warned that any such move it would mean Westminster \"saying the UK is no longer a union based on consent\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says it would be \"absurd\" if things ever got close taking the SNP to court over a referendum.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said the SNP could not expect a second referendum to be approved as the party had not secured a majority in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHe said there was a \"significant difference\" between Ms Sturgeon's win and her predecessor Alex Salmond's majority in 2011.\n\nAsked whether the UK government would try to block legislation from the Scottish Parliament on a second referendum, Mr Gove said: \"We're not going near there.\"\n\nMr Drakeford, who is not pushing for more powers for the Welsh Parliament, urged the prime minister to \"reset relationships\" with the devolved administrations.\n\nNorthern Ireland did not have elections on Thursday, but Mr Johnson confirmed its first minister and deputy first minister would also be invited to the summit.", "Police investigating the death of community support officer Julia James have been granted more time to question a man.\n\nThe man, from the Canterbury area, and in his 20s, was arrested at 21:30 BST on Friday.\n\nMs James, 53, was found dead on 27 April in Akholt Wood, Snowdown, near Dover, having suffered serious head injuries.\n\nDetectives have been granted another 36 hours to question the man.\n\nOn Saturday officers began searching a house in Aylesham, about a mile from where Ms James' body was found.\n\nThis morning officers have been looking into drains at the property and searching through a skip.\n\nPolice have been searching a house in Aylesham\n\nMs James died from significant head injuries and had been walking her dog near her home at the time, police said.\n\nShe had worked for Kent Police since 2008, and her family said she was \"fiercely loyal\" and \"loved with her whole heart\".\n\nOn Saturday, Dover MP Natalie Elphicke laid flowers alongside other tributes to Ms James in Aylesham, and met officers involved in the investigation.\n\nMs Elphicke said she had spoken to officers from forces around the country, as well as specialist dog units and the British Transport Police, which were assisting Kent Police with the \"vital\" investigation.\n\n\"They've been working night and day, seven days a week, leaving no stone unturned,\" she added.\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke joined others in laying flowers for Ms James\n\nKent Assistant Chief Constable Tom Richards said: \"We continue to urge anyone with information, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem, to contact us.\n\n\"If you were in the Snowdown area between 1pm and 4.30pm on Tuesday, 27 April please contact us. This includes anyone local who may have seen something out of place at the time, or who came across someone who made them feel uneasy - such as feeling compelled to cross the road or change the route they were walking.\"\n\nJulia James' dog Toby was found next to her body, police said\n\nThe Kent force has been assisted in the investigation by a team of officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA), including experts in profiling, interviewing and psychology.\n\nNoel McHugh, from the NCA's Major Crime Investigative Support unit, said: \"The NCA is providing a significant amount of our niche capabilities in support of this high-priority investigation led by Kent Police.\n\n\"While we cannot go into any further detail in order to protect the investigation, I hope outlining the breadth of our work illustrates our commitment to seeking justice for Julia.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, police issued an image of Ms James in the clothes she was wearing before she was killed.\n\nThe picture shows her walking her Jack Russell, Toby, while wearing a light blue waterproof coat, blue jeans and dark Wellington-style brown boots.\n\nPolice said it was the same clothing, apart from the gloves, which she wore on the day she died.\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. Andy Burnham thanked his family in an emotional victory speech\n\nLabour's Andy Burnham has been re-elected as the mayor of Greater Manchester in a landslide victory.\n\nThe 51-year-old was backed by 67.3% of voters to continue as the region's mayor for another term.\n\nMr Burnham's popularity has seen him become the bookmakers' favourite to become the next Labour leader, even though he is not in the Commons.\n\nLabour candidate Paul Dennett was also re-elected in the Salford city mayoral election, with 59% of the votes.\n\nMr Burnham became tearful as he thanked his family during an emotional victory speech.\n\nHe thanked those who voted for him and promised to continue to be a voice for \"all people and communities\" and to adopt a \"place first\" not party approach.\n\nThe Labour mayor said his three priorities were \"better jobs, better homes and better transport\" as he called on the government to \"level up\" in the north of England.\n\n\"Where the government gets it right and treats us fairly I will work with them but where they don't I will challenge them as forcefully as I can,\" he said.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your English council or Scottish or Welsh constituency to find out. Eg 'W1A 1AA' or 'Westminster' A really simple guide to the 2021 elections\n\nMr Burnham said his victory sent \"a clear message to all Westminster parties... telling you to deliver more devolution\".\n\nHe said voters could \"see how it makes politics work better for them and that is reflected in the council votes across Greater Manchester\".\n\n\"Don't give us devolution and be surprised if we answer you back particularly if you do things here you would never dare to do in London,\" he said.\n\nAsked about any Labour leadership ambitions, Mr Burnham said the mayoral job was his priority and pointed out he had already unsuccessfully run for the job twice.\n\n\"I'm not just going to put myself forward unless they [Labour] needed me one day in the future, but we're not at that day,\" he said.\n\nAndy Burnham will be the mayor of Greater Manchester for a second term\n\nMr Burnham's closest rival was the Conservative candidate Laura Evans who received 19% of the vote, while the Green candidate Melanie Horrocks received 4.4%.\n\nHe won 63.4% of the votes cast in 2017 and turnout this year was up by about 5% on the last election, to 34.7%.\n\nMr Burnham's confrontation with the government over coronavirus restrictions in Greater Manchester last year saw him being dubbed \"the King of the North\" by one of the city's bars.\n\nHe also criticised the Tory government's initial response on financial support during last autumn's regional lockdown.\n\nAfter his very public row with the government last year, Andy Burnham was branded 'King of the North' and he may feel like that after increasing his majority at this election.\n\nWith the Labour party, nationally, wounded and weary, he's managed to win handsomely after a difficult first term which began with the Manchester Arena bomb and ended with a year-long pandemic.\n\nMr Burnham's opponents saw the recent crisis at Greater Manchester Police, where the force was put into special measures, as a last minute chink in his armour. His failure to end rough sleeping as promised was another attack line for other candidates.\n\nFor his part, the former Labour leadership hopeful made the reform of buses his key policy, promising to take back control of the network from private companies, and improve the experience for passengers as a result.\n\nMr Burnham is a rare political beast in the North of England these days, one who's recognised by those not ordinarily interested in politics. Local Conservatives feel the \"Burnham bounce\" as they describe it, also helped his party retain more councillors in key local election battles.\n\nIn the analysis of what's going wrong for Labour, focus will no doubt also fall on what Andy Burnham, and some of the party's other victorious mayors, appear to be doing right as well.\n\nIn the Salford mayoral election, Mr Dennett won the first round with 59% of the votes - an improvement for Labour on the 2016 result when voting had to go to a second round.\n\nIn his victory speech he asked party leaders \"to look not only to Salford but also to Greater Manchester under the leadership of Andy Burnham, where our losses have been more limited\".\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\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.", "Northern Ireland is now - by stats and numbers associated with the pandemic - roughly in the same place it was in September last year, before we entered the long, hard winter surge.\n\nAnd given the successful rollout of the vaccination programme, we're now in a much healthier place.\n\nInfection rates are generally low, as are case numbers; we have fewer people in hospital with the virus and the death rate remains quite low.\n\nNorthern Ireland still has the highest infection rate in the UK.\n\nBut it's not necessarily a high infection rate.\n\nData from the UK government for the seven days up until 2 May indicates the following infection rates per 100,000 population:\n\nThe Republic of Ireland does not publish its infection rate in the same manner, but it can be worked out. For the same seven-day period up until 2 May, it was 64.4.\n\nWales' rate is remarkably low and is undoubtedly tied to the very high vaccination uptake there.\n\nBut let's look closer at Northern Ireland's infection rate.\n\nIt may be the highest in the UK, but compared to previous rates it's still relatively low.\n\nWe entered 2021 with an infection rate of about 687 cases per 100,000 population - that's about 20 times higher than it is now.\n\nWhat we've seen recently is that Northern Ireland's rate has been more or less static, while the rest of the UK has seen slow and steady decreases.\n\nSo why is Northern Ireland's rate stubbornly staying higher than those in Great Britain?\n\nThe answer may lie in the fact that the rate in the Republic is now markedly higher than Northern Ireland's - cross-border movement is probably affecting Northern Ireland's rate, especially in the north west.\n\nThe Derry and Strabane Borough Council area has one of the highest rates in the UK. In fact, according the UK government's data for the seven days up to 2 May, it had the highest at 99.2.\n\nThe rest of Northern Ireland's council areas have a rate of 50 or lower.\n\nIn short, the high rate in Derry and Strabane is pushing up Northern Ireland's overall rate.\n\nOver the past week, almost a quarter of all infections in Northern Ireland have been in the Derry and Strabane area.\n\nAnd, in fact, the majority of the infections in the borough have been in Londonderry city itself.\n\nJust across the border, in east Donegal, you can find the areas of the Republic of Ireland with the worst infection rates in the state.\n\nThe Republic measures infection rates slightly differently than the UK, but right now, Letterkenny and Milford have infection rates about five times higher than Ireland's national rate.\n\nThe data also indicates the higher infection rate in the Derry and Strabane council area has been driven by teenagers and young adults.\n\nSo the figures indicate Northern Ireland's rate is being elevated by an infection hotspot in Derry, and most likely exacerbated by cross-border movement into another infection hotspot in east Donegal.\n\nIt is important to remember, however, that an infection rate is only one part of the picture.\n\nAt earlier points in the pandemic, a higher infection rate usually brought with it more hospitalisations and deaths.\n\nHowever, this is now not necessarily the case - and that's thanks to vaccinations.\n\nNorthern Ireland will soon have a million people vaccinated.\n\nThe latest number for individuals with a first dose is 963,531.\n\nThe UK's vaccine rollout has been very successful with two thirds of all adults having had a jab.\n\nAnd, obviously, Northern Ireland is part of that success.\n\nAccording to Our World In Data - a data research project based at Oxford University - there aren't too many nations in the world with a better rate of vaccination.\n\nInterestingly, one of the few places with a better vaccination rate than the UK is the Isle of Man.\n\nThe percentages of the adult populations in the UK and Ireland which have had a first dose are as follows:\n\nThe speed at which first doses are being given out in Northern Ireland has been fairly steady over the past few weeks at about 5,000 a day.\n\nNorthern Ireland - like the other parts of the UK - has been doing very well on second doses of vaccine.\n\nAbout half of those in Northern Ireland who have had a first dose have already had their second dose.\n\nHowever, it's expected Northern Ireland's vaccine rollout will slow down with the announcement that people under 40 are to be offered an alternative vaccine to the AstraZeneca jab, where possible.\n\nIt will be interesting to see how this change in approach affects Northern Ireland's vaccination rollout - so far the majority of doses given out here have been AstraZeneca.\n\nRecently the Department of Health has started to publish some vaccine uptake figures for age groups.\n\nMore than 43% of the 30-39 age group has now had a vaccine, although many of these people got their jab earlier in the rollout thanks to being eligible in another category.\n\nAlmost 20% of 18-29 year olds have had a vaccine dose, despite the fact this age group has not yet been called for vaccination.\n\nThis is because they met other criteria of eligibility such as being a healthcare worker, a care home worker, a carer or clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 has been around 70-75 for the past fortnight.\n\nThere have been small decreases and small increases during that time.\n\nThese numbers are quite small compared to the peak of the surge in January, when there were more than 1,000 patients in hospital with the virus.\n\nWe are also seeing quite a low rate of admission - about three admissions per day.\n\nAbout a quarter of those being admitted recently have been young adults between the ages of 20 and 39.\n\nThis is a higher proportion than at any stage in the pandemic and most likely reflects the higher vaccination levels among older people.\n\nThe number of people in intensive care units (ICUs) with the virus has also been very steady for a few weeks - between five and 10.\n\nNorthern Ireland's death rate is - thankfully - quite low, with a fatality expected every three or four days.\n\nBetween 11 January and 17 January, 160 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health.\n\nIn the latest seven-day period, two deaths were recorded.\n\nMoreover, our death rate has been at a similarly low level for nearly two months now.\n\nGreat Britain also has a very low death rate - indicating the effect the vaccination programme has had.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's death rate is higher, but has been falling in recent weeks.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency has also been recording steady but low figures in its weekly tally of death certificates which mention the virus.\n\nThe pandemic certainly has not gone away, but we have made impressive and steady progress towards a return to normality.", "As always, one of the biggest counts will be at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow - but it will be staggered over two days\n\nScots have cast their ballots in the Holyrood election, but don't need to stay up all night as Covid-19 restrictions have put paid to the usual overnight count. With votes to be tallied across Friday and Saturday, when will you know the result in your local area - and when will the overall winners be declared?\n\nCounting will kick off from 09:00 on Friday morning, with the Electoral Management Board projecting 48 of the 73 constituencies to be tallied that day.\n\nThe full lists can be found here, or you can look up your local results here:\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\nFriday's constituencies include both the most marginal and safest seats from 2016, and eight of the SNP's top 10 target seats.\n\nThese include the Labour defences of Dumbarton, Edinburgh Southern and East Lothian, none of which have a majority exceeding 3%, and the Conservative seats in Ayr, Edinburgh Central, Dumfriesshire and Eastwood.\n\nIf the SNP manage to pick off the lion's share of these seats, they will feel good about going into Saturday and winning a majority.\n\nAs always, one of the biggest counts will be at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow - but it will be staggered over two days\n\nThis will particularly be the case if they can gain ground without suffering defeats in any of their own more marginal seats - Angus North & Mearns, Moray and Perthshire North are those with single-digit majorities.\n\nThe reverse is also true of course - if the SNP struggle to gain many of these marginal seats or lose some of their own, the path to a majority narrows.\n\nBy the end of Friday, it should be fairly clear which way the wind is blowing - but there will still be plenty to play for on Saturday.\n\nIf all goes well on Friday, the remaining 25 constituencies will count on Saturday - with the most marginal contests being between the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nThe most marginal constituencies to count on Saturday are again SNP-Tory contests, with the SNP hoping to pick off Aberdeenshire West and Galloway&West Dumfries, both with majorities under 5%.\n\nIt is not yet clear how Covid-safe protocols will affect the speed of counting\n\nThere are a few chances for the Tories to fight back too, with the SNP defences of Perthshire South& Kinross-shire, Edinburgh Pentlands and Aberdeen South and North Kincardine all having single-digit majorities.\n\nOnce each region has declared all of its constituencies, we will also start to get results from the regional lists - which could be pivotal for the overall result, as well as questions over who claims second place and the fate of smaller parties.\n\nBefore we turn to the regional results, a quick note on how they are worked out.\n\nScotland is divided into eight electoral regions, with the 73 constituency seats scattered across them. Each region elects an extra seven MSPs from lists submitted by the parties - voted for via the peach ballot paper - giving a total of 129.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe idea of the list system is to make the outcome of the election more proportional.\n\nOnce the constituency results have been declared, you divide the number of list votes each party has won by the number of seats they have already won in that region, plus one. So if a party has won nine seats in an area already, their list vote tally is divided by 10 - making it 10 times harder for them to win a seat from the lists.\n\nThere has been particular focus on the list system in 2021 thanks to the emergence of some list-only parties which encourage tactical voting, leading to a debate over whether this is \"gaming the system\" or simply testing the limits of the rules.\n\nTimings for the counts remain very much up in the air, given we don't yet know how difficult it will prove to stack up ballots in line with Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nBut under current plans, with the exception of the big centres of Glasgow and Edinburgh, most of the count centres only have one constituency to finish off on the Saturday.\n\nThis means they could well finish up quickly - and indeed simultaneously, if there are similar numbers of ballots to count in each constituency.\n\nWhich regions will declare first?\n\nIt is hard to say, but the Highlands and Islands - normally one of the last regions to come back in an overnight count due to the vast and varied geography of the area - only has one seat to count on Saturday.\n\nSimilarly there will only be one seat left to count from the West Scotland region - so it is possible these two will be able to declare their full regional lists first.\n\nOther regions have at least a couple of constituencies still to polish off before they can run the equations and calculate list seats. Mid Scotland and Fife could be next in line with three seats to count, all at separate locations.\n\nHowever, this is largely guesswork, and a lot will depend on how the Covid-safe procedures play out at count centres. There will be four constituencies counting at the Emirates Area in Glasgow on Saturday, and three at Ingliston for the Lothian region.\n\nSouth Scotland also has four counts still to run on Saturday, as does North East Scotland - with two of the latter at P&J Live in Aberdeen, which may delay matters from a logistical standpoint.", "Boris Johnson's had a good set of results - but are there problems ahead?\n\nThis isn't a general election, where everything can change, where voters' choices can shift the course of the whole UK in a moment of decision.\n\nBut the scale of these votes means our politicians are being given much more than a flavour of the public's opinions right now.\n\nIt shouldn't be forgotten that many contests are yet to conclude - hand sanitiser, screens and social distancing have slowed the pace.\n\nMuch may yet emerge, but there are some observations worth making.\n\nIn Westminster, Boris Johnson has been through a torrid few weeks. But much of the country has just shown again that he is a magnet for millions of voters.\n\nLove it, or loathe it, which other political leader can you imagine having the bottle to pose next to a giant inflatable blimp of themselves?\n\nAs his political opponents have found to their frustration in Westminster, the prime minister's prowess as a campaigner sucks oxygen from everyone else - and goodness knows it must have taken a lot of puff to blow up that inflatable.\n\nSir Keir Starmer thought things could only get better after Labour's 2019 general election result\n\nIn contrast, Sir Keir Starmer has just enjoyed a few weeks of making the running in SW1. But much of the country has demonstrated once more that Labour turns swathes of voters away.\n\nCaution is still wise, hordes of results are yet to come, and for both of the big parties, and particularly the prime minister, the outcome of the Scottish results is possibly the start of a brand new nightmare.\n\nAs things stand, the chances of the SNP taking a majority all on its own are in the balance.\n\nWhatever the final details of the result, the situation is likely to be fraught - stand by for a battle of the mandates.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to strengthen the case for another independence referendum\n\nAnd all the parties have to grapple with the particularities of the electoral map. Whether it's the different scenario in Scotland, or contrasting results for Labour in Wales and England, or town and city, young and old, the jigsaw is becoming more, not less, complicated.\n\nFor the primary Westminster battle, however, it's clear the Tories have trampled further into areas where they used to be alien, more reward from a long-term strategy.\n\nLabour, even with its new leader who has been consistently at pains to show the party is different under his stewardship, has to grapple with a new horror - the thumping in 2019 under Jeremy Corbyn may not have been rock bottom.\n\nElections record only one moment in time - but these results shape the mood, the psychology of our political parties.\n\nFor the Tories, more than a decade in power already, they're defying gravity - these results argue for more of the same.\n\nFor Labour, the urge to change is more urgent - quite how is no easier to say.", "Blasts close to a secondary school in the Afghan capital Kabul have left at least 50 people dead and more than 100 injured, officials say.\n\nThe explosions took place as students were leaving the building on Saturday, with pictures on social media showing abandoned school bags in the street.\n\nMost of the victims were girls, a ministry of education spokeswoman said.\n\nNo-one has admitted carrying out the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi - an area often hit by Sunni Islamist militants.\n\nAfghan government officials blamed Taliban militants for the attack, but the group denied any involvement.\n\nThe explosions are believed to have been caused by a car bomb and two improvised explosive devices planted in the area.\n\nThe neighbourhood in western Kabul is home to many from the Hazara minority community, who are of Mongolian and Central Asian descent and are mainly Shia Muslims.\n\nAlmost exactly a year ago, a maternity unit at the local hospital was attacked, leaving 24 women, children and babies dead.\n\nThe exact target for Saturday's bloodshed is unclear.\n\nThe blasts come against a backdrop of rising violence as the US looks to withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by 11 September.\n\nA woman is carried to hospital after the attack\n\nReports from Kabul say the city was busy with shoppers ahead of this year's celebrations for Eid al-Fitr next week.\n\nStudents were also streaming from the school. Najiba Arian, ministry of education spokeswoman, told Reuters news agency the government-run school was open to boys and girls.\n\nMost of the those hurt were girls, who study in the second of three sessions, according to Ms Arian.\n\nSeveral witnesses described hearing three separate explosions, while one woman told AFP news agency she had seen \"many bloodied bodies in dust and smoke\".\n\n\"I saw a woman checking the bodies and calling for her daughter,\" the woman, Reza, said. \"She then found her daughter's bloodstained purse after which she fainted and fell to the ground.\"\n\nThe US state department condemned \"the barbarous attack\".\n\n\"We call for an immediate end to violence and the senseless targeting of innocent civilians,\" it said.\n\nThe European Union's mission in Afghanistan said on Twitter that \"targeting primarily students in a girls' school, makes this an attack on the future of Afghanistan\".\n\nSo many places in Afghanistan have endured so much pain, but the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood in Kabul has suffered horrendously.\n\nThe neighbourhood is populated by members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority. As followers of Shia Islam, the Islamic State group (IS) views them as heretics, and has carried out a vicious campaign, attacking the softest of targets.\n\nDozens have been killed in bombings at sports halls, cultural centres, and places of education in particular.\n\nLast year, and in 2018, IS suicide bombers struck tuition centres in the area killing more than 70 people. IS is not part of the peace talks between the Taliban and Afghan government, which in any case are currently stalled.\n\nAs of yet, there's been no claim for the attack on Saturday. However, IS continues to carry out assassinations and bombings in Kabul and the city of Jalalabad, despite having recently lost much of the territory it once controlled in the east of the country.\n\nYou may also be interested in...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Afghanistan, four women were killed for working at a TV station", "Steve Rotheram was first elected as mayor in 2017\n\nLabour's Steve Rotheram has been re-elected as the Liverpool City Region mayor.\n\nThe 59-year-old said it was a \"massive vote of confidence in the power of devolution and the work I've done so far\".\n\nMr Rotheram was backed by voters in the Merseyside boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral, as well as Halton in Cheshire.\n\nHe was elected as the area's first metro mayor in 2017.\n\nMr Rotheram said the government \"has to back further devolution\".\n\nHe won by a significant landslide with 198,726 votes - which was 58% of the vote.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your English council or Scottish or Welsh constituency to find out. Eg 'W1A 1AA' or 'Westminster' A really simple guide to the 2021 elections\n\nConservative candidate Jade Marsden came second with 66,702 votes, while the Greens took 40,211 votes and Liberal Democrats had 35,049 votes.\n\nLiverpool City Council said the voter turnout in the region was just over 30%.\n\nThe region significantly bucked the national trend where Labour faced defeats in former strongholds, prompting the party to say it will overhaul policies to reconnect with voters.\n\nMr Rotheram said: \"People aren't that bothered about happens in Westminster. Actually what people are interested in are their family, area, friends.\"\n\nHe said feedback from local residents had contributed to the ongoing rollout of a London-style publicly-owned transport system in the region.\n\nAlong with Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, Mr Rotheram had previously criticised the government's initial response on financial support during last autumn's regional lockdown.\n\nSteve Rotheram and Andy Burnham led criticism of the government's regional funding last year\n\nMr Rotheram was born in Knowsley into a Labour family with his father - a forklift truck driver - serving as a councillor in Kirkby in the 1970s.\n\nHe became a bricklayer after leaving school and set up his own company by the age of 22.\n\nIn 2002, he was elected to Liverpool City Council and was Lord Mayor during the city's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008-09.\n\nHe previously worked as parliamentary private secretary to former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and was Liverpool Walton MP in 2010-17.\n\nA majority of 132,000 - it doesn't get more decisive than that.\n\nYes, turnout was about 30% - but Steve Rotheram's victory is one he will celebrate as a vindication of the way he's performed as metro mayor, and the fruits of devolution.\n\nHe won 50% - or more - of the vote in every single part of the city region, more than last time.\n\nProof, he says, that his message of no-one being left behind has been heard by people from Runcorn to Southport.\n\nThe Conservatives came second in this contest… but a very distant second.\n\nNo sign of this red wall crumbling any time soon.\n\nOn Friday, Labour's Joanne Anderson was elected as the city mayor of Liverpool.\n\nThe councillor, who has represented the Princes Park ward since 2019, made history as she became the first black woman to lead a major British city.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\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.", "Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price says he has no plans to resign, despite his party's \"disappointing\" results.\n\nThe party has so far lost one seat and made no gains - although it has increased majorities in its heartland seats.\n\nEarlier the party's Ceredigion MP said: “Is it a disappointing result so far? Yes, of course.\"\n\nBut Mr Price said he had no plans to step down.\n\n\"I'm not walking away from anything, because this is the moment when Wales needs leadership,\" he said.\n\n\"We can move our nation forward, and I'm looking forward to playing my part, it's not something that anyone can do on their own.\n\n\"I have a role to play, we all have a role to play and that's what's exciting about politics at the moment.\n\n\"Wales is on the move, Wales is on the march. I'm going to be part of that.\"", "Clarke rose to fame by playing Mickey Smith in Doctor Who from 2005-10\n\nThe BBC has said it is \"shocked\" to hear allegations by several women that actor Noel Clarke sexually harassed them on the set of Doctor Who.\n\nMr Clarke played Mickey Smith in the BBC drama from 2005 to 2010.\n\nThe Guardian has quoted five women, including an unnamed actress, who it says have claimed that he touched them inappropriately or made sexual remarks.\n\nHe denied all the claims. He has previously \"vehemently\" denied sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing.\n\nThe latest reports come a week after 20 women told The Guardian that Mr Clarke, 45, had harassed or bullied them during his career as a TV and film actor, writer, director and producer.\n\nLast week, he said he understood that \"some of my actions have affected people in ways I did not intend or realise\" and said he was \"deeply sorry\" to those people. But he denied that his actions constituted sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing.\n\nNoel Clarke in a promotional photo for the Doctor Who 2005 Christmas special\n\nHe told The Guardian that he strongly denied the latest allegations. His representatives have not responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"The BBC is against all forms of inappropriate behaviour and we're shocked to hear of these allegations.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, we will investigate any specific allegations made by individuals to the BBC - and if anyone has been subjected to or witnessed inappropriate behaviour of any kind we would encourage them to raise it with us directly.\n\n\"We have a zero tolerance approach and robust processes are in place - which are regularly reviewed and updated to reflect best practice - to ensure any complaints or concerns are handled with the utmost seriousness and care.\"\n\nLast week, Sky \"halted\" its work with Mr Clarke, including on the fourth series of crime drama Bulletproof, while ITV dropped the final episode of his drama Viewpoint from its broadcast schedules. The BBC said it would \"not be progressing any projects with Noel Clarke at this time\".\n\nBafta has suspended his membership, weeks after giving him an outstanding contribution award, and the Metropolitan Police have said they have received allegations of sexual offences from a third party.\n\nMeanwhile on Friday, Doctor Who and Torchwood actor John Barrowman was said by The Guardian to have repeatedly exposed himself on set. It said that was regarded as \"larking about\" and \"joking\" rather than sexually predatory behaviour.\n\nA video of Mr Clarke joking about Mr Barrowman's behaviour at a 2015 sci-fi convention resurfaced and went viral last week.\n\nIn 2008, Mr Barrowman apologised for exposing his genitals during a live BBC Radio 1 broadcast. At the time, he said he \"was joining in the light-hearted and fun banter of the show and went too far\".\n\nIn a new statement to The Guardian, he said his \"high-spirited behaviour\" was \"only ever intended in good humour to entertain colleagues on set and backstage\".\n\nHe added: \"With the benefit of hindsight, I understand that upset may have been caused by my exuberant behaviour and I have apologised for this previously. Since my apology in November 2008, my understanding and behaviour have also changed.\"\n\nMr Barrowman added that he was never made aware of any allegations against Mr Clarke.\n\nMr Barrowman has not responded to a BBC request for further comment.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford at his count in Cardiff\n\nLabour has held on to power in the Senedd with a solid victory in the Welsh Parliament election.\n\nThe party held its ground against challenges from the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru to win 30 seats, just one short of the first-ever majority in Wales.\n\nAfter two days of counting, all 60 seats in the Senedd has been decided by Saturday.\n\nHere are some of the key numbers showing Labour's road to success.\n\nAs the final results came in on Saturday afternoon, Labour had won 30 of the 60 seats, matching its best-ever Senedd election result.\n\nThis is how the political map for the new Senedd looks. It was an election which eventually saw little change. Only three seats changed hands - those constituencies are shown edged in black.\n\nOn the share of the vote in the constituencies, both Labour and the Conservatives improved on 2016. The Liberal Democrats were the biggest losers, with only one seat in the next Senedd.\n\nSome target seats in north Wales were a pivotal point of the first day of counting on Friday.\n\nThe Vale of Clwyd was taken from Labour by the Conservatives by just 366 votes following a recount. It dealt a blow but was not quite the convincing one the Tories might have hoped for.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nShortly afterwards, Wrexham - another target seat for the Conservatives - was held by minister Lesley Griffiths, while Labour also held Delyn and Clwyd South.\n\nA \"disappointing\" day for Plaid Cymru was made worse by former leader Leanne Wood's crushing defeat in Rhondda as Labour won back a traditional Valleys stronghold to Ms Wood in 2016.\n\nLeanne Wood has been a Welsh Parliament member for 18 years before her defeat in the Rhondda\n\nThere was no comfort either in the size of the defeat, as Plaid Cymru saw its vote drop by 19% in the constituency.\n\nMs Wood, in her speech, said the result did not change the need to work for a \"better Wales and a better Rhondda\".\n\nLabour turned a tiny majority in Llanelli into a 8.7% swing in a Plaid Cymru target seat\n\nCurrent Plaid leader Adam Price won Carmarthen East and Dinefwr with a reduced majority but, despite also holding onto Arfon, Ceredigion, Dwyfor Meirionnydd and Ynys Mon, Plaid failed to unseat Labour in its main target of Llanelli.\n\nDespite no gains, Mr Price said the party had increased its share of the vote and that all the evidence showed its stance on independence was \"a net positive\" with voters.\n\nThe Lib Dems won just one seat in the last Senedd but Kirsty Williams, a former Welsh party leader and outgoing education minister, stepped down from frontline politics after holding the seat - Brecon and Radnorshire - since 1999.\n\nLocal councillor and one-time regional member William Powell was the candidate but the party lost a quarter of its vote in a 19% swing to the Tories as the Conservatives won with a majority of 3,820.\n\nA decade ago, the Lib Dems had five Senedd members. However just as the clock struck midnight, Welsh party leader Jane Dodds won a regional list seat, keeping a Lib Dem foothold in Cardiff Bay and ensuring the party - already without a Welsh MP at Westminster - was not destined for political oblivion on the national stage.\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", "Kaukab Stewart, left, and Pam Gosal, right, were elected as MSPs\n\nThe first women of colour have been elected to the Scottish Parliament in its 22-year history.\n\nKaukab Stewart of the SNP was elected to represent the Glasgow Kelvin constituency.\n\nAnd Pam Gosal is now a Conservative MSP for the West of Scotland region.\n\nPrior to the 2021 election campaign, there had been a total of four MSPs from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds - all of them men of Scots-Pakistani heritage.\n\nMs Stewart has run for election five times having been a campaigner for more than 20 years.\n\nThe 53-year-old teacher takes over the Glasgow Kelvin constituency seat from the party's Sandra White, winning with a majority of 5,458 over the Greens.\n\nShe thanked voters, saying it was \"an honour\" to be the first woman of colour to become an MSP.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kaukab Stewart: 'I may be the first, I will not be the last'\n\nGiving her acceptance speech, Ms Stewart, who is also the first Muslim woman to be elected in Holyrood, said: \"It has taken too long but to all women and girls of colour out there - the Scottish Parliament belongs to you too.\n\n\"So whilst I may be the first I will not be the last.\n\n\"I intend to be a voice for every single person in Kelvin that I've been elected to represent. Whether you voted for me or not, please know my door will always be open.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was 'thrilled beyond words' to see Kaukab Stewart elected\n\nArriving at the Glasgow count, Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"thrilled beyond words\".\n\n\"It has taken us far too long, more than 20 years. Party politics aside this is a really special and significant moment for Scotland,\" she said.\n\nLater on Saturday, Ms Gosal was elected as a Conservative MSP via the West of Scotland list.\n\nShe said it was a \"privilege\" and a \"great honour\" to be the first female MSP elected to the Scottish Parliament from an Indian Sikh background.\n\n\"We have certainly made history,\" she said.\n\nThe businesswoman thanked all those who had supported her, and said she could not wait to get to work. \"I hope I do you all proud,\" she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pam Gosal 4 Clydebank & Milngavie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCharandeep Singh, director of Sikhs in Scotland, said it was a \"monumental moment in Scottish Sikh history\".\n\n\"Sikhs have been in Scotland for over 100 years and it has been a long wait to see diverse representation in the national parliament.\"\n\nMs Gosal has previously spoken to the BBC about experiencing racist abuse throughout her life - but has said it will never stop her.\n\n\"I remember what mum and dad had told us: 'Just put your head down and walk past, and don't give them eye contact',\" she says.\n\nOffensive comments on social media platforms are something she has learned to deal with.\n\n\"Go back to your country\" was a recent one, she said.\n\n\"I was born in Scotland so I don't know what they were talking about,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Until now no women of colour had been elected to Scotland’s parliament in its 22-year-history.\n\nMs Stewart earlier told the BBC of her passion for politics when she stood for election in 1999 against Scotland's first First Minister Donald Dewar.\n\n\"The SNP was very different in those days,\" she said. \"We didn't expect to win, let's face it, however it did get me fired up - and that fire has continued burning for all these decades.\n\nMany considered the Glasgow Kelvin seat to be a two-horse race between Ms Stewart and Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie, who was bidding to be the first ever Green candidate to win a constituency seat in Scotland.\n\nMs Stewart said her victory had been a \"long time coming\".\n\nShe said: \"I can't believe we're in the day that we are and it hasn't happened. I do think it is a wee bit of a failure of all political parties.\"\n\nHumza Yousaf - who is one of the four men of Scots-Pakistani heritage - said that a record of \"no black MSP ever, no female BAME MSP ever\" was \"frankly a failure of all of us, regardless of party\".\n\nIn February Labour's Anas Sarwar became the first non-white leader of a major political party in the UK, and referenced \"rising injustice, inequality and division\" in Scotland.\n\nMr Sarwar failed to win the Glasgow Southside seat from Nicola Sturgeon on Friday, although there was a swing of 4.8% to Labour.\n\nReferring to an incident when she was involved in a tense confrontation with far-right candidate Jayda Fransen, Ms Sturgeon said she was \"proud\" that voters had rejected racism and fascism.\n\nDerek Jackson was suspended from the Liberal Party after he arrived at the Glasgow count wearing a yellow star and making saluting gestures before questioning the SNP's Humza Yousaf about events in Pakistan.\n\nMr Yousaf accused Mr Jackson and others of targeting ethnic minorities with their behaviour.\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\nMs Stewart told the BBC she watched the scenes at home, citing racial abuse as one reason why women of colour may be put off getting involved in politics.\n\nShe said: \"It's very disappointing to see however I was quite pleased to see they were dealt with quite assertively and quite quickly, and other political parties rallied round and made sure it was dealt with.\n\n\"There is no place for racism in this country and democratic procedures will prevail. People like myself, like Humza, like Anas and so many other candidates should be able to take part in this process.\"\n\nOther women of colour who ran in this election include Nadia Kanyange for the Greens, Aisha Mir for the Liberal Democrats and Deena Tissera for Labour.\n• None The women breaking the mould of Scottish politics", "The first day of counting in the 2021 Holyrood election is over, with the SNP dominating the constituency vote. The party won three new seats but failed to win some target constituencies, making it hard, but not impossible, to achieve an overall majority. Here's the story so far:\n\nNicola Sturgeon was re-elected as MSP for Glasgow Southside\n\nPolice were called to escort Liberal Party members away from the the Glasgow count\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nSIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage", "President Emmanuel Macron called for the US to drop restrictions on vaccine exports as a way to increase global supply\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has called on the US to drop its restrictions on the export of Covid-19 vaccines and ingredients.\n\nHis words came as a divide emerged between parts of Europe and the US over how best to increase global vaccine production.\n\nCurrently, around 1.25bn doses have been administered around the world.\n\nHowever, less than 1% have been given to the world's 29 poorest countries, according to news agency AFP.\n\nRich countries, by contrast, are speeding up their vaccination campaigns. In the UK , 67% of the population has received a first dose and in the US 56% of those eligible have had one jab.\n\nOn Friday, the EU agreed to purchase 900 million more doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, with the option for 900 million more\n\nSouth Africa and India argue that surrendering patents would mean the secret vaccine recipes would be released and other countries could start producing the life-saving jabs, potentially lowering the cost. India is currently in the grip of a devastating second wave, which yesterday alone left more than 4,000 people dead.\n\nThis week the US backed the proposed waiver.\n\nThe plan also has the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Pope Francis, who said on Saturday the world was infected with the \"virus of individualism\", with \"the laws of... intellectual property\" put \"over the laws of love and the health of humanity\".\n\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had hoped to get the European Union's support, speaking to leaders who had gathered together on Saturday via video call.\n\nHowever, he failed to secure the backing he sought, with EU leaders remaining sceptical. Mr Macron argued increasing exports and production was the best way to solve the crisis.\n\n\"The key to produce vaccines more rapidly for all poor countries or intermediate countries is to produce more,\" Mr Macron said.\n\nHe singled out the US in particular, calling on it to \"put an end to export bans not only on vaccines but on vaccine ingredients, which prevent production\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Macron had pointed to the fact that, so far, \"100% of the vaccines produced in the United States are for the American market\".\n\nThe US - which has pledged to donate 60 million doses from its stockpile of AstraZeneca in the coming months - has imposed curbs on the export of the raw materials needed to produce the vaccines.\n\nMr Macron noted the UK had also placed restrictions on vaccine exports. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has previously denied there is a ban, however publicly available information suggests vaccines are not being exported from the UK.\n\nGermany and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have voiced opposition to a waiver.\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\nMs von der Leyen told reporters waiving intellectual property patents would \"not bring a single dose of vaccine in the short- and medium-term\", while Germany said it was not patents which were hindering production.\n\nOthers have pointed to other issues with the waiver plan, which critics say strips financial rewards from cutting-edge drug developers.\n\nFor example, BioNTech, the German company which partnered with Pfizer, say validating production sites to produce its vaccine can take up to a year.\n\nIntellectual property describes creations, such as inventions, which are protected by patents, copyrights and trademarks. These prevent copying and allow the originator to be financially rewarded.\n\nPatents give innovating firms a short-term monopoly on production to cover the costs of development and encourage investment.\n\nBiotech firms argue that such protection has provided incentives to produce Covid vaccines in record times.", "In the Philippines, a second surge in Covid-19 cases is putting renewed pressure on the healthcare system.\n\nThe country currently has the second highest number of cases in South East Asia behind Indonesia.\n\nAnd with one of the longest and hardest lockdowns in the world, a crippling recession has forced thousands on to the streets in search of food.", "Having secured a fourth term in power for the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon is not short of things to do as first minister.\n\nShe has to form a government - that could be another SNP-only administration, unless she wants to explore a more formal arrangement with the independence-supporting Greens to secure an outright majority.\n\nShe has to reshuffle her ministers, with four cabinet posts - including that of health secretary - needing filled as a result of retirements.\n\nThere are also important decisions that need to be taken on coronavirus - with a further easing of restrictions due on 17 May, plans to reopen international travel to consider and concern over Covid cases in Moray to address.\n\nMs Sturgeon has insisted that dealing with the pandemic and its aftermath will be her immediate priority - although clearly she intends to press the case for another independence referendum too.\n\nThere are also formalities - being sworn in with the other 128 MSPs on Thursday, before putting herself forward in parliament for re-election as first minister the following week.", "Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond has failed in his attempt to return to the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHe launched a new pro-independence party, Alba, in March and had hoped to be elected as an MSP for North East Scotland via the regional vote.\n\nHowever, the party fell short of winning a seat in the region - picking up 8,269 votes, just 2.3% of the total.\n\nAlba had hoped to help secure a pro-independence \"supermajority\" but will not have any MSPs at Holyrood.\n\nBut Mr Salmond insisted Alba was \"here to stay\" despite the result.\n\n\"In only six weeks, Alba has established itself as a political force with which to be reckoned. Alba is now on the political scene and we intend to stay there,\" he added.\n\nMr Salmond had attempted to encourage independence supporters to give the SNP - the party he once led - their constituency vote, and Alba their regional vote.\n\nHe hoped that if Alba won enough of these regional list seats it could lead to 90 or more MSPs at Holyrood who support independence.\n\nAnd the party secured some high-profile defections from the SNP - including MPs Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey.\n\nMr Salmond was once the highest-profile politician in the independence movement.\n\nHe joined the SNP in 1973 while at university and was elected an an MP in 1987.\n\nSince then, he served two separate terms as party leader and was Scotland's first minister during the independence referendum in 2014 - stepping down the day after Scotland voted to remain in the UK.\n\nHe bounced back frontline politics in 2015 after being elected as an SNP MP - before losing the seat again in the 2017 election.\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 Salmond was cleared by a court of 13 charges of sexual assault against nine women in March of last year.\n\nPrior to that he won a judicial review case against the Scottish government after its handling of sexual harassment complaints made about him by two female civil servants was found to have been unlawful.\n\nThe situation exacerbated the rift within the SNP between Mr Salmond and his successor Nicola Sturgeon - with the pair, who had once been close allies, becoming embroiled in an increasingly bitter war of words.\n\nSpeaking on the Through A Scottish Prism podcast on Saturday, Mr Salmond said Ms Sturgeon had \"lost her nerve\" on Scottish independence in 2017.\n\nHe said: \"Nicola will prevaricate, Nicola lost her nerve on independence back in 2017 and has never recovered it, it's as simple as that.\"\n\nHe also accused the SNP of \"grand old Duchess of York behaviour\", saying they were \"going up and down this hill innumerable times\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she intended to hold an independence referendum once the Covid crisis had passed, adding that there was no democratic justification for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, or anyone else, to attempt to block it.\n\nGiven that there is now a bigger pro-independence majority at Holyrood than before, Mr Salmond said Ms Sturgeon and her government must deliver on the \"promise to take Scotland towards independence\".\n\nAnd he said there was \"no excuse for them not to do so\".\n\nHe also insisted that Alba had been \"vindicated\" in its strategy of encouraging voters to support his party on the regional list ballot.\n\nMr Salmond said that Alba had warned that SNP votes would be wasted on the list and \"elect zero SNP MSPs in almost every region and that is exactly what has happened\".\n\nHe continued: \"Yet again up to a million SNP votes wasted.\n\n\"In contrast in the constituencies unionist parties have been successful in persuading voters to vote tactically to stop the SNP in seats the SNP should have won such as Dumbarton and Eastwood.\n\n\"Yet while the Unionists voted smart the SNP persisted with the mantra of 'Both Votes SNP' knowing that it would fail to elect SNP MSPs, but worse than that, that it would allow Tory and Labour MSPs in by the back door.\"\n\nMr Salmond hit out at his former party and said: \"The SNP sent their troops over the top to waste their votes and it is Scotland and the wider independence movement that is the loser.\"\n\nDo you have a question about the Scottish Parliament election? Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The last few results are still coming in after a bumper set of local and national elections.\n\nWith ballots being counted over several days final results for some areas will be spread out over the weekend and into Monday.\n\nSearch below to find the result in your area.\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 Scottish and Welsh national parliaments and the London mayor and assembly have declared all their results.\n\nThere have also been council elections across England and Police and Crime Commissioner votes in England and Wales, and some areas may have had parish or town council elections, referendums on local issues and council by-elections.\n\nSome parts of England had four votes or more, as elections postponed from last summer were carried over to this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTravel disruption caused by the discovery of cracks in some high-speed trains is expected to continue this week.\n\nRobert Nisbet, of the Rail Delivery Group, said initial inspections of 183 trains taken out of service on Saturday should conclude by the end of Sunday.\n\nBut he warned that disruption was expected to \"carry on for a few days\".\n\nGWR advised against travel on Monday, while LNER urged people with bookings to check before they travelled.\n\nHitachi Class 800 trains used by the firms were taken out of service for safety inspections.\n\nAndrew Barr, CEO of Hitachi Rail, apologised to passengers and said the trains were withdrawn because of cracks found on the metal that linked the train's body with the underside of the train, known as the bogie.\n\nOn Sunday evening, the UK government asked Hitachi to set out a comprehensive plan to identify the extent of the cracking and outline a longer term repair strategy.\n\nWhile this sort of problem doesn't affect the structural integrity of the train - so it's not a danger to passengers - I'm told the risk is more about the possibility of something falling off.\n\nGWR is the most affected network. As the first operator in the country to introduce the Hitachi 800 in 2017, its trains are older.\n\nIts fleet of 93 is also much bigger than other operators', meaning more trains to check and fix.\n\nSome are already back in service - and we're told inspections should be done by the end of Sunday.\n\nAnd Hitachi Rail's boss told me the company would periodically reinspect the trains while a permanent solution is found.\n\nDisruption on long distance routes will go on for at least the next few days. That's partly because some trains and crew won't be in the right place.\n\nAlso, some carriages won't be able to go straight back into use because they need repairing. We don't yet know precisely how many yet. It's possible some which aren't yet showing a crack might also need remedial work.\n\nMr Nisbet, whose organisation represents train operators and Network Rail, also apologised for the disruption.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that rail firms were running as many services as possible, including rail replacement services, putting on extra staff at affected stations, relaxing ticket acceptance rules and offering compensation for delays.\n\nHe said it was \"gratifying to see the speed\" at which initial inspections were taking place but said it was impossible to say how long the checks would take. \"We don't want to rush it,\" he said.\n\nMr Nisbet said the cracks - measuring millimetres - \"didn't pose any particular danger to passengers\" but had the potential to develop if left untreated.\n\nThe Department for Transport said independent safety regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) will be closely involved in overseeing Hitachi's plans for safety inspections for the Class 800 fleet.\n\nRail Minister Chris Heaton Harris said: \"I expect operators to explore all options for replacement services to help people complete their journeys.\" He thanked passengers for their patience in the meantime.\n\nAnna Celac had hoped to see a friend in London\n\nInstagram photographer Anna Celac hoped to travel from Cardiff to London Paddington to see a friend she hadn't seen since last year.\n\nWhen she bought her ticket on Saturday night, she said the website she booked with didn't report any disruption.\n\nShe says she was disappointed when she had to cancel her trip, as the replacement bus service would have left her with too little time in the capital.\n\nOnly around 10% of Great Western Railway's long-distance services ran on Sunday, with a similar service expected on Monday, the operator said.\n\nGWR said customers for long-distance services should not travel on Monday and refunds would be issued.\n\nLocal services have been running, but they were expected to be very busy and rail replacement services were limited.\n\nThe company earlier said cracks were detected on \"more than one\" Hitachi 800 train, so all 93 in its fleet were being inspected as a precaution.\n\nIt comes after six of the trains were taken out of service by GWR last month after hairline cracks were found in the suspension system during routine maintenance.\n\nLondon North Eastern Railway apologised to customers, saying it was experiencing \"significant disruption\" due to the checks.\n\nIt is running a limited service on the East Coast Main Line, between Edinburgh, Newcastle, York and London, and will be unable to run trains between Edinburgh and Inverness/Aberdeen until Saturday 15 May at the earliest.\n\nLNER added that some services would also be cancelled on Monday - and passengers should check before setting off to the station.\n\nGreat Western Railway services in and out of London Paddington were cancelled on Saturday\n\nHull Trains said checks on its trains had been completed and services would resume as normal.\n\nBut the operator added it expected services to be \"extremely busy\" and could not guarantee that social distancing guidelines would be adhered to. Refunds were being offered for its Sunday morning services, according to its website.\n\nTransPennine Express said it was now running a normal service, but advised customers travelling between York and Newcastle to check for any knock-on impact before travelling.\n\nLNER passengers affected by cancellations can use their tickets on the following operators' services instead:\n\nRail replacement coaches are operating at York, Newcastle and Edinburgh, and also between Doncaster and Peterborough.\n\nLNER says affected customers' tickets will be valid up to and including Sunday 16 May, though new reservations will need to be made.\n\nGWR passengers can use their tickets on the following services:\n\nAre you a passenger who was due to travel on one of the affected trains? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows suspects of a wanted drug gang trying to escape police\n\nThe United Nations human rights office has strongly criticised a police raid against suspected drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro, amid allegations of abuse and extrajudicial executions.\n\nThe deadliest police operation in the city's history has left 28 dead, including a police officer.\n\nResidents say police killed people who wanted to surrender and entered homes without a warrant.\n\nPolice have denied any wrongdoing, saying officers acted in self-defence.\n\nRio de Janeiro is one of Brazil's most violent cities, and vast areas are under the control of criminals, many of them linked to powerful drug-trafficking gangs. Security forces are often accused of disproportionate force during their anti-crime operations.\n\nThursday's raid in Jacarezinho, one of the city's largest slums known as favelas, was carried out by about 200 heavily armed police officers and included an armoured helicopter with a sniper. The area is dominated by Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of Brazil's largest criminal organisations.\n\nA television helicopter filmed men jumping from rooftops, while desperate residents posted videos on social media showing intense shootouts as they claimed police had invaded their houses and used excessive violence.\n\nResidents in Jacarezinho protested on Thursday after the deadly police operation\n\n\"There are boys who have been cornered in the house and want to surrender,\" one resident said, referring to the suspects. \"And the police want to kill them. They have even killed some in front of us.\"\n\nIn another video, a resident filmed a police officer standing next to a house and said: \"They're cornering [the suspects]. They don't want to let the boys surrender.\"\n\nMaria Júlia Miranda, a public defender, said residents told her a suspect was killed in the bedroom of an eight-year-old girl where there were blood stains on the floor and on her bed, and that the family had witnessed the alleged execution.\n\nMs Miranda said she was \"shocked\" by seeing \"lots of pools of blood... and walls with bullet marks\" when visiting the favela. There was also evidence that the scenes of the killings were not preserved, she said, with bodies being removed. \"On these cases,\" she added, \"there was probably an execution.\"\n\nA suspect is alleged to have been shot dead in this child's bedroom\n\nHuman rights groups, including Amnesty International, said they had also received reports and images from residents saying that their houses had been invaded, and that the police had killed people when they already offered no risk.\n\n\"It's completely unacceptable,\" Jurema Werneck, executive director of Amnesty International Brazil, said in a statement. \"Even if the victims were suspected of criminal association, which has not been proven, summary executions of this kind are entirely unjustifiable.\"\n\nThe level of violence caused shock even in Rio, which for decades has been plagued by high levels of crime and police brutality. Between January and March, 404 people were killed in police operations in the city's metropolitan area, according to official figures.\n\nAlmost all raids happen in communities where residents are mostly black and poor, and some of the victims are not even suspects. Critics say the operations are often badly planned and frequently end in bloodshed while allegations of misconduct by officers are rarely investigated, with impunity virtually the norm.\n\n\"This kind of operation doesn't dismantle criminal groups, it only causes pain and distrust,\" Igarapé Institute, a Rio-based think tank, said in a statement. \"The social impact of this case is still unknown but will certainly last for years.\"\n\nPolice show the weapons they say were seized during the operation\n\nAmid widespread condemnation, the United Nations human rights office called for an independent investigation, describing it as a \"long-standing trend of unnecessary and disproportionate\" police operations.\n\n\"You have the institutions which control these operations... So, it appears that collectively, they are not succeeding in stopping these kinds of really disturbing, over-the-top, lethal operations. So something is clearly wrong there,\" spokesman Rupert Colville said in Geneva.\n\nThe officer killed was named as 48-year-old Inspector André Leonardo de Mello Frias, who was shot in the head while trying to remove a barricade set up by the criminals. Police have not yet identified the other people killed but said six suspects had been arrested.\n\nRodrigo Oliveira, a police chief, defended the police's actions, saying that officers acted within the law. \"The only execution that took place was that of the police officer,\" he said at a news conference where police displayed an arsenal of weapons that had been seized, including six assault rifles and a submachine gun.\n\nPolice say they launched the operation to serve 21 arrest warrants as part of a year-long investigation that suggested gangs were recruiting children, among other crimes. Experts again questioned the force used given that minors are used by criminals across the city.\n\n\"This is cruel, barbaric,\" Joel Luiz Costa, a lawyer from Jacarezinho, said in a video posted on Twitter. \"Twenty-five people or more were killed. Did it end drug trafficking? Will this end drug trafficking?\"\n\nThe raid happened despite a court ruling last June that restricted police action in poor areas of Rio during the pandemic unless it was deemed essential. The Rio state public prosecutor's office said it would launch an investigation while the police said they would also open an inquiry.\n\nThere has been no comment from far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. A former army captain, he supports changes in legislation that would protect officers from prosecution if they kill suspects, and has previously said that \"a good criminal is a dead criminal\".", "Mark Drakeford with two new Welsh Labour Senedd members Buffy Williams and Sarah Murphy\n\nLabour's response to the Covid pandemic helped the party retain power after it won the most seats in the Welsh elections, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nMr Drakeford is set to continue as Wales' first minister after Labour won 30 of the 60 Welsh Parliament seats.\n\nThe Conservatives had their best Senedd campaign with 16 seats while Plaid in third took 13 seats.\n\nWelsh Labour leader Mr Drakeford has said his next Welsh government would be \"radical\" and \"ambitious\".\n\nHe said people felt they've been \"kept safe here in Wales\" and that was a \"strong theme\" in the election.\n\n\"From the very first day of the campaign here in Porthcawl, people have been coming to the doorstep to tell us that they feel glad they've lived in Wales over the last 15 months,\" said Mr Drakeford.\n\n\"A government I lead will continue to follow the science to do what our medical advisers tells us we should do, and that does mean doing things in a way that continues to keep Wales safe.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government controls Wales' Covid response and the relaxing of restrictions - such as meeting inside pubs and restaurants and travel rules - has tended to have been more cautious in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford: \"We've got a record of delivery here in Wales\"\n\n\"But on other matters, our manifesto is a radical manifesto with a host of ideas that are ambitious for Wales,\" added Mr Drakeford.\n\n\"I'll be very keen to ensure that we give that the most powerful sense of momentum behind it to get those things happening here in Wales.\"\n\nLabour, who have been in power in Wales either in coalition or as a minority ever since devolution in 1999, did fall one seat short of the 31 needed for an outright majority.\n\nBut this is a feat no party has ever achieved in the history of the Welsh Parliament.\n\nFifty-two of the 60 Senedd seats were declared on Friday, with two final regional list results on Saturday.\n\nBoth the South Wales East and South Wales Central constituencies returned two Welsh Conservative and two Plaid Cymru Members of the Senedd (MS).\n\nIn South Wales East, Delyth Jewell and Peredur Owen Griffiths were elected for Plaid, while Laura Anne Jones and Natasha Asghar will represent the region for the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nMs Asghar has become the first woman of colour to be elected into the Welsh Parliament and she was welcomed by Welsh Conservatives' Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies.\n\nMr Davies was elected in South Wales Central alongside fellow Tory politician Joel James and Plaid Cymru members Rhys ab Owen and Heledd Fychan.\n\nLabour fell one short of an outright majority, but the Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds, who was elected as an MS for Mid and West Wales has said she will not be seeking a ministerial role, like her predecessor Kirsty Williams.\n\n\"I'm absolutely clear that I'll be working across parties and I need to focus on what we can deliver,\" she said.\n\n\"But it is it is the case, I hope that I can work with and I can influence other parties, predominantly Labour, in order to deliver some of those real liberal values\".\n\nFour parties are represented in the new Senedd, which features 34 men and 26 women. Nineteen of the 60 MSs, just under a third, are serving in the Welsh Parliament for the first time.\n\nConservative Gareth Davies, an NHS physiotherapist, won the Vale of Clwyd from Labour\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives will be the second largest party in the Welsh Parliament and made gains on both the constituency and regional lists, but failed to win some of its target seats needed to win the election.\n\nIt did take the Vale of Clywd from Labour for the first time in 22 years, but Clwyd South and Wrexham, which both voted Conservative in the 2019 General Election, remained red.\n\nThe party also took Brecon and Radnorshire from the Liberal Democrats and won eight seats on the regional lists, more than any other party.\n\nThe 16-seat total beats the Conservatives' best result in a Welsh Parliament election of 14.\n\nNatasha Asghar, Peredur Owen Griffiths, Delyth Jewell and Laura Anne Jones were all confirmed as MSs for the South Wales East region on Saturday\n\n\"The team has gone above and beyond and deserve great credit for the positive campaign we've run right across Wales,\" said leader Mr Davies.\n\n\"I am thrilled to see Natasha Asghar make history in South Wales East by becoming the first female from a BAME background to be elected to the Senedd.\n\n\"It's been an unconventional campaign and it's clear incumbency and continuity has played a significant part. To that end, I would like to offer my sincere congratulations to Mark Drakeford and Welsh Labour on a successful campaign.\"\n\nFormer Plaid leader Leanne Wood has been a Senedd member since 2003 before her defeat\n\nPlaid Cymru won 13 seats, but former party leader Leanne Wood lost her seat in Rhondda to Labour.\n\nThe party's MP for Ceredigion, Ben Lake said on Friday losing Rhondda was \"an absolutely terrible blow\" for Plaid.\n\nSpeaking after the final results came in on Saturday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam price said the Senedd would be a \"poorer place\" without Ms Wood, who served in the Welsh Parliament for 18 years.\n\nHe also extended his congratulations to Mr Drakeford.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford is set to remain as first minister of Wales as his party wins 30 seats in the Senedd\n\nHe added: \"Although disappointed not to be returning more Members to the Senedd, I am proud Plaid Cymru ran a positive campaign based on a transformational programme.\n\n\"Our Senedd group will bring renewed energy and fresh ideas, and I look forward to working with all my colleagues as we continue to build the case for independence.\"\n\nThere were no wins for smaller parties, including UKIP, Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party and Reform UK - in sharp contrast to the seven regional seats UKIP took in 2016.\n\nThe new Senedd chamber will be made up only of members of the traditional parties.\n\nBuffy Williams took back Rhondda for Labour, unseating the former Plaid leader Leanne Wood\n\nDespite fears that turnout could be exceptionally low due to the coronavirus pandemic, turnout for the election was the highest in the Senedd's history.\n\nAt 46.6% this was just slightly higher than the record high of 46.3% at the first Senedd election in 1999, but is significantly lower than turnout for general elections.\n\nFor the first time 16-17-year-olds were able to vote at an election in Wales, but less than half registered to vote for who could form the next Welsh Parliament.", "Boris Johnson, pictured on his first visit to Edinburgh as PM in 2019, has invited Nicola Sturgeon and other first ministers for a summit Image caption: Boris Johnson, pictured on his first visit to Edinburgh as PM in 2019, has invited Nicola Sturgeon and other first ministers for a summit\n\nBoris Johnson has written to Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford to congratulate them on their election victories and invite them to a summit on how \"Team UK\" can recover from the pandemic.\n\nHe said the people of the UK are “best served when we work together”.\n\nIt comes after Ms Sturgeon marked her re-election as Scotland's first minister by declaring there was \"no democratic justification\" for Johnson to block an independence referendum.\n\nThe prime minister earlier told the Daily Telegraph a referendum would be \"irresponsible\".\n\nIn his letter, he pointed to the vaccine roll-out as well as the support for jobs and businesses as successes for the union. He called on Sturgeon and Drakeford to \"show the same spirit of unity and co-operation that marked our fight against the pandemic”.\n\nA similar invitation is also being sent to the first minister and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland.", "Whether you want to watch, listen, or follow online, the BBC has you covered for all your election needs.\n\nResults for Thursday's elections in England, Scotland and Wales began coming in on Friday morning.\n\nThe BBC News website will have all the results as they are announced, with live results, and live pages with the latest reaction and analysis from our correspondents.\n\nThe BBC's Election 2021 results programme will begin later than usual, as the pandemic will delay vote-counting.\n\nThe programme will kick off at 09:00 BST on Friday and run until 22:00 BST on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer. It will also be available on BBC Two in the morning and BBC One from 14:30-18:00.\n\nHuw Edwards and Kirsty Wark will lead the show, co-hosted from London and Edinburgh, bringing the latest results, analysis and in-depth reporting from the BBC's election teams.\n\nThey will be joined by political editor Laura Kuenssberg, polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice as well as Reeta Chakrabarti and Lewis Goodall, and correspondents will be on the ground at closely fought council, mayoral and police commissioner contests.\n\nAs results are expected to continue coming in over the weekend, the special programme will continue on Saturday from 13:15 to 22:00. It will be broadcast on the BBC News Channel throughout the day, and on BBC One until 18:00.\n\nBBC local radio stations will carry results and analysis throughout the day on Friday and into the weekend, with special programmes across the network. You can find your local station's schedule here.\n\nOn BBC Radio 4, the latest results and forecasts will be broadcast on Friday on The World at One at 13.00 and PM at 17.00, presented by Evan Davis.\n\nOn Saturday from 07.00, the Today programme will have news and analysis, and Jonny Dymond will present PM later in the day at 17.00.\n\nAnd, as the inevitable fallout continues into the following week, the Today programme will be co-presented from Glasgow with Scotland editor Sarah Smith on the Monday, from 06.00.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live will have full coverage of the results across Friday and into the weekend. Reporters will be based at the key counts, political experts will explain the significance of the results and listeners will be sharing their reactions throughout.\n\nIn Wales, TV coverage will begin on BBC One Wales from 13:30 on Friday, with a special programme led by Nick Servini and Wales political editor Felicity Evans. S4C's coverage begins at 13:15 and is presented by Bethan Rhys Roberts.\n\nViewers in Wales who want to watch the BBC's election special with Huw Edwards and Kirsty Wark can see it online, on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer.\n\nBBC Radio Wales will have an extended election special with Gareth Lewis on Friday between 16:00-19:00, while on Radio Cymru Dewi Llwyd and Kate Crockett will present Etholiad 2021 from 13:30.\n\nAnd the Walescast podcast will provide a lighter look at issues and developments across the campaign.\n\nAll the latest results, news and up-to-the-minute analysis from our election teams in Wales will be on Twitter in English @walespolitics and in Welsh @BBCCymruFyw.\n\nIn Scotland, coverage begins on BBC One Scotland from midday on Friday.\n\nSpecial coverage will run on English-language and Gaelic programmes and platforms across Friday, Saturday, and into the Sunday if there are still results outstanding.\n\nBBC Naidheachdan will bring the Gaelic audience the latest news with a series of An La specials, and extended reports on radio, TV and online.\n\nViewers in Scotland who want to watch the BBC's election special with Huw Edwards and Kirsty Wark can see it online, on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer.\n\nFollow the latest results in Scotland on Twitter @bbcscotlandnews", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSergio Aguero made a mess of a Panenka penalty as Chelsea ensured Manchester City must wait a little longer to wrap up the Premier League title by fighting back to earn a dramatic win at Etihad Stadium.\n\nCity, needing three points to become champions of England for the seventh time, took the lead just before half-time through Raheem Sterling's close-range strike.\n\nAguero had a glorious chance to make it 2-0 from the spot moments later when Billy Gilmour fouled Gabriel Jesus, but the Argentina striker opted for a dinked effort that was easily saved by Edouard Mendy.\n\nIt proved a costly miss, as Chelsea improved after the break and equalised when Cesar Azpilicueta set up Hakim Ziyech to fire home from the edge of the area.\n\nThe visitors had two more efforts ruled out for offside before Marcus Alonso won it for them in injury time, meeting Timo Werner's pull-back and sending the ball looping over Ederson.\n\nThis was Chelsea's second win over City in the space of three weeks, following their victory in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley in April.\n\nThe two sides will meet again in the Champions League final in Istanbul at the end of this month.\n\nThis result can only give Chelsea extra confidence for that game, as well as providing a big boost to their hopes of a top-four finish, but in truth this encounter offered few clues to how their next meeting will be decided.\n\nBoth managers made numerous changes to the sides they put out for their respective Champions League semi-final second-leg matches in midweek - City boss Pep Guardiola made nine to the side that beat Paris St-Germain here on Tuesday, while his Chelsea counterpart Thomas Tuchel made five to the team that defeated Real Madrid on Wednesday - and the result was a disjointed performance from both sides.\n\nNo celebrations for City this time\n\nHundreds of City fans had gathered before kick-off to greet their players with fireworks and flares when they arrived at the stadium but their plans to celebrate a third title in four seasons in the same way are on hold after this result.\n\nThey could still be crowned champions before they play their next game, at Newcastle on Friday, if Manchester United drop three points over their next three matches in the next five days - but three United wins would reduce City's lead at the top to four points.\n\nEven with the title so close, Guardiola was expected to make changes to his line-up after the PSG game, but he also tinkered with his team's formation and playing style.\n\nInstead of their usual 4-3-3, and trademark patient passing and possession-based game, City lined up in a strange 5-1-3-1 formation and tried to get the ball forward as quickly as possible.\n\nThey failed to spark until a breathless spell just before the break, when Sterling put them ahead and Aguero should have doubled their lead from the penalty spot.\n\nGabriel Jesus was involved in both incidents, first brushing Andreas Christensen off the ball and sending over a low cross that Aguero mis-controlled into the path of Sterling, who passed the ball into the net.\n\nSoon after, with Christensen off the field receiving treatment, Gimour held back the Brazilian forward in the box to concede a penalty, and Aguero - City's record goalscorer, who is leaving the club at the end of the season after an illustrious decade in Manchester - stepped up, only to fluff his lines horribly.\n\nGuardiola's frustration at that miss turned to fury in the second half, firstly when Chelsea equalised and then when his side were denied a second penalty with the score at 1-1 late on.\n\nSterling went down in the box after a clumsy challenge from Chelsea substitute Kurt Zouma, but referee Anthony Taylor waved play on.\n\nWhile City and their fans were left to wonder what might have been, Chelsea offered more evidence of the improvements they have made since Thomas Tuchel took charge at the start of the year.\n\nThe visitors visibly lacked imagination for the first hour or so, and seemed to be badly missing the creative nous of the absent Mason Mount in midfield, but they were well-organised, apart from that madcap spell before the break, and always in the game at 1-0 down.\n\nThey came to life in the second half, again demonstrating their threat to City on the break and could easily have had more than just two goals.\n\nTimo Werner and Callum Hudson-Odoi both found the net at 1-1, only to be denied by the linesman's flag, in decisions that were a good deal tighter than when Werner's effort was ruled out for a clear offside early on.\n\nIt was an impressive all-round performance, that bodes well for Chelsea's attempts to win the FA Cup next weekend and secure a top-four finish before they can turn their focus to the Champions League final.\n\nWhat next? City head to Newcastle\n\nChelsea host Arsenal on Wednesday (20:15 BST) while City will have another chance to wrap up the title when they travel to Newcastle on Friday (20:00 BST).\n• None Manchester City have dropped eight points from winning positions in home Premier League games this season, last dropping more at home in the competition in 2008-09 (12).\n• None Chelsea's Thomas Tuchel is the fifth manager to avoid defeat in each of their first eight away games in the Premier League after Kenny Dalglish, John Gregory, Felipe Scolari and Chris Wilder.\n• None After losing his first three managerial meetings with Pep Guardiola in all competitions, Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel is unbeaten in his last four encounters with the Spaniard (W2 D2).\n• None Pep Guardiola has lost four home league games this season, twice as many as he'd lost in any other campaign in his managerial career.\n• None Manchester City have lost consecutive Premier League home games thanks to a goal scored in the 90th minute - as many as they had in their previous 235 Premier League games at the Etihad Stadium.\n• None At 91 minutes and 54 seconds, Marcos Alonso's winner was the latest winning goal scored in an away Premier League game against Manchester City since Paul Scholes for Man Utd in April 2010 (92:41).\n• None Manchester City have conceded at least twice in four consecutive top-flight home games for the first time since December 1978.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1, Chelsea 2. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Timo Werner.\n• None Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rodrigo.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by João Cancelo.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Reece James tries a through ball, but Callum Hudson-Odoi is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Jorginho tries a through ball, but Timo Werner is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None The biggest bank heist in British and Irish history is revisited\n• None What's it like to lose all your memories overnight?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 163 Palestinians and 17 Israeli police officers have been hurt in clashes in Jerusalem, Palestinian medics and Israeli police say.\n\nMost were injured at the Al-Aqsa mosque, where Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades as Palestinians threw stones and bottles.\n\nTensions have been rising over the potential eviction of Palestinians from land claimed by Jewish settlers.\n\nThe Red Crescent has opened a field hospital to treat the wounded.\n\nThe Al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem's Old City is one of Islam's most revered locations, but its location is also the holiest site in Judaism, known as the Temple Mount.\n\nThe site is a frequent flashpoint for violence, which unfolded again on Friday night after thousands had gathered there to observe the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.\n\nIsraeli police said they had used force to \"restore order\" due to the \"rioting of thousands of worshippers\" after evening prayers.\n\nPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, said he \"held [Israel] responsible for the dangerous developments and sinful attacks\".\n\nAn Aqsa official called for calm over the mosque's loudspeakers. \"Police must immediately stop firing stun grenades at worshippers, and the youth must calm down and be quiet!\", Reuters news agency quoted them as saying.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said 88 of the injured Palestinians were taken to hospital after they were hit with rubber-coated metal bullets. Police said some of the 17 officers injured needed medical treatment.\n\nAt least 163 Palestinians and 17 Israeli police officers were hurt in Jerusalem, emergency services and police said\n\nIsraeli Police at the site, which is revered by both Muslims and Jews\n\nThe international community also appealed for de-escalation on Friday, as anger mounted over the threatened eviction of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem's Shaikh Jarrah district.\n\nA US State Department spokeswoman said Washington was \"deeply concerned about the heightened tensions\". The European Union condemned the violence and said \"perpetrators on all sides must be held accountable\".\n\nThe UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, urged all parties to \"respect the status quo of holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City in the interest of peace & stability.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UN has said Israel should call off any evictions and employ \"maximum restraint in the use of force\" against protesters.\n\nThe League of Arab States, or Arab League, called on the international community to intervene to prevent any evictions.\n\nIsrael's Supreme Court will hold a hearing on the long-running legal case on Monday.\n\nTension has been high throughout the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.\n\nBefore the latest violence in the Al-Aqsa compound, there were Palestinian protests over Israeli barricades erected outside Jerusalem's Old City. There has been nightly unrest over possible Palestinian evictions in nearby Sheikh Jarrah.\n\nElsewhere in the occupied West Bank, two Palestinians were shot dead after firing at an Israeli military base on Friday. Earlier in the week, a Palestinian gunman killed an Israeli religious student and a Palestinian teenager was killed in clashes with Israeli forces searching for him.\n\nThe international calls for calm and restraint show recognition of the dangers if this escalation continues.\n\nAnd there is deep concern about what could happen on Monday.\n\nIsrael's Supreme Court is due to hold a hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah case as Israelis mark Jerusalem Day. The annual celebration of the capture of the east of the city during the 1967 Middle East War includes a flag march in the Old City that typically leads to clashes with local Palestinians.\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.\n\nPalestinians claim East Jerusalem as the future capital of a hoped-for independent state.", "Prince Misuzulu (centre) called for unity at his mother's memorial service\n\nThe eldest son of South Africa's late Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has been chosen as successor to the throne, amid a bitter family feud.\n\nPrince Misuzulu, 46, was named in the will of Zulu Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu - his mother - who died unexpectedly last week.\n\nSome family members openly voiced disapproval on Friday and the prince had to be led away by armed security.\n\nOn Saturday, the family held a press conference to say he had their support.\n\nSouth Africa's Sunday Times reports that the new leader's brother, Prince Thokozani, stood up to question the recognition of Prince Misuzulu as heir during Friday's reading of the will of the queen. He was reportedly shouted down by other relatives.\n\nThe reading took place at the KwaKhangelamankengane Royal Palace on Friday evening, and was televised.\n\nAt a press conference on Saturday, Zulu traditional prime minister Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi assured reporters the family had since come together and pledged their loyalty to the new king, according to TimesLive.\n\nQueen Dlamini-Zulu was buried earlier on Friday in a private ceremony in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province.\n\nShe had been appointed regent of the Zulus, South Africa's largest ethnic group, after the death of her husband the king in March.\n\nThe throne does not have formal political power and the monarch's role within broader South African society is largely ceremonial. But the Zulu monarchy remains hugely influential, and has a yearly taxpayer-funded budget of more than $4.9m (£3.5m).\n\nQueen Dlamini-Zulu died unexpectedly at the age of 65\n\nKing Zwelithini, who died from diabetes-related complications at the age of 72, had six wives and at least 26 children. But he picked Queen Dlamini-Zulu as his successor because she was the only wife with royal blood.\n\nThe queen's death, at 65, has triggered a power struggle over the succession.\n\nThe royal family has dismissed rumours that she was poisoned as a misunderstanding. The cause of the queen's death is yet to be announced.\n\nPrince Misuzulu is now expected to lead the Zulu nation of about 11 million people.", "Andy Street has been West Midlands Mayor since 2017\n\nConservative Andy Street has been re-elected as the West Midlands mayor.\n\nThe 57-year-old won in the second preference count, with a total of 314,669 votes.\n\nLabour's Liam Byrne was unable to make up the 55,309-vote deficit from the first round, picking up 267,626 total votes to come second place.\n\nMr Street, a former managing director of John Lewis, was first elected to the position in 2017 when he defeated Labour's Sion Simon.\n\nVotes were counted across the West Midlands, with the main count at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham\n\nFollowing the result, Mr Street thanked \"everyone who has put their faith in me\".\n\n\"I want to thank everyone else who's come on board over last four years, and shares our vision for and belief in the renewal of the West Midlands,\" he added.\n\n\"It's that growing sense of unity and purpose that makes me certain we will succeed.\"\n\nPM Boris Johnson visited the region on 5 May to show support for Mr Street\n\nMr Street said the region now \"faces serious challenges\" due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"But equally there is no question that the West Midlands will bounce back strongly, and that we will create the dynamic, meritocratic, inclusive society we all crave,\" he said.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Byrne said Mr Street's mother, who died of coronavirus earlier this year, would be \"watching down today with immense pride\".\n\nThe region's mayor represents around 2.8 million people across seven local council areas - constituent members of the West Midlands Combined Authority - Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton.\n\nThe role attracts investment, is responsible for training and apprenticeships, housing development and controls the region's transport budget.\n\nIndividual counts took place across the region, with a main count at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham.\n\nThe election saw a 31% turnout of eligible voters.\n\nAlso running, but eliminated after the first preference votes, were Steve Caudwell for the Green Party, Pete Durnell for Reform UK and Liberal Democrat Jenny Wilkinson.\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\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\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. Grant Shapps on the green list destinations: \"This is just a first step\"\n\nTwelve destinations have been put on a green travel list for people in England, meaning anyone returning will not need to quarantine from 17 May.\n\nA new traffic light system of rules means international travel will no longer be illegal.\n\nHowever, places on the green list - which includes Portugal, Israel and Gibraltar - have their own restrictions on who can visit from abroad.\n\nThe transport secretary said the UK approach was \"necessarily cautious\".\n\nBut the travel industry has said it is too cautious and called it a reopening of air travel \"in name only\".\n\nTurkey, the Maldives and Nepal will be added to England's red list of countries from 04:00 BST on Wednesday 12 May, meaning travellers from those destinations will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days on their return.\n\nThe biggest group is the amber list - which includes popular European destinations such as Spain, Italy and France.\n\nPeople returning from those countries have to isolate from home for at least five days - but Mr Shapps said no-one should be travelling to those destinations at the moment.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have not said when they might ease their strict travel restrictions, but Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said all four of the UK's chief medical officers agreed on the principles behind the traffic light system.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing, Mr Shapps said the changes were a \"tentative\" first step to opening up travel, as there remained \"concern about the resurgence of Covid\".\n\nMr Shapps said the \"success in combating Covid\" in the UK was \"not yet replicated in many places abroad\".\n\n\"We must make sure the countries we reconnect with are safe,\" he added.\n\nCovid tests will be required before and after travel.\n\nThe long-awaited restart of international travel is less throwing open the doors, more opening them a crack.\n\nThat's a deliberate decision by the government, which is hoping to reassure those who are nervous about opening the country's borders while also giving a small concession to the travel industry.\n\nSome in the industry are not impressed, calling the list a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nMany of the transport secretary's comments - he dissuaded passengers from travelling to amber countries and warned them to expect queues at the border - will be seen as trying to dampen down demand, just at the moment when the industry was hoping to start to ramp up.\n\nUltimately, the real test will be in a few weeks' time when the government will announce the green list for June. The industry will be hoping it's a little longer than this list.\n\nMr Shapps said people looking to travel overseas should check any restrictions that apply to new arrivals, and not book trips which do not include a refund should the Covid situation change.\n\nCountries on the green, amber and red lists would be reviewed every three weeks from 17 May, he added.\n\nSpain's ministry of tourism said the decision had no immediate effect with restrictions still in place for non-essential travel from the UK.\n\nBut a spokesperson said Madrid \"reiterates its conviction that this summer it will be possible for British citizens to spend their holidays in Spain\" and it predicts that in June \"we will be able to start the reactivation of international travel\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"No-one enjoys a holiday more\": A restaurant owner in Portugal is excited to welcome back tourists from England\n\nThe travel industry has been largely critical, with Airlines UK calling the move a missed opportunity and \"a reopening of air travel in name only\" which leaves the UK \"at risk of falling behind\".\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director of holiday firm Tui, said it was \"an overly cautious start\".\n\nEasyjet chief executive Johan Lundgren said: \"The decision to put so few European countries into the green tier is simply not justified by the data or the science and is inconsistent with the approach to reopen the domestic economy.\"\n\nTravellers have also been warned of queues at the UK border when they return.\n\nBorder Force director Paul Lincoln said the increased delays would be at each stage of their journeys, with staff required to check \"100%\" of all travellers coming through.\n\nRed list countries have the strictest rules, with only UK or Irish nationals and UK residents allowed to return. They must pay for a 10-day stay in a government-approved quarantine hotel.\n\nAsked what Turkey being added to the red list means for the Champions League final between Manchester City and Chelsea in Istanbul, Mr Shapps said fans should not travel to Turkey.\n\nHe added that the Football Association is in discussions with European football's governing body UEFA about the UK hosting the final.\n\nThe full list of 12 countries and territories people in England can travel to without having to quarantine upon return are:\n\nAre you planning to travel abroad? Or are you unable to because of the costs? 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 'No-one enjoys a holiday more than British people' Video, 00:00:44'No-one enjoys a holiday more than British people'", "Deputy leader Angela Rayner was the campaign co-ordinator for Labour through the local election period\n\nLabour's deputy Angela Rayner has been sacked from her roles as party chair and campaign coordinator following poor results in the English local elections.\n\nThe party lost control of several councils and suffered defeat to the Tories in the Hartlepool by-election.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to reshuffle his frontbench team in the next few days.\n\nMs Rayner will remain deputy leader of the party as it is a position directly elected by the party members.\n\nShe is also expected to be offered another shadow cabinet role.\n\nA Labour source said: \"Keir said he was taking full responsibility for the result of the elections - and he said we need to change.\n\n\"That means change how we run our campaigns in the future. Angela will continue to play a senior role in Keir's team.\"\n\nBut Labour's former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the decision to sack Ms Rayner was a \"cowardly avoidance of responsibility\" and accused Sir Keir of \"scapegoating everyone apart from himself\".\n\nAnd shadow cabinet source said they were \"totally shocked\", adding, \"everyone is gobsmacked\".\n\nLabour's shadow schools ministers Wes Streeting said he had a lot of respect for Ms Rayner adding that she had a \"big responsibility\" along with Sir Keir to \"lead the party to victory at the next general election\".\n\nHe said it was \"time to take a cold hard look at ourselves to make sure we are changing Labour for the good\".\n\nLabour's Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham spoke out against Sir Keir's decision to sack Ms Rayner, tweeting: \"I can't support this.\"\n\nSpeaking after his re-election on Saturday, Mr Burnham warned that Labour was still too \"London-centric\".\n\nMr Burnham said the party needed to connect with voters differently, and support more powers for English regions.\n\n\"I'm getting a bit fed up of saying this to them, but they really do now need to listen and make real changes,\" he added.\n\nThe results in England contrast to Wales, where Mark Drakeford led Labour to its best performance in elections to the Welsh Parliament, falling just short of an overall majority by one seat.\n\nLabour has been in power in Wales - either in coalition or a minority - for the past 22 years.\n\nThursday's votes, including council and mayoral elections in England, are Labour's first major test since its crushing defeat at the 2019 general election.\n\nInstead of recovering ground, the party suffered a series of setbacks in England, including losing overall control of councils including Durham, Sheffield and Plymouth.\n\nThe Conservatives also picked up control of several councils, including Nottinghamshire and Basildon, as well as winning Harlow from Labour.\n\nIn former heartland Tees Valley, Labour suffered a huge defeat to incumbent Tory mayor Ben Houchen, who increased his share of the vote to 73%.\n\nBut Labour did win mayoral contests in a number of areas, including taking the West of England from the Tories, while retaining others including London, Liverpool, Liverpool City Region, Doncaster and Salford.\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\nOn Saturday, the party's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Labour had to do more to listen to voters who had abandoned the party.\n\nHe added that the party needed to \"accelerate\" changes under Sir Keir's leadership, and would be launching a \"root and branch policy review\".\n\nHe contrasted the party's performance in England to a better showing in elections to the Welsh Parliament, where he said as a party in power it had a \"credible, radical policy offer\" to put to voters.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Sir Keir Starmer said Labour had \"lost the trust of working people.\"\n\nHe added the party had \"not made a strong enough case to the country\", but he took responsibility for \"fixing things\".\n\nFigures on the left of the party have accused him of not doing enough to challenge the government since taking over as leader last year.\n\nQuestioned about leadership ambitions, Mr Burnham said he loved the job he had just been re-elected to do and that was his priority.\n\nHe added: \"I'm not just going to put myself forward unless they needed me one day in the future. But we're not at that day.\"\n\nThe Labour leadership's response to poor results in England will be both political and organisational.\n\nThere will be a reshuffle of the shadow cabinet, and more staff will be moved out of London to regional offices.\n\nThe policies Sir Keir Starmer inherited from his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn will also be formally reviewed.\n\nLabour peer Lord Mandelson - who has advised Sir Keir's team - called for this review and envisaged the process running for 18 months to two years.\n\nLabour sources say that Sir Keir could use the exercise not just to distance himself from the 2019 manifesto, but to move away from some of the policy pledges he made in last year's leadership contest - which had been designed to appeal to the party's left.\n\nAmong those to criticise the party's direction under Sir Keir is Khalid Mahmood, who quit as a shadow defence minister around a month ago.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, he said Labour had been \"captured\" by a \"London-based bourgeoisie\" and had \"lost touch with ordinary British people\".\n\nThe Birmingham Perry Barr MP said the party needed to focus on supporting jobs, particularly in advanced manufacturing, in areas that felt left behind.\n\nAnd former leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has been suspended as a Labour MP under Sir Keir, said the party needed to present a \"real, radical alternative\".\n\n\"Offering nothing, offering insipid support for the government, causes people either to vote for somebody else or simply to stay home and disappear,\" he said.", "Lewis Hamilton took a 100th career pole position by edging out Red Bull's Max Verstappen in qualifying at the Spanish Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton's Mercedes was just 0.036 seconds faster than Verstappen, who was in turn 0.096secs ahead of the second Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas.\n\nFerrari's Charles Leclerc pulled out one of his trademark stellar laps on his last run to take fourth from Alpine's Esteban Ocon.\n\nThe second Red Bull of Sergio Perez took eighth, nearly 0.8secs adrift of Verstappen, with McLaren's Lando Norris and Alpine's Fernando Alonso completing the top 10.\n\nVerstappen had looked the man to beat going into the final part of qualifying after he set a stunning lap in the second knock-out session.\n\nHe was 0.5secs clear of the Mercedes on his first run and did not bother going out for a second, and even so the Mercedes drivers could only get to within 0.2secs of him.\n\nBut things turned around in the final part of the session and Hamilton pulled it out of the bag.\n\n\"P3 was looking really good, we have been strong all weekend,\" he said. \"I made some changes, I had a bit of anxiety about the changes we were going make. You always try to make them better but it's a bit of a gamble. It was my call in the end.\n\n\"We made this change and as soon as I got out it was immediately: 'This is the wrong way. That's why I was behind the whole way through qualifying.\n\n\"I was making changes all the way through to try to elevate the pace.\n\n\"I can't believe we are at 100. It's down to the men and women back at the factory who are just continuing to raise the bar and never giving up. It has been a dream to work these guys. Who would have thought when I made the move at the end of 2012 that we would get to 100? I am ecstatic, like it's my first.\n\n\"The set-up that I made I just had so much understeer. The car was very lazy and wouldn't turn around the corners in the way I wanted.\n\n\"I was making small adjustments within what we are able to change to get the car to turn and then it is just pulling everything together. It was my cleanest lap. I will always remember that.\"\n\nVerstappen said: \"Both laps were pretty decent, the second run was a little worse for whatever reason but second for us here on this track is very good today.\n\n\"We know they are hard to beat around here but to be that close I can be very happy with that.\"\n\nThe grid positions set up what promises to be another gripping race between Hamilton and Verstappen, who even after three races have made this a two-horse championship fight of remarkable closeness and intensity.\n\nHamilton's record would have seemed unthinkable until he started his run of success with Mercedes - and it is a remarkable achievement. He stands 32 poles clear of the next most successful qualifier in F1 history, Michael Schumacher.\n\nLeclerc had looked on the back foot in qualifying, slower than team-mate Sainz pretty much throughout.\n\nBut as he so often does he pulled out something special on his final run, when conditions changed and he was the only front-runner to improve his time and nipped ahead of Sainz by 0.12secs.\n\nOcon did a stellar job in the Alpine to split the Ferraris, again out-performing team-mate Alonso, although the veteran Spaniard will have been pleased to show the pace to get into the final part of qualifying for the first time since the first race of the season.\n\nRicciardo, who like Alonso has admitted he has been struggling to get the most out of his car for his new team this season, out-paced Norris for the first time since the first race of the season, although both had messy sessions that made a direct comparison difficult.\n\nAnd Lance Stroll was the faster Aston Martin driver in 11th, team-mate Sebastian Vettel managing only 13th, 0.1secs behind.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the Hartlepool by-election result is a \"mandate\" for his party to \"continue to deliver\"\n\nLabour is losing ground to the Conservatives in elections across England, in the first big test of Sir Keir Starmer's leadership of the party.\n\nThe first blow for Labour came when the Tories took a Westminster seat from it in the Hartlepool by-election.\n\nIt has also lost control of several councils, while the Conservatives have made gains.\n\nAnd the Tories won more than 70% of the mayoral vote in Tees Valley - an area that used to vote Labour.\n\nSir Keir said he was \"bitterly disappointed\", but pledged to lead a fightback for his party and to set out a \"bold vision\" in the next few days.\n\nMore than half the results from Thursday's English council elections have been announced.\n\nThe rest, as well as those for mayoral and police and crime commissioner contests, will continue to come in through over the weekend.\n\nAmong the details so far, the Conservatives have taken Pendle, Maidstone, Cornwall, Nottinghamshire, Basildon, Northumberland, Dudley, and Nuneaton and Bedworth councils from no overall control.\n\nThey also took control of of Harlow council, in Essex, from Labour.\n\nAnd Labour has lost Sheffield, Plymouth and Rossendale to no overall control.\n\nThe Green Party has increased its number of seats across England, while the Conservatives lost Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight to no overall control.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your English council or Scottish or Welsh constituency to find out. Eg 'W1A 1AA' or 'Westminster' A really simple guide to the 2021 elections\n\nConservative Ben Houchen was re-elected mayor of Tees Valley, which includes Hartlepool, receiving 73% of the vote. This involved a swing from Labour to his party of 23%.\n\nMr Houchen said there was \"pride returning\" to the area, adding that it was \"not true\" that the government had pumped lots of money into it over the past few years only because it was run by a Conservative.\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice, of Strathclyde University, said \"what was once traditional Labour territory\" in north-eastern England had \"now been well and truly painted blue\".\n\nIt is also choosing 35 police and crime commissioners, of which the Conservatives have so far gained three, for Dorset, Cleveland and Avon and Somerset.\n\nThe prime minister described results declared so far as \"very encouraging\" for the Conservatives.\n\n\"I think that's really because we have been focusing, as a government, on our priorities, the people's priorities, and bouncing back from the pandemic as much as we can and getting through it,\" he added.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nSir Keir offered a stark assessment of Labour's performance, which follows its worst general election outcome since the 1930s in 2019.\n\nHe told the BBC the party, which he has led for just over a year, had \"lost the trust of working people, particularly in places like Hartlepool\", adding: \"We have not made a strong enough case to the country.\"\n\nHe said that he intended to take \"responsibility for fixing things\".\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn criticised the party under Sir Keir for \"offering nothing\" but \"insipid support for the government\".\n\n\"We have to make a very clear pitch for what real social justice would look like,\" he told Channel 4 News. \"You don't succeed in beating the government if you agree with their strategy.\"\n\nBut Labour has won some key votes, including in Doncaster, where Ros Jones was re-elected as mayor.\n\nIt has also retained control of councils including Liverpool, Manchester, Hastings and Exeter.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, whose party has lost a few seats with more than half of councils still to declare their results, said it was \"moving forwards and making progress\".\n\nReacting to the gain in seats in Cambridgeshire, he added: \"If you want to beat the Conservatives, it's the Liberal Democrats that can do it.\"\n\nEngland is seeing a bumper set of local council elections this year, after polls in 2020 were postponed due to the pandemic.\n\nIn Scotland, parliamentary results will give an indication of the public level of support for a second independence referendum, as proposed by the SNP.\n\nMeanwhile, Welsh Labour is aiming to remain the largest party in the Senedd, where it has held power since the parliament was founded in 1999.", "There is one thing that Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson can agree on. That now isn't the time to have another vote on a Scottish referendum.\n\nThat is just about where agreement between arguably the two most dominant political figures in the country right now begins and ends.\n\nBeyond that, the first minister is determined before too long to push for a vote. The prime minister, is set on saying 'no'.\n\nThere is one thing they have in common too. They are both vote winners for their parties with big personal followings, who are defying political tradition, refreshing their parties' mandates to govern after over a decade in power.\n\nBut if the dispute between them over the future of the UK is ever to be resolved, only one of these winners can come out on top.\n\nFrom today, Nicola Sturgeon is cranking up her rhetoric, suggesting that Boris Johnson is a democracy denier, set on turning down the desire of what she always terms the people of Scotland, who have expressed their wish for another vote.\n\nSome of her backers, and also some of Mr Johnson's allies, believe that saying a simple blank refusal of another referendum could stoke up support for Scotland going it on its own further.\n\nWhile she fell short of achieving the high bar of a majority for the SNP on its own, with the Green Party, the Scottish Party does have a majority who want independence.\n\nThe SNP is totally dominant in terms of seats. And the parties promising another referendum won. Those parties who vowed to block one lost.\n\nBoris Johnson will resist granting such a vote at all costs, and is keen, for now at least to keep the argument calm.\n\nIn his armoury, the legal and technical reality that the law, specifically Schedule 5, Part 1 of the Scotland Act (with which you may get familiar in the coming months, I promise) says in black and white that the constitution is a \"reserved matter\".\n\nIn other words, anything change to how the country is run, or who is in charge is a decision to be made by politicians from all parts of the United Kingdom who occupy the green benches in Parliament.\n\nIf you want to take a look for yourself, it's here.\n\nLegal experts aren't quite sure however how this would be interpreted in the courts in the rather likely scenario that the situation ends up there one way or another.\n\nWhile the first minister has the Parliament on her side, and Boris Johnson has the power and the legal backing as it stands to say no, they both have difficulties too.\n\nNicola Sturgeon can say the Parliament of Scotland is pro-independence, but she knows very well that its people are almost exactly divided.\n\nAs Professor John Curtice, the polling guru explains, \"It looks as though the SNP plus the Greens are heading for 49% of the constituency vote, and that the SNP plus the Greens and Alba may win 51% of the list vote.\n\n\"In truth, the only safe conclusion one can draw from these results is that Scotland is indeed divided down the middle on the constitutional question.\"\n\nShe has a reliable majority for a referendum in the Parliament, but not when it comes to the public.\n\nThe possibility of another referendum delights some voters, but it creates dread for others.\n\nAnd she will be reminded again and again by unionists that in 2014, she and other figures said the referendum then was a \"once in a generation\".\n\nConversely, Mr Johnson might find that a flat 'no' to a request from Holyrood proves the SNP's case that the UK government just doesn't listen - that's long been a sentiment that has driven some Scots towards to the case for independence.\n\nAnd while Downing Street is extremely sure that it doesn't want to grant another referendum, it's less sure how to it can increase support for the union.\n\nThe issue has been discussed more regularly than in recent years, there are promises of a new attitude, new spending, and a new focus on proving the case for the UK.\n\nBut while there does seem to be a genuine realisation in Tory circles that 'something must be done', quite what, and how compelling it might be, that's still rather vague.\n\nNeither the prime minister, nor the first minister want to join in full battle on this now. But it's a fight delayed, not a fight that's disappeared.\n\nBoth successful leaders, both in an uncomfortable status quo, and for that to change, would mean one of them would have to fail.\n\nP.s. Without question one of the things this complicated set of results has had in common, is that politicians have prospered where they made a big feature of standing up for their areas.\n\nWhether it's Ms Sturgeon's prominent role, and her constant vocabulary about acting for the 'people of Scotland', Andy Burnham's striking words about Manchester, Mark Drakeford in Wales, Ben Houchen in Tees Valley, Andy Street in the West Midlands - the list goes on.\n\nPerhaps, that's down in part to voters rallying behind leaders who have seen them through the pandemic.\n\nCertainly, the emergency has demonstrated more than before the responsibilities that leaders with devolved powers have, and how they can use them.\n\nFrom a purely political point of view, it's given them a platform.\n\nBut there is something else going on perhaps too. Irrespective of party, irrespective of the pandemic, politicians who define themselves against Westminster, who spend time and effort building popularity and profile among their voters are doing well.\n\nShowing up, being visible, and shouting loud on smaller political stages is having an effect on big national results.\n\nAs Westminster politicians look on with some envy, we'll return to this theme before too long!", "Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross was on his party's list in the Highlands and Islands region\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have matched their best performance in the Scottish election, winning 31 seats.\n\nThe party picked up two seats on the regional lists, offsetting the loss of two constituencies.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross took over the party in August last year.\n\nHe said he would continue to fight SNP plans for an independence referendum in the new parliamentary term.\n\nThe Conservatives finished on the same total as 2016, winning a total of 31 seats.\n\nThe SNP's former Westminster leader Angus Robertson took Edinburgh Central, beating Scott Douglas, who was seeking to hold Ruth Davidson's former seat.\n\nJohn Scott lost his Ayr constituency to the SNP's Siobhian Brown.\n\nMr Ross will re-enter Holyrood on the Highlands and Islands regional list as his party upped its number of MSPs in the area.\n\nHe had previously been elected an MSP in 2016 before resigning his seat after winning Moray in the 2017 Westminster election.\n\nMr Ross said he was not going to hide from the \"crucial debate\" on independence.\n\n\"But what I am going to put forward is a positive vision for our country, what we really can deliver as a whole parliament, as a whole country to secure the recovery that people here in Scotland desperately need after the 12 months we have been through together,\" he said.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. More information about these elections Who won in my area? Enter your postcode, or the name of your English council or Scottish or Welsh constituency to find out. Eg 'W1A 1AA' or 'Westminster' A really simple guide to the 2021 elections\n\nMr Ross refused to be drawn on whether he would support legal action against a second independence referendum after Nicola Sturgeon pledged to \"proceed with the legislation that is necessary\".\n\nIf Boris Johnson tried to stop it, she added, he would need to go to the Supreme Court.\n\nMr Ross said he would be supporting \"protecting people's jobs, investing in the NHS, raising our education standards\" among other things which can currently be pursued in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHe also reiterated he would continue to serve as an MP alongside his new position in Holyrood.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We have had six weeks of extremely competitive and at times divisive debate, but I believe now people are looking for their MSPs, both in this region and across Scotland, to work together - to show the same unity that people across this country have shown in coming through the worst of this pandemic so far and looking towards our recovery as a country.\"\n\nIn his victory speech, Mr Ross said: \"This region is so important to me, I've lived within the Highlands and Islands in Moray, my entire life.\n\n\"I've had the great pleasure and privilege to represent this area before and I am delighted to be returned again to represent this diverse and wonderful part of Scotland.\"", "The Post Office says it will help clear the names of hundreds of former sub-postmasters it wrongly took to court.\n\nThey were prosecuted based on evidence from the flawed Horizon system the Post Office installed in branches.\n\nIt is now contacting 540 former workers with potentially relevant convictions, and seeking further information in another 100 cases.\n\nLast month, 39 ex-staff had convictions for stealing quashed in court.\n\nBarrister Flora Page, who represented three of the appellants, called the letters from the Post Office \"a direct result of the resounding judgment in the Court of Appeal\".\n\nA Post Office spokesman said it \"sincerely apologises for serious historical failures\".\n\n\"We continue to take determined action for people affected,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The Post Office has made strenuous efforts to identify individuals who were historically convicted and an extensive post-conviction disclosure exercise is taking place to identify and disclose all material which might affect the safety of those convictions.\"\n\nBetween 2000 and 2014, the Post Office prosecuted 736 sub-postmasters based on information from the flawed computer system, which wrongly showed shortfalls in the sub-postmasters' accounts.\n\nSome staff went to prison following convictions for false accounting, theft and fraud.\n\nOthers were financially ruined and have described being shunned by their communities. Some of those who may have been wrongfully prosecuted have since died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It was all about clearing my name - I'm not a thief\": Former Post Office workers react outside court\n\nThe clearing of the names of the 39 former staff came after six other convictions were overturned in December, meaning that more people have been affected than in any other miscarriage of justice in the UK.\n\nMs Page told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a judge-led inquiry into the scandal is \"exactly what is required\", as the current government-led inquiry was \"not empowered\" to \"do what it needs to do\".\n\nThe government has said it will not extend the remit of its inquiry, which is expected to report in the summer. The current inquiry cannot compel witnesses to attend or hand over evidence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM calls the jailing of postal staff “one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in our history\"\n\nAsked if other parties - such as the Horizon's developers, Fujitsu - should be held accountable, Ms Page added: \"I think there will be malicious prosecution claims.\n\n\"That's one of the reasons why the Post Office contested the appeals in the way that they did.\n\n\"They only accepted the limited argument. They didn't accept the wider argument that their prosecution regime was a wider affront to the public conscience.\n\n\"And they resisted that because they had an eye to the fact that malicious prosecution claims would be coming down the line and of course not just the 39, but now as we see it, hundreds and hundreds of them.\"\n\nAre you a former Post Officer worker who has been affected by this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Polls have closed in the Scottish Parliament election, with counting taking place over Friday and Saturday.\n\nSearch below to find the result in your area.\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\nIn Scotland, voters choose 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). The party that wins the most seats will form the Scottish government.\n\nThe vote came at the same time as elections for the Welsh parliament, mayoral elections in 13 of England's biggest city areas, council elections across England and Police and Crime Commissioner votes in England and Wales.", "Derek Jackson was among the men seen wearing yellow stars and making salute gestures\n\nA Liberal Party member who confronted the SNP MSP Humza Yousaf at a Glasgow election count has been suspended.\n\nDerek Jackson and others, who are not affiliated with the Liberal Democrats, questioned Mr Yousaf about how women and children in Pakistan are treated.\n\nPolice arrived at the scene and asked them to leave. Mr Yousaf has accused them of targeting ethnic minorities.\n\nA spokesman for the Liberal Party said they were not aware Mr Jackson was going to confront Mr Yousaf.\n\nThe spokesman added that Mr Jackson \"had used the party for his own ends and has a long history of this behaviour in the past\".\n\nHe added: \"NAC member Stephen Graham who vetted him was not aware of this.\n\n\"We weren't aware whatsoever of what he intended to do today.\"\n\nThe group of men were members of the Liberal Party - not linked to the Liberal Democrats\n\nLiberal Party candidate Derek Jackson was asked to leave the count in Glasgow\n\nThe Liberal Party are one of the smallest in Scotland, standing one candidate in the Holyrood election.\n\nThe men were seen at the Emirates Arena count wearing yellow stars with the phrase \"unvax\", as well as repeatedly making saluting gestures.\n\nPolice Scotland said they escorted six people from the venue following \"complaints about their behaviour\" and that inquiries were ongoing.\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 Yousaf said the group made a \"beeline\" for him due to his skin colour.\n\nThey questioned him about the Hate Crime Bill which MSPs passed in March before turning to events in Pakistan.\n\nFollowing the incident, Mr Yousaf tweeted: \"Twice these cretins have approached me, targeting ethnic minority candidates demanding we apologise for things going on in Pakistan.\n\n\"Always said voices of good outweigh the bad. When these numbskulls started, people of all political parties joined with me to tell them to jog on.\"\n\nMr Yousaf also praised what he called \"the best of Scotland\" after colleagues from other political parties stepped in.\n\nHe was later re-elected as the MSP for Glasgow Pollok, with 53.7% of the vote.\n\nMr Yousaf greeted Nicola Sturgeon as she arrived at the count following the incident\n\nIt comes after Nicola Sturgeon was involved in a tense confrontation with a far-right candidate as she visited a polling station in the south of Glasgow on Thursday.\n\nThe SNP leader was praised on social media for how she handled an approach from a former deputy leader of Britain First.\n\nJayda Fransen accused Ms Sturgeon of \"flooding\" the country with immigrants.\n\nFootage posted online showed the first minister call Ms Fransen \"a fascist and a racist\".\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\nDo you have a question about the Scottish Parliament election? Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus have defended their plans for a European Super League in the face of what they call \"threats\" from Uefa.\n\nThey are the only clubs from the initial 12 yet to withdraw from the proposed ESL, and face disciplinary action from Europe's governing body.\n\nThe nine other clubs involved, including six Premier League sides, have been given a financial punishment.\n\n\"The founding clubs have suffered,\" a Real, Barca and Juve statement said.\n\nThe three clubs say they have faced \"unacceptable third-party pressures [and] threats... to abandon the project\", which they feel is an effort to have them \"desist from their right and duty to provide solutions to the football ecosystem via concrete proposals and constructive dialogue\".\n\n\"This is intolerable under the rule of law,\" the joint statement continued.\n\nThe ESL was announced on 18 April but within 48 hours the plans had fallen apart, with the English clubs withdrawing after fan protests and UK government pressure.\n\nWhile the furious backlash stopped plans from going ahead, those behind the ESL have maintained it had a sound legal footing. As a result, they were quick to file injunctions to prevent player and club bans after the proposal was made public.\n\nOn Friday, the nine that have pulled out - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, plus AC Milan, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid - said they would \"take all steps within their power\" to end their involvement in the breakaway league.\n\nBarca, Juve and Real have said they \"are ready to reconsider the proposed approach\", but reiterated their stance that the structure of elite football in Europe, its appeal to younger generations and the financial pressures facing clubs, need to be addressed.\n\n\"We would be highly irresponsible if, being aware of the needs and systemic crisis in the football sector, which led us to announce the Super League, we abandoned such mission to provide effective and sustainable answers to the existential questions that threaten the football industry,\" they said.\n\n\"The material issues that led the 12 founding clubs to announce the Super League weeks ago have not gone away.\n\n\"To honour our history, to comply with our obligations towards our stakeholders and fans, for the good of football and for the financial sustainability of the sector, we have the duty to act in a responsible manner and persevere in the pursuit of adequate solutions, despite the unacceptable and ongoing pressures and threats received from Uefa.\"\n\nThe clubs said they \"regret to see\" the other nine clubs \"now found themselves in such inconsistent and contradictory position when signing a number of commitments to Uefa\".\n\nThe nine clubs who withdrew have agreed to make a combined 15m euro (£13.4m) goodwill contribution to benefit children's and grassroots football across Europe.\n\nThey will also have 5% of Uefa competition revenues withheld for one season, starting in 2023-24, and this money will be redistributed, including in the UK.\n• None \"Like a lot of people in my generation, I struggle with my mental health\"\n• None The Greatest Athlete You've Never Seen:", "Portugal is one of just four European countries on the green list\n\nThe travel industry has expressed disappointment that so few countries are on the UK government's green list for travel, describing the announcement as \"overly cautious\".\n\nThe traffic light system means travel abroad from 17 May will not be illegal.\n\nThe 12 green list countries, which include Portugal, Gibraltar and Israel, will not require people to quarantine on return to England.\n\nFirms said leaving the US off the list would risk the UK \"falling behind\".\n\nTravel to amber or red lists countries is not advised.\n\nThe change in travel rules applies to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have not said when they might ease their strict travel rules.\n\nOnly four of the countries on the green list are in Europe, and Portugal is the only large holiday destination from the continent on the list.\n\nIsrael and Singapore are also included, but Australia and New Zealand - which are approved as safe by the UK government - are not currently allowing in visitors from abroad.\n\nFrance, Greece, Italy and Spain, normally hugely popular holiday destinations for UK travellers, are not included on the safe list.\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director of holiday firm TUI, said: \"While we were expecting to see just a handful of destinations on the green list, this is an overly cautious start.\"\n\nAirlines UK, representing UK carriers, described it as \"a missed opportunity\" and \"a reopening of air travel in name only\" which left the UK \"at risk of falling behind\".\n\nAnd Easyjet chief executive Johan Lundgren said: \"The decision to put so few European countries into the green tier is simply not justified by the data or the science, and is inconsistent with the approach to reopen the domestic economy.\"\n\nUK citizens risked missing out on bookings for hotels if other European tourists were permitted to travel, he added.\n\nMaking the announcement, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the easing of restrictions was \"necessarily cautious\" in the light of the threat from new variants of Covid-19.\n\nHe said the UK's success in combating the virus was not matched in many other countries.\n\nHowever he said the list would be reviewed every three weeks by the Joint Biosecurity Centre - the team set up last year to monitor the threat from the virus.\n\nSome firms had hoped the rapid roll out of the vaccination programme in the US would allow summer travel to resume there more quickly.\n\n\"There is no reason for the US to be absent from the green list. This overly cautious approach fails to reap the benefits of the UK's successful vaccination programme,\" a spokesperson for Virgin Atlantic - one of the airlines which relies heavily on UK-US traffic - said.\n\n\"A transatlantic travel corridor is vital to deliver a much-needed boost to economic recovery,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nBut British Airways predicted that more countries would be included before the summer.\n\n\"What's clear is that with high levels of vaccination in the UK being matched by other countries, we should see more destinations going 'green' before the end of June,\" BA chief executive Sean Doyle said.\n\n\"We cannot stress more greatly that the UK urgently needs travel between it and other low-risk countries like the US, to re-start the economy, support devastated industries and reunite loved ones.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ryanair, Easyjet, Tui and British Airways all said they would be increasing their flights to Portugal and other destinations on the green list.\n\nTourist-dependent firms in Portugal were quick to welcome the news.\n\n\"No-one enjoys a holiday more than the British people,\" said Miguel Campino, owner of Maria's Restaurant - a beach venue on Praia do Garrão Poente.\n\n\"They bring a colourful atmosphere to all the restaurants, bars and hotels. This is a happy moment for everyone, for Portugal, for England... it's great news.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"No-one enjoys a holiday more\": A restaurant owner in Portugal is excited to welcome back tourists from England\n\nJoão Fernandes, president of the Algarve Tourism Bureau, also said the region was ready to welcome UK visitors back.\n\n\"We are obviously delighted with the news,\" he said. \"It's a recognition of the remarkable work Portugal has done in reducing levels of Covid to be able to restart the economy safely.\"\n\nIt comes as ministers continue talks with Uefa about holding the Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City in the UK, after host nation Turkey was added to England's travel red list.\n\nFrom 04:00 BST on Wednesday 12 May, travellers from Turkey, as well as those from the Maldives and Nepal, will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days on their return.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told BBC Breakfast that the UK had offered to host the match but that it would \"ultimately be a decision for Uefa\".\n\nHowever, the UK consumer body Which? warned that practical difficulties over taking a holiday abroad would remain.\n\n\"Travellers will have an expectation that these new government rules should protect their health and their money, yet serious issues around lengthy airport queues and a broken testing system remain unresolved,\" Rory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said.\n\nAlthough international travel has been heavily restricted since January, returning travellers have experienced long delays at border control when arriving at Heathrow, sometimes waiting for up to six hours.\n\nPrivate firms offering Covid tests to returning travellers have been criticised for failing to deliver tests and results on time.\n\n\"Travellers should also be aware that there is still some financial risk involved in booking travel plans, depending on how you book and which company you choose,\" said Mr Boland.\n\n\"In a summer when further disruption can be expected, travel companies must be honest about the risks holidaymakers may be taking on. Crucially, holidaymakers also need to do their research before booking, as choosing the right provider could be the difference between getting hundreds of pounds back or just getting the run-round.\"\n\nA further 15 deaths in the UK within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Friday, bringing the total to 127,598. There were 2,490 new cases.\n\nMore than 35 million first doses of a coronavirus vaccine have been given and more than 16.7 million second doses.", "Nicola Sturgeon easily saw off a challenge from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar in her Glasgow Southside constituency\n\nThe SNP has won three key seats but its hopes of securing an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament election remain on a knife edge.\n\nThe party has taken both Edinburgh Central - where former MP Angus Robertson was standing for the SNP - and Ayr from the Conservatives.\n\nIt also won the East Lothian seat from Labour.\n\nBut it fell short in other targets, with counting in the remaining seats due to resume on Saturday.\n\nNo other constituencies have changed hands so far, with the SNP currently on 39 seats, the Liberal Democrats four, Tories two and Labour one.\n\nBut the opposition parties will see their number of seats increase dramatically once the regional list results are finalised on Saturday.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said it was now unlikely, but not impossible, that the SNP would achieve an overall majority in the new Holyrood parliament.\n\nAnd he said there were clear signs that tactical voting by pro-UK voters in some parts of the country had been successful.\n\nThe Alba Party, which was founded by former first minister and SNP leader Alex Salmond, looks unlikely to win any seats.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nAs the count resumed on Saturday, Aberdeenshire East was first to declare with the SNP's Gillian Martin holding her seat with a reduced majority of 1,889 over the Scottish Conservatives - who increased their vote share by 11%.\n\nFriday's results included First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - the SNP leader - easily holding off a challenge from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar in her Glasgow Southside constituency.\n\nMs Sturgeon won by 9,456 votes, only marginally lower than the 9,593 she won by in 2016.\n\nTurnout has been higher than anticipated in many areas, with the SNP's share of the vote falling in many of the early constituencies to declare but increasing in others.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that the SNP \"appears to be on course for a fourth consecutive election victory and to be on course to have the privilege of forming a government again\".\n\nShe pledged to \"get back to work immediately\" and lead the country's Covid recovery.\n\n\"And then, when the time is right, to offer this country the choice of a better future,\" she added.\n\nIt comes as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested he would reject any calls for a second independence referendum, saying it would be \"irresponsible and reckless\" right now.\n\nAsked if an SNP majority would mean there was a mandate for another vote, he told the Daily Telegraph: \"I think that count is still taking place and we'll have to see what happens. I listened to the Scottish election carefully. My impression was that they [the SNP] moved away from the idea of a referendum, and I think very wisely.\n\n\"I don't think this is anything like the time to have more constitutional wrangling, to be talking about ripping our country apart, when actually people want to heal our economy and bounce forward together. That's what people want.\"\n\nJohn Swinney told BBC Breakfast he was 'confident' there would be a pro-independence majority\n\nHowever deputy first minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast that his party would legislate for a second referendum if Mr Johnson were to block one.\n\nHe said: \"We've said we will take forward legislation to have a legal referendum - we already have put in place some of the legislative arrangements for that process. We will embark on such an agenda should there be a majority for such a proposition in the Scottish Parliament.\"\n\nMr Swinney said that although he was waiting to see the \"electoral arithmetic\" of the final results, he was \"very confident\" there would be a majority of candidates \"elected on a programme to deliver a referendum on independence\".\n\nThis election has a long way to go with a further 26 constituencies and all 56 regional list seats still to declare.\n\nWhile the SNP is on course to finish as the largest party, there are only limited opportunities left for them to do so with an overall majority.\n\nTo achieve that they really need to hold all they have and pick up an additional constituency seat like Aberdeenshire West, where the Conservatives are defending a majority of 900 votes.\n\nThere is also a possible pathway if they do better than expected on the regional lists which are very hard to predict because of the proportional voting system.\n\nIf the SNP fall short of that outright majority they could enter a fourth term in office as a minority government (as they are now) or seek a more formal arrangement with another party - most likely the Greens.\n\nTogether the SNP and the Greens will almost certainly have a pro-independence majority at Holyrood - committed to holding another referendum that the UK government seems determined to resist.\n\nA big wrangle over indyref2 is coming and it could end up in the UK Supreme Court.\n\nThe constituencies that declared on Friday included eight of the SNP's top 10 target seats.\n\nThe Conservatives held Dumfriesshire, which had been one of the SNP's goals, with Oliver Mundell increasing his majority, while Jackson Carlaw held the marginal Eastwood seat for the Tories from the SNP.\n\nAnd Labour's Daniel Johnson held off the SNP challenge in Edinburgh Southern and the party's deputy leader Jackie Baillie increased her majority over the SNP in Dumbarton.\n\nThe election is seen as being crucial to the future of the UK as the result could impact on whether or not there is a second referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nThe SNP - which has formed the devolved Scottish government since 2007 - will once again finish as the largest party, but is seeking to win an overall majority to strengthen the case for indyref2.\n\nAlthough it is not yet clear that it will win a majority by itself, there is likely to be a pro-independence majority in the parliament once the Scottish Greens are allocated regional list seats on Saturday.\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 coronavirus pandemic meant that traditional overnight counting was impossible, with the results instead being announced over the course of Friday and Saturday.\n\nA record number of people had already cast their ballots by post before the polls opened on Thursday morning - with more than a million having registered for postal ballots.\n\nOther elections also took place across the UK on Thursday, including for the Welsh Parliament, 143 English councils and 13 local mayors, as well as a by-election for the Westminster seat of Hartlepool in the north east of England - which was won by the Conservatives from Labour.\n\nSIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage", "Fears about the Covid pandemic could be stopping you from sleeping - or giving you crazy dreams, psychologists say.\n\nThe pandemic and lockdowns have made it harder to maintain routines and to fall asleep, with many people reporting feeling more anxious than usual, according to a survey by the Sleep Charity.\n\nVicki Dawson, the charity's chief executive, says working from home and socialising on screens has had a huge impact on our sleep, as well as worries about health and finances.\n\nEmeritus professor of clinical neuropsychology, and trustee of The Brain Charity, Gus Baker, says the pandemic has disrupted our \"sleep architecture\".\n\n\"When we're not in a pandemic, we would normally be going out to work, we'd be exercising, we'd be eating meals regularly, we'd be looking after ourselves and we'd be engaging in social activities.\n\n\"What the pandemic has done is to interfere with that [and] that impacts upon our sleep.\"\n\nSo how do we get more sleep, and why does it make a difference? Read on.", "The first global review of complementary medicines for weight loss in 16 years suggests their use cannot be justified based on current evidence.\n\nResearchers found that while some herbal and dietary supplements resulted in marginal weight loss compared to a placebo, they did not benefit health.\n\nThey called for more research into their long-term safety.\n\nThe sale of diet pills, powders and liquids containing plant or animal products has grown in popularity.\n\nThe global industry was estimated to be worth $41bn (£29.3bn) last year.\n\nJust 20% of new products are audited annually to make sure they provide evidence backing their claims.\n\nIn some countries, the only requirement is that supplements contain acceptable levels of non-medicinal products.\n\nUnlike pharmaceutical drugs, clinical evidence for their safety and effectiveness is not required before they hit the market, says the review's lead author Erica Bessell from the University of Sydney.\n\n\"Our rigorous assessment of the best available evidence finds that there is insufficient evidence to recommend these supplements for weight loss,\" she said.\n\n\"Even though most supplements appear safe for short-term consumption, they are not going to provide weight loss that is clinically meaningful.\"\n\nThe Australian researchers carried out a systematic review of all randomised trials comparing the effect of herbal supplements to placebos (or dummy treatment) on weight loss, up to August 2018.\n\nThe data was analysed from 54 studies involving 4,331 healthy overweight or obese adults aged 16 years or older.\n\nWeight loss of at least 2.5kg (5.5lbs) was considered clinically meaningful.\n\nHerbal supplements included in the analysis were green tea, garcinia cambogia, mangosteen, white kidney bean, ephedra, African mango, yerba mate, veld grape, licorice root and East Indian globe thistle.\n\nThe analysis found that only one of these - white kidney bean - resulted in a statistically, but not clinically, greater weight loss of 1.61kg (3.5Ibs) than the placebo.\n\nSome combination preparations containing African mango, veld grape, East Indian globe thistle and mangosteen showed promising results, but were investigated in three or fewer trials, often with poor research methodology or reporting.\n\nThese findings should be interpreted with caution, researchers say.\n\nThe researchers also carried out a systematic review, up to December 2019, of 67 randomised trials comparing the effect of dietary supplements to placebos for weight loss in 5,194 healthy overweight or obese adults aged 16 years or older.\n\nDietary supplements included in the analysis were: chitosan, glucomannan, fructans and conjugated linoleic acid.\n\nThe analysis found that chitosan (-1.84 kg), glucomannan (-1.27 kg), and conjugated linoleic acid (-1.08 kg) resulted in statistically, but not clinically, significant weight loss compared to placebos.\n\nSome dietary supplements, including modified cellulose and blood orange juice extract, showed promising results but were only investigated in one trial and need more evidence before recommending them for weight loss, researchers say.\n\n\"Herbal and dietary supplements might seem like a quick-fix solution to weight problems, but people need to be aware of how little we actually know about them,\" says Ms Bessell.\n\nShe said very few high-quality studies had been performed on the supplements, with little data on long-term effectiveness.\n\n\"The tremendous growth in the industry and popularity of these products underscores the urgency for conducting larger more rigorous studies to have reasonable assurance of their safety and effectiveness for weight loss,\" she added.\n\nThe findings are being presented at The European Congress on Obesity held online this year.", "Stuart Lubbock died following a party at TV presenter Michael Barrymore's home near Harlow in March 2001\n\nThe ailing father of a man whose body was found in Michael Barrymore's swimming pool 20 years ago said he believed \"the truth will come out\".\n\nStuart Lubbock, 31, died after being found unconscious in the TV presenter's pool in Roydon, Essex, in March 2001.\n\nThis week, Essex Police said a file would be submitted \"imminently\" to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nTerry Lubbock, who has terminal cancer, said he could rest in peace knowing he had done the best for his son.\n\nStuart, a butcher from Harlow, was at a party with eight other people at Mr Barrymore's home when he died.\n\nA post-mortem examination showed he suffered severe internal injuries which suggested he had been sexually assaulted.\n\nMichael Barrymore, 69, hosted a gathering at his house and Stuart Lubbock was found unconscious in his swimming pool\n\nA man in his 50s, who has not been named, was arrested in Cheshire in March on suspicion of murder and indecent assault after \"significant new information\" emerged, police said.\n\n\"I have done my best now for my son,\" said Mr Lubbock, a 76-year-old retired toolmaker.\n\n\"I can rest in peace now. I think the truth will come out.\"\n\nHe added: \"My body is going down, and my mind, and I am starting to forget things.\"\n\nTerry Lubbock called for a fresh inquest but was refused an application to the High Court\n\nIn February, Mr Lubbock said doctors had told him he had months to live.\n\nHe said all he lived for was to get \"justice for Stuart\", but accepted he may never get the answers he wanted.\n\nIn January, he called for a fresh inquest, and said he thought information must now have emerged which justified a fresh inquiry by a coroner.\n\nA coroner recorded an open verdict at an inquest in 2002 and, three years ago, the then-Attorney General, Jeremy Wright, refused to give Mr Lubbock permission to make an application to the High Court for a second inquest.\n\nBut Mr Lubbock said a fresh Essex Police appeal, which coincided with the broadcast of a Channel 4 documentary Barrymore: The Body In The Pool in February 2020, had changed the landscape.\n\nNo-one has been charged with any offence in relation to Stuart Lubbock's death.\n\nMr Barrymore, now 69, was arrested in 2007 but never charged with any offence.\n\nHe described the Channel 4 documentary as \"vile and vicious\" and said nobody who was at his house on the night of Stuart Lubbock's death knew what happened.\n\nAsked if he had anything fresh to offer the police, he replied: \"I honestly wish I did.\"\n\nEssex Police said it would soon pass a file to the CPS regarding the man who was arrested, following a \"substantial and detailed investigation\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "There were 60 seats up for grabs in the Welsh Parliament election - a unique election under the unique circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDespite pledges to challenge all the way by Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservatives, it was Welsh Labour who emerged with half the seats, and pretty much a 40% share of the constituency votes.\n\nIt means Mark Drakeford's party will retain power in the Senedd.\n\nCelebrating in Porthcawl, the Welsh Labour leader accepted the way they had dealt with Covid had been a \"strong theme\" on the doorstep.\n\nBut he's also vowed to be \"radical\" and \"ambitious\".\n\nThe only fly-in-the-ointment for Labour was the loss of the Vale of Clwyd to the Tories.\n\nHowever, the Welsh Conservatives could not repeat their feat in the 2019 UK general election, and tear down the \"red wall\" of Labour seats in north-east Wales.\n\nAt the end of the day, the Conservatives are the second largest party, with 16 seats.\n\nThey also managed to take Brecon and Radnorshire off the Lib-Dems, and in Natasha Ashgar, they have the first women from a BAME background in the Senedd.\n\nWhile Plaid Cymru's leader Adam Price has congratulated Mark Drakeford on the Labour victory, he has also acknowledged disappointment at their performance.\n\nThey return in third place with 13 seats, but it comes at a cost - the loss of former leader Leanne Wood and the Rhondda seat.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats remain with a single Senedd member, in their Welsh leader Jane Dodds.\n\nThe vote is over. And the work begins again next week, when the new Senedd will meet again - with some new faces, but ultimately, another Welsh Labour government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'Indyref is the will of the country'\n\nNicola Sturgeon has hailed the SNP's \"historic and extraordinary\" fourth consecutive victory in the Scottish Parliament election.\n\nThe party finished on 64 seats - one short of a majority but one more than it won in 2016.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her priority was the pandemic but she still intended to hold an independence referendum once the crisis has passed.\n\nBoris Johnson has invited the devolved nations to a Covid recovery summit.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was no democratic justification for the prime minister, or anyone else, to attempt to block it.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said talk of \"ripping our country apart\" would be \"irresponsible and reckless\".\n\nThe prime minister congratulated Ms Sturgeon and Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford on their re-elections and invited them to a meeting \"to discuss our shared challenges and how we can work together in the coming months and years to overcome them\".\n\nIn Scotland the SNP won 64 seats, the Conservatives 31, Labour 22, the Scottish Greens eight and Liberal Democrats four.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her party had won the most constituency seats and secured the highest share of the constituency vote in the history of devolution.\n\nAnd she pledged that \"the task of building a better Scotland for everyone who lives here will be my priority every single day.\"\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her focus in government would be on leading the country through the pandemic and keeping people safe from Covid.\n\nShe added: \"It is then to kick-start and drive our recovery with an ambitious and transformative programme for government.\n\n\"And, yes, when the crisis has passed, it is to give people in Scotland the right to choose their future.\n\n\"All of that is what I promised and all of that is what I intend to deliver.\"\n\nShe said the result of the election meant there was \"no democratic justification whatsoever for Boris Johnson or anyone else seeking to block the right of the people of Scotland to choose our future.\"\n\nAnd she insisted that holding a referendum was now \"the will of the country\".\n\nBoris Johnson says it would be \"reckless\" to hold a referendum right now\n\nThe prime minister congratulated Ms Sturgeon and Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford on their re-elections and invited them to a meeting \"to discuss our shared challenges and how we can work together in the coming months and years to overcome them\".\n\nHe phoned Mr Drakeford on Saturday and plans to speak to Ms Sturgeon on Sunday.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Sturgeon published on Saturday night, he invited her to \"discuss our shared challenges\", adding \"we will not always agree - but I am confident... we will be able to build back better, in the interests of the people we serve.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the country needed to \"show the same spirit of unity and co-operation that marked our fight against the pandemic\" in engineering a Covid-19 recovery.\n\nBut he warned it would be a \"difficult journey\", adding: \"The broad shoulders of the UK have supported jobs and businesses the length and breadth of the country, but we know that economic recovery will be a serious shared responsibility.\"\n\nPrior to the Holyrood election's final results, Mr Johnson wrote in Saturday's Daily Telegraph that it would be \"irresponsible and reckless\" to talk about \"ripping our country apart\" with an independence referendum at a time when people wanted to recover from the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Scottish voting system was specifically designed to prevent any one party having a majority in the 129-seat parliament - although the SNP did manage to do so in the 2011 election.\n\nThe SNP, which formed a minority government after the last election in 2016, had hoped that winning another majority in this election would further strengthen its calls for a second referendum on Scottish independence to be held.\n\nIt would also have allowed the party to pass laws and the Scottish government's annual budget at Holyrood without having to rely on the support of any other party.\n\nBut there will be another, slightly increased, pro-independence majority in the parliament thanks to the seats allocated to the Scottish Greens through the regional list system and the additional seat won by the SNP.\n\nHowever, the Alba Party - which was formed by former SNP leader and first minister Alex Salmond - will not win any seats.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the results have seen 51% voters backing pro-UK parties in the constituency ballot - and 51% backing pro-independence parties in the regional list ballot.\n\nHaving secured a fourth term in power for the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon is not short of things to do as first minister.\n\nShe has to form a government - that could be another SNP-only administration, unless she wants to explore a more formal arrangement with the independence-supporting Greens to secure an outright majority.\n\nShe has to reshuffle her cabinet with four cabinet posts including that of health secretary needing filled as a result of retirements.\n\nThere are also important decisions that need to be taken on coronavirus - with a further easing of restrictions due on 17 May, plans to reopen international travel to consider and concern over Covid cases in Moray to address.\n\nMs Sturgeon has insisted that dealing with the pandemic and its aftermath will be her immediate priority — although clearly she intends to press the case for another independence referendum too.\n\nThere are also formalities - being sworn in with the other 128 MSPs on Thursday before putting herself forward in parliament for re-election as first minister the following week.\n\nThe SNP won two seats from Labour and one from the Conservatives in the constituency results that were declared on Friday.\n\nBut those wins caused the party to lose seats on the regional list, effectively cancelling out some of the gains it has made.\n\nNo other constituency seats have changed hands after Thursday's vote, which saw a record turnout for a Scottish Parliament election despite the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut the SNP's Kaukab Stewart and Pam Gosal of the Scottish Conservatives making history by becoming the first women of colour to win seats in the Scottish 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 SNP has pledged to push forward with legislation for a second Scottish independence referendum and have said they could go to the courts if the UK government attempts to block it.\n\nMs Sturgeon has also said she will not hold an illegal wildcat vote on the issue, arguing that it would not actually lead to Scotland becoming independent because the result would not be recognised by the UK government or the international community.\n\nAnd she has repeatedly stressed that she would only want a referendum to be held once the pandemic is over.\n\nOpinion polls suggest that voters are essentially split 50-50 on the question of whether Scotland should be an independent country.\n\nSIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage", "Steve Aiken says he is not retiring from politics\n\nSteve Aiken has announced his resignation as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.\n\nThe South Antrim assembly member has been in charge of the party since November 2019.\n\nHowever, it is understood frustration with his leadership has been growing across all levels of the party.\n\nSeveral sources told the BBC there was a \"widespread view\" that change was needed ahead of next year's Northern Ireland Assembly election.\n\nIt is understood discussions have been taking place for a number of months about concerns over the party's recent performance.\n\nOne Ulster Unionist source said it was not about a fight for the direction of the party but its entire \"existence\".\n\nIn his letter of resignation, Mr Aiken said he had taken the party as far as he could.\n\nHe said it had been a \"privilege to lead in these difficult and trying times\" and he took pride in the party's decision to take on the challenging health minister portfolio when Stormont was restored in 2020.\n\nHe said his party colleague and former leader Robin Swann had been successful in his efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Despite our successes, it has become clear to me that if we are to achieve the breakthrough in the forthcoming assembly elections, we will need to drive further ahead... to achieve our goals, we now need new leadership,\" he said.\n\nSteve Aiken is congratulated by his wife as he becomes UUP leader in 2019\n\nHe will remain in post until a successor is appointed and he will not be retiring from politics.\n\nUUP chairman Danny Kennedy said he had no doubt Mr Aiken would be central to the party's attempts to restore its political fortunes.\n\nHe said Mr Aiken had always \"sought to lead from the front\".\n\n\"I have witnessed at close quarters your dedication to duty and the dignity you have displayed at all times as party leader, even in challenging circumstances,\" he said.\n\nRobin Swann, who preceded Mr Aiken as leader, said it was a \"rewarding and challenging\" role to hold.\n\nIn a tweet, he said \"most of all I thank him for his support and the trust he placed in me when he nominated me as health minister.\"\n\nPolitical unionism should be celebrating, but for them it's anything but a happy birthday.\n\nTo paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one party leader is unfortunate, to lose two looks like carelessness.\n\nBut that is what the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Ulster Unionists have done.\n\nThe reasons for the demise of Arlene Foster and Steve Aiken are woven with the same thread.\n\nShifting demographics, uncertainty caused by Brexit, and a growing number of unionists who don't see these parties as sure-footed custodians of the union.\n\nAdd into the mix near panic over the looming assembly election and - boom!\n\nRead more from Gareth here.\n\nUUP assembly member for Upper Bann Doug Beattie, who is viewed as a potential successor to Mr Aiken, said the \"loneliness of leadership is never easy\".\n\n\"As my party leader, my colleague and my friend I want to thank Steve for his for service past, present and in the future,\" he tweeted.\n\nMr Aiken's resignation represents the ousting of a second unionist leader in as many weeks - Arlene Foster resigned as DUP leader and first minister after an internal revolt.\n\nMrs Foster said she spoke to Mr Aiken earlier, and wished him and his family well for the future.\n\n\"In all our dealings, as party leaders, I found him to be very straightforward & honourable,\" she tweeted.\n\nMr Aiken spent a number of years commanding submarines for the Royal Navy\n\nAlliance Party leader Naomi Long said the \"time for analysis\" after a second change in unionist leadership would come later.\n\n\"Despite our political differences, he's always respectful and courteous in any exchanges,\" she tweeted.\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said it was \"an unsettled time within the unionist family\" with imminent leadership change for the DUP and UUP.\n\nHowever, he said he wished both Arlene Foster and Steve Aiken well and had found both \"straightforward and honourable to deal with\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said he had \"always enjoyed\" working with Mr Aiken and wished him \"all the best for the next chapter\".\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin said he always valued his \"discussions and engagement\" with Mr Aiken.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City reached their first Champions League final as they overcame Paris St-Germain at Etihad Stadium to secure a commanding victory over two legs.\n\nIn a game played in unseasonal snow, the brilliant Riyad Mahrez capped a sweeping move started by goalkeeper Ederson's 60-yard pass to extend their 2-1 advantage from the first leg in Paris.\n\nPSG suffered a serious blow before kick-off when world-class forward Kylian Mbappe was restricted to the bench because of injury. They did not lack endeavour or intent and had early hope when a penalty was awarded for a handball by Oleksandr Zinchenko before it was correctly overturned, but with Neymar subdued and City throwing bodies on the line in defence, Mauricio Pochettino's side could not find a way through.\n\nMahrez punished them again just after the hour when he turned in Phil Foden's cross at the far post to effectively end the contest.\n\nPSG, as they did when Idrissa Gueye was sent off late in the first leg, lost their discipline and Angel di Maria was shown a red card for a senseless stamp on Fernandinho following a touchline tangle.\n\nCity were in full control, avoiding further mishap to set up the Champions League final they and manager Pep Guardiola have craved, against either Chelsea or Real Madrid in Istanbul on 29 May.\n• None Last five years 'now makes sense', says Pep Guardiola\n\nMan City within touching distance of the great prize\n\nThe celebrations when Manchester City scored and at the final whistle illustrated the significance of what these players and Guardiola have achieved.\n\nGuardiola and City have been sweeping up domestic titles on a regular basis, with his third Premier League title a formality which could be confirmed with victory against Chelsea here on Saturday.\n\nThis tournament, however, has been the one code an outstanding team has been unable to crack, with hard-luck stories to tell and crucial slips when the pressure is on, such as when they lost 3-1 to underdogs Lyon in a one-off quarter-final last season.\n\nCity have shown great maturity and development this season, keeping their nerve when under pressure against Borussia Dortmund in the last eight and also surviving a PSG surge in Paris six days ago to recover for an outstanding win.\n\nHere, early nerves were settled by Mahrez's goal and any further PSG threats were repelled with resilience and, when needed, desperate defending to ensure the lead they worked so hard to establish was well protected.\n\nThe Champions League has always been regarded as confirmation that Manchester City were a European superpower - now this high-class side will have the opportunity to confirm that status in Istanbul.\n• None 'Every Man City player could have been man of the match'\n• None Relive Manchester City v Paris St-Germain as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n\nCity's success has been built on a squad effort, as proved by the way those who missed out on the starting line-up, such as Rodri, Aymeric Laporte, Joao Cancelo and Raheem Sterling, provided noisy support and encouragement from the sidelines.\n\nInevitably, though, there were stand-out performers and the list included match-winner Mahrez, the precocious Foden and the often unsung defender Zinchenko.\n\nMahrez took his time to settle in the early days of his City career but he is now a key component in Guardiola's line-up, a creator and scorer of important goals, such as the two here. In eight Champions League starts this season he has scored four goals, including in both legs of this semi-final.\n\nThe first goal was classic Manchester City, started by remarkable vision from Ederson and finished emphatically by Mahrez.\n\nThe Algerian was a huge threat all night, tormenting PSG, and Foden was not far behind, as he grows in stature with every game. He has strength, vision on the ball and an end product, providing a perfect delivery for the second goal.\n\nZinchenko got the nod ahead of Cancelo and delivered a superb display, a threat going forward and top class in defence, with one crucial block from Neymar in the second half.\n\nAbove all, this was a team effort and Manchester City richly deserve their place in the Champions League final.\n\nHaving taken one giant stride forward in Europe by reaching the Champions League final last campaign, this season feels like two steps back for the French side.\n\nWhile obviously disappointed to lose to Bayern Munich in Lisbon, it will at least have felt like a display and achievement to build on.\n\nBut there is little they can take away from this semi-final loss, which not only saw them beaten by a superior and savvier side, but also inexcusably lose their discipline in both legs.\n\nThey now face an unfamiliar battle on home soil, in the shape of Lille's strong challenge to their Ligue 1 dominance and a French Cup semi-final with Montpellier on 12 May.\n\nLose both and the unthinkable may happen on Pochettino's watch - a season without league or European success. An inquest of sorts is inevitable. How severe and deep it is depends on the next 11 days.\n\n'Getting to the final makes sense of what we've done in the past four or five years' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola said: \"I'm incredibly proud and my first thoughts are with the players who didn't play today. They all deserved to play, everyone has made a contribution and now it is time to enjoy it. We have to win the league and we have two or three weeks to prepare for the final.\n\n\"They put a lot of players in the middle and we struggled a lot in the first half to high press and we changed at half-time. We recovered the ball better in the second half and we were much better in the way we played and 4-1 on aggregate against a team that beat Barcelona and Bayern Munich means a lot to us.\n\n\"People believe it's easy to arrive in the final of the Champions League. Getting to the final now makes sense of what we have done in the past four or five years.\"\n\nAnother English team in the final - the stats\n• None Manchester City are the ninth different English team to reach the European Cup/Champions League final; three more than any other nation (Germany and Italy - six sides).\n• None City manager Pep Guardiola ended a run of four consecutive Champions League semi-final eliminations, reaching the final for the first time since 2010-11 with Barcelona.\n• None City have won their past seven Champions League matches, the longest winning run by an English team in European Cup/Champions League history. Three other sides had won six in a row: Manchester United (1965-66), Leeds United (1969-70) and Arsenal (2005).\n• None City are also the first English side to win 11 games in a single European Cup/Champions League campaign.\n• None Mauricio Pochettino has lost more games against Pep Guardiola than he has versus any other manager in his managerial career (12). Guardiola's total of 12 wins versus Pochettino is his joint most against a single manager in his career as a top-flight manager (level with Manuel Pellegrini and Sean Dyche).\n• None PSG are the third team to receive a red card in both legs of a Champions League semi-final tie, after Deportivo v Porto in 2003-04 and Lyon v Bayern Munich in 2009-10.\n• None Phil Foden is the sixth different Premier League player to record double figures for both goals (14) and assists (10) in all competitions this season, and the only Manchester City player to do so this term.\n• None Attempt missed. Neymar (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Danilo Pereira (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Neymar.\n• None Presnel Kimpembe (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why Kwabena's dream job might mean risking it all\n• None Fidel Castro's Cuba as told by the spies, revolutionaries and diplomats who shaped it", "Stuart MacGill (seen here in 2017) was released about an hour into the ordeal\n\nFormer Australian star cricketer Stuart MacGill was abducted and released in an alleged kidnapping in Sydney last month, police say.\n\nFour people have been arrested in connection with the incident which took place on 14 April.\n\nPolice said MacGill knew one of the men and the plot had been financially motivated.\n\nHe sustained minor injuries in the incident but didn't require medical care, police said.\n\nMacGill, 50, was a Test spinner for the national team between 1998 and 2008.\n\nAt one point, he was ranked the world's second-best bowler behind his team-mate Shane Warne.\n\nNew South Wales Police said the arrests, which took place after raids were conducted across Sydney on Wednesday, were the result of a two-week long investigation.\n\nPolice allege MacGill had been approached and confronted in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne one evening by a 46-year-old man he knew.\n\nTwo other men then appeared and the group forced the ex-cricketer into a car.\n\nHe was driven to a remote site in Bringelly, on the city's outskirts, where he was allegedly assaulted and threatened at gunpoint by the \"criminal gang\", police said.\n\nAfter about an hour, he was driven to the south-west suburb of Belmore and released, police said.\n\nAuthorities said no money was handed over or obtained in the course of the attack, but the kidnapping attempt had been financially motivated.\n\nPolice said MacGill reported the crime to authorities one week after it occurred, and that he had been worried about his and his family's safety.\n\n\"To be standing on a street, to be dragged into a car, driven a remote location, physically assaulted, threatened with a firearm, held for a period of time and then dumped, I think you would be pretty worried,\" said detective Anthony Holton.\n\n\"I know it is only an hour that he was held, but it would have been a horribly frightful hour to endure through,\" he added.\n\nHe said MacGill's ordeal was \"not involved in any back story that leads to him having a personal debt to other people,\" and that he was solely being treated as a \"victim of a targeted kidnapping\".\n\nPolice said the arrested group members - aged 27, 29, 42 and 46 - would be charged later on Wednesday.\n\nAustralian media reported MacGill, who retired from cricket in 2008, works as the general manager of a restaurant in Sydney's northern suburbs.\n\nMacGill is yet to provide public comment on the incident.", "Istanbul in Turkey is under a lockdown but foreign tourists are exempt\n\nUK travellers returning from \"red list\" countries are flying home via Turkey to avoid hefty hotel quarantine fees.\n\nPassengers are breaking their journey in Istanbul, and staying in hotels there for a fraction of the cost they would have to pay in Britain.\n\nTravellers from countries on the red list would otherwise face bills of up to £1,750-per-person to isolate in a hotel if they flew to the UK directly.\n\nThose using the route must still quarantine at home once back in the UK.\n\nOne hotel worker in Istanbul said he had seen British nationals flying in from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh - which are all on the UK's red list.\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to travellers returning from Pakistan to the UK, many of whom were attending weddings or funerals and say they couldn't afford the cost of quarantining once the rules changed.\n\nAs long as they isolate at home for 10 days after returning from a non-red list country, they are not breaking the UK government's Covid rules.\n\nThe UK has a so-called red list with travel heavily restricted to countries on it - usually those with high coronavirus rates.\n\nAny British citizen arriving home who has been to a country on the list in the past 10 days must then pay to quarantine in a government-approved hotel.\n\nThe cost is £1,750 for a single adult, while a family of four with teenage children would pay £3,700. Guests are largely restricted to their rooms for the duration.\n\nBy comparison, anyone arriving in the UK from a country not on the list is told to self-isolate at home - so long as they've not been in a red list country in the past 10 days.\n\nHashir, a student, said he could not afford the cost of quarantining in the UK\n\nOne travel agent in Bradford said some of his clients who had travelled to Pakistan had been left facing a hefty bill to return home after the country was placed on UK's banned list on 9 April.\n\n\"I've got customers who can't afford to come back,\" said Ascher Khawaja of Oltrax Travel, citing UK quarantine costs. To ease the burden on his clients, Mr Khawaja says he has arranged 15-20 journeys home via Turkey.\n\nThe country brought in a three-week lockdown last week because of rising infections - but it has not been added to the UK's red list. \"With the hotel factored in, it works out at around £600 compared to £1,700-plus,\" he said.\n\nAnyone entering Turkey must have had a negative Covid test within 72 hours. They also must have a negative PCR test to leave the country. Foreign tourists are, however, exempt from Turkey's current lockdown rules.\n\nBradford businessman Mohammad Saad travelled to Pakistan on 23 March to attend his nephew's funeral and had been due to fly home on 10 April - the day after Pakistan was added to the red list.\n\nWhen he couldn't change his flights, he and his 16-year-old son flew to Turkey instead. The cost was about £450 for 10 days in Istanbul, he said.\n\n\"It's like an extra holiday. Then you can fly back into the UK from Istanbul without any hotel quarantine.\"\n\nHashir, a 21-year-old student returning from Pakistan, said he had met other Britons at the airport when he arrived in Istanbul.\n\n\"There's no way I have that money, I'm a university student,\" said Hashir, referring to the cost of returning directly to the UK. He is due back in the UK on 7 May.\n\nZulfiqar Ali, a 45-year-old taxi driver from Leeds, travelled from Pakistan to Istanbul on 24 April. \"I paid £100 for 11 nights. It's a double bed, a TV and a fridge. It was online and food was very cheap.\"\n\nHe said he was returning to the UK on 5 May.\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to staff at hotels in Istanbul. One accommodation worker in the old city said British travellers were using the country as \"a bridge\".\n\nHis hotel had booked British passport holders travelling from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India - all on the red list, he said.\n\nTurkey has since tightened its rules on people arriving from India, who must now quarantine in designated dormitories.\n\nA manager at another hotel in the city said, through his membership of an international booking website, he could see there had been a rise in people travelling from Pakistan and India to Istanbul.\n\nBradford MP Naz Shah said others had been unable to book family rooms on the UK hotel quarantine booking system. She said she was \"deeply concerned\" about children potentially missing school because their parents can't afford to fly home.\n\nThe UK's Department for Transport said people who had not been in a red list country for the past 10 days were not prevented from entering the UK - but should isolate at home.\n\nIt said the rules were aimed at stopping people - other than British residents - entering the UK from red list countries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFive people have died after an 18-year-old man launched a machete attack at a nursery school in southern Brazil, police say.\n\nThe victims include three children all reported to be under two years old and two staff members.\n\nThe attacker then turned the weapon on himself and is in critical condition in hospital, a police statement said.\n\nIt is not clear what was behind the attack in the small town of Saudades, in Santa Catarina state.\n\nSeveral dozen children were in the building at the time of the incident and staff tried to hide them, officials said. A fourth child is said to have suffered minor injuries.\n\nMilitary police say they received several calls at 10:35 local time (13:35 GMT) from neighbours who reported that a man armed with a machete had entered the nursery and was attacking staff and children.\n\nPolice say the man - who has not been named - first attacked a teacher who was at the entrance to the nursery. He reportedly followed her into one of the rooms, where he also turned on the children.\n\nThe nursery is located in the centre of Saudades, a town of about 9,000 people, and according to Globo news it cares for children under the age of 3.\n\n\"I heard screams [and] cries for help,\" one employee who was near the nursery at the time of the attack, Aline Biazebetti, told AFP news agency.\n\n\"I went outside and saw my colleagues calling for help: 'Please, call the police, an armed guy came in and is killing the children.'\"\n\nAt a news conference later on Tuesday, one police officer described the attackers weapon as \"samurai-style\" and displayed it to reporters.\n\nThree days of mourning have been declared in Santa Catarina state.\n\nWhile there have been deadly attacks in schools before in Brazil, they have mainly targeted older pupils:", "Parents should put swimming lessons \"front and centre of their priorities\" as the country comes out of lockdown, Olympian Duncan Goodhew has said.\n\nIt comes after the sport's governing body said the lack of lessons during the Covid pandemic meant 240,000 children had missed out on learning how to swim 25m - the length of most pools.\n\nSwim England said more than five million swimming sessions were lost during the pandemic.\n\nPools first had to close in March 2020.\n\nIndoor pools are able to open across the UK and swimming classes have resumed in England, Scotland and Wales but are still limited in Northern Ireland to one-to-one lessons.\n\nMr Goodhew, who is president of charity Swimathon Foundation which has a Covid relief fund to support aquatics organisations, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was \"impossible\" for children to learn to swim without being in the water.\n\n\"It is particularly important with the holidays, with young kids running round at pools or the seaside who can't swim it is a pretty frightening experience for the parent,\" he said. \"So I think it is really important the parents put this front and centre of their priorities and get children signed up to learn to swim.\"\n\nSome parents say swimming has become too expensive and many families cannot afford it\n\nMr Goodhew, who won gold at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, said 90% of pools had reopened but even before the pandemic there had been three-year waiting lists for lessons at some pools.\n\nHe said water safety, \"learning about when it is safe to swim and how to look after yourself etc and a better respect for the water\" was important for children.\n\nSwim England chief executive Jane Nickerson said people had \"returned to the water in droves\" since pools reopened but warned the organisation expected \"some regression amongst children's swimming ability\" with facilities having been closed.\n\nShe encouraged parents and guardians to be \"proactive\" in making up for lost time.\n\nDuncan Goodhew won gold at the Moscow Olympics in 1980\n\nOne parent who cannot wait to get his child in the pool is Olympic medallist Leon Taylor.\n\nHe said he was keen to start teaching his 10-month-old son Ziggy about water and swimming but as he was born in June last year he had \"never even been to swimming pool\" and his only water-based experiences were in the bath.\n\nMother-of-two Amy McCarthy, from Littlehampton, West Sussex, said she had seen deterioration in her son and daughter's swimming ability but was \"confident that we'll be able to make up for lost time\".\n\nBut some parents have struggled to get their children into lessons.\n\nEmma Buysman, from Buckinghamshire, said her youngest child was missing out after his lessons with a parent were cancelled during the first lockdown.\n\n\"It's now impossible to find a lesson for him as having turned three, he cannot yet swim without parental support while those classes he was in haven't yet moved up to the next stage as they have missed a year of classes,\" she said.\n\nShe added that her local leisure centre was trying to recruit new swimming teachers but was finding it difficult to allocate both pool slots and find teachers for the level of demand.\n\n\"People want public swimming and you can't have public swimming when you are having the lessons,\" she said.\n\nSam Gillett, from Bath, said swimming had become \"a luxury that many families cannot afford\" and said the leisure centre his family used had put up swimming costs due to the pandemic.\n\n\"It would now cost us £22 for a family of four, with a two-year-old and five-year-old,\" he said.\n\n\"We are a relatively well-off family and that is too much for us to afford with any regularity, what about families with much less.\"", "Mr Dekas is seeking a High Court hearing with a young woman who is also concerned\n\nA father and a student campaigner are seeking a High Court hearing to consider whether the government should tighten youngsters' access to porn.\n\nIoannis Dekas and Ava Vakil want the government to implement proof of age for access to pornography promised in the 2017 Digital Economy Act.\n\nIt comes as new research suggests the majority of 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK have recently seen pornography.\n\nThe government is currently preparing a new Online Harms Bill.\n\nThis bill would go further than the Digital Economy Act, giving the watchdog, Ofcom, powers to block access to online services - including social media platforms and search engines - which fail to do enough to protect children.\n\nIt is expected to be put before Parliament later this year.\n\nIoannis Dekas, a father of four sons, became concerned after he found one of his boys had accessed pornography.\n\nHe said this was a wake-up call for him and his wife as parents, making them confront the potential danger to their son and the impact on them all as a family.\n\n\"In the two weeks leading up to this moment, we'd noticed a drastic change in his behaviour, withdrawal, a sense of anger towards his siblings, we could sense frustration in his life.\"\n\nWhen he and his wife talked to their son, they found he was under peer pressure to be familiar with the language of porn.\n\n\"What I don't often hear is how to deal with this. What happens in your household when this happens? With the availability, it's not a matter of if, but of when.\"\n\nMr Dekas wants the government to put in place the age verification requirements set out in part three of the Digital Economy Act - a law that was passed in 2017.\n\nHowever, in 2019, the then Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan said the measures would no longer go ahead, with efforts instead focused on the government's wider Online Harms Bill.\n\nBut Mr Dekas says that this bill still has to be brought before Parliament, and may be delayed if detailed regulations need to be drawn up.\n\nIn the meantime, children are being exposed to pornography, he says, when they could be protected using the Digital Economy Act's full powers.\n\nAva Vakil is also calling on the government to enforce age restrictions on porn sites\n\nMr Dekas is bringing the challenge jointly with 20-year-old University of Oxford student Ava Vakil, whose letter about what she described as a culture of sexual violence in some schools went viral online.\n\nMs Vakil told the BBC: \"I think porn is everywhere, and growing up as a young woman I've seen the influence of that.\n\n\"I think young men are ingesting pornography online to an extent that people aren't aware of.\n\n\"I'm sure everyone, and particularly young women, can look back on so many conversations they've had with boyfriends and male friends and think 100% it was impacted by porn.\"\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it would not be appropriate to comment on legal proceedings.\n\nA spokesman said the government was committed to protecting children from harmful content.\n\nThe legal action comes as research from City, University of London found many teenagers had seen porn.\n\nProf Neil Thurman conducted a survey of more than 1,000 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK, using a panel from the specialist market research company Youthsite.\n\nWhile 63% said they came across porn on social media, 47% said they had also visited porn websites.\n\nThe research suggests the government's approach of widening the range of legislation to more platforms is right, Prof Thurman said.\n\nMore worryingly, 46% had used technology that disguises identity when browsing online, such as a virtual private network, and which could allow evasion of age verification.\n\nHowever, Prof Thurman said this was not a reason not to regulate access.\n\n\"It doesn't mean we shouldn't bring in legislation,\" he said. \"Firstly I think it would reduce accidental exposure, particularly for younger children and teenagers, and it does send a signal, not present at the moment, that they are accessing something inappropriate for their age group.\"\n\nVanessa Morse, head of the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation, said there was a \"wealth of evidence\" to show that viewing pornography led to harmful sexual attitudes and behaviours.\n\n\"The government's own research, which it published this year, showed an association between porn consumption and real world violence against women. It's no surprise considering one in eight porn videos contains sexual violence,\" she said.\n\nA new report by the internet safety body, Internet Matters, looking at children's use of technology during lockdown has found that although the internet had a positive impact on how children learn and socialise, parents also reported a rise in the amount of online harms children experienced.\n\nA survey of 2,000 parents in the UK in March this year suggests a 39% increase in the sharing of sexual images among children since January 2020.\n\nPsychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos, ambassador of Internet Matters, says \"as children have come to rely on technology more than ever during the pandemic, and therefore spending sometimes several hours a day online, it also gives them increased exposure to all of the risks that go with it.\"\n• None Online harms law to let regulator block apps in UK", "The Duchess of Sussex has won the remainder of her copyright claim against the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter to her estranged father.\n\nIn February, Meghan won most of her claim for misuse of private information and copyright infringement.\n\nBut the newspaper had suggested she may not have been the sole copyright owner.\n\nThe duchess won her case after her former communications secretary denied co-writing the letter.\n\nAssociated Newspapers Limited (ANL) - the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline - had previously argued the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's former communications secretary Jason Knauf was a co-author of the letter, meaning its copyright belonged to the Crown.\n\nOn Wednesday, the High Court heard that Mr Knauf has \"emphatically\" denied co-writing the letter to Thomas Markle. Through his lawyers, he said \"it was the duchess's letter alone\".\n\nIan Mill, representing the duchess, told the court that this \"gives the lie\" to the newspaper's suggestion that Meghan considered using the letter \"as part of a media strategy\".\n\nThe court also heard that lawyers representing \"the Keeper of the Privy Purse, acting on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen\" told Meghan's solicitors they \"did not consider the Crown to be the copyright owner\".\n\nLaunching their case against ANL in 2019, Prince Harry and Meghan said they were forced to take action against \"relentless propaganda\", with the duke saying he feared his wife would fall victim to \"the same powerful forces\" as his mother.\n\nIn the High Court in February, Lord Justice Warby ruled the publication of Meghan's handwritten letter to her father by the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline was \"manifestly excessive and hence unlawful\".\n\nThe judge said it was a \"a personal and private letter\" that dealt with the duchess's \"feelings of anguish about her father's behaviour, as she saw it, and the resulting rift between them\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Mill acknowledged that Meghan had \"shared a draft\" of the letter with Harry and Mr Knauf \"for support, as this was a deeply painful process that they had lived through with her\".\n\n\"Mr Knauf was responsible for keeping the senior members of the royal household apprised of any public-facing issues, the media spectacle surrounding Mr Markle being one such issue,\" the barrister said.\n\nThe former communications secretary had \"suggested that a reference to Mr Markle's ill-health be included\", which Meghan added, but he \"did not suggest any specific wording\", the court heard.\n\nHis lawyers said he did not draft any part of the letter and \"would never have asserted copyright over any of their content\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan had said the publication of the letter was part of a \"relentless propaganda\" campaign\n\nMr Knauf, who is now chief executive of the Royal Foundation, set up by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, had said in a joint letter with other royal aides in January that he did not want to \"take sides\" in the legal dispute.\n\nAndrew Caldecott, representing the publisher, said it was a \"matter of regret\" that Mr Knauf had not made clear he was not the author of the letter sooner.\n\nHe said as soon as ANL heard his account, the publisher indicated it would not oppose summary judgment in this case - meaning it could be resolved without going to trial.\n\nBut ANL is applying to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal against the judge's February ruling on privacy and copyright, when the duchess won the bulk of her case.\n\nAn order that it must print a statement on its front page and page three that it infringed Meghan's copyright is on hold until the Court of Appeal's decision.", "Countries like India are experiencing a surge in the number of coronavirus cases\n\nWealthy countries including the UK should send spare vaccine doses to virus-hit nations before organising booster jabs, a World Health Organization (WHO) official has said.\n\nSpecial envoy David Nabarro told the BBC top-ups and extra vaccinations \"should come a bit later\".\n\nHe said Covid was \"bigger than ever, it's fiercer than ever and it's causing more distress than ever\" worldwide.\n\nThe UK has said its booster programme could start as early as September.\n\nThe government has also pledged to donate surplus vaccine doses to poorer nations.\n\nBut the WHO has urged richer countries to do more - and sooner - as Covid cases surge in countries, including India and South Asian nations.\n\nMr Nabarro told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme the virus was now spreading in places where testing was poor - so the numbers being reported risked being a \"major under-estimate\".\n\n\"This is a bad phase,\" he said.\n\nAs foreign ministers of the G7 group of countries met in London, he urged leaders to begin to distribute spare doses to those countries in the grip of the virus amid a global shortage of supply.\n\nHe said he wanted \"to plead with G7 leaders, with G20 leaders, with every leader, with everybody who's got influence, to please recognise that we've got to try to get vaccines distributed to those who need them the most now in this period of acute shortage of supply\".\n\nMr Nabarro added that \"top-ups and other extra things and extra protection for people in the wealthy countries... should come a bit later\".\n\nIt comes after UK Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said extra funding would fast-track new vaccines to \"future-proof\" the UK against new virus variants.\n\nExisting vaccines protect against variants such as the one found in Kent, but experts say the UK needs to be prepared as the virus keeps on mutating.\n\nMr Zahawi said the £29.3m funding increase would improve testing facilities at Porton Down research laboratory.\n\nHe also said the booster programme could begin in September \"or later in the year, or early next year\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast clinicians would consider how well the protection from vaccines had lasted when deciding when to begin rolling out the programme.\n\nLast week, the UK government ordered an extra 60 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which it said would be used alongside other vaccines for the boosters.\n\nFollowing the funding announcement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"We are committed to supporting the UK's flourishing life-sciences industry - and this announcement is yet another critical way we will build back better to protect the country over the coming months and years.\"\n\nUK Health Security Agency chief executive Dr Jenny Harries said: \"A new variant that can escape the current vaccines is the greatest risk of a third wave.\n\n\"This new investment will help us stay one step ahead of the virus by doubling our capacity to test vaccine effectiveness against emerging variants.\n\n\"While we expect the existing vaccines to offer protection against new variants, particularly preventing serious illness and death, it is important that we continue to monitor the picture as it develops.\"\n\nThe government has already announced a deal with biopharmaceutical company CureVac to develop vaccines against future variants, with 50 million doses pre-ordered.\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\nProf Neil Ferguson, an expert on the spread of infectious diseases who sits on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said new variants emerging posed the biggest risk to the UK's progress in the pandemic.\n\n\"In the worst case scenario, if we have a new variant pop up which does manage to evade the vaccines, say late summer or early autumn, there may be a need to roll back on some of these measures (being eased) at least temporarily until we can boost people's immunity,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Do I think it's likely to happen? No, I don't. I think we are much more likely to be on a steady course now out of this pandemic, at least in this country.\"\n\nProf Ferguson said variants would need to be monitored \"carefully\", but the UK had gone from a \"terrible situation\" in January to a \"remarkably good situation now\".\n\nCovid restrictions are expected to be further eased on 17 May in England, Scotland and Wales, subject to government approval. In Northern Ireland, more restrictions may be lifted on 24 May.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK reported another 2,144 daily cases, as well as a further 27 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe government's latest data showed more than 50 million Covid vaccinations have been given in the UK so far, with more than 34.7 million first doses and 15.8 million second doses administered.", "Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer are among leaders battling for votes ahead of Thursday's polls\n\nPolitical party leaders have hit the road in England in a final push for votes ahead of Thursday's elections.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the Conservatives faced some \"tough contests\" but the party was \"fighting for every vote\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party was doing the same but had \"a mountain to climb\" to win back support in key battlegrounds.\n\nPolls open from 07.00 to 20:00 BST on Thursday, with results due from Friday.\n\nAbout 48 million people in England, Wales and Scotland will be able to take part in the elections, many of them postponed from last year because of the pandemic.\n\nAs well as polls for the Scottish Parliament and the Senedd in Wales, there are elections for seats on 143 English councils and 13 local mayors.\n\nThere will also be a by-election for the Westminster seat of Hartlepool.\n\nThursday's votes represent the first electoral test for parties since the Conservatives won a majority at the 2019 general election.\n\nThey will be the first votes since Sir Keir took over as Labour leader 13 months ago and Sir Ed Davey won the Liberal Democrat leadership race last August.\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\nCampaigning has been curtailed by Covid restrictions, with large public meetings moved online and limits on groups of activists going door-to-door.\n\nSpeaking in Stourbridge, in support of the Tory candidate for West Midlands mayor, Mr Johnson said: \"It is a very tough set of elections.\n\n\"When we stood last time for of these many council seats we were at a high water mark and we will be fighting for absolutely every vote.\"\n\nAsked if the Conservatives could win a \"hat-trick\" in the mayoral races in Tees Valley and West Midlands, and the Hartlepool by-election, he said: \"These are tough contests.\n\n\"Hartlepool hasn't been a Conservative seat since its inception. It will be a very tough fight, but I hope everybody gets out to vote.\"\n\nMr Johnson was also asked if he would allow another independence referendum in Scotland, if pro-independence parties win a majority in the Scottish Parliament elections.\n\nHe said: \"Let's wait and see what actually happens, but I think most people in Scotland, and around the whole of the UK, feel that - as we're coming out of pandemic together - this is not the time to have a reckless and, I think, irresponsible, second referendum.\"\n\nSir Keir began a frantic day of campaigning on Wednesday with a visit to Pontefract to support Labour's candidate for West Yorkshire mayor.\n\nAsked about a Guardian report, based on internal polling, that the party is heading for a big defeat in Thursday's Hartlepool by-election, he said: \"There was a mountain to climb when I took over as leader of the Labour Party.\n\n\"We lost in December 2019 very badly and I've got to make sure the Labour Party is in a position to win the next general election when it comes.\n\n\"That's the mountain we're climbing. We're on that mountain, we're climbing and we're going into the elections tomorrow fighting for every vote.\"\n\nSir Keir is also joining Labour's candidates for the mayoral races in the West Midlands and West of England.\n\nSir Ed Davey took the Lib Dems' campaign to the London suburb of Surbiton, where he highlighted the party's policies on the environment.\n\nHe described the campaign so far as \"weird\" because of the Covid restrictions, but added: \"When we have managed to talk to people, they're responding positively to the Liberal Democrat message, because we are community politicians.\n\n\"People know that if they get a Liberal Democrat councillor, things get done.\"\n\nGreen Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley was also in the capital to support the party's candidate for the Greater London mayor.\n\nHe said he was expecting more council seat gains, having picked up 40 at the last round of English local elections, and promised to speak for the \"unrepresented\".\n\n\"Once people see Greens elected and make a difference, they want more,\" Mr Bartley added.\n\nThe pandemic means ballots are expected to take longer than usual to count, creating greater uncertainty over when results will be declared.\n\nSome counts will take place overnight on Thursday, including for the Hartlepool by-election, where a result is expected early on Friday.\n\nBut counting in some council areas in England will take place on Friday, or over the weekend.\n\nA dozen of the counts for 39 police and crime commissioners elected in England will not begin until Monday.\n\nResults for all 60 seats in the Welsh Senedd will be known on Friday.\n\nScotland starts counting in some areas on Friday, but there will not be a final result until Saturday, or possibly even Sunday.", "Arthur was the biggest bear in Romania and probably the whole of the European Union\n\nEnvironmental campaigners suspect a Liechtenstein prince shot dead probably the biggest bear alive in the EU on a hunting expedition in Romania in March.\n\nThey say Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein had been granted a permit to shoot a female bear that had caused damage to some farms.\n\nBut it was not a female that was shot but Arthur, a 17-year-old brown bear.\n\nThe prince who lives in Austria has not yet responded, and the BBC's attempts to reach him have been unsuccessful.\n\n\"We don't have a personal problem with the prince,\" Gabriel Paun of Environmental group Agent Green told the BBC. \"We believe the hunting association was meeting his needs.\"\n\nThe office of the Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein told AFP news agency it did not know the background of this \"private and personal matter\". But it did stress that nature \"has been one of the fundamental concerns of the House and is a central element of the family's commitment to ecological and social sustainability\".\n\nRomania's national environmental guard has launched an investigation into the bear's death.\n\nThere is no verification that a hunting permit was granted to the prince. However, Agent Green has produced a leaked document that appears to be a permit from authorities to a hunting association in Covasna granting the prince several days in March, and detailing the death of a bear in the village of Ojdula in Transylvania.\n\nTrophy hunting was barred in Romania in 2016 as the brown bear is protected by an EU directive. But hunting is allowed for \"problematic\" bears that cause damage. Campaigners say a local farmer had complained of an issue with three females and their cubs some time ago, but that the March kill had not solved the issue.\n\n\"To get a derogation [permit] you have to prove you've done all diligence. Derogation is the exception and not the rule,\" said Mr Paun. \"Once you extract large bears out of the population you start to destabilise the population so he had a crucial role.\" Without bears such as Arthur there is a risk of in-breeding, he fears.\n\nEnvironment Minister Tanczos Barna confirmed that a permit had been issued to get rid of a nuisance bear but did not give details of who received it.\n\nThe head of Romania's National Environmental Guard protection agency, Octavian Berceanu, said an inquiry had been opened last week into why a male bear had been shot and that poaching was one of the suspicions of the case.\n\nAs females are far smaller than Arthur, activists believe the older alpha male was deliberately targeted for his trophy value of 592.8 points out of a possible maximum 600.\n\nAnn-Kathrin Freude of Austrian environmental group VGT told the BBC that as far as they were aware the shooting of Arthur had produced the highest score ever recorded. \"It is a really great trophy to get one of these iconic animals - it's like a good wine.\"\n\nThe bear was killed in March, months after a local farmer complained\n• None Murdered for trying to save Europe's oldest forests", "Mayra Zulfiqar studied at Middlesex University and went to school in Twickenham\n\nPolice in Pakistan are searching for two men following the fatal shooting of a British woman in Lahore.\n\nMahira Zulfiqar, 24, was found in a pool of blood in her flat on Monday.\n\nPunjab Police, citing an initial post-mortem report, told English-language newspaper Dawn that Ms Zulfiqar had been shot in the neck and arm.\n\nThe law graduate from London had been threatened by two men who both wanted to marry her, according to legal documents seen by the BBC.\n\nMourners attended Ms Zulfiqar's funeral in Lahore, while a special memorial service has been held at a mosque in Hounslow, west London.\n\nMs Zulifqar's brother Faizan Muhammad, who was among those who attended the mosque, said his father had left for Pakistan.\n\nMourners paid their respects to Ms Zulfiqar at a funeral service in Lahore\n\nIn Pakistan, the chief investigating officer in the murder inquiry told the BBC that police teams were targeting addresses in Islamabad and Lahore but that no arrests had yet been made.\n\nA police report said Ms Zulfiqar's uncle Mohammad Nazeer found her body after receiving a phone call from her father, who lives in Feltham in west London, to say she had been killed.\n\nMr Nazeer also said Ms Zulfiqar had told him she had become embroiled in a dispute with two male friends after she had refused their marriage proposals, and that they had threatened her with \"dire consequences\".\n\nSayyed Ali, an operations superintendent at Punjab Police, told Dawn that forensic experts had visited and cordoned off the scene.\n\n\"We are also after two suspects and will share further details at a later stage,\" he said, adding that Ms Zulfiqar's phone had been found near her body.\n\nHe said the phone was being analysed and that CCTV footage was also being examined.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said: \"We are supporting the family of a British woman who died in Pakistan and are urgently seeking more information from the local authorities.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deacon and Mr Clarke are both previous recipients of Bafta's Rising Star award\n\nActor Adam Deacon has said he stands by the women who have accused Noel Clarke of sexual harassment, claiming his former co-star sabotaged his career.\n\nDeacon claimed to have been Mr Clarke's \"victim\" for 15 years and said his mental health had suffered as a result.\n\nMr Clarke has \"vehemently\" denied any sexual or criminal wrongdoing after 20 women came forward to accuse him.\n\nDeacon appeared with Mr Clarke in 2006's Kidulthood and its 2008 follow-up Adulthood, which Mr Clarke also directed.\n\nThe pair fell out in 2010 over a spoof film Deacon wanted to make called Anuvahood, which was made and released the following year.\n\nIn 2015 Deacon was found guilty of harassment without violence after sending Mr Clarke abusive messages on social media.\n\nLast week Mr Clarke, 45, was suspended by Bafta after extensive allegations of sexual harassment were published in The Guardian.\n\nMr Clarke was suspended by Bafta last week, after allegations were published by The Guardian\n\nBafta also suspended the outstanding British contribution to cinema prize it had given the actor and film-maker on 10 April.\n\nFollowing the claims, the Met Police confirmed they had received a third party report relating to allegations of sexual offences by a man.\n\nThe allegations also led to ITV pulling the final episode of its crime drama Viewpoint, in which Mr Clarke played the leading role.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Deacon said he believed \"every single word\" Mr Clarke's accusers had said about their allegedly \"harrowing\" experiences.\n\nThe 38-year-old said he had spoken out about Mr Clarke's \"sociopathic\" behaviour on multiple occasions, only to have his claims dismissed.\n\n\"I only wish that everyone had taken more notice of my words,\" he continued, saying it might have stopped Mr Clarke's \"horrific abuse of power\".\n\nHe said the events of the past week had served as \"a small vindication\" and that he was \"now looking towards a fresh start\".\n\nMr Clarke is known for playing Mickey Smith in Doctor Who from 2005 to 2010 and for his work in Sky crime drama Bulletproof.\n\nSky said last week it had halted Mr Clarke's involvement in any of its future productions, including Bulletproof's planned fourth series.\n\nMr Clarke has said he is \"deeply sorry\" for some of his actions while continuing to deny any sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing.\n\nHe said he would be seeking professional help \"to educate myself and change for the better\".\n\nMr Clarke and Deacon are both previous winners of Bafta's rising star award, having received the honour in 2009 and 2012 respectively.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Clarke for comment.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Polling stations across the country are preparing - including the Isle of Gigha, as Presiding Officer Morven Beagan loads her car with equipment\n\nWhatever you want to call the votes tomorrow, there will be millions and millions of them, in a sweeping set of elections.\n\nThere are national polls in Scotland and Wales for the Holyrood Parliament and the Senedd. Council elections across England, from the tiniest parish to huge powerful authorities, 39 ballots for police and crime commissioners, 13 directly elected mayors and the London Assembly too.\n\nIt's a strange set of elections, after a year when the country has been in and out of lockdown, putting politics and much other business as usual on hold.\n\nGovernment at all levels has been grappling with a health and an economic emergency and while pollsters have been busy number crunching, there are plenty of races that are very hard to predict.\n\nAnd the votes will matter in many ways, from who collects the bins in Derbyshire to the future of the whole UK.\n\nFirst off, deciding who controls councils in England is an important job for voters. Councils are in charge of how the elderly are looked after, how late pubs on your high street can open, planning, the bins (of course), to name just a few.\n\nLocal government has huge influence over our lives in lots of ways. City mayors also have a growing role in the UK, whether it's what seems to have become the Labour fiefdom of London, or Tory mayor on Teesside.\n\nThe individual contests matter for our quality of life, but make a difference to political sentiment too. At this stage of an electoral cycle, where one party has been in charge nationally for more than 10 years, the Tories in this case, the oppositions should be gobbling up seats all over the place.\n\nBut having changed its leader twice, and hung on through a political rollercoaster, it just doesn't seem like that's set to happen. Indeed, the broader question for the two main parties might be about geography rather than number of places that really change hands.\n\nCan the Tories keep up their momentum in areas the Labour Party used to rely on? Can Labour, after Jeremy Corbyn, stop the electoral rot?\n\nFor political nerds, a by-election in Hartlepool too provides a very convenient example of this big test. The current formation of the seat has never been held by the Tories. If they can grab it from Labour now, it suggests their vote in 2019 with dozens of new seats turning blue was not a fluke.\n\nIf Keir Starmer's team can't hold it, mutterings about his ability to reverse the trend will get louder. (It's important to note, though, in 2019 the Brexit Party received more than 10,000 votes in that constituency - this makes it harder this time for Labour than less recent history might suggest.)\n\nThe elections in Wales, where notably 16 and 17-year-olds will vote for the first time, seem unlikely to produce what would be the first majority in the Senedd for any party.\n\nBut the experience of the pandemic has demonstrated the powers and profile of its devolved government. Results will be watched closely there to see if that tips the balance.\n\nThe most keenly anticipated decisions though will be those made by Scottish voters. The SNP has been far and away the dominant force at Holyrood for many years. The real potential prize for Nicola Sturgeon this time round would be for the party to win a majority on its own.\n\nHer backers believe that would give the SNP a convincing mandate to hold another independence referendum, something that Boris Johnson right now has the legal power to refuse and, indeed, says that he would block.\n\nBut some unionists fear meeting an outright majority with a brick wall would not be possible for long. Yet with internal spats and the dramatic moves of the former leader Alex Salmond, the SNP's armour-plated unity has taken a fair few knocks.\n\nAnd with many Scottish races extremely close, the outcome is hard to predict. But this week could see the start of many months of fraught fights, even court cases, over the future of the Union where once again, politics in the whole UK becomes tangled up in arguments about the constitutional status quo.\n\nIt is important to remember as the results come in that these elections are complicated. They capture one moment in time, they don't make the next steps inevitable. And voters, of course, vote different ways in different contests.\n\nThis time, however, the long list of different contests will make an overall picture even harder to draw.\n\nOne insider described them as a 'spinners dream' - there will be so much going on that each party afterwards will have evidence from somewhere to try to create its own headline.\n\nEach result will give us a jigsaw piece to try to create a pattern, but this time, not every piece will even be taken from the same box.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea will face Manchester City in the Champions League final in Istanbul after convincingly overcoming a fading Real Madrid at Stamford Bridge.\n\nOn a night of high tension, even behind closed doors, Chelsea fully deserved a victory that sets up an all-English final against Pep Guardiola's Premier League leaders on 29 May.\n\nThomas Tuchel's hosts were grateful to goalkeeper Edouard Mendy for two fine first-half saves from Karim Benzema but they were able to build on the 1-1 draw they achieved in Madrid when Timo Werner headed in from almost on the goal-line in the 28th minute after Kai Havertz had lofted a finish on to the bar.\n\nIt set the platform for a second half of total Chelsea domination that was nevertheless laced with anxiety as the hosts missed chance after chance to put the game to bed.\n\nReal's former Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois saved from N'golo Kante and Havertz, who also headed against the bar, while Mason Mount shot wildly over the top when clean through.\n\nIt was Mount, though, who finally sealed Chelsea's place in their first Champions League final since they won the competition in 2012.\n\nThe outstanding Kante, who was also instrumental in the opening goal, fed substitute Christian Pulisic and his cross was turned in by Mount with five minutes left.\n\nThe result adds another chapter to the remarkable transformation under Tuchel since he succeeded the sacked Frank Lampard in January - and gives him the chance to make amends for the 2020 Champions League final, when his Paris St-Germain side lost to Bayern Munich.\n• None Relive Chelsea v Real Madrid as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n\nChelsea take all the plaudits\n\nChelsea's win over two legs was almost as emphatic as Manchester City's dismissal of PSG in the other semi-final. The Champions League has two high-quality finalists.\n\nTuchel's side, totally rejuvenated under their impressive German manager, were starting to assume dominance as the first half drew to a close before totally over-running a Real side that suddenly started to look its age in the face of the energy of Havertz, Werner and Mount - as well as Pulisic when he came on - allied to the all-round brilliance of Kante in midfield.\n\nMendy played his part with those crucial interventions from Benzema, with Antonio Rudiger also a rock, but the home goalkeeper was virtually redundant after the break as Chelsea produced a terrific display of skill and intensity.\n\nThe only downside was their failure to take one of the many chances they created until late on, leaving the door open for a potential reprieve for Real that would have amounted to grand larceny given how they were being let off the hook.\n\nThe crucial opening strike by Werner, whose endeavour has not been matched by goals this season, will be a major plus for Chelsea, as will the display of the rapidly improving Havertz, a smooth, elegant operator who knitted midfield and attack together superbly and was a constant threat.\n\nChelsea will go into the final as underdogs given City's current form, but make no mistake they will fancy their chances and will pose a huge threat.\n\nThey have increased in stature as the season - and indeed this competition - has progressed and would not have been flattered had the scoreline on the night been even more convincing.\n\nChelsea were rock solid at the back, have a strong platform in midfield and were a real threat - albeit one that often went unfulfilled because of their own profligacy.\n\nTuchel will be burning to make up for last season's final loss with PSG and he has already proved he can come up with a plan to beat Manchester City after Chelsea's 1-0 win in the FA Cup semi-final, which has set up a Wembley meeting with Leicester City.\n\nCity will look back on a convincing win against Lampard's Chelsea at Stamford Bridge earlier this season that really kick-started their campaign into action.\n\nThe final has the makings of an outstanding game and it would take some courage to predict the outcome with any conviction.\n\nUefa have reiterated the final will take place in Istanbul, despite current lockdown measures in Turkey, after reports Wembley would be considered for an all-English final.\n\nReal coach Zinedine Zidane called on the great old warrior Sergio Ramos, fit again, and former Chelsea forward Eden Hazard in an attempt to navigate a route to another Champions League final.\n\nRamos provided organisation and a customary yellow card but this Real side looked well past its best and in need of a rebuild, Hazard game but clearly nowhere near full fitness.\n\nThey got past Liverpool over two legs in the quarter-final based on a fine win at home but this was a toothless performance with only the evergreen Benzema, now 33, a danger.\n\nRamos and Luka Modric, while still making key contributions, are both 35 and Real must now start looking even beyond those Bernabeu legends when plotting the future.\n\nReal looked tired, uninspired and well beaten at the final whistle. This looked like a team that needs breaking up and a new era ushered in, exposed by Chelsea's youth, zest and energy.\n\n'A huge performance' - what they said\n\nChelsea manager Thomas Tuchel, speaking to BT Sport: \"They deserve to win. First off, it's difficult because Real had a lot of possession and they made us suffer, but we were dangerous with counter-attacks and never lost the hunger, never lost their desire to defend.\n\n\"Second half was even better, the structure to defend and in the second half, we could've scored much earlier. It's a fantastic achievement and big congratulations to the team.\n\n\"Real Madrid are always dangerous, they can turn nothing into goals. So, to hang in there, even when you have chances and miss them, they never lost concentration, focus, and a positive energy on the pitch. This was a huge performance.\n\n\"I'm very happy we've achieved this. I'm very grateful to have the opportunity to live my life in football and this passion as a profession. So grateful to do it on this level and to get to another final, I'm very grateful for that.\"\n\nReal Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane to Movistar: \"They deserved the win. We fought and tried but they deserved to win and go through.\n\n\"The players who have played were fit to play. I'm proud of my boys: we tried, we have got this far - just one game from the final. Chelsea played a great match and have gone through and we have to say well done to them.\n\n\"We needed to be better going forward. We didn't have any clear chances, they made a number of them and that's football. Now we rest and think of La Liga.\n\n\"Of course we're not happy. When you lose a semi-final you can't be happy and that's normal. It's tough to take, but tomorrow we'll be back out on the training pitch ready to go again.\"\n• None Chelsea have reached their third Champions League final, also doing so in 2008 and 2012. Only Manchester United and Liverpool (four each) have reached more among English teams.\n• None Having also led PSG to the 2019-20 Champions League final, Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel is the first manager to reach the European Cup/Champions League final in consecutive seasons with different clubs.\n• None Real Madrid have faced Chelsea more often without winning (played five, drew two, lost three) than any other opponent in their entire history in all competitions, while Thomas Tuchel has faced Real Madrid more often without losing than any other manager in Champions League history (played six, won two, drew four).\n• None This season's Champions League final will be contested by two English teams for a third time, also occurring in 2008 (Chelsea v Manchester United) and 2019 (Liverpool v Tottenham). It's only the eighth time two teams from the same nation will be contesting the final, with Spanish teams also doing so a joint record three times - 2000 (Real Madrid vs Valencia) and 2014 & 2016 (Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid).\n• None Timo Werner scored his first Champions League goal in open play for Chelsea and his first since September 2019 for RB Leipzig against Benfica, ending a run of 17 appearances in the competition without one.\n• None At 22 years and 15 days, Mason Mount became the second-youngest Englishman to score in the semi-finals of the Champions League, after Wayne Rooney (21 years 182 days vs Milan). Mount is also the first Englishman to score at this stage for Chelsea since Frank Lampard in 2008.\n• None This was only the second time Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has lost a two-legged Champions League tie in 13 attempts, also losing in the Last 16 in 2019-20 against Manchester City.\n• None Chelsea goalkeeper Édouard Mendy has kept eight Champions League clean sheets this season, the most ever by a goalkeeper for an English club in a single season.\n• None Chelsea have kept 18 clean sheets in 24 matches under Thomas Tuchel in all competitions (75%), compared with 26 in 84 games under his predecessor Frank Lampard (31%).\n• None Offside, Real Madrid. Eder Militão tries a through ball, but Mariano is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Reece James (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kai Havertz.\n• None Federico Valverde (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Mason Mount (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 2, Real Madrid 0. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Christian Pulisic. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why Kwabena's dream job might mean risking it all\n• None Fidel Castro's Cuba as told by the spies, revolutionaries and diplomats who shaped it", "Glasgow has recorded the highest number of Covid deaths this year\n\nTwenty out of Scotland's 32 local authorities recorded no Covid deaths last week, according to official figures.\n\nNational Records of Scotland (NRS) said there had now been 10,097 deaths in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nThere were 19 registered between 26 April and 2 May - down four from the previous week.\n\nGlasgow and North Lanarkshire both recorded three deaths.\n\nTwo deaths each were also registered in Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire and West Dunbartonshire.\n\nAberdeen, Dundee, Falkirk, Fife, Inverclyde, Moray and Stirling had one death each, but no deaths were recorded in any other council areas.\n\nAlmost 80% of the deaths last week were of people aged 75 or over, with two deaths of people aged under 65.\n\nPete Whitehouse, The NRS's director of statistical services, said: \"We continue to see a progressive decline in the number of deaths involving Covid-19 since January and while that trend is very welcome, I am mindful that each represents a painful loss for a family in Scotland.\n\n\"There were 1,035 deaths in total from all causes this week, 5% lower than the five year average.\"\n\nExcess deaths from all causes when compared to a five-year average were higher at the beginning of the year, but have been below or close to average since March.\n\nGlasgow has seen the highest number of Covid deaths this year, with 439 recorded, followed by 344 in North Lanarkshire and 251 in Edinburgh.\n\nThe Orkney Islands have the lowest death toll this year, with just one death recorded.\n\nA total of 3,395 people have died with Covid in Scotland since the beginning of the year.", "Welsh Secretary Simon Hart is served chips by his chancellor, Rishi Sunak during a visit to Marine Holiday Park in Rhyl Image caption: Welsh Secretary Simon Hart is served chips by his chancellor, Rishi Sunak during a visit to Marine Holiday Park in Rhyl\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has told BBC Wales the Conservatives could bring “change” to Wales if voters backed them on Thursday.\n\nThe party has said voting Tory would ensure “two governments working together to rebuild after the pandemic and level up Wales”.\n\nJournalists, including BBC Wales, were limited to two questions each for Mr Sunak, on the tightly controlled visit to Rhyl.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Daniel Davies if he was telling the electorate that extra cash would not be available if they voted for Labour, Mr Sunak said: “If you want to see change that we’re bringing across the United Kingdom, if you vote for a Conservative government here in Wales, we’ll be able to deliver that change here as well.\n\n“It's about making sure that we've completed the vaccine roll-out, and then we drive forward our economic recovery as we've protected people's jobs and businesses over the past 12 months.”\n\nBBC Wales asked the chancellor if he could see why he was criticised for a decision not to extend job support when the Welsh government wanted to hold its firebreak lockdown last autumn. Furlough was extended when England locked down later.\n\nMr Sunak did not address the point directly but said: “I think at every point during the past 12 months during this crisis I and the government have acted to protect people in all parts of the United Kingdom.\n\n“If you think about things like the furlough scheme, that's protected almost half a million jobs here in Wales. Fifty thousand businesses have benefited from government-backed loans.”\n\nThe chancellor said there had been £8bn “over two years of direct cash support for the Welsh government to support its local economy as well”.\n\n“I know that we have stood behind people of Wales at this difficult time over the past 12 months,” Mr Sunak added.", "The downward trend in birth rates in the US has been seen throughout the world\n\nThe American birth rate fell for the sixth consecutive year in 2020, with the lowest number of babies born since 1979, according to a new report.\n\nSome 3.6 million babies were born in the US in 2020 - marking a 4% decline from the year before, found the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.\n\nThe slump was seen across all recorded ethnicities and origins, according to the findings.\n\nThe national picture mirrors a decline in births seen worldwide, a trend some experts say has been accelerated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn the CDC report, demographers examined the country's general fertility rate, which compares the number of live births with the number of women considered to be of childbearing age - between 15 and 44 years old.\n\nIn 2020, the general fertility rate in the US was about 56 births per 1,000 women - the lowest rate on record and about half of what it was in the early 1960s.\n\nThe decline in birth rates was seen across all measured racial and ethnic groups. Births dropped by 4% among white, black and Latina women, 9% for Asian women, 3% for Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders and 7% for Native American and Alaska native women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How has giving birth changed during the pandemic?\n\nThe report also analysed the total US fertility rate, which estimates how many babies a hypothetical group of 1,000 women would have over their lifetime based on actual birth rates. For a generation to exactly replace itself, this number must be at or above 2.1.\n\nAccording to the CDC, this rate has generally been \"below replacement\" since 1971 and has consistently been below replacement since 2007. Today, the US total fertility rate sits at 1.6 - another record low.\n\nExperts say the country's tumbling birth rate is closely linked to the average age of American mothers. Women are becoming mothers later in life - a phenomenon tied to increases in educational attainment, growing labour force participation and delays in marriage, according to the Pew Research Center. The average age of mothers at first birth is 27, up from 23 in 2010, recent CDC data has found.\n\nThis changing picture of motherhood has been driven in part by declines in pregnancy among teenagers. The birth rates among teenagers aged 15-19 had the steepest decline of all age groups: down by 8% in 2020 to around 15 births per 1,000 females.\n\nThe National Center for Health Statistics has said it is too early to determine whether the pandemic had a significant effect on birth rates because this year's data is in keeping with past trends. But initial research suggests that Covid-19 may have compounded existing patterns.\n\nThe average age of mothers is rising - driven by the decline in teenage pregnancies\n\nIn a June 2020 study by the Guttmacher Institute, one in three US women said that because of Covid-19, they were likely to delay having children or have fewer children altogether. And researchers from the Brookings Institution - who predicted a \"large, lasting baby bust\" due to Covid-19 - have suggested that the anxiety and economic uncertainty wrought by the pandemic will further depress birth rates going forward.\n\nData from the CDC shows births falling most sharply toward the end of last year when babies conceived at the start of the pandemic would have been born.\n\nThe slowing US birth rate is echoed by worldwide trends.\n\nWhile wealthy countries like Germany and Japan have seen slowing birth rates for some time, the same is now happening in middle-income countries as well, including Thailand and Brazil. Globally, the fertility rate is expected to fall below replacement levels - 2.1 births per woman - by 2070, according to a 2019 report from the UN.\n\nBy the end of this century, the report found, the world's population is projected to virtually stop growing for the first time in history. And a widely cited study published in the Lancet last year suggested this population peak would come even earlier - in 2064.\n\nBetween 2020 and 2100, 90 countries are expected to lose population, including two-thirds of all countries and territories in Europe. According to the UN numbers, Africa is the only region in the world projected to have strong population growth for the rest of the 21st Century - mostly concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nSimilar to trends in the US, the UN has linked falling fertility rates and population growth to gradual delays in childbearing among women. Though the mean age of childbearing varies widely throughout the world, overall increases will continue to lower fertility rates and global population growth in turn.", "The scientists have named the child Mtoto, which means 'the kid' in Swahili\n\nA glimpse of human grief, at the loss of a child 78,000 years ago, has been revealed in the discovery of the oldest burial site in Africa.\n\nThe Middle Stone Age grave - of a three-year-old child - was found in a cave in Kenya.\n\nIn a paper in the journal Nature, the researchers who studied the fragile, ancient remains described how its head appeared to have been laid on a pillow.\n\nScientists have named the child Mtoto, meaning \"the kid\" in Swahili.\n\nResearchers cast the whole grave site in plaster to preserve the arrangement of the bones\n\nThe international team of archaeologists carefully cast the entire grave in plaster in order to preserve the arrangement of surviving bone fragments. This enabled them to transport the body safely to a laboratory for detailed study.\n\n\"It was like excavating a shadow,\" said Prof María Martinón-Torres, director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution.\n\n\"[When we moved the cast], we didn't know we were carrying a child in our arms,\" she told the BBC's Inside Science programme.\n\nThe researchers were able to study the teeth to confirm that this was the tiny body of a human child - between two and three years old. Scans revealed that the body had been laid in a fetal position.\n\nAnd the bones had moved in a way that suggested it had been wrapped tightly when buried, with its head was originally resting on something like a cushion of leaves, which subsequently decomposed.\n\nMtoto was buried inside the cave, where the community would have lived 78,000 years ago\n\n\"We think the child was wrapped in a shroud made of leaves or animal skins - like he was placed in his last sleep,\" explained Prof Martinón-Torres.\n\n\"There is such a delicacy and intention that really expresses feelings from the group towards this child.\"\n\nFurther examination of the size and shape of the bone fragments led the researchers to conclude that Mtoto was most likely a boy.\n\n\"He was buried in the cave - where the people lived,\" Prof Martinón-Torres said. \"All this behaviour meant something - maybe grief, maybe not letting him go.\"\n\nAfrica is considered the cradle of human modernity, but amid all the evidence of early tool use and community living, scientists say that burials were an important missing piece of the human evolutionary story there.\n\n\"The next oldest grave in Africa is about 74,000 years old,\" explained Dr Louise Humphrey from the Natural History Museum in London. \"Interestingly, that was also a young child, but it was poorly excavated about 50 years ago, so we don't know much about it.\"\n\n\"Here, there is definitely a sense of personal loss,\" she added. \"It's evidence of people who had a more symbolic representation of the world around them.\"", "Extra funding to fast-track new vaccines will help \"future-proof\" the UK against new coronavirus variants, the vaccines minister has said.\n\nExisting vaccines protect against variants such as the one found in Kent, but experts say the UK needs to be prepared as the virus keeps mutating.\n\nNadhim Zahawi said the £29.3m funding increase would boost testing facilities at Porton Down research laboratory.\n\nSeparately, he said booster jabs would be ready to deploy from September.\n\nAsked about reports in the Times that third jabs would be given to over-50s and those with underlying health conditions in the autumn, the vaccines minister said no decision had been made yet.\n\nMr Zahawi told BBC Breakfast the booster programme could begin in September \"or later in the year, or early next year\".\n\nHe said clinicians would consider how well the protection from vaccines had lasted when deciding when to begin rolling out the programme.\n\nClinical trials will also be looking at the evidence on mixing different vaccines to see what will offer the most protection.\n\nThe vaccines minister also confirmed there would be an update from the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps later this week about England restarting international travel.\n\nMeanwhile, the government said its extra funding - on top of £19.7m already promised - would also aid vaccine manufacture and allow scientists to accelerate the pace and scale of their work.\n\nThe cash will allow scientists to test 3,000 blood samples a week, up from 700 at the moment, to measure the levels of protective antibodies against Covid-19 generated by different vaccines.\n\nWhether or not at-risk adults are offered a booster dose this autumn will depend on two key factors: whether immunity from the first two doses has waned so older adults are vulnerable to an autumn wave of infection; and whether a variant emerges which means the current vaccines can't prevent serious Covid disease.\n\nUntil we know the answers, it would be wrong to assume a third booster dose is on the cards. But of course it is being planned for.\n\nAll vaccine manufacturers are working on tweaked vaccines, which will aim to deal with so-called escape variants.\n\nAnd a key UK trial - which will offer people a third dose of a different vaccine to the one they initially received - is not yet under way.\n\nIn January 2020, scientists across the world began work on vaccines against the novel coronavirus, long before the disease it caused even had a name. Had they waited until it was clear a vaccine was needed, the delay would have cost tens of millions of lives.\n\nThe government is already making plans for a booster Covid-vaccine programme in the autumn, to protect the most vulnerable ahead of winter.\n\nLast week it ordered an extra 60 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which it said would be used alongside other vaccines for the boosters.\n\nAnd it may use new, updated vaccines that are a better match for emerging variants.\n\nBut the World Health Organization's special envoy on Covid, David Nabarro, said the global vaccine rollout should be prioritised over booster jabs in the UK.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's the World At One, he said: \"What you do with a scarce preventive action like a vaccine is that you give it to the people who need it the most. You have to look at the issue as a world issue.\n\n\"Top ups and other extra things and extra protection for people in the wealthy countries that should come a bit later,\" he said.\n\nFollowing the funding announcement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"We are committed to supporting the UK's flourishing life-sciences industry - and this announcement is yet another critical way we will build back better to protect the country over the coming months and years.\"\n\nUK Health Security Agency chief executive Dr Jenny Harries said: \"A new variant that can escape the current vaccines is the greatest risk of a third wave.\n\n\"This new investment will help us stay one step ahead of the virus by doubling our capacity to test vaccine effectiveness against emerging variants.\n\n\"While we expect the existing vaccines to offer protection against new variants, particularly preventing serious illness and death, it is important that we continue to monitor the picture as it develops.\"\n\nThe government has already announced a deal with biopharmaceutical company CureVac to develop vaccines against future variants, with 50 million doses pre-ordered.\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\nProf Neil Ferguson, an expert on the spread of infectious diseases who sits on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said new variants emerging posed the biggest risk to the UK's progress in the pandemic.\n\n\"In the worst case scenario, if we have a new variant pop up which does manage to evade the vaccines, say late summer or early autumn, there may be a need to roll back on some of these measures (being eased) at least temporarily until we can boost people's immunity,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Do I think it's likely to happen? No, I don't. I think we are much more likely to be on a steady course now out of this pandemic, at least in this country.\"\n\nProf Ferguson said variants would need to be monitored \"carefully\", but the UK had gone from a \"terrible situation\" in January to a \"remarkably good situation now\".\n\nCovid restrictions are expected to be further eased on 17 May in England, Scotland and Wales, subject to government approval. In Northern Ireland, more restrictions may be lifted on 24 May.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK reported another 1,946 daily infections, as well as a further four deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe recorded number of deaths is often lower after weekends and bank holidays due to reporting lags.\n\nThe government's latest data showed more than 50 million Covid vaccinations have been given in the UK so far, with 34.7 million first doses and 15.6 million second doses administered.", "Joao Vale de Almeida is the EU's ambassador to the UK\n\nThe UK government has agreed to give the European Union ambassador in London full diplomatic status.\n\nThe Foreign Office had resisted the idea, arguing the EU should not be treated like an independent nation.\n\nBut in a joint statement, the UK and EU announced ambassador Joao Vale de Almeida, would get \"a status consistent with heads of missions of states\".\n\nHe will now be immune from detention, prosecution or taxation during his time in London.\n\nThese are among the privileges given to diplomats in the states where they are stationed, as sanctioned by the Vienna Convention.\n\nIn more than 100 other countries, the EU's ambassadors have the same status as those representing sovereign nations.\n\nUntil now, however, the UK government had said it wanted instead to treat the EU's London delegation in London as representatives of an international organisation.\n\nBut the EU complained that this was inappropriate and could damage relations, while critics accused ministers of wanting to punish Brussels in the aftermath of protracted Brexit negotiations.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab and EU Vice-President Josep Borrell met on Wednesday at the margins of the G7 meeting, taking place in London, to try to resolve the dispute.\n\nThey later issued a joint statement saying they had \"reached an agreement together, based on goodwill and pragmatism\".\n\nThey said EU delegation staff in London would \"have the privileges and immunities needed to function effectively, while allowing for effective administration of justice\", adding that they looked forward to \"moving ahead and tackling global challenges together\".\n\nMr Raab and Mr Borrell also discussed joint work on climate change, ahead of the Glasgow COP26 climate summit, set to take place this autumn.\n\nThe G7 group - the world's seven largest so-called advanced economies - is made up of the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US - with the EU representatives in attendance.\n\nThis week's talks were the first face-to-face meetings the G7 member states have had in more than two years because of the pandemic.", "Debenhams has announced it will shut its remaining stores by 15 May, closing the door on more than 200 years of trade on UK high streets.\n\nThe move means 49 more shops will go, on top of the 52 due to close on 8 May.\n\nThe Debenhams brand will continue online after being bought by retailer Boohoo for £55m in January.\n\nThe company traces its roots back to 1778 when William Clark opened a shop in London's West End, selling fabrics, bonnets and parasols.\n\nIn 1813, William Debenham invested in the firm and it was renamed Clark & Debenham.\n\nDebenhams has already announced that 52 shops will close on 8 May. The remaining sites will shut on either 12 May or 15 May. Some 12,000 workers will lose their jobs.\n\nBack in the day: Westlife switched on Oxford Street's Christmas lights from Debenhams in 2005\n\nIn 1950 Debenhams had the distinction of being the biggest department store in the UK with 110 stores.\n\nOver the years, Debenhams expanded at a rapid rate. In 2006 it announced plans to double its number of stores to 240 and was opening new shops as recently as 2017.\n\nHowever, the chain had struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April 2020.\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic - which saw the enforced closure of non-essential retail outlets - proved to be the final blow for Debenhams and other rival retailers including Top Shop-owner Arcadia.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April of last year.\n\nHowever, the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low.\n\nThen in December final hopes of a rescue were crushed after the last remaining bidder JD Sports withdrew.\n\nAdministrators announced they would start closing the remaining 124 stores, after the last ditch attempts at saving the business failed.\n\nThen in January Boohoo stepped in to buy the brand but not the shops, signalling the end of Debenhams on the High Street.\n\nAnnouncing the final closures, Debenhams said: \"Over the next 10 days, Debenhams will close its doors on the High Street for the final time in its 242 year history.\n\n\"We hope to see you all one last time in stores before we say a final goodbye to the UK High Street.\"", "From the moment he was arrested in August 2002 in connection with a young woman’s murder, Omar Benguit has protested his innocence.\n\nAt first glance, the case against him looked cut and dried. A large number of witnesses testified against him. Omar was a drug addict with 60 criminal convictions, including one for stabbing another man. At his trial, the main prosecution witness told the jury she’d driven him, covered in blood, to a crack house, after the murder of South Korean student Jong-Ok Shin, known as Oki. Omar was said to have stabbed her as she walked home alone on a Bournemouth street, after she refused to come to a party with him.\n\nBut as I found out in 2018, the prosecution’s case against Omar couldn’t be trusted. The main witness, who can’t be identified for legal reasons, so we’ll refer to her as BB, was a drug addict with a history of making false allegations. Her testimony was the only evidence putting Omar at the scene of the crime. There was no CCTV or forensic evidence. Other witnesses, who were also drug addicts, came forward to say they felt coerced into giving false evidence against him.\n\n￭ Omar Benguit was not at murder scene, lawyers claim\n\nOmar becomes eligible for parole in 2022 and if he confesses to the killing, he could be set free. But he told me he’d rather die in prison than admit to the murder.\n\nIn a new programme, Unsolved: An Alibi for Omar? for BBC Three, I discover new evidence that could provide him with an alibi. I also find more prosecution witnesses who claim the police pressured them to tell lies about Omar in court.\n\nDorset Police say there was sufficient evidence to charge Omar Benguit and that he was unanimously convicted by a jury.\n\n'I was a criminal, but I’m telling the truth'\n\nEver since Omar’s conviction, his sister Amie Benguit has been fighting to overturn his conviction. She believes her brother has been fitted up for the murder. I met her in 2018 when I started looking into the case, and over the ensuing years, her battle has taken its toll.\n\n“I had to leave my home,” she tells me, when I arrive back in Bournemouth to investigate this possible new alibi. “They [her neighbours] didn’t want to be associated with a neighbour involved in something like this. Druggies, murder. I felt uncomfortable, and I had to leave.”\n\nAmie showed me the remaining boxes of evidence related to Omar’s trial. Many of the documents have already been scrutinised by lawyers, but she’s convinced the piece of the puzzle that could prove Omar’s innocence is there.\n\n“I know they’ve missed something,” she says.\n\nOki, 26, had been to a nightclub with friends on the night of the murder. She was just one street away from her house when she was attacked.\n\nIn the last hours of her life, the student told police everything she could remember about the attack. A man wearing a mask had stabbed her from behind then ran off, she said. Omar and his sister insist this man was not him.\n\nThe conviction hinged on the testimony of BB. She told police that three men, including Omar, forced her to give them a lift, and as they had driven past Oki, Omar and the two other men had jumped out of the car to ask her to come to a party with them. When she refused, he stabbed her. BB said that the men got back in the car, and made her drive them to a crack house, where Omar cleaned the blood off himself.\n\nI hadn’t managed to speak to BB before, but while making this latest programme, I tracked her down. She insists she was telling the truth.\n\n“I’m not lying, I’m not mistaken,” she says. But she admits that, as a former heroin addict, she can see why people doubt her testimony.\n\n“I don’t trust addicts. You can’t. You’d rob your own mum when you’re an addict. Back then I was a criminal,” she says. “But it doesn’t mean I wasn’t telling the truth.”\n\nAsked what she’d say to Omar’s family, she simply responds: “I know, one hundred per cent, that he’s guilty.”\n\n'I was coerced into saying it'\n\nWhile BB stands by her story, many of the prosecution witnesses now have serious doubts.\n\nI have spoken to 12 witnesses who think the police gathered evidence unfairly against Omar. They say officers were convinced he was guilty and wanted witnesses to back that up.\n\nFive of those prosecution witnesses admit lying about Omar in court.\n\nBeverley McNeilly claims she was pressured by police to make a false statement about a bag of clothes discovered in the River Stour.\n\nPolice believed they were worn by the killer, but there was no forensic evidence linking them to Omar.\n\n“They were saying, about the clothes, to say yes you did give them [to him],” says Beverley. “They wanted me to say all this stuff that they were telling me to say. I was coerced into saying it.”\n\nBeverley McNeilly had a long criminal record and she said she was worried she would be victimised if she didn’t cooperate with the police.\n\n“The next time I'd have been in court I'd have got longer. They wanted it all sewn up, that was their words. They wanted the case all sewn up.”\n\nAnother prosecution witness, Leanne Meyers, claims the police pressured her to lie about a knife she had seen Omar carrying.\n\nShe says they got her to change her description of the knife so that it matched the murder weapon: “They would write out the statements of what they wanted me to say and that's what I would do. And I hate myself for it.”\n\nAmie, meanwhile, uncovered CCTV images that could back up Omar’s initial statement to the police. He said he’d been to Slam nightclub that night, and Amie got hold of footage from inside the bar. It shows a man that strongly resembles Omar in the bar just after 10pm.\n\nThat doesn’t provide an alibi, as the murder happened around 2.50am, but something I’ve found might. Further CCTV images from Charminster Road at 3.15am on the night of the murder show a man that could be Omar – and if it is him, it means he can’t have been at the crack house cleaning up after the murder. While you can’t see the man’s face, his clothes and body shape bear a striking resemblance to the other images of Omar from that night.\n\nAn expert who visually compared all the images told the BBC there were strong similarities between the man pictured in all footage.\n\nAmie Benguit has now lodged an application for a third appeal with the Criminal Case Review Commission (CCRC) based on the evidence Unsolved uncovered.\n\nOmar's lawyer Des Jenson said that some of the witnesses I tracked down had now retracted their evidence. “It's hugely significant, because you have to ask yourself, ‘Where did the information that found its way into those statements come from?’ Because it didn't come from them,” he says.\n\n“When I first picked up this case and read into it, my initial impression was that this is a miscarriage of justice. Everything that I've read since then, everyone that I've spoken to, and everything that I've seen has only further convinced me that my initial impression was the right one, that this is a grave miscarriage of justice.”\n\nDorset Police declined to be interviewed for the programme, but Detective Chief Superintendent Ben Hargreaves said in a statement that the investigation into Jong-Ok Shin’s death had been thorough, detailed and very complex.\n\n\"Benguit appealed against his conviction, but this appeal was dismissed in July 2005 by judges at the Court of Appeal.\n\n\"The case was reviewed by the Criminal Case Review Commission (CCRC) and referred to the Court of Appeal for a second time on the basis of the reliability of a prosecution witness and the suggestion of a possible alternative suspect. The appeal was dismissed in April 2014.\n\n\"This case has been through a series of reviews and any matter surrounding concerns regarding this conviction is ultimately a matter for the CCRC. Dorset Police would follow the direction and instigate investigations if directed by the courts and responsible authorities.\n\n\"As always, our thoughts are with Oki’s family and friends who remain devastated by their loss.\"\n\n\"They wanted it all sewn up.\"\n\n\n\nUncover new evidence and shocking revelations in this brand new update to the documentary series.#Unsolved: An Alibi For Omar? streaming on 5 May @bbciplayer pic.twitter.com/FMkKqihw1U — BBC Three (@bbcthree) April 29, 2021", "Julia James' dog Toby was found next to her body, police said\n\nA murdered police community officer's dog may provide vital evidence as the search for her killer continues, Kent Police have said.\n\nJulia James, 53, was found on 27 April in Akholt Wood in Snowdown, Kent, where she had taken the dog Toby for a walk.\n\nFingertip searches continue in the area, but no motives or suspects have been identified, police said.\n\nEarlier police released a picture of Ms James, in the same clothes she was wearing on the day she was killed.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tom Richards said: \"I do not know the motive of this attack, I do not know if it's somebody she knew, I do not know if it's a stranger attack. Of course that possibility is particularly frightening to local residents.\n\n\"I don't know, therefore, if it's someone who is regularly in the area,\"\n\nHe said Ms James' dog had been tested for any possible DNA evidence by forensic officers.\n\n\"We've got a very considerable forensic strategy and it does include the dog.\"\n\nPolice have issued a map of the area and are keen to speak to anyone who was there between 13:00 BST and 16:30.\n\nPolice would like to speak to anybody who was in the area pictured on 27 April\n\nAfter releasing the new picture of Ms James, a Kent police spokesman said: \"The image shows Julia walking her Jack Russell Toby while wearing a light blue waterproof coat, blue jeans and dark coloured Wellington-style brown boots.\n\n\"It is the same clothing, apart from the gloves, which she wore on Tuesday 27 April.\"\n\nMr Richards said: \"We're hoping that this image of Julia wearing what she wore before her death will help jog people's memory.\n\n\"We want to hear from people who think they saw her walking Toby on that day and we also want to speak to people who were in the area that afternoon.\"\n\nJulia James' body was found near her home in Snowdown\n\nOfficers are searching a number of locations in the area, Mr Richards said.\n\n\"We are trying to establish the route the offender approached the location where Julia was murdered and the route, if different, the offender left that location.\n\n\"This is a very remote location and people did not approach the scene in a conventional vehicle, most likely on foot.\n\n\"It's a popular dog walking area, but other vehicles - agricultural and off-road vehicles, bikes - would be capable of reaching that area, and we're considering every option.\"\n\nMr Richards said police were continuing \"to conduct as many house-to-house inquiries as possible\", adding: \"Residents in the Aylesham and Snowdown area can expect a visit from officers to allow them to discuss any concerns they may have as well as provide any information which could assist the investigation.\"\n\nHe described the investigation as \"hugely challenging\" and said searches would continue for \"a number of weeks\".\n\nKent Police has encouraged those in the area to \"remain vigilant\" and if leaving home to \"tell someone where you are going and how long you will be\".\n\nOn Tuesday evening people left lit candles on their doorsteps and posted tributes online in memory of Ms James.\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.", "Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu, seen here in 2004, died unexpectedly at the end of April\n\nThe Zulu Queen, Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu, who died unexpectedly last week, has been buried in a private ceremony in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province.\n\nShe was appointed regent of the country's largest ethnic group in March following the death of her husband King Goodwill Zwelithini.\n\nThe queen's death, at 65, has triggered a bitter family feud and a power struggle over the succession.\n\nThe family has dismissed rumours that she had been poisoned.\n\nBut the cause of the queen's death is yet to be announced by the royal family.\n\nHer eldest son Prince Misizulu, who is seen as the favourite to become the next king, has called for unity in a speech.\n\n\"We have no doubt we will unite as a family. Let us emulate the king by being peaceful and continue to love all the queens,\" TimesLives quotes him as saying at his mother's memorial.\n\nHe also reflected on her qualities, adding \"she was my strength, she was an extraordinary mother. She taught us love, respect and the value of hard work, the importance of honouring tradition\".\n\nThe decision on who will now lead the Zulu nation of about 11 million people is yet to be made.\n\nThe throne does not have formal political power and the monarch's role within broader South African society is largely ceremonial. But the Zulu monarchy remains hugely influential, and has a yearly taxpayer-funded budget of more than $4.9m (£3.5m).\n\nQueen Dlamini-Zulu was buried at KwaKhangelamankengane Royal Palace in a town about 480km (300 miles) from South Africa's main city Johannesburg in the early hours of Friday morning after a night vigil.\n\nThe queen was the sister King Mswati III of neighbouring Eswatini and she was buried according to Swati royal culture, reports the BBC's Nomsa Maseko.\n\nHer body was wrapped in a cow's hide by a delegation that was sent by King Mswati and the funeral was attended by family members from both the Zulu and Eswatini monarchies.\n\nPrince Misizulu (centre) is seen as the favourite to be the next king\n\nA state-funded memorial has followed at the palace, with the Zulu and Swati royal families in attendance, as well as former South Africa President Jacob Zuma, who has always celebrated his Zulu identity, and other politicians.\n\nQueen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu was laid to rest in the thick of dawn at the royal palace.\n\nLater, hundreds of people gathered for the memorial, including ordinary members of the public and Zulu maidens whom the late queen was in charge of.\n\nThere was a nostalgic but sombre mood as mourners spoke fondly about her.\n\nPrince Misizulu is seen as the favourite to be the next king. Significantly, he was flanked by ibutho, a Zulu regiment, in a show of force. This suggests they support him to take over from his late father.\n\nZulu princesses in attendance were draped in leopard hides, mostly over their shoulders. Princes wore leopard-skin tabards as well as \"umqhele\" - a headband also made from leopard hide.\n\nThe royal delegation from Eswatini was also wearing their traditional attire.\n\nQueen Dlamini-Zulu was named regent by her late husband, King Zwelithini, who died from diabetes-related complications at the age of 72 on 12 March.\n\nThe longest-reigning Zulu monarch, King Zwelithini had six wives and at least 26 children. But he picked Queen Dlamini-Zulu as his successor because she was the only wife with royal blood.\n\nQueen Dlamini-Zulu, pictured in the early 1970s, was the sister of Eswatini's King Mswati III\n\nQueen Dlamini-Zulu had eight children - including five sons - with the late king and one of them, Prince Misizulu, is seen as the favourite to become the next king.\n\nA legal challenge has been launched by some members of the royal family who have questioned the authenticity of the king's will.\n\nOver the next few weeks the royal family is expected to meet and then name a new leader.", "Lord Dodds has said he will not bid to remain deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in its leadership elections next week.\n\nIt means the party's top two roles are being vacated after leader Arlene Foster said she would resign on 28 May.\n\nLord Dodds has been the party's deputy leader for 13 years.\n\nThe peer and ex-North Belfast MP said he had always planned to step back as deputy leader \"whenever the next election cycle occurred\".\n\nNigel Dodds (left) - pictured with party colleagues in 2005 - became the DUP's deputy leader after Peter Robinson (second right) succeeded Ian Paisley (centre) as leader in 2008\n\nHe said he would instead continue to use his position in Parliament to \"advance the cause of the union\".\n\nParty officers met on Tuesday to agree the procedure and timetable for the election of both a new leader and a deputy leader.\n\nIt is the first time in the party's 50-year history that a leadership contest will take place.\n\nLast week, Mrs Foster said she would resign as DUP leader this month and as first minister at the end of June.\n\nArlene Foster and Nigel Dodds - pictured in 2008 - are leaving their roles at the top of the party\n\nEdwin Poots and Sir Jeffrey Donaldson are both bidding to succeed Mrs Foster.\n\nLord Dodds had represented the North Belfast constituency in the House of Commons from 2001 until his defeat in the general election in 2019, when for the first time Sinn Féin won the seat.\n\nLast July, it was announced that he would become a life peer in the House of Lords.\n\nThis is a significant although not unexpected announcement by Lord Dodds.\n\nHe will soon relinquish the role he has held for more than a decade - another sign of the impending regime change at the top of the DUP.\n\nHis statement hints at wanting to remain involved in politics in some way but it is not clear if he might at some stage be tempted to make a return to the frontline.\n\nAnother thing isn't clear either: who will be in the frame to replace him as deputy leader?\n\nNo doubt discussions are well under way within both Edwin Poots's and Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's campaign teams about who to nominate ahead of the deadline on Thursday evening.\n\nIn a statement issued on Tuesday evening, he said that under the party's rules peers did not form part of the party's electoral college for leadership positions.\n\n\"It would be incongruous and inappropriate to do otherwise,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would use his position in the Lords to \"articulate the views of unionists on the future direction of the United Kingdom and on issues affecting Northern Ireland more generally\".\n\nDUP East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson said Lord Dodds and the party were \"synonymous\".\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\nDUP MLA Gordon Lyons said Lord Dodds had given a \"lifetime of service to our party, unionism and Northern Ireland\".\n\nThe East Antrim representative tweeted: \"I have no doubt that he will continue to be a determined and effective advocate in the House of Lords.\"\n\nHe grew up in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh and practised as a barrister before becoming an elected representative.\n\nHis political career has spanned more than 35 years, having first been elected to Belfast City Council in 1985.\n\nHe rose swiftly through the ranks of the DUP, both in the Northern Ireland Assembly and then at Westminster, until December 2019 when he lost his seat as MP in the general election.\n\nNigel Dodds and his wife Diane - pictured in 2005 - have been long-time stalwarts in the party\n\nHis wife Diane Dodds is the economy minister in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nThe couple escaped injury in 1996 when the IRA shot and wounded the police bodyguard protecting Mr Dodds as he visited his son in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nThe DUP politician came to prominent attention in Westminster along with other senior party members after the snap general election in June 2017.\n\nThen-Prime Minister Theresa May had lost her majority in Parliament and needed the votes of the DUP's 10 MPs to ensure she could pass critical legislation, including on Brexit.\n\nLord Dodds was central in negotiating the confidence-and-supply arrangement with the Conservative Party.\n\nLater in 2017, the Spectator magazine's Parliamentarian awards named him negotiator of the year.\n\nBoris Johnson sat alongside Nigel Dodds and Arlene Foster and at the DUP conference in 2018\n\nAs Mrs May attempted and failed to get Parliament to vote for her Brexit deal, the DUP MP became one of her most vocal critics.\n\nWhen Boris Johnson took over as prime minister later that year, Lord Dodds and other DUP politicians were hopeful: both men had given speeches at the DUP conference in November 2018.\n\nBut after the government finally agreed a deal with the EU in October 2019, the DUP deputy leader declared it would damage the integrity of the union and called for changes to the withdrawal agreement - to no avail.\n\nTwo months later, the DUP lost two seats in the Westminster general election - Lord Dodds was one of the casualties.\n\nThe prime minister won a large Commons majority, meaning the DUP had also lost its direct hold over the Conservative Party.", "Donald Trump has launched a new \"communications\" website, which says it will publish content \"straight from the desk\" of the former US president.\n\nMr Trump was banned by Twitter and suspended by Facebook and YouTube after the Capitol riots in January.\n\nThe former president has since been releasing statements by press release - which the new website will now host.\n\nUsers will be able to like posts - and also share them on Twitter and Facebook accounts.\n\n\"It is a blog,\" Kara Swisher, technology columnist for the New York Times told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"I was like '2002 is calling and it wants its blog back...'\n\n\"I don't know what the overall plan is because he does have some very sharp digital advisers. It is just the beginning of his attempts to try to re-establish a louder ability to participate in digital media.\"\n\nMr Trump's senior adviser, Jason Miller, had previously said a new social media platform was to be launched. \"This new platform is going to be big,\" he said in March.\n\nBut Mr Miller tweeted on Tuesday that the new website was not the social media platform he had previously hyped.\n\n\"We'll have additional information coming on that front in the very near future,\" he said.\n\nThe website is reportedly built by Campaign Nucleus, a digital services company created by Mr Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale.\n\nSeveral posts on the site repeat debunked claims that last year's presidential election was rigged.\n\nThe new site arrived just before a decision from Facebook's Oversight Board on whether Facebook was right to ban Mr Trump.\n\nThe panel upheld the ban - but said Facebook must review whether it should be permanent, and apply consistent rules to all users. That could leave the door open to Mr Trump's return to Facebook and Instagram in the future.\n\nThe former president used his new site to label Facebook - along with Twitter and Google - \"a total disgrace\".\n\n\"Free speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the radical left lunatics are afraid of the truth,\" he said.\n\n\"The people of our country will not stand for it! These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our electoral process.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYouTube has said they will reactivate Mr Trump's account when the threat of \"real-world violence\" reduces.\n\nTwitter, where Mr Trump had 88 million followers, has banned him permanently.\n\nA Twitter spokesperson told the BBC: \"Generally, sharing content from the website referenced is permitted as long as the material does not otherwise violate the Twitter Rules\".\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Political parties have made their final push for votes ahead of elections in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nAll 129 seats in Holyrood are being contested, Scottish independence set to be a key issue, while Wales will elect the 60 members of the Senedd.\n\nEnglish voters will decide on thousands of council seats, choose 13 mayors and elect an MP for Hartlepool.\n\nThursday marks the first test for parties since the 2019 general election and the pandemic.\n\nThe so-called \"Super Thursday\" elections will also see police and crime commissioners elected across England and Wales.\n\nMany of the elections were postponed from last year by the pandemic and Covid restrictions have transformed campaigning.\n\nLarge public meetings were moved online and there were limits on groups of activists going door-to-door.\n\nPolls open from 07.00 to 22:00 BST on Thursday, with results due from Friday.\n\nCampaigning in England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Conservatives faced a \"very tough set of elections\" after reaching a \"high water-mark\" in previous council polls.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party had a \"mountain to climb\" to win back support in key battlegrounds.\n\nIn Scotland, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon urged the public to vote for \"strong, experienced leadership\" and said the result of the Holyrood elections was \"always on a knife-edge\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said people had a choice between an independence referendum or focusing on Covid recovery.\n\nAnas Sarwar, leader of Scottish Labour, urged people to put aside \"old arguments\" about independence and vote for jobs, education and the NHS.\n\nMeanwhile, the Lib Dems said they would also put \"recovery first\" rather than letting the debate be dominated by a referendum.\n\nWelsh Labour Leader Mark Drakeford said his party was \"battling hard\" in north Wales amid a challenge from the Conservatives, but warned voters against \"handing Wales back to London with the Tories\".\n\nTory Chancellor Rishi Sunak visited a holiday park in Rhyl, Vale of Clwyd, where he promised voters in Wales the same \"change that we're bringing across the United Kingdom\".\n\nIn Llanelli, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the election would be \"won on small margins\", calling it a \"historic opportunity\" to put his party in government.\n\nThe pandemic means ballots are expected to take longer than usual to count, creating greater uncertainty over when results will be declared.\n\nSome counts will take place overnight on Thursday, including for the Hartlepool by-election, where a result is expected early on Friday.\n\nBut counting in some council areas in England will take place on Friday, or over the weekend.\n\nA dozen of the counts for 39 police and crime commissioners elected in England and Wales will not begin until Monday.\n\nResults for all 60 seats in the Welsh Senedd will be known on Friday.\n\nScotland starts counting in some areas on Friday, but there will not be a final result until Saturday, or possibly even Sunday.", "New Shepard is operated from desert land in West Texas\n\nAmazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is now ready to take people into space.\n\nThe US entrepreneur's Blue Origin company says it will launch a crew aboard its New Shepard rocket and capsule system on 20 July.\n\nThe astronauts are likely to include company personnel, but one seat is being auctioned online.\n\nNew Shepard's flights are sub-orbital. They're designed to take passengers on a straight up-and-down trip that briefly goes above 100km (62 miles).\n\nThis is the so-called Kármán Line, which has been designated by broad international agreement as the starting point of space.\n\n\"Only 569 people have ever been over the Kármán Line. With our New Shepard vehicle, we're about to change that and change it dramatically,\" said Ariane Cornell, Blue Origin's director of astronaut sales.\n\nShe declined to comment on whether Mr Bezos himself might be on the 20 July flight.\n\nJeff Bezos has big ambitions, with far bigger rockets under development\n\nBlue Origin's announcement is further evidence of a resurgence in space tourism after a gap of almost 12 years.\n\nMr Bezos's proposition is just one of several now open to the super wealthy. Rival businessman Elon Musk is expected to launch one of his SpaceX Dragonships in the autumn with an all-civilian crew aboard. It will go orbital; the capsule will stay up for several days.\n\nAt 18m in height and 4m wide, New Shepard is a fully reusable, vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) space vehicle.\n\nThe New Shepard capsule has six seats with large windows\n\nIt operates from desert land in Van Horn in West Texas.\n\nDuring a flight, the booster unit lifts the pressurised passenger vessel to about 76km in altitude, where the pair then separate.\n\nMomentum carries the capsule on upwards into space, before dropping back down to the ground under three parachutes. The booster also comes home in a controlled manner, making a propulsive landing on a concrete pad.\n\nBlue Origin is hoping the New Shepard experience will prove a big draw. Passengers will experience about three minutes of weightlessness at the top of the climb. They'll also get to see the blackness of space and Earth's curved horizon.\n\nThe whole system has gone through several years of rigorous testing\n\nFor the moment, the company is not discussing future pricing options - just the details of the public auction for one seat on that first mission in two months' time. Blue Origin says the cash raised from this particular sale will go to its foundation that promotes science and technology education.\n\nBut long-term, the company could expect to earn perhaps $200,000 (£143,780) per seat, maybe even more initially.\n\n\"This is a nascent market,\" said Ms Cornell. \"We're opening the doors and look forward to seeing what the market says.\n\n\"I personally think people are going to see what a cool experience this is and are going to want to do it themselves. And then, as hopefully the prices come down, the scale goes up.\"\n\nThe hope is that ticket prices will eventually fall\n\nThroughout the 2000s a number of high-value individuals paid to visit the International Space Station (ISS). But this tourism, organised under the patronage of the Russian space agency, ceased in 2009.\n\nNow, it seems, the sector is being rekindled. As well as the initiatives from Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson continues to push his Virgin Galactic rocket plane concept. There are also those who want to launch private space stations this decade. Among these is Axiom, a company started by a former Nasa ISS programme manager.\n\nBlue Origin's announcement was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the first spaceflight made by an American astronaut - Alan Shepard, in whose honour the new tourist vehicle is named.\n\nAlan Shepard conducted a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in his Project Mercury Freedom-7 capsule on 5 May, 1961.", "Rachel Elwell said police had told her she was a victim of romance fraud\n\nA woman says she is facing bankruptcy after losing just under £113,000 to a scammer she met on a dating site.\n\nRachel Elwell, from the West Midlands, said the man, who claimed he lived nearby, told her he had gone abroad for an engineering contract in Ukraine.\n\nHe convinced her with documents and pictures he needed money for issues that had cropped up and stated he had been taken captive by loan sharks.\n\nMs Elwell, 50, said there was no guarantee of any money coming back.\n\nAsked why she had given money to a man she had never met, the export manager, of Brownhills, said: \"When he said to me his life was in danger and I didn't hear from him, I thought he'd been murdered.\n\n\"Can you imagine feeling you're responsible for whether someone lives or dies?\"\n\nMs Elwell said after he had contacted her on 1 January claiming to live in Cannock, his \"picture looked nice\", he \"seemed to like the same things as me\" and \"seemed quite an open and genuine guy\".\n\nThe man told her they would have to wait weeks to meet as he would need to stay in Ukraine, but later phoned claiming laws in that country had changed due to Covid and he now had to pay tax before any of the engineering work began, Ms Elwell said.\n\nTelling the story to BBC Radio WM, Ms Elwell said she had been told work had stopped on site and matters \"appeared very legitimate\", but later she had \"reluctantly\" sent him money.\n\nShe stated at one point a supposed tax office had sent a letter to him, which she had a copy of, and added: \"They said... 'you need to pay 160 thousand'. So he cashed his pension in, sold his car, borrowed money and I helped him.\n\n\"I mean at this point I think it was about £45k I'd sent him to help him with the tax bill.\"\n\nAction Fraud advises people who believe they have been a victim to contact their bank\n\nAccording to Action Fraud, romance or dating fraud is where criminals dupe people into sending them money by gaining their trust and convincing them they are in a genuine relationship.\n\nIn order to stay safe from such scams, it advises people to:\n\nAnyone who believes they have been a victim of romance fraud, it said, should report it to their bank immediately and to Action Fraud.\n\nContinuing the story, Ms Elwell said the man had claimed two \"heavies\" had turned up and he had been locked in a cellar. He sent her pictures purporting to show him there.\n\nShe added he claimed to have been released after money had been sent, but he had told her he would not have his passport, which had been taken from him, until interest had been paid.\n\nOn the day the man told Ms Elwell he was due to fly back, 16 March, she went to Heathrow airport and got an email from supposed airport officials saying he had been arrested.\n\nShe said she had then approached Border Force officials who said, \"look, it's a scam\".\n\nShe went to his supposed house in Coventry to meet his daughter and housekeeper/nanny, but \"no such people lived at that house\".\n\nMs Elwell said: \"It was in that moment that I knew it was all a lie.\"\n\nA spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: \"Rachel's case is a prime example of romance fraud, her case highlights how much these scammers affect people's lives.\"\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 20-year-old was last seen leaving his house in Redland on a bicycle on Saturday\n\nPolice searching for a missing university student have found the body of a man in a harbour.\n\nBristol University student Olisa Odukwe 20, was last seen leaving his home in the Redland area on Saturday morning.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said divers had recovered a body from Bristol Harbour and the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nFormal identification has not yet been carried out but Mr Odukwe's family has been informed.\n\nMr Odukwe, who went to Bennett Memorial School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, was in his second year at the university.\n\nHis friends described his disappearance as \"completely out of character\".\n\nMr Odukwe has been described as \"a kind, gentle and funny character\"\n\nPosting a tribute on Instagram, the University of Bristol Association Men's Football Club (UBAFC), said: \"In light of new information, we are now grieving the loss of our dear friend Olisa.\n\n\"Olisa was universally loved; a kind, gentle and funny character who brought a smile to the face of whoever he was with.\n\n\"Please keep Olisa's family and friends in your thoughts at this difficult time.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the university said that support was available to \"all students and staff affected by this\".\n\n\"We know this news will be upsetting for many students,\" they said.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his friends and family who we are supporting at this incredibly difficult time.\"\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.", "Pubs and other hospitality venues in England will be able to seat customers indoors from 17 May if the government meets its Covid targets\n\nIt is unlikely that there will be more lockdowns in the UK, the scientist whose modelling led to the first nationwide restrictions has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC the UK is \"likely to be on a steady course now out of this pandemic\".\n\nHowever, he said there could be a \"roll back\" of some freedoms if any new variants proved resistant to vaccines.\n\nMinisters have said further lockdown easing will go ahead in England if the data supports it.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government's coronavirus dashboard recorded 1,946 new infections, as well as four deaths within 28 days of a positive test across the UK.\n\nThe recorded number of deaths is often lower immediately after weekends and bank holidays due to reporting lags.\n\nMore than 50 million Covid vaccinations have been given in the UK so far, with 34,667,904 first doses and 15,630,007 second doses.\n\nCovid restrictions are expected to be further eased on 17 May in England, Scotland and Wales, subject to government approval. In Northern Ireland, more restrictions may be lifted on 24 May.\n\nProf Ferguson, an expert on the spread of infectious diseases who sits on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said that data on falling Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths was encouraging.\n\nHe told BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym that while another lockdown \"can't be completely ruled out\", he has become increasingly \"optimistic\" over recent months.\n\n\"In the worst case scenario, if we have a new variant pop up which does manage to evade the vaccines, say late summer early autumn, there may be a need to roll back on some of these measures at least temporarily until we can boost people's immunity,\" he said.\n\n\"Do I think it's likely to happen? No, I don't. I think we are much more likely to be on a steady course now out of this pandemic, at least in this country.\"\n\nProf Ferguson said variants would need to be monitored \"carefully\", but the UK has gone from a \"terrible situation\" in January to a \"remarkably good situation now\".\n\nLife would \"feel a lot more normal\" by early summer, he said, although questions remain over whether summer holidays abroad would be possible.\n\n\"We will have many fewer restrictions. Whether we have none at all it's too early to say,\" he added.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson's modelling led to the first lockdown in March 2020\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested there could be some \"opening up\" of foreign travel for people in England on 17 May - but said \"we have got to be very, very tough\".\n\nForeign holidays are currently banned, but a traffic light system of rules will be introduced with countries classed as green, amber or red.\n\nFurther details are expected this week, after the government said it will \"set out by early May\" how countries will be categorised.\n\nMr Johnson also said there was a \"good chance\" the 1m plus social distancing rule could be scrapped on 21 June in England, when the nation reaches the final step of its roadmap out of lockdown.\n\nHe said the results of the vaccine rollout were \"really starting to show up in the epidemiology\" - but any change would depend on the data.", "Boohoo has reported a 41% rise in full-year sales as home working fuelled demand for athleisure, making up for a slump in \"going out\" gear.\n\nThe online retailer said customers bought more activewear and loungewear during the pandemic.\n\nBut it saw \"significant declines\" in areas such as dresses and \"going out\" clothes due to Covid lockdowns.\n\nOver the year, Boohoo bought a number of High Street brands which foundered in the pandemic, including Debenhams.\n\nIt also acquired Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton from Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group. Manchester-based Boohoo said it expects these new acquisitions to contribute about 5% to sales growth in the current financial year.\n\nThe Boohoo group benefitted from the switch to online shopping as Covid restrictions left many non-essential retailers shut for long periods. In the 12 months to 28 February, total sales rose to £1.7bn up from £1.2bn for the comparable period in the previous year.\n\nDuring the year, Boohoo was also hit by claims that one of its suppliers was paying staff below the minimum wage. The Sunday Times also reported unsafe working conditions at the Leicester-based business which supplied Boohoo's Nasty Gal brand.\n\nAs a result, Boohoo launched an investigation into its supply chain and set up an \"agenda for change\" programme to develop \"meaningful changes to the way we do business\".\n\nIn its full-year results, Boohoo's chief executive John Lyttle said that he was \"proud to lead a business that, instead of choosing to walk away from the allegations, took the immediate decision to do everything within its power to address them\".\n\nHowever, the company faced significant backlash over the allegations from both City shareholders such as Standard Life Aberdeen as well as other retailers, including Next and Asos, which said they would stop selling Boohoo's clothes.\n\nBoohoo said it had completed £250m worth of acquisitions over the past year to February, which also included Oasis and Warehouse.\n\nThe company, which also owns Coast and Karen Millen, said that it had successfully integrated and re-launched both these brands across its platforms.\n\nBoohoo has spent £250m on buying High Street brands including Dorothy Perkins and Burton\n\nThe BBC recently revealed that Boohoo was selling some identical items of clothing for different prices across a number of its brands, with differences of as much as £34.\n\nBoohoo said it was a result of a \"genuine mistake and not business practice\".\n\nCommenting on its new brands, Boohoo said they were being \"re-energised and made relevant for today's consumers across a broader market demographic\".", "Women and younger adults were more likely to feel depressed during the second UK coronavirus peak than men and other age groups, Office for National Statistics (ONS) data suggests.\n\nFour in 10 women aged between 16 and 29 were affected, compared to 26% of men.\n\nOne in five adults experienced depression in early 2021 - more than double pre-pandemic levels.\n\nBut GPs in England diagnosed fewer cases of depression in adults in 2020 compared with the year before.\n\nMany people may not be seeking medical help, the ONS says.\n\nHowever, the GP data - from March to August 2020 - may not include people who went to their GP last summer and were diagnosed with depression at a later point.\n\nHealth experts have always warned that the combined effects of ill health, isolation and job losses during the pandemic would have a negative impact on people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\nBefore the pandemic began, 10% of adults said they experienced some form of depression.\n\nLast autumn, following the first peak, ONS data suggested twice as many adults in Britain (19%) had feelings of depression as normal - and this new data suggests even more people were affected in early 2021 (21%).\n\nThis means they experienced symptoms including a lack of energy, poor appetite, sleeping problems or feeling down or hopeless.\n\nBetween January and March 2021, disabled people, adults who are extremely vulnerable and those living in the most deprived areas of England were more likely to say they felt depressed than other groups.\n\nAnd rates of depressive symptoms more than doubled in adults aged 16 to 39 years old, to 29%.\n\nThis compared to 39% of disabled people experiencing symptoms, 17% of men, 24% of women and 25% of people living alone.\n\nAround a third of the least well-off adults, defined as those who couldn't afford an unexpected but necessary expense of £850, experienced some form of depression.\n\nYounger adults and people living with a child aged under 16 saw the largest increases in rates of depressive feelings in the early part of this year when compared to before the pandemic.\n\nThe ONS analysis was based on 25,935 adults answering a questionnaire which asked about their feelings. One of the eight questions posed was: \"Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by having little interest or pleasure in doing things?\"\n\nA score of 10 or more indicated moderate to severe depression symptoms.\n\nRichard Kramer, chief executive of charity Sense, said: \"Many disabled people have been shielding and living without their usual levels of support for more than a year, causing great anxiety and leaving them isolated, lonely and, as this data shows, depressed.\n\n\"No disabled person should have to experience mental health inequality.\"\n\nHe said the government must provide a dedicated Covid recovery plan to ensure disabled people have the right care and support.\n\nMental health charity Mind said the impact of the pandemic on the nation's mental health could not be underestimated.\n\n\"The fact that GP-diagnosed cases of adult depression have fallen during the pandemic suggests people are not going to their GP for help, perhaps because they're concerned about placing extra pressure on the NHS,\" said Stephen Buckley, head of information at Mind.\n\n\"This is worrying because we know that left untreated, mental health problems become more difficult and expensive to treat,\" he said.", "Peloton has recalled treadmills in the US and UK over a series of safety issues following investigations by a US watchdog.\n\nIn the US, 125,000 Tread and Tread+ machines are being recalled after the death of a six-year-old child.\n\nThe watchdog said they could cause injury or death to adults, children and pets if they get pulled underneath.\n\nTread machines sold in the UK are also being recalled because display consoles could fall off.\n\nIn addition to the death, Peloton had 72 reports of injuries such as broken bones, cuts and grazes.\n\nPeloton boss John Foley said the firm had \"made a mistake\" in not recalling the machines sooner.\n\nIn March, Peloton warned parents to keep children away from its Tread+ machine after the death of the six-year-old, who was pulled underneath the rear of the treadmill.\n\nAt the time Mr Foley called it a \"tragic accident\" - one of a \"small handful\" of incidents in which children have been hurt on the firm's exercise equipment.\n\n\"I want to be clear, Peloton made a mistake in our initial response to the Consumer Product Safety Commission's request that we recall the Tread+,\" Mr Foley said in a statement on Wednesday.\n\n\"We should have engaged more productively with them from the outset. For that, I apologise.\"\n\nThe US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said that Peloton had voluntarily recalled the Tread+ and Peloton Tread, which posed a safety risk because the display console can fall off.\n\nAn agreement between the watchdog and Peloton means the firm must stop selling the machines in the US and give a full refund to people who want to return them.\n\nBecause of the type motor used in the Tread+, the machine needs a higher ground clearance than typical treadmills.\n\nRobert Adler, Acting Chairman of the CPSC, said: \"The agreement between CPSC and Peloton is the result of weeks of intense negotiation and effort, culminating in a cooperative agreement that I believe serves the best interests of Peloton and of consumers.\n\n\"I would like to thank the CPSC technical staff who have worked tirelessly to protect consumers and to warn the public. Today we have taken steps to prevent further harm from these two products.\"\n\nThe company has yet to respond to a BBC request for clarity over how the recall might affect sales outside the US.\n\nHowever, the PA news agency said a Peloton spokesman confirmed that the recall also related to the Tread in the UK.\n\nIn the US, the Tread was only sold as part of a limited invitation-only release from about November, 2020 to about March, 2021 and the company's statement said it \"is currently working on a repair to be offered to Tread owners in the coming weeks\".\n\nBut the statement does not mention Tread repairs outside the US.\n\nThe touchscreen on the Tread can detach and fall, according to the CPSC. There have been reports of minor injuries such as abrasions, cuts and bruises in the UK and Canada.\n\nHowever, the Tread+ carries a more serious hazard because \"adult users, children, pets and objects can be pulled underneath the rear of the treadmill, posing a risk of injury or death\".\n\nPeloton rose to prominence during the pandemic as a premium option for allowing people to exercise from home with live video from trainers, as gyms were forced to close. Shares in the New York-based company tumbled more than 14% after the recall announcement.\n\nIn addition to the death, there have been about 72 reports of adult users, children, pets and objects being pulled under the rear of the treadmill, including 29 reports of injuries to children such as second and third-degree abrasions, broken bones and lacerations.", "The rights of care home residents to have visits from loved ones must be \"underpinned\" by law, according to a new report by cross-party MPs.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Human Rights said it was \"unacceptable\" that some care home providers had argued it was not safe to follow government guidance.\n\nSince April, care home residents in England have been allowed two regular visitors indoors as lockdown has eased.\n\nBut the report said providers have not felt bound by the guidance.\n\nThe regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), said it had found that 95% of providers were enabling visiting to happen.\n\nThe parliamentary report said that while coronavirus restrictions had been eased in care homes over the past few months, anecdotal evidence heard as part of its inquiry suggested a \"large number\" were not following government guidance.\n\n\"Many care home providers are arguing that it is not yet safe to follow the guidance, denying care home residents these important family links as part of their right to family life. This is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nIt said it was \"astonishing\" the CQC had claimed during its evidence to the committee in April that it was not aware of any care home in England failing to follow the guidance on visits.\n\nLabour's Harriet Harman, chairwoman of the committee, said: \"By not underpinning this guidance in law, care homes have not felt bound by it and important rights have therefore not been respected.\n\n\"The Care Quality Commission assurances that visits are being allowed properly now in all homes is wholly unconvincing.\n\n\"Because care homes see guidance about allowing visits as advisory rather than binding, the government must now bring forward regulations to give their guidance on visits legal force.\"\n\nThe MPs and peers on the committee concluded that to prevent future blanket bans on visits, they wanted it to be a legal requirement that each resident has their individual circumstances assessed.\n\nWhen giving evidence to the committee, the CQC said it did not collect quantitative data on how many visits have occurred across care homes.\n\nThe committee urged the CQC to \"get a grip\" and ensure more robust processes were in place for monitoring adherence to the guidance by the end of May.\n\nKate Terroni, chief inspector of adult social care at the CQC, said the regulator had been clear throughout the pandemic that blanket approaches to visiting were unacceptable.\n\nShe said that during 941 inspections in the last eight weeks, the CQC had found that 95% of care homes were enabling visiting to happen, and action was taken against the other five per cent.\n\n\"Concerns have been raised with us about 30 potential blanket bans and we have taken action in every case,\" she said.\n\n\"We expect providers to follow government guidance on visiting where people are entitled to have designated visitors.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruthie Henshall on care home visits: \"It is beautiful to see the joy in her\"\n\nSocial Care Minister Helen Whately said the care homes themselves should decide on visiting policies.\n\n\"We recognise that every care home has a unique layout, physical environment and facilities, and residents have their own individual health and wellbeing needs, which is why care homes themselves are best placed to decide how to enable visiting safely,\" she said.\n\nThe report comes a day after new guidance came into force in England allowing care home residents to go on low-risk trips without having to self-isolate for 14 days when they return.\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 two visitors.\n\nFrom Friday in Northern Ireland, care home visits are being increased from one to two a week - each lasting for one hour.", "The differences of devolution have been highlighted during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has turned our lives upside down over the last year and a bit - and it has done the same for this Senedd election campaign.\n\nPre-Covid, Welsh Labour had been in power for more than two decades and faced a defensive election trying to hold on to a number of marginal seats against opposition parties with the wind in their sails.\n\nBefore the pandemic struck, few ordinary voters could have picked the Welsh Labour leader, Mark Drakeford, out of a line up.\n\nSIGN UP FOR WALES ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\nSome of his own troops had misgivings about fighting an election under his understated, academic style of leadership, especially against the energetic and rhetorically gifted Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price.\n\nCan Adam Price outshine the incumbent first minister, Mark Drakeford?\n\nPlaid's plan was to centre their campaign around Mr Price, confident that the contrast between the two men would get many centre left voters leaning in their favour.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives were feeling bullish after dismantling Labour's red wall in the north east of Wales in the 2019 General Election, but their leader, Paul Davies, was a quiet man struggling to make his mark.\n\nFast forward to April 2021 and a very different political world.\n\nIn this world, Mark Drakeford is a well-known figure. He has a better recognition than the UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer - an unprecedented event in a devolved election.\n\nCovid has shifted the focus onto Mark Drakeford, whose recognition has shot up during the pandemic\n\nThis presents obvious problems for Plaid's campaign - how does Adam Price outshine an incumbent who, polls suggest, gets good approval ratings for his handling of the pandemic even among Plaid's own supporters?\n\nAfter the \"drinking in the Senedd\" episode the Welsh Conservatives now have Andrew RT Davies at the helm.\n\nHe is better known than Paul Davies, but faces the same challenge - how to motivate those who voted Tory in 2019 to do the same again in 2021?\n\nTraditionally, Welsh Conservative supporters are less likely to vote in Senedd elections - but the party has deployed UK big hitters, most notably the prime minister to enthuse their base.\n\nHave they succeeded or have the allegations swirling around Boris Johnson had an impact?\n\nSenedd leader Andrew RT Davies is the Tories can mimic their 2019 UK General Election theme and win more seats in north Wales\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats are still fighting to hold onto their one Senedd seat in Brecon and Radnorshire, while Welsh Labour's defensive challenge remains.\n\nThe margins in some key seats are wafer thin and the \"time for change\" narrative employed by Plaid and the Tories could be a powerful one after 22 years of Labour in the post-devolution driving seat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's different about heading off to the Welsh polls this year?\n\nSo while none of the main parties are fighting the campaign they planned for, there is still a lot at stake.\n\nEven in this most unusual of election campaigns, it's still the voters who decide the result.\n\nAnd that poses one final question.\n\nAfter 14 months which have made us realise like never before the power of the Welsh government over our lives, what will happen to turnout?\n\nUp to now, voter turnout has never broken 50% in devolved elections.\n\nPerhaps Covid will change that 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", "The secondhand areas in Ikea stores will be called Circular Hubs\n\nIkea has launched its long-awaited furniture buy-back and re-sale scheme, in an attempt to reduce the number of products going to landfill.\n\nThe move is part of the retail giant's sustainability drive to become \"climate positive\" by 2030.\n\nCustomers will get vouchers to spend in-store if items they no longer need are returned in good condition.\n\nIkea admitted the scheme was a learning curve, but decided to launch it after successful trials in several cities.\n\n\"I'm not saying we have all the answers, but we learned enough from the pilots to tell us that this could be something of real value to us and our customers,\" Hege Saebjornsen, an environmental and sustainability expert at Ikea, told the BBC.\n\nThe initiative, originally scheduled to launch in November but postponed because of the pandemic, is now available in Ikea stores across the UK. It is also being launched in the other 26 countries in which Ikea operates.\n\nUsed products returned in as-new condition with no scratches will be bought for 50% of the original price, while items with minor scratches will be bought for 40%. Furniture that is well used with several scratches will be bought for 30%.\n\nThe items will be sold in separate areas of the stores, although Ikea has also announced a new partnership with Gumtree to sell second-hand products via the online marketplace.\n\nProducts eligible for buy-back include dressers, cabinets, bookcases and shelf units, small tables, dining tables and desks.\n\nThe Swedish company has already announced it wants to become fully \"circular\" - eliminate waste through the continual use of materials - by 2030. Ingka Group, Ikea's parent company, recently announced it was investing €4bn in renewable energy.\n\nCustomers wanting to sell back furniture go to Ikea.co.uk to fill out an online form, which generates a preliminary offer, and then take items to a store.\n\nIkea is trialling Pre-Loved Labels, giving customers information about an item's past.\n\nMs Saebjornsen, a former sustainability manager at the retailer and now an Ikea adviser on the forthcoming COP26 climate summit, said that exactly what the consumer uptake will be is unknown.\n\nBut she said the trials, including in Sydney, Lisbon, Edinburgh and Glasgow, \"were really successful. It taught us a lot about the appetite for this and how people behave\".\n\nThe second-hand market generally - from clothing to homeware - is growing rapidly as shopping habits change, and Ikea hopes to tap into this, she said.\n\nOne potential drawback was that furniture must be delivered fully-assembled, a possible impediment for people who have heavy and bulky items.\n\n\"We still found people are taking us up on it [the scheme],\" she said.\n\nIkea is working on how to improve the disassembly of products.\n\n\"Some are better than others. Products can get damaged when taken apart, so we can only really accept assembled products. It maintains the security and quality of the item,\" she said.\n\nAlthough Ikea is offering vouchers, not cash, the scheme is not being introduced as a profit driver for the retailer, she said. Still, doesn't it reinforce a buy-new, disposable culture?\n\n\"We've taken all of that into account,\" Ms Saebjornsen said.\n\n\"It's really important to highlight that the voucher has no use-by date. They can be used to buy another second hand item, or food.\n\n\"The real consideration here is that it's about how we make sustainable and healthy living easy, accessible and affordable, and really mainstream.\n\n\"Ikea is such a large company with massive potential to reach millions of customers.\n\n\"We are not saying that we have all the answers. But small actions can make a difference.\"\n\nThe buy-back service is available in full-sized Ikea stores nationwide, excluding order and collection points in Tottenham Court Road, Norwich and Aberdeen. The service will launch in Reading and Belfast on 17 May.", "Roads were closed around the Grangemouth plant following the leak in 2017\n\nPetrochemical firm Ineos has been fined £400,000 after a leak from a cracked pipe created a huge flammable gas cloud at its Grangemouth plant.\n\nIneos Chemicals admitted that its safety inspections failed to detect the 10ins (25cm) long corroded pipe section which allowed ethylene gas to escape.\n\nSome 17 tonnes of the flammable gas leaked from the fissure over a period of several hours in May 2017.\n\nA court was told 97 workers were on site at the time of the incident.\n\nFalkirk Sheriff Court heard that the plant contained more than 17,500 lines of pipe.\n\nThe section that failed had been wrongly identified as not high-risk and therefore not subjected to insulation strips as part of a regular inspection programme.\n\nProsecutor Gavin Callaghan said: \"The leak precipitated the formation of a flammable gas cloud of around 65,000 cubic metres, roughly the equivalent of 26 Olympic-sized swimming pools.\"\n\nMr Callaghan said the cloud reached ground level, but the plant's emergency plan was implemented, ensuring there was no ignition and no-one was hurt.\n\nSurrounding roads were closed, workers evacuated, and the firm's on-site firefighters put up a curtain of water to prevent the gas reaching the plant's furnaces where it could have exploded.\n\nSolicitor Paul Marshall, for Ineos, said the company's emergency response had minimised the risk of explosion.\n\nHe said the \"isolated incident\" was the result of \"shortcomings in what was an otherwise comprehensive inspection regime\".\n\nSheriff Wyllie Robertson said: \"This was categorised internally as the highest category of major incident where there's a risk beyond the site and boundaries.\n\n\"The significant risk was of the ethylene gas igniting, particularly in light of the proximity of the furnaces.\n\n\"The vapour cloud could have exploded, resulting in significant thermal effects and could have generated a blast wave.\n\n\"There was a risk of death in the event that occurred.\"", "Political parties in Wales are campaigning ahead of the election on 6 May.\n\nTo help you decide who you might vote for, use this policy guide to compare where the parties stand on the key issues.\n\nWhat are the parties promising you? Select an issue and a party to see their policies Including future containment measures and the rollout of vaccines. Covering school and university funding, salaries, school testing and inspection, and university tuition fees. Including trade and our future relationship with Europe. Including the future of devolution in Wales.\n• A new Young Persons' Guarantee of a place in work, education, training or self-employment for everyone in Wales under the age of 25, including creating 125,000 new apprenticeships\n• Guarantee the Real Living Wage for all social care staff and keep the cap on non-residential care fees and maintain the £50,000 capital limit\n• Invest £800m in new trains to ensure that by 2023, 95% of journeys on our rail network will be on new trains\n• Continue to work with NHS staff, armed forces and volunteers to get people vaccinated\n• Further support Welsh workers and businesses with what it says is the most generous financial support in the UK\n• Launch programme of catch-up support for public services, including employing over 1,800 additional tutoring staff in schools and a new medical school in North Wales\n• Continue business rates holiday for retail, leisure and hospitality businesses for a further 12 months, in combination with the Small Business Rates Relief scheme will mean more than 70,000 businesses will pay no rates at all in 2021-22\n• Establish a new Young Persons' Guarantee of a place in work, education, training or self-employment for everyone in Wales under the age of 25, including creating 125,000 new apprenticeships\n• New curriculum for Wales starting in 2022, focusing on higher standards of literacy and numeracy, ensuring our young people are more digitally and bilingually competent, and supporting pupils' mental and emotional health\n• Support for families to cover uniform and school equipment costs, and guaranteed free school meals through the holidays during the pandemic\n• Guarantee the Real Living Wage for all social care staff and keep the cap on non-residential care fees and maintain the £50,000 capital limit\n• Stress the importance of our economic, political and social links with the EU allowing businesses to trade Welsh goods across Europe\n• Continue with the implementation of the International Strategy which seeks to raise Wales' profile, grow the economy and establish Wales as a globally responsible nation\n• Create jobs across Wales with green energy, environmental protections and tourism\n• Abolish the use of the most littered single-use plastics, protecting the seas and countryside\n• Create a National Forest for Wales, for the benefits of equality and mental health as well as the environment\n• Put the social partnership approach into law, and make Wales a genuinely Fair Work Nation\n• Continue to push the UK government to support Welsh families in areas it is responsible for and withdraw planned cuts to Universal Credit\n• Build thousands of new low-carbon, affordable homes for rent and with it, create thousands of new jobs\n• Keep the Wales and the Borders rail franchise in public ownership\n• Invest £800m in new trains to ensure that by 2023, 95% of journeys on our rail network will be on new trains\n• Invest in communities and infrastructure to help ensure more and more journeys are taken by foot or by bike\n• Believe that the United Kingdom is a voluntary association of four nations, where power should be dispersed and not centralised, and where as much as possible decisions are made as close to people as they can be taken\n• Support a constitutional convention to develop a new settlement for the United Kingdom\n• Build the M4 Relief Road, upgrade the A55 in North Wales to reduce pinch points and the A40 to boost the economy of West Wales\n• No new powers for the Welsh Government\n• Build 100,000 houses over the next decade, including 40,000 social homes, with all new homes carbon neutral by 2026\n• Appoint a dedicated Covid-19 Recovery Minister in the Welsh government to oversee all areas of coronavirus recovery, including the vaccine rollout across Wales with every adult offered both doses by the end of October, and delivery of any booster shots\n• Establish routes to support for people suffering with mental health problems due to the pandemic, especially NHS staff, care workers and families who have experienced trauma due to patients being alone at the time of their death\n• Review and open funding for businesses on a needs basis, ending the first come first serve nature of current support for Welsh businesses by the Welsh government\n• Create a one-stop shop for businesses in Wales by bringing together the Development Bank of Wales, Business Wales and recreating the best aspects of the Welsh Development Agency\n• Establish Innovate Wales, based in north Wales, a one-stop shop for firms to support new enterprises, and encourage existing businesses to grow and export\n• Introduce a comeback package for seaside and market towns to level up with a Tourism Towns Fund, enabling communities to improve their local economy by attracting new visitors with free WiFi or improved transport links\n• Establish a National Mission to grow the Welsh economy, with a clear target to create 65,000 new jobs. Once achieved, we will cut the basic rate of income tax to support hardworking families\n• End the underfunding of our young people and guarantee that more funding directly reaches the classroom\n• Fully scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate to allow pupils to focus on GCSEs, A-levels and vocational courses\n• Introduce different routes to excellence with the expansion of apprenticeships, including degree apprenticeships\n• Develop a clear plan to enable the Welsh NHS to clear the waiting list backlog that has further deteriorated during the pandemic, utilising cross-border and independent facilities to speed up treatment\n• Ensure that no one should wait more than one year for treatment in the NHS with our Patient Guarantee\n• Deliver 1,200 more doctors, 3,000 more nurses and other professionals through our ‘Retain, recruit and train' programme\n• Transform mental health services by treating it with the same priority as physical health\n• Support businesses to access new opportunities following Brexit using our one-stop shop to access investment\n• Work with schools and universities to ensure that the most disadvantaged in our society are able to access the new Turing Scheme\n• Ensure that the Welsh government, with the UK government, liaises closely with the Republic of Ireland to ensure smooth imports and exports\n• Introduce a Clean Air Act to cut pollution and reduce the incidence of respiratory disease\n• Ban single-use plastics for non-medical use such as plastic wet wipes, straws, stirrers, disposable cups and cotton buds, as well as creating a drinks deposit return scheme\n• Tackle climate change by ensuring Wales meets our net-zero carbon emissions target by 2050\n• Establish a single point of access for benefits and support scheme administered in Wales, exploring the possibility of automatically passporting Universal Credit claimants to this\n• Introduce a ‘housing first' model for supporting people who are homeless\n• Support our older communities by maintaining free prescriptions, free bus travel and promote free entry to Cadw sites and pilot free rail travel for the over 75s\n• Encourage aspiration by scrapping Land Transaction Tax for first-time buyers and raising the threshold to £250,000\n• Restore a reformed right to buy so more people can benefit from the security of owning their own home\n• Build 100,000 houses over the next decade, including 40,000 social homes, with all new homes carbon neutral by 2026\n• Build the M4 Relief Road, upgrade the A55 in north Wales to reduce pinch points and the A40 to boost the economy of west Wales\n• Help young people access education, training and employment with free bus travel and discounted rail travel for 16-24 year olds\n• No increase in the number of Members of the Senedd in the next five years and without support of the public\n• No new powers for the Welsh government - it needs to get on and use the power it has rather than push for more\n• Work together with the UK government - not against it - to level-up the whole of Wales\n• A guaranteed job, on at least a Real Living Wage, or high-quality training for every 16–24-year-old\n• Build the best National Health and Care Service by reducing waiting lists, building new cancer diagnostic centres and raising the hourly wage of care workers to at least £10\n• Create a £6bn Green Economic Stimulus, which, together with investments in healthcare, education, and the local economy, will generate 60,000 jobs over the next Senedd year term\n• Prioritising educational and wellbeing recovery by recruiting 2,000 extra teachers and 2,000 extra support staff in schools across Wales\n• A guaranteed job, on at least a Real Living Wage, or high-quality training for every 16–24-year-old\n• Zero interest loans to support small businesses to bounce back post-Covid\n• Create Prosperity Wales, a dynamic new economic development agency, dedicated to growing small and medium-sized Welsh firms, boosting exports and creating jobs in every community\n• Investing in 4,500 extra teachers and support staff, reducing class sizes, and valuing the teaching profession\n• Establish world-class early years education and childcare, offering 30 hours a week, free for all children from 24 months to school age\n• Reduce the maximum tuition fee chargeable to Welsh-domiciled students at Welsh universities to £7,500\n• Build a National Health and Care Service where personal care is free at the point of need\n• Make improving mental health a central goal, and establish a network of Youth Wellbeing Centres for mental and physical health support for young people throughout Wales\n• Investigate ways for Wales to continue to participate in the EU Erasmus programme\n• Develop a new export strategy for Welsh business, focused on EU regions and nations like Ireland and Basque Country where there are already established relationships\n• Start planning for an independent Wales to join the European Free Trade Association\n• Set a Wales-wide mission to generate 100% of electricity and reach zero emissions by 2035\n• Introduce a Nature Act with statutory targets to restore biodiversity by 2050\n• Commit to providing good quality and safe green space within a five-minute walk of all Welsh households\n• £35 per child weekly top-up payment to families living below the poverty line\n• Provide a lifelong learning entitlement for retraining worth £5,000 for everyone over 25\n• Launch the most ambitious public homes programme since the 1970s, creating 50,000 genuinely affordable homes to rent and buy over the next five years\n• Permanently end rough sleeping on our streets through a rapid re-housing policy\n• End no-fault evictions and create a new system of fair rents for people in private rental accommodation\n• Cut the bills of average Council Tax payers, and use planning and tax powers to tackle the second homes crisis\n• Aim to halve the proportion of journeys made by car by 2030\n• Allocate at least 50 per cent of all capital transport spend on improving bus and train services\n• Create a new west coast rail line, connecting the north and south\n• Give the people of Wales a say on their future by holding an independence referendum by 2026\n• Create a statutory National Commission to oversee the process leading to the referendum, including drafting a Welsh Constitution, involving widespread consultation\n• Seek the immediate devolution of power over currently reserved matters, including policing and criminal justice, rail, welfare, broadcasting, large energy projects, and the Crown Estate\n• Give parents the right to take their children on holiday for up to ten days\n• Never have a full scale lockdown for Wales or any part of Wales\n• Establish expert advisery group looking at wider impact of policy on health system and economy\n• Never introduce vaccine passports and remove guidance for wearing masks in class\n• Free up 1.2m small businesses and self-employed from paying coporation tax\n• Create an internet sales tax and scrap business rates in Wales\n• Make financial education a mandatory subject for all school children at GCSE level\n• Allow parents to have the flexibility to take children out of the classroom for up to 10 days for those not in their GCSE years\n• Invest to clear the backlog of NHS waiting times over the next four years\n• Invest in community services to ensure everyone gets the support they need on mental health and normalise mental illness with powerful health promotion campaigns\n• Develop a medical model that focuses on prevention, recovery and co-production as well as cure\n• Develop a workforce policy that ensures adequate numbers of high quality and motivated staff are kept and recruited\n• Work with our EU partners as well as the Rest of the World to develop trade deals that benefit both parties\n• Support and invest in tidal energy to make Wales a world leader in this technology\n• Work with Local Authorities to create an Electric Vehicle charging network model that funds public services\n• Create a National Forest for Wales with open access to all citizens\n• Oppose Wales introducing higher rates of income tax than other parts of the UK\n• Nationally would reduce the number of people paying income tax by increasing the minimum threshold to £20,000, from £12,500 per annum\n• Keep the current legislation that allows local authorities to charge up to 100% extra on empty and second homes, but introduce a policy to ensure the money raised goes directly back to the communities affected\n• Introduce planning permission for home owners that wish to seek a change of purpose for that home to a holiday let business\n• Make it easier for local people to build a home in their local village or town\n• Build new rail infrastructure in South Wales, including SE Wales Transport Commission recommendation for six new train stations and Valley line upgrades\n• We will actively campaign to remain a firm member of the United Kingdom\n• Oppose any increase in the number of Senedd members\n• Hold a seperate election for the first minister\n• Seek to devolve some powers of Welsh government to councils\n• A UK-led response rather than a fragmented four nation approach\n• Powers over economic development should be devolved from Cardiff Bay to local area across Wales in Local enterprise partnerships.\n• Councils should then work in partnership with business and employers, who know their areas, in Local Enterprise Partnerships.\n• Lower council tax could help poor areas more than third sector grants\n• Restore consistency of exams and grading with England\n• Devolve matter of whether Welsh should be compulsory in non-Welsh medium schools to councils\n• Put doctors on same pay scales as counterparts in England\n• Keep free prescriptions for the less well off, children, pregnant women and retirees, but use money paid for prescriptions by others for tackling the huge waiting lists in NHS following the Covid crisis\n• Support Brexit on the basis determined by UK government following the vote by Wales and aim to leave EU\n• Support transition to new technologies in agriculture that could reduce adverse environmental impacts\n• Oppose the devolution of benefit administration to avoid putting at risk the circa 15% of GDP fiscal transfer from rest of UK to Wales\n• Build the M4 Relief Road as supported by Public Inquiry and working with Newport city council supported by UK government\n• Give tax powers back to Westminster as per statement on ballot paper in 2011 referendum that \"the Assembly cannot make laws on ... tax whatever the result of this vote\"\n• £500m to help our high streets, town and city centres, and support small businesses to thrive and adapt\n• An investment of £1bn per year to fight the climate emergency, create new green jobs, and cut household energy bills\n• Create a 24/7 crisis mental health service to ensure that people can recieve care when they need it\n• £500m to help our high streets, town and city centres, and support small businesses to thrive and adapt\n• Freeze business rates for the next 5 years and create an investment relief fund to enable businesses to invest.\n• Work towards re-joining the Single Market and Customs Union, as part of the scheduled renegotiation with the EU in 2025, or earlier should the opportunity arise\n• Tackle holiday hunger by providing free school meals throughout the school holidays for the next 5 years and investing in Food and Fun programmes during school summer holidays\n• Expand degree apprenticeships, including at postgraduate level, diversifying the subject areas available, and creating more routes into employment\n• Personal Learning Accounts to realise a right to lifelong learning, allowing people to upskill and retrain\n• Implement the new Curriculum for Wales and ensure it has the resources needed to make it a success\n• Improve opportunities for disadvantaged learners to learn over school holidays and ensure they get a good meal\n• End digital exclusion at all levels of education, investing in devices and digital skills\n• Create a 24/7 crisis mental health service to ensure that people can recieve care when they need it\n• Support our carers by paying all social care workers the Real Living Wage\n• Putting in place properly funded catch-up plans for our health and care services so health workers and patients have certainty about their care, for example cancer and stroke services\n• Push for tariff free trade as part of the Single Market and Customs Union\n• Promote and facilitate opportunities for international collaboration in research and education\n• Ensure Wales does not lose a penny of investment through the new Shared Prosperity Fund\n• An investment of £1bn per year to fight the climate emergency, create new green jobs, and cut household energy bills\n• Pass a Green Homes Act to create a new green standard for Welsh homes and cut average household bills by up to £500 per year\n• Tackle pollution and clean up the air we breathe with a Clean Air Act in the first 100 days\n• Take meaningful steps towards becoming a Living Wage and Living Hours nation\n• Deliver universal access to free childcare from the age of 9 months, including wrap-around care for children in school\n• Pilot a trial of Universal Basic Income in Wales to provide a minimum standard of living for everyone\n• Build 30,000 new social homes for rent over the next 5 years to ensure everyone has access to a safe place to call home\n• Introduce a plan to end homelessness and invest in services to help prevent people being pushed into homeless and help to maintain a home\n• Continue to invest in the Rent to Own scheme that has helped people to own their own home for the first time\n• Introduce free bus transport for every young person under the age of 25 by 2025\n• Invest in safe routes to walk and cycle, allocating 10% of the transport budget in this area, to reduce pollution and encourage healthier habits\n• Make sure public transport works for everyone. Our Bus Bill will ensure that bus routes meet community needs, ticket fares are affordable and flexible, timetables meet different needs, and bus stops and train stations are accessible.\n• Ensure decisions are made closest to the people they affect within a Federal UK based on mutual respect and trust\n• Devolve justice and policing, whilst abolishing Wales' four Police and Crime Commissioners. Move towards a separate Welsh legal jurisdiction to allow Wales to move towards a more just and accountable system that prioritises effective rehabilitation\n• Introduce a fairer voting system for the Senedd and all councils, ensuring that every vote matters\n• A referendum on scrapping the Senedd and Welsh Government\n• Scrap Welsh government's 'Nation of Sanctuary' policy for asylum seekers and refugees\n• End lockdowns immediately, enabling all businesses to re-open, and individual freedom and travel to return\n• Immediately halt ‘Vaccine Passport' proposals and reviews, which seek to make vaccination mandatory under the threat of marginalisation from society\n• Restore civil liberties, such as freedom of travel, freedom of association and freedom to attend events that have been taken away from us during the pandemic\n• Cut alcohol prices to reinvigorate the vital Welsh hospitality sector by cutting VAT on alcohol served in licensed premises.\n• Stimulate the Welsh tourism industry by providing a £100m recovery and refurbishment fund for Welsh tourist attractions and hotels/guest houses\n• Attract enterprise and investment into Wales by supporting the designation of Welsh free ports and other tax-free zones along new road constructions and in coastal areas\n• Scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate and make the teaching of Welsh optional through the whole curriculum\n• Dismantle the four schools improvement consortia in Wales and redirect their annual £150m budget directly to schools\n• Scrap tuition fees for students studying degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at university provided that, after graduation, they stay in the UK and work in those fields during part of their student loan repayment period\n• Put power back into the hands of parents by restoring and respecting their right to remove their children from relationship and sex education lessons and remove such lessons from primary schools altogether\n• Introduce locally elected health boards, putting patients and families at the heart of NHS decision-making\n• Dramatically increase the number of training places for British doctors, nurses and paramedics and ensure that the required number of nurses and doctors are trained in Wales and the UK rather than imported from abroad.\n• Reunite families with loved ones in care homes without delay\n• Ensure that those who have paid sufficient tax and NI will not be forced to use their savings and home to pay for social care\n• Build on the untapped potential of the fishing industry in Wales by campaigning to take back full control of our waters\n• Deport bogus asylum seekers who currently cannot currently be removed as a result of loopholes in the European Convention on Human Rights\n• Defend the togetherness and integrity of the United Kingdom by ditching the border in the Irish Sea and the damaging Northern Ireland Protocol\n• Lobby the UK Government to scrap the Climate Change Act (2008)\n• Scrap all subsidies for so-called \"green\" energy projects which transfer money from taxpayers, including the poorest in society, to already rich environmental chancers\n• Champion the growth of British farming, fishing, food safety and animal welfare standards\n• Push ahead with a post-Brexit ban of live animal exports for slaughter\n• Seek to minimise the use of zero-hour contracts except where they are to the mutual benefit of employee and employer, and to ensure that everyone can earn a living wage\n• Oppose the devolution of any further benefits to the Welsh Parliament.\n• Free prescriptions, Council Tax and Discretionary (Social) assistance benefits will remain under UKIP\n• End job discrimination and ensure applicants obtain roles based on merit, not on their ability to speak Welsh\n• Bring housing demand under control by implementing firm and fair immigration control\n• Give local people a greater say on major planning decisions in their communities through legally binding local referenda\n• Where possible, incentivise local development by British companies to bring brownfield sites and derelict homes back into use, so that they can be released as affordable housing to local people\n• Support the building of the M4 relief road\n• Sell Cardiff airport immediately to mitigate any further loss to Welsh taxpayers, so that a new owner can operate it on a proper commercial basis\n• Re-open train stations and railway lines to improve connectivity across Wales, where appropriate, by reviewing the Beeching cuts\n• Deliver a long overdue referendum on scrapping the Senedd and Welsh Government at the earliest opportunity\n• Campaign to scrap the Senedd and oppose any increases to the number of Senedd Members\n• Repeal Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru's granting of votes to foreigners\n• Ensure that the voting age in Wales and the UK is 18\n• Formally end all lockdowns, committing not to return to them and to repeal 'draconian' policing powers\n• Establish a Welsh national energy company to extract gas reserves in former coal fields to replace use of imported gas.\n• A Modern Democracy Act to create a Welsh constitution and a bill of rights – giving the public the right to call national and local referendums\n• Establish an independent and transparent enquiry into the Welsh government's response to the coronavirus pandemic\n• Introduce a Coronavirus Recovery Act to end all lockdowns in Wales, repeal all \"draconian\" policing powers, tackle coronavirus through social distancing measures and shielding the vulnerable, reclassify gyms as essential services and will stay open, as will schools, and a policy of full transparency of all data and decisions taken\n• Renegotiate the furlough scheme to pay people impacted by Covid restrictions to work safely, while continuing to support shielding of the vulnerable\n• Establish a Stock Exchange Cymru for listing Welsh companies who wish to publicly trade company shares\n• Create a Welsh Sovereign Wealth Fund to develop a long-term, sustainable portfolio of investments, under the Santiago Principles\n• Create eight co-operative community banks, with a primary focus on investing in existing and new small and medium-sized local businesses\n• Reindustrialise Wales for the 21st Century through emphasis on developing high-tech, sustainable manufacturing for export\n• Develop a new public procurement strategy to move towards 100% of public spending being awarded to Welsh companies\n• Schools will stay open and will not be locked down\n• Pass a new Welsh Medium Education Act to bring together all existing legislative strands to provide unambiguous legal clarity in the future\n• Implement Robbie's Law to make a duty of candour legally binding on medical practitioners and across the public sector, meaning they must be truthful in the event of mistakes or negligence\n• Establish independent, non-party political and elected Public Services Investigators (PSI) to investigate complaints about public services in Wales\n• Launch an independent audit of Welsh Government waste, fraud or corruption. Savings made will be redirected to the NHS.\n• Respect the results of the EU referendum, in which a majority of Welsh people voted to leave the European Union\n• Establish a Welsh national energy company, majority owned by the Welsh Government and local authorities, for conventional extraction of Wales' known gas reserves to replace use of imported gas\n• Cheaper energy supply will be used to support local employment in our key strategic industries, including steel and manufacturing\n• Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund with the revenue generated to achieve long-term energy independence through investment in renewable energy\n• Utilise Welsh universities to become a world leader in carbon capture and storage technology\n• Reject the building of any nuclear reactors and veto any attempts for nuclear material produced outside Wales from being stored or dumped in the country\n• A new public procurement strategy will be adopted to move towards 100% of public spending being awarded to Welsh companies\n• A ‘housing first' policy to end Welsh homelessness and close the second homes loophole, whereby second homes are reclassified as businesses to avoid local taxation\n• Bring in an annual service charge cap for leaseholders, linked to the Consumer Price Index\n• Not to grant building contracts to existing developers until they have rectified dangerous fire cladding in previous developments\n• Introduce a new Right to Buy scheme for social housing tenants, with all revenue directed towards building more quality social housing\n• Set compulsory targets for local authorities to bring long-term empty properties back into use\n• Outlaw the renaming of Welsh-named properties to protect Welsh culture\n• Guarantee that all military veterans who have seen active service will be prioritised for public housing and healthcare\n• Reinstatement of the Aberystwyth to Carmarthen and Afon Wen to Bangor railway lines\n• Create a Welsh constitution and bill of rights. The constitution will enact the principle of ‘modern direct democracy', meaning the public will have the right to bring about national and local referenda by collecting signatures\n• The proportional Single Transferable Vote system for elections will be adopted for national and local elections\n• Wales' twenty-two local authorities will be replaced with eight counties, largely based on Wales' preserved county borders. Each county will have a recognised capital, a directly elected governor and a community co-operative bank. Each county shall be considered to be sovereign, except where law-making power has been reserved to the Welsh parliament\n• The Presiding Officer of the Senedd must sit as an independent to prevent political bias\n• The Welsh First Minister will be directly elected\n• Commission a feasibility study on the creation of an upper house for the Welsh Parliament, to be located in North Wales\n• Support citizen journalism to provide a more diverse and accurate picture of politics and current affairs\n• Applaud work of NHS staff during the pandemic\n• Invest in super-fast broadband to encourage more working from home\n• Create a Welsh National Economic Development Authority with the power to direct investment of private capital\n• Create an alternative assessment system to replace the ‘exam factory'\n• Welsh-medium schools and nurseries available in every part of Wales\n• Create ‘primary health partnerships' of GPs, councils, residents, housing associations, schools and health professionals to assess the long-term health needs of communities\n• A National Care Service with residential and nursing services free at the point of need\n• Wales voted to leave the \"capitalist big business\" EU and Brexit means \"new opportunities\" for Wales\n• Oppose nuclear power \"until it can be demonstrated a safe nuclear fusion option is available\"\n• Free childcare from birth for parents who want to return to work\n• Wealth tax to redistribute wealth across nations and regions of Britain\n• Wales to be indepdenent in the longer term, with its own currency\n• Peak-hour congestion charging along the M4 east of Newport\n• Expand Welsh-medium primary and secondary education so that it becomes \"the norm in every part of Wales\"\n• Provide young people in ‘working from home' situations with options where they can find suitable workspaces together with appropriate support and mentoring\n• Fast-track planning applications for change of use that involve the conversion of commercial property to residential use\n• All publicly funded contracts should include provision for sustainable local content to ensure that money spent by the Welsh Government and local authorities is spent in Wales wherever possible\n• Prioritise the needs of businesses whose head offices are located in Wales, ensuring that they have the appropriate support from councils, infrastructure providers, educational institutions and funding bodies\n• Expand Welsh-medium primary and secondary education so that it becomes \"the norm in every part of Wales\"\n• Humanities curriculum in schools to prioritise learning of Welsh history, traditions, culture and values\n• Student funding only given to students studying in Welsh institutions, other than for subjects not offered within Wales\n• Fee reductions for students studying medicine in Wales who undertake to work in Wales for a certain period of time on graduating\n• Keep open the option of a ‘re-join' referendum if circumstances change\n• Seek to emulate New Zealand in expanding global trade\n• Support investment in alternative technologies such as hydrogen technology as a way of storing, transporting and consuming energy generated by renewable methods\n• Not anti-nuclear in principle, but oppose large projects such as Wylfa B\n• Take all water assets within Wales into public ownership and to place them under the control of existing ‘not-for-profit' Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water\n• Welsh Revenue Authority takes responsibility for accurately accounting for all the taxation revenue generated within Wales\n• Post-independence - replace the current benefits and taxation system with Citizens' Income and Flat Tax\n• Require a licence for owning a second home, with the council charge surcharge set at 500%\n• Tenants to have a right of first refusal if a landlord wishes to sell a property\n• Peak-hour congestion charging along the M4 east of Newport\n• Reinstatement of the Carmarthen-Aberystwyth railway line and the extension of the Cambrian Coast line northwards\n• Wales to be indepdenent in the longer term, with its own currency\n• Referendum on whether to retain the monarchy\n• Single Transferrable Vote (STV) system to be used for elections\n• Green Transformation Fund to raise and direct money locally into communities to create 10k jobs in the green economy and homebuilding\n• Secure the future of the NHS by joining up health and social care, and investing in much better local health services\n• Fix the climate emergency, go carbon zero by 2030 and work to restore nature\n• Ensure that Wales' recovery from the pandemic is both fair and green\n• Establish a public inquiry into the Welsh government's handling of the pandemic\n• Provide further protections against transmission in schools by introducing effective protections to make them safer\n• Deliver a sustainable Wales with an ambitious Green New Deal that creates tens of thousands of new jobs\n• Ensure low rent and rates for existing small business, creative enterprises, and social and environmental start-ups to fill empty shops and bring back life to our high streets\n• Call for the immediate introduction of a Universal Basic Income that shares prosperity across society\n• Provide access to electronic devices for all children who need to learn from home, and access to structured programmes of work if they are unable to attend school\n• Widen access to higher and further education, ensuring that no fees are payable for initial degrees\n• Safeguard the NHS as a free at the point of delivery, publicly-funded body\n• Ensuring that health boards and local authorities have the funding needed to increase capacity across all areas of health and social care provision\n• Ensure neighbourhood access to all treatments that can be made available locally\n• Provision of social support for disabled people, older people and their carers will be given early and quickly, enabling all to live fulfilled lives\n• Work to strengthen our bonds with our European neighbours and allies at every level, promoting future positive opportunities and tackling the damage caused to Wales by Brexit\n• Push for the UK government to seek ways to re-join the EU customs union as a matter of urgency\n• Support efforts to re-join the Erasmus+ programme and work with all parties to maximise the educational and cultural opportunities available to our young people across Europe\n• Tackle the climate emergency by ensuring that carbon emission reduction targets are met at the scale and pace needed, as demanded by the science\n• Deliver a Green vision for net zero by 2030, replacing fossil fuels with onshore and offshore renewable energy and making necessary upgrades to the electricity grid\n• Appoint a new Welsh Government Commissioner for Biodiversity and Animal Protection to reverse the decline of biodiversity in Wales\n• Propose a bill to ban single-use plastic and legislation to progressively reduce all non-recyclable packaging waste, with a goal for an overall reduction on packaging\n• Advocate for a four-day week to share work opportunities and respond to the greater automation and digitisation of manufacturing and services\n• Bring unions into local economy planning and provide workers with support for social and environmental business start-ups\n• Improve wages and working conditions for front-line workers, partly through UBI, but also through improved public service and care workers pay settlements, workers' rights in collective bargaining, employment rights and health and safety\n• End the ‘gig' economy in Wales and exploitative zero-hours contracts through UBI and the extension of worker's rights\n• Build 12,000 new homes every year, built to the highest environmental and energy efficiency standards\n• Ensure sufficient, ongoing investment to enable the retrofitting of existing housing stock to the highest energy efficient standards, lifting thousands out of fuel poverty\n• Provide greater security for tenants by phasing out Assured Shorthold Tenancies in the private sector and provide those struggling with mortgage arrears with security of tenure through a ‘Right to Rent' scheme\n• Create better, affordable, cleaner transport options for all, including access to better walking, cycling and other active travel options and affordable public transport\n• Introduce a national transport strategy that responds to the climate emergency by reducing traffic and carbon emissions, while improving health, wellbeing and air quality\n• Introduce free public transport for local journeys for those aged under 21 to engender the use of public transport\n• Resist any attempts to reopen the proposals for the cancelled M4 relief road\n• Support the aspiration for an independent and fully democratic Wales, bringing decision making to those people most affected by those decisions\n• Campaign for Wales to secede from the United Kingdom in any future referendum\n• Strengthen local democracy by increasing citizen engagement through citizen's juries, people's assemblies, and similar bodies\n\nThis guide is a concise summary of the main policies being put forward by each party.\n\nThe policy areas featured in the guide were selected using polling data on what the public consider to be the most important issues facing the country.\n\nMore information on how the issues and parties were selected is in our methodology.\n\nA full list of parties standing at the election is available here.\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", "Accountancy giant KPMG has told its 16,000 staff they can leave early one day a week as part of a move towards more flexible working after lockdown.\n\nIt said staff will work at KPMG offices four days each fortnight, with the rest of the time at home or client sites.\n\nStaff will also get an extra two-and-a-half-hours off per week in the summer to \"promote wellbeing\" if they complete their normal 35 hours of work.\n\nKPMG's move is another example of big firms overhauling home-office life.\n\nJon Holt, chief executive at KPMG UK, said: \"We trust our people. Our new way of working will empower them and enable them to design their own working week. The pandemic has proven it's not about where you work, but how you work.\n\n\"We have listened to our people and designed this strategy around our staff and how they can best support our clients.\"\n\nKPMG UK head Bill Michael resigned in February after reports that he told staff to \"stop moaning\" about the impact of Covid-19 on their lives. He was replaced by Mr Holt.\n\nKPMG said the plan is being introduced in response to feedback from staff who have said that they would feel comfortable spending most of their time at home.\n\nIn a staff survey conducted in March, 87% of respondents said they liked not having to commute, 76% enjoyed the greater flexibility working from home offers, and 65% felt they now had a better work-life balance.\n\nEmployees who have to attend offices for work, meetings or training that need to be held in person, will not have to stay for the whole day.\n\nKPMG said it would spend £44m during 2021 on new home-working technology and introducing more collaborative spaces at offices.\n\nMr Holt added: \"Our offices will become a place people go to collaborate and learn. The consequence of the pandemic means we have a whole cohort of people who have never been in the office and never been coached face-to-face - we need to get those connections back.\n\n\"Our new strategy for the future of work will enable our people to reconnect and test our new ways of hybrid working. This is all about flexibility.\"\n\nSeveral big UK employers are introducing flexible working, including HSBC, British Airways and BP. In March, Nationwide building society said it would allow its 13,000 office staff to \"choose where they work\" - offices, homes or High Street branches.\n\nSome 36% of employees in Britain did at least some work from home last year as the coronavirus outbreak closed many workplaces, a jump from around 26% in 2019, the Office for National Statistics said in April.", "Non-Covid cases outnumber Covid patients by 58 to one\n\nThe number of Covid patients in Welsh hospitals is now the lowest it has been since the pandemic began.\n\nThere were 227 Covid patients on average in hospital beds each day in the last week, NHS Wales recorded.\n\nConfirmed and suspected cases have seen a 30% drop in a month and are now down 94% from the second peak seen in late-December.\n\nLast Sunday saw the lowest number - 84 - for \"active\" confirmed or suspected cases in hospital beds.\n\nMore than half of the Covid patients left in hospital are counted as \"recovering\" and while they are no longer testing positive, they are either still unable to be discharged or are being treated for other conditions.\n\nOn Tuesday, 120 were counted as recovering and 91 were confirmed or suspected Covid patients.\n\nMeanwhile, there are only three Covid patients in critical care or on ventilation. Two of these were in the Cardiff and Vale health board area and the third in Swansea Bay.\n\nThere have been no Covid patients in critical care in Cwm Taf Morgannwg hospitals for 16 days.\n\nLast week saw the number drop to a record low of two - 98% fewer Covid patients than in mid-January.\n\nICU units are still above the normal non-pandemic capacity, with numbers of patients recovering from serious surgery and emergencies. However non-Covid patients outnumber Covid patients now 58 to one.\n\nCovid admissions now make up just 1.3% of all hospital admissions.\n\nOn 4 May, admissions of confirmed and suspected cases were running at a daily seven-day average of 14. This is just above last week's record low of 13. There have been none admitted in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg area for eight days.\n\nCovid-19 patients - including those recovering - made up 2.6% of all patients in hospital on 4 May. The proportion reached 36% before Christmas.\n\nMeanwhile, Public Health Wales has reported 19 hospital-acquired Covid infections in the most recent week. That is half the total in the previous week. These include six \"probable\" and \"definite\" cases in Swansea Bay.", "Veterans who were intending to travel to Normandy are being invited to gather at the National Memorial Arboretum instead\n\nVeterans unable to travel to Normandy because of Covid-19 restrictions are invited to mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings at an event in England.\n\nThe ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum, in Staffordshire, will include a broadcast of the opening of the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer.\n\nThe event, on 6 June, will mark the 77th anniversary of the battle.\n\nIt will be the first major event of the year with veterans invited to gather.\n\nAn artist's view of how the memorial will look\n\nThe event will also include coverage of the Royal British Legion's service of remembrance at the Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and an opportunity for Normandy veterans to have their Legion d'Honneur formally presented to them by the French ambassador to the UK.\n\nBob Gamble, from the Royal British Legion, said it was \"increasingly important\" to remember those who \"served and sacrificed\".\n\n\"We understand how much it means to the veterans and their families to be in Normandy for these commemorations. However, we are also conscious that there is still great uncertainty surrounding international travel.\"\n\nPictures were released last year of the memorial under construction\n\nThe British Normandy Memorial, designed by UK architect Liam O'Connor, records the names of the 22,442 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.\n\nThe memorial, which cost almost £30m, overlooks Gold Beach, one of three where British forces landed to begin the liberation of western Europe from Germany.\n\nIt was funded by the government, private donations and fundraising efforts of people like D-Day veteran Harry Billinge, who was appointed MBE for raising more than £25,000 towards it.\n\nThe D-Day veteran said he was overwhelmed by the memorial\n\nThe 94-year-old from St Austell, Cornwall, said he was \"overwhelmed\" by the memorial and \"had tears in my eyes\".\n\n\"When I collect money for that memorial, I get a great calmness over me,\" he said. \"I lost a lot of good men, young men.\"\n\nAnother fundraiser was Harry Salmon, who raised thousands through a sponsored bike ride through northern France. His father, also called Harry, was among those killed in the conflict.\n\n\"I saw veterans being interviewed on television and I found it really hard to see them shedding tears taking about their fallen comrades,\" he said.\n\n\"My father was a team player, these were his team mates. They were shedding tears for him.\"\n\nHe visited the site during his bike ride and said it was \"an incredible piece of architecture\".\n\nD-Day, codenamed Operation Overlord, was a massive assault by the allies to invade Nazi-occupied western Europe and saw 156,000 soldiers from Britain, US, Canada and France land on the beaches of Normandy.\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.", "For the past week, Chinese media has been dominated by the developments in India.\n\nChina has been keen to signal its concern, and that it is sending aid. According to the Xinhua News Agency , China has supplied more than 5,000 ventilators, 21,569 oxygen generators, more than 21.48 million masks and about 3,800 tons of medicine to India since April.\n\nChinese companies have also been “accelerating production” of a further 40,000 oxygen generators.\n\nBut media have also been critical of the Indian government’s handling of the situation. Commentary websites such as Guancha (The Observer) have been keen to highlight local people’s “disappointment” in Prime Minister Modi and today, The Paper has noted Rahul Gandhi, the former leader of India’s opposition, has said only a “full lockdown can now save people”. In other words, a similar approach to what the Chinese city of Wuhan did in January 2020.\n\nThere have been ongoing concerns in China that India’s outbreak could spill over into the country. Today, outlets are observing nearby Nepal is “becoming a mini India”, and due to growing cases has “requested vaccines from China, Russia and other countries”.\n\nIt’s not just the mainland that has concerns; Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said today it is “in talks with travel agencies about airlifting its citizens out of India”.", "On Monday, a senior official from India's federal government told journalists that there was no shortage of oxygen in Delhi or anywhere else in the country.\n\nAs he spoke, several small hospitals - only a few miles from where he stood in the capital - were sending out desperate messages about them running out of oxygen, putting patients' lives at risk.\n\nThe chief doctor of one of the hospitals - a specialist paediatric facility - told the BBC that \"our hearts were in our mouths\" because of the risk of children dying. They got supplies just in time, after a local politician intervened.\n\nAnd yet, the federal government has repeatedly insisted that there was no shortage. \"We are only facing problems in its transportation,\" Piyush Goyal, a senior official from India's home ministry, said.\n\nHe also advised hospitals to \"ensure judicious use of oxygen as per the guidelines\". Several doctors who have spoken to the BBC say they are giving oxygen only to patients who need it, but there is not enough.\n\nBut experts say that the shortage of oxygen is just one of the problems which shows both federal and state governments were not prepared, having failed to do enough to stop or minimise the damage of the second wave.\n\nA street in Delhi in early March, when, despite warnings, India’s health minister said the country was in the “endgame” of Covid-19\n\nWarnings have in fact been repeatedly issued, including:\n\nDespite this, on 8 March, the country's health minister announced that India was in the \"endgame of the pandemic\".\n\nSo, where did it go so wrong?\n\nIn January and February, the national number of daily cases fell to under 20,000 from peaks of around 90,000 in September last year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Covid beaten, and all places of public gathering opened.\n\nAnd soon, people were not adhering to Covid safety protocols, thanks in part to confused messaging from the top.\n\nWhile Mr Modi asked people to wear masks and follow social distancing in his public messages, he addressed large unmasked crowds during his election campaigns in five states. A number of his ministers were also seen addressing large public gatherings without wearing masks. The Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival - which attracts millions - was also allowed to go ahead.\n\nThe Kumbh Mela religious festival in mid-April, which, like political rallies at the time, were attended unmasked\n\n\"There was complete disconnect between what they practised and what they preached,\" says public policy and health systems expert Dr Chandrakant Lahariya.\n\nProminent virologist Dr Shahid Jameel says \"the government just did not see the second wave coming and started celebrating too early\".\n\nBut there is more to the story: the devastation has also exposed the underfunding and neglect of the public healthcare system in India.\n\nThe heart-breaking scenes that have been witnessed outside hospitals - people dying without getting treatment - shows the grim reality of India's healthcare infrastructure.\n\nAs one expert puts it, India's \"public health infrastructure was always broken, the rich and the middle class are just finding out\". Those who could afford it have always relied on private hospitals for treatment, while the poor struggle to get even a doctor's appointment.\n\nRecent schemes, like health insurance and subsidised medicines for the poor, are not helping because very little has been done in decades to increase the number of medical staff or hospitals.\n\nIndia's healthcare spending, including both private and public, has been around 3.6% of GDP for the past six years, the lowest percentage in the five Brics countries: Brazil spent the most at 9.2%, followed by South Africa at 8.1%, Russia at 5.3% and China at 5% in 2018.\n\nDeveloped nations spend a far higher proportion of their GDP on health. In 2018, for instance, spending in the US was 16.9% and Germany 11.2%. Even smaller nations like Sri Lanka (3.76%) and Thailand (3.79%) spend more than India.\n\nAnd India has fewer than 10 doctors per 10,000 people, and in some states the figure is less than five.\n\nSeveral \"empowered committees\" were last year looking at the preparations needed to tackle the next coronavirus wave, so experts are baffled by the shortages of oxygen, beds and drugs.\n\n\"When the first wave was tapering, that's when they should have prepared for a second wave and assumed the worst. They should have taken an inventory of oxygen and [the drug] remdesivir and then ramped up manufacturing capacity,\" Mahesh Zagade, former health secretary of Maharashtra state, told the BBC.\n\nOfficials say India produces enough oxygen to meet the spike in demand but transportation was the problem. Experts say this should have been fixed much earlier.\n\nThe government is now running special trains carrying oxygen from one state to another and stopping use of oxygen in industries - but only after many patients died because of a lack of oxygen.\n\nVery ill patients have been stuck outside hospitals as they wait for beds to become available\n\n\"The outcome has been that desperate family members are spending thousands of rupees to secure an oxygen cylinder on the black market and then stand for hours in a queue to get it filled,\" points out Dr Lahariya.\n\nMeanwhile, those who can afford it are also paying hefty amounts to procure drugs like remdesivir and tocilizumab.\n\nAn executive from a pharmaceutical company which manufactures remdesivir said \"demand had dried up\" in January and February. \"If the government had placed an order, we would have stockpiled and there wouldn't have been any shortage. We have ramped up production but demand has grown significantly,\" he said.\n\nIn contrast, the southern state of Kerala planned for the surge in advance. Dr A Fathahudeen, who is part of the state's Covid taskforce, says there was no shortage of oxygen in the state as necessary steps were taken in October last year.\n\nRelatives of patients have been refilling oxygen cylinders themselves\n\n\"We also procured sufficient stock of remdesivir and tocilizumab and other drugs well in advance. We also have a surge plan in place to tackle any exponential rise in the numbers in the coming weeks,\" he says.\n\nMr Zagade says other states should have also taken similar steps \"to avoid the suffering\".\n\n\"Learning means someone else has done it and you can do it now, but that means it will take time,\" the former health secretary for Maharashtra said.\n\nBut time is running out as the second wave is now spreading to villages where healthcare systems are not equipped to deal with the surge.\n\nGenome sequencing of the virus is an important step in identifying new variants that could be more infectious and deadly. The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortia (INSACOG) was set up last year and it brought together 10 labs in the country.\n\nBut the group reportedly struggled to get funding initially. Virologist Dr Jameel says India started seriously looking at mutations fairly late, with sequencing efforts only \"properly started\" in mid-February 2021.\n\nIndia is sequencing just over 1% of all samples at the moment. \"In comparison, the UK was sequencing at 5-6% at the peak of the pandemic. But you can't build such capacity overnight,\" he said.\n\nHowever, India's main hope was always vaccination.\n\nThis woman wanted to record the moment of vaccination\n\n\"Any public health specialist will tell you there is no practical way to strengthen an already broken public healthcare system in a matter of months,\" one woman, whose family runs a large private hospital in Delhi, told the BBC.\n\n\"The best and most effective alternative to battle Covid was to vaccinate the population as quickly as possible so the majority wouldn't need hospital care and hence not overburden the healthcare system.\"\n\nIndia initially wanted 300 million people vaccinated by July, \"but it seems the government did not do enough planning to secure vaccine supply to run the programme\", Dr Lahariya says.\n\n\"On top of it, it has opened the vaccination for all adults without securing vaccine supplies.\"\n\nSo far, only about 26 million people have been fully vaccinated out of a population of 1.4 billion, and about 124 million have received a single dose. India has millions more doses on order, but still far short of what it actually needs.\n\nThe federal government needs 615 million doses to vaccinate everyone above the age of 45 - about 440 million people. There are 622 million people between the age of 18 and 44, and 1.2 billion doses are required to vaccinate them.\n\nThe government has also cancelled exports, reneging on international commitments.\n\nThe government has enlisted other firms like Biological E and the state-run Haffkine Institute to produce vaccines. It has also given credit support of $609m to the Serum Institute of India, which produces the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab which is being made in India as Covishield, to ramp up production.\n\nBut that funding should have come earlier, Dr Lahariya says, saving precious lives. \"It will take months before we have enough vaccines to speed up the programme. In the meantime, millions will continue to be at risk of getting Covid,\" he adds.\n\nExperts say it is ironic that India is known as the world's pharmacy and it is now facing shortages of vaccines and drugs.\n\nAll of this, Dr Lahariya says, should serve as wake-up call for for both federal and state governments, which should invest drastically more in the healthcare sector because \"this definitely is not the last pandemic we will have to fight against\".\n\n\"The future pandemic may come earlier than any model can predict,\" he says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What it's like working in an emergency room in India, as its devastating second Covid wave continues", "Goldman boss David Solomon previously described working from home as \"an aberration\"\n\nGoldman Sachs has told its UK bankers they need to be ready to return to the office in June.\n\nThat is the date on which the government hopes to lift legal limits on social contact in England.\n\nWhile for many working from home has become normal, Goldman boss David Solomon previously described it as \"an aberration\".\n\nBut rival investment bank JP Morgan is planning for \"significantly\" less office space, it said in April.\n\nGoldman bankers have in large part already returned to the office in parts of the Asia-Pacific region.\n\nBut, in India and Latin America \"the devastating rise in the number of infections and deaths is leading to new lockdowns and significant strain\", three Goldman top executives said in an internal memo on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, the bank is \"encouraged by the rollout of vaccines\" in many places, chief executive David Solomon, president John Waldron and chief financial officer Stephen Scherr said.\n\nUS bankers should be ready to come back into the office on 14 June, and UK bankers should make plans to be back on 21 June, they said.\n\nGoldman Sachs employees will be encouraged to come back to London offices from 21 June\n\n\"We know from experience that our culture of collaboration, innovation and apprenticeship thrives when our people come together, and we look forward to having more of our colleagues back in the office so that they can experience that once again on a regular basis,\" they said.\n\nStaff who wish to continue to work from home should discuss this with their manager, they added.\n\nWhile some bank bosses have indicated that working from home may not be a long term option for some employees, others are planning for smaller offices.\n\nJP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon said in April that the investment bank will require \"significantly\" less office space in the coming years, needing just 60 seats per 100 people.\n\nSome traders have been working in Canary Wharf during the pandemic\n\nHSBC boss Noel Quinn said at the end of April that the bank plans to move to a hybrid model of working, with employees having a mixture of working in the office and from home.\n\nSome investment bank traders at Canary Wharf have been working from the office during the pandemic.\n\nBarclays expects to keep a significant number of traders at Canary Wharf in the future.\n\nBarclays boss Jes Staley has previously said home working is \"not sustainable\" for large financial institutions.\n\nBank employees in London and New York will be coming back into the office on a phased basis from mid-June, but the return to working from the office for Barclays employees will be gradual.", "Land is cleared either to graze cattle for beef exports or to grow soy\n\nNearly 40 UK food businesses have threatened to stop sourcing products from Brazil over proposed land reforms.\n\nAn open letter from the group calls on Brazil's legislature to reject a bill which could legalise the private occupation of public land.\n\nThe letter said the proposal could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon.\n\nThe bill is being considered just months after Brazil pledged to end illegal logging.\n\nSainsbury's, Aldi, Greggs, the Co-Op, the British Retail Consortium, and the Hilton Food Group are among the major organisations to sign the open letter.\n\nA vote in the Senate on the bill is expected within days.\n\nThe companies say they \"consider the Amazon as a vital part of the earth system that's essential to the security of our planet, as well as being a critical part of a prosperous future for Brazilians and all of society.\"\n\nRainforests are critical to mitigating the effects of climate change, as they store vast amounts of carbon.\n\nAn aerial view of logs illegally cut from the Amazon rainforest\n\nUnder the leadership of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, the level of deforestation in the Amazon is reported as being the highest since 2008.\n\nThis year alone around 430,000 acres of the Amazon have been logged or burned, according to the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project.\n\nThe vast majority of land is cleared either to graze cattle for beef exports, or to grow soy, which goes in to animal feed around the world.\n\nAt a summit in April hosted by US President Joe Biden, Mr Bolsonaro declared that Brazil would end illegal logging. The letter says these measures \"run counter\" to this \"narrative and rhetoric.\"\n\nThe new law would allow land that has been illegally occupied after 2014 to be put up for sale. This would potentially allow illegal occupants to buy it.\n\nSimilar controversial measures were first put forward in a different bill last year, but were withdrawn after more than 40 organisations made the same threat over supply chain sourcing.\n\nA road runs through a tract of burnt Amazon jungle near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, August 14, 2020\n\nThe group says the existing protections and land designations have been \"instrumental\" in their organisations having \"trust\" in Brazilian producers.\n\nThe companies say that the \"door remains open to work with Brazilian partners\" to develop sustainable land management practice in Brazil.\n\nHowever, if this or other measures that undermine existing protections become law, they will have \"no choice but to reconsider our support and use of the Brazilian agricultural commodity supply chain.\"\n\nThis 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\nCommenting on the imminent vote, Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at WWF-UK, said: \"We cannot fight the climate crisis without the Amazon, yet its future hangs in the balance as deforestation pushes it closer to the point of collapse.\n\n\"If passed, this vote in the Brazilian Congress will fuel further destruction and place greater risk on the lives of the people and wildlife who call it home.\n\n\"As global efforts to protect the Amazon threaten to be undermined, it's encouraging to see major businesses sounding the alarm.\"\n\nCathryn Higgs, head of policy at the Co-op, said it was \"imperative\" the proposed legislation wasn't \"given any airtime by the Brazilian government.\"\n\nSupporters of the bill say it would help small-scale farmers to clarify title deeds to land.\n\nThe Brazilian government has been approached for comment.", "Model and singer Nick Kamen has died at the age of 59, a friend of his family has confirmed to the BBC.\n\nThe Essex-born star was known for appearing in a 1985 Levi's advert filmed in a launderette.\n\nHis music career peaked the next year with a top five hit Each Time You Break My Heart, co-written by Madonna.\n\nHis friend and fellow singer Boy George led the tributes on Wednesday, describing Kamen as \"the most beautiful and sweetest man\".\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\nDuran Duran's John Taylor also paid tribute, remembering Kamen as \"one of the loveliest and gentlest men\" he had ever met.\n\nKamen - real name Ivor Neville Kamen - rose to fame in a jeans commercial, which showed him arrive at a launderette and strip down to his boxer shorts as several women looked on.\n\nThe advert, soundtracked by Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through The Grapevine, helped to boost the company's denim sales and made him a sex symbol in the process.\n\nIt also caught the attention of the queen of pop, who told the BBC at the time she had been taken by Kamen's \"charisma\" and \"beautiful voice\".\n\nMadonna then contacted Kamen and asked him to record Each Time You Break My Heart - a synth-pop track left over from her third studio album True Blue - while she provided backing vocals.\n\nKamen's follow-up track, a cover of the Four Tops' Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever, peaked at number 16 in the UK singles chart but reached number one in Italy.\n\nHe topped the charts again in Italy with 1988's Tell Me, to which Madonna again provided backing vocals, and got to number one in Austria and Sweden with 1990's I Promised Myself.\n\nThe song, which Kamen wrote, was covered by Dead or Alive on their 2000 Fragile album and again by Swedish DJ Basshunter in 2009.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Official Charts\n\nSinger Judie Tzuke said she was \"so sad\" to hear of Kamen's death, saying that both he and his brother Barry - a model and stylist who died in 2015 - had \"gone far too soon\".\n\nFormer Grange Hill actor Ricky Simmonds said he had worked with Kamen at an early age and remembered him having \"the aura and charisma of a superstar\".\n\nSinger Tanita Tikaram also paid tribute, saying she had met him when she was starting out as they were signed to the same record label.\n\n\"He was kind & sweet [with] none of the ego of someone who had just set the world alight with his extraordinary beauty,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"R.I.P Nick Kamen - beautiful inside and out,\" singer Kavana tweeted, while DJ Gary Crowley remembered him as \"a lovely, gentle guy\".\n\nKamen, who was born in Harlow in 1962, is understood to have died on Tuesday night after a long illness.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "There are a lot of parties competing for seats in Wales, but this, in summary, is what they all said today.\n\nWelsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford said the contest was between \"a Labour progressive government for Wales and handing Wales back to London with the Tories.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said people had \"an historic opportunity to elect the first Plaid Cymru government in our history. That will send headlines across the world.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Jane Dodds told the BBC they were looking to get some places in the regional seats as well as in those they've always done well in.\n\nMeanwhile, the Wales Green Party said it was \"long overdue that we in Wales get the Green scrutiny in the Senedd that we deserve.\"\n\nAbolish The Welsh Assembly's Mark Reckless asked voters not to \"waste their votes on parties which helped give us Brexit, but have had their day now\".\n\nA spokesperson for UKIP Wales told the BBC that the party was \"presenting voters with a real alternative to Labour who have failed communities\".\n\nReform UK's Welsh Leader Nathan Gill said \"we need to get out of lockdown now, our children need to allowed to be children, and our businesses need to do what they do best\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak visited Wales and highlighted the furlough scheme, that he said had protected almost half a million jobs in Wales.\n\nAll that on the final day - you can read more detail here.", "Former Aston Villa striker Dalian Atkinson died due to cardio-respiratory arrest in 2016 in Telford, Shropshire, at the age of 48\n\nTwo police officers \"colluded\" in their account of what happened after the death of an ex-footballer, a court has heard.\n\nPC Benjamin Monk is on trial charged with murdering former Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson in Telford in 2016.\n\nProsecutors claim he and PC Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, who is charged with assault, used excessive force. Both deny the charges.\n\nMr Atkinson was Tasered, kicked and hit with a baton, the jury heard.\n\nProsecutors at Birmingham Crown Court said the similarity of the officers' accounts was \"indicative\" they had discussed how \"to account for their unlawful attack on an unarmed man\".\n\nMr Atkinson, 48, died in the early hours of 15 August 2016 after the officers responded to reports of him acting erratically outside his father's house in Meadow Close, Telford.\n\nMary Ellen Bettley-Smith (L) and Benjamin Monk (R) responded to a call-out to Mr Atkinson's father's address in Telford in 2016\n\nJurors heard Mr Atkinson had ripped out his dialysis line shortly before he was confronted by the officers.\n\nOn Tuesday, the court was told Mr Atkinson, who also played for Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday, was Tasered for 33 seconds - six times longer than is standard - and had been kicked at least twice in the head by PC Monk, leaving the imprint of bootlaces.\n\nProsecutor Alexandra Healy QC said both officers had been interviewed under caution on 26 August 2016, and in January 2017.\n\nPC Monk, 42, had said the officers arrived to hear a \"large row\" and Mr Atkinson's behaviour made him \"fearful for himself, his partner and whoever was in the property\".\n\nMr Atkinson was said to answer the door in \"a rage\" and claiming to be the Messiah, and when presented with the Taser said, 'I am going to take you to the gates of hell',\" Ms Healy said.\n\nMr Atkinson had been suffering with high blood pressure, heart disease and end-stage renal failure at the time of his death, the court heard\n\nAfter two Taser cartridges had failed, a third one was successfully deployed and left Mr Atkinson unconscious.\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, defending PC Monk, said the officer believed Mr Atkinson was trying to get up.\n\nMr Gibbs said the officer did not dispute kicking the ex-footballer twice in the head, but did so while he was \"terrified\".\n\nRichard Smith QC, PC Bettley-Smith's barrister, said the 31-year-old maintained her use of the baton was \"lawful\", adding: \"She genuinely believed, in the heat of the moment, in the circumstances she found herself in, that the use of that baton was necessary and reasonable.\"\n\nBoth officers deny the charges against them\n\nEarlier that night, Mr Atkinson had been acting out of character, his partner Karen Wright said, and had borrowed her car to drive to his father's house.\n\nIt followed a few weeks where he was \"quite convinced that he was going to be killed\" either by the NHS or police, she said.\n\nShe rang him at about 01:30 BST, at which time Mr Atkinson was at his father's home.\n\nAsked if she could hear anything else, Ms Wright said: \"I heard the sound of the door opening and then a third voice and then Dalian left the phone on, and I could hear him say 'do you know who you're speaking to?'.\n\n\"It wasn't to me, it was to somebody else.\"\n\nThe call then went dead, she said.\n\nKenroy Atkinson, the brother of former footballer Dalian Atkinson, was seen arriving at Birmingham Crown Court\n\nBarbara Wynne, a neighbour of Mr Atkinson's father, who gave evidence to the hearing, had called 999 after she and her husband Mark were awoken by a \"car horn\" and vehicle lights.\n\nIn a recording of the call, played to court, she was heard telling the operator: \"I'm not sure what actually happened but I just heard some noise... there's a car pulled up outside an old man's house and there's somebody shouting.\n\n\"Then he went back to his car, then went back to the door - kicked it.\n\n\"And he said to the bloke 'you better let me in'.\"\n\nShe told the operator \"the bloke seemed scared\", adding: \"He's gone in - I'm a little worried.\"\n\nThe court also heard a pathologist had examined Mr Atkinson's injuries but \"no typical defence wounds\" were noted to his hands or forearms.\n\nDalian Atkinson started his career in Ipswich in the 1980s\n\nA pathologist recorded a narrative cause of death, Ms Healy told the court, which found Mr Atkinson died due to cardio-respiratory arrest, \"close in time to the deployment of Taser, followed by a brief period of restraint and blunt force trauma\".\n\nAll three of the prosecution's medical experts, the court heard, agreed that while Mr Atkinson's enlarged heart meant that he could have died at any time, the prolonged period of Tasering and the kicks to his head made a \"significant contribution\" to his death.\n\nMs Wright, who had been in a relationship with Mr Atkinson for eight years, said he was due to check in to a hospital the following day for treatment and that night had pulled out a dialysis line in agitation.\n\nMr Gibbs told jurors the medical evidence in this case was \"multi factorial\" and possibly \"the most medically complex forensic pathology case\" the pathologist had dealt with.\n\nConcluding her opening speech, Ms Healy said the jury would have to consider whether PC Monk had intended to cause really serious injury.\n\n\"The prosecution say that once that last Taser deployment had been totally effective, causing Dalian Atkinson to fall to the ground as a result of neuromuscular incapacitation... the officers were no longer acting in self-defence,\" she said.\n\n\"Rather they acted in anger as a result of the fear that Dalian Atkinson had just put them through.\n\nPC Monk denies murder as well as an alternative charge of manslaughter. PC Bettley-Smith denies assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\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.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Edwin Poots are in the running for the DUP leadership\n\nThe vote to elect the next leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will take place on 14 May, the party has said.\n\nParty officers met on Tuesday to discuss the procedure and timetable for the election of both a new leader and deputy leader.\n\nAgriculture Minister Edwin Poots and MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson are bidding to succeed Arlene Foster.\n\nShe steps down as DUP leader on 28 May and first minister at the end of June.\n\nIt is the first time in the party's 50-year history that a leadership contest has taken place.\n\nAn announcement on the next leader is expected by 17:00 BST on 14 May, the party said.\n\nThe meeting, to be overseen by party chairman Lord Morrow, will be conducted virtually.\n\nThe party said contenders for both leader and deputy leader must submit their expression of interest by 17:00 BST on 6 May.\n\nThe current deputy leader of the party is Lord Dodds.\n\nMr Poots began his leadership bid last Thursday, while Sir Jeffrey announced his bid on Monday, the 100th anniversary of the formation of Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday evening, Lord Morrow said the date of 14 May was chosen to reflect the fact that Covid restrictions are due to be reviewed at a meeting of the NI Executive on 13 May, and that the Queen's speech will take place in Parliament on 12 May.\n\nHe said DUP representatives will be required to attend both commitments.\n\n\"In accordance with the constitution and rules of the Democratic Unionist Party, only party members, who are also members of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the House of Commons, are entitled to vote for the leader or deputy leader.\"\n\nThere are 28 DUP MLAs (Members of the Legislative Assembly) and eight MPs.\n\nSouth Down DUP MLA Jim Wells, who lost the whip in 2018 after he criticised the party leadership in the media, told BBC News NI he had received the letter that went to all DUP MLAs and MPs on Tuesday evening, informing them about the process for the vote.\n\nHe said he was \"delighted\" his vote would count and reiterated he would be supporting Mr Poots.\n\nArlene Foster will step down as DUP leader on 28 May\n\nSeveral senior DUP Stormont assembly members and the MP Paul Girvan have declared their support for Mr Poots.\n\nSpeaking in the Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday, the Lagan Valley MLA confirmed he had \"no desire\" to hold the position of first minister should he be elected DUP leader.\n\nIt is understood he would want to remain agriculture minister.\n\nSir Jeffrey, the MP for Lagan Valley, has the backing of MPs Gavin Robinson and Jim Shannon as well as Education Minister Peter Weir and Junior Minister Gordon Lyons.\n\nCampaigners for both contenders claim their candidate has significant support within the party ranks.\n\nSitting in the Stormont chamber on Tuesday, Arlene Foster cut a lonely figure on the benches where she once ruled.\n\nShe was socially and politically distant from previously loyal supporters who signed a letter of no confidence in her leadership last week, forcing her to quit.\n\nApart for the odd polite smile to those opposite wishing her well for the future, she showed no emotion.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster (in yellow jacket) in the assembly chamber on Tuesday\n\nAs she exited the chamber, one of the men who wants to replace her as leader entered through another door.\n\nUnlike Mrs Foster, Edwin Poots shared the benches with those who have already expressed support for his leadership bid.\n\nIn order to become party leader, a candidate must secure the support of at least 18 of the party's assembly members and MPs.\n\nMrs Foster announced her decision to resign after facing a revolt from DUP members last week.\n\nShe had led the party since December 2015 and was appointed first minister of Northern Ireland the following month.\n\nBBC News NI understands that she will sever her ties with the DUP when she stands down as first minister, with sources close to her saying she thinks it is no longer the party she joined.\n\nMrs Foster did not take part in a Tuesday morning meeting with her assembly team.\n\nThe first minister was in the assembly chamber later as Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill responded to questions to the Executive Office.", "The swan was rescued on Sunday after being spotted with the black sock on its head\n\nA sock was pulled over a swan's head in a \"mindless prank\" that could have led to the bird's death.\n\nPolice believe the garment was put on intentionally due to the \"snug fit\" and \"how far down the neck the tube was\".\n\nHad it not been rescued, officers said, the swan, found in Coulson Road, Lincoln, would likely have starved to death or suffocated.\n\nOfficers have launched a joint witness appeal with the RSPCA in a bid to trace the culprits.\n\nInspector Kate Burris, from the wildlife charity, said the \"mindless prank could have resulted in this poor swan suffering over a long period of time and ultimately ended in their death.\n\n\"Given that this is the breeding and nesting season this could also have resulted in suffering and sadly death for any dependent offspring.\"\n\nWild birds are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, and it is an offence to kill, injure or take them without a licence.\n\nThe maximum penalty is six months in prison and/or an unlimited fine.\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.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Thursday morning.\n\nWealthy countries including the UK should send spare vaccine doses to virus-hit nations before organising booster jabs at home, World Health Organization special envoy David Nabarro has told the BBC. He said Covid was \"fiercer than ever\" and \"causing more distress than ever\" worldwide. His comments came after Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said the UK could start a booster programme as early as September. The government has also pledged to donate surplus vaccine doses to poorer nations. You can read more about the UK's vaccine programme here.\n\nThe entire Indian delegation in London for the G7 summit, has had to isolate after two of its members tested positive for Covid-19. India's foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar pulled out of face-to-face talks and will now take part virtually. He met Priti Patel in person on Tuesday but it is understood that because strict social distancing was maintained, the home secretary and others at the meeting do not need to self-isolate.\n\nCanada has become the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for children aged 12 to 15. The country's health ministry has authorised the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab for the age group. In March, Pfizer said trials of its vaccine in children aged 12 to 15 showed 100% efficacy and a strong immune response. Children's risk of becoming very ill or dying with Covid-19 is low. US President Joe Biden has also laid out plans to roll out shots for 12 to 15-year-olds as soon as possible.\n\nCanada is the first country in the world to authorise the use of the vaccine for children aged 12 to 15\n\nGoldman Sachs bankers in the UK and US have been told they need to be ready to return to the office in June - when they are allowed to do so. In England the government hopes to lift legal limits on social contact on 21 June, while the bank's bosses expect US workers to be back in the office on 14 June. While for many working from home has become almost normal, Goldman's boss David Solomon has described it as \"an aberration\".\n\nGoldman Sachs employees will be encouraged to come back to London offices from 21 June\n\nA nurse who has worked throughout the coronavirus pandemic is planning to retire and buy a house in the Caribbean after winning £120,000 in the National Lottery. Teresa Robinson, 65, won £10,000 per month for a year with her partner Charlie Hobson. \"I was bouncing off the walls but Charlie, calm as you like, looked at it and simply said, 'I knew we'd win it one day', gave me a kiss and went outside to carry on building our extension,\" she said.\n\nTeresa Robinson and Charlie Hobson plan to buy a home on a Caribbean island\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd as it is election polling day on Thursday in England, Wales and Scotland you can find a quick reminder of how voting will be different during the pandemic.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stepping up: The university footballers offering to walk women home\n\nWhen Ben Marett saw a post on Facebook threatening women at a university with rape on a Saturday night, he felt scared and wanted to do something to help.\n\nConcerned about his friend Mia, as he knew she was off out that night, it got him thinking about other women who might be worried about their safety.\n\nSo he messaged members of his university football team, asking if they would support him in chaperoning women in pairs late that night.\n\nAfter posting the offer on social media, about 30 women contacted them so they could walk home together.\n\nThe issue of women's safety was brought into sharp focus across the country and across the world in March following the disappearance of Sarah Everard on her walk home in London. The 33-year-old's body was found in woodland a week after she vanished and a man is charged with her murder.\n\nBen hopes his and other initiatives being undertaken by the Cardiff University team will help their friends feel safe in university.\n\nThey also hope it helps challenge perceptions about the sometimes \"laddish\" culture associated with men's sports teams.\n\n\"People associate it with everyone out drinking, chasing girls, getting into fights and causing mischief, and that the lads aren't good members of society,\" he said.\n\n\"This laddish culture needs to change and not just in football, if what me and the boys are doing means people will start to look at sports societies differently and men act more responsibly then that's great.\"\n\nThe 22-year-old is president and club captain of the university football club and said that ultimately he just wanted to help after seeing the post - which turned out to be a hoax.\n\n\"We are not saying women need help but if someone was scared, I just wanted them to know that I would send one of the boys to walk you and make sure you are ok,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just horrible to think there are people out there that think it is ok - even as a hoax to scare women, and I think a lot of men get categorised into that men aren't safe, which isn't very fair.\n\n\"I just wanted to show that there are men out there that will help and aren't doing bad things.\"\n\nBen makes sure they all wear their red football tops and posted their faces on social media so they were easily identifiable to women who wanted a chaperone.\n\n\"My biggest worry was falling asleep and missing a text from someone, that would have been the worst thing in the world - to wake up and having a text from someone, not knowing if they got home safe of not,\" he said.\n\nBen posted details of the chaperoning initiative on social media\n\nBen's friend, Mia, said having members of the team available to walk her home made the \"world of difference\" and made her feel much more comfortable.\n\n\"It shouldn't be a thing where you have to have lads chaperone you but you don't really have a choice,\" she added.\n\nThe football team were contacted by around 30 women\n\nRyan Smith, who was one of the chaperones, said he was \"buzzing\" to have been able to help.\n\n\"I just remember this one girl who kept apologising for wasting our time,\" said Ryan.\n\n\"But when you put it down to basics, it's a 15 minute walk home and she felt so scared and then was so embarrassed about that and it is crazy to think that someone has to do that.\n\nIt's an initiative which Cardiff University has welcomed, adding it was \"proud\" of the way the student community responded to the hoax.\n\nFor the football team, chaperoning was not the first time they have focused on student wellbeing.\n\nBen and the team's vice president, Jared Evitts, have also been working to encourage men to talk about mental health throughout the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"We wanted to provide something positive in a time where things were pretty bleak, it was a pretty dark time for all of us,\" Ben said.\n\nThe pair started a podcast during lockdown talking about mental health in sport.\n\nBen and Jared want their teammates to be able to talk about mental health issues\n\n\"The lads opened up and we just wanted to keep that conversation going,\" Jared, a third year student, added.\n\n\"It was the first time the boys were speaking to each other openly, we just thought we would be silly to leave this.\n\n\"All the boys got involved and then when the athletics union got in touch to ask us to talk about mental health in sport, and with us unable to play and we weren't able to see each other, we thought what's a way that we can kind of help.\n\n\"We hope that it isn't going to just make a difference to the boys now but also those joining in the future.\n\n\"But we have to realise that this needs to be happening for all sports though not just football and the laddish culture needs to change.\n\n\"Covid has meant we have more time, but seeing the whole committee open up and share their experiences shows how much this is needed.\n\n\"Societies can have an impact and alleviate the pressures on services and that's what we are showing, that we can support each other.\"\n\nBen has opened up about the mental health issues he has faced and hopes it helps others to do the same\n\nBen and Jared say they hope they can help change the perception people have of university football societies and the culture.\n\n\"It's overwhelming really, knowing that this could potentially be the start of better things and people focusing on mental health,\" Ben added.\n\n\"I mean I have always had my own mental health problems within the sport, but have never opened up and just to be in this position and potentially be a role model is incredible.\"", "The Government of Jersey granted 41 licences to French fishing boats on Friday\n\nA French government threat to cut off Jersey's electricity over a post-Brexit fishing dispute was \"clearly unacceptable and disproportionate\", the UK government has said.\n\nFrench Maritime Minister Annick Girardin threatened \"retaliatory measures\" over the new licensing regime for fishing in Jersey's waters.\n\nAbout 95% of the island's electricity comes from France via undersea cables.\n\nA UK government spokesman said they were working with the EU and Jersey.\n\n\"To threaten Jersey like this is clearly unacceptable and disproportionate,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"We are working closely with the EU and Jersey on fisheries access provisions following the end of the transition period so trust the French will use the mechanisms of our new treaty to solve problems.\"\n\nThe row emerged over a new licensing system for French fishing vessels.\n\nThe system was introduced by the Government of Jersey under the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA).\n\nJersey issued 41 licences for access to its waters on Friday when an interim agreement came to an end.\n\nThe Jersey government said the permits must \"correspond to the previous activity a vessel has carried out in Jersey waters\" under the terms of the TCA and its new system was \"in line with the data submitted by the French and EU authorities\".\n\nA spokeswoman said it took French complaints over the terms of the licensing agreement \"very seriously\" and would respond, but said it had acted in \"good faith\" setting up the regime.\n\n\"The government remains committed to the sustainable management of Jersey waters for the benefit of this and future generations,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ian Gorst, External Relations Minister for the Government of Jersey, argued there was no justification for such severe measures.\n\n\"This is not the first threat that the French have made to either Jersey or the United Kingdom since we are into this new deal,\" he said.\n\n\"It would seem disproportionate to cut off electricity for the sake of needing to provide extra details so that we can refine the licences.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, he explained there was \"no time limit\" for the French fishing industry or government to provide evidence of previous activity in Jersey waters and he wanted to \"heal this relationship\".\n\n\"If French fishermen or the authorities have further evidence they would like to submit, we will update the licences to reflect that evidence.\"\n\nFrench authorities said \"new technical measures\" for fishing off the Channel Islands had not been communicated to the EU, rendering them \"null and void\".\n\nRepresentatives from Normandy have closed their office in St Helier in protest of \"inexplicable conditions\" in the new scheme, which had been introduced \"against all expectations\".\n\nThese include caps on the number of fishing days for different vessels, restrictions on gear and the closure of fishing areas.\n\nThe UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the self-governing Crown Dependency is \"responsible for its own territorial waters\".\n\nFollow BBC Jersey on Twitter and Facebook. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The entire Indian delegation in the UK for G7 talks must self-isolate after two Covid cases were detected.\n\nIndia's foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar pulled out of face-to-face talks, saying he was \"aware of exposure to possible Covid positive cases\".\n\nHe met Home Secretary Priti Patel in person on Tuesday but joined the rest of the meetings virtually.\n\nIndia is not in the G7 group of nations but delegates from the country were invited as guests.\n\nThe two cases were picked up by tests in advance and none of the party had attended the meeting venue, the Press Association said. Mr Jaishankar has not tested positive.\n\nIndia is currently on the UK's red list meaning travel from there is banned, but some jobs are exempt including representatives of a foreign country.\n\nThere are also exemptions to the self-isolation rule \"if it is confirmed that you are travelling to the UK for official business that cannot be undertaken while self-isolating\", according to the government's rules.\n\nIndia's foreign minister, right, also spoke with the US delegation earlier this week\n\nThe G7 group - the world's seven largest so-called advanced economies - is made up of the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US.\n\nThe official summit of G7 leaders is taking place in Cornwall next month, but ministers are currently in the UK for talks.\n\nThe talks this week were the first face-to-face meetings the G7 powers have had in more than two years.\n\nOn Tuesday, Home Secretary Ms Patel met Mr Jaishankar and tweeted a picture of them wearing masks as they handled folders, saying it was \"a pleasure\" to welcome him as new trade and investment deals were signed.\n\nIt is understood that because strict social distancing was maintained, Public Health England decided those in the meetings did not need to self-isolate.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Priti Patel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 senior UK diplomat said they \"deeply\" regretted that Mr Jaishankar could not attend in person.\n\n\"[He] will now attend virtually, but this is exactly why we have put in place strict Covid protocols and daily testing,\" the diplomat added.\n\nThe meeting on Wednesday was between foreign ministers, who were greeted by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab with elbow and fist bumps in the courtyard of Lancaster House in London.\n\nMr Raab greets his South Korean counterpart at the G7 foreign ministers meeting\n\nThey then went to the summit room where the ministers were separated from one another by clear screens in order to minimise any risk from coronavirus.\n\nThey discussed new ways to ensure fairer access to vaccine stockpiles and increase support for the global vaccine distribution scheme known as Covax.\n\nAlso on the agenda on Wednesday was media freedom, arbitrary detention and girls' education.\n\nOn the news that positive cases had been found among the India delegation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said there were questions that needed to be raised \"about how this happened\".\n\n\"It is a reminder of how vigilant we need to be about our borders,\" he said, adding: \"Let's get to the bottom of how this happened - we cannot have a repeat.\"\n\nAsked whether holding the G7 meeting in person was a mistake because of the risk of Covid variants, Boris Johnson said it was \"very important to try to continue as much business as you can as a government\".\n\n\"As I understand it, what has happened is the individuals concerned are all isolating now,\" the prime minister said.\n\n\"I will be seeing the Indian foreign minister later this afternoon but that will be a Zoom exchange.\"\n\nAt the end of their meeting, the ministers issued a lengthy communiqué.\n\nIt contained the group's strongest condemnation yet of China's treatment of the Uighur population in Xinjiang province and what it described as China's \"coercive economic policies\".\n\nAnd it added: \"We affirm the need to take collective action on the most pressing foreign and security challenges. The Covid-19 pandemic has underscored that global challenges require global collaboration.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die\", Dominic Cummings told MPs\n\nThousands of people died needlessly as a result of government mistakes in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Dominic Cummings has said.\n\nThe PM's former top aide said Boris Johnson was \"unfit for the job\", claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also claimed Matt Hancock should have been fired for lying - something denied by the health secretary.\n\n\"Tens of thousands of people died, who didn't need to die,\" Mr Cummings added.\n\nAt a marathon seven-hour evidence session, the former Downing Street insider painted a picture of policy failure, dithering and a government that had no useful plan for handling a pandemic.\n\nHe told MPs: \"The truth is that senior ministers, senior officials, senior advisers like me fell disastrously short of the standards that the public has a right to expect of its government in a crisis like this.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would like to say to all the families of those who died unnecessarily how sorry I am for the mistakes that were made and for my own mistakes at that.\"\n\nMr Cummings - who was forced out of Number 10 at the end of last year after an internal power struggle - said those on the front line of the pandemic were like \"lions\" being \"led by donkeys\".\n\nBut he claimed Mr Johnson had told him he liked to be surrounded by \"chaos\" in Downing Street, because it meant everyone had to look to the PM \"to see who is in charge\".\n\nAsked if he thought Mr Johnson was a \"fit and proper person\" to get the UK through the pandemic, Mr Cummings replied: \"No.\"\n\nMr Johnson hit back at some of his former aide's allegations at Prime Minister's Questions, insisting that the government's priority had always been to \"save lives\".\n\nBut Mr Cummings said that despite nearly losing his own life to Covid, the PM thought the first national lockdown, on 23 March last year, had been a mistake - and he was against a so-called \"circuit breaker\" lockdown in autumn 2020 for economic reasons, despite scientific advice.\n\nAsked on what basis the PM had taken this decision, Mr Cummings said: \"He wasn't taking any advice, he was just taking his own decision that he was going to ignore the advice.\"\n\nHe added: \"The cabinet wasn't involved or asked.\"\n\nAsked if the prime minister had said he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" than take the country into a third lockdown, as reported by the BBC, Mr Cummings said: \"I heard that in the prime minister's study.\"\n\nThe former adviser reserved his most savage criticism for Matt Hancock, claiming the health secretary should have been fired for \"15 to 20\" different things - accusing him of \"criminal, disgraceful behaviour that caused serious harm\".\n\nHe said he had repeatedly called on Mr Johnson to sack Mr Hancock, calling him \"completely incapable of doing the job\".\n\nThe prime minister had been furious when he came back to work after recovering from coronavirus to find that untested patients had been discharged to care homes in England, thereby allowing the virus to spread, Mr Cummings claimed.\n\nBoth he and the PM had been told \"categorically in March that people will be tested before they went back to care homes\".\n\nSubsequent government claims about putting a \"shield\" around care homes were \"complete nonsense\", he said.\n\nMr Cummings also attacked Mr Hancock over PPE shortages, and accused him of \"disgraceful behaviour\" in setting a \"stupid\" target of offering 100,000 Covid tests a day, which he said had disrupted wider work to establish the test and trace system.\n\nCommittee chairman Greg Clark said Mr Cummings must provide written evidence to back up his claims about Mr Hancock, who will be quizzed by the MPs in two weeks' time.\n\nMr Hancock said he had not seen Mr Cummings' evidence in full adding \"instead I've been dealing with getting the vaccination rollout going, especially to over-30s, and saving lives\".\n\nHowever he added that he would have \"more to say\" when he gives a statement to the House of Commons on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"I haven't seen the performance today in full\"\n\nEarlier, a spokesman for Mr Hancock said: \"We absolutely reject Mr Cummings' claims about the health secretary.\n\n\"The health secretary will continue to work closely with the prime minister to deliver the vaccine rollout, tackle the risks posed by variants and support the NHS and social care sector to recover from this pandemic.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the \"very grave allegations\" appeared to be \"well-founded\" and the health secretary \"needs to give us an explanation\" if the country is to \"maintain confidence in him\".\n\nIn other explosive claims, Mr Cummings said:\n\nMr Cummings was questioned by the Health and Science select committees, for their inquiry into \"lessons learnt\" on the government's response to the pandemic.\n\nBefore the hearing began, he tweeted a picture of a whiteboard on which the government's \"plan B\" for the first wave of the virus was sketched out.\n\nDominic Cummings has tweeted a series of whiteboard images relating to Covid meetings\n\nHe told the MPs the original plan had been for limited intervention, with the hope of achieving \"herd immunity\", and he was \"completely baffled\" by Downing Street's denial of this.\n\nHe said the herd immunity strategy was abandoned when the scale of the death toll that would result from it became clear.\n\nMr Cummings was frank about some of his own failings - and admitted that his defence of a trip to County Durham during the first lockdown had \"undermined public confidence\".\n\nBut he said he had made the journey due to threats against his family - and he defended his claim that he had driven his family to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight, saying the story was too \"weird\" to have been made up.\n\nHe also gave his version of his departure from Downing Street, saying his relationship with Mr Johnson had broken down after the second national lockdown in October.\n\n\"The fact that his girlfriend (Carrie Symonds) also wanted rid of me was relevant but not the heart of the problem,\" he told MPs.\n\nHe said he regarded Mr Johnson as \"unfit for the job\" and that he had been \"trying to create a structure around him (the PM) to try and stop what I thought were extremely bad decisions and push other things through against his wishes\".\n\nHe also described how a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee on 12 March had been disrupted by US President Donald Trump wanting to start a \"bombing campaign\" against Iraq.\n\nAt the same time, he added, Mr Johnson's partner Carrie Symonds was \"going crackers\" about a \"completely trivial\" story in the Times regarding the dog she co-owned with the prime minister.\n\nResponding to Mr Cummings' evidence, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"Boris Johnson's casual disregard for the safety of the British people has had fatal consequences.\n\n\"From care homes to borders, repeatedly locking down too late and failing to learn from his mistakes, the PM's decisions and failures resulted in tens of thousands of avoidable deaths.\"\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson told MPs: \"The handling of this pandemic has been one of the most difficult things this country has had to do for a very long time and none of the decisions have been easy,\" he said.\n\n\"To go into a lockdown is a traumatic thing for a country, to deal with a pandemic on this scale has been appallingly difficult, and we have at every stage tried to minimise loss of life, to save lives, to protect the NHS and we have followed the best scientific advice that we can.\"\n\nHe added that he had not seen Mr Cummings' evidence to the select committee.\n\nConservative MP Tobias Ellwood defended the prime minister, saying that ministers should be free to speak their minds and even ask \"silly questions\" without \"fear that one day they may be quoted or misquoted back to you\".\n\n\"That completely diminishes the competence of the No 10 machine,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nMore than 127,000 people diagnosed with coronavirus have died in the UK since the start of the pandemic.", "Gina Ingles, 34, and four-year-old Milo Ingles-Bailey died, while her partner Toby Jarrett, 28, suffered serious burns\n\nTwo men have been found guilty of murder after a mother and her four-year-old son died in a house fire that was started after a drugs-debt row.\n\nGina Ingles, 34, and her son Milo Ingles-Bailey died in July 2018 at their Eastbourne home. Ms Ingles' partner Toby Jarrett was also injured.\n\nJacob Barnard and Andrew Milne have been convicted at Lewes Crown Court of their murder and attempted murder.\n\nJohn Tabakis was found guilty of perverting the course of justice.\n\nBarnard and Milne are due to be sentenced on Friday. Judge Mrs Justice Whipple said they \"will be facing lengthy terms\" in prison.\n\nTabakis was released on bail to be sentenced at a later date.\n\nJacob Barnard (left) and Andrew Milne were found guilty of the murder of Ms Ingles and four-year-old Milo\n\nFire investigators concluded the blaze had been started deliberately close to the front door, and outside the house a petrol can and lighter were found.\n\nDNA matching Barnard was found on the lighter, and DNA matching Milne was found on the petrol can, the court was told.\n\nCCTV images showed two men walking away from scene of the fire just before 01.00 BST on 10 July 2018.\n\nBarnard dealt in second-hand cars, buying them in the UK and selling them in Portugal. He also dealt in drugs.\n\nMilne worked as a debt collector for Barnard, the court heard. He was arrested in Portugal.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Jarrett owed money to a local drug dealer, who in turn owed money to Barnard.\n\nAt the time firefighters described the house fire as \"ferocious\"\n\nMr Jarrett had woken at about 01:30 BST to find the house he shared with Ms Ingles in Croxden Way, Eastbourne, filled with smoke.\n\nHe fell from the bedroom window, and was seriously injured and suffered from extensive burns, while Ms Ingles went to get Milo from another room.\n\nThe remains of Ms Ingles and Milo were found in her bedroom under a window several days later, together with the body of a dog, the jury was told.\n\nMobile phone data showed Barnard and Milne exchanged calls the day before the fire. Barnard had also exchanged calls with Tabakis.\n\nA Mercecdes ML270 4x4 car, owned by Barnard, was picked up on number plate recognition systems driving into Eastbourne before the fire, and then leaving the town, after the time of the blaze.\n\nThe same car was then taken by Tabakis on a ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe, and on to Portugal.\n\nHe had been told by Barnard to \"get the vehicle out of the country as quickly as possible as it had been involved in some criminal activity\", the prosecution told the jury.\n\nBarnard, 32, who lived in Portugal, and Milne, 42, from Hastings, were found guilty of murdering Ms Ingles and Milo, and the attempted murder of Toby Jarrett.\n\nThe jury also found Milne guilty of being in possession of a prohibited weapon.\n\nTabakis, 31, from Hastings, was convicted of one charge of intent to pervert the course of justice.\n\nPolice said the fire was an attack on a \"defenceless family\" in the middle of the night\n\nSenior Investigating Officer, Gordon Denslow from Sussex Police, said the investigation had been \"very long and very complex\".\n\n\"At no point have Barnard or Milne accepted responsibility for their actions in the early hours of 10 July 2018, or expressed any remorse or regret.\n\n\"Instead, their unfounded denials in the face of compelling evidence have meant that Gina's and Milo's family have had to endure a long and painful wait to find out what really happened that night, and why.\"\n\nHe said: \"This was a carefully planned, cowardly, but horrific attack carried out by Barnard and Milne in the middle of the night against a defenceless family.\n\n\"Tabakis then knowingly tried to help them get away with their crimes by driving the car they used during the attack to Portugal just hours afterwards.\"\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 daughter of a man who died with Covid-19 says if he had been tested when he was ready to be discharged from hospital, he would \"probably still be alive today\".\n\nBernard Kirton died on 7 April last year. His daughter Fiona is a member of he Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, which is calling for an urgent inquiry into the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but spoke to the BBC in a personal capacity.\n\nShe said her father was fit for discharge after going into hospital following a fall - but the care home they found for him would only accept him if he had a Covid test.\n\nThe hospital refused to do this, she said, as he had no symptoms, later telling her this was a Public Health England decision.\n\nTwo weeks after this, another care home was found - but four hours later, he tested positive for coronavirus.\n\n\"It wasn't just something that was missed,\" she said. \"He caught it in the ward in a time period when he didn't need to be there, because the hospital wouldn't test him.\n\n\"That care home that insisted on testing did not have any cases throughout the pandemic. Had he been tested...he would probably still be alive today.\"\n\nShe said she had been \"relieved\" to hear Dominic Cummings speak yesterday on care homes and testing as he confirmed what she had suspected.\n\nShe added: \"I can only thank Dominic Cummings, who I didn’t have a very high opinion of, for exposing what has gone on.\"", "Air France has cancelled its flights between Paris and Moscow on Thursday and Friday\n\nRussia has denied entry to two European airlines because they planned to avoid flying over Belarus to get to Moscow.\n\nAir France and Austrian Airlines have both had to cancel services after their flight plans were rejected by Russia.\n\nEU leaders asked European carriers to avoid Belarusian airspace this week after a Ryanair plane was forced to divert and land in Minsk on Sunday.\n\nBelarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend were then arrested.\n\nThe UN's civil aviation agency has said it will launch a \"fact-finding\" investigation into Belarus's actions, and whether there had been any breach of international aviation law.\n\nRussia is a strong ally of Belarus and President Vladimir Putin is set to discuss the unfolding crisis with Belarus's leader of 26 years, Alexander Lukashenko, in the Russian resort of Sochi on Friday.\n\nThe decision to refuse entry to specific flights is the first move from the Kremlin over the diplomatic conflict. Other flights involving German carrier Lufthansa and Polish airline Lot have arrived as scheduled. Russia is yet to comment on the action it is taking.\n\nThe European Union and UK have banned Belarusian airlines from flying over their territories, and have said more sanctions are to come, including against Mr Lukashenko and other senior officials. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says there are plans \"on the table\" to target key economic sectors.\n\nThe European airspace ban has forced Belarusian carrier Belavia to cancel 12 of its routes until 30 October, according to Reuters. The routes affected are Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Hanover, Kaliningrad, Milan, Munich, Rome, Vienna and Warsaw.\n\nBelarus will lose out on millions of dollars a year in over-flight fees as a result of European airlines avoiding Belarusian airspace.\n\nRussia's move in support of Mr Lukashenko has led to the cancellation of at least four Air France flights between Paris and Moscow. Some passengers were rebooked on Russian carrier Aeroflot.\n\nTwo Austrian Airlines flights have been grounded - one passenger plane travelling from Vienna to Moscow, and a cargo plane travelling from Nanjing in China to Vienna.\n\nAustria's foreign ministry said Russia's actions were \"absolutely incomprehensible\". The French ministry of transport told AFP news agency that \"the principle of reciprocity... must be respected\".\n\nTracking website Flightradar24 showed little activity in the skies over Belarus on Thursday, except for Belarusian and Russian airlines.\n\nBelavia flight 869 from Minsk to Barcelona was kept in a holding pattern before returning to Minsk on Wednesday\n\nOn Wednesday, the website showed a Minsk to Barcelona flight, operated by the Belarusian airline Belavia, in a long holding pattern at the border with Poland, which has banned Belarusian flights from its airspace. The plane eventually returned to Minsk. The BBC has contacted Belavia for clarification on why it turned back.\n\nOn Sunday, Ryanair Flight 4978 was travelling from Athens to Vilnius in Lithuania, when it was forcibly diverted to Minsk. A fighter jet was scrambled to tail the plane and ensure it changed course.\n\nAboard was Mr Protasevich, 26, who lives in exile in Lithuania, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, 23, an international law student. They were arrested as passengers disembarked.\n\nMr Protasevich was put on the Belarus terrorist list last year, and faces serious charges.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Protasevich was able to see his lawyer for the first time.\n\n\"All is well, he is vigorous, positive and cheerful, there is nothing to worry about,\" Inesa Alenskaya was quoted as saying by the Belorusskiye Novosti website, adding she could not give any more information.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia's foreign ministry says Ms Sapega is accused of breaking Belarusian law in August and September of 2020. But it is unclear what these crimes are.\n\nVideos were released showing the pair confessing to crimes, but it is likely they were speaking under duress.\n\nThe forced landing of the plane and their arrest caused international outrage.\n\n\"It was a serious attack on the rules governing civil aviation... This action also represents a serious attack on media freedom,\" a statement by the G7 nations of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US 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 U.S. Mission to the UN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 U.S. Mission to the UN\n\nWhere is Belarus? It has its ally Russia to the east and Ukraine to the south. To the north and west lie EU and Nato members Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.\n\nWhy does it matter? Like Ukraine, this nation of 9.5 million is caught in rivalry between the West and Russia. President Lukashenko has been nicknamed \"Europe's last dictator\".\n\nWhat's going on there? There is a huge opposition movement demanding new, democratic leadership and economic reform. The opposition movement and Western governments say Mr Lukashenko rigged the 9 August election. Officially he won by a landslide. A huge police crackdown has curbed street protests and sent opposition leaders to prison or into exile.", "Health teams have been carrying out surge testing in Dewsbury, as well as other towns where the Indian variant is spreading\n\nUp to three quarters of new UK Covid cases could be of the Indian variant, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nPublic Health England data shows cases of the variant have risen by 3,535 to 6,959 since last week.\n\nMr Hancock told a Downing Street briefing that the government had always expected cases to rise as restrictions were eased.\n\nBut he said it was \"critical\" to monitor the link between cases and hospitalisations.\n\nOn Thursday, a further 3,542 coronavirus cases and 10 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported in the UK.\n\nIt is the second day in a row the number of new Covid cases has topped 3,000 - the first time infections have reached this level since mid-April.\n\nOver the last seven days, cases are up 20.5% compared with the week before.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hancock told the briefing on Thursday: \"The latest estimates are that more than half and potentially as many as three-quarters of all new cases are now of this variant.\n\n\"As we set out our roadmap we always expected cases to rise - we must remain vigilant.\"\n\nMr Hancock said the increase in cases was still focused in hotspots.\n\nThe PHE data found the worst-affected areas continue to be Bolton, Bedford, and Blackburn with Darwen, which have seen 1,354, 366 and 361 confirmed cases, respectively.\n\nPHE added, however, that there are small numbers of cases of the variant in most parts of the country.\n\nBut the health secretary said there were \"early signs\" rates in Bolton are starting to \"cap out\".\n\nIf surge testing and vaccinations are effective against the Indian variant in Bolton, this could be used as a model to prevent local lockdowns, he said.\n\nMr Hancock said vaccines were \"severing the link between cases and hospitalisations and deaths from coronavirus\".\n\nBut he urged people to get both doses, saying that of the 49 people in hospital with Covid in Bolton only five had received two vaccinations.\n\nDr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, told the briefing that many of the outbreaks were centred on \"focal points\", such as community centres, schools or faith buildings.\n\nShe added: \"The cases actually do look as though they are starting to plateau out but the spill-over into community transmission in local areas is an important one.\"\n\nShe said it was \"on the cusp at the moment\" over whether rising cases reflected the variant taking off or whether there was a rise because more cases were being hunted for and detected by public health experts.\n\nIncreasing cases numbers were not \"generally translating into increased cases of hospitalisation and definitely not into deaths,\" she said.\n\n\"So the key message there is... if we can hold it while the vaccination programme gets rolled out, we stand a much better chance of getting through this session.\"\n\nThe Indian variant is clearly becoming dominant in the UK, replacing the Kent variant that caused the deadly winter surge.\n\nThe figures quoted by the health secretary are skewed by the fact that the testing of positive cases for variants is heavily targeted towards areas where the variant is known to be spreading.\n\nThe bigger question, though, is to what extent the rise of this variant matters.\n\nOverall, cases are going up - but this was expected at this stage of the easing because of the green light for indoor mixing.\n\nA more infectious variant - as this one seems to be - will put even more upward pressure on infections.\n\nSo it comes down to two things - how much more infectious it is, and to what extent the vaccination programme has weakened the link between cases and hospitalisations - given over half of adults are still waiting for their second dose and a quarter have not had their first.\n\nA very rapid surge in infections has the potential to cause real problems as it will allow the virus to find those that are still at risk.\n\nThere are plenty of reasons to hope that will not happen given how well advanced the vaccine programme is, how low infection levels are (we have one of lowest rates in Europe) and the arrival of warmer weather which should mean more time outdoors.\n\nBut as always with this virus nothing can be taken for granted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says “we don't see anything currently” to stop England unlocking from Covid rules on 21 June, but \"we may need to wait\"\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said England \"may need to wait\" for the lifting of all Covid restrictions, which is currently planned for 21 June.\n\nThe PM said he saw nothing \"currently in the data\" to suggest the government would have to delay unlocking.\n\nBut he added there were signs of an increase in the number of cases of the Indian variant.\n\nMr Johnson said it was important to understand to what extent the vaccine programme \"interrupts the link\" between infection, hospitalisation, serious illness and death.\n\nGovernment scientists had always made clear that infection levels would increase as restrictions eased, particularly the resumption of indoor mixing.\n\nBut epidemiologist Prof Neil Ferguson, whose modelling was crucial to the decision to go into the first lockdown in March 2020, said the Indian variant meant the reopening of society was now \"in the balance\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The key issue as to whether we can go forward is: will the surge caused by the Indian variant... be more than has been already planned into the relaxation measures?\"\n\nOn 21 June, the government hopes to move to the final stage of its roadmap for lifting lockdown.\n\nStep four would see all legal limits on social contact removed, nightclubs would reopen, and restrictions on large events and performances would be lifted.\n\nScientists advising the government are currently studying all relevant data since the last set of lockdown relaxations on 17 May.", "Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt in 2016\n\nBrad Pitt has been granted joint custody of his children with Angelina Jolie following a lengthy court battle.\n\nMs Jolie filed for divorce in 2016 and the pair have since been engaged in a custody battle largely shielded from public view.\n\nA private judge hired to oversee the case, John Ouderkirk, ruled in Mr Pitt's favour.\n\nThe ruling would \"significantly increase\" his time with the children, a source told the Press Association.\n\nMr Pitt, 57, and Ms Jolie, 45, are parents to Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14 and 12-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.\n\nThe oldest, 19-year-old Maddox, is not subject to the custody decision.\n\nThe ruling was a \"tentative decision\" and Ms Jolie is continuing her legal fight, a source told the Page Six website.\n\nMs Jolie had not objected to joint custody but there were \"other issues of concern\", it reported.\n\nThe trial lasted for several months and there were a large number of witnesses, experts and therapists, another source said.\n\nMs Jolie has criticised the judge's decision not to allow their children to testify in custody hearings.\n\nBrad and Angelina pictured with their children in November 2011\n\nMs Jolie cited \"irreconcilable differences\" when she filed to end the marriage, and the pair became embroiled in a bitter child custody battle in the months following the announcement.\n\nMr Pitt was investigated for possible child abuse after losing his temper in front of some of the children, but was later cleared of the allegations.\n\nThe couple were known as \"Brangelina\" by fans and met on the set of the 2005 film Mr and Mrs Smith.\n\nThe marriage was Mr Pitt's second - he had previously wed Friends star Jennifer Aniston - and Ms Jolie's third after actors Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt through the years\n\nSpeaking to Vogue last year, Ms Jolie said she left Mr Pitt for the \"wellbeing\" of her family.\n\n\"It was the right decision,\" Ms Jolie said. \"I continue to focus on their healing.\"\n\nSpeaking to GQ in 2017, Mr Pitt spoke about his decision to quit drinking and smoking marijuana.\n\n\"For me every misstep has been a step toward epiphany, understanding, some kind of joy,\" he said.", "The firm behind HS2 was \"dishonest and misleading\" in its handling of a compensation claim from a member of the public who had to sell their home to make way for the line, a report claims.\n\nHS2 also \"failed to properly engage\" with the complainant leading to a breakdown in trust, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman said.\n\nHS2 has previously been accused of poor communication with communities.\n\nThe rail firm said it accepted the findings but had changed its practices.\n\n\"This report focuses on historic issues relating to an individual property case from 2017,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"In the four years since this review commenced there have been significant changes to HS2 Ltd, our responsiveness, and the complaints handling approach.\"\n\nCompulsory land purchases have been necessary to make way for High Speed Two, which will link London with the West Midlands from 2026.\n\nBut campaign groups have long complained that the operating company does not communicate well enough with those affected, or provide compensation fast enough.\n\nIn its second investigation of the problem, the Ombudsman said HS2 failed to follow its own processes when negotiating compensation claims for their family home with the complainant.\n\nThe rail firm also failed to respond \"fully and promptly\" to questions the complainant had, sometimes giving false information, which caused \"severe worry\".\n\n\"HS2's repeated maladministration had a devastating impact on the complainant and their family,\" said Rob Behrens, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that communication problems remain at HS2... [It] must properly engage with those affected by the new line, be open and transparent and follow the proper process to make sure this never happens again.\"\n\nA 2015 report by the Ombudsman found HS2 failed to engage appropriately with a community near Lichfield when consulting about the proposals for the route which now runs through their village.\n\nAt the time it called on HS2 to become more customer focused, open and accountable when dealing with complaints.\n\nThe Country Land and Business Association, which represents 28,000 landowners, land managers and rural businesses in England and Wales, said an independent body was needed to handle HS2 complaints.\n\nChief surveyor Andrew Shirley said: \"While the scale of the infrastructure scheme often grabs the headlines, too little attention is paid to those whose homes and livelihoods are threatened by the scheme - the financial impact and prolonged emotional pressure of which is unimaginable.\"\n\nHe added: \"One can never just hope that organisations such as HS2 will simply do the right thing - you need robust measures in place to ensure they do.\"\n\nA spokesman for HS2 said it had made numerous improvements to its complaints handling processes, including recruiting a Community Engagement and Stakeholder Team of more than 100 staff and establishing a Helpdesk Team to answer queries from the public every day of the year.\n\nHe added: \"We understand that residents did not choose to live along the line of the route and that for many the process of having their homes acquired will be distressing.\n\n\"HS2 Ltd endeavour to treat every land and property case with respect and compassion, while also recognising our obligations to spend taxpayers money appropriately when agreeing compensation.\"", "Stephen Hawking (front row, second from left) during his student days at Oxford University\n\nProf Stephen Hawking's scientific papers and personal possessions are to be saved for the nation.\n\nThe objects include childhood letters, scripts from his TV appearances and Prof Hawking's ground-breaking research into black holes.\n\nThe 10,000-page archive will be kept in perpetuity at Cambridge University library.\n\nHis office will be reconstructed in the Science Museum next year and selected highlights will go on display.\n\nProf Hawking's son, Tim, said that the family was delighted that his body of work and memories of his life were being safeguarded for future generations.\n\n\"Our father would be really pleased,\" he said. \"It was really important during his lifetime that science be opened up to the widest possible number of people and be democratized and not be the preserve of the elite few.\"\n\nThe collection encompasses Prof Hawking's personal and professional life. Particularly touching is a letter by Hawking to his father on family-headed notepaper that was written when the future professor was six years old.\n\nIn child-like lettering, with several crossings out, the young Stephen tells his father a story about pirates loading treasure. He signs off with hugs and kisses.\n\nTim Hawking saw the note for the first time only recently.\n\n\"I would write my dad letters along those lines,\" he reminisces fondly. \"It was quite nice to see it being passed along the generations and appreciating that he had a loving relationship with his dad, as I did when I was (that) age. It shows a tenderness in his relationship with his father which I hadn't fully understood until now.\"\n\nA letter written by the six-year-old Stephen relates a story about pirates\n\nProf Hawking was a prolific letter writer. He communicated with popes, US presidents and Nobel laureates.\n\nThe letters, however, show his handwriting deteriorating after a diagnosis of motor neurone disease in 1963. Its progression is captured by the increasingly misshapen letters and inkblots on the page.\n\nProf Hawking made an immense contribution to science. But his status as the world's most famous scientist was partly because of his appearances on popular TV programmes such as Star Trek and Big Bang Theory. Among the archive is Hawking's personal script from his first appearance on the Simpsons, in 1999.\n\nIn the episode, Prof Hawking and Homer Simpson go to Moe's Tavern for a drink. Prof Hawking becomes intrigued by Homer's theory of a \"doughnut-shaped Universe\" and wonders if he can steal it. Homer imitates him, in an attempt to make him pay the bar bill and gets punched by a boxing glove on a spring, concealed in Prof Hawking's wheelchair.\n\nDr Jessica Gardner, who is Cambridge University's director of library services said the scripts reflect an important aspect of Prof Hawking's contribution to the communication of science.\n\nThe script of Prof Hawking's first appearance on the Simpsons is included in the archive\n\n\"He had an enormous sense of humour. He was willing to be in the Simpsons, to let fun be taken, if what that did was to help communicate science and help people get excited about it,\" she explained.\n\nTo have these scripts shows the celebrity part of his life, but also that he was determined to break down the barriers to science.\"\n\nThe star attraction for historians will be Prof Hawking's research papers and correspondence with his collaborators. They are a record of how his unique mind worked, cataloguing corrections and changes in his ideas over time.\n\nProf Paul Shellard, who worked with him at Cambridge University, said that the collection of papers had a profound influence on our understanding of space-time and the Universe.\n\n\"It's a wonderful thing that historians of science can get an idea of how Stephen thought about these problems,\" Prof Shellard explained. \"He saw further than others and I hope that (his) intuition and way of thinking will come through in the archive and be remembered in perpetuity.\"\n\nA section from Prof Hawking's breakthrough paper, along with a hand written equation. They suggested that black holes were not completely black\n\nThe collection contains a glowing letter, from Prof Hawking's PhD supervisor, to the 22-year-old budding researcher's dad, Frank.\n\n\"It is such a pleasure to supervise him,\" writes Prof Denis Sciama, a noted physicist at the time who is credited as a father of modern cosmology. \"Indeed, I'm at a stage... that I am learning from him\".\n\nAccompanying a seminal 1974 scientific paper, on how black holes are not completely black, is a cover letter to the editor of one of the world's leading scientific journals, Nature. In it we see a confident, if not downright cocky young man, in little doubt about the importance of his research paper.\n\nA cover letter from the confident young Hawking to the editor of one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world\n\nThe contents of Prof Hawking's office, including his custom-built wheelchairs, communications equipment, and office furniture, will be transferred to the Science Museum. According to the museum's director, Sir Ian Blatchford, although rooms of decorative or artistic interest are often kept for posterity, spaces relevant to scientific discovery are rarely saved.\n\n\"By preserving Hawking's office, future generations will be able to delve deep into the world of a leading theoretical physicist who defied the laws of medicine to rewrite the laws of physics and touch the heart of millions,\" Sir Ian said.\n\n\"These remarkable items might even inspire the next Hawking to wonder about the world around us.\"\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\nVaccine centres in Wales have provided a \"safe and efficient\" environment for the roll-out of Covid-19 jabs, an inspection report has found.\n\nIt found \"dedicated, hard-working staff\" and only asked for minor improvements in some areas.\n\nThe watchdog's report comes as the number of people to have had a dose of the jab in Wales surpassed two million.\n\nThis month, Wales has also become the best in the world, for sizeable countries, for the percentage of first doses given to its total population.\n\nAcross Wales community halls, sports centres, a wedding venue and an indoor bowls centre were turned into vaccination centres, after jabs were approved.\n\nMilitary medics, NHS staff and volunteers have administered thousands of doses of the vaccine every day at the sites, alongside GP surgeries and pharmacies.\n\nHowever the health watchdog had been concerned the temporary nature of the centres, teamed with large numbers of people heading through them, could lead to potential safety risks.\n\nSecond doses of the vaccine being given in Caerphilly county\n\nAfter inspecting eight sites in March, HIW found that despite the \"unique environments\", \"appropriate arrangements\" had been put in place by health boards.\n\nSites visited included the indoor bowls centre in Mountain Ash, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, and the Ysbyty Enfys temporary hospitals in Bangor, Gwynedd, and on Deeside.\n\nMore than 500 people who attended vaccination appointments were surveyed, with most stating they had an \"excellent\" experience, the report said.\n\nThe watchdog recommended a number of improvements, including better compliance with fire safety and evacuation procedures, and more regular checking of resuscitation equipment.\n\nHowever health boards were \"prompt and effective\" at resolving these issues, the report added.\n\nAlun Jones, the interim chief executive of HIW, told BBC Wales that \"on the balance of evidence\" patients were \"receiving safe and efficient care during their visits to mass vaccination centres\".\n\n\"The health boards themselves had very effective arrangements in place, overall, to provide oversight of those mass vaccination centres to ensure they were operating safely and efficiently,\" he added.\n\nThe report findings will be used to inform the further use of mass vaccination centres as the current vaccine roll-out continues, and for booster Covid vaccine programmes.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales, Public Health Wales' Dr Gill Richardson said a large take-up of the vaccination \"just makes sure we're in the best position possible to face any new variants that come in\".\n\nShe added: \"We're probably going to be announcing in the autumn there'll be boosters for certain groups, so it's really important that people get their second dose.\"\n\nDr Richardson added that the flu vaccine would have an expanded programme this year, with even more people eligible, including secondary school children.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan has previously not ruled out targeted vaccines in communities if cases of the Indian variant spiked.\n\nWales' Chief Medical Officer Dr Frank Atherton said there were now \"around 57\" confirmed cases of the variant of concern.\n\nIt comes as about 68% of the population in Wales have received a first dose of a vaccine.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) figures show 1,019,230 people have had a second jab - 32.3% of the population.\n\nThe vaccine is now being rolled out to younger people, with almost half of young people aged over 18 or in their 20s having had a first Covid jab, latest figures show.\n\nIn Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan a walk-in centre is being opened at the former Toys 'R' Us store in Cardiff Bay, for people to get their first dose.", "Farmers have raised concerns over competition from larger-scale Australian operators\n\nTrade Minister Greg Hands has said British farmers have nothing to fear from a proposed free trade deal with Australia.\n\nMr Hands told the Commons he gave a \"cast iron guarantee\" that British standards would not be lowered in the search for a deal.\n\nFarmers have warned they could struggle to compete if Australia was given tariff-free access to UK markets.\n\nBut the minister said farmers should \"be positive, not fearful\".\n\nMr Hands also said that beef injected with hormone would not be allowed into the UK.\n\nThe government is hoping to secure a post-Brexit deal with Australia in the next few weeks.\n\nBut National Farmers Union president Minette Batters has warned removing tariffs on meat imports would \"have a massive impact\" on British farms, which would be unable to compete, in terms of scale, with Australia's vast cattle and sheep stations.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said during the Commons debate on Thursday that Labour could not support a \"rushed-through\" deal.\n\n\"Let me make clear at the outset that we support a trade deal with Australia which is designed in British interests, which will create jobs in our economy and increase our exports and growth,\" she said.\n\nMs Thornberry added: \"We cannot support a deal on agricultural tariffs that will cost jobs in our farming communities, undercut our food standards, increase our carbon off-shoring and open the door to the destruction of our farming industry through further lop sided trade deals.\"\n\nMr Hands rejected any suggestion that UK farmers would be disadvantage. \"There will be no compromise on our standards of animal welfare, food safety and the environment. That is in our manifesto commitment.\"\n\nAnother concern of UK farmers is that an Australia deal will be a template for other agreements with countries in Asia, piling more pressure on the sector from cheaper imported goods.\n\nBut Mr Hands said farmers should see an agreement with Australia as opening new markets overseas for their own produce.\n\n\"This will be a great deal for the UK and our farmers will continue to thrive. The agreement is a gateway into the massive CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) free trade area in Asia and Pacific,\" he said.\n\nIt would, he added, open \"doors for our farmers into some of the biggest economics of now and the future\".\n\nThe UK has offered trade deal terms to Australia under which both countries would phase out taxes on imports over 15 years.\n\nWine is one of the biggest imports to the UK from Australian\n\nThe cabinet was reportedly split on what terms to propose, amid concerns UK beef and lamb farmers could be undercut by larger Australian producers. But the dispute was apparently resolved after Boris Johnson pushed for unity.\n\nIn 2019-20, trade in goods and services between Australia and the UK was valued at £20.1bn, and both sides are hoping to expand this amount considerably.\n\nCurrently, metals, wine and machines form the biggest goods exports from Australia to the UK, while Australia's main UK imports are cars, medicines and alcoholic drinks.\n\nTrade in meat between the two countries is small, with 0.15% of all Australian beef exports going to the UK and 14% of sheep meat imports to the UK coming from Australia.", "British subscription site OnlyFans is failing to prevent underage users from selling and appearing in explicit videos, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nUnder-18s have used fake identification to set up accounts, and police say a 14-year-old used a grandmother's passport.\n\nThe UK's most senior police officer for child protection also says children are being \"exploited\" on the platform.\n\nOnlyFans says its age verification systems go over and above regulatory requirements.\n\nThe platform has more than a million \"creators\" who share video clips, photos and messages directly with subscribers for a monthly fee.\n\nIn return for hosting the material, OnlyFans takes a 20% share of all payments.\n\nThere is a range of content on the site but it is best known for pornography, and requires users to be over 18.\n\nOnlyFans was a big winner during the pandemic, exploding in popularity as much of the world was housebound. The social media platform has grown nearly 10-fold since 2019, and now has more than 120 million users.\n\nSome creators have become millionaires from their accounts, yet for most it has been a lifeline or a second income during the pandemic.\n\nBut BBC News has investigated concerns that under-18s are selling explicit videos on the site, despite it being illegal for individuals to post or share indecent images of children.\n\nAs part of our investigation, we found that one 17-year-old from a suburb in the south-east of England had sold videos of herself masturbating and playing with sex toys, while an under-18 participated in graphic videos hosted on an adult account in Nevada, US, in breach of the company's terms and conditions.\n\nWe were also able to set up an account for an underage creator, by using a 26-year-old's identification, showing how the site's age-verification process could be cheated.\n\nOnlyFans says it has now shut down the accounts. But BBC News has also heard from child protection experts across the UK and US, spoken to dozens of police forces and schools, and obtained anonymised extracts from Childline counsellor notes, about underage experiences on OnlyFans. The notes included one girl who told counsellors she had accessed the site when she was just 13.\n\nThese sources told BBC News about a number of serious cases:\n\n\"It is increasingly clear that OnlyFans is being used by children,\" says chief constable Simon Bailey, the UK's child protection lead.\n\n\"The company is not doing enough to put in place the safeguards that prevent children exploiting the opportunity to generate money, but also for children to be exploited.\"\n\nIn a statement, OnlyFans says it could not respond specifically to the anonymous reports we were told about without the account details.\n\nIt says its efforts to stop children accessing its site limits the likelihood of them being exposed to blackmail or exploitation, and if it is notified about these behaviours it takes swift action and disables accounts.\n\nLeah, 17, was able to set up an account using a fake driving licence and sell explicit videos.\n\nShe told her mum Caitlyn about being on OnlyFans, on the way to Tesco's near their home in south-east England in January.\n\nThat week Leah's bank account had been frozen after she received a payment of more than £5,000 from selling explicit videos on the site, Caitlyn says.\n\nCaitlyn says she was as shocked as \"any parent\" would be. \"I don't understand why people are paying so much money for this,\" she told the BBC.\n\nLeah had \"big issues\" growing up and missed a lot of education, Caitlyn says. Naked photographs of her were once shared around school without her consent.\n\nShe told her mum she originally intended to only post pictures of her feet after making money selling them on Snapchat. But this soon escalated to explicit videos of her masturbating and playing with sex toys.\n\nIn tweets advertising her OnlyFans account - some of which include teaser videos - people call her \"beautiful\" and \"sexy\", and ask if she would meet up.\n\n\"Post a pussy shot and I'll subscribe,\" is another typical response.\n\nCaitlyn says she doesn't approve of her daughter using the site, but can see why people go on it, given how much money can be made.\n\nLeah used most of the money to buy presents for her boyfriend, including more than £1,000 on designer clothes. They have since broken up.\n\nIn a statement, OnlyFans said that Leah's ability to access the site was an \"oversight\", and her fake driving licence did not trigger a red flag. It said her account was approved during a transition \"from one effective ID and age verification system to a new exceptionally effective\" one.\n\nLeah's age was directly reported to OnlyFans by an anonymous social media account in late January. The company says this led to a moderator reviewing the account and double-checking her ID. As it appeared legitimate, no further action was taken.\n\nCaitlyn says it was stated \"everywhere\" on other online accounts that her daughter was 17. There is no obligation for a website to investigate, but OnlyFans told the BBC it checks social media when verifying accounts.\n\nLeah stopped posting on OnlyFans, but her account remained active on the site four months later, with more than 50 archived pictures and videos. She had logged on as recently as late April.\n\nAfter being contacted by BBC News, OnlyFans shut down her page. It says it has also refunded all active subscriptions to her account. But images from her account have already been leaked all across the internet.\n\nLeah's now anxious about leaving the house for fear of being recognised, her mum says. Her plans to go to college have been delayed.\n\n\"She won't go out at all, really,\" Caitlyn says. \"She doesn't want to be seen.\"\n\nBBC News also heard of other cases of underage children gaining access to OnlyFans.\n\nHertfordshire Police told us that a 14-year-old girl had managed to use her grandmother's passport and bank details to sell explicit images. They say she then redirected money from that account to her own.\n\nOnlyFans says the account was \"fraudulent\" and involved the help of others. The site says it is assisting police and has since updated its age-verification system to \"further reduce the chance\" of this happening again.\n\nBut BBC News tested the site's \"new exceptionally effective\" system in April. While a fake ID did not work, we were able to set up an OnlyFans account for a 17-year-old by using her 26-year-old sister's passport. The girl never had access to the account.\n\nThe site requires applicants to pose next to an ID card and then submit a photograph holding it up to their face. But the age verification system failed to distinguish between them at any stage of the process, despite the age gap.\n\nAfter setting up an account, creators must provide bank details to receive payment through OnlyFans. However, this does not prevent them posting images and videos.\n\nBBC News has found that creators can share content and then arrange payments through alternative providers, in violation of company guidelines. One of the most popular is Cash App, which allows users to transfer money by mobile phone. We found scores of accounts advertising this.\n\nWe were then able to send a direct message to a subscriber and request payment through Cash App, using a common alternative spelling (Ca$happ).\n\nOnlyFans says its list of prohibited words on the site already includes a number of variations of \"Cash App\". It says this list has now been expanded.\n\nOnlyFans requires creators making \"co-authored\" material to have documentation showing that all participants are over 18 years old. All contributors must also be registered creators on the site.\n\nBBC News has discovered that under-18s are also appearing in explicit videos on accounts run by adults in violation of OnlyFans' guidelines.\n\nAaron was 17 when he started making videos on the site with his girlfriend in Nevada, US.\n\nAccording to his friend Jordan, Aaron didn't have his own account, but instead \"got sucked into\" appearing in explicit videos posted by his girlfriend, Cody, who was a year older than him.\n\nAaron soon started bragging about the amount of money he was making. \"He was actually very proud of doing it,\" Jordan says.\n\nThe content included sex filmed in one of their bedrooms. They shared $5,000 between them from a single video, his friends say.\n\n\"[He] was elated that they were making such an amazing amount of money for just having sex on camera for other people to watch,\" says a woman who has known Aaron for many years.\n\nShe says he had a tough childhood and was \"very vulnerable to exploitation\". Cody had previously showered him with gifts on his 16th birthday, and admitted to earning the money by selling nudes online \"to some old guy\", she added.\n\nJordan says Aaron had encouraged him to make videos on OnlyFans, even though he was also underage.\n\n\"He used to say: 'Bro, you can do it, we make so much money a week, it's easy, you don't have to work ever.'\"\n\nBBC News was told the account was reported to police in the US in October 2020 but had not been removed until we contacted OnlyFans about the case this month.\n\nIn its response, OnlyFans says all active subscriptions would now be refunded. It said it is now liaising with the police, but had not previously been contacted about the account.\n\nAaron is now 18 and has broken up with Cody. His friends say he now plans to begin his own OnlyFans account.\n\nAs a part of the investigation, we also spoke to schools, police forces and child protection experts who told us they are hearing from under 18-year-olds whose experiences on the site have had serious consequences.\n\nOne school in London says it became aware of the site after a 16-year-old pupil openly boasted to her careers adviser about how much money she was making from it, asking why she should listen to their advice.\n\nThe girl later revealed to staff that she had been posting \"very sexualised, pornographic\" images, says the school's head of safeguarding, who also told us about a 12 year-old girl who said she had used the site to contact adult creators and asked to meet up.\n\nThe deputy head asked to be anonymous to protect the identities of the children.\n\nHe said the 16-year-old girl had used Instagram to show-off her \"exuberant\" spending and build a large number of followers.\n\nChildline counsellors have come across a number of cases in which under-18s, some of whom are vulnerable, reference their use of OnlyFans. It shared anonymised extracts from counsellor notes with BBC News.\n\nChildren using the site who contacted the service reported being victims of prior sexual abuse, while others presented \"mental health issues including anger, low self-esteem, self-harm and suicide ideation\".\n\nOne girl told a counsellor she had been on OnlyFans since she was 13.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\n\"I don't wanna talk about the types of pictures I post on there and I know it's not appropriate for kids my age to be doing this, but it's an easy way to make money,\" she said according to the notes, which have identifying details removed.\n\n\"Some of the girls have thousands of followers on Instagram and they must be raking it in,\" she added. \"I wanna be just like them.\"\n\nWhile most of Childline's cases referred to girls, counsellors also heard from boys who said they subscribed to the site, including one who said it had affected his opinions of sex.\n\nAnother, who was 16, said he had lost sleep and was \"worried to the point of throwing up\" about someone discovering he had bought nudes on the site.\n\nBecause the reports were provided to the BBC without any identifying details of the children or OnlyFans accounts in question, we were unable to provide the platform with account names. It said it could not comment on the cases without those details.\n\nIt also said it manually reviews every application to stop under-age access, and has increased staffing numbers in compliance, in line with the growth of the site.\n\nThe UK's national lead for child protection policing Chief Constable Simon Bailey, says it is \"increasingly clear\" that OnlyFans is being used by children.\n\nWhile it is illegal to post or share explicit images of someone under the age of 18, Mr Bailey says the police are extremely reluctant to criminalise children for such offences. He says he is more concerned about the risks children are exposing themselves to by appearing on the site.\n\n\"The company are not doing enough to put in place the safeguards that prevent children exploiting the opportunity to generate money, but also for children to be exploited,\" Mr Bailey says.\n\nBBC News asked police forces about complaints they had received involving children appearing on the site.\n\nOne 17-year-old girl in South Wales complained to police that she was blackmailed into continuing to post nudes on OnlyFans, or face photographs from the site being shared with her family.\n\nThree children also complained to police that their images had been uploaded to the site without consent, including a 17-year-old in Surrey who said her face had been edited onto someone else's body.\n\nOnlyFans says it cannot respond to these cases without being provided with account details, which the police were unable to pass on to us. It says it has a number of systems in place to prevent children from accessing the site and continues to look for new ways to enhance them.\n\nBut there are also concerns about the welfare of vulnerable young people outside UK.\n\nMissing children are increasingly being linked to OnlyFans videos, says the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), known as a global clearing house for reports of child sexual exploitation.\n\n\"In 2019 there were around a dozen children known to be missing being linked with content on OnlyFans,\" says its vice president, Staca Shehan. \"Last year the number of those cases nearly tripled.\"\n\nWhile much of the content on OnlyFans featuring children involves teenagers uploading their own content, NCMEC says it is also finding evidence of child sexual exploitation and trafficking.\n\nIn January, a couple from Florida who were in their 20s were charged with human trafficking after allegedly selling a topless photograph of a 16-year-old girl on OnlyFans.\n\nOnlyFans says it works with online exploitation agencies like NCMEC to raise any potential issues with the relevant authorities.\n\nStories about OnlyFans have become a fixture in the press. Tabloids are fascinated by the fortunes made on the site, and the intrigue of nurses and teachers signing up.\n\nElsewhere, broadsheets have marvelled at the platform's business model and impact on the digital landscape.\n\nThe Financial Times recently called it \"the hottest social media platform in the world\". The newspaper reported that OnlyFans' revenue grew by 553% in the year to November 2020, and users spent £1.7bn on the site.\n\nMen's lifestyle magazine GQ says \"innovations like OnlyFans have undoubtedly changed Internet culture and, by extension, social behaviour forever\".\n\nAndy Burrows, the NSPCC's head of policy for child safety online, sees its impact differently. He says the site blurs the lines between influencer culture and sexualised behaviour on social media for young people, and presents a \"toxic cocktail of risks\".\n\n\"OnlyFans underlines why it's so important that we see regulation so that it's no longer a choice for platforms about whether and how they protect children using their services,\" he says.\n\nTwo years ago, the UK government published a proposal to tackle the dangers posed by online content. The Online Safety Bill, announced in May, would see companies fined £18m or 10% of their global turnover if they fail to keep children safe on their platforms.\n\nBut there are concerns about how long it will take for the law to come into effect and whether the deterrent is sufficient for wealthy tech companies. The NSPCC says there is no accountability placed on senior managers, unlike the regulation of financial services where directors of companies can be criminally liable.\n\nIn a statement in response to our investigation, the government was highly critical of OnlyFans. The website has \"failed to properly protect children and this is completely unacceptable\", a spokesperson said. \"Our new laws will make sure this no longer happens.\"\n\nWe asked the department for culture, media and sport what specifically in the draft online safety bill would stop such underage use of OnlyFans and similar websites in the future. It said all companies hosting user-generated content would need to put measures in place to prevent underage users seeing inappropriate content.\n\n\"The question is whether or not this bill will have sufficient teeth and power,\" says John Carr, secretary of the Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety. \"That is still far from clear.\"\n\nHe believes there are still no guarantees that legislation will require OnlyFans to do more than it currently does and says it's \"a bit rich\" of the government to blame companies themselves.\n\n\"In a sense, the real culprit here is the government for not having acted sooner and that's why the prospect of three, four years further delay is [itself] completely unacceptable,\" he added.\n\nOnlyFans declined our request for an interview. In a statement it said:\n\n\"We use a combination of state-of-the-art technology together with human monitoring and review to prevent children under the age of 18 from sharing content on OnlyFans.\n\n\"This is something that we take very seriously. We constantly review our systems to ensure they are as robust as possible.\"\n\nIt added that its systems continue to evolve as new technology becomes available to \"help us to reduce incidences of under-18-year-olds becoming OnlyFans users\".\n\nThe pandemic has transformed many people's online lives in ways they might never have imagined.\n\nBut the consequences of children sharing explicit images - especially when the content could be leaked - may continue to haunt them for a long time to come.\n\nAll names of children and adults associated with them have been changed to protect their identities.", "The Moon turned orangey-red in colour and appeared larger in the sky across parts of the world on Wednesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Cummings says he is now \"extremely sorry\" for the handling of the trip to Durham with his family last year\n\nDominic Cummings' controversial trip to County Durham during lockdown was due to security threats, not just childcare reasons, the ex-No 10 aide has said.\n\nSpeaking to MPs, Mr Cummings said he moved his family out of London after his wife received death threats from a gang of people outside his home.\n\nHe said not explaining this at the time was \"a terrible, terrible mistake\".\n\nHe described the episode as \"a major disaster for the government\" which had \"undermined public confidence\".\n\nMr Cummings faced considerable criticism when it emerged he had travelled from his London home to his family's farm on the outskirts of the City of Durham, during the coronavirus lockdown in spring 2020.\n\nAt the time he defended his actions, explaining he left to ensure his son could be looked after when he and his wife caught Covid.\n\nHowever, appearing before the Health and Science committee on Wednesday, Mr Cummings said he had first moved his family out of the home for six weeks in autumn 2019 following security threats.\n\nHe then said that on 25 February he received a call from his wife who told him \"there was a gang outside the family home saying 'they're going to break into the house and kill everybody inside'.\"\n\nHe continued, saying that on 22 March a \"fake quote\" appeared in a news story \"saying I was happy for everyone to die\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"After that weekend I then said to my wife...we've got to get out here by Friday - it had already been decided that I was going to move my family out of London regardless of Covid rules.\"\n\nWhen, in May, the story emerged that Mr Cummings had left London, he said \"the prime minister and I agreed that because of the security things, we would basically just stonewall the story and not say anything about it.\"\n\nHowever, he later gave a press conference in Downing Street's rose garden to defend his actions.\n\nRecalling the event he said: \"What I said was true but we left out a kind of crucial part of it all.\n\n\"The whole thing was a complete disaster and the truth is... if I just basically sent my family back out of London and said here's the truth to the public, I think people would have understood the situation.\n\n\"It was a terrible misjudgement not to do that - the prime minister got that wrong, I got that wrong.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings: 'I wish I’d never heard of Barnard Castle, and I wish I had never gone'\n\nDuring the press conference, Mr Cummings also defended making a 30 mile journey from his family's home in County Durham to Barnard Castle, explaining he wanted to test his eyesight before returning to London.\n\nAsked by committee chair Jeremy Hunt if the trip was actually a birthday celebration for his wife rather than to test his eyesight, Mr Cummings replied: \"If I was going to make up a story I would come up with a better one than that.\"\n\n\"If you're going to drive 300 miles to go back to work, popping down the road for 30 miles and back to see how you feel... it didn't seem crazy.\"\n\nMr Hunt asked if it seemed \"crazy to do the trip with your wife and son\", Mr Cummings said no.\n\n\"I wish I'd never heard of Barnard Castle... I can only apologise for the whole debacle,\" he added.", "Anna Dudich, Sofia Sapega's mother, told the BBC she hoped her arrest was a mistake\n\nFor Anna Dudich, nothing will ever be the same again.\n\nHer daughter, Sofia Sapega, was on board Ryanair Flight 4978 from Athens to Vilnius when the plane was forcibly diverted to the capital of Belarus.\n\nSofia and her boyfriend, the prominent opposition activist Roman Protasevich, were arrested on arrival in Minsk.\n\n\"We are in such a state that we don't believe this is happening to us, to our daughter,\" Dudich tells me, her eyes brimming with tears.\n\nThe last she heard from her daughter was a text message with a single word, \"Mama\", before the phone went dead.\n\n\"I'm ready to beg anyone for help, so my child's life isn't broken,\" Dudich says.\n\nWhen we meet, she's just dropped off a parcel of clothes, food and toiletries - no books allowed - at the KGB prison where Sapega, 23, has been remanded in custody for two months.\n\nRelatives are not permitted to visit, so all Dudich has seen of her daughter is a video where she confesses to publishing the personal data of Belarusian security forces.\n\nShe was deeply upset at seeing her daughter in distress and is sure she was speaking under duress. Sofia twists and turns in the video clip, rolling her eyes, which Anna says isn't at all normal for her.\n\nShe tells me that Sapega, who was born in Russia, is not an activist and didn't even join last year's protests after the disputed presidential elections. She left for Vilnius in Lithuania in August. She believes her daughter was arrested solely because of her link to Roman Protasevich, who she began dating about six months ago.\n\n\"I don't understand why my daughter was detained,\"Dudich says. \"She's just living her life like a normal young woman - studying, having fun and in love. No one banned that, did they? I just can't get my head around it.\"\n\nOpposition journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega were detained when the plane's 126 passengers disembarked in Minsk\n\nOn Wednesday, the Belarusian president delivered a defiant speech, rejecting international condemnation that called the plane diversion an act of \"air piracy\" or \"hijacking\" - staged purely to arrest a prominent political opponent as he passed through Belarusian airspace.\n\nIn his first comments since the plane's grounding, President Alexander Lukashenko insisted there was a genuine bomb threat and that he'd acted \"legally\" and to \"save lives\".\n\n\"What was I supposed to do?\" he asked a chamber full of loyal officials.\n\nBut his speech contained worrying signals for Dudich.\n\nLukashenko talked of a \"terrorist\" on board the flight, a reference to Roman Protasevich, and labelled him and his girlfriend agents of Western intelligence.\n\nIn the same vein, he said new European sanctions in response to the incident were part of a plot to force him from power.\n\n\"Our ill-wishers both outside and inside Belarus have changed their methods of attack,\" the president declared. \"They have crossed many red lines and crossed the boundaries of common sense and human decency. They've moved from plotting riots, to suffocating us.\"\n\nThe impact of the sanctions - banning Belarus's national airline from Europe and preventing European airlines from crossing its airspace - began to sink home on Wednesday when a Belarusian flight attempting to reach Barcelona ended up circling over the border with Poland before being forced to turn back.\n\nIn Minsk, the foreign ministry called that \"virtually air piracy\" and part of the \"political hysterics\" in Europe over the Ryanair flight diversion.\n\nThe EU, however, has pledged to follow up on its flight ban with further economic sanctions.\n\nBut in parliament, President Lukashenko seemed to shrug off the prospect of increasing isolation. He reminded Russia in his speech that hostile forces in the West are a common threat, claiming that Belarus is a mere \"testing ground\" and Russia the ultimate target.\n\nRussia gave critical backing to the president last year when his quarter-century grip on power threatened to slip, and Lukashenko will meet Vladimir Putin again on Friday.\n\nThe Ryanair flight incident shows just how far that support has emboldened him: the Kremlin says it has \"no reason not to trust\" his description of events.\n\nBut the move has broken two more families in Belarus, with two more people behind bars.\n\n\"I'm frightened for her,\" Dudich says of her daughter, who is still waiting to see a lawyer in her KGB prison. \"She's still a kid. A normal student. I am sure all this is a mistake.\"", "Alexander Lukashenko accused his critics of \"crossing red lines\" by imposing sanctions on Belarus\n\nThe president of Belarus has said his critics are \"strangling\" his country and waging \"hybrid warfare\".\n\nAlexander Lukashenko told parliament common sense had been abandoned and \"many red lines\" crossed as Western countries imposed sanctions on Belarus.\n\nHe was defending the move to forcibly divert a Ryanair plane, which was flying from Greece to Lithuania, to land in Belarus on Sunday.\n\nA Belarusian journalist who is a critic of Mr Lukashenko was arrested.\n\nRoman Protasevich, 26, was placed on a terrorism list last year and says he fears the death penalty. Belarus is the only country in Europe and the former Soviet Union that still passes and carries out death sentences.\n\nHis Russian girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, was also detained. They both now face criminal charges.\n\nVideos of the pair have been released, appearing to show them confessing to crimes. However, it is likely they are both speaking under duress.\n\nMr Lukashenko's comments were the first he has made in public about the incident, which has drawn Western outrage.\n\nEuropean leaders have accused Belarus of hijacking the plane, but the president has insisted he acted lawfully when he ordered its diversion.\n\nBelarus claims the flight had been diverted because of a bomb threat from Hamas, but the Palestinian militant group denied any involvement. Mr Lukashenko also said the threat had originated in Switzerland, but the Swiss authorities said they knew nothing of it.\n\nMr Lukashenko insisted the bomb threat was real, and that the diversion of the Ryanair flight had taken place near a nuclear power plant.\n\n\"I had to protect people, I was thinking about the country's security,\" he said, adding that reports that a fighter jet was sent to force the plane to land was an \"absolute lie\".\n\nMr Lukashenko, who has ruled the former Soviet nation for 27 years, accused the international community of interfering in the running of his country.\n\n\"This is not information warfare anymore, this is modern hybrid warfare,\" he told parliament in the capital Minsk. \"We must do everything to prevent it becoming a real war.\"\n\nMr Lukashenko vowed to respond harshly to any sanctions placed on Belarus, and said Western governments were using his country as a \"testing site\" to gain access to Russia, a close ally.\n\n\"The search for new vulnerabilities is under way. And it is directed not only against us . We are training range, a testing site for them ahead of the march to the East,\" the president said.\n\n\"The Kremlin sees no reason not to trust statements from the leadership of Belarus,\" Dmitry Peskov, the Russian president's spokesman, told reporters.\n\nEU leaders have already ramped up sanctions against Belarus, and all 27 EU nations, as well as the UK, have banned its airlines from their skies.\n\nA number of airlines have suspended flights over Belarus, including:\n\nThe move has a direct impact on Belarus' revenue, as airlines pay to use a country's airspace, amounting in millions of dollars per year.\n\nAuthorities have released videos of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega confessing to criminal charges\n\nMeanwhile Belarus has accused French authorities of committing an act of \"air piracy\" after a Belarusian plane flying from Minsk to Barcelona was denied passage through French airspace and turned back.\n\nFrance has joined Estonia, Ireland, Norway, Britain and the US in signing a joint UN Security Council statement, condemning the \"blatant attack on international civilian aviation safety and European security\".\n\n\"We fully condemn this as yet another blatant attempt by the Belarusian authorities to silence all opposition voices,\" the joint statement said.\n\nThe nations are calling on an urgent investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).\n\nHowever, it would have to get approval by the UN Security Council and Russia, Belarus' strongest ally, is a permanent member with veto power.\n\nThe US has updated its Belarus travel advisory to \"level four, do not travel\" due to \"the arbitrary enforcement of laws and risk of detention\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhere is Belarus? It has its ally Russia to the east and Ukraine to the south. To the north and west lie EU and Nato members Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.\n\nWhy does it matter? Like Ukraine, this nation of 9.5 million is caught in rivalry between the West and Russia. President Lukashenko has been nicknamed \"Europe's last dictator\" - he has been in power for 27 years.\n\nWhat's going on there? There is a huge opposition movement demanding new, democratic leadership and economic reform. The opposition movement and Western governments say Mr Lukashenko rigged the 9 August election. Officially he won by a landslide. A huge police crackdown has curbed street protests and sent opposition leaders to prison or into exile.", "Kevin, second from right, was hit by a car while cycling\n\nKevin Clark, who played Freddy in the School of Rock movie, has died in a road collision at the age of 32.\n\nHe was riding his bicycle when he was hit by a car in Chicago on Wednesday, police have confirmed in a statement.\n\nSchool of Rock's Jack Black said he was \"heartbroken\" by the news, while co-star Miranda Cosgrove said she was \"stunned and saddened\".\n\nKevin Clark was 12 when he starred in the hit movie, which was his only film role.\n\n\"The bicyclist has been identified as a 32-year-old male. He was pronounced [dead] at Illinois Masonic at 2:04 am,\" Chicago Police said in a statement.\n\n\"The person at fault has not been determined at this time and the crash is under investigation by Area Five Detectives.\"\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\nSchool of Rock was a big hit when it came out in 2003, and is about a struggling guitarist (Jack Black) who becomes a teacher and forms a band with his class.\n\nKevin Clark played Freddy Jones, who was the rebellious drummer in the group.\n\nHe went on to play drums in a series of bands after that.\n\nAccording to the US newspaper Chicago Sun-Times, he'd just started a new band which had played live for the first time last weekend.\n\nThe newspaper added that it was a \"notoriously dangerous intersection\" where he was hit by a car.\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\n\"Devastating news. Kevin is gone. Way too soon. Beautiful soul,\" wrote Jack Black on Instagram.\n\nMiranda Cosgrove, who played the band's manager Summer in the film, said: \"I'll always remember your spirit and how kind you were to me.\"\n\nOther School of Rock cast members also played tribute.\n\n\"I will never forget your hugs and your laugh and the sheer joy on your face when we'd run into each other in Chicago,\" wrote Rivkah Reyes who played bassist Katie.\n\nBrian Falduto, who played costume designer Billy, wrote: \"So, so much love to you, you wickedly talented & wonderfully kind man.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Dominic Cummings was never going to go quietly after being forced out of Downing Street at the end of last year.\n\nBut the number, and seriousness, of his claims about what went on at the heart of government, as ministers battled to get on top of the coronavirus crisis, are unprecedented in modern times.\n\nRarely has a former adviser made so many potentially damaging revelations about a sitting prime minister.\n\nHis critics say Mr Cummings is motivated by revenge against Boris Johnson, and will not rest until the PM has been removed from No 10.\n\nMr Cummings insists he is driven by a desire to make what he views as a broken and chaotic government machine work better in future.\n\nHe left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare.\n\nIn his final year at Downing Street, Mr Cummings had a £40,000 pay rise, taking his salary to between £140,000 and £144,999.\n\nThere was speculation that the 49-year-old would seek a post-politics career as the first head of Aria, the UK's new \"high risk\" science agency, which had been one of his pet projects.\n\nBut he appears to have a different career path in mind.\n\nIn February, he started a technology consultancy firm, Siwah Ltd. He is the sole director of the firm, according to Companies House, and it is registered at an address in his native Durham, in north-east England. This would appear to be a successor to Dynamic Maps, his previous tech consultancy.\n\nBut in recent months, most of his time appears to have been taken up with spilling the beans on his time in government.\n\nThe BBC did not pay Mr Cummings for his exclusive interview with political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd he has not yet taken the time-honoured route of selling his story to a newspaper, or signing a book deal.\n\nBut he has found a way of generating income through online platform Substack, where he has launched a newsletter.\n\nHe plans to give out information on the coronavirus pandemic and his time in Downing Street for free, but \"more recondite stuff on the media, Westminster, 'inside No 10', how did we get Brexit done in 2019, the 2019 election etc\" will only be available to subscribers who pay £10 a month.\n\nHe is also offering his marketing and election campaigning expertise, for fees that \"slide from zero to lots depending on who you are / your project\".\n\nThis new venture has incurred the wrath of Whitehall watchdog Lord Pickles, who chairs the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), which vets jobs taken by former ministers and top officials.\n\nIn a letter to Cabinet Office Minister Micheal Gove, he says Mr Cummings has sought advice on working as a consultant.\n\nBut he adds: \"It appears that Mr Cummings is offering various services for payment via a blog hosted on Substack, the blog for which he is also receiving subscription payments.\n\n\"Mr Cummings has failed to seek the committee's advice on this commercial undertaking, nor has the committee received the courtesy of a reply to our letter requesting an explanation.\n\n\"Failure to seek and await advice before taking up work is a breach of the government's rules.\"\n\nThere are few repercussions for failing to consult Acoba, however.\n\nLittle was heard from Mr Cummings for several months after his departure from Downing Street - but that all changed in April.\n\nAfter being named in media reports as the source of government leaks, he launched a scathing attack on Mr Johnson via a 1,000-word blog post in April.\n\nAs well as denying he was behind the leaks, he went on to make a series of accusations against the PM and questioned his \"competence and integrity\".\n\nThe following month, Mr Cummings expanded on his criticisms at a seven-hour select committee appearance, declaring Boris Johnson \"unfit for the job\", and claiming he had ignored scientific advice and wrongly delayed lockdowns.\n\nHe also turned his fire on then-health secretary Matt Hancock, who he said should have been fired for lying.\n\nThis sparked a bitter war of words with Mr Hancock, who flatly denied all of Mr Cummings's allegations.\n\nIt thrust Mr Cummings back into the spotlight for the first time since his now infamous visit to County Durham, four days after the start of the first national lockdown, in March last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhile staying with his family at his father's farm, he made a 30-mile road journey to Barnard Castle, which he later said had been to test his eyesight before the 260-mile drive back to London.\n\nThis revelation - at a specially-convened press conference in the Downing Street garden - made Mr Cummings a household name and led to furious allegations of double standards at a time when the government had banned all but essential long-distance travel.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Cummings said that, during the Barnard Castle trip, he had been trying to work out \"Do I feel OK driving?\"\n\nHe also said he had decided to move his family to County Durham before his wife fell ill with suspected Covid because of security concerns over his home in London.\n\nAsked why he had given a story that was \"not the 100% truth\" when he held a special press conference in the Downing Street rose garden on 25 May, Mr Cummings admitted that \"the way we handled the whole thing was wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cummings says he drove to Barnard Castle to test vision\n\nBoris Johnson stood by his adviser throughout the Barnard Castle episode - to the consternation of some of his supporters, who feared it was undermining his attempts to hold the country together during a national crisis.\n\nSome said the episode burned through the political capital the prime minister had generated months earlier during the 2019 general election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson defends his senior adviser Dominic Cummings in May 2020\n\nBut it is hard to overstate how important Mr Cummings was to the Johnson project.\n\nThe two are very different characters - Mr Johnson likes to be popular, Mr Cummings appears indifferent to such concerns - but they formed a strong bond in the white heat of the 2016 Vote Leave campaign to get Britain out of the EU, which Mr Cummings led as campaign director.\n\nThe combination of Mr Johnson, the flamboyant household-name frontman, with Mr Cummings, the ruthless, data-driven strategist, with a flair for an eye-catching slogan, proved to be unbeatable.\n\nMr Cummings was credited with formulating the \"take back control\" slogan that appears to have struck a chord with so many referendum voters, changing the course of British history.\n\nYet some were surprised when Mr Cummings was brought into the heart of government as Mr Johnson's chief adviser, given his past record of rubbing senior Tory politicians up the wrong way.\n\nIt proved to be a shrewd move. It was Mr Cummings who devised the high-risk strategy of pushing for the 2019 election to be fought on a \"Get Brexit Done\" ticket, focusing on winning seats in Labour heartlands, something no previous Tory leader had managed to do in decades.\n\nMany of the policy ideas that have shaped the Johnson government's agenda have his fingerprints all over them.\n\n\"Levelling up\" - moving power and money out of London and the South East of England - is a Cummings project, as are plans to shake-up the civil service, take on the judiciary and reform the planning system.\n\nThe team that surrounded Mr Cummings at Downing Street, some of whom are Vote Leave veterans, were fiercely loyal to him and shared a sense that they were outsiders in Whitehall, battling an entrenched \"elite\".\n\nLee Cain, the former Downing Street and Vote Leave communications chief, left No 10 just before Mr Cummings did.\n\nMr Cummings watches the PM in action at a coronavirus briefing\n\nThere had been rumours of a rift between the Vote Leave veterans and other No 10 aides, who didn't like Mr Cummings's and Mr Cain's abrasive style.\n\nThere were tales of crackdowns on special advisers suspected of leaking to the media and angry, dismissive behaviour towards Tory MPs, civil servants and even secretaries of state.\n\nNone of this will have come as much of a surprise to veteran Cummings watchers.\n\nMr Cummings has been in and around the upper reaches of government and the Conservative Party for nearly two decades, and has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom and challenging the established order.\n\nBut he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, or any party, and appears to have little time for most MPs.\n\nA longstanding Eurosceptic who cut his campaigning teeth as a director of the anti-euro Business for Sterling group, Mr Cummings's other passion is changing the way government operates.\n\nHe grabbed headlines when he posted an advert on his personal blog for \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government, arguing that the civil service lacked \"deep expertise\" in many policy areas.\n\nThe Vote Leave bus was one of its most notable campaign tactics\n\nMr Cummings is a native of Durham, in the North East of England. His father, Robert, was an oil rig engineer and his mother, Morag, a teacher and behavioural specialist.\n\nHe went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. He graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in modern history and spent some time in Russia, where he was involved with an ill-fated attempt to launch an airline, among other projects.\n\nHe is married to Spectator journalist Mary Wakefield, the daughter of aristocrat Sir Humphry Wakefield, whose family seat is Chillingam Castle, in Northumberland.\n\nAfter a stint as campaign director for Business for Sterling, Mr Cummings spent eight months as chief strategy adviser to then Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who fired him.\n\nHe played a key role in the 2004 campaign against an elected regional assembly in his native North East.\n\nIn what turned out to be a dry run for the Brexit campaign, the North East Says No team won the referendum with a mix of eye-catching stunts - including an inflatable white elephant - and snappy slogans that tapped into the growing anti-politics mood among the public.\n\nHe is then said to have retreated to his father's farm, in County Durham, where he spent his time reading science and history books in an effort to attain a better understanding of the world.\n\nMr Cummings facing questions from the media outside his home\n\nHe re-emerged in 2007 as a special adviser to Michael Gove, who became education secretary in 2010 and turned out to be something of a kindred spirit.\n\nThe pair would rail against what they called \"the blob\" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in their opinion, to frustrate their attempts at reform.\n\nHe left of his own accord to set up a free school, having alienated a number of senior people in the education ministry and the Conservative Party.\n\nHe once described former Brexit Secretary David Davis as \"thick as mince\" and as \"lazy as a toad\" and irritated David Cameron, the then prime minister, who called him a \"career psychopath\".\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch was widely praised for his portrayal of Dominic Cummings in Brexit: The Uncivil War\n\nHis appointment as head of the Vote Leave campaign - dramatised in Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - was seen as a risk worth taking by those putting the campaign together but he left a controversial legacy.\n\nVote Leave was found to have broken electoral law over spending limits by the Electoral Commission and Mr Cummings was held in contempt of Parliament for failing to respond to a summons to appear before and give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.\n\nLike most advisers, he shunned media interviews when he was in government, and his rare appearances before MPs were characterised by animosity on both sides.\n\nAll that has changed in recent weeks, but it would be a brave person who said he had now joined the ranks of the former Westminster insiders who make their living as pundits - a class he appears to view with as much disdain as he does his former colleagues in government.", "Abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland in 2019 after Westminster acted during the absence of devolution\n\nDelays in implementing Northern Ireland's abortion laws have been a \"deeply troubling exercise in finger-pointing\", a court has heard.\n\nAbortion became legal in 2020, following a vote by MPs during the collapse of devolution.\n\nStormont has since been under pressure to establish a permanent, central abortion service, but this has not happened yet.\n\nIt is being challenged in a judicial review at the High Court in Belfast.\n\nThe NI Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) is taking the case against the Northern Ireland Executive, the Department of Health and the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis.\n\nRepresenting the NIHRC, David Blundell QC said there had been an \"abdication of legal responsibility\" by all three parties.\n\nHe told Mr Justice Colton that the main factor in taking the case was the protection of women's human rights.\n\nMr Blundell said without a fully-funded and staffed model, Northern Ireland health trusts have only been able to operate a \"skeleton service\" for early medical abortions - up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nWomen seeking a termination beyond that gestation have still been required, in some circumstances, to travel to England during the coronavirus pandemic, the court was told.\n\nThe judicial review has been brought by the NI Human Rights Commission against Stormont and Westminster\n\n\"Much was known about the truly terrible impact on such women, but has not led to any service being provided,\" said Mr Blundell.\n\nHe also said the Northern Ireland secretary had a \"clear statutory obligation\" in law to ensure full abortion services were commissioned by Stormont \"expeditiously\", and that this had not happened.\n\nIn March, Mr Lewis took powers that would allow him to direct Stormont to set up services but he has not done so yet.\n\nThe government has said it wanted \"concrete progress\" from the executive by this summer.\n\nMr Blundell said the NIHRC is calling for the laws to be implemented fully by September, but that the Department of Health has suggested that it could take eight to 12 months to establish services.\n\n\"In practice, women in Northern Ireland do not have access to abortion services to which they're entitled by law - it's been 14 months without them,\" he added.\n\nThe court was also told the Northern Ireland Executive had \"totally failed to engage\" with the Department of Health in relation to the commissioning of services.\n\nNorthern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann has maintained that he cannot set it up without support from the Stormont Executive, as the matter is controversial and cross-cutting - the responsibility of more than one department.\n\nThe court heard that evidence from the department suggested the First Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster, whose party opposes abortion, had \"made clear\" that proposals were not going to be passed by the executive.\n\nRobin Swann maintains he cannot set up full abortion services without executive consent\n\nMr Blundell said the executive's position was a \"driving factor\" in contributing to the delays, along with financial challenges raised by the health minister with Westminster.\n\nThe case is scheduled to last for two days.\n\nIt is expected to hear from representatives for the secretary of state, as well as lawyers for the Department of Health and the Stormont Executive.\n\nReserved judgement is expected to be delivered in the next few months.\n\nMeanwhile, in a separate development, BBC News NI understands that a paper from Mr Swann on the commissioning of abortion services was blocked from executive discussion last week.\n\nOne short-term option suggested exploring if Irish health authorities could provide Northern Ireland women with early medical abortion access.\n\nIt is believed Mr Swann had proposed whether it would be possible for Northern Ireland to quickly commission a limited early medical abortion service.\n\nThat would allow women in the early stages of a pregnancy - up to 10 weeks - to take abortion pills at home following a consultation with a doctor.\n\nThe service, known as telemedicine, has been in place in other parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, BBC News NI understands that Mr Swann's paper did not make it onto the executive's agenda to be considered by all ministers.\n\nAny paper can be blocked from discussion, if it does not have support of both the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nThe DUP is staunchly opposed to abortion.\n\nSinn Féin has previously called for abortion services to be commissioned promptly.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die\", Dominic Cummings told MPs\n\nNot the prime minister, nor the health secretary, nor the government's top scientists, nor the Whitehall machine, nor even Mr Cummings himself, escaped the barbs today.\n\nThe hours of testimony gave a disturbing sense of an administration simply overwhelmed by the scale of the Covid crisis at the start of last year - scrambling, and failing to keep up on many fronts.\n\nIn one sense, given that the situation was unlike any other event in recent history, that was not surprising.\n\nWith the success of the vaccination programme, there is little sign that much of the public right now is in a strong mood to punish the prime minister for those early mistakes.\n\nBut the extent of the problems is now out there for all to see in gory and tragic Technicolor - the way the official plan woefully underestimated the scale of the problem, the prime minister's private hesitancy about accelerating to lockdown, Mr Cummings' claim about his offer to be injected live on TV by Chris Whitty, a bizarre script in a pandemic version of the Truman Show, the mistakes in testing policy, the decision to send patients back to care homes, the list goes on and on and on.\n\nIt confirms No 10's fiercest critics' most trenchant views of the prime minister.\n\nIt provides particularly tricky questions for the health secretary who he repeatedly said had misled the public - claims Matt Hancock's team rejected.\n\nChris Whitty and Patrick Vallance are also likely to be asked, when they next appear in front of a microphone, did they, as the former aide suggested, argue with him for a short sharp lockdown in the autumn?\n\nBut the testimony also showed that Mr Cummings himself had only told the partial truth about his own journey out of lockdown.\n\nHis bizarre press conference all those months ago in the Rose Garden was not \"the truth, and nothing but the truth\", as today he cited security concerns about his family, rather than just his wife falling ill.\n\nMr Cummings defending his journey to County Durham in May 2020\n\nIt is the first time that one of those involved in making the decisions during those risky months has admitted in public that so many mistakes were made.\n\nIt is the first time that some of Boris Johnson's most controversial alleged comments about Covid have been put on the record, despite the prime minister's denial.\n\nAnd it is the first time, most importantly perhaps, that someone who wielded significant power has said publicly that tens of thousands of people lost their lives in this country unnecessarily.\n\nImagine what that must have felt like for a bereaved family, or care home staff to hear.\n\nMinisters right now refer to the public inquiry that won't get under way until next year.\n\nBut at some point, that is a claim they will have to answer in full.\n\nThe relationship between Mr Cummings and Mr Johnson is bitter, and broken.\n\nThe former adviser's suggestion now, that the prime minister is not fit for office, is both extraordinary but not, in fact, surprising given how toxic it became.\n\nAnd remember, Mr Cummings' own reputation is not stain free.\n\nHe had a reputation for picking a fight in an empty room, as hated by some in Westminster as he was loyally followed by a tight tribe.\n\nAnd today, he displayed precisely why some of the prime minister's old allies were appalled that he hired him in the first place.\n\nTheir fear back then? Mr Cummings' desire to wield influence would trump loyalty every time.\n\nLastly, looking back, how does the former adviser himself justify helping put Mr Johnson into No 10 when he quite clearly believed he was flawed?\n\nIn the short term, the government is unlikely to do anything other than brush off the claims.\n\nBut whatever the true balance of Dominic Cummings' motivations, the multiple very public accusations of failure can't be dismissed out of hand.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"It took time to build the testing\" for care homes\n\nBoris Johnson has expressed \"full confidence\" in Health Secretary Matt Hancock over claims he lied about protecting care homes from Covid.\n\nDominic Cummings says Mr Hancock misled the PM in March 2020 by promising that all residents in England discharged from hospital would be tested.\n\nThe PM's former aide says this led to thousands of needless deaths.\n\nMr Hancock has denied lying but said he had been clear that it would take time to build testing capacity.\n\n\"My recollection of events is that I committed to delivering that testing for people going from hospital into care homes when we could do it,\" he told a Downing Street press conference on Thursday.\n\n\"I then went away and built the testing capacity… and then delivered on the commitment that I made.\"\n\nThe BBC understands acute concern was expressed in Downing Street about what was going wrong in care homes - and what was happening with testing - in the first week of May last year.\n\nIt is understood an urgent meeting was called to get to the bottom of what was going on.\n\nIn his testimony to a select committee on Wednesday, Mr Cummings said: \"We were told categorically in March that people would be tested before they went back to care homes. We only subsequently found out that that hadn't happened.\n\n\"The government rhetoric was we put a shield around care homes - it was complete nonsense.\n\n\"Quite the opposite of putting a shield around them, we sent people with Covid back to the care homes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die,\" Dominic Cummings told MPs\n\nGovernment documents show there was no requirement to test patients being discharged from hospital into a care home until 15 April last year.\n\nAnd guidance dated 2 April said people without negative Covid tests could be discharged to care homes, but recommended they isolate in their own rooms.\n\nIn total, 127,758 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for the disease, official figures show.\n\nOf these more than 42,000 - around a third - have happened in care homes in England and Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe head of the National Care Association, Nadra Ahmed, told BBC One's Question Time the government's claim to have put a shield around homes was \"absolute rubbish\".\n\n\"There was no shield,\" she added.\n\n\"I think that was an utterance that came about in a form of embarrassment, perhaps, because nothing had been done for social care.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Cummings' testimony could not be \"the last word on this\", adding: \"We need to get all the available evidence. I don't think the prime minister has made good decisions in this pandemic.\"\n\nBut a Downing Street spokesperson said: \"The PM has full confidence in the health secretary and will continue working with him to protect public health and save lives.\"\n\nA Public Health England report, commissioned by the Department of Health, has concluded that the evidence suggests \"hospital associated seeding accounted for a small proportion of all care home outbreaks\" in England.\n\nIt said that, from 30 January to 12 October last year, 43,398 residents - from 5,882 separate outbreaks - had tested positive for Covid.\n\nSome 1.6% (97) of outbreaks were identified as stemming from hospital discharges.\n\nA total of 806 (1.2%) care home residents with confirmed infections were associated with these outbreaks, it added.\n\nMr Cummings left his job as Mr Johnson's chief adviser last autumn following a power struggle within No 10.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says “we don't see anything currently” to stop England unlocking from Covid rules on 21 June, but \"we may need to wait\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said \"we may need to wait\" for the lifting of all Covid restrictions in England, which is currently planned for 21 June.\n\nThe PM said he saw nothing \"currently in the data\" to suggest the government would have to delay unlocking.\n\nBut he said there were signs of an increase in the number of cases of the Indian variant.\n\nIt comes after epidemiologist Prof Neil Ferguson said the reopening of society is now \"in the balance\".\n\nOn Thursday, a further 3,542 coronavirus cases and 10 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported in the UK.\n\nOver the last seven days, cases are up 20.5% compared with the week before.\n\nOn 21 June, the government hopes to move to the final stage of its roadmap for lifting lockdown.\n\nStep four would see all legal limits on social contact removed, nightclubs would reopen, and restrictions on large events and performances would be lifted.\n\nScientists advising the government are currently studying all relevant data since the last set of lockdown relaxations on 17 May.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a hospital this morning, Mr Johnson said: \"I think the question people want to answer is to what extent is our vaccine shield now going to be enough to allow us to go ahead with 21 June with the unlocking.\n\n\"Now, as I've said many times, I don't see anything currently in the data to suggest we have to deviate from the roadmap but we may need to wait.\"\n\nThe prime minister said it was important to understand to what extent the vaccine programme \"interrupts the link\" between infection, hospitalisation, serious illness and death.\n\nHowever, he reiterated that vaccines in use in the UK work against the Indian variant, particularly with two doses.\n\nThere are the early signs infection levels are rising.\n\nFor the second day in a row the number of new Covid cases has topped 3,000.\n\nThis comes after cases have been consistently below 3,000 a day since mid-April.\n\nThis is not unexpected. Government scientists had always made clear that infection levels would increase as restrictions ease.\n\nAnd allowing indoor mixing was always the move that would have the most upward pressure.\n\nWhat matters now is how fast and high they rise - and what impact that has on the numbers ending up seriously ill and dying.\n\nMinisters like to say the vaccination programme has broken the link between cases and hospitalisations.\n\nBut in truth it is more a case that it will have weakened it. By how much, we don't know.\n\nThe picture is complicated by the rise of the Indian variant, which is considered to be more infectious. A very rapid rise in infection levels could cause problems.\n\nThere are, however, plenty of reasons to be hopeful - the vaccination programme is well advanced and infection levels are still among the lowest in Europe.\n\nBut the last year has shown us we should take nothing for granted with this virus.\n\nProf Ferguson, whose modelling was crucial to the decision to go into the first lockdown in March 2020, said experts were still concerned about the transmissibility of the so-called Indian variant.\n\nData seems to show it is easier to catch than the UK's other main variant - the one first identified in Kent - but scientists are still determining by how much.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The key issue as to whether we can go forward is: will the surge caused by the Indian variant... be more than has been already planned into the relaxation measures?\"\n\nHe added that it had always been expected that relaxing the rules would lead to \"a surge in infections, and to some extent a small third wave of transmission\".\n\nTwo weeks ago, Mr Johnson said the Indian variant could pose \"serious disruption\" to unlocking if it were found to be significantly more transmissible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing?\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was too early to say whether restrictions could ease on 21 June.\n\nHe said the decision on unlocking then would be announced exactly one week ahead of the changes.\n\n\"We will be both driven by the data, we will be advised on and guided by the science, and we will be fully transparent,\" he told MPs in the House of Commons.\n\nMr Hancock was answering questions in Parliament following claims from the prime minister's former aide Dominic Cummings that he lied to colleagues about dealing with Covid in care homes.\n\nThe health secretary dismissed the allegation as \"unsubstantiated\" and \"not true\".", "Fred West apparently told his son he had killed Mary Bastholm, but police say he \"told a lot of lies\" during the 1994 investigation\n\nNo human remains have been found by police searching a cafe in Gloucester for a suspected victim of the serial killer Fred West.\n\nOfficers have been searching for Mary Bastholm, 15, who worked at the Pop-In Cafe - now called The Clean Plate. She was last seen in 1968.\n\nGloucestershire Police began excavating the cafe cellar in Southgate Street on 19 May and said it had finished.\n\nMiss Bastholm's family said they were sad but hoped she would yet be found.\n\nThey said: \"We were hoping to get a final closure on her disappearance so that we could put her to rest.\n\n\"We have been open-minded throughout this process and we now know that the cafe can be ruled out.\n\n\"Mary was a strong willed and happy-go-lucky teenager dearly loved by her parents and two brothers.\n\n\"She enjoyed life and was just coming into her own when her life was tragically cut short.\"\n\nPolice said the cellar was carefully examined by the forensics team\n\nPolice started excavations after a TV production company filming at the site said it had found blue material in the cellar, suggesting Miss Bastholm might possibly be buried there.\n\nShe was last seen wearing a blue jacket with a blue and white dress and was carrying a blue bag.\n\nHowever, police have confirmed no blue material was found in the cellar and what the production team saw was likely to have been part of a pipe.\n\nIt said it was \"appropriate and proportionate\" to investigate and forensic archaeologists and anthropologists had been focusing on six voids beneath a toilet floor.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Craig Holden said the cellar had been \"methodically and meticulously investigated\"\n\n\"Everyone working on this is disappointed that we didn't find Mary,\" Assistant Chief Constable Craig Holden said.\n\n\"Allowing her family to finally lay Mary to rest after over 50 years was always the most important reason for our excavation.\n\n\"I hope that eliminating this location will bring some comfort, however small to her family.\n\n\"We have always been clear that we may not find Mary's remains. Sadly that proved to be the case, but it does not mean we were wrong to look - the new information made it the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe force said the anomalies were identified by experts who concluded the remaining areas of the cellar had been undisturbed since before Miss Bastholm disappeared.\n\n\"Each area was carefully examined by the forensics team with support from officers from the constabulary,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"The team worked each day, everything that was dug up was analysed on site and all activity was meticulously logged and photographed.\"\n\nExperts arrived in Gloucester last week to begin the painstaking work\n\nMiss Bastholm went missing in January 1968 on her way to catch a bus to visit her then boyfriend Tim Merrett.\n\nHe said when the excavations began he thought it was unlikely police would find Miss Bastholm in the cafe because she had no reason to return there.\n\nIn a statement her relatives said:\"[Mary's] parents and two brothers were never the same after she went missing. They have now sadly passed away without ever knowing what happened to their loving daughter and sister.\"\n\nWest, who was a regular at the Pop-In Cafe, took his own life in 1995 while in prison awaiting trial, accused of the murders of 12 women and girls.\n\nThe cafe is due to be handed back to its owners once reparation work has been completed.\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.", "Eric Carle said The Very Hungry Caterpillar was \"a book of hope\", in a BBC interview in 2019\n\nEric Carle, the US author of best-selling children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died aged 91.\n\nHe died last Sunday, his family said.\n\n\"In the light of the moon, holding on to a good star, a painter of rainbows is now travelling across the night sky,\" a family statement said.\n\nCarle's most famous book, which tells the story of a ravenous caterpillar, was published in 1969 and has sold more than 50 million copies.\n\nThe simple but everlasting tale - just 224 words long - has been translated into 62 languages.\n\nCarle's son Rolfe told the New York Times his father had died in Northampton, Massachusetts, of kidney failure.\n\nCarle, who was born in Syracuse, New York, began writing children's books in his late 30s.\n\nIn 2019, he told the BBC why he thought the story endured for five decades.\n\n\"For many years, my publisher and editor and I did not know the reason for The Very Hungry Caterpillar being so popular,\" he said.\n\n\"But over time, I've come to feel that it is a book of hope. And it is this hopeful feeling that has made it a book readers of all ages enjoy and remember.\"\n\nBorn in upstate New York to German immigrant parents, Carle moved as a child with his family to Stuttgart in the mid-1930s because his mother was homesick, only for his father to end up drafted into the army during World War Two and get taken prisoner by the Soviets.\n\nExperiencing the trauma of war gave Carle a different way of seeing the world.\n\nHe eventually moved back to New York and worked as a graphic designer and then at an advertising agency, before collaborating on his first picture book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?\n\nThe Very Hungry Caterpillar show has been seen by a million children across the world\n\nThe first version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar was called A Week With Willi Worm, inspired after Carle used a hole punch to create circles into a stack of paper.\n\nIt gave him the idea of a bookworm but Carle said his editor was not keen on a worm so various other animals were discussed. Finally they settled on a caterpillar and butterfly.\n\nNo US printers would publish the book because of the differently shaped pages with the holes, but eventually a printing company in Japan was found.\n\nIt is estimated that nowadays Carle's book is being bought every 15 seconds.\n\nIt is not just the book that remains popular, there are animated versions of the story, various merchandise spin-offs and a stage production that to date has been watched by a million children.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo Met Police officers accused of taking photographs of a double murder scene have said \"they are sorry beyond measure for the pain they have caused\".\n\nPC Deniz Jaffer and PC Jamie Lewis are charged with misconduct in public office over the images of Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46.\n\nThe sisters were killed in Fryent Country Park, in Wembley, last June.\n\nThe case was transferred from Westminster Magistrates' Court to the Old Bailey on Thursday.\n\nA plea hearing was set for 24 June and both were released on bail.\n\nPC Jamie Lewis (left) and PC Deniz Jaffer (right) were released on bail\n\nIn court the two officers issued an apology through their lawyer and indicated they would plead guilty.\n\nLuke Ponte, for the defendants, said: \"There is an indication to be given and it's an indication of a guilty plea on behalf of both defendants.\n\n\"They are sorry beyond measure for the pain that they have caused.\"\n\nPC Jaffer, of Hornchurch, east London, and PC Lewis, from Colchester, Essex, wore facemasks in court and spoke only to confirm their identities.\n\nPC Jamie Lewis (left) and PC Deniz Jaffer are charged with misconduct in public office over the images of the sisters\n\nThe sisters' bodies were found next to each other on 6 June last year.\n\nMs Henry, a social worker, and Ms Smallman, a photographer, had met friends the previous evening to celebrate the elder sister's birthday.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC last year, their mother Mina Smallman, said the alleged pictures taken by the officers had \"dehumanised\" her daughters.\n\n\"This has taken our grief to another place,\" she said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) launched an inquiry after the officers were accused of taking selfies by the dead bodies.\n\nIn November, the IOPC referred the case to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nThe watchdog is also carrying out a separate inquiry into how the Met handled calls from worried relatives and friends of missing Ms Smallman and Ms Henry before their bodies were discovered on 7 June.\n\nDanyal Hussein, 19, of Blackheath, is facing trial at the Old Bailey on 9 June accused of the sisters' murders.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Simon Woolley, who was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2019 and is now a life peer, says companies with more than 250 staff should be forced to disclose their pay data\n\n\"There's a strong sense that black people are being paid less.\"\n\nSimon Woolley, a former senior government adviser on race disparity until last year, says it should now be mandatory for companies to disclose their ethnicity pay gap.\n\nUnlike gender pay gap reporting, it is not a legal requirement to publish pay-related data based on ethnicity or race.\n\n\"It is not the silver bullet,\" Lord Woolley says. \"But your company will be more vibrant if people are being paid what they're worth.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC on Thursday the government took equality \"extremely seriously\", but he wouldn't be drawn on whether ethnicity pay reporting should be a legal requirement.\n\n\"We're very focused on equal opportunities for everybody right up and down this country... We want to take people's talents and ingenuity fairly and represent opportunities to everybody,\" he said.\n\nCalls for firms to improve diversity and equality in the workplace gathered pace in 2020 - a seismic year.\n\nFollowing the deaths of black Americans George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, the subsequent series of protests calling for an end to racial discrimination prompted a public outpouring of support from the corporate world.\n\nCompanies large and small, around the world, scrambled to make pledges to tackle racism and improve diversity and inclusion. But a year on, what progress have they made?\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up to Money programme contacted 28 UK-based businesses that were the first to sign up to a pledge to tackle racism in their workplaces. The leaders of those organisations had signed a letter printed in The Sunday Times on 21 June 2020, promising their support to the cause.\n\nSome of the measures included creating more diverse workforces by setting targets for black talent in recruitment and more diverse shortlists of candidates.\n\nOf the 28 companies the BBC approached, 23 responded.\n\nA spokesperson for one firm told the BBC they were unable to comment because they were still collecting the relevant information, while three of the businesses did not respond.\n\nAccountancy giant KPMG was among those companies to sign the pledge.\n\nJohn McCalla Leacy, a partner and board member, tells the BBC: \"I think, at a personal level, we all saw those awful images come in from the US - and we're a partnership.\n\n\"There was just a huge outpouring to do what we could, both individually and corporately. That's what inspired me and my fellow partners to sign this letter.\"\n\nKPMG quickly published a Black Lives Matter action plan containing five key areas to focus on.\n\nMr McCalla Leacy, who is of black West Indian/Jamaican heritage, says the aim was to create an environment \"where people can talk and learn about challenges that people face, and talk and engage in a constructive way\".\n\nGeorge Floyd's death was the catalyst for a summer of protests around the world\n\nThe pledge KPMG and others signed up to now has more than 80 companies involved, and is being co-ordinated by Involve People, a charity promoting diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.\n\nIts chief executive and co-founder, Suki Sandhu, says: \"The aim of the open letter was to effectively hold the companies accountable for driving race and black inclusion in business.\n\n\"We're not going to let this be virtue-signalling or something for [businesses] to tick a box. The whole point of them signing is to take the actions in the letter.\"\n\nAlmost every firm that shared their progress with the BBC said they had started conversations or \"listening sessions\", with the company seeking input from colleagues from ethnic minority backgrounds to hear their concerns and see what action could be taken as a result.\n\nThe outsourcing firm Capita said their listening sessions had been attended by more than 2,500 people. Other prominent proponents include Tesco and Marks & Spencer.\n\nMany of the 23 businesses said they now deliver training to raise awareness of anti-racism and promote inclusion while the term \"unconscious bias\" was explicitly mentioned by six of the 23 companies.\n\nMeanwhile, nine of those 23 firms have committed to publish an ethnicity pay gap report each year.\n\nTwo of the reports the BBC has seen show a lack of ethnic minority talent in senior roles.\n\nSandra Kerr, race director at Business in the Community, a charity that works with companies to make a social impact, tells the BBC: \"One of the things I wrote last August was a black voices report - and we found real disparities in black employees feeling like they aren't listened to and are unable to get their ideas to the bosses.\"\n\nWake Up to Money spoke to a black employee, David (not his real name), who's been working in the rail industry for more than a decade.\n\n\"It's a struggle to go any further [in the industry] in terms of career progression. I have applied for many jobs before, senior roles and I have been knocked back. I've never been given the feedback even though I've requested it.\"\n\nSeveral times he has applied for positions unsuccessfully, only for the firm to go and recruit externally.\n\n\"Sometimes I feel like your face has got to fit or you've got to know somebody. It's not about your skill set. It's not about what you know, it's about who you know.\"\n\nMs Kerr says firms need to \"involve black staff in recruitment processes and idea generation\" to help them climb up the career ladder.\n\nLike Lord Woolley she supports mandatory ethnicity pay reporting, adding that leadership is needed from government.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities published its independent report earlier this year, which included recommendations on ethnicity pay reporting.\n\n\"We are considering the Commission's findings on this matter alongside feedback to our consultation on this issue and other work, and will respond to the Commission's report in due course.\"\n\nSuki Sandhu, co-founder and chief executive of Involve People, says improving diversity should not be a \"tick box exercise\"\n\nSome measures aimed at making workplaces more diverse and inclusive have been criticised in the past.\n\nThe government's Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report quoted research from Harvard University, which said that mandatory diversity and inclusion measures have not always been successful, while the Equality and Human Rights Commission found that training on unconscious bias can have limited effect and the potential to back-fire.\n\nBut the death of George Floyd really has changed the way the corporate world views diversity, KPMG's John McCalla Leacy argues.\n\n\"In the time of the pandemic, whereby we're all stuck in lockdown and watching our TVs and phones, you couldn't have missed not only the tragic murder of George Floyd, but the events afterwards.\n\n\"There was an outpouring of grief that we've seen among our clients and corporate friends.\n\n\"Businesses are making bold claims and want to drive lasting change - and the business community is really supportive of each other so that we can all progress forwards.\"", "It's becoming more likely that a key global temperature limit will be reached in one of the next five years.\n\nA major study says by 2025 there's a 40% chance of at least one year being 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial level.\n\nThat's the lower of two temperature limits set by the Paris Agreement on climate change.\n\nThe conclusion comes in a report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).\n\nThe analysis is based on modelling by the UK Met Office and climate researchers in 10 countries including the US and China.\n\nIn the last decade, it was estimated that the chance of any one year reaching the 1.5C threshold was only 20%.\n\nThis new assessment puts that risk at 40%.\n\nLeon Hermanson, a senior Met Office scientist, told BBC News that comparing projected temperatures with those of 1850-1900 shows a clear rise.\n\n\"What it means is that we're approaching 1.5C - we're not there yet but we're getting close,\" he said.\n\n\"Time is running out for the strong action which we need now.\"\n\nThe researchers point out that even if one of the next five years is 1.5C above the pre-industrial level, it'll be a temporary situation.\n\nNatural variability will mean the following few years may be slightly cooler and it could be another decade or two or more before the 1.5C limit is crossed permanently.\n\nThe Paris Agreement established the goal of keeping the increase in the global average temperature to no more than 2C and to try not to surpass 1.5C - and that's understood to mean over a long period rather than a single year.\n\nAccording to Dr Joeri Rogelj, director of research at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, \"the 1.5C in the Met Office announcement should not be confused with the 1.5C limit in the Paris Agreement\".\n\n\"The Paris targets refer to global warming - that is, the temperature increase of our planet once we smooth out year-to-year variations,\" he explained.\n\n\"A single year hitting 1.5C therefore doesn't mean the Paris limits are breached, but is nevertheless very bad news.\n\n\"It tells us once again that climate action to date is wholly insufficient and emissions need to be reduced urgently to zero to halt global warming.\"\n\nA house is consumed by flames during the Glass wildfire in California last year\n\nA landmark report by the UN climate panel in 2018 highlighted how the impacts of climate change are far more severe when the increase is greater than 1.5C.\n\nAt the moment, projections suggest that even with recent pledges to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, the world is on course to heat up by up to 3C.\n\nThe WMO's secretary-general, Prof Petteri Taalas, said the results of the new research were \"more than mere statistics\".\n\n\"This study shows - with a high level of scientific skill - that we are getting measurably and inexorably closer to the lower target of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change,\" he explained.\n\n\"It is yet another wake up call that the world needs to fast-track commitments to slash greenhouse gas emissions and achieve carbon neutrality.\"\n\nProf Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, told me that if the new forecast is proved right \"it does not mean that we have exceeded the Paris Agreement limit\".\n\nHe points out that two individual months in 2016 saw a rise of 1.5C.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"As the climate warms, we'll get more months above 1.5C, then a sequence of them, then a whole year on average above 1.5 and then two or three years and then virtually every year,\" Prof Hawkins said.\n\nHe also stresses that 1.5C is \"not a magic number that we've got to avoid\".\n\n\"It's not a sudden cliff edge, it's more like a slope that we're already on and, as the climate warms, the effects get worse and worse.\n\n\"We have to set a line in the sand to try to limit the temperature rise but we clearly need to recognise that we're seeing the effects of climate change already in the UK and around the world and those effects will continue to become more severe.\"\n\nThe report comes in the approach to the COP26 summit on climate change, due to be held in Glasgow in November.\n\nThe summit aims to raise ambition among world leaders on tackling the climate crisis.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nDavid de Gea failed at the end of a marathon penalty shootout as Villarreal dashed Manchester United's hopes of Europa League glory in Gdansk.\n\nThis was a disappointing contest lacking in quality and producing only three shots on target across 120 minutes - but drama arrived with the spot-kicks.\n\nAll 20 outfield players converted their penalties in the longest shootout in a final of any Uefa competition, and in an increasingly tense stadium Villarreal goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli blasted home his effort and then denied De Gea, who was crestfallen at the end.\n\nIt gave Villarreal a first major trophy in their history and saw former Arsenal boss Unai Emery lift the Europa League for an unprecedented fourth time.\n\nHowever, on the anniversary of both Sir Matt Busby's birth and the epic Champions League final in 1999 that earned Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hero status among the Old Trafford faithful, there was to be no new 26 May landmark as United complete a fourth year without silverware.\n\nUnited simply did not do enough, despite the massive gulf in transfer fees and salaries between the two clubs.\n\nSolskjaer's side did not start well and fell behind to a soft goal from Gerard Moreno.\n\nEdinson Cavani dragged United level 10 minutes into the second period after a Marcus Rashford shot had been deflected into his path, but United failed to build on that momentum and by the end Solskjaer was introducing Juan Mata and Alex Telles purely to take penalties in the shootout.\n\nBoth players scored. Although given De Gea had failed to save any of the previous 21 penalties he had faced, maybe Solskjaer should have followed the example of former United boss Louis van Gaal, who famously brought on Tim Krul purely for a shootout at the 2014 World Cup, which the Netherlands went on to win\n• None 'They are a million miles away' - how pundits reacted\n• None Relive the Europa League final between Villarreal and Man Utd\n\nFor most of this season, no-one has been quite sure which United were going to turn up. It felt like that across the whole game in Gdansk, as they alternated between inventive and passive almost with each passing minute.\n\nEvidently, Solskjaer felt he had no choice other than to stick with it.\n\nIn the final game of last season, he waited until the 87th minute of the semi-final defeat by Sevilla before making a change.\n\nBy then, his side were losing, so it was not a shock the Norwegian had not used any of the six he was allowed on this occasion as extra time began.\n\nThe brutal truth is, having gone with his strongest offensive starting XI, there was no-one on the bench Solskjaer felt confident could improve the situation.\n\nIn Cavani and Mason Greenwood, two of United's best performers were attackers. But Rashford had a poor game, which was summed up by the England man failing to convert when Greenwood had given him a clear sight at goal.\n\nAny goal would have been ruled offside but Rashford was not to know that as his scuffed effort rolled wide.\n\nScott McTominay's midfield industry outshone both Bruno Fernandes and Paul Pogba, who both flitted in and out of the game without producing anything truly remarkable.\n\nIt would be easy to point to the absence of captain Harry Maguire as the key factor in Moreno's opener.\n\nBut Maguire was on the pitch when United conceded a very similar kind of goal against Everton in February.\n\nOn that occasion it was Dominic Calvert-Lewin who slid the ball past De Gea as United's defence failed to deal with a free-kick floated from a deep position into their penalty area.\n\nThis time Moreno's run into the box went unchecked, allowing him to get in front of Victor Lindelof and turn Dani Parejo's free-kick into De Gea's goal.\n\nIt is the kind of routine situation Solskjaer's team have been vulnerable to all season and seemed to be something Emery had worked out given the number of times Villarreal put themselves in situations to deliver such crosses, without quite getting their execution right.\n\nNot that nervous United defending was limited to set-pieces. The sight of Eric Bailly attempting an overhead-kick inside his own six-yard box in the opening stages of the second period would have been only marginally less worrying had he actually connected with the ball.\n\nIt could be argued Solskjaer should have addressed the issue before now. Some may claim it was for the powers-that-be to deal with it for him.\n\nNow, having failed to win a trophy in two and a half seasons as manager, the familiar questions about his own ability will follow the Norwegian around all summer.\n• None Villarreal are the first side to win in their first appearance in a major European final since Shakhtar Donetsk in the 2008-09 Uefa Cup.\n• None Manchester United have lost six of their last seven penalty shootouts in all competitions, only winning against Rochdale in the League Cup in September 2019 in that time.\n• None Villarreal boss Unai Emery is the first manager to win either the Uefa Cup or Europa League four times, surpassing Giovanni Trapattoni.\n• None Villarreal became the 13th side in Europe's big five leagues to hit the 100-goal milestone in all competitions this season (100).\n• None The three shots on target produced in the game (one for Villarreal and two for Manchester United) was the lowest tally in a Europa League final since Porto v Sporting Braga in 2011 also saw just three.\n• None Gerard Moreno netted his 82nd goal in all competitions for Villarreal, joining Giuseppe Rossi as the club's all-time top-scorer.\n• None Moreno became the first player to score 30+ goals for Villarreal in a single season in all competitions since Giuseppe Rossi in 2010-11 (32).\n• None Manchester United striker Edinson Cavani became just the third player aged 34 or above to score in a major European final for an English club, after Gary McAllister (36) for Liverpool in the Uefa Cup final versus Alaves in 2000-01 and Didier Drogba (34) for Chelsea in the Champions League final versus Bayern Munich in 2011-12\n• None Manchester United's Edinson Cavani has scored 16 goals in his last 11 starts in the Europa League.\n• None Manchester United's Mason Greenwood made his 52nd appearance this season in all competitions, the joint-most of any teenager with a team from Europe's big five leagues along with Barcelona's Pedri.\n• None Penalty saved! David de Gea (Manchester United) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(11), Manchester United 1(10). Gerónimo Rulli (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(10), Manchester United 1(10). Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(10), Manchester United 1(9). Pau Torres (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(9), Manchester United 1(9). Axel Tuanzebe (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(9), Manchester United 1(8). Mario Gaspar (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(8), Manchester United 1(8). Luke Shaw (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(8), Manchester United 1(7). Francis Coquelin (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(7), Manchester United 1(7). Daniel James (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(7), Manchester United 1(6). Raúl Albiol (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(6), Manchester United 1(6). Fred (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(6), Manchester United 1(5). Moi Gómez (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(5), Manchester United 1(5). Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(5), Manchester United 1(4). Daniel Parejo (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(4), Manchester United 1(4). Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(4), Manchester United 1(3). Alberto Moreno (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(3), Manchester United 1(3). Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Villarreal 1(3), Manchester United 1(2). Paco Alcácer (Villarreal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None 'The UK is all I've ever known': Panorama looks at the impact of immigration status on those born or raised in Britain\n• None Three youngsters embark on the wildest activities Scotland has to offer", "Matt Hancock has told MPs he got up each day and asked \"what must do I to protect life?\" as that was the job of the health secretary.\n\nHe was asked by Labour shadow Jonathan Ashworth if the claims made by the PM's former adviser Dominic Cummings on Wednesday were correct.\n\nMr Hancock said the \"unsubstantiated allegations around honesty\" were not true, as he gave figures on the number of questions, statements and press statements he had answered over Covid.\n\nHe said the \"spirit of openness and transparency\" would continue.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM was asked about Dominic Cummings' Covid criticisms\n\nBoris Johnson has rejected claims by his former closest adviser Dominic Cummings that government mistakes led to thousands of extra Covid deaths.\n\nThe PM said some of the \"commentary\" didn't \"bear any relation to reality\".\n\nAnd Health Secretary Matt Hancock - who was accused by Mr Cummings of lying about his handling of the pandemic - said the allegations were \"not true\".\n\nBut Labour accused him of failing to answer \"pressing questions\" on testing, PPE and care home mistakes.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Hancock, the party's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said \"it is extremely disrespectful to those who have died and their loved ones\" not to address the claims.\n\nLabour has urged the government to bring forward the public inquiry into the Covid pandemic - due to start next year - but this idea was rejected.\n\nIn total, 127,748 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for the disease, according to official figures.\n\nDuring a scathing attack on Mr Johnson and Mr Hancock on Wednesday, Mr Cummings told a committee of MPs \"tens of thousands of people died, who didn't need to die\", as a result of government mistakes.\n\nMore than 42,000 of total UK deaths involving Covid have happened in care homes in England and Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nMr Cummings claimed Mr Hancock had assured him and the prime minister early in the pandemic that people \"were going to be tested before they went back to care homes [from hospitals]\".\n\n\"We only subsequently found out that that hadn't happened,\" said Mr Cummings, adding that subsequent government statements about putting a shield around care homes were \"complete nonsense\".\n\nAt the Downing Street press conference on Thursday afternoon, Mr Hancock said \"of course\" he had committed to testing everyone returning to a care home from hospitals, but that it \"took time\" to build the testing capacity.\n\nHe said without the capacity, \"it wasn't possible\" to test everyone, but that was why he set his target of 100,000 tests a day - something Mr Cummings had described as \"stupid\" and counter-productive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die,\" Dominic Cummings told MPs\n\nMr Cummings also attacked the health secretary's integrity, saying he \"should have been fired for at least 15 to 20 things, including lying to everybody on multiple occasions in meeting after meeting in the Cabinet Room and publicly\".\n\nAnd he told the MPs Mr Johnson - for whom he worked until he was ousted in a Downing Street power struggle last autumn - was \"unfit for the job\" of leading the country.\n\nHe added that he had repeatedly urged Mr Johnson to sack Mr Hancock, calling the health secretary \"completely incapable of doing the job\".\n\nMr Hancock hit back as he answered an urgent Labour question on Covid in the Commons, saying he wanted to \"put formally on the record that these unsubstantiated allegations around honesty are not true,\"\n\nHe added: \"I've been straight with people in public and in private throughout.\"\n\nIn an apparent barb aimed at Mr Cummings, Mr Hancock said the \"operation and function\" of government had become \"easier\" over the past six months.\n\nOn a visit to a hospital in Colchester, Essex, the prime minister, when asked if tens of thousands of people had died needlessly, replied: \"No, no I don't think so.\n\n\"Of course, this has been an incredibly difficult series of decisions, none of which we've taken lightly.\"\n\nHe added that \"at every stage we've been governed by a determination to protect life, to save life, to ensure NHS is not overwhelmed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"These unsubstantiated allegations around honesty are not true\"\n\nBut, on a visit to Avonmouth, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that the \"buck stops\" with the prime minister over the government's performance on Covid.\n\nHe added: \"Dominic Cummings can't be the last word on this. We need to get all the available evidence....\n\n\"I don't think the prime minister has made good decisions in this pandemic.\"\n\nDuring Wednesday's session with the Health and Science select committees, Mr Cummings also said:\n\nDowning Street said \"all sides\" of the story would be heard at the upcoming public inquiry into the pandemic, adding that the prime minister would be \"getting on with the job\" on Thursday by visiting a hospital.", "Gigs can return to Wales immediately but will have to follow strict rules\n\nLive music can return immediately in Wales, it has been announced.\n\nThe Welsh government confirmed performances could begin again but the change did not apply to nightclubs.\n\nVenues will need risk assessments in line with hospitality and performing guidance.\n\nThey will need to limit groups to a maximum of six people from six households, use one-way systems and follow ventilation guidelines.\n\nThe change brings music performances in line with restaurants and theatres, which were able to open earlier in May.\n\nThe announcement applies to music venues, bars, pubs, cafes, restaurants and licensed premises.\n\nFurther activities, such as events and festivals, will be considered in the next review.\n\nTickets for the Green Man festival sold out in 18 minutes when they went on sale earlier this month, despite organisers making it clear it may not go ahead.\n\n\"The demand is definitely there,\" director Fiona Stewart told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nShe added: \"I have 5,000 people who rely on the festival [for work] who want it to go ahead.\n\n\"It will be an amazing moment if Green Man goes ahead in Wales - a fist in the air triumph for when we have had to give things up [over the past 14 months].\"\n\nGreen Man is due to take place in the Brecon Beacons in August\n\nHowever, Ms Stewart said her \"nervousness\" was that Covid insurance was not available for big events and social distancing rules would not work at a festival.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nichols said venues that could have a seated audience would be able to socially distance people.\n\n\"However, for many small venues it will simply be impossible for them to manage this with social distancing in place,\" she added.\n\n\"And for our nightclubs, it's just impossible to operate. We do need to see the rest of the roadmap for our Welsh businesses too.\n\n\"Until we get that final bit of the jigsaw - the social distancing lifted - to be able to allow these businesses to return to profitability, then we're not at the end of the road yet for the sector.\"\n\nKatie Hall is looking forward to performing for the first time since early 2020\n\nKatie Hall, the lead singer of Chroma, said she was \"elated\" and it was a \"step in the right direction\" with the band unable to play any gigs since before the pandemic.\n\nThe south Wales act has festival bookings for October, and she added: \"Everyone needs to be paid, and something like 36% of people in the sector have lost their jobs.\n\n\"It's had a massive hit on the music industry as a whole.\"\n\nTrial events have taken place in Liverpool\n\nBut Daniel Minty, who produces a Cardiff gig guide said he believed conversations were \"much needed\" over live events.\n\n\"The Welsh government has not discussed it over the last 16 months,\" he said.\n\n\"The train is leaving the station and that's the most important thing.\"\n\nMr Minty said he believed there would be a need for trial events while venues would need to decide if they can break even with gigs, adding: \"It's a difficult process, but a process that is now able to start.\"\n\nIn England, socially distanced gigs have been taking place since 17 May.\n\nAll areas of mainland Scotland are at level two apart from Glasgow, which is at level three. At level two outdoor and indoor events such as concerts can go ahead with limited capacity.\n\nNorthern Ireland has no date yet set for when live music can resume there.\n\nCardiff Castle is due to stage a Foals concert this summer\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said the suspension of gigs and other live performances had been one of \"the biggest shocks to our sense of well-being and the arts economy\".\n\nHe added: \"We will continue to support our music and arts sectors in Wales through our cultural recovery, freelancer and economic resilience funds.\"\n\nIt said the industry generates about £143m for the Welsh economy and supports more than 1,800 jobs.\n\nWelsh rockers Feeder, whose UK top 20 hits include Buck Rogers and Just A Day, are due to play an outdoor homecoming concert at Tredegar Park in Newport on 9 July.\n\nOne of the first big gigs in Wales this summer is Feeder's open air concert in Newport\n\nWhile renowned live band Foals, winners of the best album award at the 2020 Brits, are scheduled to play one of the open-air concerts at Cardiff Castle this summer.\n\nSome of Wales' most popular gig venues - like Venue Cymru in Llandudno and Newport Centre - are still Covid vaccination centres.\n\n\"It's been a long road, but I think we're finally getting to the end of it,\" said Sam Dabb, the Wales coordinator for the Music Venue Trust.\n\n\"The gigs are subject to risk assessments and the guidance, and we have to wait for the guidance to come out from Welsh government and then the Music Venue Trust are going to help their members build the risk assessments, to make sure we do everything safely and properly.\n\nSam Dabb of the Music Venue Trust says the best route back is \"safely and slowly\"\n\n\"I think the best route back is to do it safely and slowly,\" added Ms Dabb, manager of Newport gig venue Le Pub.\n\n\"Whatever the scientific advisers are saying we should do, we're going to make sure our members are doing,\" she said.", "The warning appears on the app after the account holder logs in\n\nNatWest mobile app users are being directed to a warning screen advising them to beware of cryptocurrency scams.\n\nThe bank said it had received a \"record number\" of reports about such scams between January and March 2021.\n\nThe alert warns account holders to make sure they have direct control of any digital wallet that is set up to handle transactions, and to beware of promises of big profits.\n\nOne common scam involves fake celebrity endorsement, it said.\n\nTypically, potential investors are prompted to fill in an online contact form and then encouraged over the phone to set up a cryptocurrency wallet - but unknown to them the scammer installs remote access software on their device, granting them access to it as well.\n\nThe victim is then persuaded over time to invest ever larger amounts - until the criminal empties the wallet.\n\nAnother ruse is the \"get rich quick\" cryptocurrency investment opportunity, the bank added.\n\n\"We have prevented millions of pounds from being sent to crypto-criminals who are exploiting the high levels of interest in the currency. However, consumers should always be alert, especially to the use of fake websites and bogus celebrity endorsements,\" said Jason Costain, NatWest's head of fraud prevention.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority has a searchable list of unauthorised firms and individuals offering financial services.\n\nPeople using these will not be protected by the UK's financial authorities if something goes wrong, the FCA warns.\n\nThe app alert, which NatWest said was an urgent reminder, tells customers:\n\n\"You could lose all of your money,\" without following the advice, it warns.\n\nCryptocurrencies are notoriously volatile in value. This month the price of Bitcoin alone has fluctuated by up to 40% - creating some big winners and losers in the process. It is not regulated by any financial authorities.\n\nThere has been a flurry of advertising around crypto-investments on social media, and on Wednesday the Advertising Standards Authority banned an \"irresponsible\" billboard ad for a cryptocurrency exchange which appeared on London transport.\n\nIn the US, cryptocurrency scammers pretending to be Tesla boss Elon Musk made more than $2m (£1.4m) in six months, consumer-protection officials said in May.", "France has lifted more coronavirus restrictions in recent weeks\n\nFrance has become the latest European country to introduce restrictions on UK tourists due to the spread of the Indian coronavirus variant.\n\nThe French government has announced that from 31 May only essential travel from the UK will be allowed. A week's self-isolation is also required.\n\nGermany imposed a two-week quarantine on UK arrivals last week. Austria has banned direct UK flights from 1 June.\n\nBy last week, the UK had recorded 3,424 cases of the B.1.617.2 variant.\n\nThat number had risen by 2,111 cases from the previous week.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has said the Indian variant is \"more transmittable\" than the UK variant first identified in Kent, which was responsible for the UK's deadly wave of coronavirus infections this winter.\n\n\"We expect, over time, this variant to overtake and come to dominate in the UK,\" he said.\n\nHowever, a study earlier this week found that two injections of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines offered a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as from the Kent one. But protection after a first dose was lower in the Indian variant compared with the Kent variant, with 33% and 50% effectiveness respectively.\n\nFrance, Germany and Austria are all on England's \"amber\" list, meaning that the government advises against travel there and passengers must quarantine upon return.\n\nHowever, France had planned to allow fully vaccinated travellers from the UK - or those who had tested negative - to visit from 9 June, when travel restrictions around the EU are set to be eased. The decision to allow only essential travel, for example for bereavement or childcare, from 31 May is a setback to anyone in the UK who had planned to go on holiday in France.\n\nUK travellers to France are already required to self-isolate in a designated hotel for seven days, but tighter quarantine restrictions, such as proof of quarantine location and possible police checks, will not be imposed.\n\nSpain, another amber country, has already reopened to UK tourists.\n\nLast week, the EU agreed on a pass to allow travel across the bloc's 27 countries for all those who have been fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine, recently tested negative or recovered from an infection. It is expected to launch by July.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nTiger Woods says \"walking on my own\" is his \"number one goal\" as he continues to recover from the multiple leg injuries he sustained in a car crash.\n\nHowever, the 15-time major champion would not be drawn on whether he would be able to play competitive golf again.\n\nIn his first interview since his single vehicle accident near Los Angeles, the American told Golf Digest: \"My physical therapy keeps me busy.\n\n\"I do my routines every day. I'm taking it one step at a time.\"\n\nWoods suffered comminuted open fractures to both his right tibia and fibula as well as multiple fractures in his right foot and ankle. The injuries required immediate surgery after the accident on 23 February.\n\nIn recent years the 45-year-old had undergone five back surgeries as well as multiple procedures on his left knee but Woods admitted that his current spell of rehabilitation is his most challenging yet.\n\n\"This has been an entirely different animal,\" he said. \"I understand more of the rehab processes because of my past injuries, but this was more painful than anything I have ever experienced.\"\n\nAfter missing the Masters in April, Woods posted a picture of himself on crutches with his right foot in a protective boot.\n\n\"It's funny because in that photo, the crutches definitely make my shoulders look big!\" he said.\n\n\"Maybe it's the workouts, too. It's been nice having the ability to still stay strong and work out my upper body.\"\n\nWoods expressed gratitude for the many messages of support he has received since the accident. \"It's been incredible,\" he said.\n\n\"I have had so much support from people both inside and outside of golf which means so much to me and has helped tremendously.\"", "Charities working to help children involved in county lines drug gangs have told the BBC that they have been overwhelmed since lockdown eased.\n\nThis comes after a week-long operation by police forces across England, Wales and Scotland during which they say more than 570 under-18s were safeguarded.\n\nBBC News correspondent Angus Crawford joined Northamptonshire Police as they searched for missing teens.", "Rob Roberts had sexually harassed a member of his staff, a panel found\n\nCommons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg has increased the pressure on Conservative MP Rob Roberts to resign.\n\nHe said it would be \"honourable\" for the Delyn MP to stand down after an investigation found he sexually harassed an employee.\n\nMPs backed the report's recommendation for him to be suspended for six weeks.\n\nParliamentary rules mean the ruling does not trigger a recall petition which can force a by-election, as it can do in other cases.\n\nThe former employee told BBC Wales Mr Roberts repeatedly propositioned him and asked him to be \"less alluring\".\n\nMr Rees-Mogg was addressing MPs on Thursday shortly before Parliament supported Mr Roberts's suspension, without a formal vote.\n\nHe said he was concerned about the \"discrepancy\" and he wanted to deal with it \"in the most straight forward way possible\".\n\nThe Commons leader said: \"Following a case of this severity, in which it would be honourable for a member to stand down after the withdrawal of the whip, we need to look at whether the process is striking the right balance between independence, protecting the confidentiality of complainants, and ensuring consistent outcomes across different types of conduct case.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg has asked the chairman of the independent panel that investigated Mr Roberts to make recommendations.\n\nHe said he did not agree with those who said that Parliament's rules contained a loophole, saying they were designed to keep the names of staff anonymous when they complained about sexual misconduct by MPs.\n\nBut he said they were not \"proportionate\", saying it was \"frankly ridiculous\" that MPs who misuse envelopes could face more serious sanctions than those guilty of sexual harassment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacob Rees-Mogg and Thangam Debbonaire say Rob Roberts should do the \"honourable\" thing and stand down\n\nFor Labour, shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire said she had written to Mr Rees-Mogg to offer to work with him to \"close the loophole urgently and seek solutions\".\n\n\"In what other job could someone who has carried out sexual misconduct not face losing that job?,\" she asked.\n\n\"There are workable solutions to what would be a stain on us all if the public sees someone who has carried out sexual misconduct keep their job in this place.\"\n\nShe said that \"ideally the member would do the honourable thing and resign forthwith\", adding: \"Process should not be a shield for unacceptable behaviour.\n\n\"If the member does not resign, he should be subject to recall and if he is not, we run the risk of appearing as if this House does not take sexual misconduct seriously, which of course we do.\"\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford also called on Mr Roberts to stand down, saying people in Delyn should be allowed to decide who represents them in a by-election.\n\n\"The nature of the allegations that have been confirmed against him and the severity of the penalty that has been proposed [means] the only decent thing to do is to resign and let the people of Delyn make their choice,\" he said.\n\nMyles Power, former chairman of the Delyn Conservative Association, told BBC Wales he would \"much rather have an honourable Labour Member of Parliament\" than Mr Roberts.\n\nHe said he was \"incredibly disappointed and totally dumbfounded that he thinks that he could possibly continue to serve as the Member of Parliament\".\n\nMr Power resigned as constituency chairman last October because of the MP's behaviour and what he saw as the party's failure to deal with the matter.\n\nDelyn was one of the so-called \"red wall\" of Labour seats in north Wales the Tories won at the 2019 General Election\n\n\"This is an incredibly serious accusation that's been made against him, which has been found and upheld,\" Mr Power said.\n\n\"I can't see how he could possibly hold his head up high, to represent people.\"\n\nMr Power said he was worried that Mr Roberts would \"hang on by the skin of his teeth up until the next Parliamentary elections, and the people of Delyn are not even going to be properly represented\".\n\nMeanwhile a former Conservative MP who lost his seat after admitting a false expenses claim says it is \"bizarre\" parliamentary rules allow Mr Roberts to remain as an MP.\n\nChris Davies was unseated in Brecon and Radnorshire in 2019 because his specific court conviction triggered a recall petition.\n\nHe said the Delyn MP \"should look at himself in the mirror and make his own judgement\", but added: \"I don't think he should be in that position.\n\n\"I think Parliament should have a standard set of procedures in place right across the board rather than seeing this complete disjointedness. It's a very bizarre system.\"\n\nMr Roberts has been asked to comment.", "This is the most detailed map of of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The bright areas represent its highest concentrations - which is where galaxies form\n\nAn international team of researchers has created the largest and most detailed map of the distribution of so-called dark matter in the Universe.\n\nThe results are a surprise because they show that it is slightly smoother and more spread out than the current best theories predict.\n\nThe observation appears to stray from Einstein's theory of general relativity - posing a conundrum for researchers.\n\nThe results have been published by the Dark Energy Survey Collaboration.\n\nDark Matter is an invisible substance that permeates space. It accounts for 80% of the matter in the Universe.\n\nAstronomers were able to work out where it was because it distorts light from distant stars. The greater the distortion, the greater the concentration of dark matter.\n\nDr Niall Jeffrey, of École Normale Supérieure, in Paris, who pieced the map together, said that the result posed a \"real problem\" for physics.\n\n\"If this disparity is true then maybe Einstein was wrong,\" he told BBC News. \"You might think that this is a bad thing, that maybe physics is broken. But to a physicist, it is extremely exciting. It means that we can find out something new about the way the Universe really is.\"\n\nProf Carlos Frenk, of Durham University, who was one of the scientists that built on the work of Albert Einstein and others to develop the current cosmological theory, said he had mixed emotions on hearing the news.\n\n\"I spent my life working on this theory and my heart tells me I don't want to see it collapse. But my brain tells me that the measurements were correct, and we have to look at the possibility of new physics,\" said Prof Frenk.\n\n\"Then my stomach cringes, because we have no solid grounds to explore because we have no theory of physics to guide us. It makes me very nervous and fearful, because we are entering a completely unknown domain and who knows what we are going to find.\"\n\n100 million galaxies were surveyed at the Victor M Blanco telescope in Chile to produce the map\n\nUsing the Victor M Blanco telescope in Chile, the team behind the new work analysed 100 million galaxies.\n\nThe map shows how dark matter sprawls across the Universe. The black areas are vast areas of nothingness, called voids, where the laws of physics might be different. The bright areas are where dark matter is concentrated. They are called \"halos\" because right in the centre is where our reality exists. In their midst are galaxies like our own Milky Way, shining brightly like tiny gems on a vast cosmic web.\n\nAccording to Dr Jeffrey, who is also part of a department at University College London, the map, clearly shows that galaxies are part of a larger invisible structure.\n\n\"No one in the history of humanity has been able to look out into space and see where dark matter is to such an extent. Astronomers have been able to build pictures of small patches, but we have unveiled vast new swathes which show much more of its structure. For the first time we can see the Universe in a different way.\"\n\nThe oval represents the entire sky, with the purple as the area that has been surveyed so far for dark matter. The bright arch is formed from the brightest stars in the night sky\n\nBut the new dark matter map is not showing quite what astronomers expected. They have an accurate idea of the distribution of matter 350, 000 years after the Big Bang, from a European Space Agency orbiting observatory called Planck. It measured the radiation still present from that moment, called the cosmic microwave background, or more poetically, the \"afterglow of creation\".\n\nDrawing on the ideas of Einstein, astronomers, such as Prof Frenk, developed a model to calculate how matter should disperse over the next 13.8bn years to the present day. But the actual observations from the new map are out by a few per cent - it shows that matter is slightly too evenly spread.\n\nAs a result, Prof Frenk thinks there may be big changes afoot in our understanding of the cosmos.\n\n\"We may have uncovered something really fundamental about the fabric of the Universe. The current theory rests on very sketchy pillars made of sand. And what we may be seeing is the collapse of one of those pillars.\"\n\nBut others, such as Prof Ofer Lahav, of University College London, have a more conservative view.\n\n\"The big question is whether Einstein's theory is perfect. It seems to pass every test but with some deviations here and there. Maybe the astrophysics of the galaxies just needs some tweaks. In the history of cosmology there are examples where problems went away, but also examples when the thinking shifted. It will be fascinating to see if the current 'tension' in Cosmology will lead to a new paradigm shift,\" he said.\n\nThe DES collaboration consists of over 400 scientists from 25 institutions in seven countries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lisa Shaw joined BBC Radio Newcastle in 2016 and had enjoyed a successful career in commercial radio\n\nA coroner will consider if the cause of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw's death might have been complicated by her having had the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nHer family said the 44-year-old was treated for blood clots days after her first jab. She died on Friday.\n\nAn interim fact-of-death certificate lists the vaccine as one of the possible factors being considered.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said vaccine benefits exceed risks for most people.\n\nThe BBC has seen the interim fact-of-death certificate issued by Newcastle's senior coroner Karen Dilks.\n\nIt confirms an investigation into Ms Shaw's death will be held and lists a \"complication of AstraZeneca Covid-19 virus vaccination\" as a consideration.\n\nThe document does not determine a cause of death - that will not be issued until the investigation has been completed.\n\nThe BBC Radio Newcastle presenter was not known to have any underlying health problems.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Shaw's family said: \"Lisa developed severe headaches a week after receiving her AstraZeneca vaccine and fell seriously ill a few days later.\n\n\"She was treated by the RVI's [Royal Victoria Infirmary] intensive care team for blood clots and bleeding in her head.\n\n\"Tragically she passed away, surrounded by her family, on Friday afternoon. We are devastated and there is a Lisa-shaped hole in our lives that can never be filled. We will love and miss her always.\n\n\"It's been a huge comfort to see how loved she was by everyone whose lives she touched, and we ask for privacy at this time to allow us to grieve as a family.\"\n\nAn MHRA spokesperson said: \"We are saddened to hear about the death of Lisa Shaw and our thoughts are with her family.\n\n\"As with any serious suspected adverse reaction, reports with a fatal outcome are fully evaluated by the MHRA, including an assessment of post-mortem details if available.\n\n\"Our detailed and rigorous review into reports of blood clots occurring together with thrombocytopenia is ongoing.\"\n\nIt said the number of cases remained \"extremely low\".\n\nA distinctive type of blood clot is a known side effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThey are called cerebral venous sinus thromboses (CVSTs) and what makes them unusual is people often have low levels of platelets (the raw materials of clot) in their blood.\n\nThey are considered extremely rare - there have been 332 reported cases and 58 reported deaths - after nearly 35 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK.\n\nBut all of medicine is a balance of risk and benefit; and the number of blood clots has already led to a shift in the vaccination campaign.\n\nIdeally, adults under the age of 40 should be given an alternative vaccine, such as those developed by Pfizer or Moderna.\n\nMs Shaw joined BBC Radio Newcastle in 2016 as a daytime presenter. Her voice was well-known in the north-east of England where she had also had a successful career in commercial radio.\n\nFollowing the announcement of her death, there were tributes from listeners and colleagues.\n\nThe BBC described her as a \"brilliant presenter\" who was \"loved by our audiences\".\n\nIt said: \"We've lost someone special who meant a great deal to a great many people.\"\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.", "Nearly £30m has been offered in compensation to victims of the Windrush scandal, it has been confirmed, amid criticism over slow payments.\n\nThe Home Office said claims had sped up and that £20.4m has been paid to 687 people, with £9m offered to applicants.\n\nLast week, the National Audit Office said the Home Office had yet to meet its aim of paying claimants quickly.\n\nThe watchdog added it expected between £60m and £260m will be paid in compensation to around 11,500 people.\n\nTwo years after compensation was announced in April 2019, the Home Office said payments have accelerated in recent months and more caseworkers are being recruited.\n\nIt followed an \"overhaul\" of the scheme last year when ministers raised the minimum payment from £250 to £10,000.\n\nThe Windrush scandal mainly affected UK citizens originally from the Caribbean.\n\nThey were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971, but thousands were children who had travelled on their parents' passports.\n\nBecause of this, many were unable to prove they had the right to live in the country when \"hostile environment\" immigration policies - demanding the showing of documentation - began in 2012, under then Home Secretary Theresa May.\n\nSome Windrush migrants were wrongly detained or deported after the policy requiring documentation was introduced.\n\nMany others found themselves caught up in legal limbo and say they lost their jobs or their homes as a direct or indirect result. Others were denied access to NHS treatment, pensions and benefits, even though they had paid national insurance for many years.\n\nGlenda Caesar, a Windrush claimant and campaigner who has received her payment, said she knew four other people who have been waiting more than two years.\n\nShe said they had been told they were eligible but a figure had not been agreed.\n\nIn some cases, claimants are thought to be pursuing additional discretionary payments to cover lost pensions and have rejected their offers.\n\nIn others, she said, case workers kept asking for documentation - but when people provided papers they were not taken into consideration.\n\n\"We didn't ask to be put in this position,\" she said.\n\nSome claimants have received an interim, or preliminary, payment, which the Home Office said were made due to uncertainty over how long cases could take to resolve.\n\nAnthony Bryant said this applied to him and that he was given a £10,000 interim payment. He said he believed this approach was allowing the government to claim it had paid out before actually settling claims.\n\n\"Most of the people I know are still waiting,\" he said. Checks on paperwork were the main reason for the delay.\n\n\"You have to drag them out. It's taken so long. Surely the government know us, what are they waiting for?\"\n\n\"You're on hold, your life is on hold, nothing is resolved,\" he added.\n\nThe Home Office accepted some of the payments so far were for preliminary amounts, but others were final settlements.\n\nThe National Audit Office report said that the Home Office had underestimated the amount of time it would take to process each application and the scheme was rolled out before it was ready.\n\nHowever, the government said it was picking up the pace of payments, following the decision of Home Secretary Priti Patel in December to review how the compensation scheme worked.\n\nMs Patel said: \"I am absolutely committed to putting right the terrible injustices faced by the Windrush generation under successive governments.\n\n\"I will continue to work tirelessly to make sure that more money continues to be paid more quickly.\"\n\nAccording to the Home Office, within six weeks of the changes being announced, more had been offered in compensation than during the first 19 months of the scheme.", "PSNI officers issued 57 fines under Covid-19 regulations at a Black Lives Matter Protests in Londonderry last June\n\nThe Police Ombudsman is to investigate a complaint of \"race discrimination\" around how police handled two events last year during lockdown.\n\nMarie Anderson will look into \"allegations of inconsistencies\" in how the PSNI dealt with a Black Lives Matter protest compared to the funeral of senior republican Bobby Storey.\n\nIt follows a complaint from a member of the public.\n\nOfficers handed out spot fines at the protest in Londonderry last June.\n\nA total of 57 fines for breaching health regulations were issued to demonstrators who attended the protest in Derry's Guildhall Square.\n\nBut weeks later police did not intervene at the funeral of Mr Storey that was attended by about 2,000 people.\n\nBobby Storey's funeral caused a row at Stormont over potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations\n\nA statement read: \"The Police Ombudsman has a statutory duty to investigate qualifying complaints about police conduct and is satisfied that the complaint, received on 6 April 2021, is one that she is required to investigate.\n\n\"The investigation will focus on matters related to the engagement of the PSNI with the organisers of the Black Lives Matter protest in Guildhall Square, Derry/Londonderry in advance of the event.\n\n\"The investigation will examine if this engagement was consistent with the PSNI's approach to the organisers of Bobby Storey's funeral.\"\n\nMarie Anderson's investigation will look at how officers engaged with organisers before the event\n\nThere have already been separate reviews of both events involving the Policing Board and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.\n\nBelfast City Council has also carried out an inquiry into one aspect of Mr Storey's funeral, the service at Roselawn Cemetery.\n\nNo timeframe has been put on the ombudsman's investigation.", "Airbnb has extended a ban on house parties until at least the end of summer despite easing Covid restrictions in some countries.\n\nOccupancy will remain limited to 16 people, with a few exceptions for some venues.\n\nThe firm said in a statement that the indefinite ban, which was first introduced in August 2020, is \"in the best interests of public health\".\n\nIt also said that the policy had also proven popular with hosts.\n\nThe firm says it will pursue legal action if guests or hosts break the rules.\n\nUnder the ban, Airbnb has removed the \"event-friendly\" search filter on its booking app. The feature will be inaccessible until the end of summer, when the ban is set to be reviewed.\n\nIt said in a statement on Thursday: \"Throughout the past few weeks, we have heard from members of our community who have sought clarity on whether the ban would remain in effect, particularly from community members in the regions that are gradually reopening.\n\n\"We are announcing the extension of the ban through at least the end of Summer 2021 to provide them with that clarity\".\n\nAirbnb boss Brian Chesky recently said that the firm wants to be a \"good community player all over the world\" as travel reopens.\n\nIn the US, Canada, France and the UK, guests under the age of 25 have been barred from renting entire homes in their local areas.\n\nAnd in the US, it was announced in April that guests with a history of bad reviews won't be able to book one-night or last-minute reservations during the 4 July weekend.\n\nThe firm says it came as part of \"efforts to promote safe and responsible travel\", following complaints from communities about noise and disruption.\n\nAirbnb says there has been a rise in families booking whole houses instead.\n\nDespite putting a hold on party-goers' plans, Airbnb recently predicted a travel rebound \"unlike anything we have seen before\" after seeing a big jump in holiday bookings.\n\nIn the first three months of the year, US bookings beat pre-pandemic levels, while there was a \"steady improvement\" in business in the UK and France.\n\nDemand for breaks has risen as some countries emerge from lockdowns.\n\nBooking values jumped 52% to $10.3bn (£7.3bn) as customers snapped up long-term stays and rural properties, it said.\n\nBut it warned that business would depend on the \"severity and duration\" of ongoing travel restrictions, particularly outside of the US.", "Jill Killington says she was told as a pregnant 16-year-old being an unmarried mother was a \"fate worse than death\"\n\nA parliamentary committee is to examine the issue of forced adoptions after women spoke about their experiences.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Human Rights will hear from mothers who say they were forced into giving up their babies at birth because they were unmarried.\n\nIt follows BBC reports on the issue which, it is believed, affected around 250,000 women in the 50s, 60s and 70s.\n\nThe committee will also hear evidence from children who were put up for adoption, as well as the government.\n\nNo date has yet been set for the hearings by the committee, which includes MPs and members of the House of Lords and is chaired by the Labour MP Harriet Harman.\n\nHundreds of women forced into giving up their babies for adoption have called on the prime minister to issue a government apology.\n\nMany did not go on to have more children and have said the loss caused them to lead a lifetime of grief.\n\nThey want the UK to follow Australia, which in 2013 became the first country to apologise for forced adoptions.\n\nSeveral of those affected spoke to the BBC, including Jill Killington, from Leeds, who said of her experience: \"It was the most shameful thing that could happen.\"\n\nShe became pregnant in 1967, aged 16, and says being an unmarried mother \"was described as a fate worse than death\".\n\nShe recalls having to stay upstairs at her home to hide her growing tummy, so she was out of sight when anyone visited.\n\n\"My mother asked me to wear a wedding ring when I went out. It was a deeply humiliating time,\" she says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Judy Baker gave birth aged 18 and was pressured into giving up her baby for adoption\n\nLawyers examining the birth mothers' cases have focused on the period between 1945 and 1975 - before a change in adoption law - when around 500,000 babies were adopted in Britain, mostly from mothers who were under 24 and unmarried.\n\nTheir research suggests about half of those women faced sustained pressure to give up their babies from professionals, including doctors, midwives, workers in mother and baby homes and adoption staff in religious and council-run homes.\n\nThe 1975 and 1989 Children Acts and the 1976 Adoption Act are among the laws that have made it easier for adopted children and their birth mothers to regain contact with each other.\n\nIn a statement earlier this week, children and families minister Vicky Ford said: \"I want to express my deepest sympathy to all those affected by historic forced adoption.\n\n\"We cannot undo the past, but we can be reassured that our legislation and practices have been significantly strengthened since then.\"", "The Democratic Unionist Party has ratified Edwin Poots and Paula Bradley as its leader and deputy leader.\n\nThe party endorsed an earlier vote by MLAs and MPs, but it came amid anger from some quarters about how Arlene Foster was ousted as leader last month.\n\nMr Poots paid tribute to Mrs Foster as \"one of the foremost women in unionist and British politics\".\n\nAhead of the meeting, Mrs Foster said her departure was \"even by DUP standards, pretty brutal\".\n\nLagan Valley MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson - who ran against Mr Poots for the leadership - Lord Dodds, Economy Minister Diane Dodds and East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson did not wait to hear Mr Poots' speech - they left the building.\n\nA very well-known figure in the DUP told BBC News NI it was the \"worst meeting he had attended in over 40 years as a DUP member\".\n\nAfter the ratification, Paul Bell, the former chairman of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone association of the DUP, resigned from the party.\n\nBBC News NI political reporter Jayne McCormack said she is hearing that others may follow in resigning, including some councillors.\n\nMrs Foster, who attended the meeting, remains as first minister until the end of June.\n\nShe has already changed her Twitter handle from @DUPLeader to @ArleneFosterUK, taking all 96,000 followers with her.\n\nMr Poots was ratified via a show of hands, by 72-28.\n\nEdwin Poots arrives at a Belfast hotel on Thursday evening to be officially ratified as DUP leader\n\nIn his speech to members, Mr Poots said history will \"ultimately be kind\" to Mrs Foster and he wished her well.\n\nHe said the party had a contest and the party will now \"move forward in a united way\".\n\nThe new DUP leader said preparations for the next election to the Northern Ireland Assembly - due in May 2022 - have now begun. He announced that he will be appointing a director of elections \"quickly.\"\n\nHe said all strands of the party needed to come together.\n\n\"Let us agree to go forward in a spirit of unity of purpose,\" he said.\n\n\"What lies ahead of us will be the greatest Titanic struggle of an election.\"\n\nMs Bradley said there were \"better times to come\" for the party.\n\nMr Poots also paid tribute to leadership rival Sir Jeffrey, saying he had a \"key role\" in the party.\n\n\"If anyone in this party can talk about difficulty, it's me. I saw what happened to my dad, it killed my father,\" he told BBC's The View.\n\nMr Paisley's late father, Ian, the party founder, had accused his successor, Peter Robinson, and Nigel Dodds of giving him an ultimatum to leave his post.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEast Antrim MP Sammy Wilson said after the meeting that \"any political party will at times have its divisions\".\n\n\"A change of leadership always does provoke some very strong views amongst party members,\" he said.\n\n\"I am sorry that some people have decided that they don't want to remain in the party as a result of the change of leadership. I hope that Edwin will reach out to those people and try and convince them that under his leadership there's a place for them in the party.\"\n\nMr Poots is remaining as agriculture minister and has opted not to take on the role of first minister.\n\nIt is the first time in the party's 50-year history that a leadership contest has taken place.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, who unsuccessfully stood for the DUP leadership, arrives for the party's executive meeting on Thursday night\n\nThe decision on who will take on the role of first minister has yet to be decided.\n\nBBC News NI understands North Antrim MLA Mervyn Storey has reservations about becoming first minster, having been tipped for the role.\n\nMr Storey is understood to have concerns about the joint nature of the office and feels he could not be \"true to himself\" in that role.\n\nThis was not how tonight was supposed to go for Edwin Poots.\n\nParty members - senior ranking and junior - gathered to rubber stamp his new position but what followed were hours of tough, emotional talking about how bruising the past few weeks have been.\n\nI think the fact there was a vote on whether or not to have a secret ballot and it was so close - rejected by 56 votes to 47 - shows how much unease there still is within the DUP.\n\nSome party colleagues including Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Lord Dodds walked out before the new leader addressed members and set out his priorities.\n\nThat unease is not only about how Edwin Poots was elected to his new role, but also the fact that Arlene Foster clearly had a lot of difficulty in the last few weeks - a bruising few weeks for her as she now leaves the job.\n\nSir Jeffrey still has a lot of support within the party and Mr Poots is going to have to try to reach out to build support from all of those who don't view him as the leader to take the party forward.\n\nThe next assembly election is going to be the thing on the minds of most MLAs and unionist voters.\n\nEarlier, The Irish News reported the party veteran Mervyn Storey, who has previously served as finance minister and social development minister, rejected the role and said he did not want to become \"Edwin's mudguard\".\n\nOthers who have been tipped for the job include Lagan Valley MLA Paul Givan, who is a close ally of Mr Poots.\n\nThere has been tension in some quarters at the treatment of Mrs Foster.\n\nIn a statement, the Fermanagh and South Tyrone association of the DUP said the removal of Mrs Foster was \"not done in our name\" and it would support her if she remained as an MLA.\n\nIt said its members \"met this week to voice their disgust at the manner\" in which Mrs Foster had \"been treated over recent weeks\".\n\n\"We appreciate that Arlene has sacrificed so much personally over the years for public service but this association will stand firm by her side,\" it said.\n\nAfter Mr Poots was ratified, Paul Bell, former chairman of the association and member for 20 years, resigned from the party.\n\nHe said it will shed tens of thousands of votes under Edwin Poots and he was \"disgusted\" by the treatment of Mrs Foster.\n\nMr Bell told the BBC's The View programme on Thursday night that Mrs Foster had been \"stabbed in the back\".\n\n\"If the DUP cannot have respect for their own people, I don't know how they're going to have respect for people who don't agree with them,\" he said.\n\nPaula Bradley was endorsed as DUP deputy leader\n\nMrs Foster told the BBC's Newscast podcast on Thursday that the heave against her and the manner in which it was carried out was \"not particularly pleasant\".\n\n\"I think that I said a couple of days after what had happened that politics is brutal, but even by DUP standards it was pretty brutal, in terms of what happened,\" she said.\n\n\"I had absolutely no idea and was telephoned by a close colleague that this was happening on Monday evening and then by Tuesday morning, it was all in the papers. So, no, it wasn't particularly pleasant.\"\n\nMeanwhile, North Belfast MLA Paula Bradley was elected as the party's new deputy leader after Lord Dodds announced he would not bid for re-election.\n\nShe beat MP Gregory Campbell by 18 votes to 16 and is the first woman elected to the post.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jason says waiting for news from his wife and son outside the hospital is like being in \"prison\".\n\nA dad who found out his son had leukaemia in a hospital car park said Covid rules banning both parents from going to appointments were \"cruel\".\n\nCovid rules mean only one parent can go with him, with his father Jason having to wait outside for hours for news.\n\nCardiff and Vale health board said it followed Welsh government guidance and made allowances \"as appropriate\".\n\nCarson, from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia at the start of lockdown last year, and had a bone marrow transplant in Bristol in October.\n\nSince then he has been going to the hospital in Cardiff for treatment and check-ups, but while his mum Carrie goes with him, his dad Jason has to wait outside.\n\n\"It's absolutely cruel that two parents can't be there to support their children,\" said Jason, who cannot go inside to hear updates from consultants due to the one-parent rule.\n\nCarson has been living back home with his parents since December after having a transplant\n\nUnder Welsh government guidance to hospitals during the pandemic, only one parent, guardian or carer is allowed at child or baby's bedside at a time.\n\nHowever, each health board is allowed \"discretion\" to agree to visits if the \"benefits to the well-being of the patient or visitor\" outweigh the risk of Covid.\n\nThe Welsh government said its guidance gave hospitals \"flexibility\" to allow visits.\n\nJason said having to sit in the hospital car park waiting for news about his son's health was like being \"in a prison cell\".\n\nHe was first told his son had cancer by his wife, who rang him as he sat outside their local hospital in Carmarthen after being unable to go inside.\n\n\"It crushed me... I couldn't imagine how my wife was feeling,\" he said.\n\n\"I just wanted to get into the hospital and put my arms around both of them but I was informed that I was not allowed. I couldn't think of a worse pain.\"\n\nThe couple said they could not understand how people could go out for meals, but they could not go to appointments with their son\n\nCarrie said having to talk to doctors about Carson's treatment and progress alone was hard and she felt \"drained\".\n\n\"I'm having to come out and explain to Jason what I've been told by the consultants, and I can't quite explain in the same way the consultants do,\" she said.\n\n\"Jason gets confused then. It would be easier if we could both be there.\n\n\"It's not just my input into his treatment... Jason should have the right to see the consultant too to talk about his son. I don't feel it's fair that there's a one-parent rule.\"\n\nCarson's parents have to do a 120-mile round-trip to hospital when their son needs treatment\n\nThe couple said they did not understand how people were allowed to go out to pubs and restaurants, but they were still unable to attend their son's appointments together.\n\n\"No parent should have to deal with this by themselves without their partner there. To have restaurants and pubs open, it's selfish, it's really selfish. We feel like we're on our own,\" they said.\n\nThe health board said it was following Welsh government advice which set out only one parent could attend appointments, including for \"Rainbow Daybeds for day treatment\".\n\n\"Like our inpatient visiting guidance, allowances are made for outpatient visits as appropriate, depending on the nature of the appointment,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"These measures are in place to maintain a Covid-19 secure environment, reducing the risk to our patients, their families and our staff.\"\n\nCarson's parents said the staff at the hospital had been amazing\n\nThe Welsh government said health boards, trusts and hospices had the \"flexibility to amend visiting requirements and be sensitive to individual situations\".\n\n\"We understand this is an extremely difficult and worrying time for parents and carers of sick children. The well-being of children and young people is at the heart of our guidance.\"", "Nine people were found in an uninsured and unroadworthy car during a police traffic stop.\n\nThe passengers and driver were crammed into a five-seater Skoda Octavia near Malton in North Yorkshire earlier this month.\n\nDespite two doors not opening on the hatchback, there were five passengers on the back seat and two women in the boot.\n\nPolice footage showed people crawling out of the car which officers said would have caused \"utter carnage\" should it have crashed.", "\"Even when you triple check the rules, you could be refused to board - it put me out of pocket, distressed me, and distressed my elderly parents who I was visiting.\"\n\nSally Shiels was due to fly from Birmingham airport to Dublin on Friday 21 May to visit her parents.\n\nShe says she, and about 30 other passengers, were not allowed to board the plane because they had the wrong type of negative Covid-19 test result.\n\nIreland, like many other countries requires people to present a negative result for a RT-PCR test before departure. PCR tests need to be sent away to a lab to be checked, and you are later informed of the results.\n\nSally works for the NHS, and in her role she is offered regular asymptomatic PCR testing. This means staff are regularly tested even if they don't have symptoms.\n\nShe believed her latest test result from work could be used for travel, because it met the testing standard required by the Irish authorities. However, Sally was refused boarding.\n\nThis is because she later learned that the UK government advises that only private providers can be used for PCR tests for travel.\n\nSally says: \"On my arrival at the front of the queue, the ground staff said I was not allowed to board. I asked why and she said it needed the letters PCR.\n\nPCR tests for travel can cost between £50 and over £100\n\n\"And when I explained that this was a valid test, it even said exactly what PCR test it was, while it didn't say the letters P, C and R, I couldn't convince her, and myself and 30 other passengers were refused boarding for a variety of reasons that day.\"\n\nThe flight was operated by Ryanair, which told Radio 4's You & Yours programme: \"Ryanair fully complies with government restrictions.\n\n\"A number of passengers on this flight from Birmingham to Dublin were denied boarding as they failed to present a negative Covid-19 RT-PCR test result, as required by Irish regulation.\"\n\nThe airline also referred to the Department for Transport guidance that private testing should be used, and that NHS Test and Trace cannot provide the required documents.\n\nSally Shiels says some of the passengers refused boarding had tried to use negative test results obtained from NHS Test and Trace. Tests through NHS Test and Trace are free, but you must be showing symptoms and book an appointment at a test centre.\n\nSally thinks some passengers may have sought NHS tests to avoid paying the costs of a private test which can cost between £50 and over £100.\n\n\"I completely understand why we shouldn't be using this [Test and Trace] system, otherwise everyone will be using the free NHS system, saying they had a cough or a cold to get their negative swab to travel.\"\n\nRyanair said it fully complies with government restrictions\n\nSally Shiels referred to the Irish government guidance that does not mention the use of NHS tests, and she says she checked the Ryanair website which only warned against NHS Test and Trace testing, not other types of NHS tests.\n\n\"It was so poorly managed by Ryanair ground staff, there was dismal customer service, there was no way we could speak to anybody, and we were treated like criminals.\"\n\nSally later booked another flight to Belfast which didn't require a test and travelled to Dublin from there.\n\nSimon Calder, travel editor at the Independent newspaper, says: \"I do sympathise with so many people like Sally who have just tripped up.\n\n\"Semantically, Ryanair can mount an argument for why they denied her boarding, and they of course will be fined if they take people into a country and those people are not properly tested according to the authorities of a destination.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you haven't paid for a test then assume it's not valid.\"\n\nImogen in London had a similar experience at Luton airport on Saturday 22 May. She wasn't allowed to board her EasyJet flight to Porto in Portugal.\n\n\"I had been nervous about the whole thing as there was so much paperwork. It seems to me they're trying to dissuade people from flying by making it as complicated as possible.\"\n\nImogen is an NHS worker and had taken a PCR test that was available to her in her workplace. She had an email document that showed her name, date of birth, date the sample was tested and the negative result.\n\nHowever, the member of airline staff that she dealt with told her there was no proof of when she'd taken the test, so it wasn't acceptable.\n\n\"I was surprised I wasn't allowed on the flight. I can see that it's a massive amount of work for the airline, at the gate you can see that it's tripled their workload. I know it's not the airline staff's fault.\"\n\nImogen was travelling to Portugal to see her boyfriend who lives in Porto. After being refused boarding on the flight she had to pay £249 for a private PCR test with a fast result and £130 for a replacement flight to Portugal.\n\nEasyJet told You & Yours: \"Passengers travelling to Portugal are currently required to present a negative Covid test on departure, which includes providing documentation from a private provider with details of the passenger and the date the test was taken.\n\n\"Should passengers be unable to provide this unfortunately we are unable to carry them. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused however we do require passengers to have the correct documentation as required by the authorities.\"\n\nFor more information on the tests you need to travel to green, amber and red destinations click here\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prof Heymans has led research trying to unlock the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter\n\nAn astrophysicist from Edinburgh University is the first woman to be named Astronomer Royal for Scotland.\n\nProf Catherine Heymans was recommended to the Queen for the role by an international panel, convened by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.\n\nProf Heymans said she wanted to use the almost 200-year-old title to encourage people to develop passion for science.\n\nShe also wants to promote Scotland internationally as a world-leading centre for science, she said.\n\nProf Heymans said: \"I don't think anyone forgets the first time they saw the rings of Saturn through a telescope, but too many people never have the chance.\n\n\"As Astronomer Royal for Scotland, I want to change that.\n\n\"My hope is that once that spark and connection with the universe is made, children will carry that excitement home with them and develop a life-long passion for astronomy or, even better, science as a whole.\n\nAs the 11th Astronomer Royal, Prof Heymans's main focus will be on sharing her enthusiasm for astronomy with Scots from all walks of life.\n\nOne of her first targets is to install telescopes at all of Scotland's remote outdoor learning centres, which are visited by most of the country's school pupils.\n\nProf Heymans says she wants to use her role to share her love of science and astronomy with young people\n\nProf Heymans is a world-leading expert on the physics of the so-called dark universe.\n\nHer research seeks to shed light on the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter - entities that together account for more than 95% of the universe.\n\nAs well as working as a professor of astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh she is also director of the German Centre for Cosmological Lensing at Ruhr-University Bochum.\n\nCreated in 1834, the position of Astronomer Royal for Scotland was originally held by the director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.\n\nSince 1995 it has been awarded as an honorary title. The previous holder, John Brown, died in 2019.\n\nProf Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, said: \"The Astronomer Royal for Scotland has always been a distinguished and respected astronomer, and Professor Heymans is exactly that.\n\n\"She will also always be distinguished as the first female to hold the position.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United forward Marcus Rashford said he received \"at least 70 racial slurs\" on social media following Wednesday's Europa League final loss to Villarreal.\n\nUnited later tweeted to say their players had been subjected to \"disgraceful racist abuse\".\n\nUnited side lost 11-10 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Gdansk, Poland.\n\n\"At least 70 racial slurs on my social accounts counted so far,\" Rashford wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"For those working to make me feel any worse than I already do, good luck trying.\"\n\nTroy Townsend, head of player engagement at Kick It Out, said: \"The torrent of abuse targeted at Marcus Rashford and other Manchester United players following the Europa League Final last night was vile and completely unacceptable.\"\n\nHe added: \"We know there's more work to be done to eradicate online abuse, and we will continue our dialogue with social media companies ensure the strongest possible action is taken.\n\n\"Online abuse has to stop, and those with power need to act now.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is looking into the matter in relation to the allegation a teacher was behind some of the racial abuse.\n\nIn another tweet, Rashford said he was \"more outraged\" that one of the abusers who sent him a direct message appeared to be a maths teacher, adding: \"He teaches children. And knows that he can freely racially abuse without consequence.\"\n\nIt is understood the account has been deleted and the abuse will be reported to police by the club.\n\nGreater Manchester Police say they are \"aware of a number of racially aggravated social media posts\" aimed at United players, which \"originate from countries across the world as well as the UK\".\n\n\"We take these reports very seriously and are working with our partners to ensure those responsible are identified,\" said assistant chief constable Chris Sykes. \"Those who make these posts subject themselves, not just to criminal proceedings but to long-term implications to their personal and professional lives by making these comments.\"\n\nA United spokesperson said: \"Everyone at Manchester United is disgusted by the online hate and abuse aimed at Marcus and other players on social media.\n\n\"There is simply no excuse for it and we utterly condemn it.\n\n\"Manchester United has zero tolerance of any form of racism or discrimination and we encourage people to report it through manutd.com.\n\n\"We also urge social media platforms and regulatory authorities to strengthen measures to prevent this disgusting behaviour.\"\n\n\"We swiftly removed a number of comments and accounts for breaking our rules,\" a company spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're currently rolling out a new tool which, when turned on, will help prevent anyone seeing messages like this again. No single thing will fix this challenge overnight but we're committed to doing what we can to keep our community safe from abuse.\"\n\nIn April Instagram announced a tool to enable users to automatically filter out abusive messages from those they do not follow.\n\nA Twitter spokesperson said: \"We condemn racism in all its forms and do not tolerate this vile behaviour on Twitter.\n\n\"We use a combination of machine learning-based automation and human review to enforce our policies across the service.\n\n\"We have already removed a number of Tweets and permanently suspended accounts for violating our policies and will continue to take action when we identify any Tweets or accounts that violate our rules.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4 on football's social media boycott, England manager Gareth Southgate said: \"That was the stance that was taken, but what's the follow up? And has it made a difference?\n\n\"I do think there's been progress over the last year. Social media is in general a poor reflection of what happens through society, depending on which outlet you're looking at. It's either representative, or representative of very few. But the reality is, if it wasn't social media, these situations are happening on our streets at certain times.\"\n\nEngland forward Rashford has spoken previously about racist abuse he has received.\n\nIn January, he said he was subjected to \"humanity and social media at its worst\" following a 0-0 draw with Arsenal.\n\nA number of players in English football, including several of Rashford's United team-mates, have been targeted by online discrimination in recent months.\n\nA number of clubs, players, athletes and sporting bodies took part in a four-day boycott of social media in April to encourage companies to take a stronger stance against racist and sexist abuse.\n\nThis month United said it found a 350% increase in abuse directed towards their players, with 3,300 posts targeting them between September 2019 and February 2021.\n\nThe club set up an online reporting system, encouraging fans to flag up online abuse.\n• None A tale of two siblings, the world's biggest sports brands and a bitter rivalry\n• None Special 1Xtra Talks reflecting on a year since the death of George Floyd", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anas Sarwar told MSPs that the deaths were \"the biggest scandal of the devolution era\"\n\nA family may not have been told that the death of their child was linked to an infection at Glasgow's flagship hospital, Anas Sarwar has claimed.\n\nMore than 80 infected children and two deaths have been linked to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.\n\nBut the Scottish Labour leader said one family had still not been told that their child was affected.\n\nHe said it was feared it could be the family of one of the two children who died.\n\nMr Sarwar told the Scottish Parliament that the infections at the Glasgow hospital campus were the \"biggest scandal of the devolution era\".\n\nHe said there were still families \"fighting for the truth and for justice\" over what happened to their children.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that all but one of the families involved had been contacted - and insisted that there had been \"rigorous\" attempts to get in touch with the relatives who had not yet been reached.\n\nThe first minister said a full independent inquiry had already been commissioned into the \"incredibly serious matter\" of the water-borne infections at the Glasgow hospital campus.\n\nAn independent review found that 84 children were infected with rare bacteria while undergoing treatment at the £850m QUEH campus.\n\nMore than 30 of the sick children - including the two that died - were found to have infections linked to contaminated water supply\n\nThe mother of one child - 10-year-old Milly Main, who was recovering from leukaemia when she went into toxic shock and died in August 2017 - has called for health officials to resign.\n\nMilly's family only found out about the probable cause of her death in a newspaper.\n\nA review team managed to contact the families of 83 of the children involved, but have been unable to reach one - and Mr Sarwar told MSPs it was \"feared\" that this was the family of the other child who died.\n\nThe Scottish Labour leader said that clinicians had been trying to raise the alarm for years - and that the scandal involved \"denials, bullying of clinicians, cover-ups and parents of sick children being blamed for their illnesses.\"\n\nHe added: \"Two children died in Scotland's flagship hospital due to a water-borne infection.\n\n\"One family had to find out by fighting the health board, and the other family may not even know.\n\n\"This is the biggest scandal of the devolution era, but inexplicably there are still families fighting for the truth and for justice.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that an \"expert panel\" had provided individual reports to the families of the patients covered by the review, but had \"regrettably and despite extensive efforts\" been unable to get in touch with one family.\n\nShe said: \"I have had an assurance that there have been rigorous attempts to contact the remaining family, and regrettably it has not been possible to contact them.\n\n\"I know NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will continue to take all reasonable and appropriate steps to contact that family.\"\n\nWater contamination at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital has been linked to the infections\n\nMr Sarwar said the first minister's response was \"not good enough\", and that someone should take responsibility for the scandal.\n\nHe said: \"Nicola Sturgeon was health secretary when this hospital was commissioned, and she was first minister when it opened despite an independent review finding that the water supply was not safe.\n\n\"But the only people that have paid the price for this scandal have been the families and the whistleblowers.\n\n\"Years on, why has nobody taken responsibility? Why have there been no consequences, why are families still having to fight for the truth? Who is going to be held accountable?\"\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that \"this is a matter of utmost seriousness\", and said attempts to contact the family would continue.\n\nShe said: \"I am not disputing that this is an incredibly serious matter - what I am disputing is that the government is not taking this seriously and is not determined to get to the bottom of what happened, from the opening of the hospital right through to now, to make sure families have answers to their questions.\"", "From 17 May, hospitality businesses in Wales are expecting to be able to reopen outdoors\n\nA pub and restaurant group is calling for all significant restrictions on trading to be lifted before July.\n\nMark Drakeford's cabinet discussed which Covid restrictions to lift next when it met for the first time since Labour's Welsh election win.\n\nAllowing pubs and restaurants to serve customers indoors from 17 May is the next Covid rule set to be relaxed.\n\nBut a group representing the hospitality sector says social distancing rules should be scrapped.\n\nThe outcome of Monday's cabinet meeting will not be known until later in the week, with the latest plans for lockdown restrictions due to be announced in the Welsh government's next three-week review on Friday.\n\nMr Drakeford is to lead a Labour-only Welsh government after the party won half of the Welsh Parliament's 60 seats.\n\nHe is to be formally sworn in as Wales' first minister when the Senedd returns on Wednesday.\n\nWales' Covid infection rate of 8.6 cases for every 100,000 people is the lowest since August.\n\nPatients in Welsh hospitals with coronavirus are at record lows and more than a quarter of the Welsh population have now had both doses of a Covid vaccine.\n\nUnder current plans and providing rates remain low, on 17 May indoor attractions, cinemas and theatres will open alongside pubs and restaurants serving customers inside.\n\nIn an open letter to ministers, the Welsh Independent Restaurant Collective (WIRC) renewed its call for Covid restrictions to be eased on the hospitality sector and for financial support at least matching that available in England and Scotland.\n\nThe group, representing more than 400 cafes, pubs, restaurants and hotels, urged the Welsh government to allow any six people to sit together indoors and to scrap the 2m social distancing rule.\n\nThe letter said it was \"not a case of following England for its own sake, but a recognition that the science is the same there as it is here\".\n\n\"The closer we align our rules across the UK, the easier it is to communicate those rules to an increasingly confused public,\" it added.\n\nPubs, bars, cafes and restaurants are calling for clarity on who they can serve and where\n\nThe letter also said there should be \"an immediate announcement to signal a restart grant at least as generous as those in Scotland and England\".\n\n\"That support needs to acknowledge that in Wales we have been under the heaviest trading restrictions of any of the UK nations and that the gap in funding that has persisted since March 31 needs to be filled,\" the letter added.\n\nMinisters were expected on Monday to decide what to ease next from Wales' lockdown rules.\n\nLocal Government Minister Julie James said discussing restrictions around foreign holidays was also \"very much part of the package of discussion for Monday\".\n\nThe UK government has announced plans in England to allow tourists to visit a green list of 12 destinations, including Portugal, Israel and Gibraltar.\n\nThe Welsh government is yet to confirm if they will align with the plans or take a different approach.\n\nWales' chief medical officer Frank Atherton told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales the risks he saw around international travel centred on \"too rapid a relaxation of the social distancing rules, and possibly around waning in immunity\".\n\nHe added: \"We can do things about these, but some of them, we just have to be cautious, bide our time, keep to our low rates, and that will keep Wales safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health minister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh NHS's recovery from Covid was \"going to be a huge task\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the recovery of the NHS from Covid was \"going to be a huge task\" that he thought would \"take a full Senedd term\".\n\nSpeaking at a distribution centre in Newport that was preparing to send life-saving equipment to India, he said the pandemic was \"not quite over yet\", with ongoing pressure from long Covid, for example.\n\nThe NHS was also facing a huge backlog of treatment and operations that had been delayed because of coronavirus, he said.\n\nMr Gething said: \"You simply can't recover in a matter of months - and that's the level of honesty I think we need with the public and with our staff.\"\n\nHe warned the recovery of the NHS would take time \"partly because of capacity but importantly because our staff need to be cared for as well\".\n\nWelsh Labour has budgeted to spend at least £1bn extra on NHS recovery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Saturday that Wales' response to the Covid pandemic had been a major part in Labour's election win as they were returned as the largest party for the sixth successive time since devolution in 1999.\n\n\"A government I lead will continue to follow the science to do what our medical advisers tells us we should do, and that does mean doing things in a way that continues to keep Wales safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh government controls Wales' Covid response and the relaxing of restrictions - such as meeting inside pubs and restaurants and travel rules - has tended to have been more cautious in Wales.\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that people from different households would be able to meet up and hug from 17 May in England.\n\nIt is up to individuals whether they socially distance with close family and friends from that date in England.\n\nThe UK government said it wanted to let people in England exercise personal judgement as more of life returns to normal, but people are still urged to remain cautious and remember some people are more vulnerable to Covid than others.\n\nAddressing the issue of hugging in Wales, Dr Atherton said: \"Prevalence rates are really quite low at the moment, and being close to a member of your family is less risk now - but with strangers, I would be very cautious still.\n\n\"I think there are other ways to greet people than to give everybody a hug, so there are ways to do that and to do it safely - don't spend too long making face-to-face contact, make it a brief hug.\n\n\"But to be honest, I think it is quite right - I understand that grandparents want to hug their grandkids, of course they do, and that's only natural.\n\n\"But we have learned over the last year that there are other ways to interact socially, and perhaps… hug cautiously.\"\n\nThe new Senedd is meeting for the first time on Wednesday to elect a presiding officer and deputy presiding officer to conduct proceedings.\n\nThen, once those posts are filled Labour will then be able to re-nominate Mr Drakeford as first minister - with no significant challenge from the opposition expected to his reappointment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford is set to remain as first minister of Wales as his party wins 30 seats in the Senedd\n\n\"We have demonstrated over a number of governments that you can govern successfully on 30 seats, but I'm open to working with any party where there is common ground between us,\" he said.\n\nLib Dem leader Jane Dodds, their only Senedd member, has ruled out joining the Welsh government like her predecessor Kirsty Williams did.", "The WHO has classified the coronavirus variant first found in India last year as a \"variant of global concern\"\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the coronavirus variant first found in India last year as a \"variant of global concern\".\n\nIt said preliminary studies show the B.1.617 mutation spreads more easily than other variants and requires further study.\n\nThe variant has already spread to more than 30 countries, the WHO says.\n\nThree other variants from the UK, South Africa and Brazil have been given the same designation.\n\nA mutation is elevated from a \"variant of interest\" to a \"variant of concern\" (VOC) when it shows evidence of fulfilling at least one of several criteria, including easy transmission, more severe illness, reduced neutralisation by antibodies or reduced effectiveness of treatment and vaccines.\n\nThe variant is being studied to establish whether it is responsible for a deadly surge in India, which is currently overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums.\n\nIndia reported 366,161 new infections and 3,754 deaths on Monday, down from record peaks. Experts say the actual figures could be far higher than reported.\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\nSurging cases have meant that oxygen shortages continue to be a problem and have spread beyond the capital, Delhi.\n\nLocal media in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh reported that 11 Covid patients died overnight in the city of Tirupati after an oxygen tanker supplying the hospital was delayed.\n\nThe Indian government says there is evidence of a link between the variant and India's deadly second wave, but that the correlation is not yet \"fully established\".\n\nSeveral states have imposed localised lockdowns, curfews and curbs on movement over the last month.\n\nHowever, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is coming under increasing pressure to announce a nationwide lockdown and stop the spread of the virus.\n\nHe is also facing criticism for allowing massive gatherings at Hindu festivals and election rallies to go ahead despite rising cases.\n\nLarge election rallies are thought to have worsened the situation\n\nOn Monday, Delhi's health minister said the capital had just three or four days of vaccine supplies left.\n\nShortages are further disrupting a lagging vaccination programme, with just over 34.8 million, or about 2.5% of the population receiving both doses of a vaccine so far.\n\nThe WHO says current vaccines will continue to be effective against the Indian variant, although the WHO's technical lead did say there may be some evidence of \"reduced neutralization,\" at a press conference on Monday.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPortugal is set to host the Champions League final after Uefa failed to receive the guarantees of exemptions it wants if it is to move the game to Wembley.\n\nUefa, UK government officials and the Football Association met on Monday to discuss moving the game between Chelsea and Manchester City from Istanbul.\n\nUefa has decided it will be moved after Turkey was put on England's red travel list meaning fans cannot travel. Portugal is on the green list so fans would be allowed to attend on 29 May.\n\nPorto's Estadio do Dragao is expected to be named as the venue on Thursday because Uefa would prefer not to stage the match in Lisbon, which hosted last year's final.\n\nEuropean football's governing body believes holding the match in Portugal will make it easier to gain access for sponsors and broadcasters, who would need to be compensated if they were unable to attend the game.\n\nHowever, Uefa is still not in a position to confirm the switch, which would see Istanbul given the 2023 final, having originally been due to host last year before the move to Lisbon.\n\nThe match could still be played at Wembley but it would require a major shift from the UK government, which has so far failed to reach an agreement with Uefa.\n\nTravellers from England to green-list countries must follows rules before departure but do not have to quarantine on their return.\n\nUK citizens returning from red-list countries are required to quarantine at a government-approved hotel for 10 days.\n\nSuch a quarantine would have an impact on players involved in Euro 2020, which starts on 11 June.\n\nOn Friday, transport secretary Grant Shapps said Covid-19 red-list countries \"should not be visited except in the most extreme circumstances\".\n\nUefa had hoped to give both clubs a minimum of 4,000 tickets each for the game at Ataturk Olympic Stadium.\n\nShapps said that the FA was in talks with Uefa about switching the game, but that it is \"ultimately a decision for Uefa\".\n\nChelsea Supporters Trust has said it will meet Uefa and will request that the final is moved to the UK, while Manchester City fan groups said they will be renewing their calls to move the game from Istanbul.\n\nThere is also a fixture issue to resolve, as Wembley is scheduled to stage the Championship play-off final on 29 May. However, it is understood the EFL would consider moving the match if asked by Uefa, and its board would make the final call.\n• None Fan favourite hard-hitting drama about the crack epidemic in 1980s LA is streaming now\n• None How are Gen Z learning to adapt and thrive?: Young entrepreneurs find new ways to make money in Covid times", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon confirms people will be able to meet up in each other's homes and to hug from Monday\n\nPeople will be able to hug and meet in each other's homes from Monday as Scotland's Covid rules are relaxed.\n\nMainland Scotland will move to level two restrictions - although it is \"very likely\" Moray will remain in level three after a surge in cases.\n\nMost of the Scottish islands, except Arran, Bute, Cumbrae and Skye, will move to level one on the same date.\n\nAnd a traffic light system will be introduced for international travel from Monday.\n\nThe changes, which will also allow pubs and restaurants to sell alcohol indoors, were confirmed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nShe also announced that the requirement for social distancing during meetings indoors or in private gardens would be dropped.\n\n\"I actually feel a wee bit emotional saying this... from Monday, as long as you stay within permitted limits, you can hug your loved ones again,\" she said.\n\nThe first minister added that it was \"vital to be cautious\".\n\nA \"more fundamental review\" of physical distancing will be carried out in the next three weeks, which will look at whether there can be further relaxations in places like pubs and restaurants.\n\nLockdown is being eased a little faster than the Scottish government originally planned.\n\nAllowing social mixing in your own home from Monday was anticipated, but not with the removal of social distancing rules.\n\nAs the first minister put it, you can \"hug your loved ones again\" - echoing a similar announcement by the prime minister, relating to England.\n\nScotland is also aligning with the UK government's plans to open up international travel, but taking more time to consider easing the requirements for face coverings in school.\n\nEnding social distancing at home creates an anomaly because the rules will remain in force in other settings, including pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe Scottish government said it did not want to remove distancing rules everywhere at once, to reduce the risk of Covid flare-ups. A wider review of this policy is to report back in three weeks.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there were no changes at this stage to guidance on face coverings, but that their use in schools would be reviewed in the coming weeks.\n\nShe said it was \"highly probable\" that Moray would remain in level three when restrictions are eased in the rest of the country.\n\nCase numbers in the area are more than four times higher than in the rest of Scotland.\n\n\"It's against that backdrop that, unless the situation was to materially improve over the next few days, it would simply not be safe or sensible to ease restrictions there from Monday,\" she said.\n\nIt is also expected that travel restrictions will be reintroduced, so that travel in and out of Moray would be limited to \"permitted purposes only\". A final decision will be taken at the end of the week.\n\nScotland has five levels of Covid restrictions, which range from full lockdown down to level zero.\n\nIt is hoped that the whole country can move to level one on 7 June, then to level zero on 28 June - before returning to \"something much more like normality\" over the the summer.\n\nThe country moved down from level four to level three on 26 April, which enabled the reopening of cafes, pubs and restaurants, gyms, and the remaining non-essential shops.\n\nThe level two restrictions have been updated so that up to six people from three households will be able to meet in their homes, and can also stay overnight.\n\nAlcohol can be served indoors in pubs or restaurants, which will be allowed to stay open until 22:30 - and up to six adults from three households will be able to meet indoors in a public place.\n\nRestrictions on meeting up outdoors will ease further, to enable up to eight adults from eight different households to gather.\n\nAdult outdoor contact sports and indoor group exercises will be able to resume.\n\nCinemas, bingo halls and amusement arcades are also likely to be able to reopen, and outdoor and indoor events like concerts can restart - although capacity may initially be limited.\n\nThe Western Isles, Orkney, Shetland and remote Highland and Argyll islands will move straight to level one on Monday because the virus is now sufficiently under control on those areas.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said there would be \"a careful move away from blanket restrictions\" on non-essential overseas travel.\n\nShe said the introduction of a traffic light system in Scotland meant there would be a consistent four-nations position.\n\nThe existing system of managed isolation will continue to apply to those arriving from countries on the red list, while those travelling from amber list countries must undertake a 10-day period of self-isolation with two PCR tests.\n\nPeople arriving from green list countries will be required to take a test when they arrive, but will not need to self-isolate if they do not have the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon said green list status should be the \"exception not the rule\". Iceland, the Faroe Islands, New Zealand and Australia are among the 12 countries and territories initially on the list.\n\n\"Even though the rules on non-essential travel are starting to change, that doesn't mean we're saying that non-essential international travel is desirable,\" she added.\n\n\"Everyone should think seriously about whether they should travel abroad this summer.\n\n\"When it comes to holidays abroad, my advice continues to be to err on the side of caution and to staycation this summer.\"\n\nThe easing of restrictions was welcomed by the travel and tourism sectors, as well as Scotland's business groups.\n\nDr Liz Cameron, the chief executive of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said those sectors still \"gridlocked in uncertainty\" needed to re-open as quickly as possible.", "A nine-year-old boy has died after apparently being struck by lightning during a football coaching session.\n\nThe child was injured on a playing field in the Common Edge Road area of Blackpool shortly after 17:00 BST when a thunderstorm hit the Lancashire town.\n\nLancashire Police said he was taken to hospital but did not survive.\n\nSpirit of Youth Junior FC, which uses the field, said the boy was understood to have been taking part in a private coaching session.\n\nPolice said that although inquiries were still ongoing it was believed the boy was struck by lightning.\n\nDet Supt Nick Connaughton said: \"This is a truly devastating incident and our thoughts are wholeheartedly with the family and friends of the young boy who has passed away, at this very sad and distressing time.\"\n\nIn a statement posted on the club's Facebook page, Spirit of Youth said: \"It is with deepest regret that we have to report the news that the young boy who was struck by lightning earlier this evening has sadly passed away.\n\n\"As a club, we are heartbroken and we offer our deepest condolences to the boy's family.\n\n\"Spirit of Youth is a family and we are entrenched in the local community, and we will give whatever support is required to both the family and to those that were with him at the time.\n\nThe club secretary Daniel Pack said three teams had been due to train this evening but the sessions were cancelled due to the storm.\n\nPolice said the boy's family had been informed and were being supported by officers.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 3,200 weapon \"sweeps\" were carried out during the operation\n\nAlmost 1,000 people have been arrested and more than 400 knives seized as part of a national operation aimed at reducing violent crime in London.\n\nMet officers used weapon sweeps and targeted patrols to recover 166 other weapons.\n\nBritish Transport Police also used drug detection dogs and knife arches to stop people taking weapons and drugs on trains and the Tube.\n\nA total of 994 arrests were made between 26 April to 2 May.\n\nReducing violence was the force's \"top priority\", police said\n\nAutomatic Number Plate Recognition technology was used to target people carrying and supplying drugs on the roads in and out of London.\n\nThe Met said 31 people were referred to intervention programmes including an 18-year-old, who handed a machete in to a south London police station before asking for help to exit that lifestyle.\n\nHe has now been referred to an employment development programme.\n\nCdr Alex Murray, the Met's violence lead, said he was convinced they had prevented further stabbings, and that reducing violence was the force's top priority.\n\n\"The recent incidents of violence we have seen in London reminds us exactly why operations like this are so important,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: yourlondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown is being eased a little faster than the Scottish government originally planned.\n\nAllowing social mixing in your own home from Monday was anticipated but not with the removal of social distancing rules.\n\nAs the first minister put it: “You can hug your loved ones again” - echoing a similar announcement by the prime minister, relating to England.\n\nScotland is also aligning with the UK government’s plans to open up international travel but taking more time to consider easing the requirements for face coverings in school.\n\nEnding social distancing at home creates an anomaly because the rules will remain in force in other settings, including pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe Scottish government said it did not want to remove distancing rules everywhere at once, to reduce the risk of Covid flare-ups. A wider review of this policy is to report back in three weeks.", "The Prince of Wales has spoken about how his family have \"an empty seat at their dinner table\" after the death of his father, the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nPrince Charles made the comment during a video message wishing Muslims an Eid Mubarak ahead of the end of Ramadan.\n\nHe said the last year had been \"deeply challenging for us all\" and he was \"only too aware of the impact of the pandemic on the Muslim community\".\n\nIn a video posted by the Naz Legacy Foundation, a charity promoting education and integration, Prince Charles said: \"This year so many families, like my own, will have an empty seat at their dinner table and friends are no longer able to share the celebratory hug after Eid prayer.\"\n\nThe message was shared with young people from the foundation and the British Asian Trust, who were taking part in a virtual iftar, the evening meal where Muslims break their daily Ramadan fast, on Monday.\n\nThe iftar meal is usually shared with family and friends but such gatherings have been restricted during the pandemic.\n\nThe end of Ramadan, during which Muslims fast during daylight hours for a month, is marked with a celebration called Eid.\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\nFollowing his father's death last month, Charles said his \"dear papa\" was a \"very special person\" who had given the \"most remarkable, devoted service\" to the Queen, the Royal Family, the country and the Commonwealth.\n\nEarlier, Charles accompanied the Queen to the State Opening of Parliament - her first major public engagement since the death of her husband.", "Mary used to work at the cafe where Fred West was a regular customer\n\nPolice are searching for a body at a cafe in Gloucester linked to a girl feared to have been murdered by serial killer Fred West.\n\nMary Bastholm, 15, went missing on 6 January 1968 and has not been found.\n\nOfficers were called to The Clean Plate by filmmakers working on a documentary. West was a regular customer when the teenager worked at the cafe.\n\nThe film crew told police on Friday they had found evidence that a body could be buried within the property.\n\nOfficers could be at the site \"for a number of weeks\" and excavation work is yet to begin, Gloucestershire Police said.\n\nGloucestershire Police said the search might alarm those who worked nearby but it would carry out a proportionate investigation\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Craig Holden said: \"This could be a significant development on a case which has gained a lot of public interest over the years.\n\n\"On the basis of the information provided to us, we consider this to be new and potentially important evidence in the case of Mary Bastholm, however further detailed assessments will take place over the following few days to determine the extent of excavation needed.\n\n\"First and foremost our thoughts are with Mary's family and we would ask that their privacy is respected at this difficult time.\"\n\nIn a statement released via the force, Miss Bastholm's family said: \"We are aware of the ongoing developments around Mary's disappearance and are being kept up to date and supported by Gloucestershire Police family liaison officers.\n\n\"At this time please may we ask for privacy so we can grieve for Mary.\"\n\nPolice have begun removing evidence from the site\n\nA white tent has been set up outside the building in Southgate Street and officers are stationed at the scene.\n\nThe cafe is close to Cromwell Street, where officers found the bodies of West's victims at the home he shared with his wife Rosemary.\n\nA spokesperson for The Nelson Trust, a women's charity that owns The Clean Plate, said: \"As soon as we were made aware of the situation, we have done everything we can to accommodate the investigation.\n\n\"The Clean Plate will remain closed until all necessary activity is complete. \"It is an extraordinary twist of fate that this building, now associated with a story as tragic as that of the victims of Fred and Rosemary West, is part of a charity working to support women at risk from violence.\"\n\nA police cordon has been set up around the property\n\nMary Bastholm disappeared at a bus stop on her way to meet her boyfriend.\n\nThere has been no trace of her since. It's been a mystery for 53 years.\n\nThe cafe has been there for decades and has been under several different names.\n\nOne of its waitresses was Mary, who was 15 at the time when Fred West was a regular customer and was known to him.\n\nIt was also known he was a builder at the time renovation was needed on the cellar and the toilets at the cafe - work he was believed to have carried out in 1968.\n\nA lot of people locally put two and two together and suggested that perhaps he was responsible for her disappearance and that was where she ended up.\n\nPolice say their activity will take place over a number of weeks and there will be disruption for some time.\n\nFred West took his own life while awaiting trial for the murders of 12 people\n\nIn 2012, a petition was set up calling for a fresh investigation into Miss Bastholm's disappearance but it was rejected by then Chief Constable Tony Melville.\n\nThe confession came as police began to search 25 Cromwell Street, where they found the bodies of nine girls and young women.\n\nHe and his wife Rose were jointly charged with nine murders and he was charged with a further three.\n\nWest took his own life while awaiting the murder trial the following year.\n\nWest's former home, 25 Cromwell Street, has been demolished and was replaced with a walkway\n• None The impact of the West murders 25 years on\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A reconstruction of the route walked by police community support officer Julia James before she was killed two weeks ago has taken place.\n\nMs James, 53, was found dead next to Akholt Wood, Snowdown, near Dover, after taking her dog for a walk.\n\nAn actress, accompanied by Ms James's loyal Jack Russell dog, Toby, retraced her route in a bid to encourage witnesses to come forward.\n\nEarlier Callum Wheeler, 21, appeared in court charged with her murder.\n\nMr Wheeler, from Aylesham, appeared at Medway Magistrates' Court in person.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody and is next due to appear at Maidstone Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nMr Wheeler spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Callum Wheeler was seen getting into a van outside the court\n\nMs James had worked for Kent Police since 2008, and her family said she was \"fiercely loyal\" and \"loved with her whole heart\".\n\nShe had been walking her dog near her home at the time of the attack, police said.\n\nHer body was found with serious head injuries. Toby was found unharmed at her side.\n\nAn actress retraced Julia James's last walk with her dog Toby\n\nKent Police held a reconstruction of her last known movements when she left home at about 14:00 BST on 27 April.\n\nAn actress wearing identical clothes to Ms James - a light blue waterproof coat, blue jeans and dark boots - set off from the hamlet of Snowdown with Toby on a lead.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tom Richards said: \"Today we continue to appeal for witnesses. I am confident that there were people in the area at the time that we want to speak to.\"\n\nThe public have given police about 1,000 pieces of information, a Kent Police spokesman 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. Young people say they can be more \"spot prone\" when they wear a mask\n\nWales is \"actively\" considering whether or not to remove rules stipulating secondary pupils must wear masks at school, a senior doctor has said.\n\nIn England, face masks will no longer be required in schools from 17 May.\n\nThe current rule in Wales is that face coverings should be worn in all areas, including the classroom.\n\nThe children's commissioner says they make some pupils feel safer but others are struggling to communicate and experience skin problems.\n\nDr Giri Shankar, from Public Health Wales (PHW), said the country's technical advisory group was considering dropping the rules.\n\n\"This issue is under active consideration in Wales and colleagues are collating all evidence, including the input of Public Health Wales,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"Therefore we'll be able to make an informed assessment of whether we can move to non-use of face coverings in schools straight away or so we need more evidence.\"\n\nDr Shankar, incident director for the Covid outbreak response at PHW, added the issue would be approached with caution, especially as it involved an unvaccinated group.\n\n\"The school-age population have still not been vaccinated and are at risk of catching and spreading coronavirus, and we have to consider all possible measures that can still remain in place that can protect such cohorts of people.\n\n\"It is because of the careful and cautious way we've approached this we are able to reach and sustain these low levels... and we have to guard against the emergence of new variants.\"\n\nProf Eithne Hughes, director for the Association of School and College Leaders Wales union, said it is difficult for young learners to communicate while wearing face masks.\n\n\"The whole business of communication isn't just hearing somebody, it's about seeing their mouths and facial expression.\n\n\"The profession has absorbed this and taken it as other form of keeping everybody safe.\n\n\"I think it will be difficult unless there is strong science that supports the removal of face coverings as mitigations within a school setting. I think that's the only thing that will persuade people that is it safe.\"\n\nSally Holland, Wales' Children's Commissioner, said: \"While a few young people have said they feel safer wearing a mask in the classroom, and others say they accept it because they are keen to be in school even with restrictions, many others have raised with me difficulties they experience.\n\n\"This includes feeling discomfort, difficulties communicating, skin problems and steaming up of glasses.\n\n\"The government has assured me that the advice to wear face coverings in classrooms will be removed when advised by health experts.\"\n\nPupils have been required to wear masks in all areas except the classroom since November, and these rules were expanded to include the classroom as children returned to school following the Christmas break.\n\nThe Welsh government is due to announce the results of the latest lockdown review on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lord Frost said the protocol is presenting significant challenges for many in Northern Ireland\n\nThe UK's Brexit Minister Lord Frost has said it is hard to see that the way the Northern Ireland Protocol is currently operating \"can be sustainable for long\".\n\nHe was speaking after a visit to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe protocol is the part of the Brexit deal which creates a border in the Irish Sea.\n\nIt was agreed by the UK and EU in October 2019 and was subject to further negotiation in 2020.\n\nIt keeps NI in the EU single market for goods and means EU customs rules are enforced at its ports.\n\nLord Frost met businesses from several sectors including aerospace, food, retail, and life sciences.\n\nHe also visited the Border Control Post at Larne Harbour.\n\nHe said: \"It's clear from my visit that the protocol is presenting significant challenges for many in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Businesses have gone to extraordinary efforts to make the current requirements work, but it is hard to see that the way the protocol is currently operating can be sustainable for long.\"\n\nHe added that he hoped the EU would take a \"pragmatic way forward\" and that the UK government will \"continue to consider all our options in meeting our overriding responsibility for sustaining the peace and prosperity of everyone in Northern Ireland\".\n\nUK and EU officials are currently engaged in low key talks aimed at simplifying the operation of the protocol.\n\nThe NI Protocol means significant new paperwork, processes and checks when importing materials and equipment from Great Britain\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney says there is pressure to come up with solutions by June, ahead of the loyalist marching season.\n\nSpeaking on Monday after a meeting with European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic, Mr Coveney said: \"I think there is a pressure that we find a way to come up with solutions by some point in June, and I think the Commission is very much aware of that and I'm sure the British government is too.\"\n\nHe continued: \"It's not for me as an Irish minister to be setting deadlines.\n\n\"My role in this is to work as part of the EU, but also to reach out to colleagues in London as well, and of course in Belfast, to find a sensible, pragmatic way forward here that everyone can live with.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There is a surprising amount of life in the darkness of the Mariana Trench\n\nScientists say we now have the most precise information yet on the deepest points in each of Earth's five oceans.\n\nThe key locations where the seafloor bottoms out in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern oceans were mapped by the Five Deeps Expedition.\n\nSome of these places, such as the 10,924m-deep (6.8 miles) Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, had already been surveyed several times.\n\nBut the Five Deeps project removed a number of remaining uncertainties.\n\nFor example, in the Indian Ocean, there were two competing claims for the deepest point - a section of the Java Trench just off the coast of Indonesia; and a fracture zone to the southwest of Australia.\n\nThe rigorous measurement techniques employed by the Five Deeps team confirmed Java to be the winner, but this lowest section in the trench - at a depth of 7,187m - is actually 387km from where previous data had suggested the deepest point might be.\n\nLikewise, in the Southern Ocean, there is now a new place we must consider that region's deepest point. It's a depression called Factorian Deep at the far southern end of the South Sandwich Trench. It lies 7,432m down.\n\nThere is a location in the same trench, just to the north, that's deeper still (Meteor Deep at 8,265m) but it's technically in the Atlantic Ocean. The dividing line with the Southern Ocean starts at 60 degrees South latitude.\n\nAll of the new bathymetry (depth data) is contained in a paper published in the Geoscience Data Journal.\n\nIts lead author is Cassie Bongiovanni from Caladan Oceanic LLC, the company that helped organise the Five Deeps Expedition, which had as its figurehead the Texan financier and adventurer Victor Vescovo.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Heather Stewart: \"We found over 100 new seamounts in the South Sandwich Trench\"\n\nThe former US Navy reservist wanted to become the first person in history to dive to the lowest points in all five oceans and achieved this goal when he reached a spot known as the Molloy Hole (5,551m) in the Arctic on 24 August, 2019.\n\nBut in parallel to Mr Vescovo setting dive records in his submarine, the Limiting Factor, his science team were taking an unprecedented number of measurements of the temperature and salinity (saltiness) of the seawater at all levels down to the ocean floor.\n\nThis information was crucial in correcting the echo-sounder depth readings made from the hull of the sub's support ship, the Pressure Drop. The reported depths therefore have high confidence, even if they come with uncertainties of plus or minus 15m.\n\nIn this context, refining the observations any further will be extremely hard.\n\nThe wider context here is the quest to get better mapping data of the seabed in general. Current knowledge is woeful. Roughly 80% of the global ocean floor remains to be surveyed to the modern standard delivered by the likes of the Five Deeps Expedition.\n\n\"Over the course of 10 months, as we visited these five locations, we mapped an area the size of continental France. But within that was an area the size of Finland that was totally new, where the seafloor had never been seen before,\" explained team-member Dr Heather Stewart from the British Geological Survey.\n\n\"It just shows what can be done, what still needs to be done. And the Pressure Drop continues to work, so we are gathering more and more data,\" she told BBC News.\n\nFactorian Deep is at 60.4 degrees South, and therefore just in the Southern Ocean\n\nAll of this information is being handed over to the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, which aims to compile, from various data sources, a full-ocean depth map by the end of the decade.\n\nIt would be a critical resource. Better seafloor maps are needed for a host of reasons.\n\nThey are essential for navigation, of course, and for laying underwater cables and pipelines.\n\nThey are also important for fisheries management and conservation, because it is around the underwater mountains that wildlife tends to congregate. Each seamount is a biodiversity hotspot.\n\nIn addition, the rugged seafloor influences the behaviour of ocean currents and the vertical mixing of water. This is information required to improve the models that forecast future climate change - because it is the oceans that play a pivotal role in moving heat around the planet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victor Vescovo spoke to the BBC on completion of his historic five dives\n\nAnd if you want to understand precisely how sea-levels will rise in different parts of the world, good ocean-floor maps are a must.\n\nThe BBC made contact at the weekend with the Pressure Drop, which is currently sailing west of Australia in the Indian Ocean.\n\nTeam-member and co-author on the new paper, Prof Alan Jamieson, is still aboard. He said the research ship was making discoveries every time it sent instrumentation into the deep.\n\n\"For example, there are some major animal groups in the world for which we just don't know how deep they go. Just last month, we recorded a jellyfish 1,000m deeper than 9,000m, which was the previous record by us. So we've now got jellyfish down to 10,000m.\n\n\"Three weeks ago, we saw a squid at 6,500m. A squid at that depth! How did we not know this? And during the Five Deeps Expedition, we added 2,000m on the depth range for an octopus.\n\n\"These are not obscure animals; it's not like they're some sort of rare species. These are big animal groups that are clearly occupying much larger parts of the world than we thought,\" Prof Jamieson said.\n\nProf Jamieson's team profiled water temperature and salinity at all depths\n\nThe deepest place in the Atlantic is in the Puerto Rico Trench, a place called Brownson Deep at 8,378m. The expedition also confirmed the second deepest location in the Pacific, behind the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. This runner-up is the Horizon Deep in the Tonga Trench with a depth of 10,816m.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner: I have a 'very frank' relationship with Starmer\n\nPeople \"on the doorstep didn't know what Keir Starmer stood for\", Labour's deputy leader has said following poor results in England's local elections.\n\nAngela Rayner, who was locked in a dispute with Sir Keir over her role in the party at the weekend, told the BBC the two had \"robust conversations\".\n\nHowever, she also said she believed in him \"100% because I wouldn't still be working with him if I didn't.\"\n\nShe said the party now had to \"connect with voters we've lost\".\n\nMs Rayner was removed as the party's campaign coordinator on Saturday evening but the following day was given a job shadowing Michael Gove at the Cabinet Office and also became Labour's spokesperson for the future of work.\n\nMs Rayner did not deny she had been sacked from the position but said they had agreed she should take on a more \"front-facing\" role.\n\nShe said she had \"a very frank relationship\" with her leader, adding: \"I have always been a bit fiery... and Keir's a very measured person so actually we work incredibly well... because we bounce off each other.\"\n\nMs Rayner said she would use her new job to \"get out there and really sock it to the government\" but also to address questions from \"the doorstep\" about \"what does Labour stand for?\"\n\nThe Ashton-under-Lyne MP was speaking less than a week after Labour suffered defeat to the Conservative in the Hartlepool by-election and lost control of eight councils in England.\n\nHowever, the party achieved better results in Wales, where it remains the largest party in the Senedd - the Welsh Parliament.\n\nIt also won 11 out of 13 mayoral races in England.\n\nHowever, the results raised concern in the party that it had not done enough to win back its traditional strongholds from the Conservatives.\n\nReflecting on Sir Keir's time as Labour leader, Ms Rayner said it was \"right that we came together\" during the coronavirus pandemic but that now was the time for \"a fundamental rethink\" and \"real change in our communities\".\n\n\"The taxpayers of tomorrow will be paying off coronavirus for decades to come - I don't want them in low paid insecure work where they can't bring up their family and own their own home.\n\n\"I want to do something that tackles insecure work, tackles low pay, and delivers on high skilled jobs.\"\n\nShe also said she wanted to see green jobs go to areas that \"for decades haven't had any industry\".\n\nMs Rayner sought to distance herself from briefings by her supporters in the last few days saying, \"I say we pull together, like any family we have our fallouts and we do that in private'.\n\nShe warned, \"if we fight each other, then people don't think we're on their side and I want people to know that we are on their side - and that's what we are focused on.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCampaigners have called on the government to stop delaying the ban of so-called conversion therapy.\n\nThe ban for England and Wales was announced in the Queen's Speech - but it will be preceded by a consultation.\n\nIt will consider religious freedoms and how to protect accredited professionals in a move welcomed by some groups.\n\nA document signed by a number of health groups defined conversion therapy as the attempt to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nSome campaigners were disappointed that the government did not announce an immediate and wide-ranging ban on the practice.\n\nLGBT rights charity Stonewall says the practice must be banned in all forms \"including religious and faith-based settings\", and that any delay leaves LGBT groups \"at further risk of abuse\".\n\n\"We've had three years of talking,\" she said.\n\n\"What we really need is action that will protect young and old LGBT people right now, not this Groundhog Day of constantly being told that we're going to consult and listen.\"\n\nFormer equality adviser Jayne Ozanne says action is needed \"right now\"\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrists said it would be taking part in the consultation to \"highlight why conversion therapy is both unacceptable and harmful\" and to \"ensure clinicians can still help people fully explore their gender identity where appropriate\".\n\nThe ban - which was first pledged in 2018 - is set to include both sexuality and gender identity in its definition, and will protect people from \"coercive and abhorrent practices\".\n\nBut the government has said the short consultation will be held before the legislation is published, asking the public and interested parties how best to address the problem while still \"protecting the medical profession, defending freedom of speech, and upholding religious freedom\".\n\nIt also said it wants \"legitimate forms of pastoral support\" to be allowed to continue, including prayer to help someone explore their sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nThe Evangelical Alliance, which represents 3,500 churches, said it welcomed the consultation process.\n\n\"We want to avoid the situation where a person can be accused of conversion therapy for praying with someone who freely chooses and asks for prayer,\" Peter Lynas, the group's UK director, said.\n\nA number of health organisations and patient groups signed a document in 2017 warning all forms of conversion therapy were \"unethical and potentially harmful\".\n\nThe practice can take many forms, some of which - like \"corrective\" rape - are already illegal.\n\nAbout 5% of the 108,000 people who responded to a 2018 LGBT government survey said they had been offered some form of conversion therapy, while 2% had undergone it.\n\nMore than half said it was conducted by a faith group, while one in five received it from healthcare professionals.\n\nAs well as the ban in England and Wales, a support fund for victims of the practice will be made available.\n\nNorthern Ireland has passed a non-binding motion calling for a ban on gay conversion therapy \"in all its forms\".\n\nThe Scottish government \"fully supports moves by the UK government to end conversion therapy\", a spokesperson said.\n• None What is conversion therapy and will it be banned?", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City have won a third Premier League title in four years after closest challengers Manchester United were beaten by Leicester City.\n\nPep Guardiola's side are now 10 points ahead of second-placed United, who have just three games remaining.\n\nIt is the seventh time City have finished top of the English football pyramid and the fifth in nine years.\n\n\"This has been a season and a Premier League title like no other,\" said Guardiola.\n\n\"This was the hardest one. We will always remember this season for the way we won. I am so proud to be the manager here and of this group of players.\n\n\"They are so special. To come through this season, with all the restrictions and difficulties we've faced - and show the consistency we have is remarkable. It is relentless.\n\n\"Every single day, they are there, fighting for success, trying always to be better. They have been so, so resilient.\n\n\"I have been in Spain, I have been in Germany and I can say this is the toughest league, I would say by far. So it means a lot to everyone.\"\n• None 'We've never seen anything like this before' - Richards on how City won title\n\nManager Guardiola, 50, has now won eight domestic trophies since arriving in Manchester in 2016.\n\nCity had the chance to wrap up the title themselves on Saturday, but suffered a 2-1 defeat by Chelsea at Etihad Stadium.\n\nHowever, Leicester completed the job for them with a 2-1 victory at Old Trafford on Tuesday.\n\nIt is the sixth time the Premier League title was decided at Old Trafford - the most of any venue, and three of which have been for other sides.\n\nIt is City's second trophy in a little over two weeks after they beat Tottenham to claim the Carabao Cup and they are also in their first Champions League final after beating Paris St-Germain in midweek.\n\nSince being taken over by the Abu Dhabi Group in September 2008, City have won 12 cups and this is the third time they have clinched a league and EFL Cup double.\n\nThey are set to lift the Premier League trophy after their final game of the season against Everton on 23 May.\n\nUp to 10,000 fans will be present inside the stadium after the latest lifting of coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nGuardiola's side finished 18 points behind Liverpool last season, and after losing another key player from recent success in David Silva, Guardiola needed to act.\n\nBut City did not have the most auspicious start to the season, slumping to a 5-2 defeat in their opening home game to Leicester City.\n\nJust a day later, Guardiola moved to fix the problem - and the signing of Ruben Dias changed the course of the season.\n\nDias brought the composure, leadership and stability that had been lacking since Vincent Kompany left and his partnership with the reborn John Stones established City as the league's most miserly team.\n\nEven so, when Tottenham beat City on 21 November to go top of a seemingly unpredictable division, City were 11th and eight points off the pace, and it looked as though this might not be their year again.\n\nBut though doubts arose and questions were asked about the Spaniard's future, City quickly shut them up.\n\nThey went on to win 22 of their next 27 matches, including a 15-game winning run and a record-equalling 11 successive away league victories.\n\nAt Anfield in February, where they had not won in the league since 2003, City bullied and dominated the defending champions, with Phil Foden brilliant in a crushing 4-1 victory.\n\nStones and Dias' partnership at the back was key, conceding just three goals in the 15 games after that Spurs defeat, while Ilkay Gundogan has been the star at the opposite end of the pitch, his 12 goals so far leading City's goalscorers.\n\nThe chasing pack did not have enough to rein them in and the title returns to the blue half of Manchester.\n\nCity captain Fernandinho said leading the team was \"an honour and a privilege\".\n\n\"I am so proud and so happy with what we have achieved,\" he said. \"The Premier League is the hardest league in world football - every single match is tough. To win it again means the world to me and the rest of the squad.\n\nHe added: \"Football is everything to us and we strive every single day to be as good as we can be in the hope we can bring success to Manchester City.\n\n\"Winning the Premier League is the ultimate fulfilment of our ambitions. It's what we all dreamed of as young players, so to do it is a wonderful feeling.\n\n\"We have missed the fans so much. We wanted to do this for them.\n\n\"We will enjoy this moment and we hope the fans do too. Rest assured we will continue to do everything we can to bring the Champions League home this season.\"\n\nFormer City midfielder Michael Brown, speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"City have been convincing all the way through the season.\n\n\"They've been relentless in all competitions and have been an absolute pleasure to watch. They have shown attacking flair but that brilliant back four too. To be within touching distance of four trophies has been just fantastic.\n\n\"Pep Guardiola has found a team he can rely on and a total team performance. They fully deserve the Premier League trophy.\n\n\"You can only imagine people's phones are going to melt trying to get tickets to see the trophy lift.\"\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We have pushed Manchester City all the way, until 10-12 days left in the season and it is a very good achievement because they are a very good team.\n\n\"They are very worthy champions. I have to say congratulations because they have played some fantastic stuff this season.\"\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers, speaking to BBC Sport: \"They are the benchmark. They have been outstanding. Brilliant players, incredible manager and they thoroughly deserve the title.\"\n• None Hard-hitting drama about the crack epidemic in 1980s LA streaming now\n• None How Gen Z is learning to adapt and thrive: Young entrepreneurs find new ways to make money in Covid times", "England’s NHS app will be available to use as a vaccine passport from Monday, the government has said - but only for those who have had both doses of the jab.\n\nA paper version will also be available - by calling 119 but not through a GP.\n\nBoth will be available from Monday, 17 May, when the ban on foreign travel is eased.\n\nThe NHS app is separate to the NHS Covid-19 app, which is used for contact tracing.\n\nPeople can already use the NHS app to:\n\nIt can also show vaccine statuses, including for coronavirus, but currently this feature must be enabled by a GP before it appears on the app.\n\nThe new update will contain a separate feature to display coronavirus vaccine records, so the government said there should be no need to contact GPs.\n\nThe app will not show coronavirus test results, but the NHS plans to incorporate this in the future, the government website said.\n\nIt advised people to register to use the app at least two weeks before travelling.\n\nA paper letter can be requested only at least five days after a second vaccine dose and can take five days to arrive.\n\n“There are not many countries that currently accept proof of vaccination,” the government advice warns.\n\n“So for the time being, most people will still need to follow other rules when travelling abroad – like getting a negative pre-departure test.”\n\nThe government has announced 12 countries people in England can travel to, without having to quarantine when they return.\n\nBut not all of these destinations allow UK tourists.\n\nFor example, travel to mainland Portugal and the Azores is currently for essential purposes only.\n\nThe list will be reviewed every three weeks.\n\nCountries can be added or removed at short notice.\n\nIt's finally becoming clearer exactly how the government plans to use the NHS app as a vaccine passport.\n\nIt had been assumed it depended on getting GPs to share a patient's data with the app. I'd been on the phone to my GP surgery because neither of my two jabs was showing up in the app.\n\nBut this morning a Department of Health spokeswoman told me that NHS X - the health service digital division - has designed an update to the app which doesn't depend on GP records.\n\nThe update won't go live until May 17th and will provide a new tab displaying your vaccine record, the idea being that this is all you need to show rather than any other sensitive data being visible.\n\nWhat's not clear however is whether this solution will be acceptable to foreign airlines or border police. But there is one message the government is keen to get out - don't do what I did and ring your GP.\n\nTravellers also need to take coronavirus tests before returning to England and after arrival.\n\nSome countries may also require tests to be taken upon entry to the holiday destination.\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.\n\nSeveral companies have been working on apps to make travel easier, including trade body the International Air Transport Association, who are piloting 'Travel Pass'.\n\nIt said it has been in discussions with government to ensure the pass can read data from the NHS App.\n\n\"We're keen to go further and faster now that the Secretary of State has confirmed that travellers will have access to their covid vaccination status by 17 May,\" a spokesperson added. \"Globally there are now 20+ countries that are either easing testing or quarantine requirements for vaccinated passengers so the UK needs to move quickly if it does not want to fall behind globally in supporting its citizens' ability to freely travel.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDua Lipa demanded a pay rise for NHS workers as she won two major awards at the Brits - the UK's first major in-person ceremony of the Covid era.\n\nAnd Little Mix called out sexism in the music industry after becoming the first all-female outfit to win best British group.\n\nThe other big winners on the night were J Hus, Harry Styles and Taylor Swift.\n\nThe test event at London's O2 Arena took place with a 4,000-strong audience and no social distancing or face masks.\n\nRappers Headie One and AJ Tracey used several verses of their performance to call out the demonisation of drill music and criticise the government, while highlighting the work done by footballer and free school meals campaigner Marcus Rashford.\n\nWhile the 2021 Brits were not on a leap year it was very much a Lipa year, as the singer won two of the three awards for which she was nominated.\n\nFuture Nostalgia, the best-selling album released last year in the UK, predictably won best album.\n\nBut it was after winning the best British female award, her first of the night, that the star called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to give nurses and NHS workers pay rises, as opposed to mere applause.\n\nThis year, each of the Brit award trophies came in two parts and Dua dedicated hers to British nurse Dame Elizabeth Anionwu - who she noted has spent \"a stellar nursing career fighting racial injustice\" and \"protecting frontline workers\".\n\n\"She has also said that there's a massive disparity between gratitude and respect for frontline workers,\" said the singer. \"Because it's very good to clap for them, but we need to pay them.\n\n\"So I think what we should do, is we should all give a massive, massive round of applause and give Boris a message that we all support a fair pay rise is for our frontline.\"\n\nThe audience, which was packed with key workers, gave her a standing ovation.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast on Wednesday, environment secretary George Eustice responded to Dua Lipa's speech by stressing there was a \"difficult public finance environment\".\n\n\"There's been a pay freeze for most of the public sector and it's also important to recognise that in recent years that there have been some pay rises as well, particularly for nurses and the lower paid,\" he said.\n\n\"We can't always go as far as you'd like, but it's also the case that there's a pay review that's going on into the NHS,\" he continued.\n\nThe government recommended in March that NHS staff in England should receive a 1% pay increase this year, while many other public sector workers will have their pay frozen.\n\nBefore her double win, Dua Lipa had performed a medley of hits from her latest floor-filling record.\n\nIt was a visual love letter to her home city of London, complete with a Tube platform string quartet, Amy Winehouse-style beehive hair and a union jack skirt which evoked memories of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell's famous patriotic dress.\n\nThe night's big winner also shared her delight at seeing more women on both the stage and the winners' podium - several years after she called out the Brits for overlooking female artists.\n\nThis year, by contrast, women won four of the five mixed categories.\n\nOne such example, Little Mix dedicated their award to some of the great all-female bands who could and should have won in previous years.\n\n\"It's not easy, being a female in the UK pop industry,\" said Leigh-Anne Pinnock while accepting their award.\n\n\"We've seen white male dominance, misogyny and sexism, and a lack of diversity.\n\n\"We're proud that we've stuck together, surrounded ourselves with strong women and are now using our voices more than ever.\"\n\n\"The fact that a girl band has never won this award really does speak volumes,\" added bandmate Jade Thirlwall. \"So this award isn't just for us, it's for the Spice Girls, Sugababes, All Saints, Girls Aloud.\n\n\"All of the incredible female bands - this one's for you.\"\n\nSince the departure of Jesy Nelson, Little Mix are now a three-piece. Two of them - Pinnock and Perrie Edwards - have recently announced that they are pregnant.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC the day after Little Mix's speech, former Girls Aloud member Nicola Roberts said: \"They absolutely deserved that award last night and it's long overdue. I feel very proud of the girls because obviously they've been going for 10 years and it's not too dissimilar from the story of Girls Aloud.\"\n\nShe told 5 Live's Nihal Arthanayake: \"We were nominated a good few times for that award but we never received it, it was always a male indie band that would be recognised.\"\n\nElsewhere, rapper J Hus was not on hand on the night to pick up his award for best male solo star.\n\nBut Harry Styles was - in typically well-tailored fashion, sporting a brown and white Gucci suit - to collect best British single for his ubiquitous hit Watermelon Sugar.\n\nIf last month's Oscars took place in tinsel town then the Brits was very much tonsil town, as spectators underwent Covid tests on their way into the event.\n\nThe event formed part the government's pilot scheme for reopening live events safely, which includes the forthcoming FA Cup Final.\n\nThe live audience of about 4,000 people was about one-fifth of the O2's capacity and more than half of the ticket-holders were key workers from Greater London and their guests.\n\nSeveral performances were pre-recorded including Coldplay's show opener from a pontoon on the River Thames, and another from best international male The Weeknd.\n\nAfter being introduced by Jackie Weaver - of local council Zoom meeting fame - Chris Martin and co played their new single Higher Power with a little help from some holograms and pyrotechnics.\n\nSir Elton John later appeared on tape too alongside Years & Years star Olly Alexander for a rendition of Pet Shop Boys track It's a Sin, title track of the latter's recent drama series.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dua Lipa is among the music stars readjusting to being back on a red carpet\n\nBefore the event, US pop star Taylor Swift - who best international group-winners Haim described as \"the most incredible human being\" - was announced as the first female winner of the global icon award.\n\nSwift, who normally resides in Los Angeles, was there in-person to accept it and also praised the \"help and support we got from the NHS\" over the past year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Taylor Swift This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the only other award announced beforehand, young singer Griff was named as the winner of the rising star prize, and she demonstrated why with a career-making performance.\n\nPrevious winners of the award include Adele, who went on to win a host of more senior Brit Awards in the years that followed.\n\nAnother star in bloom, Arlo Parks, said it was \"a dream come true\" to win the breakthrough award and she sang - in front of a garden centre's worth of sunflowers - like she had been doing it forever.\n\nThe event finished with a collaboration between Rag 'n' Bone Man, a virtual Pink, and the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Choir.\n\nBefore teeing them up, comedian Jack Whitehall, hosting the awards for a fourth time, gave \"a massive big up to the key workers here tonight, and across the country\".\n\n\"We will never be able to thank you guys enough,\" he said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jonathon Seed has a conviction for an historical drink-driving offence\n\nA fresh Police and Crime Commissioner election will be held after a disbarred candidate won.\n\nConservative candidate Jonathon Seed gained 100,003 first and second preference votes in the Swindon and Wiltshire election.\n\nNews of an historical driving offence which made him ineligible did not emerge until Sunday after polls had closed.\n\nWiltshire Police said it was assessing how to proceed.\n\n\"We will now be working closely with the PARO [Police Area Returning Officer] to understand the full circumstances surrounding this situation.\n\n\"It would not be appropriate to comment further at this time,\" the force added.\n\nWhen all the first preferences were counted, Mr Seed had 84,885 votes, nearly 50,000 more than second-placed Liberal Democrat candidate Liz Webster but not enough to avoid the vote going to second preferences.\n\nWith second preference votes counted, Mr Seed gained 100,003 and second placed Liberal Democrat candidate, Liz Webster, polled 58,074 votes.\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Liz Webster added that Mr Seed had treated voters with \"total contempt\".\n\nShe added: \"He has betrayed their trust, wasted their time and a vast amount of public money.\n\n\"Re-running this election will cost tax payers £1.4m, require residents to go to vote again and deny our tired elections staff their well deserved break. All of that is an absolute disgrace.\n\n\"I am ready to fight again to be a powerful voice for the victims of crime, champion our dedicated police officers and staff, and to take the action needed to make our communities safer and bring law breakers to justice.\"\n\nLabour candidate Junab Ali said: \"I demand that the Conservative Party and Jonathon Seed publish full facts on the timelines of when they were first aware of this issue and apologise unreservedly to the people of Wiltshire for their failures in this case.\"\n\nHe also called on the party to offer to pay the full costs incurred by the \"abortive process\" for all parties including public bodies, candidates, their agents, parties, volunteers and the press and media.\n\n\"For the record I have never had any convictions for any offence,\" Mr Ali said.\n\nIndependent candidate Mike Rees said he was \"disappointed\" this had happened and he held Mr Seed responsible.\n\nCounts took place across Wiltshire, including in Salisbury\n\nPrior to withdrawing, the Wiltshire councillor said he was advised by his party that a 30-year-old drink-driving offence would not affect his application, on which basis he had mistakenly believed he was eligible to stand.\n\nHowever, the legislation creating Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) places a stricter bar on historical offences than other elected positions.\n\nGuidance on the Electoral Commission's website states that candidates cannot stand for election if they have ever been convicted of an imprisonable offence.\n\nThis disqualification applies even if the person was not imprisoned for that offence or if the conviction has been spent.\n\nEarlier Mr Seed, via his legal team, released the letter he sent to Terence Herbert, PARO for Swindon and Wiltshire, on Sunday.\n\nIn the letter Mr Seed states he had always been open with the Conservative party about his 1993 conviction, and that he had been reassured it did not prevent him from standing as a PCC candidate.\n\nMr Seed said that \"at all times up until the evening of 6 May\" he had been told, by party officials, that he was able to contest the election.\n\nLocal Conservative MPs Robert Buckland, James Gray and Justin Tomlinson declined to comment on Mr Seed's situation when approached by the BBC.\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\nOther first-preference votes in the Swindon and Wiltshire PCC election were; Junab Ali (Labour) 34,147 votes, Mike Rees (independent) 31,722, Brig Oubridge (Green Party) 16,606 and Julian Malins QC (Reform UK) 4,438.\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\nBoris Johnson has said the government \"won't settle for going back to the way things were\", as the UK emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe promised to end the \"criminal waste of talent\" in parts of the UK by spreading opportunity more evenly.\n\nIt came as the government unveiled 30 planned new laws for the year ahead in the Queen's Speech.\n\n\"Today we needed a Queen's Speech that rose to scale of the moment,\" said Sir Keir, but instead, he claimed, it was \"packed with short-term gimmicks and distant promises\".\n\nSir Keir seized on the absence of new legislation to fix the funding of adult social care - something he said the prime minister had promised on the steps of Downing Street two years ago.\n\nHe said the government's failure to act on the issue after the pandemic was \"nothing short of an insult\" and it was \"a similar story on skills and education\".\n\nThe government has promised to bring forward social care proposals later this year.\n\nSir Keir Starmer accuses the government of dragging its heels over social care funding\n\nMany of the measures in the Queen's Speech are aimed at the Conservatives' new electoral strongholds in the Midlands and north of England.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs: \"We intend to unite and level up across the whole of our United Kingdom because we one nation Conservatives understand this crucial point - that you will find flair and imagination and enthusiasm and genius distributed evenly across this country while opportunity is not.\n\n\"And we need to change that because it is not just a moral and social disgrace, it is an economic mistake. It is a criminal waste of talent.\n\n\"And though we cannot for one moment minimise the damage that Covid has done - the loss of learning, the NHS backlogs, the courts delays, the massive fiscal consequences - we must use this opportunity to achieve a national recovery so that jabs, jabs jabs becomes jobs, jobs, jobs.\"\n\nAmong the planned new laws are:\n\nMissing from the government's programme was a specific bill on dealing with the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, although the speech said legislation will be introduced.\n\nAnd trade unions accused the government of \"rowing back\" on a promise to protect workers' rights.\n\nDowning Street said an Employment Bill would be introduced \"when the time is right\", citing the pandemic as the reason for the delay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spot the difference: How the Queen's Speech changed this year\n\nMr Johnson committed to setting up a \"full, proper\" public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic, which could begin in the coming year, in response to a question from Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey.\n\nSir Ed also raised concerns about plans to introduce voter ID for future general elections, which he said would hit the disadvantaged and ethnic minorities, and were \"straight from the Donald Trump playbook\".\n\nAnd he echoed criticism of planning reforms by former Prime Minister Theresa May, who said they would hand too much power to developers and \"see the wrong homes being built in the wrong places\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, told the prime minister there was a fresh mandate for a Scottish independence referendum after Thursday's elections.\n\nHe also attacked \"further power grabs\" by the Westminster government in the Queen's Speech.\n\nOne of the pleasures of the Queen's Speech for journalists is hearing Her Majesty reading out the political slogans of the government of the day.\n\nSo 15 seconds in there was mention of the prime minister's favourite: plans to \"level up\" the country.\n\nThe meaning of the phrase is gradually being refined but the agenda is still vast and encompasses jobs, schools, health, policing, industry, productivity, civic pride, the strength of local leadership and the quality of life.\n\nBut the real detail in this area will come later this year when the government publishes a White Paper where it will spell out much more detail about what levelling up means and the \"bold\" action that ministers will take to achieve it.\n\nSo for now the government is trumpeting what it's already doing: a £4.8bn fund for infrastructure projects, £830m for redeveloping High Streets, along with eight freeports and 40 new hospitals in England.\n\nAnd where there are such big promises, Labour stands ready to highlight pledges that go unmet.\n\nThis year's speech also included changes to the policing of protests, including setting time and noise limits. A previous discussion of this by MPs earlier this year led to angry demonstrations.\n\nCritics say the measures impose disproportionate controls on free expression and the right to protest - but ministers say the proposals will respect human rights and will only affect very disruptive gatherings.\n\nA ban on so-called conversion therapy - attempts to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity - is also planned.\n\nThe Queen's Speech is part of the State Opening of Parliament, normally the grandest of Westminster occasions.\n\nBut it was pared back this year because of Covid, with fewer MPs and peers than normal gathering in the House of Lords to hear it - and the Queen arriving by car rather than the usual carriage.\n\nIt was the Queen's first major public engagement since the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clubbing comes back: 'This is the best day of my life'\n\n\"It feels surreal,\" said DJ Jayda G as clubbers returned to the dance floor for the first time since the pandemic began.\n\nAbout 3,000 people with negative Covid test results attended the Liverpool event on Friday, part of the government's pilot on mass events.\n\nThe clubbers did not have to wear face coverings or social distance for the first time since lockdown.\n\n\"I went in and I was like, oh my goodness, there are people and they're together and they're dancing and they're smiling and this is actually happening,\" said Jayda.\n\n\"You can feel it, like big energy.\"\n\nClubbers did not have to wear face coverings or social distance at the pilot event\n\nLiverpool University student Elliott Cause, 20, said: \"I feel like this is a big moment for the UK. I feel like university students have been struggling without this. I feel like this will do a lot.\"\n\nSome clubbers said they had \"spent a week\" choosing outfits for the event at the Bramley-Moore Dock warehouse.\n\nOne clubber told BBC Radio 5 live: \"We're just excited - we're all on the verge of tears ready to go in.\n\n\"It was like coronavirus never happened. It's given me hope for the future.\"\n\nAbout 3,000 people danced at the warehouse\n\nAs the evening wound down, another clubber said: \"I thought I had my teenage years robbed from me but after that tonight, it was absolutely amazing.\n\n\"I think the main feeling within the crowd was that we feel so privileged to actually have been here - so many students across the country haven't been able to experience this.\"\n\nEvent producer Sam Newson said the industry had been \"decimated\" in the past year.\n\n\"People have moved on - I've got colleagues who have lost houses. It has been incredibly hard, and so to try and get this back up and running is incredibly important.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blossoms will perform in another Liverpool pilot event on Sunday\n\nLiverpool director of public health Matt Ashton said the club event, which will also run on Saturday, was \"crucial\" for the local economy.\n\n\"In Liverpool, it's over 40% of our economic output. So it's really important we start to get the economy opening again.\"\n\nHe said clubbers who test positive in the next five days would be expected to self-isolate and would be spoken to by contact tracers.\n\nScientists will use data on crowd movements and air quality to see whether people mixing indoors at mass events will increase coronavirus transmission.\n\nThe night was part of the Events Research Programme, which will also see crowds return to the FA Cup final and Sunday's music festival in Liverpool's Sefton Park.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Pret a Manger will trial opening its concessions in Tesco supermarkets after seeing a huge drop in demand as more people work from home.\n\nThe sandwich chain has struggled in the pandemic as many of its branches are in city centres and rely on office trade.\n\nWith the remote working trend set to continue post-pandemic, it is exploring new ways to operate.\n\n\"We're transforming our business model to adjust to a new way of living and working,\" said Pret.\n\nWith more companies switching to hybrid working, chains such as Pret have been forced to respond.\n\nThe move will involve just four Pret branches opening in Tesco stores at first, but if successful, it will spread.\n\nThe first shop will open in Tesco's Kensington superstore in London in June, with three other shops set to open later in the summer.\n\nThe company launched its first grocery food range in Tesco earlier this year, selling frozen croissants and granola through the supermarket.\n\nThe move is the latest attempt by Pret to adapt to the changes imposed by coronavirus.\n\nIn the days before Covid struck, the food chain's extensive network of branches in prime urban locations was seen as its greatest strength.\n\nBut when lockdowns dramatically reduced the number of commuters, the firm became a symbol of the economic woes inflicted by the pandemic.\n\nDuring 2020, it closed 74 outlets in the UK and 22 in the US.\n\nLast summer, it cut 3,000 jobs, more than a third of its workforce, as part of a rescue plan to save the business.\n\nEarlier this year, it scrapped its dividend payment to shareholders and warned of \"material uncertainties\" over its future.\n\n\"As the UK emerges from lockdown, this partnership with Tesco is one way in which we're transforming our business model,\" said Pano Christou, Pret's chief executive.\n\nThe chain is also increasing its motorway service shops in partnership with Moto.\n\nIt opened the first of three at Cherwell Valley in December 2020, followed by a second at Moto's Rugby service which opened last month.\n\nThe chain has also introduced a subscription service allowing customers up to five cups of coffee a day for a £20 monthly fee, while Pret-branded ground coffee and espresso beans are now available via Amazon.", "Labour chair of the public accounts committee Meg Hillier asks if levelling up \"actually means levelling down\" for her constituency of Hackey South and Shoreditch in London.\n\nShe says there are promises of more homes, but over the past six years \"there has been a lack of delivery\".\n\nThere are bits of the Queen's Speech that she will support, she says, but she \"will watch like a hawk\" the spending of government.\n\nThe UK needs more homes, she says, but she asks if the ones committed by the government \"will truly be affordable\".\n\nShe says her constituents are sometimes living in cramped living arrangements, and she says the prime minister \"needs to look at the reality of people's lives\".\n\nIn her constituency, Hackney South and Shoreditch, the average house price is 17 times of the average wage, she states.\n\nShe says she is please the Environment Bill has been carried over from the last session of parliament, \"but let's hope we see more detail, more meaningful steps towards action on this issue\", she says.\n\nShe says her committee has spent some time looking at environment and climate change issues: \"We have found the government wanting, promising, with big, broad brush headlines, the earth, but potentially in its inaction potentially actually damaging the earth. There is no planet B, we have to get it right, now\", she says.\n\nShe says, in general, he Queen's Speech has bits in it that she wants to support, but \"we've seen promises made and not delivered... cheap headlines over substance just let people down\".", "The trial at St Albans Magistrates' Court was delayed for two hours\n\nA trial of six people over an Extinction Rebellion protest was delayed when a defendant glued himself to a table in court.\n\nLiam Norton, 36, also began filming with his phone at St Albans Magistrates' Court.\n\nIt took police two hours to remove him before the trial could continue.\n\nAll six defendants face a charge of obstruction of the highway, which they deny, over a demonstration at a newspaper printers in Hertfordshire.\n\nDistrict judge Sally Fudge said: \"[Mr Norton's] behaviour was particularly disruptive and I take the view there is a high likelihood he should become disruptive again were he allowed to attend court for a trial again.\"\n\nThe court heard activists used vehicles and bamboo lock-ons to block roads near Newsprinters' Broxbourne site, thereby halting deliveries of newspapers, on 4 September.\n\nNewsprinters produce the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corporation's titles including the Sun and the Times, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the London Evening Standard.\n\nPC Josh Wilson, who arrived on scene at 23:30 BST, told the court he saw protesters suspended from the bamboo structures with \"rock-climbing-like\" equipment, while other activists stood below.\n\nHe was told by activists the structures had taken seven minutes to assemble.\n\n\"They said they had been trained, and no-one was to touch it,\" said PC Wilson.\n\n\"If it fell it would have fallen on the people beneath it.\"\n\nThe court heard protesters also asked police to \"get Rupert Murdoch\" down to the site.\n\nInsp Matthew Barton said protesters had been given the option to let police facilitate a lawful protest by moving them out of the road.\n\nHe was told they would consider leaving an hour earlier than their planned departure time of 11:00 BST, which he described to the court as \"not a significant compromise\".\n\nFour of the five remaining defendants were represented by Raj Chada, with Timothy Speers, 35, representing himself.\n\nMr Speers cross-examined the police officers, asking them their understanding of the climate emergency.\n\nHe added: \"I just do not know why you have not arrested Rupert Murdoch when you have arrested us.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Welsh Government has given the go-ahead for both Swansea City and Newport County to welcome back fans for this month's EFL play-offs.\n\nThe games are among the pilot events for the safe return of fans to stadiums for the first time in 14 months.\n\nChampionship side Swansea will host 3,000 supporters for their semi-final home leg against Barnsley on 22 May.\n\nLeague Two Newport County will welcome 900 fans to Rodney Parade for the visit of Forest Green Rovers on 18 May.\n\nThe games will mark the first time supporters have been able to return to stadiums in Wales since coronavirus restrictions began in March 2020.\n\nThe play-off fixtures are part of a series of test events, the plans for which were announced by First Minister Mark Drakeford last month.\n• None Wales' spectators to join in sport and culture events trial\n• None Play-offs, a Euro 2020 send off and cricket lined up as potential pilot events\n• None 'Potential stadia event' considered by the Welsh Government in pilot scheme\n\nNo firm decisions could be taken before the results of last week's Senedd elections, although it is thought fixtures had already been earmarked before the election period.\n\nA list of nine pilots have now been confirmed, including Wales' football friendly fixture with Albania at Cardiff City Stadium on 5 June which will be set to welcome 4,000 supporters in the side's final game before this summer's European Championship.\n\nUp to 1,000 fans will also be able to attend the four-day County Championship fixture between Glamorgan and Lancashire at Sophia Gardens that starts on 3 June, while the Wales Triathlon in Fishguard on 11 and 12 June will also be open to registered participants.\n\nGlamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris said: \"We are absolutely delighted members will be allowed back into Sophia Gardens and able to cheer on the team.\n\n\"We are grateful to the Welsh Government for selecting us as a test event and we will work closely with them, as well as other key stakeholders... to help prepare for the pilot.\"\n\nCultural events - including theatres - and business are also included in the first tranche of pilots with more to follow over the summer, should they prove to be successful.\n\nNot originally on the list, talks with the EFL to include the play-off games began after Swansea City secured a top-six finish a fortnight ago, with Newport confirming their place at the weekend.\n\nThe EFL said Swansea and Newport were free to determine with local safety advisory groups the exact number of supporters that will be able to attend each game,.\n\nSwansea say approximately 3000 tickets will be made available via a ballot system, with those successful receiving their tickets free of charge.\n\n\"As a football club we are absolutely delighted to be able to welcome supporters back to the Liberty Stadium,\" Swansea City chief executive Julian Winter said.\n\n\"We cannot wait to be reunited with our supporters for the first time since March 2020 and we hope that those supporters who are successful in the ballot have an enjoyable experience, because we've missed you all immensely.\"\n\nNewport County will allow 900 fans into Rodney Parade to see them host Forest Green Rovers, with fans able to apply for a ballot for the tickets. Like with Swansea, the tickets will be free.\n\n\"My thanks to our club staff, Rodney Parade and multiple stakeholders who have come together in a relatively short space of time to ensure our play-off fixture can operate as a pilot event for the safe return of fans,\" Newport chairman Gavin Foxall said.\n\nEnglish clubs had already anticipated having fans attend their games in accordance to the UK Government's roadmap for easing of restrictions. The EFL made it clear they wanted an equal number of supporters in attendance for both legs of the respective play-off ties.\n\n\"The EFL is delighted to note that supporters have been formally permitted to attend both Swansea City and Newport County's forthcoming Sky Bet Play-Off Semi-Final fixtures,\" EFL chief executive Trevor Birch said.\n\n\"We welcome the final confirmation that has now been provided and thank the Welsh Government, local authorities and all those who have been involved in getting fans back for these exciting ties.\n\n\"Hopefully the insight gained from these fixtures and the Welsh Government's wider pilot programme will play an important role in getting fans in Wales back through the turnstiles in large numbers for the start of next season.\"\n\nMr Drakeford, added: \"It's been a long and difficult 18 months for the events industry in Wales - for event owners, those who depend on the sector for the work - and for those who long to see the return of live events to Wales.\n\n\"As we look at lifting the coronavirus restrictions in Wales we have worked closely with event organisers to establish a list of pilot test events which take in a range of different locations and types of event.\n\n\"This work is bringing us a step closer to a return to events in Wales, I'd like to thank these event owners and local authorities and health boards for their commitment in working with us and wish them well over the summer.\n\n\"These events are very different in nature and location but access of attendees - whether participants or spectators - is strictly controlled by the organisers and agreed in advance.\"\n\nWrexham have said they are not expecting to be able to have fans back at the Racecourse for their league run-in, despite the National League stating it is planning for the return of spectators from Monday 17 May for clubs in England.\n\nHowever, should the north Wales club - currently sixth in the table - qualify for the play-offs and have a home tie, then the First Minister said Wrexham will be granted a test event.\n\nMr Drakeford was responding to a question as to why no pilot events had been scheduled in north Wales.\n\n\"There's no geographical reason why the events are where they were. They were in different parts of Wales when we had our pilot programme back in August and September,\" he said.\n\n\"I am sure that if Wrexham reached the play-offs then there will be a pilot event where people will be able to attend the home leg of that, so in that sense there would be an event in north Wales and I hope very much - and my colleague Lesley Griffiths (the MS for Wrexham) wouldn't forgive me if I didn't say as much - that will indeed be the case in Wrexham.\"\n\nThe lack of a sporting test event in north Wales or involving Cymru Premier football teams had prompted social media comment and debate.", "Doug Beattie, a retired Army captain, said he was the right person to be able to \"rekindle the fortunes\" of the UUP\n\nUpper Bann MLA Doug Beattie has put his name forward to be the next leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).\n\nThe party has begun the process of appointing a new leader after Steve Aiken announced his resignation.\n\nMr Aiken said the party was \"not breaking through\" and had \"not been working as well as it should be\".\n\nMr Beattie, a retired Army captain, said he was the right person to \"rekindle the fortunes\" of the UUP and give a clear vision for the future.\n\nHe told BBC Newsline he would have a different style and would be \"able to reach out to all people in Northern Ireland regardless of what your religion is, sexual orientation or ethnicity\".\n\nMr Beattie, who was elected MLA for Upper Bann in 2016, said people underestimated Mr Aiken, whom he described as a strong unionist with liberal views.\n\n\"I share [those views] with him,\" he added. \"Maybe the presentation might be slightly different and maybe we have to work on how we get our message out to people.\"\n\nMr Beattie said the Northern Ireland Protocol, the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland which places a border in the Irish Sea, must be replaced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Unionism needs to get its act together - Steve Aiken\n\nHe said it was damaging to the Good Friday Agreement but the party had an alternative ready to go.\n\n\"I do not want a hardened border on the island of Ireland. But neither do I want a border in the Irish Sea,\" Mr Beattie said.\n\nEarlier, outgoing leader Mr Aiken said unionism needed to \"get its act together\" and there was now a time for reflection.\n\nMr Aiken will remain in charge temporarily until his successor is found.\n\nA virtual meeting of the party's ruling executive will be held on Tuesday night to discuss the leadership process.\n\nMr Aiken has been in charge since November 2019.\n\nSteve Aiken told a press conference in Stormont that the UUP had \"not been working as well as it should be\"\n\nMr Aiken said the UUP continued to do what was right not only for unionists but for all in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said his resignation as party leader was a \"bittersweet moment\".\n\n\"I am, however, self-aware enough to realise that our party, despite our strengths, is not breaking through,\" he said.\n\n\"I am also very aware of my limitations. And despite the successes over the last 19 months, I realise that a change of leadership is needed.\"\n\nUpper Bann MLA Doug Beattie (right) has been tipped as a possible successor to Mr Aiken (left)\n\nMr Aiken said the UUP was a team in which all parts needed to work effectively.\n\n\"Quite frankly, it hasn't been working as well as it should be. That is down to me,\" he said.\n\n\"Rather than being the perceived problem, I want to be part of the solution.\"\n\nParty chairman Danny Kennedy thanked Mr Aiken for his leadership, describing him as a \"dedicated Ulster Unionist\".\n\nLagan Valley assembly member Robbie Butler, who is the party's chief whip, has also been mentioned as a possible contender.\n\nIn his letter of resignation, Mr Aiken said he had taken the party as far as he could.\n\nHe said it had been a \"privilege to lead in these difficult and trying times\" and he took pride in the party's decision to take on the challenging health minister portfolio when Stormont was restored in 2020.\n\nHis departure follows the resignation of Arlene Foster as DUP leader and first minister after an internal revolt.\n\nMore than 20 DUP NI Assembly members and four MPs signed a letter voicing no-confidence in her leadership.\n\nResponding to Mr Aiken's decision to step down, Mrs Foster said she found him \"very straightforward and honourable\" as a fellow party leader.", "Queen Elizabeth ll has opened Parliament, setting out the government's plans to \"deliver a national recovery from the pandemic that makes the United Kingdom stronger, healthier and more prosperous than before\".\n\nThere were no members of the public and a limited number of MPs and peers to hear the speech, in line with social distancing rules.\n\nMembers will debate the speech over the next five days of parliamentary sittings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The whale was filmed by onlookers in Teddington on Monday morning\n\nA juvenile minke whale that became stranded in the River Thames has been put down.\n\nHundreds of people gathered along riverbanks in south-west London after the whale was first spotted on Sunday.\n\nIt was first freed from Richmond Lock but became stranded a second time in Teddington.\n\nRescuers earlier said the mammal's condition had deteriorated \"rapidly\" and a vet team had been working to \"end its suffering\".\n\nRescuers had been looking after the mammal which has become stuck against a wall\n\nA vet from the Zoological Society of London administered the injection shortly after 18:00.\n\nThe whale is now being moved and a post-mortem examination is due to be carried out.\n\nThe minke, which measured between 3m (10ft) and 4m (13ft), was first spotted near Barnes Bridge and became stranded on Richmond Lock's boat rollers at about 19:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nRNLI teams managed to remove it but it escaped as it was being towed and was seen swimming between Richmond and Teddington earlier on Monday before becoming stuck.\n\nBritish Divers Marine Life Rescue previously said the whale had been having difficulty swimming as its \"strength reserves seem to be compromised\".\n\nThey said a veterinary team had been \"on stand by to euthanise the animal to end its suffering\".\n\nThe RNLI earlier said the whale had been \"displaying concerning behaviours\"\n\nJulia Cable, national co-ordinator of the BDMLR, said the mammal had not been \"acting the way it did last night\" and had \"basically lost any energy that it had left in it\".\n\nShe added: \"It's also got another stranding injury which along with ones from yesterday all adds up really.\"\n\nDan Jarvis, also of BDMLR, said: \"It's for a very good reason they've come ashore. Sometimes it is by accident, they do get stranded, but usually sadly it is the case that they're already seriously ill or badly injured.\n\n\"And there's not a great deal we can do in that situation.\"\n\nOnlookers crowded onto a bridge and the towpath at Teddington to look for the whale\n\nLiz Sandeman, co-founder of Marine Connection, said the whale's welfare had to be considered as it was not just a case of getting it back to sea if it was a young animal.\n\n\"It wouldn't know how to feed. It learns everything from its mother - how to navigate, how to hunt,\" she said.\n\nThe juvenile whale is between 3m and 4m in length\n\nMinke whales are the smallest of the great whales, growing to about 33ft (10m), and are usually found throughout the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.\n\nTheir range extends from the ice edge in the Arctic during the summer to near the equator during winter.", "The Queen has carried out her first major public engagement since the death the Duke of Edinburgh, as she attended the State Opening of Parliament.\n\nPrince Philip spent decades accompanying the monarch to the event.\n\nThis year's ceremony was pared back because of the pandemic.\n\nIt was the monarch's first official appearance in public in her role as head of state and her first engagement outside Windsor Castle since the death of her husband on 9 April, aged 99.\n\nHowever, the Queen, 95, has been continuing her official duties, including taking part in virtual events, since a two-week period of royal mourning ended.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall joined the Queen for the state opening, during which the monarch marked the beginning of the parliamentary session by delivering the Queen's Speech, which set out the government's legislative plans.\n\nCharles has been at his mother's side for the last three occasions - in December 2019, October 2019 and Jun 2017 - after his father Philip fell ill with an infection, two months before he retired from public duties.\n\nCharles and Camilla also attended the ceremony\n\nThe event is usually known for its pomp and pageantry but was scaled back this year because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Queen, in day dress and hat, travelled from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster in a car, rather than by carriage.\n\nMPs and members of the House of Lords were required to wear masks throughout unless they were exempt, and everyone present took a Covid test beforehand.\n\nThe Imperial State Crown was driven to Parliament ahead of the Queen's arrival\n\nThose who attended were socially distanced in the chamber\n\nNo diplomatic or non-parliamentary guests were invited, with just 108 people attending, rather than up to 600 as is the norm.\n\nFewer politicians and peers attended, with only 74 people in the chamber, including the Queen, Prince Charles, Camilla, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, representatives from the House of Lords and House of Commons and those involved in the ceremonial procession.\n\nThere were 17 members of the Lords and 17 MPs in the Royal Gallery.\n\nIn another amendment, the Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland did not hand the speech directly to the Queen as is usually the custom, but placed it on a table instead.\n\nThere were also no military street liners or lining of the sovereign's staircase. There was no military band or Guard of Honour outside the Palace of Westminster or as part of the procession from Buckingham Palace.\n\nHowever, the ancient tradition of the Black Rod still took place.\n\nThis tradition saw the doors of the Commons shut in the face of Sarah Clarke, Lady Usher of the Black Rod, as she arrived to summon MPs. She then had to strike the door three times before it is opened, symbolising the Commons' independence from the monarchy.\n\nThe Queen did not wear the heavy Imperial State Crown, which was instead carried on a cushion and placed on a table nearby as it was in 2019.\n\nThe monarch last wore the crown, which is made of more than 3,000 gemstones and weighs two pounds and 13 ounces, for the 2016 state opening.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You can't underestimate how up for it the fans will be\"\n\nSporting matches, festivals and theatre events will have live crowds as part of trials to manage the return of audiences as Covid restrictions ease.\n\nWales' game against Albania will have 4,000 spectators and both Newport County and Swansea City will be allowed crowds for their division play-offs.\n\nThe first event to run a test will be an Eid celebration at Cardiff Castle in the next few days.\n\nThe Welsh government said attendance would be strictly controlled.\n\nThere are nine trial events on the list:\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"It's been a long and difficult 18 months for the events industry in Wales - for event owners, those who depend on the sector for the work - and for those who long to see the return of live events to Wales.\"\n\nHe said the pilots would bring Wales \"a step closer\" to a return to live events. A testing protocol and risk assessment would be individually tailored for each event.\n\n\"These events are very different in nature and location but access of attendees - whether participants or spectators - is strictly controlled by the organisers and agreed in advance,\" he said.\n\n\"We're asking people to celebrate Eid differently again this year. I very much hope that celebrations at the castle are enjoyed by those with tickets.\n\n\"If you don't have a ticket please celebrate safely with your immediate household or within support bubbles.\"\n\nAysha Rajak is looking forward to a \"normal\" Eid with other people\n\nThe Muslim Council of Wales said the inclusion of the Eid event showed recognition for the Muslim community and was \"symbolically important\".\n\nAysha Rajak, 26, from Newport, described being \"so excited\" when she heard about the Eid celebration at the castle.\n\n\"This is my second Ramadan and Eid in Wales and to be able to experience that with my family, go out, see Cardiff Castle and do it in such an iconic place is amazing.\n\n\"It's just lovely to know that we can all get together, be outside, enjoy ourselves and have a normal Eid with everybody else, not just sitting at home being cooped up.\"\n\nShe said worshipers had two Covid tests before receiving tickets to attend, adding: \"I'm really glad we are following these guidelines and making sure everybody's safe.\"\n\nNewport County supporter Martyn Phillips says all fans will want to watch a live match\n\nNewport County fan Martyn Phillips said it has been one of the \"most boring years\" as a football fan.\n\nHe added: \"It's been very unemotional watching from a laptop so this is, for every football fan, going to be huge, to be able to enjoy a game again.\n\n\"The worry now for the fans is how many people are going to be allowed in the stadium and whether they'll get a ticket, because everyone's going to want to go.\"\n\nTheatr Brycheiniog opened in 1997 as the first wholly Lottery-funded new build arts organisation in the UK.\n\nDavid Wilson, director of Theatr Brycheiniog in Brecon, said he was \"incredibly excited\" the theatre will host test events outdoors in June.\n\n\"It's been a very difficult year for the whole of the performing arts industry and all the events industry so we're really pleased- this is the first step of getting back to it,\" he said.\n\n\"Outdoor is the lowest risk, at this time, so we're delighted that's the first thing we're doing. We'd be even more pleased to get back to indoor.\"", "Millions of Apple's UK customers should be compensated for breaches of competition law, a legal action claims.\n\nThe case, filed with the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), alleges Apple's 30% commission on app sales is an abuse of dominance and unlawful.\n\nOrganisers are aiming to include nearly 20 million UK users in the collective action, if it is approved.\n\nThose behind the claim say they intend to seek damages of up to £1.5bn. Apple said the legal action was \"meritless\".\n\nWhile the UK does not have the same kind of class-action legal structure as the US, so-called \"optout\" claims have been allowed in the CAT since 2015, meaning all affected people could be covered unless they decide to exclude themselves.\n\nAnd anyone in the UK who has bought paid apps, paid subscriptions, or other in-app purchases on an iPhone or iPad since October 2015 is included in the claim.\n\nHowever, such a collective action needs to be approved by the tribunal before proceeding.\n\nWhile the 30% Apple cut on sales is already facing challenges from other companies, the group behind this claim say it is customers who have ultimately paid the fee.\n\nKing's College London digital-economy lecturer Dr Rachael Kent, who is taking the case to the tribunal and representing all those affected, said Apple \"charges entry and usage fees that are completely unjustified\".\n\n\"This is the behaviour of a monopolist and is unacceptable,\" she said.\n\nApple's estimates of its costs for running the App Store were \"just $100m\" (£71m) - but it had made $15bn (£10.6bn) last year.\n\n\"Apple achieves this by slapping unjustified charges on its users,\" Dr Kent said.\n\n\"It would not be able to impose these exorbitant charges if competitor platforms and payment systems were allowed to compete.\"\n\nThe rest of the team behind the case includes law firm Hausfeld and Co and Vannin Capital.\n\nVannin would be paid - a proportion of the total compensation, from \"damages that are left unclaimed\" - only if the case succeeded, the group said, \"putting their money at risk for a lengthy legal battle with one of the wealthiest corporations in the world\".\n\n\"Claimants will not lose out,\" the group added.\n\nIn a statement, Apple said: \"We believe this lawsuit is meritless and welcome the opportunity to discuss with the court our unwavering commitment to consumers and the many benefits the App Store has delivered to the UK's innovation economy.\"\n\nIt highlighted that the 30% cut is \"very much in the mainstream of those charged by all other digital marketplaces\", and said 84% of apps on its App Store were free - so developers paid nothing. It also argued that the \"vast majority\" of developers paid a commission of 15%, in an apparent reference to its recent decision to cut rates on the first $1m.\n\nApple's competitor Google also charges a 30% fee, along with several other digital platforms.\n\nBut the group said it was \"not in a position to comment on Google at the moment\".\n\nIt is embroiled in a major US-based legal battle with Epic Games, which says Apple's policies prevent it competing on price.\n\nAnd earlier this year, the competition tribunal rejected Epic's attempt to bring that case into the UK, while allowing a similar one against Google to proceed.", "Police investigating the death of community support officer Julia James have charged a 21-year-old man with her murder.\n\nMs James, 53, was found dead on 27 April near Akholt Wood, Snowdown, near Dover, having suffered serious head injuries.\n\nCallum Wheeler, from Aylesham, was arrested at 21:30 BST on Friday.\n\nHe remains in custody and is due to appear via video link at Medway Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nMs James had worked for Kent Police since 2008, and her family said she was \"fiercely loyal\" and \"loved with her whole heart\".\n\nShe died from severe head injuries and had been walking her dog near her home at the time, police said.\n\nPolice officers were in the Aylesham area, about a mile from where Ms James' body was found, on Monday as the probe into her death continued.", "As we reported first thing this morning, La Scala opera house in Milan, Italy, reopened on Monday evening after being closed for six months.\n\nOnly 500 spectators were allowed in for the performance - a fraction of the theatre's normal capacity of 2,000.\n\nBad news too for half-time Spritz fans, there was also no intermission last night and the bars were closed. But the show went on...\n\nTo respect social distancing, the musicians took over the ground-floor seating area... Image caption: To respect social distancing, the musicians took over the ground-floor seating area...\n\n...while the audience took their seats on the balconies Image caption: ...while the audience took their seats on the balconies\n\nOnly 500 ticket-holders will be admitted for each performance for the time being Image caption: Only 500 ticket-holders will be admitted for each performance for the time being\n\nThe performance came a day before the 75th anniversary of a historic concert in 1946 that celebrated the post-war re-opening of the opera house - which had been bombed three years earlier and rebuilt.\n\n\"We have all listened to recorded concerts from our armchairs, but this has nothing to do with the emotion of live music, the quality and beauty of natural sound,\" Dominique Meyer, La Scala's director since 2020, told the AFP news agency.", "Boris Johnson is promising a skills \"revolution\" for England, with loans for adults wanting to retrain and more powers to deal with failing colleges.\n\nThe measures are being unveiled in the Queen's Speech, which sets out the government's programme for the next year.\n\nIt includes 30 bills with pledges to overhaul the asylum system and reform planning laws in England.\n\nMPs are set to debate the proposed new laws this afternoon.\n\nThe Queen's Speech is part of the State Opening of Parliament, normally the grandest of Westminster occasions.\n\nBut it was pared back this year because of Covid, with fewer MPs and peers than normal gathering in the House of Lords to hear it - and the Queen arriving by car rather than the usual carriage.\n\nIt is the monarch's first major public engagement since the death of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nLabour has called for detailed plans to fix the \"broken\" social care system.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the government would \"bring forward a long-term plan to strengthen and reform social care\".\n\nThe government says its main focus is on helping the country recover from the pandemic, after the economy shrank by 9.9% last year., and spreading opportunity more evenly across the UK.\n\nA range of bills will aim to help industrial and post-industrial areas in particular, where the Conservatives have been picking up support recently.\n\nThe speech, written by ministers but delivered by the monarch, will promise to bring in a \"lifetime skills guarantee\".\n\nPart of this will be allowing all adults to get a \"flexible loan\" for higher-level education and training at university or college, \"useable at any point in their lives\".\n\nThis will be used to provide the equivalent of up to four years' study and can be used for full-time or part-time courses.\n\nBusinesses and trainers will be encouraged to target \"local needs in sectors including construction, digital, clean energy and manufacturing\".\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the government had \"lots of talk but little action\" about levelling up and creating jobs.\n\nShe said: \"It's great to hear that they want people to be able to retrain, but where are the jobs that people need...the good-quality jobs that allow people to earn decent money to look after their families, and to be able to spend in their local communities and on their high streets?\"\n\nAhead of the speech, the prime minister said: \"These new laws are the rocket fuel that we need to level up this country and ensure equal opportunities for all. We know that having the right skills and training is the route to better, well-paid jobs.\n\n\"I'm revolutionising the system so we can move past the outdated notion that there is only one route up the career ladder, and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to retrain or upskill at any point in their lives.\"\n\nThe government will introduce the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill - detailing the plans - next week.\n\nThe Queen's Speech will include 30 pieces of legislation, although several of them are carried over from the previous session.\n\nLabour and local government leaders have demanded detailed plans for the reform of social care.\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt said there was a \"live debate\" going on inside No 10 and the Treasury and tensions over the costs of changing the system, including introducing a cap on people's care costs.\n\nBut the Conservative chair of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee added that \"this is not about the immediate problem in public finances caused by pandemic because the costs will build up later\" and said the government needed to come up with \"a comprehensive solution\".\n\nMr Hancock said strengthening the social care system was \"close to the prime minister's heart\" but the pandemic had meant the government \"weren't able to put as much focus on [plans] as we would have done\".\n\nOn his first day as prime minister Boris Johnson made a promise to \"fix social care\" and shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has told the Daily Mirror that the Queen's Speech would be a test as to whether he \"delivers on his word\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"We must also see detail on long-promised plans to fix the broken social care system, reduce the shocking levels of violent crime and narrow the gap between different parts of the country.\n\n\"For 11 years we have had lots of rhetoric and the endless promise of jam tomorrow. That must now be turned to action.\"\n\nThis year's speech will also include changes to the policing of protests, including setting time and noise limits. A previous discussion of this by MPs earlier this year led to angry demonstrations.\n\nCritics say the measures impose disproportionate controls on free expression and the right to protest - but ministers say the proposals will respect human rights and will only affect very disruptive gatherings.\n\nThe speech is expected to include a bill restricting the future prosecution of British soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.\n\nAnd there is likely to be a Sovereign Borders Bill, aimed at dissuading asylum seekers from crossing the English Channel.\n\nA ban on so-called conversion therapy - attempts to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity - is proposed too. This will be preceded by a public consultation, the BBC understands.\n\nThe speech will include a commitment to introducing voter ID for future general elections, which has raised concerns among many MPs and civil rights groups.\n\nLegally binding environmental targets are also expected to feature, as is a planning bill to ease controls in England and increase housebuilding.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are concerned this legislation will leave people in some areas with less say over new developments.\n\nNational Trust director general Hilary McGrady has warned the prime minister over plans to drive development of homes, saying that \"the stakes are high and reforms need to be carefully considered\".\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph she said: \"The planning system is the most important tool that we have for shaping our physical environment.\n\n\"It is a mistake to characterise it as simply a blocker to new homes, growth and development in general.\"", "Formal exams were cancelled but students are sitting assessments on which their grades will be based\n\nThe Scottish Qualifications Authority has written to schools about \"very serious\" incidents of students sharing details of assessments on social media.\n\nFormal exams were cancelled this year because of Covid but students are instead sitting assessments.\n\nEach school has its own arrangements but the SQA has provided question papers which they can use.\n\nIt has emerged that pupils who have already sat the \"exams\" have been sharing information on the Tiktok app.\n\nFollowing reports of thousands of students discussing the questions on social media, the SQA wrote to schools on Monday to tell them they needed to investigate candidate malpractice and apply the \"appropriate penalties\".\n\nIn a message, titled \"Maintaining the confidentiality of secure assessment materials\", the SQA's director of qualifications development Dr Gill Stewart said it was taking the matter very seriously.\n\nShe said the SQA, which is responsible for Scotland's senior phase qualifications such as Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers, had provided \"optional secure assessment materials\" to schools which included question papers and marking instructions.\n\nDr Stewart said the SQA wrote to all schools and colleges on 20 April about the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of the material.\n\nHowever, with all schools scheduling the assessments at different times, pupils have been sharing information about what is in them on social media.\n\nThe Scottish government and Scottish Qualifications Authority say results should be based on teacher judgement backed up by evidence. This evidence is to be gathered through assessments, although the SQA says there is no requirement to sit prelims or a full formal exam diet.\n\nThere are differences in the approaches schools are taking.\n\nSome are staging what looks and feels very much like an exam diet, with study leave and assessments being carried out in games halls, under exam conditions.\n\nMany schools, however, are doing these assessments in class time, with some pupils scheduled to sit up to three assessments in one day, alongside \"normal\" classes for other subjects. This is the model which most closely reflects the guidance given by the SQA.\n\nOne National 5 pupil told us that the usual seven to nine final exams had been replaced by the stresses of more than 20 assessments, or \"mini exams\".\n\nA parent of a Higher pupil said the goalposts had been moved, and that her son was \"stressed out the point of being ill\".\n\nThe SQA said maintaining security and confidentiality was required for the integrity of the assessments and to ensure fairness for students.\n\nIt called for schools to investigate malpractice and apply penalties where it is found, although it did not say what those should be.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney announced in October that National 5 exams would not go ahead for second year in a row, but the Higher exams were not cancelled until mid-December.\n\nAt the time, Mr Swinney said that instead of exams there would be a new model that would \"base awards on teacher judgement of evidence of learner attainment\".\n\nFollowing a surge in new cases of Covid-19 in December, schools were closed to most pupils for more than three months.\n\nMost senior phase students did not return to school buildings until after the Easter holidays in the middle of April.\n\nMany complained that despite having to learn remotely since the New Year they were told at short notice there would be a \"final assessment\" after the Easter holidays on which their grade would be primarily based.\n\nThey said the assessments were \"exams by another name\" but were being sat with much less preparation - and without study leave.\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\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The SQA is taking action following reports of incidents involving candidates sharing confidential assessment content and is contacting schools and colleges to ensure that posts are removed as soon as possible and to reiterate the importance of security arrangements around assessment materials.\n\n\"Unlike with exams, schools have flexibility when setting assessments for this year's qualifications to take account of the disruption to learning that their pupils have experienced as a result of the pandemic.\"", "Upsides to living on St Michael's Mount include sea views but the downside is no pizza deliveries\n\nIf you love sea views and can live without pizza deliveries then a unique job opportunity could be for you.\n\nThe historic island of St Michael's Mount, off the coast of Cornwall, is looking for a new castle officer.\n\nThe estate wants someone who can stay at the castle at least five nights a week and take a \"hands-on approach\" to maintenance duties.\n\nBut those who suffer from sea sickness need not apply, as the only way on and off the island at high tide is by boat.\n\nCastle steward Duncan Murdoch said: \"The best thing about living here is having a sea view from every window.\n\n\"The worst thing is not being able to get a pizza delivered to your door.\"\n\nA causeway, which is submerged at high tide, is the only land route between the island and the mainland\n\nThe island is jointly run by the National Trust and St Aubyn Estates - and the St Aubyn family live in the castle.\n\nThe estate said it was looking for someone discreet and compassionate with a tactful demeanour.\n\nIt added: \"[You will] have a strong motivation to be based in West Cornwall,\" where the tidal island takes a commanding position in Mount's Bay.\n\nOther duties include a hands-on approach to conservation and checking the public rooms at the end of each day.\n\nKate Cornwell, head of HR at St Aubyn Estates, added: \"People who suffer from sea sickness need not apply - you'll need to love boats as it's the only way to get on and off the island at high tide.\"\n\nThe island was acquired by the St Aubyn family following the English Civil War\n\nThe castle dates back to 1135 when construction is said to have begun.\n\nSituated 500 yards off the coast, the island is reached by ferry boats to and from Marazion.\n\nA causeway, which is submerged at high tide, is the only land route between the island and the mainland.\n\nThe island takes its name from St Michael who supposedly appeared to a group of fishermen in 495 AD.\n\nThe oldest surviving buildings date from the 12th Century, when a Benedictine priory was founded there.\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.", "A police investigation has been launched after an ineligible candidate won a police and crime commissioner (PCC) election.\n\nConservative Jonathon Seed was elected to serve as Swindon and Wiltshire PCC, but cannot take up the post due to a previous driving conviction.\n\nThe election's returning officer said he was taking appropriate legal advice.\n\nWiltshire Police said it had asked Thames Valley Police to investigate.\n\nThe Wiltshire force said it handed over the investigation \"to ensure independent oversight and to remove any potential conflict of interest\".\n\nA spokesperson for Thames Valley Police added: \"As our inquiries are ongoing we will not be making further comment at this time.\"\n\nElectoral Commission guidance says PCC candidates cannot stand for election if they have been convicted of an offence punishable with a prison sentence.\n\nReturning officer Terence Herbert said: \"Given this unprecedented situation and given the circumstances, I will be seeking legal advice on the next steps and at that point I will be able to make any statements necessary about the position.\"\n\nKieran Kilgallen, chief executive of Wiltshire and Swindon's Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, said operational policing will remain unaffected.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said Mr Seed, who had been hoping to take over from departing Conservative colleague Angus Macpherson, had been \"disbarred\" after a driving offence had \"come to light\".\n\nIn a statement issued on Sunday, Mr Seed - who won a combined total of 47% of the vote - insisted he had declared his 30-year-old driving conviction to the party in his application for the role.\n\n\"Party officials confirmed my belief that my offence did not disqualify me. I have now been advised that this is not the case, and that I am disqualified as a PCC candidate. I have therefore withdrawn,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Liz Webster, who came second after securing 17% of the vote in the first round and a combined total of 27%, said she wanted to know when the Conservative Party knew Mr Seed was ineligible to stand.\n\n\"It's going to cost the taxpayer £1.4m to re-run the election, and there will obviously have to be a further police inquiry and, depending on the outcome, it may be a case for the Crown Prosecution Service,\" she said.\n\nA Conservative spokesman said: \"As there are ongoing police enquiries into this matter, we will not be commenting further at this stage.\"\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.", "Ten people killed in west Belfast almost 50 years ago in the wake of an Army operation were \"entirely innocent\", an inquest has found.\n\nThe inquest, which began in November 2018, examined the deaths in and around the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast in August 1971.\n\nThe deaths happened in the wake of an Army operation in which paramilitary suspects were detained without trial.\n\nBBC News NI's Will Leitch, who regularly attended the inquest, looks at the background to the events and the bereaved families' search for the truth.", "Texts published by the Treasury Committee reveal the extent of David Cameron's lobbying for the now-collapsed firm Greensill Capital.\n\nBetween 5 March and 26 June 2020, the ex-PM and his staff sent ministers and officials 45 messages on behalf of the company, including to the chancellor.\n\nThe committee is examining Mr Cameron's role in trying to access government funding for the financial company.\n\nCompany founder Lex Greensill appeared at the committee earlier on Tuesday.\n\nAnswering questions from MPs, Mr Greensill said he bore \"complete responsibility\" for the failure of his company adding that he was \"desperately saddened\" by the job losses.\n\nMr Cameron is due to face MPs on the same committee on Thursday afternoon.\n\nReports of Mr Cameron's lobbying for Greensill prompted Prime Minister Boris Johnson to order a review by lawyer Nigel Boardman into decisions made in government around the finance scheme and the role of Mr Greensill.\n\nThe Treasury Committee also published a letter from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in which it confirmed it is formally investigating the company.\n\nThe Treasury Committee's documents - provided by Mr Cameron - revealed that the former prime minister made strenuous efforts on behalf of Greensill including sending nine WhatsApp messages to Chancellor Rishi Sunak and 12 texts to Sir Tom Scholar, the permanent secretary of the Treasury.\n\nMr Cameron also contacted Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove and vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi, as well as ministers in the Treasury.\n\nGreensill had hoped to take part in a government scheme - the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) - set up to help businesses during the pandemic.\n\nHowever the Treasury rejected their application concluding the firm's proposals were not suitable.\n\nOn 3 April, Mr Cameron contacted Sir Tom: \"Again Greensill have got a \"no\". Am genuinely baffled. Letter says CCFF is there to provide liquidity for \"non financial corporates\". That is what we do. The fact the notes are issued by a financial entity is irrelevant. The recipients of the money are all non financials and mostly SMEs [Small and medium enterprises]! Can I have 5 minutes for a call? This seems bonkers. Am now calling CX, Gove, everyone.\"\n\nAnd on the same day he messaged Mr Sunak: \"HMT are refusing to extend CCFF to include supply chain finance, which is nuts as it pumps billions of cheap credit into SMEs... think there is a simple misunderstanding that I can explain.\"\n\nAlso on 3 April, Mr Cameron messaged Mr Gove: \"I know you are manically busy - and doing a great job, by the way (this is bloody hard and I think the team is coping extremely well). But do you have a moment for a word? I am on this number and v free.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLater that month on 22 April, Mr Cameron wrote to Mr Sunak: \"Just to report back. Three weeks later and while constructive conversations have taken place, the situation is still stuck.\"\n\n\"Could you try and give it another nudge over the finish line - this is clearly in the national interest, creates instant value for tens of thousands of SMEs and complies with the spirit (and we believe the letter) of the CCFF Market Notice?\"\n\nResponding to criticism over his lobbying efforts, Mr Cameron released a statement last month in which he acknowledged he should have contacted the government \"through only the most formal of channels\".\n\nHowever, he insisted that he had not broken any codes of conduct or government rules on lobbying.\n\nThe collapse of Greensill - which filed for insolvency in March - has threatened thousands of UK jobs at Liberty Steel, which was dependent on it for its financing.\n\nGiving evidence to the Treasury Committee, Mr Greensill said that his company had sought to take part in the CCFF scheme to ensure \"continued liquidity\" for its clients which included small businesses.\n\nCommittee chair Mel Stride asked if he was also motivated by a desire to \"shore up against potential problems\" Greensill itself might face during the pandemic.\n\nMr Greensill replied that his company had \"at no time sought funding for itself\" from the CCFF scheme.\n\nHe also said there had been \"no loss to the UK taxpayer\" from Greensill's collapse.", "Stock markets across the world have slid amid worries that US inflation is set to rise.\n\nIn the US, the Dow fell 474 points to lose 1.4% on Tuesday - its largest one-day drop since late February.\n\nEuropean bourses also saw steep declines on fears among traders that rising consumer prices could push up interest rates.\n\nThe index retreated below the 7,000 mark to 6,947.99 after hitting a post-pandemic high of 7,164 on Monday.\n\n\"The market just can't shake the inflation fears which are clouding the recovery from Covid,\" said AJ Bell investment director Russ Mould.\n\n\"Surging commodity prices are acting as a canary in the coal mine for inflation - with the huge infrastructure and stimulus packages in the US a key contributing factor.\"\n\nIn March, US President Joe Biden signed a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) economic relief bill that saw the government send $1,400 cheques to most Americans, and last month he set out plans for more government spending on jobs, education and social care.\n\nIt has led to a build-up of savings which is now being spent as the economy reopens, driving prices higher.\n\nInflation hit 2.6% in the 12 months to March, breaching the Federal Reserve's target of 2% and raising fears it might raise rates to cool things down.\n\nThere are similar concerns in other economies, but central banks have so far played down the risks.\n\nThe tech-heavy US Nasdaq share index initially fell more than 2% on Tuesday as markets opened, but reversed those losses later on.\n\nThe sell-off also continued in Asia and Europe, with both France's Cac 40 index and Germany's Dax index down nearly 2%.\n\nBen Yearsley, investment director at Shore Financial, said inflation was always likely to pick-up over the next few months given that in the same period a year ago economies were closed and oil prices slumped.\n\nHe said investors should only get concerned if higher inflation continues. \"If inflation persists and we are still talking about it in six months, for example, then that is a different scenario and will maybe lead to higher interest rates.\"\n\nOther analysts raised concerns that new data released by the US Labor Department on Tuesday showed that the number of job vacancies jumped by 597,000 to a record high of 8.1 million on the last day of March.\n\nThe food and hotels sectors added the most vacancies, with the report following figures that showed last week that job growth slowed sharply in April, curbed by shortages of available workers despite huge fiscal stimulus.\n\nOn the London Stock Exchange, British Airways owner IAG was one of the biggest fallers, with its shares falling more than 7% on the back of negative investor reaction to the government's green list of safe countries to travel to.\n\nShares in NatWest Group fell more than 3%.The government announced on Tuesday morning it had sold another chunk of shares in the bank, reducing its stake from 59.8% to 54.8% and raising £1.1bn for taxpayers.\n\nThe concerns in markets are not only about the United States, but that is the main focus of the nervousness. In common with many other governments, the US has supported household incomes, at a time when people have been unable or unwilling to spend as they normally would.\n\nSo there has been a build-up of unplanned savings. As restrictions are lifted and vaccinations make people feel more confident, much of that is likely to be spent. If there are any persistent disturbances to supply chains, that would only add to the pressure pushing prices higher.\n\nWill it lead the Federal Reserve and other central banks to change policy, to raise interest rates or curb their purchases of financial assets, or quantitative easing?\n\nSo far, the Fed has said it thinks the rise in inflation is due to \"transitory factors\" and it says expectations about future inflation are \"well anchored\".\n\nSo there is clearly no rush on its part to change policy. But investors are likely to remain wary that inflationary pressures might prove to be persistent and lead the Fed to rethink.", "Mark Drakeford with two new Welsh Labour Senedd members Buffy Williams and Sarah Murphy\n\nLabour's response to the Covid pandemic helped the party retain power after it won the most seats in the Welsh elections, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nMr Drakeford is set to continue as Wales' first minister after Labour won 30 of the 60 Welsh Parliament seats.\n\nThe Conservatives had their best Senedd campaign with 16 seats while Plaid in third took 13 seats.\n\nWelsh Labour leader Mr Drakeford has said his next Welsh government would be \"radical\" and \"ambitious\".\n\nHe said people felt they've been \"kept safe here in Wales\" and that was a \"strong theme\" in the election.\n\n\"From the very first day of the campaign here in Porthcawl, people have been coming to the doorstep to tell us that they feel glad they've lived in Wales over the last 15 months,\" said Mr Drakeford.\n\n\"A government I lead will continue to follow the science to do what our medical advisers tells us we should do, and that does mean doing things in a way that continues to keep Wales safe.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government controls Wales' Covid response and the relaxing of restrictions - such as meeting inside pubs and restaurants and travel rules - has tended to have been more cautious in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford: \"We've got a record of delivery here in Wales\"\n\n\"But on other matters, our manifesto is a radical manifesto with a host of ideas that are ambitious for Wales,\" added Mr Drakeford.\n\n\"I'll be very keen to ensure that we give that the most powerful sense of momentum behind it to get those things happening here in Wales.\"\n\nLabour, who have been in power in Wales either in coalition or as a minority ever since devolution in 1999, did fall one seat short of the 31 needed for an outright majority.\n\nBut this is a feat no party has ever achieved in the history of the Welsh Parliament.\n\nFifty-two of the 60 Senedd seats were declared on Friday, with two final regional list results on Saturday.\n\nBoth the South Wales East and South Wales Central constituencies returned two Welsh Conservative and two Plaid Cymru Members of the Senedd (MS).\n\nIn South Wales East, Delyth Jewell and Peredur Owen Griffiths were elected for Plaid, while Laura Anne Jones and Natasha Asghar will represent the region for the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nMs Asghar has become the first woman of colour to be elected into the Welsh Parliament and she was welcomed by Welsh Conservatives' Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies.\n\nMr Davies was elected in South Wales Central alongside fellow Tory politician Joel James and Plaid Cymru members Rhys ab Owen and Heledd Fychan.\n\nLabour fell one short of an outright majority, but the Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds, who was elected as an MS for Mid and West Wales has said she will not be seeking a ministerial role, like her predecessor Kirsty Williams.\n\n\"I'm absolutely clear that I'll be working across parties and I need to focus on what we can deliver,\" she said.\n\n\"But it is it is the case, I hope that I can work with and I can influence other parties, predominantly Labour, in order to deliver some of those real liberal values\".\n\nFour parties are represented in the new Senedd, which features 34 men and 26 women. Nineteen of the 60 MSs, just under a third, are serving in the Welsh Parliament for the first time.\n\nConservative Gareth Davies, an NHS physiotherapist, won the Vale of Clwyd from Labour\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives will be the second largest party in the Welsh Parliament and made gains on both the constituency and regional lists, but failed to win some of its target seats needed to win the election.\n\nIt did take the Vale of Clywd from Labour for the first time in 22 years, but Clwyd South and Wrexham, which both voted Conservative in the 2019 General Election, remained red.\n\nThe party also took Brecon and Radnorshire from the Liberal Democrats and won eight seats on the regional lists, more than any other party.\n\nThe 16-seat total beats the Conservatives' best result in a Welsh Parliament election of 14.\n\nNatasha Asghar, Peredur Owen Griffiths, Delyth Jewell and Laura Anne Jones were all confirmed as MSs for the South Wales East region on Saturday\n\n\"The team has gone above and beyond and deserve great credit for the positive campaign we've run right across Wales,\" said leader Mr Davies.\n\n\"I am thrilled to see Natasha Asghar make history in South Wales East by becoming the first female from a BAME background to be elected to the Senedd.\n\n\"It's been an unconventional campaign and it's clear incumbency and continuity has played a significant part. To that end, I would like to offer my sincere congratulations to Mark Drakeford and Welsh Labour on a successful campaign.\"\n\nFormer Plaid leader Leanne Wood has been a Senedd member since 2003 before her defeat\n\nPlaid Cymru won 13 seats, but former party leader Leanne Wood lost her seat in Rhondda to Labour.\n\nThe party's MP for Ceredigion, Ben Lake said on Friday losing Rhondda was \"an absolutely terrible blow\" for Plaid.\n\nSpeaking after the final results came in on Saturday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam price said the Senedd would be a \"poorer place\" without Ms Wood, who served in the Welsh Parliament for 18 years.\n\nHe also extended his congratulations to Mr Drakeford.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford is set to remain as first minister of Wales as his party wins 30 seats in the Senedd\n\nHe added: \"Although disappointed not to be returning more Members to the Senedd, I am proud Plaid Cymru ran a positive campaign based on a transformational programme.\n\n\"Our Senedd group will bring renewed energy and fresh ideas, and I look forward to working with all my colleagues as we continue to build the case for independence.\"\n\nThere were no wins for smaller parties, including UKIP, Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party and Reform UK - in sharp contrast to the seven regional seats UKIP took in 2016.\n\nThe new Senedd chamber will be made up only of members of the traditional parties.\n\nBuffy Williams took back Rhondda for Labour, unseating the former Plaid leader Leanne Wood\n\nDespite fears that turnout could be exceptionally low due to the coronavirus pandemic, turnout for the election was the highest in the Senedd's history.\n\nAt 46.6% this was just slightly higher than the record high of 46.3% at the first Senedd election in 1999, but is significantly lower than turnout for general elections.\n\nFor the first time 16-17-year-olds were able to vote at an election in Wales, but less than half registered to vote for who could form the next Welsh Parliament.", "The damage caused to a vehicle whose driver was innocently caught up in a collision\n\nAn estimated 170,000 car insurance claims in 15 months are suspected to have been linked to \"crash for cash\" gangs, investigations suggest.\n\nCrash for cash is the name given to a fraud when criminals deliberately cause a road collision to claim compensation.\n\nThe Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB), which shares intelligence within the sector, said that parts of Birmingham were the centre of these cases.\n\nInsurers said the fraud cost meant premiums increased for all motorists.\n\nThe IFB said there were 2.7 million motor insurance claims across the UK from October 2019 to the end of last year, of which 170,000 could be linked to suspected crash for cash networks.\n\nIt said the main hotspots were the B25, B34 and B8 postcode areas of Birmingham, and the BD7 and BD3 areas of Bradford.\n\nIt hoped that by pinpointing crash for cash hotspots, people would be encouraged to be vigilant as more drivers start to take to the roads.\n\nMany innocent drivers are caught up in these collisions.\n\nIFB investigations have found single gangs can be behind thousands of orchestrated collisions in some areas, with the combined value of their fraudulent claims running into the millions.\n\nJames Dalton, director of general insurance policy at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: \"These criminal gangs are often highly organised and put lives at risk.\n\n\"The amounts that they fraudulently claim can be huge, and can impact on the motor premiums paid by honest motorists.\"\n\nBetween 2011 to 2018, more than 150 people were convicted in south Wales for submitting bogus claims, as part of a £2m car insurance scam.\n\nThe Yandell family's \"crash for cash\" swindle went undetected for years due to the sheer number of people they roped into the scam.\n\nIt centred around using vehicles in staged accidents so the fraudsters could submit bogus and exaggerated insurance claims.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gill Daghistani wants to open a \"haven for disabled dogs\"\n\nA charity which finds new homes for disabled dogs from around the world is raising funds to create a rehabilitation and adoption centre.\n\nWolfie's Legacy in Holywell, Flintshire, was set up by Gill Daghistani after a personal experience caring for a disabled dog.\n\nShe has since helped more than 500 dogs find new homes, but said space was an ever-increasing issue.\n\nThe new centre would be the first of its kind in north Wales.\n\nMs Daghistani, who formed the organisation after caring for a rescue dog from Hungary which had a degenerative disease, said that caring for a disabled dog was \"no different to caring for a normal dog\" but they sometimes needed access to treatment in a specialist facility.\n\nMs Daghistani set up the charity in 2017 and has since cared for more than 500 disabled dogs\n\nShe said: \"We really need our own vet clinic because that's where the majority of our money goes - hydrotherapy.\"\n\nShe added that most of the dogs come from across Europe where street dogs were more common.\n\nVolunteers alert the charity when a disabled dog needs rehoming and, provided the transport fees are paid by a sponsor in that country, the charity takes responsibility for the animal's care and accommodation.\n\nMs Daghistani said: \"They've had so much hands-on treatment that they're very easy-going.\n\nGruber and Peanut live with 12 other dogs after being adopted\n\n\"The difficulty will be with the little extra care like strapping him into his wheelchair before you take him for a walk, but then it becomes second nature and it's so quick it takes literally seconds and they're away.\"\n\nLouise and Ali Emslie-Wigglesworth, from Kinmel Bay, Conwy county, already had 12 rescue dogs when they decided to adopt two from Wolfie's Legacy.\n\nGruber has three legs and Peanut suffered abuse which left her blind, but the owners said \"they've settled right in\".\n\nLouise Emslie-Wigglesworth and her partner Ali (pictured) said disabled dogs give just as much love as a non-disabled dog\n\nMs Emslie-Wigglesworth said: \"With a bit of kindness, love, TLC you get where you want to be with them.\n\n\"I wouldn't say they're any different from any able-bodied dog - the love that they give you, the fun, the pleasure - and they steal and melt your heart just like any other dog.\n\n\"Our two just carry on as normal, we don't restrict them. If you saw them at the beach and in the garden or milling around the home, even though Peanut's got no eyes, you wouldn't even know they've got a disability.\"", "There will be a public inquiry into the government's handling of the Covid pandemic in the current parliamentary session, Boris Johnson has pledged.\n\nSpeaking on the first day of a new session of Parliament, the prime minister told MPs he had already made it clear an inquiry was \"essential\".\n\nHe was responding to a question from Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey \"on behalf of bereaved families\".\n\nMr Johnson had previously only said there would be an inquiry in future.\n\nA session of Parliament is typically a year, but can be longer, with one recent session lasting two years.\n\nThe question about the inquiry came in the Commons debate after the Queen's Speech, which sets out the government's programme for the coming year.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I can certainly say that we will do that within this session. Yes, that's absolutely.\n\n\"I have made that clear before. I do believe it's essential that we have a full, proper public inquiry into the Covid pandemic.\"\n\nIt was first time Mr Johnson had put a timeframe on when a public inquiry will be held and comes a day after he had confirmed the government had met its four tests for easing lockdown restrictions in England next week.\n\nThe prime minister said deaths and hospitalisations had dropped to their lowest level since last July.\n\nThe latest government data released on Tuesday shows a further 20 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and there have been 2,474 new cases.\n\nA total of 18,088,385 people have now received both doses of a vaccine, while 35,587,348 - 67.6% of all adults - have had a first jab.\n\nLast month, Downing Street told a campaign group there was was \"simply no capacity\" for the government to divert resources to an \"intensive\" inquiry at the current time.\n\nThe Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group has been lobbying Mr Johnson since last summer to meet them and to launch an urgent independent investigation into the pandemic.\n\nJo Goodman, co-founder of the group, said: \"An inquiry must begin this summer. The prime minister may feel he can wait for answers, but bereaved families certainly can't.\n\n\"Learning lessons from the pandemic is critical to saving lives now and in the future.\"\n\nShe also urged Mr Johnson to commit to holding a statutory inquiry, where witnesses can be legally compelled to attend and give evidence under oath.\n\nDeputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said: \"We welcome this commitment and will hold the prime minister to it.\n\n\"It must be entirely open and truly independent, have the trust and confidence of bereaved families, and cannot be an exercise in the government marking its own homework.\"\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus urged the prime minister to set out a specific timeline and remit for the inquiry, with its vice-chairman, Tory MP Dan Poulter, calling for one focus to be Covid-related deaths in care homes.", "Yat-Sen Chang abused his position of trust and power, police say\n\nA former English National Ballet principal dancer has been found guilty of sexually assaulting his students.\n\nYat-Sen Chang attacked girls and women at the English National Ballet and Young Dancers Academy in London between December 2009 and March 2016.\n\nThe 49-year-old was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration. He was cleared of one offence.\n\nHe will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on 18 June.\n\nJudge Edward Connell told Chang his offending had \"escalated in seriousness\" and warned him he faced a \"lengthy custodial sentence\".\n\nThe offences related to four females, aged between 16 and 18 at the time, who accused the dancer of touching them inappropriately during massages at the schools.\n\nThe jury was told Chang, who now lives in the German city of Kiel, had \"used his position\" as a \"famous and revered\" ballet dancer to abuse his students.\n\n\"For his part, he trusted that his fame and his position would protect him from complaint, or from consequences of his actions,\" prosecutor Joel Smith said.\n\nChang had denied all the allegations, saying he had \"no idea\" why they had been made.\n\nThe ballet dancer said he had \"no idea\" why allegations had been made about him\n\nAccording to a profile on the Theatre Kiel website, Chang joined the English National Ballet in 1993 and was a principal dancer until 2011. He performed in productions including The Nutcracker, Coppelia and Sleeping Beauty.\n\nThe Met Police said two of his victims contacted the force in 2016 about assaults that had taken place during private ballet tuition lessons at either his home, the dance school or the ballet school.\n\nThe other two complainants came forward later with further allegations.\n\nSpeaking after the court hearing, Det Con Helen Larson described the ballet dancer as \"a dangerous and predatory individual\".\n\n\"He abused his position of trust and power to prey on them when they were most vulnerable,\" she added.\n\nChang was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Russian parliament says it will carry out a full review of gun control laws, in light of the Kazan shooting.\n\nRussia’s regulations are already strict, but politicians say better data collection on gun owners and sales is needed.\n\nMP Anatoly Vyborny, a specialist in that area, called for a central online database to alert officials. He said it should show, for example, if police had reported a gun owner to be a drug addict or alcoholic.\n\nThere are also calls to raise the minimum age for licence-holders - currently it is 18.\n\nThe most senior MP, Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, said Tatarstan’s school security was better than in some other regions of Russia. But some youths there had been attracted to “extremist groups” he added.\n\nTo get a gun licence in Russia you need: certificates from medics, including a psychiatrist and ophthalmologist, and you have to complete a course on safe handling of weapons. You must then get a special safe to store the weapon and have it inspected by police, BBC Monitoring reported in 2018.\n\nGun ownership is far less common than in the US: more than 4.5 million people legally own guns in Russia.\n\nBut there is a large black market in guns – partly fuelled by the eastern Ukraine conflict – and illegal guns are bought on the dark web, usually with cryptocurrency.", "A pilot event was recently held in Circus nightclub in Liverpool - with no masks or social distancing\n\nNightclubs have called on Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford to give a date when the sector can plan to reopen without restrictions.\n\nAn industry body warned ministers could be condemning thousands of businesses to bankruptcy without a date and extra financial help.\n\nOne licensee said some operators were \"desperate\" and running out of cash.\n\nThe Welsh government said any decision to relax restrictions must be based on the latest advice.\n\nBut it said it would give businesses \"as much notice as possible\".\n\nBusinesses fear that under current plans they have \"no hope\" of resuming trade except for test events.\n\nIn England the UK government has given a tentative date of 21 June at the earliest for when nightclubs may be allowed to reopen. No date has been set in Wales.\n\nMr Drakeford is expected to reveal his next steps on Covid at a press conference on Friday, following discussions with ministers on Monday.\n\nCoronavirus case rates currently stand at the lowest since last August, with 8.6 cases per 100,000 people over seven days.\n\nNick Newman, a licensee at Croeso Pubs which owns the Philharmonic and Brewhouse venues in Cardiff, said the situation was bad for nightclub businesses.\n\nThe chairman of the Cardiff Licensee Forum said: \"There's still a huge sector of our business which has no clarity whatsoever as to when it's going to reopen - nightclubs, venues that specialise in music.\n\n\"I know operators of nightclubs who are quite frankly desperate - there's no money left in the bank account.\n\n\"The licensees forum compromises roughly 100 businesses - or at least it did before the pandemic started. We've probably lost eight or nine businesses through this. Some of them are smallish businesses - some have been quite iconic.\"\n\nPubs and restaurants will be able to reopen indoors from 17 May, with four allowed to meet inside venues. But Mr Newman warned that would have a \"crippling effect\" on traders' ability to trade profitably.\n\n\"The way the night time economy has been treated in Wales during the pandemic just isn't good enough,\" he added.\n\nIt is not clear when nightclubs in Wales will be able to reopen\n\nUnder the current system, coronavirus restrictions are set according to which alert level the Welsh government believes is needed, according to what the risk is deemed to be.\n\nThe traffic light control plan has nightclubs and late-night entertainment venues closed at all coronavirus alert levels, except for pilot events at the low risk alert level one.\n\nMr Drakeford has dubbed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's roadmap for England \"very optimistic\".\n\nWales is currently in the high risk alert level three, with plans to move into alert level two if rates remain low on Monday.\n\nAn open letter from the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) asks for \"an indicative date for when nightclubs, entertainment-led, and late-night venues will be able to reopen without restrictions\".\n\n\"Under the alert levels as described in the current 'control plan', these businesses have no hope for reopening other than for test events in the lowest alert level.\n\n\"We would stress the importance for our sector of knowing when they will be able to operate without or with minimal restrictions and take deliberate decisions about staffing, debt and investment now, as night time economy businesses in England are currently doing.\"\n\nIt asks for additional financial support: \"Welsh government support initiatives to date have been neither sufficient nor comprehensive enough to prevent many businesses in the sector falling into significant debt.\n\n\"Without either a clear path to unrestricted opening, or extended and enhanced financial support, the Welsh government is condemning thousands of businesses in our sector.... to bankruptcy,\" it added.\n\nThe letter also calls for consistency for groups that can meet indoors and outdoors - six are currently able to meet outside, and for guidance to be changed so it does not \"discriminate\" against venues with amplified sound and music.\n\nIt is backed by licensee groups in Cardiff and Swansea.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said only businesses in England could have \"some optimism\" of reopening soon.\n\n\"In Wales, we've only got 17 May as a date to cling on to for indoor hospitality,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"We do need that same timeline, that same line of sight that we've got in England and in Scotland, to be able to look at reopening those closed segments of the economy and then looking forward to ending all restrictions altogether.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said: \"We understand the difficulties faced by all businesses, and particularly those involved in the night-time economy.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the sector and give businesses as much notice as possible. However, any decision to relax restrictions must be based on the latest medical and scientific advice.\"\n\nA recent set of pilot events took place in Liverpool, with a music festival, two club nights and a business conference held with no masks or social distancing.", "Soldier who tried to help attack 'hit with the butt of a rifle'\n\nJanet Donnelly, the daughter of Joseph Murphy, tells the press conference that for 50 years her family have lived with the knowledge that her father was “an innocent civilian murdered by British paratroopers”. Ms Donnelly says that when her family requested the original inquest papers “there were missing documents, no forensic report, no post-mortem photographs”. She says after her father was shot in the right thigh he was taken to the Henry Taggart Memorial Hall where he was beaten and “shot again into his open wound”. She says a soldier who tried to help her father while he was there was “hit with the butt of a rifle”. She thanks the soldier for his courage, along with witnesses “who have lived through this harrowing inquest”.", "Violence in Gaza and Israel shows no sign of abating amid continued rocket fire, air strikes and civil unrest among Jewish and Israeli Arab mobs.\n\nBBC reporters are on the ground in Gaza, Lod and Jerusalem.", "Thousands of Rangers supporters have marched on Glasgow city centre to celebrate their club's Scottish Premiership title win.\n\nThe club and the police had urged fans to disperse after they gathered at Ibrox Stadium for the final game of the season as Rangers beat Aberdeen 4-0.\n\nPolice Scotland said some arrests had been made for anti-social behaviour.\n\nGlasgow remains in level 3 of Covid lockdown restrictions, with large gatherings outdoors not permitted.\n\nFans clambered onto the gates outside the stadium after the final whistle. Flares and smoke bombs were also set off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marching fans pack the 'squinty' bridge over the River Clyde\n\nLarge numbers of fans then marched towards Glasgow city centre and unofficial celebrations in George Square.\n\nPolice Scotland said it had declined a request to facilitate the march to George Square and urged the crowd to go home.\n\nCh Supt Mark Sutherland, divisional commander for Greater Glasgow division, said: \"Today is understandably a significant day for Rangers Football Club and its supporters. We understand the importance of football in Glasgow.\n\n\"We are however still in the midst of a pandemic and under Coronavirus restrictions people should not be gathering for any reason.\"\n\nGlasgow city centre was taken over by celebrating fans\n\nThe post-match procession made its way through the streets between Ibrox and Glasgow city centre\n\nPolice Scotland said the march was \"largely peaceful in nature\" and it would not be proportionate to disperse the crowd by force.\n\nCh Supt Sutherland added: \"We will continue to police these events in a proportionate manner and officers are engaging with those who have gathered and are encouraging dispersal while tackling any anti-social behaviour.\"\n\nAfter the match, Rangers tweeted \"We are the champions\" and repeated an earlier call for fans to celebrate \"in a safe and sensible manner\" and disperse from Ibrox.\n\nFans clambered onto the stadium gates after the match\n\nHundreds of fans packed together outside the ground\n\nCrowds increased in the lead-up to the 12:30 kick-off\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf also called on supporters to take \"responsibility\" for their actions while level three restrictions remain in place.\n\nHe tweeted: \"While there is a significant Police presence at Ibrox and across City, this is ultimately about personal responsibility. If you have gathered you should disperse, particularly given yesterday's announcement about Covid in Glasgow.\n\nOn Friday night, Rangers supporters set off a large number of red flares and smoke bombs on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow.\n\nThe Ibrox club's first title in a decade was wrapped up in early March when thousands of fans gathered outside Ibrox and in Glasgow city centre.\n\nThere was a large police presence throughout the build-up to Saturday's final game of the season\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rangers fans lined the River Clyde with flares on Friday night\n\nSupporters were also accused of breaking coronavirus rules in Belfast and in Corby - which is known as \"little Scotland\" - following Rangers' win.\n\nLast May, thousands of Liverpool fans flouted social distancing guidelines and gathered outside Anfield to celebrate the club's first Premier league title in 30 years.\n\nAnd in November hundreds of Celtic supporters defied the level four restrictions and converged on Celtic Park to call for the removal of the club's then manager Neil Lennon.", "Only 80 of the plane's original 150 passengers were allowed to fly home due to Covid restrictions\n\nAustralia has carried out its first repatriation flight from India after ending its controversial travel ban from the Covid-hit country.\n\nThe government said 80 people arrived in Darwin on Saturday, and would be quarantined for a fortnight.\n\nTheir Qantas flight was originally scheduled to carry 150 people onboard.\n\nBut 70 passengers were later barred from travel after testing positive for coronavirus or coming into close contact with others who were.\n\nAustralia's strict rules on pre-flight testing meant there was not enough time for the seats to be given to others waiting to return.\n\nTreasurer Josh Frydenberg said there would be more capacity for people to return to Australia on other flights scheduled in May.\n\n\"We're following the medical advice and ensuring that we protect Australians here,\" Mr Frydenberg told reporters. \"We've got to maintain our health settings because we know how damaging to the lives and livelihoods of Australians an outbreak here [can be].\"\n\nHe added that Australia's High Commission was working to help other Australians stranded in India, and at least 9,500 had registered as wanting to return.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australians trapped in India 'betrayed' by ban on returning home\n\nThe Australian government announced the flights following an outcry over a three-week ban on all arrivals from India - a country dealing with one of the world's largest outbreaks of coronavirus.\n\nBut critics have said the proposed rescue effort is too small and excludes most Australians stuck in India. They've called on the government to allow more commercial airlines to fly from India to Australia.", "US retail giant Target is suspending in-store sales of Pokémon and sports trading cards amid safety concerns as customers vie for the collectibles.\n\nTarget, which has more than 1,900 outlets in the US, made the decision after a man drew a gun in a fight over cards outside a store in Wisconsin.\n\n\"The safety of our guests and our team is our top priority,\" the company said in a statement to US media.\n\nSales of trading cards have rocketed amid the pandemic.\n\nThe suspension of in-store sales is temporary, the company said, adding that online sales are not affected.\n\nWalmart, a top competitor to Target, says they have also seen increasing demand, but do not currently have plans to block sales.\n\nA fight broke out in a car park outside a Target in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on 7 May, after four men allegedly assaulted another man over sports trading cards, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.\n\nThe victim, who had a licence to carry a concealed gun, ended the fight by drawing his weapon, police say.\n\nNo shots were fired, and the four men ranging in age from 23 to 35 fled and were later arrested.\n\nThe store, a nearby grocery store and a children's healthcare clinic briefly went on lockdown.\n\nBefore announcing the ban, Target had previously said they were limiting trading card sales to one package per day per customer.\n\nSales of trading cards, and especially Pokémon with its famous catchphrase, \"gotta catch 'em all\", have surged in value in recent years.\n\nVideos online of social media influencers opening packages of cards in the hopes of find a rare one have increased interest, experts say.\n\nIn March, a card for a type of Pokémon known as a Charizard sold for nearly $400,000 (£285,000).\n\nAuction site eBay says sales of Pokémon cards in the US shot up 574% between 2019-20. Trade in football cards grew by 1,586%.", "Santander has said \"key services are recovering\" following customers' problems accessing accounts online and withdrawing cash from its ATMs.\n\nThe bank, which has 14 million active UK customers, said earlier that the problems affected branch, telephone, online, app and card services.\n\nIn an updated statement, the bank said it was working on a \"full recovery by the end of the day\".\n\nIt apologised and insisted: \"No-one will be out of pocket.\"\n\nFrom Monday, the bank said it will post details on its website and social media channels about how impacted customers can make a claim.\n\nOne customer told the BBC he had lost a day's wages because he could not buy petrol to travel to his job as a CCTV operator.\n\n\"It's been an absolute nightmare,\" said Marcus Evans, from Aberdare in south Wales. \"Nothing is working. It's ridiculous.\n\n\"I get my military pension and my wages paid into a Co-operative savings account and I transfer money on a weekly basis into my Santander account.\n\n\"I transferred money this morning. It's left my Co-op account but it hasn't arrived in my Santander account.\n\n\"We're left with very little food. It's disgusting. They need to compensate customers for this.\"\n\nAnother customer, Stephen Curtis, 58, from Gloucester, said he was trying to buy a new car when his card was rejected despite having enough funds in his account.\n\n\"It was so embarrassing,\" he said. \"This is unforgivable. I work in IT, I know about systems, I know about backups and upgrades. To have this happen, I would get the sack if it happened in my job.\n\n\"I'm definitely leaving the bank, and my wife's with the bank as well. We're on a tight schedule anyway, we're going on holiday Monday and we need the car for the holiday.\"\n\nA third customer, Jason Crossland, from Rotherham, told the BBC he was stuck in an outlet shopping centre with his children, unable to buy enough petrol to get home.\n\n\"I'm just trying to keep the kids occupied and my mother's having to drive from Rotherham about 40 miles away, he said. \"I've been online - nothing. I can't get anything.\n\n\"I've been having issues as soon as I started trying to use the card about 10.15.\"\n\nThe head of money at consumer magazine Which? said many customers will be stressed, \"with people reporting that they have been unable to make online payments or in some cases purchase food in their local supermarket\".\n\n\"Customers can incur fines, penalties and fees when they're not able to access their finances, so the bank must offer compensation to all those who have been impacted in this way,\" added Gareth Shaw.\n\nThe UK's financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, said it was \"aware of the issue and in contact with the firm to ensure it resolves it as soon as possible\".\n\nEarlier, Santander apologised on Twitter that a \"technical problem\" was affecting services and told customers they could \"access cash from other banks' ATMs, at the Post Office and can get cashback where that's available\".\n\nA service status page on its website had said planned maintenance was due to be performed on the Santander mobile banking app overnight on Friday. It is not known whether this prompted Saturday's problems.\n• None Santander to close more than 100 branches", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nPeerless Rangers swept aside Aberdeen to end the Scottish Premiership term unbeaten before officially lifting the Scottish title for the 55th time.\n\nSteven Gerrard's side are the first to go unbeaten since Brendan Rodgers' Celtic in 2016-17 and also matched their city rivals' 107-year-old clean-sheet record.\n\nRangers' task was made easier by Joe Lewis' unfortunate early own goal, with Kemar Roofe adding further efforts either side of the break, and Jermain Defoe scoring a late fourth.\n\nThe Ibrox side lived dangerously at the back in the second half but survived with their goal intact to finish the campaign having gone 26 league games without conceding.\n\nThe 13 goals they have conceded is one fewer than Celtic allowed in the 1913-14 season.\n\nRangers have now not lost to Aberdeen in eight meetings, winning all four of their encounters this season, including two 4-0 wins at Ibrox.\n\nHaving not scored in their previous four most recent visits to Ibrox and having already finished in fourth place, Stephen Glass' side started like one with little to play for and little belief that they could end Rangers' dominance.\n\nContrasting fortunes of rival captains handed Rangers the initiative as a James Tavernier cross struck defender Jack MacKenzie and goalkeeper Lewis contrived to divert a ball into his own net that looked to be spinning wide.\n\nThe sound of chanting fans anticipating the post-match trophy presentation continued to grow outside an empty Ibrox from a low murmur to a constant hum - interspersed with the wail of the occasional police siren - as Rangers extended their lead.\n\nRyan Kent forced his way past Connor McLennan's weak tackle to make it to the bye-line and his low cross into the six-yard box was flicked towards goal by Roofe, once again going in off the unfortunate MacKenzie.\n\nA double half-time substitution by visiting manager Glass turned the tide - but without improving the scoreline.\n\nUnmarked substitute Fraser Hornby failed to turn in a Ryan Hedges cross to the back post, Lewis Ferguson fired against the underside of the bar with an even more open goal gaping, and SPFL Premiership player of the year Allan McGregor produced a series of saves.\n\nHowever, two defensive slips allowed clinical Rangers to add the gloss to an outstanding season, in which they finished 25 points clear of deposed champions Celtic. as Roofe and Defoe stroked past a hapless Lewis.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nSome players will go this summer, but Gerrard will no doubt think he is building the foundations of a squad that can repeat their dominance in the Premiership next season.\n\nHis side cruised to victory despite looking like they had one eye on the post-match trophy presentation. Mind you, a few scares at the back suggest that defence might be the one area where strength in depth needs improving.\n\nAberdeen will wonder why they did not start the first half as positively as they did the second.\n\nWhile the opening 45 will have underlined to recently appointed manager Glass the work that needs done in the summer, the second will give him some signs of hope for the future - and who in his squad is up to the task.\n\nWhat they said\n\nRangers manager Steven Gerrard: \"Some of the numbers the players have posted this season has been really impressive. But when the dust settles we'll hit reset to go again. The expectation will go up but that's what happens at a club like this.\"\n\nAberdeen manager Stephen Glass: \"In the first half we weren't good enough. We showed Rangers a little bit too much respect. We didn't get close enough to them and allowed them to play.\"\n\nRangers move into a pre-season, when Gerrard will look to consolidate their dominance of the Scottish top flight but more immediately prepare for the Champions League third qualifying round in August.\n\nAberdeen's Glass has a bigger rebuilding job ahead of the second qualifying round in the new European Conference League in July.\n• None Goal! Rangers 4, Aberdeen 0. Jermain Defoe (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Greg Stewart.\n• None Attempt saved. Fraser Hornby (Aberdeen) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lewis Ferguson with a headed pass.\n• None Steven Davis (Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Connor McLennan (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Lewis Ferguson (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Fraser Hornby with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Cedric Itten (Rangers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Greg Stewart with a cross.\n• None Substitution, Rangers. Cedric Itten replaces Joe Aribo because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The global production of solar panels is using forced labour from China's Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province, an investigation has found.\n\nXinjiang produces about 45% of the world's supply of the key component, polysilicon, the research by the UK's Sheffield Hallam University says.\n\nIt says the material is obtained under a massive system of coercion, a claim denied by the Chinese authorities.\n\nThe report urges top panel makers to source the component elsewhere.\n\nSolar panels are in huge demand because of climate change.\n\nPolysilicon is extracted from mined quartz, and the research says the world's four biggest manufacturers use materials tainted by a massive system of coercion.\n\n\"The [Chinese] government claims that these programmes are in accordance with PRC [the People's Republic of China] law and that workers are engaged voluntarily, in a concerted government-supported effort to alleviate poverty,\" the report says.\n\n\"However, significant evidence - largely drawn from government and corporate sources - reveals that labour transfers are deployed in the Uyghur Region within an environment of unprecedented coercion, undergirded by the constant threat of re-education and internment.\"\n\nChina is facing mounting criticism from around the world over its treatment of the mostly Muslim Uyghur population in the north-western Xinjiang autonomous region.\n\nHuman rights groups believe China has detained more than a million Uyghurs over the past few years in what the state defines as \"re-education camps\".\n\nThere is evidence of Uyghurs being used as forced labour and of women being forcibly sterilised.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC visits the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\"\n\nThe US is among several countries to have accused China of committing genocide and crimes against humanity through its repression of the Uyghurs.\n\nChina denies such allegations, saying it has been combatting separatism and Islamist militancy in the region.", "Doctors in Wales have faced bullying and disciplinary action for raising concerns over working conditions and safety, a union leader has said.\n\nDr Phil Banfield, of BMA Wales, said doctors who complained about work, both before and during the Covid pandemic, were seen as \"troublemakers\".\n\nHe said there are worries bullying among staff will get worse as longer post-Covid waiting lists are tackled.\n\nThe Welsh government said bullying of NHS staff was \"entirely unacceptable\".\n\nDr Banfield, who is chairman of the BMA Welsh consultants' committee, said staff have faced the prospect of being victimised by colleagues, or even being forced to leave the Welsh NHS, for raising concerns over bullying or health and safety.\n\nHe said: \"Staff are quite good at raising concerns, but they don't raise concerns if they're going get in trouble for it, or they sense nothing is going to happen.\n\n\"What happens is you think 'I can't be bothered'.\n\n\"Decent people develop a kind of learned helplessness and it means that people who keep raising concerns stand out.\"\n\nDr Phil Banfield says doctors are often victimised for raising concerns over working conditions\n\nHe added: \"What happens then is the person that's raised the concerns is often victimised, either by colleagues or the health services themselves.\n\n\"They find themselves out on a limb. What happens then is the wrong people leave the health service.\"\n\nHe said doctors who complained about bullying or their working conditions and wished to go to tribunal were advised that they would win their case, but would never work in Wales again.\n\nDr Banfield also said issues relating to both safety and bullying were prevalent in the early stages of the Covid pandemic last spring, particularly around the issue of PPE.\n\n\"There were some concerns, and we expressed some alarm very early on, that there was a discrepancy between what the PPE advice was and what our members' concerns were on the shop floor,\" he said.\n\nHe said some doctors even had issues wearing masks away from the wards, in areas such as coffee rooms and corridors, before it became mandatory to wear them in hospitals.\n\nHe said doctors in hospitals across Wales were stopped and told to remove their masks while wearing them in public areas away from the wards.\n\nDr Banfield says doctors were across Wales were told to remove face masks in public areas of hospitals\n\nHe added: \"On more than one occasion, more than one doctor was threatened with disciplinary action for saying 'I don't feel comfortable walking around without a mask on'.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a survey by BMA Wales conducted in October 2020 found 63% of respondents who needed PPE said they were either not at all confident, or were only partly confident, that they would receive an appropriate fit test for PPE.\n\nFurthermore, 30% said they had not reported PPE concerns, as they felt no action would be taken by management.\n\nWith waiting lists growing through the pandemic, Dr Banfield said there were concerns bullying would only get worse as Wales moved out of the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"The risk is, as the health service comes under pressure to get through the backlog, that bullying will become more prevalent and we've got some evidence of that already.\n\n\"Staff are already exhausted and it will just result in people leaving the NHS.\"\n\nBMA Wales is calling for the introduction of independent freedom-to-speak-up guardians to help tackle these issues for NHS staff.\n\nSpecially appointed to report concerns, guardians are already in place in England and Scotland, offering staff the opportunity to speak in confidence.\n\nDr Banfield said: \"The idea is that they're independent, it's not the BMA as the union harping on about something. It's someone who's independent saying 'this doesn't seem right to us as well'.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it would consider introducing such guardians and a new policy was to be launched in June for the NHS with the aim of preventing bullying in the workplace.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Any form of discrimination, bullying and harassment within the NHS is entirely unacceptable and we take these matters very seriously.\n\n\"We continue to work with the NHS to tackle all forms of discrimination and expect all NHS Wales staff to be treated with dignity and respect.\n\n\"Policies are in place to ensure NHS organisations take action to address any concerns raised to them and all staff are encouraged to raise any worries.\n\n\"We are working with NHS employers and trade unions to explore how staff and patients can better raise any concerns about working practices or care, including considering the freedom to speak up model.\"\n• None NHS staff 'pressured' to go back to work", "More rough sleepers in England will be helped off the streets and into housing this year as part of a £203m programme, the government has announced.\n\nSome 2,688 people were estimated to be sleeping rough on any single night in England last autumn.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick said the money will be given to councils to support shelters and specialist mental health or addiction services.\n\nBut charity Crisis warned the funding \"will only scratch the surface\".\n\nThe government said its Rough Sleeping Initiative had reduced rough sleeping by nearly a third compared to areas that have not taken part in the programme.\n\nUp to 14,500 beds and 2,700 support staff will be funded through the new investment, Mr Jenrick said.\n\nThe government said the funding was an 81% increase from the £112m allocated for the initiative last year.\n\n\"At the beginning of the pandemic we took swift and decisive action to bring rough sleepers in from the streets and settled them into longer-term accommodation in record numbers,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"That work continues, the results are clear and are a huge credit to all involved.\"\n\nJon Sparkes, the chief executive of homeless charity Crisis, said the work in the past year to get people off the streets has been \"vital\", and he welcomed the additional funding.\n\n\"But the number of people helped by this funding will only scratch the surface,\" he added.\n\nThe announcement \"falls short\" for those with multiple support needs who require specialist help, like housing first, Mr Sparkes said, adding long-term solutions were needed.\n\n\"Without such sustained support, those helped off the streets today risk returning to them tomorrow.\"", "An asylum seeking family is transported on a Border Patrol bus (FILE)\n\nThe White House has vowed to investigate reports that migrant children were forced to remain on board buses overnight as they waited to be re-located away from the border.\n\nBiden press secretary Jen Psaki called it \"outrageous\" and vowed to probe \"how we got to this point, how this possibly happened\".\n\nAccording to US media, the children used the toilet and ate aboard the bus.\n\nIt comes amid an unprecedented influx in migrant children to US facilities.\n\nIn March, a record-breaking almost 19,000 unaccompanied migrant minors entered the US through the southern border.\n\nIn April the number dropped to around 17,200. More than 50,000 parents and children travelling as families also crossed into the US that month.\n\n\"There's no excuse for this kind of treatment,\" Ms Psaki said on Friday about the children on buses. \"In terms of what the consequences will be, I just can't predict that before an investigation has concluded.\"\n\nAccording to NBC News and the Dallas Morning News, a 15-year old boy from Honduras was left on board a bus in Dallas, Texas, from Saturday to Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The challenges facing Biden at the US-Mexico border\n\nThat was before the bus eventually departed for the long journey to be reunited with his mother in Seattle - a distance of over 2,000 miles (3,200km).\n\nThe bus company owner told NBC News that some children wait on the vehicles just a few hours and others are kept overnight. He said the coaches are often littered with refuse and have overflowing bathrooms.\n\n\"This is completely unacceptable,\" Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told NBC. His department is legally required to take custody of the children after their first 72 hours at US migration facilities.\n\nUnaccompanied migrant children at a detention centre in Donna, Texas, in late March\n\n\"We're quickly investigating this to get to the bottom of what happened, and we'll work to make sure this never happens again. The safety and well-being of the children is our priority.\"\n\nBorder crossings hit a 20-year high after the Biden administration refused to revive the Trump-era policy of expelling unaccompanied migrant children under a pandemic-related emergency order known as Title 42.\n\nThe Biden administration has been scrambling to place the unaccompanied migrant children into the homes of relatives in the US.\n\nLast month US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) said the number of unaccompanied migrant children being kept in cramped government-detention centres had dropped by nearly 90%.\n\nBut there are still more than 20,000 unaccompanied children in the care of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.", "Monday sees another milestone in the reopening of the economy: people in most of the UK will be able to go to a bar or restaurant and eat indoors.\n\nBut some favourite haunts will no longer be there: over the last year, thousands of establishments have closed, latest surveys indicate.\n\nAcross Britain, there are 9.7% fewer restaurants to choose from, compared with before the pandemic.\n\nAnd mid-market \"casual dining\" venues have fallen by 19.4%.\n\nThe data in the latest Market Recovery Monitor from CGA and AlixPartners suggests that while many pubs and bars have also struggled to survive the pandemic, it is restaurants that have fared worst.\n\nThat includes places such as Oskar Ali's in Newport in Wales. Oskar and his wife opened Falafilo Island, serving grilled meats and vegetables and falafel, in August 2018.\n\nThey invested thousands of pounds to set up the business, transforming the dark interior with a cheerful yellow ceiling and tree-patterned walls.\n\n\"We had so many lovely customers, but corona just hit us so hard, we had to close,\" Oskar told BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme.\n\nThey hoped a busy Christmas might save them, but Oskar's wife caught Covid and they had to isolate for two weeks.\n\n\"Then it was January and we thought: we should just close,\" he says. \"We couldn't survive, even with the grants they gave.\"\n\nOskar, a computer science graduate, now has thousands of pounds of debt and is looking for other work.\n\nOskar and his wife invested thousands of pounds to set up the restaurant\n\nCGA and AlixPartners measured the impact of the last 13 months on pubs and restaurants that hold a licence to serve alcohol.\n\nLooking at the net number of venues, once all closures and new openings were taken into account, they found pubs across Britain fared slightly better than the restaurant sector.\n\nThe number of pubs serving food has fallen by 4.2%. Bars and pubs that only serve drinks fell by 5.2%.\n\nBut on top of the near-20% fall in casual dining outlets, bar-restaurants, which make up a smaller part of the overall dining market, fell by 9.6%.\n\nGeneral restaurants, which are the largest dining out category, are down 10.2%.\n\n\"The main challenge for restaurants, in comparison to pubs, is that the restaurants all tend to be leased premises - they all have landlords and rent to pay,\" says Graeme Smith, managing director of AlixPartners.\n\n\"When their revenues stopped, their rental bills continued to build up, unless they managed to reach an agreement with their landlord.\n\n\"Unfortunately, with the burn of costs of rent and other costs of business, for a number of restaurants, that was simply too much to keep going through the period of closure.\"\n\nAnd while restaurants that belong to larger chains were sometimes able to fall back on the group financially, or negotiate agreements with landlords across the business, independent operators have found it harder to survive.\n\nThe restaurant sector was already shrinking before the pandemic, but the net losses between 2017 and 2019 were between 0.9% and 2.2% a year, according to CGA AlixPartners data.\n\nMany of those earlier losses were in crowded sectors such as burger bars. But losses over the past year have included businesses with otherwise promising futures.\n\nHendersons, an Edinburgh institution, was an early casualty of the pandemic\n\nHendersons in Edinburgh was founded in the 1960s, and as vegetarian and vegan food became more fashionable, it had expanded to two new sites in the city.\n\nBefore the pandemic hit, it was trading strongly thanks to loyal customers and Edinburgh's throngs of summer visitors. But it relied completely on in-person footfall, says Janet Home, the third generation of the family to be involved in managing the business.\n\nWhen Covid hit, they tried to adapt, offering veg boxes and dry goods deliveries.\n\n\"We didn't have anything set up, the website wasn't set up for online delivery, there were so many processes we needed to go through,\" says Janet.\n\n\"With all the competition out there, there was no way we could cover all the running costs of the business.\"\n\nIn July, faced with redundancy payments for 35 staff, they reached breaking point.\n\n\"It was a soul-destroying decision the family had to come to, says Janet. \"We knew it was game over.\"\n\nLooking back she has no doubt it was the right decision. They would need to run at 60-75% capacity to cover their costs, which is difficult with social distancing rules still in place.\n\n\"Even if we were in a position to reopen now, the tourists are going to take time to come back, the offices are not at capacity, [some] students are working from home.\"\n\nThe Local Data Company, which monitors changes to property use across England, Scotland and Wales, says the biggest net losses were in American and Italian restaurants.\n\nBut some categories saw a net gain in the number of outlets, according to their data, including vegan and Japanese restaurants.\n\nGraeme Smith from AlixPartners says he expects the churn to continue in the next few months.\n\nThere's a \"cliff edge\" at the end of June for many restaurants, he points out, because after that point landlords can demand unpaid rents again, as the rules to support the sector are lifted. That could prompt a new wave of closures as big as the number we've seen already he warns.\n\nBut pent-up demand could encourage new openings too.\n\n\"Landlords will be keen to get new tenants into their sites,\" points out Mr Smith. \"And restaurateurs are naturally optimistic people. When you see a restaurant closed, it doesn't stay closed for long.\"\n\nTim Hall is one of the founders of a small sourdough pizza chain, Three Joes - one of the businesses poised to capitalise on a bounce-back in demand.\n\nLast year, they bought another small chain, The Stable, taking them from three to 12 sites, mostly in south-western England.\n\n\"We're quite nervous about what's going to happen,\" he says. \"We've taken a big risk.\"\n\nRestaurateurs hope customers will return after a year of restrictions\n\nThe new restaurants are all either waterside or market-square sites, most with outdoor spaces, that he thinks will appeal to customers post-Covid. Crucially, none rely on \"office block\" trade.\n\n\"I don't think overall the trend for people to eat out more is going to be damaged in the medium term,\" he says. \"And in the short term, it will accelerate hugely.\n\n\"We're anticipating a summer like no other. Apart from anything else, people are trapped in England, they want to spend their savings and enjoy themselves.\"\n\nYou can hear more on the impact of the pandemic on Britain's restaurants on BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme on 23 May.", "Prince Louis was snapped by the Duchess of Cambridge on the eve of his third birthday\n\nWhen Prince Louis's third birthday snaps were released, they caused excitement for Welsh workers at a bicycle company.\n\nThe prince was photographed on a bike made at Frog's factory in Pontypool.\n\nSeeing the prince on the bike in last month's photos was a \"very pleasant surprise,\" the firm's Val Benyon said.\n\n\"There has been lots of reaction across the company, in particular from those who have been involved in building the bike,\" she said.\n\nShe said seeing the prince on a set of the business's Welsh wheels was \"a great compliment\".\n\n\"It's shining a light on Welsh manufacturing,\" Ms Benyon said.\n\nThe company said it was contacted by \"one of the royal household\" before the prince's birthday.\n\nThe duchess also released a photograph of Princess Charlotte on her sixth birthday\n\nMs Benyon declined to reveal whether either the duke or duchess called them directly.\n\n\"We would normally recommend a family come into the store but we could not expect the Royal Family to come in,\" she said.\n\nThere was \"no better endorsement\" than a royal one, she said. \"I received a text from my son at three in the morning who found it really exciting.\"\n\nThe Tadpole balance bike Louis was pictured on is now out of stock, but they sold out before the image was published.\n\nBalance bikes aim to help children get used to riding before moving on to pedals.\n\nSix-year-old Prince Andrew had a replica of the Aston Martin from the James Bond film Goldfinger\n\nPrince Louis and his bike was far from the first time a royal child's toys or interests have made the news.\n\nHere are a few of the family's favourites:\n\nPrincess Elizabeth played in a Wendy house given by the people of Wales", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: New variant \"may cause disruption to our attempts to continue down the roadmap\"\n\nThe Indian virus variant could pose \"serious disruption\" to lockdown easing in England on 21 June, the PM says.\n\nBoris Johnson said if it was found to be \"significantly\" more transmissible there could be \"some hard choices\".\n\nThe wait between jabs will be cut from 12 weeks to eight for the over-50s and clinically vulnerable because of concern over the variant, he added.\n\nCases of the Indian coronavirus variant have nearly tripled in the past week, Public Health England figures show.\n\nSurge testing is already taking place in 15 areas across England, including Bolton, Blackburn, London, Sefton and Nottingham.\n\nAccording to Friday's government figures, a further 17 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test and another 2,193 coronavirus cases have been recorded.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street briefing alongside the UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, Mr Johnson said first Covid vaccine doses will also be prioritised \"for anyone eligible who has not yet come forward\". Currently, England's vaccination rollout is open to people over the age of 38.\n\nThe prime minister said he did not believe that the \"present evidence\" showed a need to delay the next stage in the easing of lockdown in England on Monday - when pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve customers indoors and six people or two households can meet in a private home.\n\nBut Mr Johnson warned: \"I have to level with you that this new variant could pose a serious disruption to our progress and could make it more difficult to move to step four in June.\"\n\nHe added: \"But I urge everyone to exercise the greatest caution because the choices we each make in the coming days will have a material effect on the road ahead.\"\n\nHe said he did not believe it was \"impossible\" to go ahead with step four of England's roadmap to ease coronavirus restrictions, but \"we have to be utterly realistic\" and there was \"the risk of disruption and delay\".\n\nThe government's aim with the fourth and final step of the roadmap is to remove all legal limits on social contact on 21 June - meaning there will be no limits on gatherings indoors or outdoors - nightclubs will be allowed to reopen and there will be no limits on weddings.\n\nThe government has said easing restrictions on 21 June depended on its four tests being met - including that vaccines continue to be effective and the risks are not fundamentally changed by new variants.\n\nAfter months of positive news, including falling cases and a hugely successful vaccination campaign, the tone has shifted.\n\nThe full relaxation in June is in jeopardy and there is the looming spectre of greater pressure on the NHS.\n\nIt is important to remember we are in a dramatically different situation than at the start of the year, due to the huge success of the vaccination campaign.\n\nBut we are in a race between the virus and the vaccine. Easing restrictions on Monday and a more transmissible variant means the virus will move even faster.\n\nThe faster the virus spreads, the more people will get infected and the more people could end up in hospital. This is because vaccines are great, but not perfect and not every vulnerable person has had one.\n\nSage estimates a variant that is 40% more transmissible could put pressure on hospitals and that it is possible the variant that emerged in India spreads even more quickly than that.\n\nThe problem, though, is even greater for countries which haven't got successful vaccination programmes, where even more transmissible variants could be hugely damaging.\n\nMr Johnson added that there was \"no evidence to suggest that our vaccines will be less effective in protecting people against severe illness and hospitalisation\".\n\nThe Army will be deployed on the streets of Blackburn and Bolton to give out tests to help the surge testing efforts.\n\nThere will be an acceleration of the vaccine rollout there, Mr Johnson said, including longer opening hours at vaccination centres.\n\nProf Whitty said delays to the vaccination programme for younger people were not expected with the prioritisation of second doses for older age groups.\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\nHe warned that if the variant first discovered in India proved to be more transmissible than other variants, the UK could see \"a really significant surge\" in Covid-19 cases, adding: \"That's a really critical question to which we do not yet have the answer.\"\n\n\"We expect over time this variant will overtake and come to dominate in the UK in the way that the Kent variant did,\" he added.\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has said there is a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant could be as much as \"50% more transmissible\" than the Kent strain.\n\nCases of the Indian variant found in the UK to date have nearly tripled in the past week to 1,313, Public Health England said.\n\nMost of the cases - 1,255 - are in England, while there are 35 in Scotland, 12 in Northern Ireland and 11 in Wales, according to PHE.\n\nIt said four people have now died with the Indian variant - officially designated a variant of concern - as of 12 May.\n\nSurge testing is taking place in 15 areas across England, including in Bolton\n\nMobile testing units have been set up in Bolton, PHE said, and door-to-door PCR testing had been offered to 22,000 residents. A PCR test is the most accurate way to check for Covid.\n\nMore doses have been delivered to the town, which has also set up a vaccine bus to increase uptake among those who are eligible. A rapid response team of 100 nurses, public health advisers and environmental health officers has also been sent in.\n\nMr Johnson warned those living in Bolton and other affected areas that there was \"now a greater risk from this new variant\" and he urged people to be \"extra cautious\".\n\n\"There will be targeted new activity in Bolton and Blackburn to accelerate vaccine take-up among eligible cohorts - including longer opening hours at vaccination sites,\" he said.\n\nExtra clinics will open in Blackburn and Darwen in Lancashire from next week to offer the vaccine to those who are eligible under national guidelines. The vaccination capacity of local pharmacies will also be increased.\n\nBut the area's public health director, Prof Dominic Harrison, said he was \"furious\" the government had refused a request to extend vaccinations in Blackburn.\n\nOn Thursday, the council initially said all over-18s would be offered a jab, before later stating only those with underlying conditions could book an appointment.\n\nWhen asked by Fergus Walsh, the BBC's medical editor, whether over-18s who live in hotspot areas should have a first vaccine dose, Prof Whitty said there had been \"debate\" on this point.\n\nHe said the UK's vaccine advisers believed the \"sensible thing to do\" was to prioritise jabs to \"those most at risk in all the places across the UK\", explaining that age remained the single biggest factor when it came to those who fell seriously ill or died from Covid.\n\nMeanwhile, the R number - or reproduction number - in England is estimated to have risen slightly from between 0.8 and 1.0 to between 0.8 and 1.1, according to the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nIf the R number is above one then the number of cases keeps increasing.\n\nElsewhere, the Welsh government has said it is \"confident\" its vaccination programme \"already has the flexibility it needs to respond swiftly and effectively and are not making any changes at this stage\".", "Coronavirus has led to a 70% fall in passenger numbers at the world's busiest airport for international passengers in Dubai\n\nThe boss of the world's busiest airport for international passengers has said Covid passports are the only way to restart mass foreign travel.\n\nDubai Airports chief executive Paul Griffiths told the BBC: \"I don't think there is an alternative.\"\n\nCritics of the digital systems argue they discriminate against those who cannot get vaccinated.\n\nBut Mr Griffiths says he is a complete supporter of the documents, which he says are \"inevitable\".\n\n\"I think the problem is not the vaccine passport and its discrimination. It's the need to roll things out and have a proper globally equitable vaccine programme,\" he said.\n\nThe World Health Organisation and World Travel & Tourism Council are among those opposed to vaccine passports amid fears they will create a \"two-tier society\".\n\nLast month, Dr Mike Ryan from the WHO repeated concerns about the ethical and fairness issues surrounding vaccine passports.\n\n\"They do need to be considered, especially in a world where vaccine is distributed in such a grossly inequitable way,\" he said.\n\nDubai Airports' Paul Griffiths thinks there is no alternative to vaccine passports\n\nThe aviation industry is desperately looking for ways to pick up speed after the damage wrought by government restrictions and a collapse in passenger confidence.\n\nAccording to the Air Transport Action Group, it was making a $3.5 trillion annual contribution to the global economy before the pandemic.\n\nHowever, with flights grounded, the numbers going through Dubai International Airport have collapsed in a similar way to the rest of the industry.\n\nEven so, 2020 was Dubai's seventh year in a row as the world's busiest airport for international passengers, having overtaken London Heathrow in 2014.\n\nA record 86.3 million people passed through in 2019, but as the coronavirus pandemic grounded flights, that fell 70% to 25.8 million last year.\n\nCoronavirus passports could become as vital as security checks, like these in Dubai, for international travel\n\nMr Griffiths wants that number to rise again: \"We need to get into risk management rather than risk avoidance.\"\n\nHe added: \"I just don't think the world can survive without that mobility for much longer, certainly socially and economically, but you can understand why countries around the world are being very conservative. The last thing any politician wants is a surge of infection on their turf.\"\n\nLast year, the United Arab Emirates saw its economy contract by 6.1% amid the global slowdown.\n\nFor Dubai, a Middle Eastern hub which plays a key role in joining East and West, air travel is key to repairing the damage.\n\nMr Griffiths says: \"The city's been built as a global hub and it's enabled a tremendous commercial and tourism centre to be developed here in the UAE.\n\n\"So we are pretty dependent, because at least 35% of GDP is based around the enablement of travel and tourism, so it has a big dramatic effect here.\"\n\nDubai International Airport has played a crucial part in the city's economic success but its had to close entire terminals\n\nTo get through the crisis, the airport has cut costs by closing entire terminals and concourses, which means a bailout from Dubai's government has been avoided.\n\n\"We were able to get into a position where we could cover all of our costs with about 20% of our throughput, which is where we are at the moment,\" explains Mr Griffiths.\n\nHe adds that 8,500 jobs have been reduced to 2,500. \"It's been a lot of pain for a lot of people. But we're well positioned to recover now.\"\n\nThe desire to recover and avoid new outbreaks of coronavirus has led to the emergence of several different Covid travel passes. The European Union, the G20 and International Air Transport Association are all working on schemes.\n\nMr Griffiths says even if multiple systems are introduced for checking passengers, his airport can avoid queues such as those seen at London Heathrow.\n\n\"Whatever the system, we will adapt our processes to ensure that our passengers aren't put in huge long queues,\" he adds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19 passports: What are the issues?\n\nThose passengers that are flying are being looked after by \"near-hospital theatre levels of cleanliness\" as well as physical distancing and insistence on mask wearing.\n\nTechnology is also helping stop the spread of germs, with the acceleration of contactless check-in and immigration arrangements.\n\nWhen it comes to the rules, passengers are \"adhering extremely well, because we make sure they adhere to them\", Mr Griffiths says.\n\n\"We've got a very, very close eye on them: 6,000 CCTV cameras watch the passenger flow, because obviously, we've got to keep everything moving, to keep everything safe and secure.\"\n\nThe luggage belts at Dubai International Airport have been quieter after passenger numbers fell 70%\n\nIf international air travel is to get moving again, \"it's up to the countries to decide what the entry requirements are, and it's up to the airlines and the airports around the world to enforce it\", says Mr Griffiths.\n\n\"If this all works, and everyone comes together, vaccine passports will be a very, very simple way of us travelling without documents around the world.\"\n\nYou can watch Paul Griffiths' 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 and 10:30 GMT and Tuesday at 12:30 GMT.", "National President of the Royal British Legion Lieutenant General (Retired) James Bashall laid a wreath at the Cenotaph\n\nWreaths have been laid at the Cenotaph to mark the 100th birthday of the Royal British Legion (RBL).\n\nThe charity marked the exact moment it was formed a century ago at 09:00 BST with the laying of wreaths at Whitehall in London and other parts of the UK.\n\nThe ceremony at the Cenotaph was led by retired Lieutenant General James Bashall, national president of the RBL.\n\nThe Prince of Wales earlier hailed the \"life-changing and often life-saving support\" it provides the Armed Forces.\n\nPrince Charles said the RBL provided a \"constant and reassuring presence\" and an \"unending commitment\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said he had the \"utmost admiration\" for the RBL's ability to rally support for the Armed Forces and help grieving families.\n\n\"There are few organisations which hold a place at the heart of society in the way the RBL does,\" he said.\n\n\"For 100 years, the RBL has been a constant, through the annual Poppy Appeal, leading the nation in remembrance, and providing a life-long commitment to every veteran and their families.\"\n\nHe offered his \"sincere and heartfelt gratitude\" to those who helped build the charity.\n\n\"Those who have served have an organisation that provides life-changing and often life-saving support, an organisation that speaks up on their behalf and an organisation that ensures their sacrifices shall never be forgotten,\" he added.\n\nOther celebrity supporters to pay tribute to the RBL include Ross Kemp and Stephen Fry.\n\nCharles Byrne, the RBL's director general, said: \"We remain committed to our mission to ensure that those who have given so much for their country get the fair treatment, support and recognition they deserve.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Glasgow and Moray 'need more time in level 3'\n\nGlasgow and Moray will remain under level three Covid restrictions for at least another week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.\n\nShe said the \"difficult\" decision in Glasgow followed a rise in cases.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the situation in the city was causing even more concern than Moray, which had already been warned it was likely to stay in level three.\n\nThe decision means nearly 730,000 people in Glasgow and Moray will not move down to level two.\n\nMs Sturgeon said initial research suggested that the outbreak centred in the south side of Glasgow was being driven by the Indian variant of the virus.\n\nThe first minister added that people were being asked not to travel in or out of Glasgow and Moray for the coming week, unless the journey was for permitted purposes.\n\nThe rest of mainland Scotland will drop down to level two from Monday, and most islands will be placed in level one.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It is inevitable that as we continue to navigate our way through this pandemic, we will hit bumps in the road.\n\n\"However, if we exercise suitable caution as we're seeking to do today, then even though that is difficult, we are much more likely to stay on the right track overall.\"\n\nThe seven-day rate of cases per 100,000 population in Glasgow is 80.4, while in Moray it has fallen to 68.9.\n\nThe rates are above 50 cases per 100,000, a key benchmark for deciding the appropriate tier of restrictions.\n\nThe latest Public Health Scotland data shows that on 11 May, the rates per 100,000 population were also above that level in East Renfrewshire (52.3), Midlothian (50.8) and Clackmannanshire (50.4).\n\nThe Glasgow cases are concentrated mainly in the south of the city, with one district, Pollokshields West, seeing 47 positive cases over the previous seven days, giving a local case rate of 1,008 per 100,000 population.\n\nThe move to level two Covid restrictions on Monday in the rest of mainland Scotland will allow people to hug and visit other households indoors. Pubs and restaurants can also sell alcohol indoors.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Indian variant of the virus had been detected in Glasgow, which caused increased concern among public health advisers and the government.\n\n\"We do not yet have a full understanding of the impact of this variant, including on the protection afforded by the vaccines,\" she said.\n\n\"I do want to stress that nothing at this stage suggests it is causing more severe illness.\n\n\"However, it is thought that this variant could be significantly more transmissible than even the Kent variant that was identified before Christmas - and that alone calls for an appropriate degree of caution.\"\n\nShe added that public health teams were \"optimistic that enhanced testing and vaccination will be capable of getting this situation under control\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also said there were \"grounds for cautious optimism that the situation is improving\" in Moray.\n\nHowever, the number of cases is still more than double the Scottish average.\n\nThe first minister said it was \"prudent\" to keep the area in level three for another week \"so we can be more confident that the situation is firmly under control\".\n\nThe deputy director of public health at NHS Grampian, Chris Littlejohn, said: \"The current restrictions and interventions appear to be working.\n\n\"This is not the moment to lower our guard - but we hope we can see the end of the current outbreak not too far ahead if we stick with it.\"\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is encouraging all people in the hotspot areas to visit a Covid testing centre. It said it was \"actively pursuing\" ways to ensure vaccination uptake was as high as possible.\n\nGlasgow Chamber of Commerce's chief executive, Stuart Patrick, said the decision was \"deeply disappointing\" and that many businesses would have been \"caught up in developments outside their control\".\n\nAndrew McRae, from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Scotland, said local businesses and customers in Glasgow and Moray would be \"crushed\".\n\n\"The damage of this change, especially in Glasgow, is exacerbated by the lateness of this announcement,\" he said.\n\nStephen Montgomery of the Scottish Hospitality Group said: \"We're in exactly the situation we wanted to avoid. Staff are getting ready for their shifts or have been working flat out to prepare for opening.\n\n\"You can't just turn this stuff on and off like flicking a light switch.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said: \"This decision will come as a disappointment to many, but I fully understand and appreciate the need for this action.\n\n\"If the right action is taken now, we can get Glasgow and Moray back on track and into level two as soon as safely possible.\"", "For much of Saturday, a technical problem affected Santander's services\n\nSantander has said all of its services are now working as normal, after widespread problems left customers unable to access their money.\n\nOn Saturday the bank's online banking and app stopped working and there were also issues in branches and with cards, cash machines and telephone banking.\n\nCustomers called it a \"nightmare\", with people unable to pay for petrol to get to work and payments being rejected.\n\nThe bank apologised and promised \"no one will be out of pocket\".\n\nThe problems began on Saturday morning and lasted much of the day until about 21:15 BST when Santander tweeted that all of its services were running again as normal.\n\nHowever, some customers replied to Santander's tweet saying they were still having problems - including the app still not working, transactions not showing or being unable to use cards online.\n\n\"We are very sorry for the inconvenience you've experienced today,\" said the bank, which has 14 million active UK customers.\n\n\"If you need help, some of our branches will be open on Sunday from 10am to 12pm. We'll publish a list of these tomorrow.\"\n\nEarlier, the bank said it will share details on its website and social media channels from Monday about how impacted customers can make a claim.\n\nThe problems on Saturday left many people stuck in difficulty after they were unable to make payments.\n\nOne customer, Marcus Evans from Aberdare in south Wales, told the BBC he had lost a day's wages as he could not buy petrol to travel to his job as a CCTV operator.\n\n\"It's been an absolute nightmare,\" said the former member of the Armed Forces, who also said he could not do his weekly shop. \"It's ridiculous.\n\n\"I get my military pension and my wages paid into a Co-operative savings account and I transfer money on a weekly basis into my Santander account.\"\n\nMr Evans said Santander \"should have things in place to ensure that this doesn't happen\"\n\nSamantha Stewart said she had travelled all the way from her rural home in Argyll to the mainland to go shopping with her mother, when she realised she could not access her money.\n\n\"It wasn't until I was in the first store that I'd tried to log on,\" she said. \"I was wanting to transfer money from savings over to my account because I was planning to do quite a big shop.\n\n\"Essentially I was left with £27 in my account. I had to decide whether to chance it with Apple Pay, knowing that it would take me into unarranged overdraft, or to go home.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Stephen Curtis, 58, from Gloucester, said he was \"definitely leaving the bank\" after the problems.\n\nHe said he was in a car showroom trying to buy a new car when his card was declined. \"It was so embarrassing,\" he said.\n\n\"This is unforgivable. I work in IT, I know about systems, I know about backups and upgrades. To have this happen, I would get the sack if it happened in my job.\"\n\nAnother customer, Jason Crossland, from Rotherham, told the BBC he became stuck in an outlet shopping centre with his children, unable to buy enough petrol to get home.\n\nThe head of money at consumer magazine Which? said the technical issues would have left many customers stressed.\n\n\"Customers can incur fines, penalties and fees when they're not able to access their finances, so the bank must offer compensation to all those who have been impacted in this way,\" said Gareth Shaw.\n\nOn Saturday evening, shortly before the problem was fixed, the UK's financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, said it was aware of the issue and in contact with the firm.\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the problem. Planned maintenance had been due to be performed on the Santander mobile banking app overnight on Friday.\n• None Santander to close more than 100 branches", "After months of good news, including falling Covid cases and a hugely successful vaccination campaign, the tone has shifted.\n\nEngland's full relaxation of rules in June is in jeopardy and there is the looming spectre of greater pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe thorn in the plans is the variant of coronavirus that emerged in India - B.1.617.2 - and has started spreading around the world.\n\nConcerns have been mounting over the past week and, for the first time, the scientists advising the UK government are now confident it does spread more easily.\n\nThe expectation is the variant will edge out the one that emerged in Kent and eventually \"dominate\" cases in the UK.\n\nWe are in a race between the virus and the vaccine. Easing restrictions on Monday and a more transmissible variant means the virus will move even faster.\n\nBut there is still huge uncertainty about exactly how much better the B.1.617.2 variant is at spreading.\n\n\"That's a really critical question to which we do not yet have the answer,\" said Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nIf it is just a smidge faster than the Kent variant, which still makes up the overwhelming majority of cases in the UK, then there's not much to worry about.\n\nHowever, the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) says there is a \"realistic possibility\" it could spread 50% faster, which is a lot.\n\nThere are some higher estimates of 60% coming out of India, but these are based on published genetic sequences from viral samples and its not clear how representative of the overall picture they are.\n\nSage estimates the problems would really start with a variant that was 40% more transmissible as it \"would lead to a substantial resurgence of hospitalisations\" and put pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe uncertainty is reminiscent of last year when the new variant in Kent was first detected and raised questions about the approach to controlling the virus.\n\nBut it is important to remember we are not in the same situation as last year.\n\nMore than 19 million people - a third of the adult population - have had both jabs of their vaccine. Another 17 million have had one. Vaccines are weakening, if not eliminating, the link between infection and severe disease.\n\nAnd overall cases are also far lower. The Office for National Statistics estimates fewer than 50,000 people currently have the virus. The figure was 1.25 million at the start of the year. Currently there are only around 1,000 people in hospital with Covid.\n\nThe concern is that while vaccines are great they are not perfect and not everyone who is vulnerable has had one. So if there was another wave of cases from the combination of relaxing and a new variant then a worrying number of people could still end up in hospital.\n\nNote these predictions are not crystal balls. Earlier mathematical models had predicted a summer wave, but suddenly became far more optimistic once it became clear vaccinated people were less likely to spread the virus.\n\nPlans to reopen are going ahead, but the vaccination campaign is being tweaked to give more vulnerable people more immunity more quickly.\n\nThe hope is if the variant is going to pose a problem then there will be time to spot any further warning signs - such as a rise in hospital admissions - and then act.\n\nThe prime minister, Boris Johnson, said that if the Indian variant proves to be \"significantly more transmissible\" than other strains then \"we're likely to face some hard choices\" in the UK.\n\nBut the problem posed by more transmissible variants is far greater in countries that haven't got successful vaccination programmes, where they could be hugely damaging.", "A building in Gaza City collapsed during a live BBC TV report after being hit by an Israeli strike.\n\nBBC Arabic reporter Adnan Elbursh and his team kept broadcasting, unaware of what was about to happen.\n\nThe report, for presenter Mohamed Seif, came on Wednesday as the fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants continued to escalate.", "Every adult, regardless of their means, would receive a regular sum of money under the scheme\n\nA universal basic income scheme is to be trialled in Wales, meaning adults, regardless of their means, will receive a regular sum of money.\n\nThe idea is that this would cover the basic cost of living.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the pilot would \"see whether the promises that basic income holds out are genuinely delivered\" in people's lives.\n\nBut the Conservatives said Wales should not become \"a petri dish for failed left-wing policies\".\n\nMr Drakeford said a pilot would \"need to be carefully designed to make sure that it is genuinely adding income for the group of people we are able to work with\".\n\nHe added: \"It'll have to be a pilot because we don't have all the powers in our own hands to do it on our own.\n\n\"It'll have to be carefully crafted to make sure that it is affordable and that it does it within the powers available to the Senedd.\n\n\"We need to make an early start on designing the pilot to make sure that we have the best chance of operating a pilot that allows us to draw the conclusions from it that we would all want to see.\"\n\nElon Musk tweeted his support of universal basic income last year\n\nIt means every adult in a specific area would receive a standard, unconditional payment at regular intervals.\n\nSupporters of the idea have said it provides a safety net for people who are unemployed or have irregular work, allowing them time to find a new job or learn new skills.\n\nVarious versions of the scheme have been trialled around the world, including in Finland, where 2,000 unemployed people were paid €560 (£480) per month for two years.\n\nResearchers found the scheme left those happier and less stressed, but did not aid them in finding work.\n\nMeanwhile, in western Kenya, a 12-year trial is taking place, where every adult is being paid $22 (£16) per month to see if it can help lift people out of poverty.\n\nSophie Howe has called for politicians to be \"brave and radical\"\n\nWales' future generations commissioner, who has previously called for a pilot, said she was \"delighted\" with the plan.\n\nSophie Howe said: \"Signalling basic income as a priority for the new government is an incredibly significant commitment by the first minister to tackling Wales' poverty and health inequalities - which cause lasting damage to the health and prospects of individuals, families and communities.\n\n\"It's a huge moment for the campaign, which I've been proud to be a part of, and the growing support for a fairer way of allowing people to meet their basic needs.\n\n\"The current system isn't working - Wales' commitment to exploring a basic income once again proves it's often the small countries that can be world leading and make the biggest changes.\"\n\nIn its manifesto, Plaid Cymru supported a Welsh pilot for a universal basic Income in order \"to prepare for a future where work may have a different role in the economy as a result of automation and the application of AI and related technologies\".\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats also made an election commitment to support a trial because the party believes \"UBI not only reduces inequalities and increases wellbeing, but that it strengthens local economies\".\n\nBut the Welsh Conservatives said: \"The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is clear that UBI is not the answer to solving poverty, in fact they claim it can actually increase poverty.\n\n\"The first minister needs to get on with kickstarting the Welsh economy, creating long-term, well-paid jobs for people rather than using Wales as a petri dish for failed left-wing policies.\"\n\nIn a 2018 blog post, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's deputy director of evidence, Chris Goulden, said: \"It is not affordable, unpalatable to most of the public because of its 'money for nothing' tag and perhaps most importantly - it increases poverty unless modified beyond recognition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray will not play at the French Open and will instead focus on preparing for the grass-court season.\n\nThe British former world number one played doubles with Liam Broady at the Italian Open but turned down a wildcard for this week's Geneva Open.\n\nMurray's doubles return was his first match since March, after he pulled out of the Miami Open with a groin injury.\n\nIt is believed the 34-year-old is still feeling some discomfort and, therefore, has chosen to miss the French Open.\n\nMurray is now back in London preparing for the grass-court season before Queen's and Wimbledon.\n\nQueen's starts on 14 June and Murray recently said he \"cannot wait\" to play in front of British fans again at the west London club event.\n\nThere may also be other options for him to play on the grass-court circuit.\n• None Injury concerns for Barty and Halep before French Open\n\n'Wimbledon is his best Grand Slam chance' - analysis\n\nMurray has been able to play just 11 tour level matches since winning the European Open in October 2019.\n\nPelvic and groin injuries, plus a bout of Covid, have frustrated his attempts to compete at the elite level since winning the title with his metal hip in Antwerp.\n\nThe decision to skip the French Open seems a pragmatic one, as Wimbledon is by far and away his best chance to make some inroads at a Grand Slam.\n\nHis will play at Queen's Club in mid-June, and would be very welcome in either Stuttgart or at the Challenger event in Nottingham the week before.\n\nBut of course there are no guarantees, as the 34-year-old has found long periods of fitness elusive for more than four years now.\n• None Paul Massey's rise in the criminal underworld through violence and extortion\n• None Dive into 2010s nostalgia with our quiz: How much do you remember about music from the last decade?", "The goose has been spotted on the platform which was built for the ospreys\n\nA goose has taken over a platform built for a pair of breeding ospreys whose nest was destroyed in a chainsaw attack.\n\nThe greylag goose has taken over the temporary platform at Llyn Brenig, which borders Conwy and Denbighshire.\n\nThe felling of the original platform on the night of Friday 30 April was captured on CCTV.\n\nMembers of Brenig Osprey Project hope the pair of ospreys will eventually be attracted back to use the new platform.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV captured the moment a vandal took a chainsaw to the platform\n\nIn a Facebook post, the conservationists said: \"This could effectively, perhaps temporarily, displace our ospreys, who had been showing considerable interest in it.\"\n\nThe project said the goose's takeover over had created \"something of a dilemma\", as moving its clutch to another nest site would be illegal without an appropriate licence.\n\nOspreys lay eggs in the second half of April\n\nThe attack was met with widespread condemnation from wildlife experts and police, with the project labelling it a \"horrific act of vandalism\".\n\nBBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams called the incident \"unbelievable\" and labelled those involved \"morons\".\n\nAt the time, he told BBC Wales it was a \"disaster\" because there were only five breeding pairs in Wales.\n\nAccording to the RSPB, female osprey lay two or three eggs between one and three daily intervals in the second half of April, and incubates them for 37 days per egg.\n\nThe new nest has been built on a mobile platform", "A tower block in Gaza, housing the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera news outlets, has collapsed after being hit by an Israeli strike.\n\nThe building had been evacuated beforehand after the owner received a warning by Israel in advance of the attack, Reuters news agency says.\n\nIn a statement released shortly afterwards, the Israeli military said the building housed military assets belonging to Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza.\n\nEarlier, at least 10 people were killed, including children, in a strike on a refugee camp in Gaza, according to officials.\n\nHamas has fired dozens of rockets at cities in Israel, killing one man near Tel Aviv.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Scotland, 3,003,339 people have now received a first dose.\n\nMore than three million people in Scotland have now received a first dose of the Covid Vaccine.\n\nThe Scottish vaccine rollout has now reached two-thirds of the eligible population.\n\nThe programme is currently moving through those aged 40 to 49 years old. More than 50% of this age group has come forward to receive a first vaccination.\n\nIn total, 3,003,339 people have now received a first dose.\n\nA second dose has also been given to 1,599,519 members of the population.\n\nScotland's chief medical officer, Dr Gregor Smith, said: \"It is down to the enormous efforts of our vaccination teams around the country.\n\n\"Everyone has a role to play in helping to bring this virus under control and we want to see our high uptake rates continuing through all the age groups.\"\n\nDr Smith said that, \"supplies permitting\", he expected that all adults in Scotland would be offered a first dose by the end of July.\n\nThe milestone came as Scotland recorded 413 new cases of coronavirus, but no new deaths in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Scottish government noted that registry offices are generally closed at weekends.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was 1.6%, according to the latest figures.\n\nWith the exception of Glasgow and Moray, mainland Scotland is due to move from level three to level two restrictions on Monday.\n\nAs the vaccination programme progresses through the 40-49 age group, appointments are also being scheduled for people aged 30 to 39 years old.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that this age group should be be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nDr Smith added: \"The latest advice from the JCVI regarding 30 to 39-year-olds is clear that it is based on the current low prevalence of the virus and the availability of alternatives to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\n\"If the situation changes, the advice is that vaccination of adults aged 30-39 years with any of the UK authorised vaccines is always better than no vaccination, except where there are specific medical reasons for not doing so.\"\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde public health director Dr Linda De Caestecker said the rollout was the \"most significant of any vaccination programme ever undertaken\" by the health board.\n\nShe added: \"The number of doses administered within NHSGGC and across Scotland is hugely encouraging.\"", "The violence in the occupied West Bank marked a widening-out of the conflict following days of hostilities\n\nViolent clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians have spread across much of the occupied West Bank, following days of hostility in Gaza.\n\nAt least 10 Palestinians are reported to have died in the West Bank unrest, while hundreds have been injured.\n\nIsraeli forces used teargas, rubber bullets and live fire, as Palestinians threw petrol bombs.\n\nThe confrontations in the West Bank mark a broadening out of some of the worst violence in the region in years.\n\nThe conflict began on Monday and followed weeks of spiralling Israeli-Palestinian tension in East Jerusalem. The increased hostilities culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas - the militant Islamist group which rules Gaza - began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.\n\nAt least 126 people have been killed in Gaza and eight have died in Israel since the fighting began.\n\nMany towns and cities in the occupied West Bank were convulsed by angry protests on Friday, prompting international calls for calm.\n\nThere were running battles between Israeli soldiers and young Palestinians, who appear newly emboldened by the events of the past week, the BBC's Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher says.\n\nMeanwhile, there were protests at the Jordanian and Lebanese borders with Israel, in support of the Palestinians, on Friday. One man died after being hit by Israeli shell fire while protesting, state media in Lebanon reported.\n\nThe Israeli military said it conducted an operation overnight to destroy a network of Hamas tunnels that it dubbed \"the metro\", but no troops had entered Gaza. It added that - over the course of Thursday evening and Friday morning - 220 more projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip.\n\nIn southern Israel, an 87-year-old woman died after falling on her way to a bomb shelter near Ashdod. Other areas including Ashkelon, Beersheba and Yavne were also targeted.\n\nThere have been running battles between Israeli troops and young Palestinians\n\nGaza's health ministry said 31 children were among those killed since fighting began, and many other civilians have died. Another 950 Gazans have also been wounded. Israel says dozens of those killed in Gaza were militants, and some of the deaths were caused by misfired rockets from Gaza.\n\nOn Friday, the United Nations said that an estimated 10,000 Palestinians had left their homes in Gaza since Monday because of the conflict.\n\nThe conflict has also seen Jewish and Israeli-Arab mobs fighting within Israel itself, prompting the president to warn of civil war. Defence Minister Benny Gantz ordered the security forces to suppress the internal unrest on Thursday, and more than 400 people were arrested.\n\nPolice say Israeli Arabs have been responsible for most of the trouble and have rejected the accusation that they are standing by while gangs of Jewish youths target Arab homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC reporters are on the ground in Gaza, Lod and Jerusalem\n\nIn Gaza, Palestinians fearing an incursion by Israeli troops have been fleeing areas close to the border with Israel. Residents who had left Shejaiya in Gaza City said shells had been falling on homes.\n\n\"We felt like we were in a horror movie,\" said local resident Salwa Al-Attar, who escaped the bombardment with her family. \"The planes were above us, and the tanks and navy were bombing - and we could not move. The children, women and men were screaming.\"\n\nIn a statement released early on Friday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military operation against Palestinian militants would continue for \"as long as necessary\". He added that Hamas would pay a heavy price, as would other \"terrorist groups\".\n\nA Hamas military spokesman said the group was ready to teach Israel's military \"harsh lessons\" should it decide to go ahead with a ground incursion.\n\nOn Thursday, Israel's military called up 7,000 army reservists and deployed troops and tanks near its border with Gaza. It said a ground offensive into Gaza was one option being considered but a decision had yet to be made.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken of Israel waging a battle on two fronts.\n\nBut he may not have been doing justice to the swirling array of conflicts currently raging across Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. Rarely in recent years has violence erupted in all of these places at the same time.\n\nA week ago, the fear that Palestinians in east Jerusalem might be evicted to make way for Jewish settlers, coupled with repeated raids by Israeli security forces on the area surrounding Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, galvanised opinion among Israeli Arabs and triggered waves of rocket attacks by Hamas.\n\nLong-simmering resentments among Israel's Arab minority exploded in several of the country's mixed cities. Violent gangs, Jewish and Arab, exploited the tension.\n\nBy Friday, the violence had circled back to the West Bank where the death toll in clashes with the Israeli army has crept up.\n\nJerusalem, land rights, holy places and decades of unresolved conflict: this week's spasm of violence has highlighted them all.\n\nAs fighting entered its fifth day, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres called for \"an immediate de-escalation and cessation of hostilities in Gaza and Israel\".\n\nHis plea echoed that of other diplomats - including from Israel's ally the US - but appeals to Israeli and Palestinian leaders have so far failed to produce a ceasefire agreement.\n\nMissiles from Israel's Iron Dome defence system rise to intercept rockets fired from the Gaza Strip\n\nA senior Hamas official has said the group is ready for a \"reciprocal\" ceasefire if the international community pressures Israel to \"suppress military actions\" at the disputed al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.\n\nHowever, a senior adviser to Mr Netanyahu told the BBC that international calls for restraint were misplaced.\n\n\"We didn't want this conflict, but now that it's started it has to end with a sustained period of quiet,\" said Mark Regev. \"That can only be achieved by Israel taking out Hamas - their military structure, their command and control.\"\n\nThe fighting between Israel and Hamas was triggered by days of escalating clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at a holy hilltop compound in East Jerusalem.\n\nThe site is revered by both Muslims, who call it the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), and Jews, for whom it is known as the Temple Mount. Hamas demanded Israel remove police from there and the nearby predominantly Arab district of Sheikh Jarrah, where Palestinian families face eviction by Jewish settlers. Hamas launched rockets when its ultimatum went unheeded.\n\nPalestinian anger had already been stoked by weeks of rising tension in East Jerusalem, inflamed by a series of confrontations with police since the start of Ramadan in mid-April.\n\nIt was further fuelled by Israel's annual celebration of its capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war, known as Jerusalem Day.\n\nThe fate of the city, with its deep religious and national significance to both sides, lies at the heart of the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict. Israel in effect annexed East Jerusalem in 1980 and considers the entire city its capital, though this is not recognised by the vast majority of other countries.\n\nPalestinians claim the eastern half of Jerusalem as the capital of a hoped-for state of their own.\n\nAre you in Israel or Gaza and affected by these events? 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.", "Hamas was formed in 1988 after the outbreak of the first Palestinian uprising\n\nHamas is the largest of several Palestinian militant Islamist groups.\n\nIts name is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, originating as it did in 1988 after the beginning of the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Under its charter, it is committed to the destruction of Israel.\n\nHamas originally had a dual purpose of carrying out an armed struggle against Israel - led by its military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades - and delivering social welfare programmes.\n\nHamas set up the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades to pursue its political goals militarily\n\nBut since 2005, when Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza, Hamas has also engaged in the Palestinian political process. It won the legislative elections in 2006, before reinforcing its power in Gaza the following year by ousting the rival Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas.\n\nSince then, militants in Gaza have fought four major conflicts with Israel, which along with Egypt has maintained a blockade on the strip to isolate Hamas and to pressure it to stop attacks.\n\nHamas as a whole, or in some cases its military wing, is designated a terrorist group by Israel, the United States, European Union and United Kingdom, as well as other powers.\n\nHamas came to prominence after the first intifada as the main Palestinian group opposed to the Oslo peace accords signed in the early 1990s between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the body representing most Palestinians.\n\nDespite numerous Israeli operations against it and clampdowns by the Palestinian Authority (the main governing body of the Palestinians) Hamas found it had an effective power of veto over the process by launching suicide attacks.\n\nHamas has carried out multiple deadly bus bombings in Israel\n\nIt carried out multiple bus bombings, killing scores of Israelis, and stepped up its attacks after Israel assassinated its chief bomb maker Yahya Ayyash in December 1995.\n\nThe bombings were widely blamed for turning Israelis off the peace process and bringing Benjamin Netanyahu - a staunch opponent of the Oslo accords - to power in 1996.\n\nIn the post-Oslo world, most particularly following the failure of US President Bill Clinton's Camp David summit in 2000 and the second intifada which followed shortly thereafter, Hamas gained power and influence as Israel clamped down on the Palestinian Authority, which it accused of sponsoring deadly attacks.\n\nHamas organised clinics and schools, which served Palestinians who felt let down by the corrupt and inefficient Palestinian Authority, dominated by the Fatah faction.\n\nHamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli missile strike in 2004\n\nMany Palestinians cheered the wave of Hamas suicide attacks in the first years of the second intifada. They saw \"martyrdom\" operations as avenging their own losses and Israel's settlement-building in the West Bank, territory wanted by Palestinians for a future state of their own.\n\nIn March and April 2004, Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and his successor Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi were assassinated in Israeli missile strikes in Gaza.\n\nThe death of Fatah leader Yasser Arafat that November saw the Palestinian Authority newly led by Mahmoud Abbas, who viewed Hamas rocket-fire as counter-productive.\n\nIsmail Haniyeh (L), seen here with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is the overall leader of Hamas\n\nWhen Hamas scored a landslide victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006, the stage was set for a bitter power-struggle with Fatah.\n\nHamas resisted all efforts to get it to sign up to previous Palestinian agreements with Israel, as well as to recognise Israel's legitimacy and to renounce violence.\n\nHamas's charter defines historic Palestine - including present-day Israel - as Islamic land and it rules out any permanent peace with the Jewish state.\n\nThe document also repeatedly makes attacks on Jews as a people, drawing charges that the movement is anti-Semitic.\n\nIn 2017, Hamas produced a new policy document that softened some of its stated positions and used more measured language.\n\nThere was no recognition of Israel, but it did formally accept the creation of an interim Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - what are known as pre-1967 lines.\n\nThe document also stresses that Hamas's struggle is not with Jews but with \"occupying Zionist aggressors\". Israel said the group was \"attempting to fool the world\".\n\nAs a result, the new Hamas-led government was subjected to tough economic and diplomatic sanctions by Israel and its allies in the West.\n\nAfter Hamas ousted forces loyal to Fatah from Gaza in 2007, Israel tightened its blockade on the territory, and Palestinian rocket-fire and Israeli air strikes continued. Egypt also closed its border crossing with Gaza and has only opened it intermittently since.\n\nHamas wrested control of Gaza from forces loyal to Palestinian Abbas during a bloody conflict in 2007\n\nIsrael holds Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from the strip, and the two sides have been in a constant state of conflict ranging from deadly incidents around the border to full-scale hostilities.\n\nThe deadliest round, in 2014, saw at least 2,251 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians, killed during 50 days of fighting. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed.\n\nMost recently, an 11-day conflict in May 2021 killed at least 256 people in Gaza and 13 in Israel before it ended with an Egyptian-brokered truce.\n\nYears of rocket-fire from Gaza has been a major security issue for Israel\n\nRepeated attempts at reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah have failed, and the first Palestinian elections for 15 years, in which Hamas was due to compete, were called off by President Abbas in April 2021.\n\nMeanwhile, the humanitarian situation for the two million Palestinians in Gaza has deteriorated. The strip's economy has collapsed, and there are shortages of water, electricity and medicine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the fight was shared by another airport user\n\nPolice have charged 11 people with violent disorder after a fight broke out at Luton Airport.\n\nFour people were injured, three seriously, in the brawl, which happened in the main departure lounge on Friday morning.\n\nThe 11 men, aged between 20 and 55, were released on bail ahead of a court hearing.\n\nFive other people were released without charge and another was released on bail with conditions.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said it was \"shocked and saddened\" by the violence.\n\nHe added: \"We take a zero tolerance approach to violence and continue to assist the police with their inquiries.\n\n\"We would like to sincerely apologise to any passengers affected.\"\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.", "Young Palestinians and Israelis have been capturing the conflict on smartphones\n\nAs fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants escalates on the ground, TikTok has become a forum for airing tensions.\n\nOnce known primarily for viral dance trends, the video app has also become a key platform for sharing news. The Chinese-owned site has a vast, mostly younger audience, with an estimated 700 million active monthly users worldwide.\n\nFootage of rocket fire over Israel, destruction in Gaza and Palestinian protests have all gone viral on the site. It has brought the conflict to people's phone screens around the world.\n\nBut there are also concerns that it and other social media sites are spreading falsehoods or extremism.\n\nThis week's violence in Gaza and Israel is the worst since 2014.\n\nIt came after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in East Jerusalem, which culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza, began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.\n\nEven before the latest fighting broke out, tensions between Palestinians and Israelis have played out on TikTok.\n\nIn April, a video of teenagers in East Jerusalem slapping two Orthodox Jewish boys on public transport went viral on the app. Police arrested two suspects the following week. TikTok removed the video for violating its community guidelines shortly afterwards.\n\nProtest clips also began to appear on TikTok. Users posted videos under the hashtag #SaveSheikhJarrah, in reference to the threatened evictions of Palestinian families in a neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. Such videos are now being viewed and shared around the globe.\n\nChris Stokely-Walker, author of TikTok Boom: China, the US and the Superpower Race for Social Media, told the BBC that TikTok's ease of use and colossal popularity allowed the rapid spread of its content.\n\n\"Creating tools for video through the app are so simple that anybody from a 12-year-old to a 90-year-old can actually do it themselves without all that much technical nous,\" he said. \"It's also the size of the audience - we know that TikTok has something like 732 million monthly active users worldwide. So if you're posting something then the likelihood is it will be seen by a lot of people.\"\n\nUsers of TikTok - as well as other social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter - are using the #SaveSheikhJarrah hashtag alongside footage of clashes with Israeli security forces, as well as the situation on the ground in Gaza.\n\nOne video allegedly showing people fleeing Israeli strikes in Gaza, posted under the hashtag by US-based news site Muslim, has more than 44 million views on TikTok.\n\nAnother post by TikTok user Sabrina Abukhdeir - with more than 1.5 million views - showed crying Palestinian children and the destruction of a high-rise block in Gaza.\n\n\"You guys know what to do,\" she wrote, urging people to share the video.\n\nPalestinians have come out to protest in the occupied West Bank\n\nSupporters of Israel have also posted on TikTok. One video allegedly showing an Israeli soldier shielding a Palestinian woman from rocks thrown by Palestinian protesters has been viewed more than 1.5 million times on the app.\n\nAnd the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has a strong presence online. It has 1.3 million followers on Twitter and more than 70,000 on TikTok, where it has been posting videos of its forces in action and scenes from inside Israel.\n\nOne video asking viewers \"What would you do if this was your city?\" has more than 300,000 views on the site.\n\nDr Gabriel Weimann at Haifa University in Israel said there was a battle of \"hearts and minds\" online - and that as of now \"it's not an equal war\".\n\n\"From the Israeli side you see a counter flow, which I must say is less powerful, not organised at all, and if you ask me less persuasive,\" he told the BBC. \"Maybe because in Israel nobody thought that TikTok would be a powerful or important platform.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC reporters are on the ground in Gaza, Lod and Jerusalem\n\nThis month a video went viral on both TikTok and Twitter showing Jews dancing and cheering while a tree burns in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. Social media users claimed they were celebrating the destruction of the mosque.\n\nIn reality, they were gathered to celebrate Jerusalem Day, and the mosque was not damaged in the fire. Israeli police said it was due to fireworks set off by Palestinian protesters, while demonstrators said it was due to stun grenades used by officers.\n\nOn Thursday night, Israel's Defence Minister Benny Gantz asked Facebook and TikTok to remove posts from their sites which he said could encourage violence.\n\n\"These are measures that will directly prevent the violence that is being intentionally stirred through social media by extremist elements that are seeking to do damage to our country,\" he reportedly said. \"We are in a moment of social emergency, and we expect your assistance.\"\n\nThe executives of both companies promised to \"act quickly and effectively to prevent incitement on their networks\", according to Israel National News.\n\n\"Our teams have been working swiftly to remove misinformation, attempts to incite violence, and other content that violates our Community Guidelines, and will continue to do so,\" a spokesperson from TikTok told the BBC in an emailed statement.\n\nShaydanay Urbani works for First Draft News, an organisation set up to counter mis-and disinformation online.\n\n\"A lot of the things we have seen are old media taken out of context,\" she told the BBC. \"[Stories] circulating from a totally different time and a totally different place.\"\n\nOne of the most prominent examples - according to the New York Times - was footage shared widely of Palestinians allegedly faking a funeral. The video was viewed hundreds of thousands of times on TikTok and seemed to show a group of people carrying a corpse on their shoulders before dropping it when a siren sounded, and the corpse springing into life and running away.\n\nBut in fact, the New York Times said, the original video appeared over a year ago on YouTube with a caption saying it was a Jordanian family faking a funeral. TikTok has since also removed this video for breaching its community guidelines.", "People eligible for a vaccine in areas where the Indian virus variant is spreading are being urged to get the jab.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar said there had been a \"minor increase\" in hospital presentations in Bolton, mainly among unvaccinated 35-65 year olds.\n\nThe Army is to be deployed in the Greater Manchester town and Blackburn with Darwen to help with mass testing.\n\nCases of the Indian variant have nearly tripled in the past week, data shows.\n\nSurge testing is taking place in targeted areas across England where virus variants have been found, including postcodes within several London boroughs, Sefton, Worcestershire, and Nottingham.\n\nProf Anthony Harnden, who advises the government on vaccinations, said there were still \"lots of unvaccinated people in at-risk groups in these areas\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The worry is that those unvaccinated vulnerable individuals, those over-50, unvaccinated, will develop Covid from this more transmissible [variant] and end up in hospital.\"\n\nIt comes as, according to Saturday's government figures, a further seven people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test and another 2,027 coronavirus cases have been recorded.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said initial research suggested an outbreak in the south side of Glasgow was being driven by the Indian variant - as she delayed the easing of restrictions there and in Moray.\n\nProf Harnden said the Indian variant was \"clearly more transmissible\" than the current dominant virus type - but vaccines should still protect against severe disease.\n\n\"That's why we're imploring [local authorities] to get out there and vaccinate their unvaccinated people,\" he added.\n\nSecond doses will also be speeded-up for older age groups in affected areas - in a move described by Prof Harnden as providing \"better short-term protection\" in an \"urgent situation\".\n\nDr Helen Wall, who is leading the vaccination effort in Bolton, said the target for Saturday was to distribute 4,000 jabs.\n\nShe said 10,000 people eligible for jabs had yet to be vaccinated in the BL4 and BL5 postcode areas, with issues like not having phone credit to make a booking often cited as a reason for putting off taking the vaccine.\n\nAsked what would happen if a younger person turned up for a jab, Dr Wall said vaccinators were following the guidance but would \"look for reasons to vaccinate people, not reasons not to within those criteria of eligibility\".\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the new variant - first discovered in India - could affect the timing of the last step in England's roadmap out of lockdown from 21 June.\n\nMr Johnson said he did not believe that the \"present evidence\" showed a need to delay the next stage in the easing of lockdown in England on Monday.\n\nBut on Saturday, the British Medical Association said it had serious concerns about the decision to continue with the easing of lockdown restrictions in England on Monday.\n\n\"It is a real worry that when further measures lift on 17 May, the majority of younger people, who are often highly socially mobile and could therefore be most at risk of a more infectious strain, are not yet vaccinated,\" said Dr Richard Jarvis from the BMA.\n\nOnce again, the government is being forced to draw up an assessment of risk, with only partial epidemiological data, but where the economic and social costs of the restrictions are huge.\n\nIts scientists fret that if - and it's a big if - the Indian variant continues to spread much more quickly than others, the picture could soon look bleak.\n\nEver since the publication of the plan for easing restrictions in England in February, the prime minister's language has been peppered with references to it being \"cautious but irreversible\".\n\nThat allows for a slowing down, or even a halt to unlocking. But not going backwards.\n\nTo slam on the breaks now, postponing Monday's unlocking, would have been a big moment.\n\nTo go into reverse, if the data is dire in the coming weeks, would be bigger.\n\nOn several occasions last year, the government made promises about the return of normal life - or elements of it - which circumstances later meant it was unable to keep.\n\nIt has since been much more cautious, with some critics demanding it move more quickly - pressure it has resisted.\n\nOnly data in the coming weeks will determine conclusively if the decision to press ahead with reopening on Monday was, on balance, wise.\n\nMr Argar told BBC Breakfast the government was acting \"coolly\" and \"calmly\" in response to new research on the potential increased transmissibility of the Indian variant but \"keeping everything under review\".\n\nHe said: \"All the evidence so far suggests there is no evidence of increased severity of illness or that it evades the vaccine.\"\n\nMr Argar admitted some arrivals from India may have used public transport to travel home from the airport in the days before the country was placed onto the UK's travel red list on 23 April.\n\nHe told Today: \"I do think we have the right border controls in place to do everything we can to minimise the risk of, not just this variant, but other variants in the future.\"\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\nThere will be an acceleration of the vaccine rollout in Bolton, including longer opening hours at vaccination centres.\n\nMore doses have been delivered to the town, which has also set up a vaccine bus to increase uptake among those who are eligible under national guidelines.\n\nThe previous up to 12 week gap between first and second doses will be cut to just eight weeks in hotspot areas for the over-50s and people who are vulnerable.\n\nExtra clinics will open in Blackburn and Darwen in Lancashire from next week and the vaccination capacity of local pharmacies will also be increased.\n\nCurrently, England's vaccination rollout is open to healthy people over the age of 38, as well as adults with underlying conditions, and health and social care workers.\n\nMobile testing units have been set up in Bolton, PHE said, and door-to-door PCR testing had been offered to 22,000 residents. A PCR test is the most accurate way to check for Covid.\n\nA rapid response team of 100 nurses, public health advisers and environmental health officers has also been sent in.\n\nThere were long queues at vaccination centres across Bolton on Friday\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has said there is a \"realistic possibility\" that the Indian variant could be as much as \"50% more transmissible\" than the Kent strain.\n\nMinutes from a Sage meeting held on Thursday said that - if the Indian variant were to be 40-50% more transmissible - proceeding to step three of England's roadmap on Monday would likely \"lead to a substantial resurgence of hospitalisations (similar to, or larger than, previous peaks)\".\n\nCases of the Indian variant found in the UK to date have nearly tripled in the past week to 1,313, Public Health England (PHE) said.\n\nMost of the cases - 1,255 - are in England, while there are 35 in Scotland, 12 in Northern Ireland and 11 in Wales, according to PHE.\n\nIt said four people have now died with the Indian variant of concern as of 12 May.", "Priti Patel - pictured here receiving her vaccine on Saturday - is facing questions over a letter she sent\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has been accused of lobbying a fellow minister on behalf of a healthcare firm trying to get a government contract.\n\nIn May last year, Ms Patel wrote to Michael Gove expressing disappointment the government had not bought face masks from a company that had links to someone she knew.\n\nLabour has called for an investigation, saying she breached ministerial rules.\n\nBut Ms Patel's spokesman said she acted as she should have.\n\n\"The home secretary rightly followed up representations made to her about the vital supply of PPE,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"During a time of national crisis, failure to do so would have been a dereliction of duty.\"\n\nIn recent weeks there have been a series of revelations about PPE deals awarded to those with government connections.\n\nIn May 2020, Ms Patel wrote a letter to Mr Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, about a company called Pharmaceuticals Direct Ltd that was in talks with the government about an order for face masks.\n\nShe said the government's \"late stage\" decision not to use the company had caused problems for the firm.\n\n\"I would be most grateful if you could review this matter urgently,\" she wrote in the letter to Mr Gove.\n\nThe contact at Pharmaceuticals Direct Ltd was a man called Samir Jassal, a Conservative activist who Ms Patel knew. According to his LinkedIn, he worked as an adviser to Ms Patel between 2014 and 2015 and on social media describes her as a \"good friend\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock wrote back to Ms Patel to say the masks being offered by the firm were \"not suitable for use in the NHS\".\n\nBut the company was later awarded a contract in July 2020, worth just under £103m, to supply a different type of mask.\n\nThe letters - which were first reported in the Daily Mail and now seen by the BBC - have come to light as part of a legal challenge by the Good Law Project.\n\nLabour called for an investigation, saying there was \"no evidence that the Home Secretary had any interest\" in the PPE deal until contacted by Mr Jassal, suggesting she did it \"as a favour to her friend\".\n\n\"This would represent a glaring and flagrant breach of the ministerial code,\" the party said, referring to the set of rules for ministers' conduct.\n\nLabour pointed to this principle in the code: \"Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between their public duties and their private interests, financial or otherwise\".\n\nSamir Jassal (right), pictured with Boris Johnson in 2019, has campaigned alongside the prime minister\n\nThe Good Law Project, a campaign group which took the government to court over not publishing PPE contracts, is taking legal action over the £103m contract for masks.\n\nThe government has previously said ministers have no part in deciding who gets contracts.\n\nAfter coronavirus hit the UK, the government struck thousands of deals with private companies, spending billions of pounds of public money in the process.\n\nBecause it was an emergency, the government was allowed to go directly to preferred suppliers without any competition. But it has led to questions about the way the contracts were chosen.\n\nMr Jassal previously said the company has 20 years' experience in the healthcare sector and it asked to supply PPE via an online government portal. The company, he said, had supplied PPE to various outlets for many years.\n\nPharmaceuticals Direct Limited said: \"The business is proud of its successful track record of procurement and supply to various medical organisations, including supplying NHS bodies.\n\n\"As a business that has specialised in the procurement and delivery of healthcare supplies for more than 20 years, PDL was (and is) both equipped and well suited to find solutions to the urgent demands of the pandemic.\"\n\nThe company also said Mr Jassal was not employed by PDL.\n\nThis article was updated on 18 May after Pharmaceuticals Direct Limited responded with a comment.", "Smashing the previous leadership and then grabbing power before his challenger even entered the race.\n\nEdwin Poots boxed off the support he needed to succeed Arlene Foster as Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader as she prepared her resignation speech - and never looked back.\n\nHe pulled off a political masterstroke to land his dream job, leader of the party he joined as a 16-year-old, after winning an election over Sir Jeffrey Donaldson on Friday.\n\nBut, for others in the DUP, his rise to the top is the nightmare outcome they dreaded.\n\n\"We didn't see this coming,\" said one party officer, as he watched his new leader march down the Stormont hill in triumph to meet the press.\n\nThe new DUP leader gave a short statement outside Stormont but did not take any questions from the media\n\nHe waited like the rest of us to hear the new leader answer questions about his plan for the DUP.\n\nInstead we got a statement with no follow-up questions before Edwin Poots, chased by the press pack, was whisked away in a car under the shadow of Edward Carson's statue.\n\nIt was a chaotic start for the new leader but not surprising for a minister prone to a political solo run.\n\nSo here are some of the questions we would have posed to the new DUP leader and why.\n\nAlmost 50% of those MLAs and MPs who voted didn't want him as leader - how does he plan to win them over?\n\nMight he consider making room for some of the 17 supporters of Sir Jeffrey in his ministerial reshuffle?\n\nIt is expected Economy Minister Diane Dodds and Education Minister Peter Weir won't survive the cull.\n\nJunior Minister, and Arlene Foster loyalist, Gordon Lyons could also be pushed out.\n\nThey, along with their special advisors, may have to make way for those who backed Edwin Poots from the outset when others were holding back.\n\nPaul Givan, Paul Frew, Christopher Stalford and Mervyn Storey could be in line for a front bench role.\n\nEdwin Poots supporters Christopher Stalford (middle) and Paul Givan (right) could be in line for big roles\n\nHis key appointment will be to the role of Northern Ireland first minister, who will sit alongside the party leader around the executive table.\n\nCould that go to the party's new deputy leader Paula Bradley who, as one of the more socially liberal voices in the DUP, already views her role as a \"critical friend\" to the leader?\n\nHere is another question we didn't get to ask - will the new leader allow his predecessor to remain in post as first minister for another six weeks?\n\nThat is the timetable Arlene Foster set for her departure but whispers of an earlier exit have already started circulating.\n\nWhat about those plans to reform the party from top to bottom?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHow nervous should some senior staff feel about that prospect is another question we didn't get to pose.\n\nEmployment contracts may prevent any immediate move to remove key figures behind the scenes.\n\nBut one member of Team Poots hinted change is on the way.\n\n\"Edwin is not going to waste any time reforming the party structures as promised, that will start over the weekend,\" he said.\n\nNext question - his critics within the party fear he will drag the DUP backwards and won't be able to grow its voter base. How does he plan to prove them wrong?\n\nAs one Donaldson-supporting MLA put it: \"Edwin's fundamental views are niche and the real winners today will be the Alliance Party.\"\n\nEdwin Poots and his new party deputy, Paula Bradley, who has said she sees her role as being a \"critical friend\" to the leader\n\nStemming the leaking of DUP votes to the left and right of the party will be a key challenge for the new leader.\n\nHe only has to look to his own backyard - Lagan Valley - where the party's vote share in the last Westminster election fell by 16% in the face of a 17% surge by Alliance.\n\nWe can expect the new DUP leader to reach out to other unionist parties to try to maximise their numbers in the Stormont chamber.\n\nEdwin Poots said he plans to galvanise unionism to fight the Northern Ireland Protocol, which is a familiar battle cry - but what will it mean in practice?\n\nCan we expect more DUP boycotts of north-south meetings?\n\nThe new leader has already snubbed two cross-border Zoom calls as agriculture minister.\n\nWill he be logging on for the full plenary meeting of the North South Ministerial Council next month?\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties which have said it undermines their place in the UK\n\nAnother more pressing unanswered question - is the new leader of the DUP prepared to bring down Stormont in his battle to scrap the protocol?\n\nCan he oppose the protocol and continue to operate it at the same time?\n\nThat was the question posed but not answered by former DUP leader Peter Robinson.\n\nAs the minister in charge of the ports operating the Irish Sea border, Mr Poots has a weak spot which his unionist opponents like to exploit.\n\nHowever, as minister he has moved to obstruct the protocol and may do so again.\n\nWe may hear more about his protocol protest plans after he meets the prime minister next week.\n\nOther questions which didn't get asked include:\n\nThe DUP effectively gagged the candidates from speaking during the election campaign.\n\nIn his first minutes as leader, Edwin Poots chose to gag himself.\n\nHe knows he can't do that for long.\n\nWhen he finally speaks. he needs to have answers to at least some of those pressing questions.", "There'll be no more soggy chips as restaurants can serve customers indoors in England from Monday Image caption: There'll be no more soggy chips as restaurants can serve customers indoors in England from Monday\n\nHere is a little more from the British Medical Association, which has raised serious concerns about the decision to press ahead with the easing of lockdown restrictions in England on Monday, as the Indian variant of coronavirus continues to spread.\n\nThe BMA, which represents doctors in the UK, says the relaxation of rules is a \"real worry\" when \"key segments\" of the population still haven't been vaccinated.\n• How are England's rules changing on Monday?\n\nDr Richard Jarvis, BMA public health medicine committee co-chairman, says the government must monitor the situation with \"extreme vigilance\" and be willing to \"apply the brakes\" if necessary.\n\nLast night, the prime minister said he didn't think the \"present evidence\" showed a need to delay the next step of easing lockdown.\n\nDr Jarvis said that while the public and businesses could take precautions it was the government \"which is steering the ship and must stand by its cautious approach\".\n\n\"To ensure we do not undo all the hard work and sacrifice of the previous lockdown, the government must continue to monitor the situation with extreme vigilance and have the willingness to act quickly and apply the brakes if needed to prevent the situation getting out of control for a third time.\"", "Government advice on wearing masks in schools is due to change on Monday in England\n\nSecondary school pupils and college students in parts of north-west England will continue wearing masks because of concerns about the Covid-19 Indian variant.\n\nPupils and students across Lancashire are being advised to use face coverings until 21 June. Bolton and Bury councils have also said masks will remain.\n\nThe advice comes following a surge in coronavirus cases across the region.\n\nElsewhere masks will no longer be required in classrooms from Monday.\n\nThe Indian variant has been detected in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in Blackburn, Lancashire and in Sefton, Merseyside, which have all seen rates rise rapidly.\n\nIn a coronavirus briefing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the variant could pose \"serious disruption\" to lockdown easing in England on 21 June, but added that he did not believe that the \"present evidence\" showed a need to delay the next stage in the easing of lockdown in England on Monday.\n\nDr Sakthi Karunanithi, Lancashire County Council's director of public health, said recommending that masks remain in use was \"very tough\", given that it comes as other restrictions ease nationally, but the \"increase in prevalence of this variant... means we need to take some prudent steps to help reduce its spread\".\n\n\"Wearing face coverings in schools and colleges for a few weeks longer will help to contain this and ensure the variant doesn't take hold,\" he said.\n\n\"This is vital, so we can build on the good work to keep levels of infection, hospital admissions and the numbers of people becoming seriously ill low.\"\n\nA letter from the council to parents in Bolton, which currently has the highest rate of cases in England, said it was \"asking schools to retain the use of face coverings, as per the current arrangements, until further notice\".\n\nThe letter, from the council's children's services and public health directors, said there had been \"instances where young people attending school or college have contributed to the spread of the virus\".\n\nAs such, it said, \"we believe it would be irresponsible to wait until we have higher levels of the newer variants... circulating before we act\".\n\nIn a similar letter, Bury Council's interim assistant director of education and inclusion, Julien Kramer, said there was a risk that progress made in reducing case numbers could be \"undermined by the spread of this more infectious variant\".\n\n\"I am sure that you will understand the need for caution at this time,\" he added.\n\nSefton's public health team has also advised that masks should be worn in schools beyond Monday in areas experiencing outbreaks.\n\nThe move has been supported by the Association of School and College Leaders teaching union.\n\nGeneral secretary Geoff Barton said there was \"clearly a great deal of concern about the variant...and the situation is obviously going to be fluid in the immediate future with regards to face masks\".\n\n\"We back schools in the decisions they make,\" he added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Is Israel’s military operation in Gaza, dubbed “Guardian of the Walls”, nearing its conclusion? Not obviously. Benjamin Netanyahu says attacks are continuing with “full force” and will “take time”.\n\nIn a news conference this afternoon, Israel’s prime minister admitted there were “pressures” but thanked US President Joe Biden, in particular, for his support.\n\nMr Netanyahu has so far resisted calls for a ceasefire with Hamas Image caption: Mr Netanyahu has so far resisted calls for a ceasefire with Hamas\n\nMr Biden’s envoy, Hady Amr, has been in Israel since Friday, discussing the crisis with Israeli officials. Unusually, at the end of a week that has also seen an alarming spate of inter-communal violence in mixed Jewish-Arab cities, he also met Israeli-Arab leaders.\n\nSince the US, like Israel and many other countries, regards Hamas as a terrorist organisation, Mr Amr will not be meeting one of the two warring parties. Any messages for Hamas will have to go through traditional interlocutors, like Egypt or Qatar.\n\nLocal reports suggest Hamas has been offering some kind of ceasefire for several days, only to be rebuffed by Israel, which clearly wants to inflict as much damage as it can on the militants before the fighting is finally brought to a close.\n\nThese episodes follow a familiar pattern: Israel presses home its undoubted military advantage until the international outcry over civilian casualties, and a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, demand that the operation end.\n\nIn Israel’s estimation, we have not yet reached that point.", "Streaks of light are seen as Israel's Iron Dome system intercepts rockets launched from Gaza\n\nSome of the worst violence seen in years in Israel and Gaza has led to dramatic images of confrontation across the region's skies.\n\nMore than 3,000 rockets have been fired towards Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups in the past week.\n\nBut about 90% of the rockets have been intercepted by its flagship Iron Dome missile defence system, according to the Israeli military.\n\nThe Iron Dome was specially designed to protect against a range of incoming short-range threats.\n\nThe system has its roots in the war Israel fought with Lebanon's militant Hezbollah movement in 2006, when thousands of rockets were launched into Israel - causing huge damage, mass evacuations and dozens of deaths.\n\nAfter that Israel said a new missile defence shield would be developed.\n\nCreated by Israeli firms Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries with some US support, the Iron Dome became operational in 2011.\n\nConsidered among the most advanced defence systems in the word, the Iron Dome uses radar to identify and destroy incoming threats before they can cause damage.\n\nThe all-weather system was specially designed to help combat shorter-range rudimentary weapons like the rockets fired from Gaza.\n\nThe Iron Dome was expensive to develop but manufacturers say it is cost-effective because of technology it uses to differentiate between missiles likely to hit built-up areas and those that won't. Static and mobile units only launch interceptor missiles to shoot-down anything interpreted as dangerous.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA decade since the Iron Dome became operational, Israel now has 10 batteries deployed across the country, each with three to four launchers that can fire 20 interceptor missiles.\n\n\"The number of Israelis killed and wounded would be far higher if it had not been for the Iron Dome system, which has been a life saver as it always is,\" Israeli military spokesman Lt Col Jonathan Conricus said this week.\n\nBut some analysts say the intensity of recent barrages from Gaza suggests militant groups are attempting to overwhelm the Iron Dome - raising concerns about the system's possible limitations.", "Alex Scott will take over as the presenter of Football Focus after Dan Walker announced he was standing down at the end of the season.\n\nThe 36-year-old former Arsenal and England full-back made more than 200 club appearances during her playing career, earned 140 caps for her country and represented Great Britain at London 2012.\n\nAlex becomes the show's first permanent female host in its 47-year history and spoke to BBC Sport about how it feels to bring in a new era in front of one million weekly viewers.\n\nWhen I was a kid, I would never have watched television and thought someone like me could be presenting a programme like Football Focus. For the BBC to trust me with this role and allow me to be my true, authentic self means a lot.\n\nTo say I'm the Football Focus presenter feels surreal. I've had some amazing messages and an incredible reaction on social media - I want to thank everyone for their support.\n\nI had a lovely email from legendary Arsenal goalkeeper and presenter Bob Wilson who hosted the show for 20 years. Bob said how hard I'd worked for this and to make sure I took it all in. It was great advice and wise words from a legend who's had the career path from footballer to hosting the iconic BBC show.\n\nFrom day one, Dan Walker has guided me - and crucially he let me ask questions. Dan knew I wanted to be a presenter so he helped hone my skills and allowed me to step out of my 'pundit' comfort zone on the show. In fact, everyone around me - from Gabby Logan to Mark Chapman - and so many people behind the scenes have helped me to get to this point. It will never be lost on me that these kind, amazing people within the industry have supported and encouraged me to be the best I can be.\n\nTowards the end of my footballing career, some were suggesting coaching and management but I had such a strong passion to take this path. I completed my degree in sports journalism and broadcasting, and countless work experience placements with Sky Sports, Arsenal TV and London Live. This was to ensure that not only I had the correct skills, but so no-one could ever question my place or my merit.\n\nI was one of the first female pundits on the BBC and I clearly remember being determined to transcend from being labelled a 'female pundit' to 'pundit'. Besides the statements surrounding my gender or my race, after being part of the BBC family for six years, I want people to see me on TV and think 'she's great at what she does'.\n\nEveryone around me knows I have this passion for life and positivity - I never want to sit in a comfort zone. I absolutely love live TV - there's a real buzz about it. You make mistakes but that's life, no-one is perfect. I know that when I sit in that Football Focus chair I won't be the finished article - and actually no-one ever is - you can always improve your craft, whatever that may be. Will there be judgement? Absolutely. But like any young footballer - when you give them a chance, you see their progression and development over time - you see them grow as a player, into a better, more confident athlete.\n\nThe first show in August will be exciting and I'm looking forward to it. Of course it's going to be different but I hope you embrace it and stay with us. I promise you I will bring the best of myself to Football Focus and I hope you enjoy the ride.\n\nToday it is all starting to feel real, and I am ready.\n• None Paul Massey's rise in the criminal underworld through violence and extortion\n• None Dive into 2010s nostalgia with our quiz: How much do you remember about music from the last decade?", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nYouri Tielemans produced one of the great FA Cup final goals to give Leicester City the trophy for the first time in their history with victory over Chelsea at Wembley.\n\nThe Belgian settled a closely contested encounter with a spectacular right-foot drive that flew beyond Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga into the top corner from 25 yards in the 63rd minute.\n\nIt sent manager Brendan Rodgers racing down the touchline in celebration although Leicester's fans - inside Wembley as 21,000 supporters formed the biggest attendance since lockdown - had to survive a nerve-jangling closing phase before they could celebrate the win in their first final since 1969.\n\nThe Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.\n\nAnd in a final act of drama, Wes Morgan bundled into his own net following a last-minute goalmouth scramble before it was ruled out by the barest of margins following the intervention of VAR.\n\nLeicester closed out the win to spark emotional scenes as those inside Wembley rejoiced in a landmark victory.\n\nFoxes boss Rodgers had a smile that illuminated Wembley as he joined Leicester's players in joyous scenes of celebration after the manager and his players had written their name into the club's folklore.\n\nGifted 24-year-old Tielemans will claim the glory for the sheer quality of the strike that won this FA Cup final and the rest of his performance oozed the quality that saw him named man of the match.\n\nThe Foxes had heroes elsewhere, particularly in veteran keeper Schmeichel, who was well protected for most of the match but made a huge contribution when required. His second key save from Mount, one-handed diving away to his left, even had Rodgers turning around and blowing out his cheeks in relief and admiration.\n\nYoungster Luke Thomas was composed and Leicester even survived the premature loss of the experienced and influential defender Jonny Evans, who was a doubt before the game and suffered a recurrence of his heel injury, to keep Chelsea at bay.\n\nAnd for Rodgers, who cleaned up with Celtic in Scotland, this was another significant addition to his CV, as his expert guidance of Leicester - who are in a strong position to finish in the Premier League's top four and face Chelsea again at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday - now has a tangible reward in the shape of the FA Cup.\n\nThis was the result of outstanding work by Rodgers and his players and the rest of the season may yet produce another high point if they can clinch a place in next season's Champions League.\n\n\"It is such an amazing feeling, in particular as a British coach,\" Rodgers told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"I have grown up watching this all my life and to be eventually be here and be a winner in the FA Cup is special.\n\n\"I knew we had prepared very well. The players have shown through the season they can fight, have quality and have a desire to win. We were playing against the Champions League finalists, with quality and the level they have been at. But I thought tactically we were brilliant.\"\n\nChelsea manager Thomas Tuchel revealed he was in \"angry mode\" after the surprise home loss to Arsenal suddenly put pressure on their top-four hopes in the Premier League - although the Champions League final against Manchester City could yet prove the most glittering safety net.\n\nHe certainly looked an angry man throughout this final, the body language increasingly frustrated right up until that final twist when a late equaliser was snatched from Chelsea's grasp by VAR.\n\nChelsea now face a massive game against these same opponents in midweek but they will have to recover swiftly from this disappointment and the knowledge they did not do themselves justice.\n\nThey certainly had their moments and will complain of ill-fortune, about a suspicion of handball before Tielemans' goal and those magnificent saves from Schmeichel but this was a stuttering Chelsea, not the smooth machine that saw off Real Madrid with such comfort in the Champions League semi-final second leg at Stamford Bridge.\n\nTimo Werner seemed a particular source of frustration to Tuchel, the manager enraged when he lost a physical challenge to Tielemans, and it may be he regrets that he did not start with the improving Kai Havertz.\n\nAnd Chilwell, left out for Marcos Alonso, was a source of real danger when he was eventually introduced as a substitute, almost rescuing Chelsea twice.\n\nChelsea and Tuchel now face a huge fortnight with the fight for the top four in the balance and that Champions League final to come against Manchester City - and the manager will know they will have to perform better than this.\n\nThis was the day atmosphere, emotion and deafening noise returned to English football as 21,000 supporters made Wembley sound like it was playing host to a capacity crowd.\n\nFans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.\n\nAnd how it showed in those final stages, with Leicester's fans suffering frayed nerves as their team held on for history while Chelsea's followers urged their side on in the hope of a comeback.\n\nAt the final whistle, it was just like old times as those thousands of Leicester supporters stayed in their seats for the trophy celebration to take in scenes that will live with them forever while the Chelsea end was a scene of desolation before it became a sea of deserted red seats.\n\nIt only emphasised once more that football quite simply is not the same in any form without fans.\n\n'I don't know what is handball or not'\n\n\"The players said straight away it was a handball,\" he said of the ball appearing to hit Ayoze Perez's hand in the build up to the goal.\n\n\"So now for the second game in a row there was a handball against us, and VAR is not interfering. Against Arsenal there was one on the line, and again today, and they are very decisive.\n\n\"I'm not an expert in handball any more, I don't know when it's handball or not.\n\n\"I don't know any more when they need to punish it or it's OK to play with the hand.\n\n\"We were unlucky today. But there's never any guarantee you'll end up with a trophy.\"\n\nFifth time lucky for Foxes - the best of the stats\n• None Leicester won their first FA Cup final at the fifth attempt, becoming the 44th different side to win the competition.\n• None Chelsea have become the first team to lose the FA Cup final in consecutive seasons since Newcastle United in 1997-98 and 1998-99.\n• None This was the 45th FA Cup final to finish 1-0, at least 20 more times than any other scoreline in the showpiece.\n• None Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has become the first manager to win both the English and Scottish FA Cup since Sir Alex Ferguson.\n• None Leicester's Youri Tielemans became the third Belgian player to score in an FA Cup final, with all three going on to lift the trophy that year (Eden Hazard in 2018, Kevin de Bruyne in 2019).\n• None Leicester's Kasper Schmeichel is the first goalkeeper to captain the winning side in an FA Cup final since David Seaman with Arsenal in 2003.\n• None Chelsea's Olivier Giroud played in his sixth FA Cup final - since World War Two only Ashley Cole (8), Ryan Giggs (7) and Roy Keane (7) have appeared in more.\n• None At 37 years and 114 days, Leicester's Wes Morgan became the oldest outfield player to appear in an FA Cup final since Teddy Sheringham for West Ham in 2006 (40y 41d).\n• None Offside, Leicester City. James Maddison tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Thiago Silva tries a through ball, but Ben Chilwell is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Mason Mount (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Thiago Silva.\n• None Christian Pulisic (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Paul Massey's rise in the criminal underworld through violence and extortion\n• None Dive into 2010s nostalgia with our quiz: How much do you remember about music from the last decade?", "The Common Travel Area consists of the UK, Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man\n\nTourism bodies have urged Stormont to rethink guidance on visitors arriving from the Common Travel Area (CTA).\n\nPeople visiting friends and family in Northern Ireland from GB, Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands or Isle of Man will be exempt from a requirement to self-isolate from 24 May.\n\nNew guidance states those exempt from self-isolation must take Covid-19 tests before departure and on later dates.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Tourism Alliance described this as \"unmanageable\".\n\nPreviously, Stormont ministers had only advised that people could travel from Northern Ireland to the CTA for essential reasons.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced relaxations to this rule, but introduced certain requirements for travellers arriving into Northern Ireland.\n\nThe new guidance sets out that anyone exempt from self-isolation will be asked to take lateral flow tests for Covid-19 pre-departure, as well as on days two and eight post-arrival into Northern Ireland.\n\nAll other visitors will be required to self-isolate on arrival for 10 days.\n\nBoth the Northern Ireland Tourism Alliance and the Travel Association (ABTA) have raised concerns over the new rules.\n\nNorthern Ireland Tourism Alliance chief executive Joanne Stuart said it \"remained unclear how the controls would be managed and by whom\".\n\nShe described the testing requirements as \"complicated and confusing\" and said they would have the potential to put off visitors from coming.\n\nPreviously, Stormont had only advised that people could travel from Northern Ireland to the CTA for \"essential\" reasons\n\n\"What people desperately want after months of uncertainty is confidence and clarity and this latest updated guidance does nothing to provide any of that,\" Ms Stuart said.\n\nShe added that it would also \"shut down plans to promote Northern Ireland as a visitor destination\" for travellers in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nChief executive of ABTA, Mark Tanzer, believes Northern Ireland should follow England, Scotland and Wales in publishing a green list of destinations where holidaymakers can return from without having to self-isolate.\n\nMr Tanzer said the executive must also \"continue to provide financial support through to recovery\".\n\nMembers of the Northern Ireland Tourism Alliance have requested urgent meetings with representatives from the Northern Ireland Executive Office, Department for the Economy and Department of Health to press for change.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorthern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has been elected leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nHe succeeds Arlene Foster, who steps down as party leader on 28 May and will then leave her role as NI first minister at the end of June.\n\nMr Poots beat MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to take the top post in the party.\n\nIt is the first time in the party's 50-year history that a leadership contest has taken place.\n\nHe has said that he would like to remain as agriculture minister and would not take on the role of Northern Ireland first minister if elected party leader.\n\nNorth Belfast MLA Paula Bradley has been elected as the party's new deputy leader, after incumbent Lord Dodds announced he would not bid for re-election.\n\nShe beat MP Gregory Campbell by 18 votes to 16, and is the first woman elected to the post.\n\nOnly three people have held the role of DUP leader since the party was established in 1971 - its founder the late Ian Paisley, followed by Peter Robinson and its current leader, Arlene Foster.\n\nEdwin Poots and his new party deputy, Paula Bradley\n\nA secret party ballot of party MPs and NI Assembly members was held on Friday.\n\nMr Poots said it was an immense honour to be selected for the top post and he was looking forward to a \"positive relationship right across Northern Ireland with my party colleagues and indeed with people from other parties\".\n\nHe said Northern Ireland people had shown \"remarkable resilience\".\n\n\"I stand here very proud to be taking up the mantle as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and that brings with it a responsibility to all of unionism,\" he said.\n\n\"I will be a leader in unionism who will be reaching out to other leaders in unionism. I want to see unionism working together.\"\n\nHe said the Northern Ireland Protocol, which places a border down the Irish Sea, has proven to be a \"massive challenge for us\".\n\nHe said he wants to ensure that there is not the \"unionist bickering that we have had in the past\" and \"I will encourage all unionists to work with me\".\n\nLater, speaking to reporters outside Stormont, Mr Poots said he would speak to Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis on Friday night and meet him next week.\n\nThe DUP leader-designate cancelled media interviews and did not take any questions.\n\nPaula Bradley MLA is the first woman elected to the DUP deputy leader post\n\nMr Lewis, and Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, separately tweeted their congratulations to Mr Poots and said they looked forward to working with him.\n\nAhead of the party vote, in a message to MPs and Northern Ireland Assembly members, Mr Poots said that leading the DUP \"would be my greatest honour\".\n\nHe said he had been \"tried and tested over many years in political office\" and had a plan to \"reinvigorate unionism\".\n\nMs Bradley said she would serve the party to the best of her ability and give it \"her all\". She said she would support the leader, but would at times be a \"critical friend\".\n\n\"It's a great honour. I would never have thought just over a week ago that I would be standing in this position today,\" she said.\n\nThere has been concern in the past that it looked like the DUP's Westminster grouping seemed to have too much power and too much sway.\n\nClearly this is a signal that they want the power base shifted back to Stormont and that is what is going to happen from the end of the month.\n\nFor Edwin Poots, this has been a lifelong ambition for him. He is steeped in the DUP.\n\nHis father is a DUP founding member. He is also Free Presbyterian.\n\nHe has talked about reform being one of his key policies and clearly that has won some of those undecided DUP politicians over, in terms of getting behind him.\n\nThere has been a concern in recent years that some of the establishment and key central figures within DUP HQ held too much power.\n\nHe obviously wants to oversee all of that and that has been what he's promised them. Clearly the pitch has paid off.\n\nThe result of this also shows that there is still a split in the party.\n\nSome of those within Sir Jeffrey's camp are incredibly disappointed and very shocked by the result.\n\nThey were quietly confident that they were going to edge it.\n\nMr Poots became an MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) for the Lagan Valley constituency in 1998 and has also served on Lisburn City Council.\n\nHe has served as Northern Ireland minister for the environment, minister for arts, culture and leisure and as health minister over the course of his political career.\n\nAfter the DUP and Sinn Féin agreed to share power together and formed a government in 2007, Mr Poots was appointed as culture and arts minister in the executive.\n\nIt would be the first of a number of ministerial briefs he has held during his political career.\n\nEdwin Poots smiles as he leaves DUP headquarters on Friday\n\nThe DUP is a socially conservative party and Mr Poots's religiously-influenced views - including his belief that the earth is 6,000 years old - have also generated headlines in the past.\n\nA former police officer, canteen kitchen worker and social worker, Ms Bradley is arguably less known among the public than MP Gregory Campbell, who was also a contender for the deputy leader post.\n\nNorth Belfast MLA Paula Bradley is the party's new deputy leader\n\nShe currently chairs Stormont's Communities Committee. Prior to being elected to Stormont, she had been a councillor on Newtownabbey council.\n\nMs Bradley is one of the more socially liberal members of the party.\n\nDefeated leadership contender Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he has has no regrets about putting his name forward.\n\n\"They [party members] have made their choice and I respect that,\" he said.\n\n\"The party must now consider what that means for our way forward, what it means for the union that we cherish, and what it means for Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMP Ian Paisley, who backed Mr Poots for leader, said he was \"personally delighted\" for him.\n\n\"We have been boyhood friends, and are very, very close, and I am personally delighted for him,\" Mr Paisley said.\n\n\"I am also delighted for Paula. She is an absolutely excellent candidate for deputy leadership, she made one of the best speeches I have ever heard in a selection meeting today.\"\n\nHe said the differences between the leadership candidates were \"subtle\".\n\nDefeated leadership and deputy leadership contenders Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Gregory Campbell earlier on Friday\n\n\"It is important that people recognise that because the power base is at Stormont, and because most of the votes in the electoral college are based at Stormont, then clearly that is where the influence is going to be,\" he added.\n\nEast Antrim MP Sammy Wilson declined to say which candidate he had voted for, but congratulated Mr Poots and Mrs Bradley.\n\nHe described his election as \"very significant\" and said dealing with the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland and the Irish Sea border would be a \"massive issue\".\n\n\"Not only for unionists, but for people across the political spectrum. One of the big jobs Edwin has to do is to persuade the government that what they've done in signing the protocol is wrong and they've got to get it changed.\"\n\nArlene Foster will step down as DUP leader on 28 May\n\nMrs Foster announced her decision to resign after facing a revolt from DUP members.\n\nShe had led the party since December 2015 and was appointed first minister of Northern Ireland the following month.\n\nBBC News NI understands that she will sever her ties with the DUP when she stands down as first minister.\n\nSources close to her said she thinks it is no longer the party she joined.", "The rules on how much people pay for social care vary around the UK\n\nWales needs a national debate on how to fund the future of social care, according to the head of the country's biggest charity for older people.\n\nVictoria Lloyd, chief executive of Age Cymru, said urgent reform of the social care system was essential to prevent people going without support.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said there would be announcements on social care in the coming months.\n\nAlthough devolved, he said he intended to work on a four-nation approach.\n\n\"If this is a can the UK government continue to kick even further down the road, then the point will come when we will have to make our own decisions,\" he said.\n\nWelsh Labour promised in its manifesto for last week's Senedd election it would \"consult on a potential Wales-only solution\" if the UK government did not bring forward proposals within the current parliament.\n\nTuesday's Queen's Speech made only passing reference to reforming social care, but the Secretary of State for Wales, Simon Hart, since said plans would be forthcoming \"within months\".\n\nMs Lloyd said the commitment was welcome but action to properly fund the system - and a discussion on how to do so - was needed now.\n\nVictoria Lloyd says a debate is needed in Wales\n\n\"We know we've got an ageing population, we know there are people that need care out there that currently aren't receiving it,\" she said.\n\n\"We need more funding in the system.\n\n\"There are many ways of doing that and I think what we need is a big debate in Wales about how we best do that fairly, transparently and to meet the needs of all of us.\n\n\"We think it's really important that the Welsh government acts as soon as they are able.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's worse now than in the first wave\"\n\nThe Welsh government has made a number of reforms to social care in recent years, but has said a more wholesale solution to funding was a priority.\n\nSpeaking before the election, Mr Drakeford said his government had its own plan \"ready to go\" on social care, but said the integration of the benefits system was problematic.\n\nHe told Politics Wales he would not give \"just an arbitrary month\" in terms of how long he was prepared to wait for the UK government to act.\n\nEconomist Siôn Jones says all options are difficult from a political perspective\n\nThe Welsh government has also previously pledged to ensure care workers receive at least the real living wage, £9.50 per hour, by the end of this Senedd term in 2026.\n\nIn the 2019-20 financial year, local authorities in Wales spent more than £653m on care for people over the age of 65.\n\nIn the same year, the overall council spending on social services exceeded £2bn for the first time.\n\nA study carried out in 2017 estimated the amount paid out privately for care in Wales at more than £400m.\n\nSiôn Jones, an economist who has researched social care funding options for the Welsh government, said wholesale reform was feasible, but costly.\n\n\"In the absence of any more money coming via the Barnett Formula to Wales [the mechanism by which UK government spending is allocated to the devolved nations], their main options are to switch expenditure from other parts of the Welsh budget, which is certainly possible, but difficult.\n\n\"It might be quite likely that if there was a shift in spending from somewhere else, it may well need to come from the health service,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader says it is 657 days since the PM announced he had a \"clear plan we have prepared\" to \"fix\" social care\n\n\"We know there's always pressure for more expenditure in the health sector and there's currently pressure to pay health workers more, as well as care workers.\n\n\"Another option could be to raise general tax revenue through an increase in the Welsh income tax, which is possible, but obviously has political difficulties.\n\n\"The third option is to introduce some kind of specific tax or levy, that would raise funds specifically for care services.\n\n\"They're all feasible in principle, and they're all difficult from a political perspective\".\n\nPolitics Wales is on BBC One Wales on Sundays at 10:00 BST and on the BBC iPlayer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "AK47 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition are among a cache of suspected Islamic State weapons that have been seized by UK troops in Mali.\n\nAround 100 soldiers took part in efforts to retrieve the weapons in a village close to the border with Niger, where the Ministry of Defence said locals were being threatened.\n\nSuspected IS members had earlier fled by swimming across a river, it added.\n\nThe operation was carried out in a sandstorm and temperatures above 50C.\n\nSoldiers also seized camouflage clothing, radios, mobile phones and hundreds of litres of fuel after being cleared by the United Nations to search buildings.\n\nThey are part of a UK task force that arrived in the West African country in December to assist with a broader UN peacekeeping mission.\n\nThe task force conducts long-range reconnaissance patrols to protect the local population from a rising tide of violent Islamist extremism.\n\nThe operation in the village, close to the border with Niger, involved soldiers from the the Light Dragoons and Royal Anglian Regiment, supported by a specialist Royal Engineer search team.\n\nLt Col Tom Robinson, Commanding Officer of the Light Dragoons, said they had acted on intelligence gathered during patrols.\n\n\"We focused on where terrorist groups were intimidating local people and were then able to find and seize the weapons and supplies, disrupting their harmful influence on local communities and gathering more information that will help interrupt further extremist activity,\" he said.\n\nThe MoD said it was the first targeted \"cordon and search\" operation carried out in this way by UN forces in Mali.\n\nA cell of suspected IS fighters fled by swimming across the River Niger, it added - leaving behind the weapons and equipment, which have been passed on to the UN and Malian authorities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UN Mission in Mali is made up of more than 14,000 peacekeepers from 56 different countries.\n\nIt has been described as the most dangerous peacekeeping mission in the world.\n\nAlmost 250 UN soldiers have lost their lives there since 2013.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An animation shows how the Zhurong rover touched down\n\nChina has successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars, state media announced early on Saturday.\n\nThe six-wheeled Zhurong robot was targeting Utopia Planitia, a vast terrain in the planet's northern hemisphere.\n\nThe vehicle used a combination of a protective capsule, a parachute and a rocket platform to make the descent.\n\nThe successful touchdown is a remarkable achievement, given the difficult nature of the task.\n\nOnly the Americans have really mastered landing on Mars until now. All other countries that have tried have either crashed or lost contact soon after reaching the surface.\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping congratulated the mission team on its \"outstanding achievement\" in a special message.\n\n\"You were brave enough for the challenge, pursued excellence and placed our country in the advanced ranks of planetary exploration,\" he said.\n\nThomas Zurbuchen, the head of science at the US space agency (Nasa), was quick also to add his own congratulations.\n\n\"Together with the global science community, I look forward to the important contributions this mission will make to humanity's understanding of the Red Planet,\" he said.\n\nThe Russian space agency, Roscosmos, said the success augured well for its future cooperation with China.\n\nThe mission team received a congratulatory message from the president\n\nThe robot officially landed shortly after 07:00 on Saturday, Beijing time (Friday 23:00 GMT), according to state media.\n\nIt took 17 minutes to unfold its solar panels and send a signal back to Earth.\n\nZhurong, which means God of Fire, was carried to Mars on the Tianwen-1 orbiter, which arrived above the planet in February.\n\nThe probe then spent time surveying Utopia, taking high-resolution images to pinpoint the safest place to put the rover down.\n\nThe aim with all such ventures is to pick a spot that is devoid of imposing craters and where the landscape isn't covered in large boulders.\n\nChinese engineers would have had to follow the landing effort with a time lag.\n\nThe current distance to Mars is 320 million km, which means radio messages take almost 18 minutes to reach Earth.\n\nEvery stage of the Zhurong robot's approach to the surface therefore would have been conducted autonomously.\n\nEngineers follow events at Mars with a time lag of many minutes\n\nThe landing architecture was a familiar one.\n\nThe rover was encased in an aeroshell for the initial phase of the nine-minute descent. This capsule's dive to the surface was slowed by pushing up against the Martian air.\n\nThe heat this generated was managed by a forward-facing shield.\n\nAt a predetermined time, a parachute opened to reduce the velocity still further.\n\nFinally, the Zhurong robot broke away on a rocket-powered bench for the manoeuvres that took it safely to the ground.\n\nLanding on Mars is always a daunting challenge but China would have had confidence going into the procedure, given the great competence it has shown in its space endeavours of late.\n\nThis is a nation that has been putting rovers on the Moon, and bringing lunar samples back to Earth. This month it launched the first segment of a space station above our planet.\n\nNow that Zhurong has got down successfully, scientists will try to get at least 90 Martian days of service out of it, studying the local geology. A day, or Sol, on Mars lasts 24 hours and 39 minutes.\n\nThe robot looks a lot like Nasa's Spirit and Opportunity vehicles from the 2000s. It weighs some 240kg and is powered by fold-out solar panels.\n\nA tall mast carries cameras to take pictures and aid navigation; five additional instruments will investigate the mineralogy of local rocks and the general nature of the environment, including the weather.\n\nLike the American rovers, Zhurong has a laser tool to zap rocks to assess their chemistry and a radar to look for sub-surface water-ice.\n\nUtopia Planitia is where Nasa landed its Viking-2 mission in 1976.\n\nIt's a colossal basin - more than 3,000km across - that was formed by an impact early in Mars' history.\n\nThere is some evidence pointing to it having held an ocean long ago.\n\nRemote sensing by satellites indicates there are significant stores of ice at depth.\n\nArtwork: Zhurong looks similar to Nasa's Spirit and Opportunity vehicles\n\nDean Cheng, a research fellow in Chinese political and military affairs at the Washington-based think-tank, The Heritage Foundation, said Saturday's success would be an enormous fillip to the country.\n\n\"From the Chinese perspective, space benefits Chinese diplomacy, Chinese technology; it's a great advertisement; it reinforces the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party to its own people.\n\n\"Space always has military implications, and conversely, by going to Mars, it demonstrates that China can contribute to what they term the global pool of human knowledge,\" he told BBC News.\n\nAmerica put down its latest rover, Perseverance, in February. Europe, which has twice failed with landing attempts, will send a rover to Mars next year (in a joint project with the Russians).", "The WHO's Dr Tedros has warned that the second year of the pandemic is likely to be deadlier than the first\n\nWealthier nations should postpone plans to give children and teenagers Covid vaccines and instead donate supplies to low-income countries, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday urged countries to supply more vaccines to the global fair-access scheme Covax.\n\nSince the first vaccines were approved in December, wealthier countries have bought up most of the supply.\n\nMany are racing to vaccinate as much of their population as possible.\n\nSpeaking at a virtual conference in Geneva on Friday, the WHO's Dr Tedros said he understood why some countries wanted to vaccinate children and adolescents, but said \"right now, I urge them to reconsider\".\n\n\"In low and lower-middle income countries, Covid-19 vaccine supply has not been enough to even immunise healthcare workers, and hospitals are being inundated with people that need lifesaving care urgently,\" he said.\n\nLast week, US President Joe Biden laid out plans to begin coronavirus vaccine shots for 12- to 15-year-olds as soon as possible. He also said he hoped that 70% of US adults would receive at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine by 4 July, when American families are expected to come together to mark Independence Day.\n\nMeanwhile, Canada has authorised the use of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for children aged between 12 and 15. The province of Alberta, which has the highest rate of the virus in the country, has already started offering the jabs to citizens over the age of 12.\n\nIn Switzerland, some places began offering Covid vaccination appointments to 16-year-olds last week.\n\nSo far, the US and China have administered the highest number of vaccine doses overall, with India in third place. But while nearly all of Europe and the Americas have begun vaccination campaigns, a few countries in Africa are still to get started.\n\nThe Covax scheme was developed with the aim of first vaccinating 20% of the population in the 92 poorer countries that signed up, starting with health workers.\n\nThe scheme is co-led by the WHO, the Global Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (Cepi), with the UN children's fund, Unicef, as key implementation partner.\n\nDuring Friday's conference, Dr Tedros also warned that the second year of the pandemic was likely to be deadlier than the first, and that the situation in India was of grave concern.\n\nIn India, many health workers on the frontline dealing with coronavirus patients have not been vaccinated, and some are dying. The severe shortage of doses comes amid a deadly second Covid wave and warnings of an impending third wave.\n\nThe WHO says this is a moral catastrophe, which could greatly impact more low-income countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India's capital is reeling from a deadly second wave of Covid-19 infections", "Martin Bashir has stepped down from his role as the BBC's religion editor, the corporation has confirmed.\n\nBashir, 58, has reported on religious affairs for the BBC since 2016, and previously worked for programmes including Panorama.\n\nThe corporation said he was leaving due to ongoing health issues.\n\nHis departure comes after questions were raised about how he secured an interview with Princess Diana for Panorama in 1995.\n\nThe deputy director of BBC News, Jonathan Munro, said: \"Martin Bashir has stepped down from his position as the BBC's Religion Editor, and is leaving the corporation.\n\n\"He let us know of his decision last month, just before being readmitted to hospital for another surgical procedure on his heart. Although he underwent major surgery toward the end of last year, he is facing some ongoing issues and has decided to focus on his health.\"\n\nHe added: \"We wish him a complete and speedy recovery.\"\n\nBashir is one of the most well-known journalists in the UK, having made news headlines for his interviews with Michael Jackson and Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nIt was during her 1995 interview with Bashir that Princess Diana admitted to having had an affair and also spoke of Prince Charles's relationship with the then Camilla Parker-Bowles.\n\n\"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,\" she told Bashir on Panorama, in a programme watched by millions globally.\n\nHowever, Bashir had recently come under scrutiny after it emerged mocked-up bank statements had been produced in an attempt to secure the interview with the princess.\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the use of the statements, but has insisted they played \"no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".\n\nBashir will not face a criminal investigation. But retired Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson has carried out an inquiry into the incident.\n\nA spokeswoman for Lord Dyson said he had concluded his investigation and that the report had been \"passed to the BBC for publication in due course\".\n\nA BBC spokesman said the report would be published \"very soon\".\n\nBashir, aged 58, had been absent from his role in recent months after contracting Covid-19 and undergoing quadruple bypass surgery.\n\nIn the first of his two most famous interviews, Princess Diana also talked frankly about her difficulties with post-natal depression and bulimia.\n\nIt made headlines around the globe and was watched by 22.8m in the UK, winning Bashir a Bafta TV award.\n\nHe was also named Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year in 1996.\n\nIn 2003, Bashir also interviewed pop singer Jackson for an ITV documentary.\n\nThe journalist asked him about reports of multiple plastic surgery and the \"baby dangling\" incident, when the star held his baby son over a balcony to show waiting fans beneath.\n\nMichael Jackson was another of Bashir's famous interviewees\n\nThe programme, for which Bashir trailed the singer for eight months, was watched by 14m viewers.\n\nBashir's career began as BBC news correspondent from 1987 to 1992. He then joined the corporation's investigative programme Panorama, and also worked on shows including Songs of Praise and Public Eye.\n\nIn a 1998 Panorama programme he interviewed Louise Woodward, the British au pair convicted of the manslaughter of Matthew Eappen, a baby she was looking after in the US.\n\nThe exclusive interview, in which she declared her innocence, was recorded after she was released from a US prison, when her conviction was reduced from murder to involuntary manslaughter.\n\nHe went on to interview Louise Woodward, the British au pair convicted in the US of involuntary manslaughter\n\nBashir also interviewed the five men suspected of killing London teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1999, having moved to ITV in 1998 to work on Tonight with Trevor McDonald.\n\nHe went on to speak to disgraced Tory peer Lord Archer, Tony Martin the Norfolk farmer who was jailed for killing a burglar and former footballer George Best, as well as making a series of documentary films about the serial killer doctor, Harold Shipman.\n\nOther interviewees included Michael Barrymore and Major Charles Ingram, also known as \"the coughing major\", infamous for his appearance on TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?\n\nIn 2004, Bashir moved to New York, where he worked on ABC News, and later MSNBC as a political commentator, where he worked until 2013.\n\nThe reporter appeared on the celebrity version of The X Factor in 2019\n\nHe quit MSNBC when he became the controversial focus of attention himself, for remarks he made about former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.\n\nHe then broadcast an apology on his show saying his remarks were \"ill-judged\".\n\nBashir returned to the UK and was appointed the BBC's Religious Affairs correspondent in 2016. In 2019, he took part in a celebrity version of ITV's X Factor, which replaced the traditional X Factor series, and was eliminated in the third week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former staff reminisce about life at their town's Debenhams branch\n\nThe last remaining Debenhams are closing their doors on Saturday, more than 240 years after the department store began trading.\n\nShoppers have flocked to the last remaining outlets to pick up bargains in closing-down sales.\n\nBut the last 28 stores will now be shuttered for good.\n\nThe Debenhams brand will continue to trade online after it was bought by the fashion retailer Boohoo for £55m in January.\n\nAt its height, there were more than 150 Debenhams stores across the UK, but the chain went into administration in 2019 after several years of falling sales.\n\nThe pandemic was the final blow.\n\nIn December, its owners announced the business was being wound down with 12,000 job losses.\n\nAfter lockdown, 97 stores reopened to allow the last stock to be cleared, and they have gradually been closed over the last two weeks.\n\nThe last outlets have been plastered with sale signs, offering a mish-mash of items, from bikinis to cafetieres, at bargain basement prices.\n\nDebenhams was an anchor store, especially in many mid-sized town centres, such as Mansfield, where it opened its shopping centre-based site in 1976.\n\nShelves were empty in the cosmetic department this week, while boxes of left-over coat hangers were free to anyone who wanted them.\n\nBut as the shop entered its final few days of trading, there were more customers than there had been for some time, said shop staff.\n\nThey recalled that in its early days, the store sold a huge range of goods, from loft ladders to greenhouses.\n\n\"It was so thriving in the 1970s and 80s. On a Friday afternoon, it was really buzzing with the girls from the factory,\" said Glenis Thompson.\n\nIts closure would leave \"a big big hole in the town\", said Julie Howe, another former Debenhams worker.\n\n\"It isn't all about online and Covid. The company lost its way, which is very sad,\" she added.\n\nDebenhams traces its roots back to 1778 when William Clark opened a shop in London's West End, selling fabrics, bonnets and parasols.\n\nBy the 1950s, it was the biggest department store in the UK with 110 sites.\n\nHowever, in recent years, the shift to online shopping ate into sales and the business floundered.\n\nIt was put up for sale last year, but in the end, the brand will survive online as part of the internet-only fashion firm Boohoo.", "People expressing support for the Palestinians marched through Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy\n\nThousands of people have marched through central London in support of the Palestinians amid ongoing fighting between Israel and militants in Gaza.\n\nThe organisers of the protest called on the UK government to stop allowing what they described as \"Israel's brutal violence against and oppression of the Palestinian people\".\n\nIt comes after the worst week of violence in Gaza and Israel since 2014.\n\nAt least 139 people have been killed in Gaza and nine in Israel since the fighting began on Monday.\n\nIsrael says dozens of militants are among the dead in Gaza, while Palestinian health officials say nearly half are women and children.\n\nIt came after weeks of spiralling Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem which culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas - the militant Islamist group which rules Gaza - began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.\n\nOn Saturday, an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in Gaza killed 10 people, while a Palestinian rocket killed a man in Israel.\n\nA separate Israeli strike destroyed a high-rise building housing media organisations, including The Associated Press and Al Jazeera, plus a number of offices and apartments. The Israeli military said the building housed military assets belonging to Hamas.\n\nThe demonstration in London has been organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Stop The War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Muslim Association of Britain.\n\nA spokesperson for the organisers said: \"It is vital that the UK government takes immediate action.\n\n\"It must stop allowing Israel's brutal violence against and oppression of the Palestinian people to go unpunished.\"\n\nThey said the bombardment of Gaza \"which is killing civilians including children is a war crime\", adding: \"The UK government is complicit in these acts as long as it continues to offer Israel military, diplomatic and financial support.\"\n\nFrom the outset, it has been clear how high passions are running among the thousands who have turned out in central London.\n\nA river of protesters flows along Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington.\n\nEvery once in a while, a red or green smoke flare is set off, which is met with cheers and waving Palestinian flags which match the colours.\n\nTheir intended destination is sealed off down a private road, but that does not stop people chanting \"free Palestine\" and a minority climb scaffolding on Kensington High Street.\n\nThey essentially want Israel to stop air strikes and for the UK government to step in.\n\nBut as US negotiators call on both sides to calm things, few here think it will be resolved any time soon.\n\nAddressing the crowds at the rally, Husam Zumlot, Palestinian ambassador to the UK, said: \"This time is different. This time we will not be denied any more. We are united. We have had enough of oppression.\n\n\"Today we are saying enough, enough with the complicity. Thank you for standing with us.\"\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott also spoke to those gathered outside the embassy.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"We must remember we are part of an international movement. This is a worldwide movement for justice.\n\n\"Palestinian people are having their land seized... and they are now being killed in their homes. All of this is illegal.\"\n\nThe Twitter account of Israel's embassy in the UK posted a tweet that read: \"Hamas couldn't care less about the lives of Palestinians, in its desperate attempt to terrorize and kill Israelis.\"\n\nIn a BBC interview, the former Israeli ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev, defended Israel's actions in Gaza.\n\n\"I don't want to see any innocent bystanders hurt, let alone children. I don't want to see Israeli children or Palestinian children caught up in the crossfire,\" he said.\n\n\"But Hamas says Israel has no right to exist. So, we're only talking about deterrence, about strength, about them understanding that it's not in their interest to shoot rockets into Israel,\" he added.\n\n\"And we want to come out of this conflict with them understanding that clearly, and then have a sustained period of quiet. Ultimately, that's good for Israelis, and that's good for the residents of Gaza, too.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said the ongoing violence was \"deeply concerning and must end\".\n\n\"There is never any justification for targeting innocent civilians. Both sides need to de-escalate and offer hope to their peoples, which can only come through political dialogue.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a small minority of protesters had thrown objects of police, and warned that enforcement action \"will be taken where necessary against those who breach Covid regulations\".\n\nThere have also been pro-Palestinian demonstrations in several other European capitals.\n\nIn Paris, riot police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse a rally held despite a ban by authorities.", "Lisa Shaw had a successful career in commercial radio before joining the BBC\n\nFamily, listeners and colleagues have paid tribute to a BBC local radio presenter who has died aged 44.\n\nLisa Shaw, who joined BBC Radio Newcastle's daytime team in 2016, died in hospital after a short illness.\n\nHer voice was well-known in the north-east of England, where she had also had success in commercial radio.\n\nBBC Radio Newcastle's acting executive editor Rik Martin said everyone at the station was \"devastated and thinking about Lisa's lovely family\".\n\n\"She was a trusted colleague, a brilliant presenter, a wonderful friend, and a loving wife and mum,\" he said.\n\n\"She loved being on the radio and was loved by our audiences.\n\n\"We've lost someone special who meant a great deal to a great many people.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA statement from Ms Shaw's family described the mother-of-one as an \"amazing person\" who had \"touched and enriched so many people's lives, and made them better just by being in it\".\n\n\"We are all completely heartbroken, in disbelief, numb, and saddened, that there is a Lisa-shaped hole in our lives that will never, ever be filled,\" they said.\n\n\"We are so grateful for the time that we have had with her, and there are so many happy memories that we will hold dear for the rest of our lives.\n\n\"She was the best wife and mammy, sister, daughter, aunty, friend and colleague that anyone could hope for.\n\n\"She loved connecting every day with the wonderful people of the North East, and it gives us great comfort to know how many lives she was an integral part of every single day.\n\n\"We'd like to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support we have received at such a difficult time, reinforcing how deeply cherished she was by so many people. We will love and miss her, always.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stephanie Finnon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Shaw was from County Durham and studied at Bournemouth University.\n\nThe hash tag \"RIP Lisa\" was trending on Twitter after her death was announced on Sunday morning, with listeners and colleagues paying tribute.\n\nOne called her a \"broadcasting legend\" while another said she had \"an infectious laugh that we all remember\".\n\nHer BBC colleague Stephanie Finnon said Ms Shaw was an \"incredible presenter\" who was \"hilarious, unflappable, the ultimate pro\", while co-worker Martin Lindsay said he would \"best remember the countless laughs and general silliness\".\n\nMs Shaw had also worked for North East commercial stations, Metro Radio, Heart, Century Radio and Real Radio, where she won the Sony Gold Award for breakfast show of the year.\n\nChris Burns, head of BBC Local Radio, said: \"Lisa was a talented presenter who had already achieved a lot and would have achieved much more.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "A new border scheme requiring visitors to apply for an electronic permit will make the UK safer, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nShe also argued it will make it easier to count those coming to the UK.\n\nUnder the plan, all visitors without a visa or immigration status will have to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) before coming to the UK.\n\nBut Labour accused the government of \"incompetence\" over immigration.\n\nPassengers required to get a permit under the new system would include those travelling to the UK for a short stay or transiting - changing planes - in the country.\n\nPeople wishing to work in the UK or stay in the country for a long period of time - for example over six months - would need to obtain a visa, rather than an ETA.\n\nThe Home Office says the new system would allow automated and early security checks to take place to stop foreign criminals arriving in the country, with applicants only allowed to travel once they have been cleared.\n\nThe department also says the new scheme will make it easier to count the numbers coming into the country and notes that past migration figures have underestimated the true figure.\n\nFor example, the government estimated three million Europeans lived in the UK, but more than five million ended up applying to the EU settlement scheme.\n\nAround 30 million people are expected to apply for ETAs each year.\n\nThe new scheme is modelled on the US Electronic System for Travel Authorization which has been in place since 2009, while the EU is planning to introduce its own version - European Travel Information and Authorisation System - next year.\n\nThe home secretary will give more details about the government's border policy on Monday\n\nThe announcement comes as reports say the numbers of migrants crossing the English Channel by boat are higher this year than last, despite an agreement signed with France in November to increase border security and prevent migrant crossings.\n\nMs Patel is expected to give further details of her Legal Migration and Border Control Strategy on Monday.\n\nSpeaking ahead of that announcement, Ms Patel said: \"Now we have taken back control and ended free movement, security is at the very heart of our immigration strategy.\n\n\"Our new approach will make it easier to identify potential threats before they reach the border.\"\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds accused the government of \"utter incompetence\" adding that it had \"broken\" the asylum system.\n\nSpeaking to Sky's Trevor Phillips on Sunday he said:\"If you look at 2014, 87% of asylum claims were being dealt with within six months, that figure had fallen to 20% by 2019, and what did the government do? They got rid of performance targets.\"\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds said there \"should be\" performance targets for civil servants.", "Phil Mickelson became the oldest man to win a major title as he claimed the US PGA Championship at Kiawah Island amid extraordinary scenes as thousands of fans swarmed on to the final fairway to witness the winning moment.\n\nIt was a throwback victory for 50-year-old Mickelson and a reminder of what sport has been missing in the absence of crowds during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSpectators swamped the American as he marched up to the 18th green on his way to clinching a sixth major title, eight years after his last.\n\n\"It was quite unnerving, but exceptionally awesome. I don't think I've ever experienced anything like that before,\" said Mickelson, who won on six under par at the Ocean Course after a closing one-over 73.\n\nHe finished two clear of fellow American Brooks Koepka, who closed with a 74, and South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who signed for a 73.\n\nMickelson takes the record of oldest major winner from Julius Boros, who won this title in 1968 at the age of 48, and also joins England's Sir Nick Faldo and American Lee Trevino as a six-time major winner. Only 11 male players have won more.\n\n\"This is just an incredible feeling. I just believed that it was possible yet everything was saying it wasn't and I hope that others find that inspiration,\" added Mickelson.\n\n\"It may take a little extra work and harder effort to maintain the physicality, or maintain the skills, but gosh is it worth it in the end.\n\n\"I just love this game and I love what I do and I love the challenge of competing against such great players.\"\n\nHe will now be among the favourites at next month's US Open, the only major he needs to become the sixth man to complete the career Grand Slam. It is being held near his home in San Diego at Torrey Pines, a course on which he has won three titles.\n\nIreland's Padraig Harrington and Shane Lowry finished in a tie for fourth at two under after closing rounds of 69.\n\nThey were level with American Harry Higgs and England's Paul Casey, who scored consistently throughout the week and posted his third 71 on Sunday.\n\nIt was a final pairing packed with potential storylines: Mickelson aiming to become the oldest major championship winner, Koepka looking for victory just two months after serious knee surgery.\n\nIn the end, it was Mickelson who controlled the narrative and held his nerve during a tense final round.\n\nKoepka was eight months old when Mickelson claimed the first of his 45 PGA Tour titles as an amateur at the Northern Telecom Open in 1991 and 13 years later the American became a major champion with the first of his three Masters crowns.\n\nHe added to those at the 2005 PGA Championship and 2013 Open, but victory at Kiawah Island must rank as the most remarkable after dropping out of the top 100 earlier this year for the first time since 1993.\n\nMickelson says he has being trying to improve his concentration and stay more \"present\" by practising meditation and other drills to increase his focus and he needed all of that composure on a rollercoaster front nine.\n\nHe led by one overnight on seven under, but began with a bogey and when Koepka rolled in a birdie from 12 feet a two-shot swing handed the 31-year-old the lead.\n\nBut a double bogey followed for Koepka as he duffed a chip from a bank behind the second green and then watched as Mickelson clipped on before sinking a birdie putt to reclaim top spot and take a two-stroke advantage on the field.\n\nMickelson held on to the sole lead despite a bogey at three after two loose chips around the green, but only because Koepka missed a three-footer for birdie.\n\nThen came a moment of magic from the champion, chipping in from the sand to birdie the par-three fifth and send the Kiawah Island crowd almost delirious.\n\nMickelson followed up with a bogey and Koepka took advantage by pulling back level, only to send a disastrous approach at seven on to the cart path on his way to another dropped shot as Mickelson got up and down for a birdie that sent him clear once more.\n\nThe veteran hit the turn with his two-stroke lead intact and increased it to four at 10 with a well-made birdie as Koepka found the sand and failed to recover.\n\nThe left-hander had a five-stroke lead at the same stage on Saturday, only to watch it evaporate over the next three holes, but not even a fan picking up his ball after a wayward drive at 11 could faze him this time as Mickelson saved par and Koepka bogeyed to drop five back, meaning Oosthuizen was once again his closest challenger.\n\nHaving avoided the water off the tee at 13, Mickelson then found it with his approach to the green and made back-to-back bogeys, though Oosthuizen dropped two shots on the same hole after also finding the water.\n\nThat meant Mickelson led by three shots with four to play.\n\nOosthuizen, whose sole major win came at the 2010 Open, birdied the 16th to keep the fight alive but moments later Mickelson, who turns 51 next month, hit the longest drive of any player this week on the hole - 366 yards - on his way to a birdie of his own.\n\nMickelson said he was having fun this week, though there was nothing enjoyable about the daunting par-three 17th, but he could afford to drop a shot and head to the 18th with a two-stroke advantage.\n\nHe pushed his drive left and as he assessed his options from in front of a hospitality stand, fans started to swarm onto the fairway.\n\nAfter some deliberation, he hit a nine-iron into the heart of the green, and the boisterous crowd immediately surrounded Mickelson who, with the help of officials, had to push his way through to reach the putting surface to put the finishing touches on his historic win.\n\nKoepka was disappointed with his putting on Saturday and also missed several close-range attempts on Sunday.\n\nHe still had an outside chance of taking the tournament to a play-off on the last but had to finish amid the madness surrounding Mickelson.\n\n\"It would have been cool if I didn't have a knee injury and got dinged a few times in the knee in that crowd,\" said the four-time major champion who took a couple of extra minutes to make his way through to the green.\n\n\"It's cool for Phil. But getting dinged a few times isn't exactly my idea of fun.\"\n\nAn eagle at the par-five second and chip-in birdie on the 14th were the highlights of European Ryder Cup captain Harrington's round as he rolled back the years to card a three-under 69 on Sunday and finish at two under par for a share of fourth place.\n\nThat is the three-time major champion's best finish at a major since winning this event in 2008.\n\nThe 49-year-old had a terrific time playing with fellow Irishman Lowry and the Open champion also posted a 69 to finish at two under.\n\n\"I don't think I have enjoyed a round of golf as much as I have playing with Shane,\" said Harrington.\n\n\"It was amazing how relaxed I was from tee to green. When you have your head in the right place it is much easier to play good golf. It was a very nice pairing.\"\n\nCasey also shared fourth and briefly threatened to put an early run together with back-to-back birdies on two and three, but five birdies overall were offset by four bogeys as he finished four off the lead.\n\nJustin Rose failed to break par in the opening three days but posted one of the rounds of the day with a five-under 67 that included eight birdies, a bogey and a double to leave the Englishman one under for the tournament.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Rory McIlroy was unable to tame the Ocean Course as he did during his 2012 victory, with the pre-tournament favourite finishing on five over par.\n\nJordan Spieth's wait to complete the career Grand Slam continues after he finished at two over par, one behind Japan's Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, while US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau faded to three over par with a final-day 77.\n\nA walk that will live in the memory\n\nThe US PGA Championship's Covid-19 protocols for fans included \"no handshakes, fist bumps, autographs, photographs or selfies\"; for people attending to \"respect their [players'] space and watch your distance\" and \"avoid unnecessary touchpoints and large crowds\". Fans who had not been vaccinated were advised to wear masks when they could not be socially distant.\n\nBut Mickelson needed a security and police escort to make his way through the jam-packed crowd of spectators to complete his historic moment.\n\n\"I've never had that experience and to see that, to feel that kind of excitement and enthusiasm, and be at the forefront of that, was pretty special. That's a moment I'll always, always cherish.\"\n• None \"The UK is all I've ever known\": Panorama look into the impact of immigration status on those born or raised in Britain\n• None Three youngsters embark on the wildest activities Scotland has to offer", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sasha Johnson in June 2020: \"Why should we stay quiet?\"\n\nProminent Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is critically ill after being shot in the head, her party says.\n\nThe Taking the Initiative Party (TTIP) said she was being treated in intensive care after being \"brutally attacked\" in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe 27-year-old has life-threatening injuries following the shooting on Consort Road, in Peckham, south London.\n\nTTIP said Ms Johnson had undergone an operation and remained in critical care, in recovery post-surgery.\n\nA vigil was held in Ruskin Park, close to King's College Hospital, where Ms Johnson is being treated.\n\nWell-wishers played African drums and prayed for Ms Johnson to pull through.\n\nOne speaker told the crowd: \"In every community there are good eggs and bad eggs and we have to make sure those bad eggs are held accountable for their actions.\n\n\"Because it's not acceptable for those bad eggs to be attacking our warriors - be they male or female.\n\n\"Warriors who are out there every day without pay working for our families, working for our communities.\"\n\nA vigil for Ms Johnson was held earlier in Ruskin Park, beside King's College Hospital in south London\n\nPolice said at this stage there was no evidence the attack was targeted.\n\nAfter fears grew among other activists that it was a targeted attack, Charles Gordon, one of TTIP's founding members said: \"I would like to say that we need to stay cautious and aware; the truth is that we don't know what has happened here.\"\n\nA party spokesman said: \"Whilst we understand there is much speculation around the nature of the incident, our priority is Sasha's health and recovery.\"\n\nDetectives said there was currently nothing to suggest the shooting victim had received any credible threats against her, and have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThey have not confirmed her identity.\n\nIt is believed Ms Johnson had been at a party when she was shot\n\nEarlier, Imarn Ayton, a friend of Ms Johnson's, told the BBC doctors had carried out surgery on her fellow activist, which had gone well and she was \"now with her parents\".\n\nShe said Ms Johnson had been at a party or gathering when she was injured but she did not believe \"she was the intended victim\".\n\n\"As far as I am aware... this incident is more related to rival gangs as opposed to her activism,\" Ms Ayton said.\n\nDetectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command have been investigating at the scene and the surrounding area and are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry.\n\nIt is believed the shooting happened near a house where a party was taking place and a number of people may have been in the area, a Met Police statement said.\n\nThe Taking the Initiative Party said the attack followed \"numerous death threats\".\n\nForensic officers have been carrying out searches in the area where Ms Johnson was shot\n\nDet Ch Insp Jimi Tele said: \"This was a shocking incident that has left a young woman with very serious injuries. Our thoughts are with her family who are being provided with support at this terribly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you saw anything suspicious in the Consort Road area in the early hours of Sunday morning, or if you have heard information since that could help detectives, it is crucial that you get in touch.\"\n\nDr Darren Henry, who knew Ms Johnson through community activism campaigns, called on those speculating about the shooting to \"let the police do their jobs\".\n\n\"Like any shocking or horrendous crime in our community, we hope that the offenders are brought to justice and that there is no bias and no racism.\n\n\"Let the police do their watching and monitoring, but we are out here as well doing our watching and our monitoring.\"\n\nTributes on social media have been pouring in from all over the world since the shocking attack on the young mother.\n\nTamika Mallory, a well-known US activist posted on her Instagram account: \"Pull through sis! People think it's a game out here. Smh. #SashaJohnson\", while Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy tweeted: \"This is gut wrenching. Praying for Sasha Johnson, her family and friends that she makes a full recovery #BlackLivesMatter\".\n\nAnd Harriet Harman, the Labour MP for Camberwell and Peckham, tweeted: \"Whoever carried out this dreadful shooting of Sasha Johnson needs to be caught quickly. Give any info you have to MPSSouthwark. Reported death threats will need to be investigated. Wishing her a full recovery. With thanks to the NHS for much needed expertise and care.\"\n\nMs Johnson was a well known anti-racism campaigner who organised a Black Lives Matter protest last summer, in her home city of Oxford.\n\nMany have praised her courage and determination to stand up for the rights of black people, tirelessly calling out injustices and inequality.\n\nMs Johnson has previously spoken about living in a society where her black sons would be accepted and which had a better system that could help them grow. She said she was determined to carry on campaigning and wanted to make a difference within her own community.\n\nMs Johnson, who works in community activism and community support and got a first in social care from Ruskin College in Oxford, has been a leading figure in the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK and is a member of the Taking the Initiative Party's leadership committee.\n\nIn its manifesto, the party describes itself as aiming \"to create real change in communities across the UK by setting the agenda in government\".\n\nIt said it wanted to do this by putting forward \"exceptional candidates who truly represent their communities, winning seats to create a Parliament that looks like the society it leads\".\n\nPolice said there was currently no evidence to suggest it was a targeted shooting\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, the party said Ms Johnson is a mother of two and a \"powerful voice\" who has always been fighting for black people and against the injustices that affect the black community.\n\n\"Let's all come together and pray for Sasha, pray for her recovery and show our support to her family and loved ones,\" the statement said.\n\nBlack Lives Matters UK said it was shocked by the shooting of \"a young mother and fearless political campaigner who was at the forefront of many BLM protests last summer\".\n\nIt said that while she was not part of the organisation, \"she impressively founded a new Black-led political party and was dedicated to resist anti-Black racism\".\n\nThe group added: \"Any attempt to intimidate or silence her, is an attack on all of us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia's government has instructed social media companies to remove any content that refers to the \"Indian variant\" of Covid-19.\n\nThe IT ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the variant as B.1.617 and any reference to \"Indian\" was false.\n\nGeographical terms have been used to describe a number of other variants, including the UK and Brazil.\n\nIndia's government has faced criticism over its handling of Covid-19.\n\nIt also drew anger last month after it ordered Twitter to remove posts critical of some of its actions during the pandemic.\n\nThe country has been hit hard by the new variant since late March and is now second only to the US in terms of overall infections, at more than 26 million, according to Johns Hopkins University research.\n\nCovid-related deaths are close to 300,000, behind only the US and Brazil, although some experts believe India's fatalities could be considerably higher.\n\nThe instruction to social media companies was carried in a government order from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday.\n\nThe note was not made public but was obtained by news agencies.\n\nPlatforms were asked to \"remove all the content that names, refers to, or implies 'Indian variant' of coronavirus from your platform immediately\", the Press Trust of India reported.\n\n\"It has come to our knowledge that a false statement is being circulated online which implies that an 'Indian variant' of coronavirus is spreading across the countries. This is completely FALSE,\" AFP news agency quoted the same letter as saying.\n\nThe note says that the WHO has \"not associated the term 'Indian variant' with the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus in any of its reports\".\n\nOne social media executive told Reuters it would be extremely difficult to take down all references to \"Indian variant\".\n\nB.1.617, a more transmissible variant, was first detected in India last year and has spread to dozens of countries. A number of nations have severely restricted arrivals from India.\n\nIndia is a massive market for social media companies. Statistics from January show it is Twitter's third largest.\n\nIndia's government this year introduced guidelines it said were intended to curb misuse of social media and the spread of misinformation.\n\nIf what is termed \"unlawful\" material appears on a platform, the company can be given a takedown order. If it does not comply within a deadline, it can face the possibility of prosecution.\n\nThe rules in essence mean companies cannot evade responsibility for what users post.\n\nQuestions have arisen over whether these guidelines promote more censorship and undermine freedom of speech.\n\nThere has certainly been concern within the media that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has been behind persistent attacks on the freedom of the press.\n\nLast month, the government told Twitter and Facebook to remove some posts critical of Mr Modi's handling of Covid-19.\n\nOn Friday, it criticised Twitter for labelling some tweets by Indian politicians \"manipulated media\", which the platform uses referring to possible fabrications and deceptions.", "More than 60 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been given in the UK, the health secretary has announced.\n\nThere were 762,361 first or second jabs on Saturday, the second highest daily total of the rollout, and more than 22 million people have now had both doses.\n\nIt comes as a study found the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines are highly effective after two doses against the variant identified in India.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency's head urged people to get their second dose.\n\nDr Jenny Harries said the study was the \"first real-world evidence of vaccine effectiveness\" against the variant and the \"straightforward message\" was for people to make sure they took up the offer of the second jab.\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, she urged the public to remain cautious to avoid another lockdown, warning of the threat from the Indian variant which has become the \"dominant strain\" in some parts of the country.\n\nThe latest government data shows 556,951 UK adults received a second jab on Saturday, meaning that 43% of the adult population - 22,643,417 people - have now been fully vaccinated.\n\nOf them 205,410 were first doses, bringing the number of people to have had one dose to 37,943,681 people, or 72% of UK adults.\n\nOnly on 20 March, when 844,285 doses were administered, have more jabs been given on a single day. But Saturday's second dose figure surpassed the previous highest daily total of 547,636 set on 24 April.\n\nAnother 2,235 new cases and five deaths within 28 days of a positive test have also been announced.\n\nPublic Health England, which ran the study into the two vaccines said they are likely to be even more effective at preventing hospital admission and deaths.\n\nSome 13,000 deaths and 39,100 hospitalisations have been prevented in the UK due to the vaccination programme up to 9 May, according to PHE analysis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Test and Trace boss urges people to go for their second jab\n\nResponding to the latest vaccination figures, the health secretary tweeted: \"This is a fantastic milestone in our fight against this virus.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone involved in our national effort. When you get the call, get the jab.\"\n\nEarlier Matt Hancock also said the PHE study's findings showed that getting both doses of the vaccine was \"absolutely vital\".\n\nHe added the research made him \"increasingly confident\" that the government was on track for the final stage of easing restrictions in England on 21 June.\n\nHowever, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there would not be a \"green light all the way\", telling the Andrew Marr Show that people have to remain \"conscientious.... following all the rules.\n\n\"That is part of our normal life now and that will continue, and that, of course, will help us to that unlocking on 21 June.\"\n\nAppointments for second doses for people in England have been brought forward from 12 to 8 weeks for those in the top nine priority groups.\n\nIt follows advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which recommended reducing the interval to counter the threat of new variants.\n\nThe variant first discovered in India - also known as B.1.617.2 - is responsible for the majority of new cases in parts of England.\n\nThe PHE study found two jabs of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the Kent one.\n\nHowever, both vaccines were only 33% effective against the Indian variant three weeks after the first dose. This compared with 50% effectiveness against the Kent variant.\n\nThe Moderna vaccine has also been used in the UK since April but the study said the numbers who had received it were too small for them to include it in their research.", "Kim Leadbeater says she is a \"proud Yorkshirewoman\" and understands the area\n\nJo Cox's sister has been chosen as the Labour candidate in the constituency the murdered MP once represented.\n\nKim Leadbeater will contest a by-election for the Batley and Spen seat on a date yet to be confirmed.\n\nThe election was prompted by the resignation as Batley MP of Tracy Brabin, who was recently elected as West Yorkshire's first regional mayor.\n\nMs Brabin was voted in as an MP in October 2016 after Ms Cox, 41, was shot and stabbed by a right-wing extremist.\n\nSpeaking after she was chosen by the constituency Labour Party, Ms Leadbeater said she was \"overwhelmed and humbled\".\n\nDuring the selection meeting, Ms Leadbeater told party members she was the candidate the Conservatives \"feared\".\n\nShe added: \"I'm a proud Yorkshirewoman and have lived in Batley and Spen all my life. I have a deep understanding of the area, its people and some of the challenges it faces.\n\n\"I feel passionately about the strength there is in such a diverse constituency.\"\n\nMother-of-two Jo Cox was murdered while doing constituency work in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on 16 June 2016\n\nMs Leadbeater, 45, who has received backing from Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, also spoke about the importance of \"strong northern voices\" representing their communities in Westminster.\n\nShe added: \"Nobody should be in any doubt about the scale of the task we have to keep Batley and Spen Labour.\"\n\nIt will be seen as a key test for the party, which lost the Hartlepool by-election to the Conservatives earlier this month.\n\nMs Brabin held Batley and Spen for Labour with a reduced majority in the general election of 2019 - down to 3,525 from 8,961 in 2017. The Conservative Party's candidate came second.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Ms Leadbeater's \"roots in the community will make her a fantastic champion\".\n\nHe added: \"Batley and Spen holds an important place in the Labour Party's heart. And Kim's work to bring people together, just as her sister Jo Cox did, has inspired us all.\"\n\nFor Kim Leadbeater, standing in this election is deeply personal, following in her murdered sister's footsteps. For the Labour Party, selecting her as their candidate is highly strategic.\n\nLabour was stung by the recent loss of the Hartelpool by-election. The leadership was blamed for losing touch with local voters and criticised for fielding a candidate from outside the constituency.\n\nThis time, in Kim Leadbeater, they hope they have one with intimate ties and an emotional appeal in the area. But having a local candidate isn't Labour's only issue.\n\nIn 2019, Labour won Batley and Spen securing about 3,500 more votes than the Conservatives. However 6,500 people voted for an independent Brexit-supporting candidate.\n\nIf many of them now turn to the Tories, Kim Leadbeater will have a tough task on her hands. In Hartlepool a similar thing happened.\n\nThere Labour's majority had been 3,500 too. But around 10,000 had supported the Brexit Party in 2019 and many switched to the Conservatives, helping them win the seat.\n\nMs Leadbeater has worked as an ambassador for the Jo Cox Foundation, which was established to campaign for issues the MP cared about.\n\nShe was appointed MBE in the New Year's Honours for her work in tackling social isolation.\n\nThe Conservatives announced on Wednesday that Ryan Stephenson, a Leeds councillor, had been selected as the party's by-election candidate.\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 woman is being treated for life-threatening injuries after being shot in south-east London.\n\nThe shooting happened in Consort Road in Peckham at about 03:00 BST, the Met Police said.\n\nOfficers, including firearms specialists, attended along with the London Ambulance Service.\n\nNo arrests have been made and police are asking residents to check doorbell and dashcam footage for any images that might help their investigation.\n\nDoor-to-door inquiries are continuing and a number of roads are closed.\n\nThe woman, thought to be aged in her 20s, remains in hospital.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In Khan Younis, Gaza, people have emerged to take stock of the destruction\n\nAfter the ceasefire, Palestinians in Gaza, who had stayed inside as much as they could while there was a chance of getting killed outside, walked round their neighbourhoods to get a better idea of what Israel had done.\n\nPeople stopped to inspect huge piles of concrete rubble from the tower blocks that Israel had toppled. In some places the streets were blocked by rubble. Bulldozer operators were working overtime. Nothing they found was surprising. What has happened has been covered exhaustively on TV. But human beings like to see for themselves.\n\nIn Khan Younis, one of Gaza's towns, I went to the funeral of nine fighters who were killed in part of the tunnel network that Israel has targeted.\n\nIsraeli politicians and commanders have claimed that they have done serious damage to what they describe as an infrastructure of terror, run by Hamas and the smaller factions in Gaza. The damage to buildings is obvious. I have not been able to see underground military installations, but the talk here is that Hamas was shocked that Israel was able to kill its men when they believed they were safe underground.\n\nMorale among supporters of the armed groups in Gaza is another matter. It seems intact, even enhanced by the 11-day war.\n\nKhan Younis stopped for the funerals. Several thousand men prayed on a sports field and followed the stretchers carrying bodies wrapped in Palestinian flags, chanting their support on the way to the cemetery.\n\nIsraeli leaders listed buildings destroyed, Hamas commanders and fighters targeted and killed, and the remarkable success of the Iron Dome anti-missile system.\n\nHamas defines victory first of all as survival. Its leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, emerged triumphantly from hiding the day after the ceasefire. But Hamas will also look at the political scorecard with some satisfaction.\n\nHamas slogans have been chanted after prayers 60 miles (96km) inland from Gaza, at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Hamas has driven home a message to Palestinians that it is prepared to fight and accept sacrifices for their rights in Jerusalem. Israel insists that all of Jerusalem is its eternal and indivisible capital. Palestinians have other ideas.\n\nThe Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is recognised internationally as the representative voice of his people through his leadership of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the occupied territories and was intended in the now moribund Oslo agreements of the 1990s to develop into the government of an independent state.\n\nBut Palestinians are deeply dissatisfied with the president's performance. He cancelled elections due for May that he looked likely to lose. Palestinians have not been able to vote for a president or a legislature since 2006.\n\nIn contrast, a simple message from Hamas that it would fight to the death for Jerusalem resonated with Palestinians who despair at the inability of President Abbas to slow down, let alone stop, the steady increase of Jewish settlement, illegal under international law, on occupied land they want for a state.\n\nPalestinian supporters of Hamas celebrate after the ceasefire\n\nIn Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will now return to the battle for political survival he was fighting before the 11 days of conflict with Hamas.\n\nMr Netanyahu is on trial on charges so serious that he could end up in jail for corruption, like his predecessor Ehud Olmert. On 10 May, the day Hamas dramatically escalated the conflict by firing missiles at Jerusalem, the prime minister was close to losing his job.\n\nHe has been a caretaker since the fourth inconclusive election in two years. In a month of trying, Mr Netanyahu failed to form a coalition that commanded the necessary 61 votes in parliament for a majority.\n\nHis main opponent, Yair Lapid, was taking his turn and looked to be days, even hours, away from announcing he had the votes to form a government. Mr Lapid's plans fell apart during the fighting. He still has time to rebuild them, though a fifth election might be a more likely outcome.\n\nIsrael also has to deal with the collapse of co-existence between its Jewish majority and Palestinian Arab minority, which makes up around 20 per cent of the population. Mr Netanyahu's polarising rhetoric and embrace of extreme Jewish nationalists have made a bad situation worse.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now resumes his fight for political survival\n\nLike the previous rounds of fighting between Israel and Hamas, the ceasefire is just a pause. The conflict is not just unresolved. It is not even frozen. The ceasefire will hold until it is tested by a crisis. That could be a rocket fired out of Gaza, or more Israeli police violence towards Palestinians in Jerusalem.\n\nOr it could be the lawsuit brought by Jewish settler groups to evict Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, a leafy district on the occupied eastern side of Jerusalem. The prospect of evicted Palestinian families being replaced by more Jewish settlers was a major reason why tension in Jerusalem turned violent.\n\nThe judgement in the case was postponed in a belated attempt to calm matters. But the case was not dropped, and the judgement will eventually be issued. Israel's legal timetable could deliver the ceasefire's first big challenge.\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\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has denied claims the government pursued a herd immunity policy early in the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's ex-aide Dominic Cummings has said in tweets that the UK's original plan was to let the virus spread through the population - achieving so-called \"herd immunity\".\n\nMr Cummings said No 10 later realised it would be a \"catastrophe\".\n\nBut the UK Health Security Agency chief said allowing people to become infected \"has never been on the agenda\".\n\nDr Jenny Harries said she had \"never been in a government meeting where herd immunity was put forward as a mechanism of control\" for the pandemic.\n\n\"But bear in mind I would not have been in most of the high-level ones as deputy chief medical officer,\" she said.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr whether herd immunity had been government policy at the beginning of the Covid pandemic - before a vaccine had been created - Ms Patel replied \"absolutely not\".\n\nShe said she would not comment on what Mr Cummings would say ahead of his appearance in front of a parliamentary committee this week, but added \"our strategy was always about public health, saving lives and protecting the NHS\".\n\nAlso speaking to Andrew Marr, Dr Harries said that the term herd immunity had been \"misinterpreted\".\n\nShe said there was a difference between the widespread immunity achieved through vaccinations, and herd immunity produced by allowing the public to catch the virus naturally.\n\n\"What you're looking at in a population is to try and see at which point your population would be safe, and this is what we do with this very successful vaccination programme,\" she said.\n\n\"That's not the same as saying... that the aim would be to allow people to become infected and develop herd immunity.\n\n\"That has never been on the agenda but you would always look to see how safe you can get your population through a vaccination programme.\"\n\nHerd immunity is a term used to mean that most people are immune to a particular disease.\n\nThis means that the disease is much less likely to spread from person to person, so those who are not immune are at reduced risk of illness.\n\nThe more infectious a disease is, the greater the number of people that need to be immune in order to reach the threshold where the unprotected are safe.\n\nThere are two ways of achieving herd immunity: First is through the natural progression of the disease, which will cause illness and death as people become infected. The second is through vaccination.\n\nAdding to a series of tweets Mr Cummings began a week ago, the former No 10 advisor referred to the government's handling of Covid as a \"disaster\".\n\nOn Saturday evening, he said the \"official plan in all the documents, graphs and meetings\" at the outset of the pandemic was to achieve so-called \"herd immunity\" by September 2020.\n\nHe added: \"How herd immunity could have been the plan is a fundamental issue in the whole disaster\", adding it was only changed after \"No 10 was made aware... it would lead to catastrophe\".\n\nIn addition to saying \"awful decisions\" were made, and \"lives and money\" were \"needlessly lost\" he also said \"if competent people had been in charge\" lockdowns may have been avoided.\n\nFollowing Ms Patel's interview on Sunday morning, he said herd immunity had not been a \"secret\" policy but \"official strategy\" explained on TV and radio.\n\nHe said herd immunity had been viewed as \"unavoidable\" until 9 March when government policy started to shift to \"Plan B\" - to \"dodge herd immunity until vaccines [were available]\".\n\nHe continued to tweet on the subject throughout Sunday and ahead of his appearance on Wednesday before the Commons Health and Science Select Committee which is considering lessons to be learned from the pandemic.\n\nMr Cummings was the prime minister's closest political aide, and in the room when decisions were being made early in the pandemic.\n\nBut, since parting ways with his boss last November, he has become a trenchant critic of Mr Johnson's actions.\n\nEarly on in the pandemic the government's chief scientific adviser's comments about herd immunity attracted attention.\n\nOn 13 March 2020, Sir Patrick Vallance told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the government's aim was to \"try and reduce the peak - not suppress it completely, also because most people get a mild illness, to build up some degree of herd immunity whilst protecting the most vulnerable\".\n\nSir Patrick later insisted that herd immunity was \"not the plan\" and the Department of Health said his comments had been misinterpreted adding: \"Herd immunity is not part of our action plan but is a natural by-product of an epidemic.\"", "Basingstoke is one of four depots where people attached themselves to bamboo structures\n\nFourteen people have been arrested during protests at McDonald's depots.\n\nAnimal Rebellion prevented lorries leaving premises in Basingstoke, Hemel Hempstead, Coventry and Heywood in Greater Manchester on Saturday.\n\nEight people were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass over the protest in Basingstoke, Hampshire Police said.\n\nSix others were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass, criminal damage and intimidating behaviour in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.\n\nProtesters formed blockades by attaching themselves to bamboo structures, stopping vehicles from passing through.\n\nReferring to the incident at the Basingstoke industrial estate off Houndmills Road, Ch Insp Matt Reeves said: \"Everyone has the right to free speech and protest, however, officers will take necessary action against the few who deliberately choose to act outside the law.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police said protesters at the distribution centre in the Canley area of Coventry left on Sunday morning and no arrests were made.\n\n\"Officers were present at the protest to engage with both the private businesses involved and ensure activists were carrying out their protest peacefully,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nSimilarly, there were no arrests made by Greater Manchester Police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're demanding McDonald's goes fully plant-based by 2025\"\n\nA McDonald's UK spokesperson said: \"Our distribution centres have reopened and are now back to delivering to our restaurants.\"\n\nOn Saturday it apologised to its customers \"for any disappointment caused\".\n\nAnimal Rebellion spokesman James Ozden said about 100 people took part in the protests.\n\nHe said the action had disrupted about 1,900 lorries.\n\n\"We've also got a report from someone in Manchester that they experienced limited McDonald's breakfast items due to the protest,\" he added.\n\nAnimal Rebellion said it was protesting to \"bring an end to the misery of fast food as it creates obesity, destroys the Amazon and warms up the planet\".\n\nIt wants McDonald's to commit to becoming fully plant-based by 2025.\n\nIt describes itself as a mass movement that uses nonviolent civil disobedience \"to bring about a transition to a just and sustainable plant-based food system\".\n\nIn November, the fast food giant announced plans to introduce a line of plant-based meat alternatives called \"McPlant\" in 2021.\n\nHampshire Constabulary released further details on those arrested in Basingstoke, all of whom remain in custody:\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "James Wolffe and Alison Di Rollo will remain in their posts until replacements are appointed\n\nScotland's top law officers have confirmed they are leaving their posts.\n\nLord Advocate James Wolffe QC and Solicitor General Alison Di Rollo QC have said they will continue in their roles until replacements are appointed.\n\nThe lord advocate is the head of Scotland's prosecution body and is the principal legal adviser to the Scottish government. The solicitor general is his deputy.\n\nThere have been calls for the lord advocate's role to be split.\n\nIn England and Wales, there is an attorney general who gives legal advice to the UK government, as well as a director of public prosecutions.\n\nIn February, former first minister Alex Salmond said Mr Wolffe should resign over his role in the Scottish government's handling of harassment complaints against him.\n\nSpeaking before a Scottish Parliament inquiry into the affair in March, Mr Wolffe denied any political influence relating to Mr Salmond's criminal prosecution, which ultimately saw him acquitted of 13 charges at Edinburgh's High Court last year.\n\nMr Wolffe told the Holyrood committee: \"Any suggestion, from any quarter, that the Crown's decision-making has at any time been influenced by irrelevant considerations or improper motivations would be wholly without foundation.\n\n\"Insinuation and assertions to the contrary are baseless.\"\n\nThe controversy led to suggestion from Scottish Labour that the roles should be separated.\n\nAnd following news of the resignations, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Liam McArthur said: \"With the departure of the lord advocate this is an opportunity to consider how the role works going forward.\n\n\"Scottish Liberal Democrats believe that now is the time to separate the lord advocate's position as the Scottish government's legal advisor and appoint an independent director of prosecutions to run the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.\"\n\nMr Wolffe also made a public apology over the wrongful prosecution of two men following a fraud investigation relating to the sale of Rangers.\n\nHe was not the lord advocate at the time of the initial prosecutions of David Whitehouse and Paul Clark.\n\nThey had been appointed joint administrators of the club in 2012 but were arrested in 2014 regarding their involvement with the administration.\n\nThe pair were later awarded more than £20m after charges brought against them were either dropped or dismissed.\n\nIt is not uncommon for Scotland's law officers to change after a Holyrood election but it doesn't happen every time.\n\nThe departure of the current lord advocate and solicitor general comes after a period of sustained controversy for the Crown Office.\n\nThe Salmond case raised questions about the dual role of law officers - as independent prosecutors and as ministers in, and legal advisers to, the Scottish government.\n\nThe SNP manifesto committed to considering whether that dual role should end and to a wider review of the prosecution system.\n\nBoth will take place under new leadership to be nominated by Nicola Sturgeon and approved by parliament and the Queen.\n\nWhoever is appointed will have an important role in certifying whether or not any indyref2 bill is within Holyrood's law making powers.\n\nThe pair were appointed as Scotland's two law officers in 2016.\n\nPrior to taking on their roles, Mr Wolffe was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and Ms Di Rollo was head of the National Sexual Crimes Unit.\n\nTheir successors will be nominated by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, then approved by the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe parliament will then recommend the new law officers' appointment to the Queen.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the lord advocate informed the first minister last year that he intended to leave office after this month's election, and then confirmed his intention before her re-election by the Scottish Parliament as first minister.\n\nHe added that the solicitor general had now confirmed she intended to stand down at the same time.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is for the first minister to nominate new law officers and, subject to approval of her nominees by the Scottish Parliament, to recommend their appointment to Her Majesty the Queen.\n\n\"The current law officers intend to remain in office until the new law officers are appointed.\"", "Andrew Marr is joined by Priti Patel MP, Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Dr Jenny Harries and Dame Esther Rantzen. The newspapers are reviewed by Chris Mason and Kate Garraway.\n\nAndrew Marr is joined by home secretary Priti Patel MP, shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, UK Health Security Agency chief executive Dr Jenny Harries, and broadcaster Dame Esther Rantzen. The newspapers are reviewed by BBC political correspondent Chris Mason and presenter of ITV's Good Morning Britain Kate Garraway.", "The Scottish government has said it is working to rectify a security flaw which could allow people to edit Covid vaccination status certificates.\n\nPeople in Scotland travelling to a foreign country can download the vaccination status forms from the NHS Scotland Portal.\n\nThey show the dates of vaccinations and which jabs were given to an individual.\n\nBut a security glitch means vaccination status details can be altered using popular computer software programmes.\n\nBBC Scotland was able to download a certificate and edit it to include a false name and the address of the BBC's Glasgow headquarters.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman confirmed the security glitch, saying: \"We are looking into rectifying this issue.\n\n\"This is an interim solution and records of vaccination status will be replaced by digital Covid Status Certificates in the summer, which will include vaccination and testing data to be used for outbound international travel.\n\n\"The measures are intended to ease the burden on the NHS by removing the need for people to ask their GP for a status record.\"\n\nPublic health officials previously said this digital scheme would mean Scotland was \"ready to join\" an international vaccination passport programme.\n\nPeople have been advised to request the certificate if they are due to travel in the next 21 days.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokeswoman Annie Wells, said: \"It's extremely concerning that this security flaw has been uncovered at a time when people are looking for clarity from the Scottish government around international travel.\n\n\"Instead, their safety is being put at risk by yet another glitch from the SNP government's rollout programme, this time on vaccine certifications. Vaccinations are our route back to normality and the Scottish government has a duty to ensure this is done safely and efficiently.\n\n\"This security flaw must be rectified instantly - we can't run the risk of a two-tier vaccine system.\"\n\nRory Boland, Editor of Which? Travel, described the security flaw as \"alarming\".\n\n\"Evidence of vaccination will be crucial to international travel this summer, and the potential ramifications of a person travelling while falsely claiming to be vaccinated are serious,\" he said.\n\n\"The reopening of international travel depends on mutual trust between governments that the systems they have in place are robust, trustworthy and fraud proof, so it is crucial that the issue is fixed as soon as possible.\"\n\nIn England, the NHS app will be available to use as a vaccine passport. This is separate to the NHS Covid-19 app, which is used for contact tracing.\n\nPeople should be able to view their coronavirus vaccine records on the NHS app without there being any need to contact GPs.\n\nThe UK government previously said such a scheme could have an important role to play both domestically and internationally and was \"likely to become a feature of our lives until the pandemic recedes\".\n\nLatest figures show that Scotland has recorded 370 new cases of coronavirus but no further deaths in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt means the death toll under this daily measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - remains at 7,664.\n\nFigures published by the Scottish government on Saturday showed the daily test positivity rate was 1.8%, down from 1.9% the previous day.\n\nSo far, 3,096,341 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination and 1,799,956 have received their second dose.\n\nGlasgow is the only area in Scotland to remain in level three of Scotland's coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe city has the highest level of Covid-19 rates in Scotland at 126.7 per 100,000 people in the seven days to May 19, up from 122.6 in the week to May 18, latest available figures show.\n\nMoray dropped down from level three to level two on Saturday while East Renfrewshire, which earlier this week had a higher seven-day average rate of cases than Glasgow, remains in level two.\n\nCovid rates in East Renfrewshire in the seven days to May 19 were 108.9 per 100,000 people, down from 116.2 in the week to May 18.\n\nIn level two, people can hug and meet indoors - subject to restrictions - travel across the UK and overseas, and hospitality venues can open later than in level three and serve alcohol indoors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The carrier plane releases Unity to begin its ascent\n\nSir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space plane has conducted the first of three key test flights that should enable it to enter commercial service.\n\nThe Unity vehicle, with pilots Dave Mackay and CJ Sturckow at the controls, powered to a height of 89km (55 miles), and then glided back down to Earth.\n\nSir Richard has some 600 paying customers - including movie and music stars - waiting to take the same ride.\n\nBut they'll only get their chance once Unity is fully licensed.\n\nThat ought, finally, to happen by the year's end.\n\nThe licensing process is the responsibility of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), who will now receive operational and performance data from Saturday's sortie high above the New Mexico desert.\n\nOfficials will want to see, for example, that an electronic interference issue that aborted a previous flight attempt in December, has been corrected. On the evidence of Saturday's successful flight, it has been.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Branson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 mission followed the usual pattern.\n\nUnity was carried to 13km (44,000ft) in altitude by its \"mother\" aircraft, Eve, before being released to ignite its rocket motor.\n\nThe vehicle then climbed rapidly to the edge of space, achieving a speed three times that of sound (Mach 3) along the way.\n\nIt was the sixth time Unity had conducted a powered ascent in its five-year test programme, although this one was particularly noteworthy because it was the first such demonstration to run out of what will be its operational home - the purpose-built commercial hub known as Spaceport America.\n\nUnity is seen climbing skyward from the perspective of the Eve carrier plane\n\n\"It was a beautifully elegant experience,\" said Sir Richard, who was watching from the ground.\n\n\"We had the backdrop of New Mexico, the mountains with the Sun coming up; we could see the spaceship clearly from the ground just going straight up. And, yeah, burning, burning, burning, until it finally disappeared into space,\" the businessman told BBC News.\n\nUnity's view of the blackness of space and the curvature of the Earth\n\nThe next flight should see four of Sir Richard's Virgin Galactic employees join the pilots - to get a sense of the experience that future ticketed customers will enjoy. The identity of this quartet has yet to be revealed, even within the company itself.\n\nThe flight after that would see Sir Richard himself go to the edge of space - as a statement of readiness for commercial service.\n\nAnd it's then on the subsequent outing that the company is expected to start earning revenues from carrying passengers.\n\nThat's a mission that has been purchased by the Italian Air Force, which is going to put several payload specialists aboard Unity to supervise a number of microgravity experiments.\n\nIt's been a long road for Virgin Galactic's engineers to get the system to where they want it, with progress over the past year stymied in part by the Covid crisis.\n\nBut CEO Michael Colglazie said the project was now firmly on track, especially with respect to FAA licensing.\n\n\"It was such a perfect flight. We'll get the data off the ship and give it to the FAA. That'll be our homework turned in. We believe we've now collected everything we need for the final points on our commercial licence,\" he explained.\n\nJeff Bezos is due to begin a commercial tourism service in July\n\nThe move to commercial service can't come soon enough. Space tourism is a sector being rekindled after a decade's hiatus, and it's about to get very competitive.\n\nThroughout the 2000s, seven wealthy individuals paid to visit the International Space Station (ISS). But this adventurism, organised under the patronage of the Russian space agency, ceased in 2009.\n\nNow, new initiatives abound. As well as Sir Richard's approach, there are projects coming from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and California tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.\n\nThe Russians, too, are reprising their commercial flights to the ISS, and there are even those who want to launch private space stations for people to visit. Among these is Axiom, a company started by a former Nasa ISS programme manager.\n\nSir Richard said he was busy getting himself ready for his own spaceflight later this year.\n\n\"I'll have a whole day of training tomorrow. And, oh my god, I'm looking forward to it. It's ridiculously exciting. Our chief astronaut Dave Mackay just turned to me and said, 'Richard, you're gonna love it',\" he told BBC News.", "Beit Hanoun in Gaza. The UN has called for \"immediate humanitarian assistance\"\n\nAs Gaza and Israel emerge from 11 days of conflict, mediators are seeking to cement the truce and prevent more violence in the longer term.\n\nAn Egyptian team was in Israel on Saturday, while the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken could visit the region next week.\n\nBoth Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have claimed victory in the latest conflict.\n\nMore than 250 people were killed, most of them in Gaza.\n\nThe fighting began on 10 May after weeks of spiralling Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem which culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas - the militant Islamist group which rules Gaza - began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.\n\nSince the truce went into force on Friday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said the degrading of Hamas's military power by air bombardment was an \"exceptional success\".\n\nHe added: \"If Hamas thinks we will tolerate a drizzle of rockets, it is wrong\" and pledged a \"new level of force\" in response.\n\nMeanwhile, Hamas has spoken of what it called the \"euphoria of victory\" and its leader Ismail Haniyeh said the conflict had \"opened the door to new phases that will witness many victories\".\n\nIsraelis handed out flowers in the southern city of Ashkelon on the first day of the ceasefire\n\nThe truce held throughout its second day on Saturday. Its terms are unclear. Israel simply said it had agreed to a \"mutual and unconditional\" cessation of hostilities.\n\nEgypt, Qatar, the US and UN appear to have been involved.\n\nOn Saturday, the UN Security Council issued its first statement on the conflict, praising the mediators and calling for a \"full adherence to the ceasefire\".\n\nTeams of Egyptian mediators have been shuttling between Gaza, Israel and the West Bank.\n\nAn Egyptian diplomat said the teams were implementing agreed measures and trying to prevent practices that led to the latest fighting, but there was no detail.\n\nMr Blinken is expected to visit the region next week. The itinerary has not been released but a US source said he would travel to Israel and the West Bank on Wednesday and Thursday. He may visit Egypt and Jordan. The US will not hold direct talks with Hamas, which it regards as a terrorist organisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's Tom Bateman, who has been in Gaza, says that, although the calm has been welcomed there, most people know it probably just means a countdown to the next inevitable conflict.\n\nCivilians on both sides have spoken of wanting to live without the fear of attack from the air.\n\nBut many are not confident. One shop owner in Gaza, Ashraf Abu Mohammad, told the Associated Press news agency: \"Life will return, because this is not the first war, and it will not be the last war.\"\n\nGhazi Dahdouh can't go home any more because his house was blown up by a missile fired from an Israeli warplane. So he's living on top of it. It's a treacherous walk up rubble and jagged glass. But in the middle of a collapsed concrete roof you'll find Ghazi, 70, in a tent.\n\nHe says he'll stay put until his house is rebuilt. Under the canvas Ghazi tells me his son is a policeman paid half salary. Ghazi gave him and his grandsons two rooms in the house.\n\nIsrael said during the conflict it struck the homes of militants, arguing they were legitimate targets to prevent attacks. It also launched air strikes on police facilities in the Hamas-governed territory.\n\n\"I am an innocent civilian, I have nothing to do with politics,\" Ghazi tells me. \"If I have a weapon now I will go and fight, because I am not guilty. I have nothing to do with what happened to me.\"\n\nGhazi can't understand why he and his extended family should be left homeless. He says: \"If they are looking for [my son] because he's a policeman they should have told me not to let him live here, instead of knocking down the whole building.\"\n\nRights groups have previously accused Israel of failing to give clear evidence that destroying homes in this way amounts to a legitimate military target under international law.\n\nThe first convoys of humanitarian aid have arrived in Gaza. More lorries arrived at Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing on Saturday and a 130-vehicle convoy was scheduled to cross from Egypt.\n\nBut the World Health Organization has said Gaza's health facilities are in danger of being overwhelmed by thousands of injured people.\n\nLynn Hastings, the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator for the Palestinian territories, said from Gaza City she hoped that calm would remain.\n\nBut she had spoken to families and \"they feel that they have no control of their lives\".\n\nTrucks loaded with humanitarian aid passed into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing on Friday\n\nFor about 14 years, Gaza has been under a blockade on its borders with Israel and Egypt that restricts the passage of people and goods - one of the main issues for any future mediation.\n\nIsrael says it must limit Hamas's access to weapons, as the militants refuse to disarm. The UN says the blockade must end for Gaza's economy to improve.\n\nFlashpoints in Jerusalem could also complicate the ceasefire. Hamas has told the BBC that part of the agreed truce involved Israel compromises over the al-Aqsa mosque compound and the district of Sheikh Jarrah, where there have been moves by Jewish settlers to evict Palestinian families.\n\nIsrael has denied this is the case and the issues remain. There were clashes in East Jerusalem on Friday after the truce started.\n\nFighters in Hamas's military wing marched in Gaza City on Saturday\n\nSome of the chants of Palestinians there highlighted another major issue - the rivalry between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, which is led by Mahmoud Abbas and runs parts of the West Bank.\n\nCrowds chanted \"the people want the president to leave\". Mr Abbas will try to shore up his position when he meets Mr Blinken.\n\nSome international leaders, including US President Joe Biden, have again referred to the long-term, two-state solution for the Middle East - a Palestinian state alongside Israel - but maintaining the current calm is the main focus at the moment.", "Police continue to investigate the incident in Connah's Quay on Saturday afternoon\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a man died following a \"serious assault\" in north Wales.\n\nDean Bennett, 31, was airlifted to hospital after police were called to reports of a stabbing at Connah's Quay in Flintshire at 17:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the victim of the attack in Dock Road later died.\n\nDetectives said a 46-year-old woman, a 35-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl have been arrested on suspicion of murdering Mr Bennett, of Connah's Quay.\n\nOfficers were called just after 17:00 on Saturday by the Welsh Ambulance Service to a report that a man had been stabbed.\n\nMr Bennett was flown to Aintree hospital in Liverpool but was pronounced dead shortly after his arrival, the police said.\n\nThe man and woman remained in police custody on Sunday night, while the 16-year-old girl was released on police bail pending further investigations.\n\n\"Our heartfelt sympathies go out to Dean's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time,\" said Det Ch Insp Sion Williams.\n\n\"We understand that a serious incident like this has caused a lot of concern in the local community and we'd like to reassure residents that we are doing all we can to establish what has happened.\n\n\"Officers are on patrol in the area and a police cordon remains in place.\"\n• None Man flown to hospital after 'serious assault'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In Khan Younis, Gaza, people have emerged to take stock of the destruction\n\nAfter the ceasefire, Palestinians in Gaza, who had stayed inside as much as they could while there was a chance of getting killed outside, walked round their neighbourhoods to get a better idea of what Israel had done.\n\nPeople stopped to inspect huge piles of concrete rubble from the tower blocks that Israel had toppled. In some places the streets were blocked by rubble. Bulldozer operators were working overtime. Nothing they found was surprising. What has happened has been covered exhaustively on TV. But human beings like to see for themselves.\n\nIn Khan Younis, one of Gaza's towns, I went to the funeral of nine fighters who were killed in part of the tunnel network that Israel has targeted.\n\nIsraeli politicians and commanders have claimed that they have done serious damage to what they describe as an infrastructure of terror, run by Hamas and the smaller factions in Gaza. The damage to buildings is obvious. I have not been able to see underground military installations, but the talk here is that Hamas was shocked that Israel was able to kill its men when they believed they were safe underground.\n\nMorale among supporters of the armed groups in Gaza is another matter. It seems intact, even enhanced by the 11-day war.\n\nKhan Younis stopped for the funerals. Several thousand men prayed on a sports field and followed the stretchers carrying bodies wrapped in Palestinian flags, chanting their support on the way to the cemetery.\n\nIsraeli leaders listed buildings destroyed, Hamas commanders and fighters targeted and killed, and the remarkable success of the Iron Dome anti-missile system.\n\nHamas defines victory first of all as survival. Its leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, emerged triumphantly from hiding the day after the ceasefire. But Hamas will also look at the political scorecard with some satisfaction.\n\nHamas slogans have been chanted after prayers 60 miles (96km) inland from Gaza, at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Hamas has driven home a message to Palestinians that it is prepared to fight and accept sacrifices for their rights in Jerusalem. Israel insists that all of Jerusalem is its eternal and indivisible capital. Palestinians have other ideas.\n\nThe Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is recognised internationally as the representative voice of his people through his leadership of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the occupied territories and was intended in the now moribund Oslo agreements of the 1990s to develop into the government of an independent state.\n\nBut Palestinians are deeply dissatisfied with the president's performance. He cancelled elections due for May that he looked likely to lose. Palestinians have not been able to vote for a president or a legislature since 2006.\n\nIn contrast, a simple message from Hamas that it would fight to the death for Jerusalem resonated with Palestinians who despair at the inability of President Abbas to slow down, let alone stop, the steady increase of Jewish settlement, illegal under international law, on occupied land they want for a state.\n\nPalestinian supporters of Hamas celebrate after the ceasefire\n\nIn Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will now return to the battle for political survival he was fighting before the 11 days of conflict with Hamas.\n\nMr Netanyahu is on trial on charges so serious that he could end up in jail for corruption, like his predecessor Ehud Olmert. On 10 May, the day Hamas dramatically escalated the conflict by firing missiles at Jerusalem, the prime minister was close to losing his job.\n\nHe has been a caretaker since the fourth inconclusive election in two years. In a month of trying, Mr Netanyahu failed to form a coalition that commanded the necessary 61 votes in parliament for a majority.\n\nHis main opponent, Yair Lapid, was taking his turn and looked to be days, even hours, away from announcing he had the votes to form a government. Mr Lapid's plans fell apart during the fighting. He still has time to rebuild them, though a fifth election might be a more likely outcome.\n\nIsrael also has to deal with the collapse of co-existence between its Jewish majority and Palestinian Arab minority, which makes up around 20 per cent of the population. Mr Netanyahu's polarising rhetoric and embrace of extreme Jewish nationalists have made a bad situation worse.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now resumes his fight for political survival\n\nLike the previous rounds of fighting between Israel and Hamas, the ceasefire is just a pause. The conflict is not just unresolved. It is not even frozen. The ceasefire will hold until it is tested by a crisis. That could be a rocket fired out of Gaza, or more Israeli police violence towards Palestinians in Jerusalem.\n\nOr it could be the lawsuit brought by Jewish settler groups to evict Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, a leafy district on the occupied eastern side of Jerusalem. The prospect of evicted Palestinian families being replaced by more Jewish settlers was a major reason why tension in Jerusalem turned violent.\n\nThe judgement in the case was postponed in a belated attempt to calm matters. But the case was not dropped, and the judgement will eventually be issued. Israel's legal timetable could deliver the ceasefire's first big challenge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "High winds and freezing rain hit participants of the race\n\nTwenty-one runners have died after extreme weather struck a long-distance race in northern China.\n\nHigh winds and freezing rain hit participants in the 100km (60-mile) ultramarathon in the Yellow River Stone Forest, a tourist site in Gansu province, on Saturday.\n\nThe race was halted when some of the 172 runners went missing, and a rescue operation was launched.\n\nMany of the stranded runners reportedly suffered from hypothermia.\n\nLiang Jing, an ultramarathon champion, and Huang Guanjun, who won the men's hearing-impaired marathon at China's 2019 National Paralympic Games, were among the victims, state-run media reported.\n\nOfficials said 151 runners were now confirmed safe, and that eight of them were injured.\n\nRescuers brought equipment to help in their search efforts\n\nThe race began at 09:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Saturday, with some of the competitors setting off wearing just shorts and T-shirts.\n\nSurviving participants said the forecast had shown some wind and rain was anticipated, but nothing as extreme as what they experienced.\n\nAbout three hours after the start, a mountainous section of the race was hit by hail, heavy rain and gales, which caused temperatures to plummet, according to officials from the nearby Baiyin city.\n\nOne runner, Mao Shuzhi, told Reuters news agency she turned around when the weather changed.\n\n\"The rain was getting heavier and heavier,\" said Ms Mao, who was about 24km into the race at the time and had not yet reached the mountains.\n\nShe decided to head back to her hotel, having had previous bad experiences with hypothermia, but others carried on or were already in worst-hit areas.\n\nThe scene at the start of the race, as shown on local television\n\nMany runners reportedly lost their way on the route as the weather affected visibility.\n\nMore than 1,200 rescuers were deployed, assisted by thermal-imaging drones and radar detectors, according to state media.\n\nThe operation continued through the night into Sunday morning, during which time a further drop in temperature made the search even more difficult, China's Xinhua news agency reported.\n\nThe deaths have sparked public outrage on Chinese social media, with anger mainly directed at the Baiyin government and unhappiness over the lack of contingency planning.\n\nIn a news conference on Sunday, Baiyin's Mayor Zhang Xuchen said: \"As the organiser of the event, we are full of guilt and remorse. We express deep condolences and sympathy to the families of the victims and the injured.\"", "Saroj Lal was a primary school teacher and an equality campaigner\n\nAs one of the first Asian women to teach in a Scottish primary school, Saroj Lal, opened doors for women of colour in education. Following her death last year, aged 82, her trailblazing achievements in equality, women's rights and community work are being formally recognised.\n\nAs well as being one of the first Asian teachers in Edinburgh, Ms Lal was also at the forefront of race relations during a period of immense political and social change.\n\nHer son Vineet Lal says: \"It's only with my mother's passing that her achievements can be put into perspective.\"\n\nSaroj grew up in Gujranwala in the Punjab region of what is now Pakistan\n\nSaroj was born in Gujranwala, the daughter of Behari Lal Chanana, a Congress Party politician and \"Quit India\" advocate, who campaigned for an end to British rule in India.\n\nHer early years were marked by the turmoil of partition.\n\n\"The influence of her father in the period leading up to partition was important, that sense of equality, justice and freedom,\" says her son Vineet.\n\nSaroj Lal's father Behari Lal Chanana (centre) with the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru (right)\n\n\"They left their house in what is now Pakistan. Her only regret was she had hidden her pocket money, a few rupees, and had to leave the notes behind.\"\n\nAfter marrying engineer Amrit Lal, they moved to Singapore where Vineet was born.\n\nIn the late 1960s, the family moved to Leith, in Edinburgh, where Saroj had a daughter, Kavita, in 1969.\n\nFamily photographs show life in Edinburgh in the late 1960s\n\nIn 1970 she walked through the doors of South Morningside Primary as one of the first women of colour in teaching in Scotland.\n\nHer son Vineet says: \"Some of the issues she confronted would have been about how unusual it was to find a woman of Asian origin in education. You could count them on one hand.\"\n\nSaroj's son, Vineet, said teaching materials in the 1970s offered a skewed picture of the world\n\nVineet says the teaching materials his mother used showed a clear divide between the white \"civilised\" world and the black \"rudimentary\" developing world.\n\nHe says: \"To draw distinctions between an advanced, culturally elite, West and a primitive developing world implies there is no culture, no civilisation, that underpins non-white societies.\"\n\nSaroj Lal (standing left of centre) and other community workers at the YWCA Roundabout Centre in Leith in the 1970s\n\nSaroj left teaching to focus on her young family. Once life settled down, she volunteered with the YWCA Roundabout Centre in Leith.\n\nHer friend and colleague, Susan England, says overt and institutional racism in Edinburgh in the 1970s was common.\n\n\"At that time many woman felt isolated in their homes, frightened of name-calling and getting pushed about,\" she says. \"If they couldn't communicate they wouldn't go out.\"\n\nIn response, Saroj started Edinburgh's first local authority interpreting and translating service.\n\nSusan recalls an anti-racism training session they delivered together, with Saroj dressed in a sari, which she wore as a \"symbol\" of who she was.\n\nMs England says: \"He was a goth, long leather coat and black hair. She didn't take him down. She looked at him and said 'rather like you'.\n\n\"Saroj said 'when you are the last person on the bus that anyone will sit next to, you realise you are different'. Saroj fostered a pride in difference.\"\n\nSaroj worked with the police on definitions of racist attacks and systems to officially record racially-aggravated crime\n\nIn the early 1980s, Saroj moved to the Lothian Racial Equality Council, becoming director, before her retirement in 1996.\n\nProf Rowena Arshad, co-director of the Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland, first met Saroj in 1985.\n\n\"I remember her whimsical smile,\" she says. \"She was quiet spoken and wanted to know what languages I spoke to harness me to work at grassroots level.\"\n\nSaroj Lal at her desk at the Lothian Racial Equality Centre where she was director until 1996\n\nProf Arshad says Saroj was very diplomatic.\n\n\"She was not operating at a time when there was Black Lives Matter, racism was not fully discussed in Scotland then,\" she says.\n\n\"Saroj had to find a way of bringing issues to the attention of decision-makers, particularly those funding projects, in a way that enabled funds to flow without threatening the ecosystem.\n\n\"At that time in Scotland social class was understood, sectarianism, geographical discrimination between rural and urban were probably there. But race - definitely not,\" says Prof Arshad.\n\n\"She dressed in a sari for her professional life. A quiet statement of saying 'no, I will be who I am, you will accept me for who I am'.\"\n\nSaroj and her family celebrating Diwali in 2020 (left) and in the 1970s in their Edinburgh home (right)\n\nThe University of Edinburgh has created a scholarship in Saroj Lal's name, to support people from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds through teacher training.\n\nProf Arshad says: \"When pioneers break glass ceilings it should be remembered and acknowledged in Scottish teaching history.\n\n\"The award recognises her, that she was there and what she did.\"\n\nThe General Teaching Council Scotland has also created the Saroj Lal Award for a pioneering spirit in equality and diversity, to celebrate teachers who promote those values.\n\nSaroj appeared on the BBC religious affairs discussion programme, I Believe You Believe, in 1984\n\nIn 1984, Saroj appeared on BBC Scotland's religious affairs panel programme, I Believe, You Believe.\n\nShe asked how she would communicate the \"salient points\" of Hinduism to those of other faiths, so they might \"understand it better.\"\n\nShe said: \"The teachings are the same. It's we people who make it sometimes look different.\n\n\"When you come to Britain this gives you the opportunity to live in a society where you come into contact with many different religions.\n\n\"After coming here you realise we are all the same.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nErnestine Kabuo returned home after fleeing the lava flow in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, to find that her husband had not survived.\n\nThe 68 year old was unable to carry her sick husband out of their house and she found him burnt to death, she told Reuters news agency.\n\nAt least 22 deaths have been confirmed following Saturday's eruption of a nearby volcano, Mount Nyiragongo.\n\nBut the lava stopped short of the city's built-up area.\n\nThis avoided the level of death and destruction witnessed in 2002. It did, however, hit the Buhene district, where Ms Kabuo's home was.\n\n\"I said to myself: I can't go alone, we've been married for the best and for the worst,\" she told Reuters reflecting on what happened on Saturday.\n\nErnestine Kabuo was unable to save her husband\n\n\"I went back to at least try to get him out but couldn't. I ran away and he got burned inside. I don't know what to do. I curse this day.\"\n\nFive people died of asphyxiation while trying to cross the lava when it was cooling in a place just north of Goma.\n\nA sixth person is in hospital with breathing difficulties, civil society leader Mambo Kawaya told the AFP news agency.\n\nSince then, the authorities have tried to prevent people from visiting places where the lava is cooling, Goma journalist Esdras Tsongo told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme.\n\nOther Goma residents, a city of 670,000 according to UN estimates, are searching for missing loved ones as the city, and the region, continues to experience earthquakes.\n\nMore than 170 children are feared to be missing and 150 others had been separated from their families, the UN's children's agency, Unicef, said, adding that centres would be set up to help unaccompanied minors.\n\nNine of the deaths so far recorded by the authorities occurred in a traffic accident as people fled.\n\nFour others died as they tried to escape a prison while two were burned to death, government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said on Sunday.\n\nBut there are fears that more deaths may be confirmed as people return to the remains of their houses.\n\nThe lava stopped in the Buhene district, on the outskirts of Goma, burying hundreds of houses and even large buildings. Reconstruction efforts are likely to take months.\n\n\"All the houses in Buhene neighbourhood were burned,\" Innocent Bahala Shamavu told the Associated Press news agency.\n\nLocal people have been sifting through the remains of flattened houses\n\nElsewhere, lava crossed the N2 road connecting Goma to the city of Beni, severing a key aid and supply route. However, the city's airport was untouched, despite earlier reports that it had been affected.\n\nThe volcano, located 10km (six miles) from Goma, last erupted in 2002, killing 250 people and making 120,000 homeless.\n\nResidents started leaving their houses even before the government announced an evacuation plan. At night, crowds were seen fleeing on foot with mattresses and other belongings.\n\nRwandan authorities said more than 3,000 people had officially crossed from Goma. Some started to return on Sunday. Others went to higher ground to the west of the city.\n\nOne Goma resident, Richard Bahati, said he was in his house when he heard screaming and became extremely worried as he saw the sky reddening outside.\n\n\"I lived through the problem with this volcano in 2002. The volcano devastated all our homes and possessions,\" he said.\n\nA local trader, Kambere Ombeni, was among those who returned to the scene as the rubble still smouldered. \"We watched the whole neighbourhood in the Nyiragongo territory go up in smoke. The fire came right down to here. Even now we can still see lava,\" he said.\n\nAnother resident, Irene Bauma, said people would need help from the government to rebuild their lives.\n\n\"There's land, people, a population that has lost everything, maybe there are also deaths, who knows? We are asking the government to come and help the survivors of this eruption.\"\n\nTom Peyre-Costa, from the Norwegian Refugee Council in Goma, told the BBC what had happened.\n\n\"The lava was pretty slow, like, 1km/h, but it didn't stop.... It started burning the houses,\" he said, adding that humanitarian organisations were already trying to address people's needs.\n\nThis image captured on Saturday shows how the lava was destroying everything in its path\n\nMount Nyiragongo is one of the world's more active volcanoes but there were concerns that its activity had not been properly observed by the Goma Volcano Observatory, since the World Bank cut funding amid allegations of corruption.\n\nProfessor Mike Burton, a volcanologist at the University of Manchester in England, told the BBC that the lava in Mount Nyiragongo is particularly fluid and has the potential to move fast.\n\nIn a report on 10 May, the observatory warned that seismic activity at Nyiragongo had increased.\n\nLast year, the observatory's director, Katcho Karume, told the BBC World Service's Science in Action that the volcano's lava lake had been filling up quickly, increasing the chances of an eruption in the next few years. But he also warned that an earthquake could trigger a disaster earlier.\n\nThe volcano's deadliest eruption happened in 1977, when more than 600 people died.", "Farmer Garry Williams says he would be willing to wear a bodycam to fight rural crime\n\nFarmers across Wales are turning to technology to fight rural crime - including wearing bodycams.\n\nA recent survey by NFU Cymru found that 31% of farmers had invested at least £1,000 in crime prevention measures in the last five years.\n\nIn north Wales, police are working with the farming community to launch Future Farms Cymru, a scheme using technology to tackle thefts on farms.\n\nFarmers will use social media, CCTV and bodycams to protect their property.\n\nIn Carmarthenshire, farmer Garry Williams uses a WhatsApp group to keep local farmers informed of any suspicious activity in the area.\n\n\"On this farm we've had ladders, tools, strimmers etc stolen and as a result we've put up CCTV cameras and have a lock-up to keep our tools safe,\" he said.\n\n\"At the moment, I think the two biggest issues in this area are quad theft and sheep theft.\"\n\nAfter getting fed up with being targets for criminals, including thieves and scammers, Mr Williams and his fellow farmers are prepared to embrace modern methods to protect their traditional way of life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Rural crime is a worry for all farmers but I'm especially concerned about elderly farmers in our community who are more vulnerable to these crimes and being conned by fraudsters,\" said Mr Williams.\n\n\"My advice to all farmers is to remain vigilant and to take any measures possible to improve on-farm security to deter these criminals.\n\n\"I'd need to know more about them but I can imagine if you were to notice something suspicious at night, having a body camera may give an added layer of security.\"\n\nNFU Cymru president John Davies said rural crime continued to wreak havoc on farms across Wales, \"causing not only financial but emotional pressures on farming families\".\n\nTech could soon be mixed with tractors on Welsh farms\n\n\"Farmers are using preventative measures to deter criminals and secure their machinery, tools and stock,\" he said.\n\n\"These measures include upgrading building security and routinely removing equipment from vehicles overnight with some even installing CCTV on farms and blocking field entrances.\n\n\"Farmers are trying various tactics to prevent crime on their farm and so some may well be interested in these new technologies being trialled in north Wales, if effective and cost-efficient.\"\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\nThousands of people fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the night after a large volcano erupted.\n\nAs the sky turned red and rivers of lava streamed from Mount Nyiragongo, there were concerns that its past deadly tragedies would be repeated.\n\nA mass evacuation was launched in the city of Goma, which has a population of about two million people.\n\nHowever, the city was largely spared and some residents are now returning.\n\nThe volcano, located 10km (six miles) from Goma, last erupted in 2002, killing 250 people and making 120,000 homeless.\n\nThere has been no official report of casualties during the latest eruption and it is unclear how many homes have been damaged.\n\nOn Sunday morning, Communications Minister Patrick Muyay tweeted to say the intensity of the lava flow had slowed and an assessment of the humanitarian situation was ongoing.\n\nThe BBC's Emery Makumeno in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa said a greater quantity of the lava took the direction of the forest, flowing away from the city.\n\nOur reporter said it stopped short of the international airport, despite earlier reports to the contrary. However, it did set some houses on fire and crossed a graveyard.\n\nOne resident, Zacharie Paluku, told the Associated Press news agency that the eruption had sparked fear and people began running. \"We really don't know what to do,\" he said.\n\nSome locals complained about the lack of information from the authorities amid conflicting accounts circulating on social media.\n\nCrowds were seen with mattresses and other belongings, fleeing even before the government's announcement, which came several hours after the eruption started.\n\nMany residents headed across the nearby Rwandan border, while others went to higher ground to the west of the city.\n\nRwandan authorities said about 3,000 people had officially crossed from Goma. The country's state media said they would be accommodated in schools and places of worship.\n\nOne Goma resident, Richard Bahati, said he was in his house when he heard screaming. \"I got out and saw the sky was red. I am so worried, so worried. I lived through the problem with this volcano in 2002. The volcano devastated all our homes and possessions.\"\n\nElectricity was out across large areas in the aftermath of the eruption.\n\n\"There is a smell of sulphur. In the distance you can see giant flames coming out of the mountain,\" resident Carine Mbala told AFP news agency.\n\nMount Nyiragongo is one of the world's more active volcanoes but there were concerns that its activity had not been properly observed by the Goma Volcano Observatory, since the World Bank cut funding amid allegations of corruption.\n\nIn a report on 10 May, the observatory warned that seismic activity at Nyiragongo had increased.\n\nLast year, the observatory's director, Katcho Karume, told the BBC World Service's Science in Action that the volcano's lava lake had been filling up quickly, increasing the chances of an eruption in the next few years. But he also warned that an earthquake could trigger a disaster earlier.\n\nThe volcano's deadliest eruption happened in 1977, when more than 600 people died.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prince recalled spending four happy years at university in Scotland\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said Scotland is the source of his saddest and happiest memories.\n\nPrince William recalled being at the Queen's Balmoral home in 1997 when he first learned of his mother's death.\n\nHe found comfort and solace in the countryside there during the \"dark days of grief,\" he said in a speech to the Church of Scotland on Saturday.\n\nBut he said Scotland was also where he first met his wife almost 20 years ago.\n\n\"The connection I feel to Scotland will forever run deep,\" he said, during the opening speech of the church's General Assembly in Edinburgh, attended by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nHis comments come two days after he blamed failings at the BBC over its interview with his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, for fuelling her paranoia and worsening his parents' relationship.\n\nAddressing the assembly, the duke, who is also known as the Earl of Strathearn in Scotland, said: \"I was in Balmoral when I was told that my mother had died.\n\n\"Still in shock, I found sanctuary in the service at Crathie Kirk that very morning and in the dark days of grief that followed I found comfort and solace in the Scottish outdoors.\n\n\"Alongside this painful memory is one of great joy because it was here in Scotland, 20 years ago this year, that I first met Catherine.\n\n\"Needless to say the town where you meet your future wife holds a very special place in your heart.\"\n\nPrince William was welcomed with the Ceremony of the Keys in Edinburgh on Friday as he began his trip to Scotland\n\nReminiscing about his time at the University of St Andrews in Fife, where he and the Duchess of Cambridge studied, he said: \"I spent four very happy and formative years studying in St Andrews. The town and the students left me alone to get on with student life, allowing me to share their freedoms - and their pubs.\n\n\"As I grew up I saw how my grandmother relishes every minute she spends here and my father is never happier than in walking among the hills.\n\n\"My childhood was full of holidays having fun in the fresh air, swimming in lochs, family barbecues with my grandfather in command, and yes the odd midge.\"\n\nThe Queen, who was at another royal engagement in Portsmouth, appointed Prince William as Lord High Commissioner to the assembly\n\nDuring the meeting, the Rev George Whyte, chaplain-in-ordinary and principal clerk of the Church of Scotland, read out a letter from the Queen.\n\nIn the letter, she spoke of \"new bonds\" that have been \"forged in times of emergency\" that \"will serve us all well in the future as the United Kingdom seeks to rebuild and reshape community life\".\n\nMeanwhile, the monarch has visited the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to wish the crew well ahead of their first operational deployment.\n\nDuring her visit, the Queen wore a brick-red cashmere coat with a black velvet collar and buttons, over a crepe wool dress\n\nThe £3bn warship will depart later for a world tour, carrying eight RAF F-35B stealth fighter jets, and accompanied by six Royal Navy ships, a submarine, 14 naval helicopters, a company of Royal Marines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen met some of the 1,700 personnel on board the carrier\n\nThe Queen was welcomed on board at Portsmouth Naval Base and given a briefing on the 28-week deployment, which will cover 26,000 nautical miles.\n\nThe Queen was shown around by the ship's commanding officer Captain Angus Essenhigh and commander of the Carrier Strike Group Commodore Stephen Moorhouse", "Britain's human rights watchdog has not renewed its membership of a diversity scheme run by LGBT group Stonewall.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission says it told Stonewall it would be leaving the Diversity Champions scheme in March.\n\nMembers pay Stonewall a fee and allow it to vet their internal policies, such as who can use their toilets and changing facilities.\n\nBut the EHRC says it \"did not constitute best value for money\".\n\nNancy Kelley, Stonewall's chief executive, said the charity was proud of its work supporting organisations to create inclusive working environments, but added that it was \"up to individual employers how they meet their statutory requirements\".\n\nHundreds of private and public bodies are members of Stonewall's scheme.\n\nBut the scheme is not without controversy - earlier this week an independent report commissioned by the University of Essex found that Stonewall gave it incorrect and potentially illegal advice on transgender issues.\n\nNews that the EHRC left the scheme in March comes just days after Stonewall and several other LGBT groups criticised the organisation in an open letter, saying it was not doing enough to champion LGBT rights.\n\nThe letter followed a Times interview in May in which Lady Falkner, who was appointed head of the EHRC in December, said that women must have the right to question transgender identity without being abused, stigmatised or risking losing their job.\n\nA spokesman for the EHRC said: \"We remain committed to creating an inclusive workplace that will attract people from all backgrounds, where all of our colleagues will thrive and where all LGBT employees are accepted without exception.\"", "First pictures have emerged after the cable car fell on a mountain in northern Italy.", "Concrete barriers have been placed on the road where violence broke out on Thursday\n\nFour people have been arrested in connection with violent disorder in Swansea on Thursday.\n\nSeven police officers were injured and families described being trapped in their homes after violence erupted in Mayhill.\n\nSouth Wales Police said three men, aged 36, 20 and 18, and a boy, 16, had been arrested on suspicion of unlawful violence and remained in custody.\n\nDet Supt Gareth Morgan urged anyone involved to \"hand themselves in\".\n\nHe urged people in the community to send in photos and videos and to help the force identify those involved in the disorder which broke out on Waun-Wen Road.\n\n\"There are many residents who were present at the scene during the disturbance and will know the identity of those that caused damage and threatened violence,\" he said.\n\n\"I urge the public not to protect those who showed such disregard for the community of Mayhill and to give us the names of those individuals who can been seen on social media footage.\"\n\nThe disorder is believed to have begun after a planned balloon release in the memory of Ethan Powell, who collapsed and died suddenly on Wednesday.\n\nMr Powell's family are said to be deeply upset by the violent scenes when the events were meant to have been a celebration of his life.\n\nThe Mayhill street looked \"like a war zone\", one of the residents said\n\nDet Supt Morgan said investigations were continuing and he expected further arrests to be made in the coming days and weeks, adding that increased patrols would continue in the area over the weekend.\n\nHe thanked members of the community who had already handed over footage to the police and given statements.\n\n\"We have a dedicated team of detectives who are carrying out extensive enquiries to identify those involved and we are ready to act upon any information received,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"Those that want to hand themselves in can do so at Swansea central police station.\"\n\nThe force's response to the disorder has been criticised by some residents.\n\nBut South Wales Police said its response was \"immediate and officers trained to deal with public order incidents were deployed to the scene\".", "Will Beckett said Hawksmoor needed to \"turbo-charge\" its recruitment drive\n\nRestaurant group Hawksmoor is offering bonuses of up to £2,000 to workers who recommend friends for jobs in a bid to fill staffing shortages.\n\nAnother chain has emailed customers with a promise of gift vouchers if they introduce candidates who go on to be hired by the firm.\n\nIt comes as the hospitality sector faces a jobs crisis that threatens to hold back its recovery.\n\nHawksmoor co-founder Will Beckett told the BBC there \"aren't enough people\".\n\nThe firm's problems underline the wider staffing crunch facing hospitality with indoor dining in Britain having resumed last week.\n\nPub chains Marston's and Mitchells and Butlers both warned last week that they were finding it hard to recruit workers, blaming overseas staff returning home and the stop-start nature of lockdown forcing people to give up on the sector.\n\nMr Beckett said: \"Hospitality is struggling with recruitment at the moment. It's a little hard to tell whether this is because there aren't enough people due to them leaving the country or leaving the sector, or because everyone is recruiting at the same time.\"\n\nWhatever the reason, he said, Hawksmoor needed to \"turbo-charge\" its recruitment efforts.\n\nFor each person recommended and who is hired after passing a one-month trial they will get a bonus - £200 for a first friend, £300 for the next one, and up to £2,000 for five friends.\n\nMr Beckett said he wanted to re-direct the recruitment budget \"at our own staff, who've had financial problems while on furlough. So instead of a huge amount spent on recruitment websites or agencies, we did this policy.\"\n\nAnother restaurant chain, Caravan, said it was offering £100 gift vouchers to customers if they successfully recommend someone for a job.\n\n\"We have emailed our lovely customers to help us find superstars to work with us,\" the firm said in an email to the BBC.\n\nThe Sunday Times, which reported the quirky practices some firms were using, quoted the chairman of recruitment giant Reed as saying the jobs pendulum had swung back in favour of workers.\n\nBut James Reed said there were job shortages across the board, not just in hospitality, with 18,000 vacancies added online in just one day last week - \"the highest number I can recall in years\".\n\nLatest figures from global recruitment firm Broadbean Technology found that in April, vacancies in UK hospitality soared 77% from the previous month. However, compared with April 2020, the number of applications slumped 82%.\n\n\"The decline in application numbers is a concern and could hinder the growth of the hospitality sector in the immediate future,\" said Broadbean's managing director Alex Fourlis.\n\nHe said that, as work dried up during the pandemic many people chose to leave the sector and firms now face a challenge enticing them back.\n\nBut he added: \"Perhaps more concerningly, though, this drop in applications follows the UK's exit from the EU and potentially suggests that Brexit has had a long-lasting impact on hospitality.\"\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of industry body UK Hospitality, told the Sunday Times it was time for the government to review its \"shortage occupations\" list.\n\n\"We've also suggested an Australian-style coronavirus recovery visa for lower-skilled workers who don't meet the point-based system [but] who are crucial to the recovery,\" she said.\n\nUK Hospitality has estimated that more than 52,000 venues employing about 900,000 people were planning to reopen last week in England, Scotland and Wales. That's on top of about 26,000 venues that opened in April for outside trading.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe lead singer of the Italian band who won the Eurovision Song Contest has denied taking drugs, following online speculation over competition footage showing him leaning over a table.\n\nMåneskin's Damiano David rejected the idea that he had been taking cocaine.\n\n\"I don't use drugs. Please, guys. Don't say that really, no cocaine,\" he said at a press conference.\n\nIn a statement, Eurovision said the singer would \"take a voluntary drug test after arriving home\".\n\nMåneskin, who had been favourites to win the contest, took the top prize with their song Zitti e buoni.\n\nPeople at home speculated as to what the singer was doing when he appeared to bend his face towards a table as the band celebrated their victory during the live broadcast.\n\nWhen asked about the incident during a press conference after their victory, Damiano David said he had been looking down because guitarist Thomas Raggi had broken a glass.\n\nEurovision said the singer would be tested to see if he had taken drugs.\n\n\"This was requested by them last night but could not be immediately organised by the EBU,\" the statement said.\n\n\"The band, their management and head of delegation have informed us that no drugs were present in the Green Room and explained that a glass was broken at their table and it was being cleared by the singer. The EBU can confirm broken glass was found after an on site check.\n\n\"We are still looking at footage carefully and will update with further information in due course.\"\n\nThe band later also reacted to the allegation in an Instagram story, saying they were shocked and did not condone drug use:\n\n\"We really are AGAINST drugs and we never used cocaine. We are ready to get tasted [sic], cause we have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anna holligan 🎙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMåneskin had been firm favourites despite their rock number not being typical Eurovision fare.\n\nThey are the first group to win the competition since 2006. They also gave Italy its first victory since 1990.\n\nFrance's Barbara Pravi came second with Voilà, while Switzerland's Gjon's Tears came third with his ballad Tout l'Univers.\n\nThe UK came last in the contest, with James Newman's Embers scoring nul points.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A dispersal order has been put in place in Cwmbran\n\nNine teenagers have been arrested after armed police responded to reports of youths carrying weapons.\n\nGwent Police said it sent armed police to the Wern Road area of Sebastopol, Torfaen at about 15:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nA baseball bat and metal bars were recovered by police, and nine teenagers were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder.\n\nCh Supt Mark Hobrough said it appeared to be an isolated incident and the \"behaviour would not be tolerated\".\n\nA dispersal order, giving police extra powers to order anyone to leave an area, has been put in place until 17:15 on Monday for Cwmbran Town Shopping Centre and Cwmbran Retail 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 C/Supt. Mark Hobrough This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCh Supt Hobrough said no-one appeared to have been hurt in the incident, and armed police had been sent as a precautionary measure after the force received \"multiple calls from the public reporting a group of youths armed with weapons\".\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\nHe said: \"We have made a number of arrests and officers will be maintaining a visible presence in the area this evening to provide reassurance.\n\n\"This type of behaviour will not be tolerated by Gwent Police and we will take action against anyone intent on causing harm in our communities.\n\n\"We'd ask that parents ensure they know where their children are at all times, particularly while the dispersal order is in effect.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trials are underway to train dogs to sniff out coronavirus\n\nSniffer dogs could contribute to efforts to prevent the spread of Covid as society reopens, according to scientists.\n\nAs part of a trial, dogs were trained to recognise a distinctive odour produced by people with the virus, but undetectable to the human nose.\n\nThis could come in useful for screening at airports or mass events.\n\nBut the dogs' findings would have to be confirmed by lab testing, the researchers said.\n\nAlthough the dogs correctly picked up 88% of coronavirus cases, they also incorrectly flagged 16% of people who didn't have Covid as having the virus.\n\nDogs can have up to 100,000 times the smelling ability of humans and have long been used to sniff out drugs and explosives.\n\nRecent research has shown dogs - particularly breeds like spaniels and retrievers - can detect the unique scents of diseases including cancer, Parkinson's and malaria.\n\nAs part of the current canine screening trial, six dogs were trained to recognise the smell produced by people with Covid-19 using worn socks, face masks and t-shirts of various materials.\n\nThey were rewarded with treats when they correctly identified whether the sample was from an individual who had tested positive or negative.\n\nSome of the people in the negative group had common cold viruses, to make sure the dogs were able to distinguish Covid from other respiratory infections.\n\nThe dogs were able to sniff out the disease even when it was caused by different variants, and when the person had no symptoms or only had very low levels of the virus in their system.\n\nClaire Guest, Chief Scientific Officer at charity Medical Detection Dogs, which trained the animals, said the results were \"further evidence that dogs are one of the most reliable biosensors for detecting the odour of human disease\".\n\nThey picked up roughly 88% of positive cases - meaning, for every 100 cases, the dogs failed to recognise just 12 infected people.\n\nBut out of 100 people who did not have Covid, the dogs wrongly suggested - via the sniff test - that 16 of them were infected.\n\nSo if one person on a plane of 300 passengers has coronavirus, the dogs are likely to correctly identify that person, but may also wrongly indicate that another 48 Covid-negative people are infected.\n\nIt means a proportion of infections will be missed, and more will be told they have the virus when they don't. This is the case for all tests to different extents, but the canine method incorrectly tells a lot more people they have the virus than the type you swab up your nose.\n\nSo the research team does not recommend dogs alone are used to sniff out positive cases.\n\nDr Claire Guest lives with Asher, one of the dogs involved in the trial, along with prostate cancer detection dog Florin and E. coli detector Tala\n\nBut they believe the dogs could be an additional screening tool alongside more conventional tests. They say dog screening, followed by swab testing, will pick up 91% of infections.\n\nThe real potential advantage, though, is speed: even the quickest tests take 15 minutes to show a result, while dogs can sniff out the disease in seconds.\n\nTwo dogs could screen 300 people in half an hour, researchers say.\n\nThis could make the sniff test \"a suitable method for mass screening\", argues Prof James Logan at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, which conducted the research alongside the University of Durham.\n\nIn theory, people could be screened as they queue for a flight or to enter an event, and anyone flagged up by the dogs would need to take a PCR test - the more accurate type of swab tests which is processed in a lab.\n\nThis could cut down on the numbers having to enter hotel quarantine.\n\nDogs could also potentially be used in areas where there isn't currently much screening, such as busy train stations, to help prevent a super-spreading event.\n\nThe research is at an early stage so it still needs to be reviewed by other scientists before it can be published and, in the next phase of the study, tried out on infected people - rather than bits of sock.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nSteve Cooper will celebrate Swansea City's Championship play-off semi-final triumph over Barnsley by watching Brentford on his laptop.\n\nSwansea will battle the Bees for a place in the Premier League after a tense 1-1 draw with Barnsley secured a 2-1 aggregate win.\n\nDespite his pride at reaching Wembley, Cooper will get straight back to work.\n\n\"As soon as I get home the laptop will be on and I'll be looking at the opposition,\" said the Swansea boss.\n\n\"Of course I'm proud. You've seen the journey of this football club, not just the two years I've been here. It's a unique one and this is another chapter.\n\n\"But it's not finished, we've got another one next week. It was a privilege to be in the stadium tonight, with fans being here and getting to Wembley.\n\n\"It'll be a night to remember but I also know my biggest emotion is getting ready for next Saturday.\"\n\nAfter a 1-0 first leg triumph, Matt Grimes' sparkling goal put Swansea 2-0 up in the tie, but Barnsley replied through Cauley Woodrow's sharp finish.\n\nValerien Ismael's team then piled pressure on as they looked to force the contest to extra time.\n\nBut Swansea came through a nervy finale to set up a meeting with Brentford on Saturday, 29 May.\n\n\"It's going to be a very different game technically and tactically,\" Cooper added.\n\n\"We have had two tough games against them. We didn't play so well here, played well at their place earlier in the season.\n\n\"We have shown we can play in games like that this year. We are on the biggest stage now so we have got to go and do it again.\"\n\nLike the first leg, this was not a pretty contest as Barnsley's high-tempo, direct style caused problems for Swansea.\n\nBut as they had on Monday night - and have done on numerous occasions this season - Cooper's side proved they could compete in a physical contest.\n\nBarnsley's plan was to knock Swansea out of their stride from the outset, and Ismael's men asked questions in the first half without creating many chances.\n\nBut it was Swansea who seized the initiative six minutes before half-time when Grimes curled the ball inside the far post.\n\nBarnsley responded admirably after the break, claiming a deserved equaliser as Woodrow rifled in from the edge of the area.\n\nThe Tykes asked all the questions from that point on, but Swansea dug deep to hold onto their advantage.\n\nOne game away from a top-flight return\n\nLast season Swansea won their play-off semi-final first leg against Brentford 1-0 only to miss out on Wembley after a 3-1 loss in the second.\n\nHaving gone a step further this time around, Cooper's team face a rematch with Thomas Frank's side.\n\nSwansea won their first leg at Barnsley thanks to the sort of resilient, determined display which they produced on a regular basis until a late-season dip in form ended hopes of automatic promotion.\n\nThe hosts dealt with a Barnsley barrage at Oakwell, and it was similar story for much of the second leg.\n\nChances were at a premium in a first half lacking quality, as Callum Brittain fluffed one shooting opportunity from a corner and lifted another effort beyond the far post.\n\nThe one touch of class was provided by Grimes, who brought the ball down just outside the box after Brad Collins had palmed out Conor Hourihane's free-kick.\n\nGrimes' quick feet took him past the onrushing Brittain before he guided a glorious effort into the far corner of the net.\n\nBarnsley heads did not drop, with Carlton Morris seeing an effort saved before Jordan Williams' far-post shot was blocked by the sliding Jake Bidwell.\n\nSwansea were creaking, and Barnsley deservedly levelled when Williams led a rapid counter-attack before squaring for Woodrow to flash a crisp shot into the bottom corner of the net.\n\nThe hosts were camped in their own half in the closing stages but, for all the late control, Barnsley could not conjure the sort of clear-cut chance needed to keep their season alive.\n\nRelief reigned among 3,000 Swansea fans - watching their team in the flesh for the first time in 441 days - when the final whistle eventually came.\n\nThree years after relegation from the Premier League, Swansea are are one game away from rejoining the elite.\n\nWhat next for Barnsley?\n\nPromotion was not on Barnsley minds when Ismael arrived at a club who were 21st in the table in October 2020.\n\nIsmael's impact has been spectacular, with Barnsley claiming a play-off spot having taken 74 points from his 39 games in the dugout.\n\nThey came up just short despite making Swansea work for 180 minutes.\n\nThe challenge now is to maintain momentum next season.\n\nCaptain Alex Mowatt is out of contract and will not be short of suitors this summer, while Daryl Dike's loan from Orlando City is now at an end - although Barnsley did have an option to buy in the deal which brought him to Yorkshire.\n\nThe good news for Barnsley is that Ismael signed a three-year deal when he took over at Oakwell.\n\nAssuming he stays around, Barnsley will feel another promotion push is possible in 2021-22.\n\n\"We showed a lot of character and determination over the last two games.\n\n\"Respect to Barnsley and the journey that they've been on this year. They've been as in-form a team as anybody in the second part of the season.\n\n\"They test you in a different way. It's hard to play against and it's hard to get rhythm.\n\n\"So we knew we had to do certain parts of the game well and we did. What I like about that is that, fans back in the stadium for the first time, people being away for 14 months.\n\n\"We're going through a pandemic and they're seeing a team that's just fighting and giving everything they can for their people. That's important to me.\"\n\n\"Congratulations to Swansea. I think they deserve to be in the final. When you see the two games, they were really clinical.\n\n\"They scored with their first shot on target in the first game and today only one shot on target was in.\n\n\"We did our job. We scored a goal away. We wanted to stay in the game all the time. Swansea's quality made the difference, it's as simple as that.\n\n\"We can be proud of our performance. We showed why we are in the play-offs - we deserved to be here.\n\n\"For sure we are disappointed but from tomorrow we have time to reflect and see how we did this season with one of the smallest squads and youngest squads.\"\n• None Jay Fulton (Swansea City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Michal Helik (Barnsley) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Williams with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Carlton Morris (Barnsley) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Mads Andersen.\n• None Attempt saved. Connor Roberts (Swansea City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cauley Woodrow (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Carlton Morris (Barnsley) header from very close range is just a bit too high. Assisted by Cauley Woodrow with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Carlton Morris (Barnsley) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Alex Mowatt with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None What goes on in the Premier League Captain's WhatsApp group?\n• None Just One More Thing The simple home workout that is proven to boost your brain power", "Herd immunity is a term used to mean that most people are immune to a particular disease.\n\nThis means the disease is much less likely to spread from person to person, so those who are not immune are at reduced risk of illness.\n\nThe more infectious a disease is, the greater the number of people that need to be immune in order to reach the threshold where the unprotected are safe.\n\nThere are two ways of achieving herd immunity: the first is through the natural progression of the disease, which will cause illness and death as people become infected.\n\nThe second is through vaccination. The head of the UK Health Security Agency and test and Trace boss, Dr Jenny Harries, said this morning that around 70% of the population were now immune - mostly as a result of the vaccination programme but also as a result of infection.\n\nBut early on in the pandemic, the government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, created alarm when he talked about herd immunity building up through the natural progression of the disease.\n\n\"Our aim,\" he said, \"is to try and reduce the peak - not suppress it completely, also because most people get a mild illness, to build up some degree of herd immunity whilst protecting the most vulnerable.\"\n\nSome interpreted his words as suggesting that it was government policy to create herd immunity by allowing the disease to spread - which is why it had not ordered a lockdown, despite increasing calls from many experts.\n\nHe later clarified his comments, saying that herd immunity was a natural consequence of the disease spreading - and that it was not the policy to allow Covid-19 to spread.", "The Pfizer and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines are highly effective against the variant identified in India after two doses, a study has found.\n\nTwo jabs of either vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the Kent one.\n\nHowever, both vaccines were only 33% effective against the Indian variant three weeks after the first dose.\n\nThis compared with 50% effectiveness against the Kent variant.\n\nPublic Health England, which ran the study, said the vaccines are likely to be even more effective at preventing hospital admission and deaths.\n\nThe Moderna vaccine has also been used in the UK since April but the study said the numbers who had received it were too small for them to include it in their research.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the findings made him \"increasingly confident\" the final stage of easing restrictions in England could take place on 21 June.\n\nThe data showed getting both doses of the vaccine was \"absolutely vital\", he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the data was \"positive\" but the planned \"stages\" for the easing needed to be followed.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"We will continue to follow the data... we all have to be conscientious... we are distancing, wearing masks, following all the rules.\n\n\"That, of course, will help us to that unlocking on 21 June.\"\n\nQuestioned about criticism of the timing of putting India on the travel red list, the home secretary said ministers \"work with the data... and that information was presented... in the right way for the decisions to be made\".\n\nMs Patel also defended the controls at UK borders - highlighting the pre-arrival testing requirements and saying a \"vigorous system\" for making sure people arriving from red list countries were quarantining was in place.\n\nA further five people in the UK have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, and another 2,235 people have tested positive, Sunday's official figures showed.\n\nMore than 60 million vaccine doses have now been given, with 37,943,681 first doses administered and 22,643,417 second doses.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was found to be 88% effective at stopping symptomatic disease from the Indian variant two weeks after the second dose, compared with 93% effectiveness against the Kent variant.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab was 60% effective against the Indian variant, compared with 66% against the Kent variant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Test and Trace boss urges people to go for their second jab\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the difference in effectiveness between the vaccines after two doses might be explained by the fact that rollout of second doses of AstraZeneca was later than for the Pfizer vaccine, which was approved first.\n\nOther data shows it takes longer to reach maximum effectiveness with the AstraZeneca vaccine, PHE said.\n\nSome 12,675 genome-sequenced cases were included in the study, which took place between 5 April and 16 May. Only 1,054 of those cases were of the Indian variant, known as B.1.617.2.\n\nDr Jenny Harries told the Andrew Marr Show the study was \"very good news\".\n\nThe chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency said the study is the \"first real-world evidence of vaccine effectiveness\" against the variant.\n\nAsked about the discrepancy between the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine results, she said a key factor to consider was that the \"different vaccines were given to slightly different groups of people\".\n\n\"The Pfizer vaccine was rolled out initially, because it had to be kept at ultra-low temperatures, to - for example - healthcare workers, who tended to be younger,\" she said.\n\n\"This is an all-age study. Whereas AstraZeneca went out to older groups of individuals who were unable to come into main centres.\"\n\nAs the virus changes, protection against infection was always going to be the first thing that slips.\n\nSo the fact that the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines offer such a high degree of protection against the Indian variant after the second dose is very reassuring given experts expect it to become dominant.\n\nBut what are the implications of the drop in effectiveness of the first dose where the Indian variant is concerned?\n\nGiven it's expected to become the dominant variant in the UK, it's now even more important people get their second jab.\n\nThe more difficult question to answer is what this means for the speed of the route back to normality.\n\nIts ability to evade the vaccines even by a small degree will be a factor in how more transmissible this variant is here.\n\nThere are also other biological reasons why it might find it easier to spread.\n\nBut this does not necessarily mean we will see a surge in cases and, crucially, hospital admissions - the protection vaccines give us against serious illness will be much much higher than their ability to block mild infections.\n\nThe Indian variant certainly gives the virus a bit more of an advantage, but it doesn't mean the vaccines won't win out.\n\nThe study looked at data from all age groups from 5 April, to cover the period since the Indian variant emerged.\n\nThere is not enough data to estimate how effective the vaccine is against severe outcomes for the Indian variant, PHE said.\n\nDr Jamie Lopez Bernal, consultant medical epidemiologist at PHE and the study's lead author, said there was higher confidence in the data from the first vaccine dose than that from the second as \"there are bigger numbers that have been vaccinated with one dose\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, PHE's Covid-19 strategic response director, said the data trend was \"quite clear\" and was heading in the \"right direction\".\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\nMore than 37 million people in the UK have now had their first vaccination, and 22 million have had their second.\n\nSome 13,000 deaths and 39,100 hospitalisations have been prevented in the UK due to the vaccination programme up to 9 May, according to PHE analysis.\n\nIt comes as more than 1.3 million more people in England have become registered users of the NHS app since it was announced that it would allow them to show proof they had received a Covid-19 vaccine, taking its user base to 4.8 million.\n\nThe app is separate from the NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app.", "Concrete barriers have been placed on the road where violence broke out on Thursday\n\nFurther arrests have been made in connection with violent disorder in Swansea on Thursday.\n\nSeven police officers were injured and families described being trapped in their homes after violence erupted in Mayhill.\n\nSouth Wales Police said three men, aged 18, 21, and 23, had been arrested, taking the total number of arrests to seven.\n\nDet Supt Gareth Morgan urged anyone involved to \"hand themselves in\".\n\nOn Saturday three men, aged 36, 20 and 18, and a 16-year-old boy were arrested on on suspicion of unlawful violence following the violence on Waun-Wen Road.\n\nTwo of the men arrested on Sunday remain in police custody, while five have been released on bail and placed under a night-time curfew.\n\nDet Supt Morgan said officers remained in the area, and with investigations continuing he expected more people to be arrested in the next few days.\n\nHe repeated his call for people in the community to send in photos and videos and to help the force identify those involved in the disorder which broke out on Waun-Wen Road.\n\nThe disorder is believed to have begun after a planned balloon release in the memory of Ethan Powell, who collapsed and died suddenly on Wednesday.\n\nMr Powell's family are said to be deeply upset by the violent scenes when the events were meant to have been a celebration of his life.\n\nThe Mayhill street looked \"like a war zone\", one of the residents said\n\nDet Supt Morgan thanked members of the community who had already handed over footage to the police and given statements.\n\n\"We have a dedicated team of detectives who are carrying out extensive inquiries to identify those involved and we are ready to act upon any information received,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"Those that want to hand themselves in can do so at Swansea central police station.\"\n\nThe force's response to the disorder has been criticised by some residents.\n\nBut South Wales Police said its response was \"immediate and officers trained to deal with public order incidents were deployed to the scene\".", "After a year of lockdowns, home schooling and a bout of Covid, Kate and Matthew (not their real names) were hoping for better times as 2021 dawned.\n\nInstead, one January morning, there came a knock on the door from the police who were investigating a very serious crime, involving images of child abuse being posted online.\n\nThe couple insisted they had nothing to do with it.\n\nBut the next few months were \"utter hell\" as they attempted to clear their names.\n\nAnd it was only when the case was dropped in March, with no further action, that they realised the most likely explanation for the false accusation was their wi-fi router - and its factory-set password.\n\nBack in January, there was confusion and shock when three police officers and three detectives banged on the door of their London flat with a search warrant.\n\n\"They took everything: our desktop computer, both our laptops, our mobile phones, a laptop I had borrowed, even old mobile phones that were lying around in drawers,\" said Kate.\n\nTheir children, aged five and seven, were allowed to keep their tablets.\n\nThe police later told the couple that four photos depicting category B child abuse - the second-most-serious kind - had been uploaded to an online chat site a year ago.\n\nInformation passed to the National Crime Agency suggested it had come from their IP address.\n\nThe couple were at a loss to explain how it had happened. As far as they were aware, no-one else had access to their wi-fi at the time.\n\nThey were told their devices would need to be checked for evidence and would be returned in \"a few days\" - but it was the middle of March when they finally got them all back.\n\nManaging without devices posed many problems for the couple during lockdown\n\nThat presented practical problems: Kate and Matthew were working from home and their children were home-schooling.\n\n\"We had no way of contacting anyone other than from the landline,\" said Kate, who works as a private tutor.\n\nAt the time, England was in the middle of a lockdown. Non-essential shops were shut, so there was no chance to pop out and buy new gadgets.\n\nBut it soon became apparent that the case was going to have a far greater impact on their lives.\n\nThe police needed to unlock Matthew's work laptop, which was encrypted. He had to tell his boss about the case in order to get the decryption key.\n\nAnd the police had also informed social services and the children's school about the investigation, meaning Kate was suspended from her role as a governor there.\n\nWhen their children went back to school in March, the couple were told they were not allowed on the premises other than to drop their children off.\n\nIt took a toll on their mental health.\n\n\"What got to me was the not-knowing, and as the weeks went on I got more anxious,\" said Matthew, who was signed off work with stress.\n\nKate is more blunt about the trauma: \"It was months of hell. And during it, we both had suicidal thoughts.\"\n\nThe couple live in a block of flats, meaning their wi-fi could have been accessed by a neighbour or someone sitting in a car outside\n\nIn February, a conversation with a friend who worked in cyber-security alerted them to the possibility that their router, supplied by their broadband provider Vodafone, might hold clues to what had happened.\n\nThey had not changed the default passwords for either the router itself or the admin webpage, leaving it susceptible to brute force attacks.\n\n\"We think of ourselves as competent users but we are not IT experts,\" said Matthew. \"No-one told us to change the password and the setting up of the router didn't require us to go on to the admin menu, so we didn't.\"\n\n\"It came with a password, so we plugged it in and didn't touch anything.\"\n\nKen Munro, a security consultant with Pen Test Partners, told the BBC that it can take \"a matter of minutes\" for criminals to piggyback on insecure wireless connections.\n\n\"First, a hacker would need to 'crack' the wi-fi password - and if that hasn't been changed from the one written on a sticker on the side of the router, and the router is more than a year or two old - then it would take a matter of minutes to crack it,\" he said\n\nThat would allow the hacker on to a private individual's home network - although they would have to be within about 20 metres of the house.\n\n\"Second, to do anything particularly sinister on the home network, the hacker will need to change the router configuration. That needs the router admin password,\" explained Mr Munro.\n\nThe couple's router had an insecure wi-fi password, which may have been accessed by a criminal\n\n\"Most people don't even know the router has an admin password, let alone change it from the one written on the side of the router.\n\n\"So what I guess has happened here, is that the hacker has cracked the wi-fi password and then made changes to the router configuration, so their illicit activities on the internet appear to be coming from the innocent party.\"\n\nIn March, when the couple's devices were returned and the case closed, the police officer assigned to liaise with them seemed to corroborate that unauthorised use of their wi-fi was to blame.\n\nBut it couldn't be proved.\n\nThe couple submitted a subject access request to Vodafone, to see if they could find evidence that there had been unauthorised use of their wi-fi.\n\nThe case remains on file, including on their children's school records, and they want closure.\n\nVodafone told them that it did not have a record of their internet activity. It has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe router was several years old. The HHG2500 model in question has been highlighted as having a weak default password in a recent report by Which? into security issues around older routers.\n\nThe problem is industry-wide, points out Mr Munro.\n\n\"Internet service providers have started to improve matters to make these attacks harder, by putting unique passwords on each router. However, it will take years for all of the offending routers to be replaced,\" he said.\n\nDoing so costs money - which could be another reason it has taken so long, he adds.\n\nThe government plans to ban default passwords being pre-set on devices, as part of upcoming legislation covering smart devices.\n\nKate Bevan, Which? computing editor, said the new laws needed to be introduced \"as soon as possible, and backed by strong enforcement\".\n\nMeanwhile, internet service providers needed to \"encourage their customers to upgrade devices that pose security risks\" and consumers should set \"strong, unique passwords\" for their routers.\n\nFor Kate and Matthew, it has been a tough learning curve.\n\n\"It was devastating for us. And because there's no evidence about how this took place, whoever is responsible for this awful crime totally got away with it.\"\n• None Millions at risk of hacking from old routers", "US actress Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1987 romantic comedy Moonstruck, has died aged 89, her family have announced.\n\nHer brother wrote she was \"at peace\" after suffering ill health.\n\nDukakis had a long and distinguished career in theatre, both as a performer and as a director.\n\nBut in her 50s she starred in a series of hit comedies on screen, including an award-winning turn as Cher's mother in Moonstruck.\n\nThat run - in the late 1980s - also included roles in Steel Magnolias, Working Girl and Look Who's Talking.\n\nOther key roles were as a secondary school head teacher in 1995's Mr Holland's Opus and as a transgender landlady in the TV series Tales of the City, whose fourth series premiered on Netflix in 2019.\n\n\"My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City,\" Apollo Dukakis wrote on Facebook.\n\n\"After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her [husband] Louis.\"\n\nOlympia Dukakis was born in 1931 in Lowell, Massachusetts to Greek immigrants. Her cousin Michael was Democratic candidate for in the US presidential election, losing to George HW Bush.\n\nDukakis studied performing arts at Boston University, moving to New York in the late 1950s. She starred in dozens of plays on and off Broadway, as well as directing and teaching.\n\nOlympia Dukakis's breakthrough role came in the 80s with Moonstruck\n\nIn 1961 she met actor-producer Louis Zorich. She had been cast as a married woman in a play and Zorich auditioned for the part of her husband. He didn't get it - but they got married for real the following year.\n\nDukakis had several roles on the big and small screen but it was Moonstruck that propelled her to stardom and won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.\n\nPlaying an eye-rolling, interfering Italian matriarch, in one stand-out scene she tells her 37-year-old on screen daughter Cher \"your life's going down the toilet\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDespite the Oscar, and critical acclaim, she said she was taken aback, not considering the part one of her more important roles.\n\n\"All of the attention I was getting was lovely, of course, but I was more than a little confused about why it had come at this point, and with this role, which, to my mind, was not the greatest part I had ever played,\" she said.\n\nShe was nominated three times for an Emmy for her TV work - Lucky Day (1991), More Tales of the City (1998) and Joan of Arc (1999).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLooking back on her long career in a recent interview, she said she was encouraged by how things have improved for women.\n\n\"I think things are finally moving in the right direction, both for women and for minorities. We are far from reaching our goal but there's a forward movement that's real and strong,\" she told the Irish News.\n\n\"You're seeing more women as directors and decision-makers and that's a great thing. I'm happy that I've lived a long enough life so I could witness the growth that has occurred.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clubbing comes back: 'This is the best day of my life'\n\n\"It feels surreal,\" said DJ Jayda G as clubbers returned to the dance floor for the first time since the pandemic began.\n\nAbout 3,000 people with negative Covid test results attended the Liverpool event on Friday, part of the government's pilot on mass events.\n\nThe clubbers did not have to wear face coverings or social distance for the first time since lockdown.\n\n\"I went in and I was like, oh my goodness, there are people and they're together and they're dancing and they're smiling and this is actually happening,\" said Jayda.\n\n\"You can feel it, like big energy.\"\n\nClubbers did not have to wear face coverings or social distance at the pilot event\n\nLiverpool University student Elliott Cause, 20, said: \"I feel like this is a big moment for the UK. I feel like university students have been struggling without this. I feel like this will do a lot.\"\n\nSome clubbers said they had \"spent a week\" choosing outfits for the event at the Bramley-Moore Dock warehouse.\n\nOne clubber told BBC Radio 5 live: \"We're just excited - we're all on the verge of tears ready to go in.\n\n\"It was like coronavirus never happened. It's given me hope for the future.\"\n\nAbout 3,000 people danced at the warehouse\n\nAs the evening wound down, another clubber said: \"I thought I had my teenage years robbed from me but after that tonight, it was absolutely amazing.\n\n\"I think the main feeling within the crowd was that we feel so privileged to actually have been here - so many students across the country haven't been able to experience this.\"\n\nEvent producer Sam Newson said the industry had been \"decimated\" in the past year.\n\n\"People have moved on - I've got colleagues who have lost houses. It has been incredibly hard, and so to try and get this back up and running is incredibly important.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blossoms will perform in another Liverpool pilot event on Sunday\n\nLiverpool director of public health Matt Ashton said the club event, which will also run on Saturday, was \"crucial\" for the local economy.\n\n\"In Liverpool, it's over 40% of our economic output. So it's really important we start to get the economy opening again.\"\n\nHe said clubbers who test positive in the next five days would be expected to self-isolate and would be spoken to by contact tracers.\n\nScientists will use data on crowd movements and air quality to see whether people mixing indoors at mass events will increase coronavirus transmission.\n\nThe night was part of the Events Research Programme, which will also see crowds return to the FA Cup final and Sunday's music festival in Liverpool's Sefton Park.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Joseph Parker recovered from being knocked down in the opening 10 seconds to beat Derek Chisora on a split decision and keep alive hopes of a shot at the world heavyweight title.\n\nThe Briton floored New Zealander Parker at Manchester Arena with an overhand right to the temple.\n\nBut the former world champion turned the tide and landed combinations as the bout wore on, while Chisora tired.\n\nIt proved enough to earn a split decision 115-113 111-116 115-113.\n\nChisora, 37, felt aggrieved by the scoring and said: \"I'm beyond getting upset now. It's difficult. I train hard. I put pressure on, this is the treatment I get from boxing.\n\n\"I was bringing it. I was doing more power punches and inside work. I won't let them slow me down. I will go again. I will not let them win. They want to see me retiring but I am not yet.\"\n• None 'I decided to keep him in there' - Eubank Jr returns with win\n\nChisora had said he might withdraw from the fight because he had to walk to the ring before his opponent, a threat in keeping with the unpredictability he has served up in over 14 years as a professional.\n\nSome have questioned why he still headlines pay-per-view cards after 10 previous career defeats but the looping right hand that sent Parker to the canvas served as an instant reminder of his threat.\n\nAs always, he looked to bulldoze his opponent with constant pressure but Parker - eight years his junior at 29 - was able to build momentum as Chisora slowly faded.\n\nTo Parker's credit, facing such pressure is mentally taxing but he stood up to both the knockdown and an early onslaught before beginning to land good combinations of his own.\n\nIn the seventh a one-two followed by a three-shot flurry sent Chisora back to the ropes and pointed to his vulnerability.\n\nIn the 10th Parker followed another one-two with an eye-catching short left hook and he teed off on Chisora again in the 12th as he closed in on a 29th win from 31 outings. Only British heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte have bettered him.\n\nAsked if winning a world title for a second time is a possibility, Parker said: \"It's very achievable. I just have to get back to training. There's still a lot I can show.\n\n\"It was a very close fight. I thought it could go either way. He brought the smoke.\"\n\nThe former champion can look to bigger names but the stars at the top of the division possess natural size advantages that will make his task all the more tricky.\n\nChisora, in contrast, must search for a next move. He has shown time and again he can come up with something to go after.\n\nBBC Sport boxing correspondent Mike Costello:\"I made Parker the winner by three rounds but wouldn't mount a strong argument against the judge who favoured Chisora. It was compelling heavyweight boxing and - coming after Taylor-Jonas - just imagine a night like that with a crowd.\n\n\"Parker did well to recover so quickly from the early knockdown and for me his cleaner punching at long and mid-range was decisive. His durability and resilience were also factors and, given more time with his new trainer Andy Lee, there should be better to come.\n\n\"Chisora's reputation won't suffer in losing such a fight and the Parker camp have said there should be a rematch - not a difficult sell.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing analyst Steve Bunce: \"Should this be Derek's last fight? Can you get enough money for risking your reputation? If there is something out there where he can make the same money or close to what he made tonight, then yes.\n\n\"What I don't want to see is him reduced to third on the bill and be there as a test for somebody.\n\n\"If there's another heavyweight out there he can generate that type of money with, let him fight.\n\n\"I don't want to see Derek become an 'opponent' - he's better than that.\"\n• None A group of hackers cause mayhem in Hollywood for Sony Pictures Entertainment\n• None The Crowd Science team explores why it is a universal feeling", "The UK government is to cut 60% of its funding to Unicef, the United Nation's children's fund, as part of its move to reduce spending on foreign aid.\n\nIt means the UN agency, which distributes humanitarian aid to children around the world, will get £16m this year, down from £40m.\n\nUnicef warned of \"serious consequences\" for children, particularly those affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the pandemic has forced it to make tough decisions.\n\nThe government announced last year it would cut UK aid spending from 0.7% of national income to 0.5% - which amounts to a reduction of more than £4bn.\n\nSome MPs defended the cuts at the time as being backed by the public, with some politicians arguing that domestic spending should come first during the pandemic.\n\nThis cut is the latest to be announced as aid charities and agencies begin to reveal the impact of the government's reduced overseas development budget.\n\nIn a statement, the UK committee for Unicef said it was \"deeply concerned\" by the decision.\n\nIt said the agency had been able to respond to the most pressing education, protection and health needs of children affected by Covid in 2020 thanks to the UK government funding.\n\nIt went on to say it was too soon to know the full impact of this and future cuts on the Unicef programme but there was concern children living in some of the world's worst crises and conflicts would suffer the consequences.\n\nUnicef acknowledged the \"challenging\" financial situation facing governments, but called on the UK government to return to spending 0.7% of the national income on foreign aid from 2022 \"at the latest\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"The seismic impact of the pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take tough but necessary decisions, including temporarily reducing the overall amount we spend on aid.\n\n\"We will still spend more than £10bn this year to fight poverty, tackle climate change and improve global health.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the BBC obtained an internal Foreign Office memo which said funding for global water, sanitation and hygiene bilateral projects would be cut by more than 80%, prompting criticism from leading charity WaterAid.\n\nIt also emerged that the United Nations global family planning programme would not receive £154m for its projects, as pledged by the UK, and would instead get about £23m this year.\n\nAsked about the cuts, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government had always been clear it intended to return to spending 0.7% of national income on aid when it was \"fiscally prudent to do so\".\n\nSeparately, the UK government has given the BBC World Service £8m to help tackle disinformation and inaccurate news reporting around the world.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said it would allow the BBC to \"take impartial journalism to many more people around the world, by countering those who distort the truth to mislead the public\".\n\nThe money comes on top of previous funding for the BBC's World2020 programme, which was launched in 2016 and aims to expand the BBC's global reach.\n\nBBC director-general Tim Davie said through the programme the World Service has achieved an all-time record audience of 351 million, in 42 languages, with the BBC's global news services now reaching 438 million every week.", "The misconduct hearing was held in private due to the wishes of the girl's family\n\nA Met Police officer has been sacked after hitting a vulnerable teenager 34 times with a baton.\n\nThe 17-year-old girl, who was on escorted leave from a mental health unit, became distressed after becoming separated from a group in May 2019.\n\nA misconduct panel heard PC Benjamin Kemp tried to handcuff the teenager and then used CS spray less than a metre away from her face and his baton.\n\nCh Supt Richard Tucker said the force used was \"utterly inappropriate\".\n\nThe family's solicitors said it was a \"deeply disturbing case where a black child with learning disabilities was brutalised\".\n\nBut the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said there was no indication racial discrimination had been a factor.\n\nFollowing the hearing, the girl's family said in a statement: \"Rather than helping her as he should have done, he violently assaulted her, using up to 34 baton strikes and CS spray.\"\n\nThe panel heard the girl was seen near a main road in east London and police were called by a concerned member of the public.\n\nThe girl herself flagged down a passing police car and body-worn video showed her telling officers she was a vulnerable child with mental health problems.\n\nShe agreed to get into the police car, but then got out of it, the panel heard.\n\nOfficers tried to speak to her but PC Kemp, of the Met's North East Command, then attempted to use handcuffs.\n\nWhen this was unsuccessful, he then used CS spray before taking out his baton seconds later.\n\nThe hearing followed an IOPC investigation into complaints made by an NHS Trust staff member and the girl's mother.\n\nIOPC regional director Sal Naseem described the incident as \"shocking\".\n\nHe added: \"Immediately resorting to use of force without considering other de-escalation tactics, and particularly where the person involved has mental health issues, is of concern.\n\n\"PC Kemp's immediate reaction when the girl exited the police car was to try and handcuff her, even though he didn't have her under his control.\n\n\"The poor communication by this officer got the incident off to a bad start and, once he started to use the baton, he was unable to change tack.\"\n\nThe family's solicitor, Sophie Naftalin, said the case sent a \"powerful message\" that more needs to be done by the Met when training officers about how to deal with vulnerable people.\n\nShe added: \"There have been too many cases of disproportionate force being used by police officers upon members of the black community.\"\n\nPC Kemp was dismissed from the Met without notice following the misconduct hearing in west London.\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\nWelsh party leaders have clashed on the Welsh government's pandemic support for businesses in a BBC election debate.\n\nLabour's Mark Drakeford said £200m was waiting to be spent by the next first minister after the election to give firms hit by the pandemic more help.\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's Adam Price questioned why it could not have been spent before the vote on 6 May.\n\nConservative Andrew RT Davies said there was unallocated cash in Welsh government coffers.\n\nAnd Jane Dodds said the Welsh Liberal Democrats would support medium, small and micro-businesses.\n\nMeanwhile Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party's (ATWAP) Richard Suchorzewski said firms should be given rent relief to encourage them to open up.\n\nThe five appeared in the BBC Wales Leaders' Debate on Thursday evening, a week before the Welsh Parliament election on 6 May.\n\nSIGN UP FOR WALES ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\nWelsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford told the debate his government had set aside £200m \"as a down payment to go on helping businesses straight after the election\".\n\n\"Whoever is in government, whichever one of us on this platform is first minister after next Thursday, there will be proposals waiting on the desk for them to spend that money to support businesses.\"\n\nBut Mr Price questioned why Mr Drakeford was waiting until after the election.\n\nMark Drakeford said £200m was available to businesses as a \"down payment\" after the election\n\n\"Why wait?\" Mr Price said. \"In England and Scotland there have been restart grants of up to £18,000, £19,000, which will be provided to hospitality businesses and others who have had to remain closed\".\n\n\"It's a very simple reason, it's the rules don't allow it,\" Mr Drakeford said in response.\n\n\"If I was handing out cheques to businesses in Wales, Adam Price would be the first person calling foul.\"\n\nMr Price said that was not true, saying he called for a Senedd recall during the campaign and would have supported it.\n\nMr Davies said this was why he had called \"back in February for a road map out of lockdown.\n\n\"So those announcement could have been made outside of the election period and that money made available to businesses across Wales.\"\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\nJane Dodds said her party would support medium, small and micro-businesses, which she described as the \"backbone\" of the country.\n\n\"We want to freeze business rates, we want to be talking to people about what can replace those,\" she said.\n\n\"We want to go bigger, we want an economic development [plan] which looks at the whole of Wales, and how we can grow our economy and support small businesses\".\n\nAdam Price questioned why the cash for firms could not have been made available before the election\n\nLast month Plaid Cymru had called for ATWAP's Mr Suchorzewski to be dropped from the proceedings. During the debate his anti-devolution stance came under attack from his political rivals.\n\nMr Suchorzewski said the NHS in Wales had been \"totally mismanaged\" over the past 22 years.\n\nHe said that before the pandemic, five of Wales' health boards had been in special measures.\n\nMr Suchorzewski said control of the NHS should be returned to the UK government: \"There should be one NHS for all - and it should be put under the guidance of the United Kingdom government.\"\n\nMark Drakeford was asked about why he couldn't distribute the £200m set aside for supporting businesses until after the election and he said: \"The rules don't allow it - we're in an election period.\"\n\nThe time before an election - in this case the period since 25 March - is known as the \"period of sensitivity\" or \"purdah\", when there are restrictions on what ministers and civil servants are allowed to do.\n\nThe Welsh government's guidance says that during that period, in line with the ministerial code, ministers will not make announcements that \"could be construed as conferring political advantage or electoral advantage\".\n\nBut the guidance also recognises that, as a result of the pandemic, ministers \"will need to continue making important decisions\" and that \"some of these decisions may inevitably be high profile and potentially sensitive\".\n\nSo Mr Drakeford may be taking a cautious approach to the rules, especially as he could argue that supporting businesses hit by the pandemic was not a new policy initiative but an extension of an existing policy.\n\nThat led Mr Drakeford to accuse the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party of \"writing off everything our people have done over the last extraordinary 12 months\".\n\n\"As we stand here today, Wales has the lowest rate of coronavirus anywhere in the United Kingdom and our vaccination programme is the most successful of any of the four UK nations,\" he said.\n\nHe admitted the UK government had done a good job in securing the supply of vaccines, but added: \"Here in Wales, we have used that supply more effectively than anywhere else.\"\n\nAndrew RT Davies said \"if the rugby team isn't playing well you don't... pull it out of the competition\"\n\nAfter Mr Suchorzewski complained about the printing of letters in English and Welsh language for Covid-19 tests, Mr Price accused him of wanting to get rid of the Welsh language: \"They don't want to abolish our parliament they want to abolish our language as well.\"\n\nMr Davies said: \"If the rugby team isn't playing well you don't... pull it out of the competition, you change the management structure, you change the coach and you get the team performing.\"\n\nAt the other side of the constitutional debate, Mr Price said now was the time to start building towards a referendum on Welsh independence.\n\n\"By taking our future into our own hands, that's the way that we solve our problems, the solutions will never come from Westminster.\"\n\nRichard Suchorzewski said the NHS had been mismanaged under devolution\n\nAsked how Wales would have fared alone in dealing with Covid, Mr Price accused the UK government of stealing Covid tests from Wales: \"We had tests that were ready to come to Wales, they were stolen by the UK government.\"\n\n\"Rubbish,\" said Mr Davies, adding Mr Price and ATWAP would cause \"constitutional chaos... slapping on the table the independence referendum, and indeed the abolish referendum that would be required to do away with the Welsh Parliament\".\n\nResponding to a question about the row over the refurbishment of Boris Johnson's flat, the Welsh Tory Senedd leader said: \"People aren't interested in the wallpaper in Downing Street, but they are interested in how they get an appointment at a GP's surgery\".\n\nHe told the debate: \"We can have a better education system, we can have a health service that responds to waiting times. We can create an economy that lifts wages across the whole of Wales and makes a difference.\"\n\nJane Dodds said the Lliberal Democrats wanted to put \"the climate at the heart of everything\".\n\nJane Dodds said Wales should have the same level of devolution as Scotland.\n\nShe said \"we don't need independence\" and instead time should be spent on creating jobs and protecting health.\n\nShe called on voters to \"imagine\" a better Wales.\n\nMs Dodds added that the Liberal Democrats wanted to \"put the climate at the heart of everything, and would \"put recovery first\" and prioritise the economy and mental health.\n\nJamie Jenkins of Reform UK, Amelia Womack of the Green Party and Neil Hamilton from UKIP also appeared in the programme\n\nReform UK, UKIP and the Greens also took part in a three-way debate.\n\nFor Reform UK, Jamie Jenkins said his party was against further Covid lockdowns.\n\nHe claimed the majority of people now have antibodies and the successful rollout of the vaccine means restrictions are no longer necessary.\n\nFor UKIP, Neil Hamilton said: \"The idea that the Senedd in any way represents ordinary people in Wales is nonsense\".\n\nHe said Wales was the poorest part of the UK: \"We're poorer today than 22 years ago. We've had a permanent Labour government and we're going to get a Labour government again after the sixth of May, because Plaid Cymru are already cosying up to Mark Drakeford.\"\n\nAmelia Womak from the Green Party says that a vote for green jobs is a vote to \"rebuild a post pandemic Wales fit for the 21st century.\"\n\nAsked how she would rebuild the economy while guarding the environment, Ms Womak said that \"all of our recovery should have the environment at the heart of it, because it means jobs and opportunities it means training and education, and it means that we're tackling the biggest problems of our time.\"\n\nA five way debate is unlikely ever to produce an outright winner.\n\nBut it is very easy to come unstuck in this format - and the leaders avoided any big mistakes.\n\nTheir supporters will each find things to applaud and this will have given them some added momentum going into the final week of the campaign.\n\nFor undecided voters the debate gave a decent flavour of what the parties are about - what does that mean for polling day? We'll find out soon.\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", "Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a first-in-the-nation bill that can penalise tech companies for deplatforming politicians.\n\nThe legislation states that platforms can only suspend accounts for 14 days, and will be fined as much as $250,000 (£176,000) per day for violations.\n\nNetChoice, a tech lobbying group whose members include Twitter and Facebook, testified against the bill in March.\n\nThe bill, believed to be the first of its kind, will take effect on 1 July.\n\nMr DeSantis has been vocal about Big Tech, arguing that platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are silencing conservative voices.\n\nEarlier this year, he said Big Tech had \"come to look more like Big Brother\".\n\nLegal challenges are expected, with opponents contending that the bill violates Americans' constitutional rights to free speech.\n\nCritics also say the new law could have unintended consequences.\n\nIn March, Steve DelBianco, NetChoice's chief executive, said while testifying against the bill: \"Imagine if the government required a church to allow user-created comments or third-party advertisements promoting abortion on its social media page.\n\n\"Just as that would violate the First Amendment [guaranteeing the right to free speech], so too does [this bill] since it would similarly force social media platforms to host content they otherwise would not allow.\"\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump was banned by Twitter and Facebook and suspended by YouTube after the Capitol Hill riot in January.\n\nEarlier this month, Facebook's Oversight Board decided to uphold the platform's decision, but asked the social network to review the decision within six months.\n\nWith Mr Trump barred from multiple platforms, it is unclear what this new Florida law means for any potential comeback for the former president.\n\nTwitter declined to comment. Facebook and YouTube have not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nMr Trump spent the first few months of his time after leaving office in Florida. He and Mr DeSantis are seen as ideological bedfellows.\n\nAccording to the Tampa Bay Times, Mr DeSantis was asked if this bill was meant to help Mr Trump, to which he replied: \"This bill is for everyday Floridians.\"\n\nThe legislation includes a clause that exempts a company \"that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment complex\".\n\nFlorida is home to the Disney World theme park.\n\nNBC Miami reported some lawmakers saw this as \"hypocritical\".\n\n\"If Facebook buys a theme park, does that prevent us from being able to regulate what happens on Facebook?\" asked Andrew Learned, a Democratic member of Florida's House of Representatives.\n\n\"So, if they bought a theme park and named it Zuckerland and he met the definition of a theme park under Florida statute, then yes,\" said Republican Representative Blaise Ingoglia.", "A 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\nDamian works at Wren Hall Nursing home in Nottinghamshire, and between the end of March and mid-April 2020, 13 residents died with Covid-19.\n\n\"Some of the people have lived here for five, six years. I see them more than my own family.\n\n\"And then they're not here any more,\" he remembers.\n\nDamian was working on the 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.\n\n\"You thought to yourself, if I emotionally connect with every scenario… you're going to have a breakdown, because you're not going to be able to get yourself right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The residents who died were like family, says nursing associate Damian Mann\n\nAt the time, most of the government's and the country's attention was focused on preventing the NHS being overwhelmed, but in the first weeks of April the number of residents dying in care homes was rising rapidly.\n\nEaster Sunday, 12 April 2020, saw the highest number of care home deaths during the pandemic in England and Wales, according to the Office for National Statistics:\n\nOn each of the 20 days from 5 April:\n\nPatients were being rapidly discharged from hospitals to care homes without being tested, agency staff could move between homes, there was little testing available and some care homes struggled to get sufficient medical support.\n\nDamian remembers that, initially, the guidance said PPE should be changed every time a staff member assisted a resident but \"within two weeks it changed so you could then help three individuals and then change your PPE. You were thinking it doesn't seem right and feel comfortable to be doing this.\"\n\nA government spokesperson told the BBC it had done \"everything possible\" to protect care homes.\n\nOn social media, care home owner Anita Astle described the situation as dire\n\nAnita Astle owns Wren Hall, and last spring she was desperate to alert people to what was happening.\n\nOn 31 March, on social media, she described the situation as dire.\n\nOn 12 April she tweeted: \"Feeling numb - lost nine family members (residents) in last few days.\"\n\nShe says the government guidance was atrocious and believes social care was overlooked at the start.\n\n\"We were clapping for the NHS, we were hearing 'protect our NHS', but there was nothing about social care. It's probably a sad state of affairs that I don't feel angry. I just feel that's the norm.\"\n\nThe same day Anita posted her tweet, Jean Adamson was trying to see her father through the window at his care home in London. He had Covid.\n\nShe describes Aldrick Adamson, who was part of the Windrush generation, as fiercely independent, a family man and a musician.\n\nThat day, on the other side of the glass, he was singing to himself, but Jean says he knew she was there.\n\nIt was the last time she saw him.\n\n\"He just went downhill so quickly,\" says Jean.\n\n\"I still need to know why my father died in a place where he was supposed to be safe from harm.\n\nJean Adamson is part of a group of families campaigning for a public inquiry.\n\n\"The government has a legal and moral responsibility to get to the truth, so that people who are bereaved like myself, get the answers and can grieve and get closure, and also, to save people's lives in the future.\"\n\nOn 15 April, the day Aldrick died and as the virus was at its peak in care homes, the government published its social care plan.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock told a Downing Street press conference: \"From the moment of the emergence of coronavirus, we've known that some of the most vulnerable to this disease are in social care, and we've been taking action right from the start.\"\n\nHe announced that patients being discharged from hospitals into care homes would all now be tested.\n\nTesting was also extended for care staff and symptomatic residents, more PPE was promised and he gave his backing to a \"badge of honour\" for care workers.\n\nBack at Wren Hall, when David Capewell remembers last April tears begin to roll down his cheeks.\n\nHis wife, Anthea, was one of the residents who contracted the virus.\n\nHe got a call from the home saying she might not last through the night: \"One of the nurses said 'you had better come in quick'. Anthea didn't look well at all. I spent most of the night with her.\"\n\nAnthea survived. With restrictions on visiting, David had been able to see very little of her, so he now volunteers as a gardener at the home.\n\nIt means when he has a break, he can sit on the other side of her window, allowing them to spend extra time together.\n\n\"It's such a relief, just to see her through the window,\" he says.\n\n\"This thing, I hope it goes away so quickly. And that we can all get back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nA government spokesperson responded: \"Every death from this virus is a human tragedy and our heartfelt sympathies go out to everyone who has lost a loved one.\n\n\"From the start of this global pandemic we have done everything possible to protect care homes, including placing residents and staff in the highest priority group for vaccinations.\n\n\"We have increased staff testing to identify new cases and protect residents, while providing almost £1.8bn in specific funding for adult social care and access to over £6bn for local authorities to address pressures on public services, including free PPE for adult social care.\n\n\"Our vaccination programme is the biggest in NHS history, and through the rollout we have visited every eligible care home in England, offering lifesaving vaccines to all residents and staff.\"", "The performance took place shortly after 05:00 BST\n\nA group of Morris dancers have changed their face paint from black to blue following concerns over racism.\n\nMembers of the Hook Eagle Morris Men showcased their new look at a performance near Hook, Hampshire, to mark the May Day dawn earlier.\n\nA statement was issued last year calling for dancing groups to eliminate the use of full-face black makeup.\n\nDancer John Ellis, 70, said it was \"by far and away the biggest change\" in the group's 30-year history.\n\nThe call to stop the use of black makeup on the face was issued by cross-county group the Joint Morris Organisations in June in response to the Black Lives matter movement.\n\nIn a statement, it said its traditions do not operate in a vacuum.\n\n\"While no morris dancer wants to cause offence, we must recognise that full-face black or other skin tone makeup is a practice that has the potential to cause deep hurt,\" it said.\n\nMr Ellis said other Morris troupes had adapted their face paints to different colours too, with some going green and a group in Kent opting for yellow and black stripes.\n\nThe Joint Morris Organisations issued a statement in June last year calling for dancing groups to eliminate the use of full-face black makeup\n\nThe group was happy to be back performing after a 16-month absence caused by the pandemic\n\nHe said the tradition of covering faces with soot derived from poor farm workers in the 1400s who would use it to disguise themselves so they could beg - which was illegal at the time.\n\nThat historical tradition \"died out\", he said, but was revived in the 1970s by Border Morris dancers - a dance type which originated in villages along the border of England and Wales.\n\n\"We adopted this idea because the dancing is really easy, good fun and we quite like the idea of dancing in disguise,\" Mr Ellis added.\n\nHe said there were only three people in the audience on Saturday morning, including a photographer and cafe owner, but felt this was \"pretty good\" given the performance took place shortly after 05:00 BST.\n\nMr Ellis said it was \"fantastic\" to be back performing after a 16-month absence caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Engineers are working around the clock to clear the giant fatberg, Severn Trent said\n\nA giant fatberg thought to weigh about 300 tonnes is clogging a sewer in Birmingham.\n\nThe mass of oil, grease and \"unflushable\" items such as nappies and wet wipes is blocking the system in Hodge Hill.\n\nSevern Trent said the fatberg was likely to be one of the biggest blockages it had dealt with.\n\nThe firm said it is estimated to be 1m (3ft) high and 1,000m (1,094yds) long and could take until June to clear.\n\n\"It is a massive project and it is not resolved yet,\" operations manager Scott Burgin said.\n\n\"This giant mass is the result of everyone occasionally washing and flushing the wrong things down the drains and not realising the impact that it is having.\"\n\nSevern Trent is using a pump to remove sewage\n\nSevern Trent has brought in pumping and piping equipment in to tackle the fatberg\n\nSevern Trent said it was alerted to the fatberg by sewer sensors and engineers were working around the clock to tackle it.\n\nThe mass is thought to weigh the equivalent of 250 family cars.\n\nSevern Trent workers have dug into the ground to access the sewer pipe which is 8m deep (26ft) and are using pumps to remove the sewage and clean the sewer.\n\nIn the last year, the firm said it has been called to thousands of blockages across the West Midlands with three-quarters caused by people \"misusing the sewer system\".\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.", "Not quite a butterfly: Colin the deep fried caterpillar cake\n\nBritain's most famous birthday cake has been given the full Scottish chippy treatment.\n\nThe concept of the deep fried chocolate bar was taken to a new level when a full Colin the Caterpillar cake was battered and dropped into the deep fat fryer in a Lanarkshire chip shop.\n\nThe deep-fried Colin stunned customers on Friday as he posed on the hot plate.\n\nThe culinary experiment follows a legal row between M&S and Aldi over use of the caterpillar cake idea.\n\nRicky Brandon, who owns Emanuel's chip shop in East Kilbride was asked to batter the cake by local food delivery app East Kilbride Eats after the cake hit the headlines.\n\nHe said he had fried a few Mars bars in his time, several creme eggs and the odd Twix. But never a caterpillar.\n\nThe process became heated when he realised he would need an extra-thick batter to hold the body together.\n\nColin emerged from the deep fat fryer not as a butterfly but as a crispy chocolate log.\n\nTrust the process: Colin the caterpillar gets battered\n\nMr Brandon told BBC Scotland: \"For my first attempt, I am not dissatisfied.\n\n\"The customers who came in and saw it were surprised, saying 'What is that?'.\"\n\nControversially, he said: \"I think Cuthbert might fry a little better.\"\n\nA row broke out last month when Marks & Spencer launched legal action against Aldi, arguing the supermarket's Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake infringed its Colin the Caterpillar trademark.\n\nM&S claimed that their similarity led consumers to believe they were of the same standard and that the Aldi cake \"rides on the coat-tails\" of M&S's reputation.\n\nIt lodged an intellectual property claim with the High Court.\n\nThe news prompted taste tests across the country, and social media was awash with \"free Cuthbert\" memes.\n\nA Twitter exchange between the two supermarket brands followed.\n\nAldi, who had stopped selling the cake in February, announced a limited edition version of Cuthbert to benefit the 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.\".", "Revellers at the Circus Nightclub at Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool Image caption: Revellers at the Circus Nightclub at Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool\n\nDJ Marea Stamper has described the \"incredible energy\" at a pilot event in a warehouse on Liverpool's waterfront which saw some 3,000 clubbers gathered together without masks or social distancing on Friday.\n\nThe event was part of the government's test programme to evaluate how to hold mass gatherings safely as the country unlocks.\n\n\"Of course the whole thing sort of operated silently as a science experiment - they were studying ventilation and crowd patterns - but every precaution was taken to make sure we were safe,\" said the DJ, whose professional name is The Blessed Madonna.\n\nShe told the BBC that those attending were \"incredibly emotional\".\n\n\"I think we felt excited but also proud to be a part of creating the protocols that would lead to the reopening of all kinds of things.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden has described the event as \"another huge moment in our journey back to normality\".\n\nThe MP said he had attended the Snooker World Championship at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre on Friday - where initial social distancing requirements are being \"gradually eased\" to allow 100% capacity at the finals on Sunday and Monday.\n\n\"I have seen first hand just how important these research events are,\" said Mr Dowden.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We are making good progress but we have been clear that decisions on reopening will be led by the data.", "More isolated homes have become popular\n\nEvidence of urban flight - with workers moving out of cities to towns and villages - is among the reasons for house price rises in rural areas, a think tank has said.\n\nProperty values in less densely-populated areas have risen almost twice as fast as in urban hubs, the Resolution Foundation has said.\n\nThe pandemic has prompted a search for space, both inside and outside homes.\n\nBut the think tank said many people were still living in overcrowded homes.\n\nVarious surveys have shown increases in demand for properties in areas such as Cornwall, and rises in prices as a result.\n\nHigh demand from buyers has led to accelerating price growth in general across the UK.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation said that since February 2020, prices had gone up by more than 10% in the least densely populated 10th of local authorities in the UK, compared to rises of 6% for the most populous deciles.\n\nIts housing outlook report also suggested smaller, more limited properties - such as flats - had become less attractive to buyers when compared to more spacious homes.\n\nTemporary stamp duty holidays had boosted the purchasing power of movers rather than first-time buyers, allowing them to look to buy larger properties.\n\nBut the think-tank, which focusses on people on lower incomes, said it was too early to tell whether these trends seen during the pandemic would continue in the long-term.\n\nIt warned that there were one-in-five children in low-income households who spent the first lockdown in an overcrowded home, and people of all age groups were more likely to live in overcrowded conditions now than they were 20 years ago.\n\nCara Pacitti, economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"For many families, escaping to the country is no more than a pipe dream, and the overcrowding that they have faced during the pandemic must be addressed.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has told MPs that the government's intervention in the housing market during the pandemic supported the wider UK economy.\n\nHe said the extension to the stamp duty holiday announced in the Budget was \"to smooth the transition back to normal\".", "Approaching two million people have been told to self-isolate by the app\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app has told 1.7 million people in England and Wales to self-isolate to date.\n\nHealth ministers have also revealed they believe it has prevented about 600,000 cases of the disease.\n\nIn a further disclosure, internal data indicates that about 16.5 million people are currently actively using its contact-tracing tool.\n\nThat figure is 24% below the app's latest download tally, which is the government's preferred measure.\n\nThe discrepancy is likely to be down to people uninstalling the app, turning off its contact-tracing capabilities, or simply failing to have activated it in the first place.\n\nEach handset actively taking part sends a digital \"heartbeat\" once a day to the Amazon computer server involved, allowing the current usage figure to be calculated.\n\nAnd while the number of total downloads has slowly grown from 20.2 million to 21.7 million over the past two months, the number of phones pinging the server has been more or less flat.\n\nThis represents the first detailed data released about the app's use since it was made widely available to people in England and Wales in September.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland, Jersey and Gibraltar have their own separate apps.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding, executive chair of the NHS Test and Trace programme, had been under pressure to release the figures for months, and the BBC unsuccessfully attempted to obtain some of the figures via a Freedom of Information request in November.\n\nThe app could reduce the number of infections once lockdowns end and people spend more time outside their homes\n\nThe intention in releasing the data now is to reassure the public that the app can save lives, and in doing so encourage more people to both install it and follow its advice ahead of lockdowns being eased.\n\n\"People who are not following the app's instructions are risking themselves and their colleagues and their families,\" Baroness Harding told the BBC.\n\n\"The more you follow the instructions of the app, the fewer outbreaks you'll have in your workplace and the safer it will be.\"\n\nA spokeswoman added that these instructions include circumstances in which it is recommended to pause the contact-tracing function.\n\nThe app uses Bluetooth logs to retrospectively warn users if they were at high risk of contagion from someone infected with the virus, who was recently in their vicinity.\n\nAlerts can be served within 15 minutes of an infected person approving use of their positive test result. But the system's decentralised nature means neither the person who triggered the warning, nor the authorities, can identify who receives the notifications.\n\nSome anonymised data is, however, collected.\n\nFor the first time, it has been revealed that:\n\nRestaurants are among venues each to have been given a unique QR barcode\n\nScientists from The Alan Turing Institute and Oxford University worked to provide further analysis of the app's impact\n\nThey estimate that 594,000 cases have been averted because of the technology.\n\nAnd they forecast that for every additional 1% of the population that uses the app, the number of Covid cases should fall by 2.3%.\n\nThe academics have benefited from the fact that the app was retooled in October to take account of the tier system introduced at the time in England, which operated on a local authority basis.\n\nThis allowed anonymised usage data to be compared between two neighbouring council areas where the spread of the pandemic was similar, but uptake of the app differed.\n\nThe researchers took account of other factors - including poverty levels - to calculate the degree to which suppression of the virus's spread could be linked to the app.\n\nHowever, they acknowledge that they cannot be certain that usage of the app caused all of the effects being attributed to it. And while they are publishing their work, it has yet to be peer-reviewed.\n\nEven so, the firm involved in developing the app said confidence was growing that it is indeed making a difference.\n\n\"The data suggests that we have made a dent in the overall infection rate,\" Wolfgang Emmerich, chief executive of Zuhlke UK, told the BBC.\n\n\"What we really have to do now, particularly as we're preparing to come out of lockdown, is to drive that adoption rate back up and to get people to switch [the app] back on again.\"\n\nMr Emmerich also revealed that his team had put plans to extend the app to older iPhone models on the back burner, in order to prioritise other new features, but declined to say what they are.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSoon after the NHS Covid-19 app was launched last September, we learned one important piece of data - that over 20 million people had downloaded it.\n\nThat was a pretty good result compared with take-up of similar apps elsewhere, but what we didn't know until now was something far more important - did it work?\n\nNow these figures do appear to show that plenty of people have been pinged by the app and sent into isolation.\n\nMore impressively, research appears to show that in areas where take-up of the app was high, the infection spread more slowly than in places where it was lower.\n\nBut other scientists will want to drill down for themselves into whether other factors were at play in the link between high take-up and low infection rates.\n\nPlus the private nature of the app means there are some key questions that can't be answered:\n\nStill, using a Bluetooth app to trace people who might be infected with Covid-19 was always an experiment with an untested technology.\n\nAnd the scientists who have been working on this project for many months now feel they've proved that it has made a significant contribution to the fight against the virus.", "Clarke is known for shows including Doctor Who, Bulletproof and Viewpoint\n\nPolice have confirmed they have received a third party report relating to allegations of sexual offences by a man, following recent claims against actor Noel Clarke.\n\nThe Met Police said they had received a report on 21 April and officers were assessing the information but there was currently no investigation.\n\nIt comes after 20 women accused Clarke of sexual harassment and bullying.\n\nHe has \"vehemently\" denied any sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing.\n\nThe Met Police said in a statement: \"On Wednesday, 21 April, police received a third party report relating to allegations of sexual offences allegedly committed by a male over a period of time.\"\n\nA third party report is anonymous so the allegation cannot be investigated by the police. However, it can be used as intelligence, for example to see if it matches with other reports against the same person.\n\nThe BBC does not know who made the report to the police.\n\nMeanwhile, the Guardian, which first reported allegations against Clarke on Thursday, said six more people had now come forward with claims of misconduct, including former students at the London School of Dramatic Art (LSDA).\n\nIn a statement, Jake Taylor, principal and founder of the school, said Clarke, ran an \"unsanctioned\" practical acting workshop where he \"set up improvisation exercises in which the students were told they had to get undressed and get ready for bed\".\n\nIn response the school stopped Clarke taking unsupervised sessions \"with immediate effect\", he said.\n\nMr Taylor said Clarke had not been active at LSDA since 2015 and their professional relationship had ended.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Taylor said the school had been provided with further details about what happened at the session, as well as another session \"previously unknown to us\".\n\n\"Had we known about these details at the time we would have ended the professional relationship between Noel and our school with immediate effect,\" he added.\n\nIn response to the allegations, Clarke's lawyers denied that the LSDA had ever asked him to stop giving his classes, and said the workshop, called Facing Your Fears, was intended to help students with anxieties over their acting roles, helping to \"normalise\" the removal of outer clothing in a safe environment.\n\nHis lawyers told the Guardian Clarke categorically denied he encouraged or forced anyone to be naked as part of the workshop, which they said was open to and attended by both male and female adult students.\n\nClarke made it clear it was not obligatory to participate, they added.\n\nClarke's police drama Viewpoint did not air on Friday night as a result of the allegations against him\n\nOn Thursday the Guardian reported allegations of harassment and bullying from women who knew Clarke in a professional capacity.\n\nThe following day, before the LSDA allegations were published, Clarke said he was \"deeply sorry\" for some of his actions and would seek professional help.\n\nHowever, he \"vehemently\" denied any sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing.\n\n\"Recent reports however have made it clear to me that some of my actions have affected people in ways I did not intend or realise,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"To those individuals, I am deeply sorry. I will be seeking professional help to educate myself and change for the better.\"\n\nITV decided not to broadcast Friday's final episode of police drama Viewpoint, in which he stars, as a result of the allegations.\n\nSky has also \"halted\" its work with Clarke, including on the fourth series of crime drama Bulletproof.\n\nAnd he has been suspended by Bafta, almost three weeks after the British film and television academy gave him an award for his outstanding contribution.\n\nClarke won his first Bafta for Rising Star in 2009\n\nBafta has been criticised by some for honouring Clarke on 10 April. It had received reports of allegations against the actor in the 12 days between announcing him as the award recipient and the ceremony itself.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, Bafta's chairman Krishnendu Majumdar said he had heard that as many as 12 women could be making allegations.\n\nIn a letter to members in which it defended its response, Bafta said the emails it received \"were either anonymous or second or third-hand accounts via intermediaries\".\n\n\"No names, times, dates, productions or other details were ever provided,\" it said.\n\n\"Had the victims gone on record as they have with the Guardian, the award would have been suspended immediately.\"\n\nClarke, 45, is known for playing Mickey Smith in Doctor Who from 2005-10, and for his film trilogy Kidulthood, Adulthood and Brotherhood. He is also a writer, director and producer.", "Jobs, independence and debt are part of the campaigns in the final weekend of the campaign\n\nPlans for Wales' post-Covid economic recovery are being outlined by political parties on the last weekend of the Senedd election campaign.\n\nBoth the Welsh Conservatives and Welsh Labour said their focus was on creating jobs.\n\nPlaid Cymru said an independent Wales could \"realise its full potential,\" while the Welsh Liberal Democrats focused on council tax arrears.\n\nThe Welsh Parliament elections take place on Thursday 6 May.\n\nSIGN UP FOR WALES ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\nLaura Anne Jones said a government led by the Welsh Conservatives would bring fresh ideas\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives are pledging to create 65,000 new jobs if they get into power.\n\nThe party's regional candidate for South Wales East, Laura Anne Jones, said: \"Our absolute priority has to be economic recovery in Wales.\n\n\"It has to be at the forefront of everything that we're doing now - we need to invest in people, we need to invest in jobs, and we need to make sure that everyone has the support they need to really get things going again, get things moving.\"\n\nSpeaking while canvassing in Newport, she added: \"We've had 22 years now of abject failure from the Labour government, our country was in a bad shape before the pandemic… we need fresh ideas, we need a new beginning for the whole of Wales.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru says independence is the only way for Wales to \"realise its full potential\".\n\nLeader Adam Price, said \"only a credible threat of independence gives Wales leverage in London\".\n\n\"A Plaid Cymru government will mean a stronger Wales - feared and respected by Westminster not neglected and ignored. This will mean more investment and more powers.\"\n\nMr Price added: \"Scotland's experience has taught us that the prospect of independence forces Westminster to listen.\n\n\"Only by electing a Plaid Cymru government on 6 May will Wales' hand be strengthened in challenging the Tory UK government.\"\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\nCarolyn Harris, Welsh Labour's deputy leader, said the party's recovery plan included a work, education or training place to be offered to all under-25s and \"a real living wage for social care workers\".\n\nShe said: \"I'll be out across Wales every day between now and May 6th banging the drum for our Welsh Labour government.\n\n\"With every poll showing the danger that the Tories pose at this election, our message is crystal clear - if you value the things that Welsh Labour have done for you, your family and your community, you need to get out and vote for them.\"\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 Welsh Liberal Democrats want to set up a £200,000 fund to help \"the most vulnerable\" who are struggling to pay debts like council tax arrears.\n\nLeader Jane Dodds said: \"The debt bonfire would help so many residents in Wales who need support at the fraction of a cost.\n\n\"As we come out of the worst of the coronavirus pandemic one thing is clear, the pandemic exposed rife inequalities in our society.\n\n\"We know our country is disproportionately affected by debt compared to the rest of the UK, that's why we'd use this funding to free people from the economic insecurity.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV captured the moment a vandal took a chainsaw to the platform\n\nA platform with an osprey nest on top has been cut down with a chainsaw.\n\nThe protected bird of prey laid its first egg a day before the nest was felled at Llyn Brenig, which borders Conwy and Denbighshire, police said.\n\nIt has been branded a \"horrific act of vandalism\" by the Brenig Osprey Project in a Facebook post.\n\nNorth Wales Police Rural Crime Team said it suspected the culprits \"possibly arrived by boat to chainsaw the platform\" on the lake.\n\n\"Wildlife crimes always have a motive and we believe the person who did this had a strong motive to rid the area of ospreys and particularly the lake,\" it tweeted.\n\nThe nesting platform was found in the lake on Saturday morning\n\nThe birds and their eggs are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act which makes it an offence to interfere with them or their nest.\n\nAccording to the RSPB, the female lays two or three eggs between one and three daily intervals in the second half of April, and incubates them for 37 days per egg.\n\nBrenig Osprey Project is a partnership with Welsh Water and North Wales Wildlife Trust.\n\nThe osprey breeding support project began in 2013 at Llyn Brenig\n\nThe trust said: \"Brenig Osprey Project partners woke up this morning to the worst possible news. Last night, at 21:42, someone took a chainsaw to the osprey nest and felled it.\n\n\"This is a fast-moving situation and we'll issue more news of the birds when we can.\"\n\nA pair of birds had been nesting on the platform\n\nWelsh Water said the situation was \"heartbreaking\" and it was working with the police to help find those responsible.\n\nIn a tweet, BBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams called the incident \"unbelievable\" and labelled those involved \"morons\".\n\nHe told BBC Wales it was a \"disaster\" because there were only five breeding pairs in Wales.\n\nHowever, he said it was hoped the breeding pair may lay more eggs at another nest platform.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US space agency has announced it is extending its Mars helicopter mission.\n\nNasa said the first three flights of the drone, called Ingenuity, had worked so well it would now be moving from a demonstration to an operational phase.\n\nThis means the chopper will support Nasa’s Perseverance Rover, helping with its hunt for signs of life.\n\nThe new phase will last for another 30 Martian days - or Sols - but the team said it was hopeful the operational role could be extended further.\n\n“The technical performance has been fantastic and it is exceeding all our expectations,” said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity’s project manager.\n\n“I can't tell you how excited we are about this new phase.”\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Perseverance made this video of Ingenuity's third flight\n\nIngenuity’s flight on 19 April made history as the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.\n\nThe 1.8kg chopper lifted off in the extremely thin Martian atmosphere and hovered at a height of 2m for about 40 seconds before landing.\n\nFor its second and third flights, it flew further afield, rising to a height of 5m before speeding off laterally for 2m and 50m before returning to its landing spot.\n\nNasa’s original plan was to then carry out two more flights, before grounding Ingenuity to bring the technology demonstration to a close.\n\nBut Friday's announcement is a change of course. The US space agency said it was so pleased with the helicopter’s performance, it wanted to explore Ingenuity's capabilities in a new way.\n\nBob Balaram, Ingenuity’s chief engineer, said: “It's been riding the winds, it's been taking off great, all the engineering systems, the solar panel, the battery, the radio have all been working very well - everything has just been fantastic.\"\n\nNow, Ingenuity will be helping out with the rover's science programme.\n\nIt will work with the Perseverance robot as it starts to investigate Jezero Crater, a region of Mars that was once a lake.\n\nThe rover will be looking for rock samples that it can study with its onboard instruments and tools. Its ultimate aim is to find signs of life.\n\nIn the helicopter's new operational phase, it will fly up to a kilometre ahead of the rover, scouting for promising geological features and exploring areas that Perseverance cannot reach.\n\nIt will also make digital elevation maps, helping scientists to better understand the terrain.\n\nThe hope is this will demonstrate how aerial mobility could help future missions.\n\nThe helicopter's fourth flight, which took place on Friday, begins the transition to the operational phase.\n\nThe plan was a 266m-round trip and for the helicopter to take 60 black-and-white images and five colour images, and Nasa has confirmed the helicopter flew further and faster than ever before.\n\nThis data will help the team to locate a new flight field, and on its next flight, in about a week's time, the helicopter will head there so the next stage of its mission can begin.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA JPL This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNasa is hopeful the helicopter will perform well, but acknowledges the next phase will push the helicopter to its limits - it was only ever built to fly as a tech demo.\n\n\"We will now be flying over unsurveyed terrains and transfer to airfields that are not well characterised so there's a higher probability of a bad landing,\" explained MiMi Aung.\n\n\"We will be celebrating each day that ingenuity survives and operates beyond the original window.\"", "In what's meant to be a grown-up Western democracy surely we'd all like to think so. It doesn't pay to be naïve. Politicians, even really honest ones, regularly say things they don't quite believe.\n\nThe public knows this. We don't expect our politicians to be angels. But outright lying, in my experience, is relatively rare. It is too easily found out.\n\nOnly one senior politician still in the game has ever privately told me something that was utterly, entirely, and completely untrue. It was proved publicly to be a lie a few days later.\n\nIt's also rare for opposition parties to accuse a prime minister, on the record, of lying.\n\nWhich brings us to Boris Johnson.\n\nThe prime minister's relationship with the truth is under intense scrutiny at the moment. He is refusing to give full explanations on some issues. There are questions about how the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was initially funded, and about incendiary comments he made last autumn as England was about to enter a second lockdown.\n\nDowning Street is repeatedly denying that he has done anything wrong.\n\nIt is not the first time in Boris Johnson's long career that he has faced questions about his conduct and character. But the stakes are so much higher now. His unique way of running things - and sometimes chaotic approach to decision-making - has, sources tell me, led exasperated colleagues in No 10 to nickname him \"Trolley\".\n\n\"You think you are pushing it along a path towards your goal then suddenly it veers off disastrously,\" says one insider.\n\nIf anyone wanted to submit accurate Freedom of Information requests on government WhatsApp messages, \"you'd have to include the trolley emoji\", adds my source. No 10 declined to comment on the name.\n\nIt was Mr Johnson himself who may have coined the analogy, telling friends he was \"veering all over the place like a shopping trolley,\" over whether to back Leave or Remain, ahead of the Brexit referendum, according to the Sunday Times. He famously wrote two versions of his newspaper column, one backing Leave, the other Remain, arguing through all the options to be completely sure.\n\nSome of his allies cite this desire to argue things backwards and forwards before reaching a decision as a strength, saying: \"He challenges organisations and conventional wisdom.\"\n\nOthers have a more straightforward explanation.\n\n\"He is just sometimes unable to face the truth because he doesn't like making hard decisions,\" says one insider. Another says: \"You are never sure what the real truth of a situation is.\" Others say it is hard to get clarity and a sense of purpose, or that it is \"hard to work out where his motives begin and end\".\n\nSo what does this tell us about the prime minister's relationship with the truth?\n\nFirst, the benign interpretation of how the PM operates. One insider who knows him well says it is simply \"unfair and easy to cry 'liar', as the opposition has done\".\n\n\"He's far more complex and strategic and people don't give him credit for how calculating and clever he is.\"\n\nAnother source told me Mr Johnson has a \"genuinely selective memory\" and that \"'I choose to remember certain things or not remember others'\" is his default way of dealing with the pressures of life at No 10.\n\nFor years, it's been the case that when things get sticky, particularly with Boris Johnson's personal life or financial affairs, he refuses to engage in those conversations at all, even in private with his close aides. The message to staffers is, effectively: \"Don't ask, because I won't tell.\"\n\nOne source told me that is why, right now, life in No 10 is bound to be tense and difficult.\n\n\"Part of the problem is that these two things, his personal relationships and his financial situation are colliding. He'll be finding it very difficult, and people trying to advise him will also find that hard.\"\n\nBut is he not telling the truth?\n\nThis particular source believes that the PM may try to evade questions about matters of the home and heart, but not on political issues.\n\n\"To a degree every politician has to go out and say things they don't always agree with. He is a professional and he does that.\"\n\nThere's another layer when it comes to Mr Johnson though. And discussing his habits with many of those who have worked alongside him, his former life as a journalist is often mentioned.\n\nEven his worst enemy would acknowledge that he is a skilled wordsmith, and he regularly uses his vast range of sometimes nonsensical vocabulary to deflect, to entertain, or even ridicule. It's certainly not unusual for politicians to try to avoid answering questions that would cast them or their parties in a less than flattering light.\n\nOne of the PM's strategies, however, seems to be to bamboozle the listener with a blizzard of verbiage, suggesting agreement, but not committing to anything. Former colleagues suggest that by the time they have decoded what he actually meant, the conversation's over.\n\nAn insider told me: \"He frequently leaves people with the belief that he has told them one thing, but he has given himself room for manoeuvre,\" believing that, \"the fewer cast iron positions you hold the better, because you can always change political direction.\"\n\nThe verbal flourishes and rhetorical tricks are part of the reason why he has prospered.\n\n\"A lot of his magic has been those off-the-cuff comments, that's why a lot of the public like him,\" says an ally.\n\nHe was like an \"untamed political animal\" when he first developed his political style says another, playing with phrases as he would in his byzantine and flamboyant newspaper columns, teasing with words, presenting a character like no other politician.\n\nBut another told me it has developed into a way of shrouding what's really going on.\n\n\"I think he is an extremely shrewd and calculating character that hides it all under the costume of a performer,\" says this source.\n\nOne Brexiteer even suggests his mannerisms encourage others to be complicit: \"It's like a comedian, you are willing him on, you want it to be plausible\" - even if, according to them, it simply isn't.\n\nThat's where his personal style, according to others, tips into something much less appealing. A former minister, once close to him, told me: \"The problem is that it's becoming clearer that the PM treats facts like he treats all his relationships - utterly disposable once inconvenient.\n\n\"It's all about power. Facts, policies, people - they all get ditched if they get in the way. Whatever is necessary.\"\n\nYet what's suggested time and again is that the prime minister's attitude to the truth and facts is not based on what is real and what is not, but is driven by what he wants to achieve in that moment - what he desires, rather than what he believes. And there is no question, that approach, coupled with an intense force of personality can be enormously effective.\n\nIn his political career, Boris Johnson has time and again overturned the odds, and that's a huge part of the reason why.\n\nOne former colleague compares him to the late Steve Jobs, the hard-driving founder of tech giant Apple. Jobs was said to have a \"reality distortion field\", described by his biographer as a \"confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand\".\n\nIn other words, ordering the truth to suit his ambitions, refusing to take no for an answer, relishing proving that the impossible could be done.\n\nMr Johnson's former colleague told me: \"Is there wilful lying? I would struggle to point to a direct example. Does he recreate the truth to suit him? Yes.\"\n\nThis source, and several others, told me the prime minister has a \"deep dislike of being accused of lying\". Several sources have even suggested that during the 2016 Brexit campaign he was nervous about the now infamous promise, plastered on the side of his battle bus, to spend the £350m a week the UK sends to the EU \"to fund the NHS instead\".\n\nMr Johnson was nervous about the claim plastered across the Vote Leave battle bus, several sources say\n\nMr Johnson was conscious that every time he used this claim, it could be challenged by the fact that the £350m did not take into account the budget rebate the UK got from the EU.\n\nMr Johnson was all about \"images, emotions, he didn't want to be pinned down to a number\", says my source.\n\nHe was also understood to be unhappy about the campaign's claims about Turkey's proposed entry to the EU, and the potential impact on immigration. If you're reading this, you probably don't need a reminder of how controversial those claims were at the time. Just in case, you can read about them here and here.\n\nBut private doubts about whether the claims were convincing did not stop Mr Johnson from becoming the biggest cheerleader for leaving the EU. The rest, of course, is history.\n\nSome of those with him on the Brexit journey don't think that he was ever a true believer.\n\nA veteran Brexiteer told me: \"Boris is not one of us, but we put him there - and that is a truth he is never going to want to confront.\"\n\nForgetting the recent history, does any of this actually matter politically now? Voters don't generally consider politicians to be particularly trustworthy.\n\nBoris Johnson's reputation and popularity is certainly not based on a view that he tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but. He has what pollsters call \"authenticity\" - what you see is what you get. He's not super smooth and he doesn't pretend to be perfect.\n\nThe current allegations about his conduct, which he characteristically describes as a \"farrago of nonsense\" do not seem to be shifting public opinion much, if at all.\n\nBut just because the Conservatives can shout loudly that no one cares about this stuff, that doesn't mean that the prime minister's complicated relationship with truth can be easily dismissed. Most straightforwardly, there are several investigations now into exactly what has happened with the Downing Street flat that could trip up him and the Conservative Party.\n\nSources who told the BBC and other news organisations that Mr Johnson did say he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" than take the country into a third lockdown have said they would be prepared to testify under oath if they have to.\n\nDepending how and when those two issues unwind, there could be big trouble for Downing Street.\n\nPolitics is an extremely tough business, as Mr Johnson has been discovering of late. Huge parliamentary majorities do not protect you from personal criticism. And many of the government's current woes can, arguably, be traced back to the PM's relationship with the truth.\n\nI've been told on more occasions than I can count that Boris Johnson trusts hardly anyone, and suspects almost everyone. As one source describes it, he \"behaves in such a way that people eventually tire of him, feel let down, and behave in the way he feared they would\". The breakdown in his relationship with his former adviser Dominic Cummings is spectacular evidence of that.\n\nBut people who work alongside Mr Johnson are often kept guessing, unsure of what he really thinks.\n\nIt leaves him all powerful. His whim rules.\n\nBut it also can make it harder to achieve what he says he wants - the priorities he was elected to deliver.\n\nYet popularity matters in politics too. Despite the horrors of coronavirus, hard realities have never been part of the PM's desired script. To use one of his tactics, quoting the classics, the Greek philosopher Plato said: \"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.\"\n\nBut as one of the few people who genuinely knows Boris Johnson once told me, he is a politician who above all, wants to be loved.", "A photograph of a smiling Princess Charlotte has been released to mark her sixth birthday on Sunday.\n\nThe picture was taken by her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, this weekend in Norfolk.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nCatherine and William marked their 10th wedding anniversary on Thursday by releasing a video of Charlotte with her brothers George, seven and Louis, three.\n\nIt showed the family at a beach and toasting marshmallows near their Norfolk residence, Anmer Hall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge released a video to mark their 10th wedding anniversary\n\nIn the new photo, Charlotte is pictured outdoors wearing a dark blue short-sleeved dress with a floral design.\n\nFor her last birthday, her parents released a picture of Charlotte volunteering with the rest of the family by helping to load a van with food and delivering meals to those in need in Norfolk.\n\nShe was born at the private maternity Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, central London, at 08:34 BST on 2 May 2015, weighing 8lb 3oz.\n\nHer mother, Catherine, is a keen amateur photographer and patron of the Royal Photographic Society. Her pictures have regularly been released to mark her children's birthdays.\n\nIn another photo taken by the Duchess of Cambridge, released earlier this year, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are pictured with their great-grandchildren, including Charlotte", "Dirty Vegan star Matt Pritchard has been rowing the Atlantic as part of a four-man crew\n\nWhile most of us have spent months locked down, Dirty Vegan Matt Pritchard has completed a row of the Atlantic.\n\nThe BBC TV chef was in a team of four crossing the ocean to raise awareness about mental health - and they reached the finish line in Antigua on Sunday.\n\nInitially setting off on the 3,200 mile trip from Lanzarote on 6 March, they had to restart from Fuerteventura a week later.\n\nThey could undertake the voyage as Covid rules allow charity events.\n\nAfter they completed the journey, Matt posted on his Instagram account: \"I'm thirsty, hungry, tired and adopted bingo wings on my arms and calf's [sic].\n\n\"Walking on land is very weird, it doesn't move. I'll be a cheap date tonight, one whiff of champagne and I'll be on my back mun.\"\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 pritchardswyd This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe trip, named Atlantic Dash, was initially halted because of seat problems, before their craft was holed during a tow to Fuerteventura.\n\nAfter Matt and crewmates Billy Taylor, Johnny Ward and Martin Heseltine had repaired the vessel they set off again.\n\nMatt earlier said progress in the trip had been \"absolutely fantastic\" and had also been \"nice to be at sea during all the craziness\" of Covid.\n\nThe sailors have enjoyed seeing dolphins, turtles and marlins and, for three weeks, they did not see another boat.\n\nBut disaster struck for Matt, who celebrated his birthday at sea, as the end of the trip neared.\n\nThe ex-pro skateboarder, from Cardiff, injured his back while rowing.\n\nThe 48-year-old said: \"I pulled my right lateral muscle rowing and, as you do, I just ignored it.\n\n\"Because at the end of the day you have no other option other than to keep rowing and get on with it.\"\n\nThe men last saw land when the left Fuerteventura in March\n\nBut after two days the pain got much worse.\n\n\"All of a sudden something went, and I was in absolute agony, and there was nothing else I could do,\" the former Dirty Sanchez star said.\n\n\"Billy said: 'You're going to have to get into the forecabin'.\"\n\nGetting in the forecabin - at the front of a boat - was also \"absolute agony.\"\n\nAfter speaking to a doctor he was advised to take painkillers they had with them.\n\n\"I've sat here, and there's loads of stuff going through my mind.\n\n\"I just feel helpless being here listening to the boys rowing.\n\n\"I want to be out there rowing with them, but I can't because I don't want to do any more damage to my lateral muscle.\"\n\nHe had hoped to be back as an oarsman within a day or two but he is still not in the best shape.\n\nAs they neared their destination of Antigua, Matt injured a muscle in his back\n\n\"I've not come all this way to lay on my arse,\" he said.\n\n\"But at the same time I have got to be sensible, because I do not want to do longer lasting damage to myself.\"\n\nBy Friday, Matt was still not rowing but was making food and doing other duties.\n\nBilly said it was \"so nice\" to see him on the mend.\n\nHe was laid up for a number of days but is now on the mend\n\n\"Matt's been up and about,\" he said.\n\n\"He's been cooking for everyone and making sure everyone has water.\n\nThe four are aiming to raise £20,000 to be split between Dean Farm Trust and men's mental health charity Humen.", "Care home residents will be able to leave their home for low-risk trips without having to self-isolate for 14 days afterwards, the government says.\n\nThe rules will be relaxed in England from Tuesday, allowing for walks or garden visits without self-isolation.\n\nThe government says a fall in Covid cases means it is \"much safer\" for care home residents to go outside.\n\nThe charity John's Campaign says it is a \"chink of light\" for residents and their families.\n\nBut co-founder Julia Jones said she wanted to see the full guidance before making a decision about the charity's threat of legal action against the government's 14-day self-isolation requirement.\n\n\"I still struggle to see what legal right the government thinks it has for preventing people with full mental capacity walking out of their homes the same as any other member of the population,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThere are different rules in the UK's devolved nations, with residents in Wales able to leave homes - where there is no Covid outbreak - without isolating on their return.\n\nScotland's guidance for care homes allows for residents to see loved ones outside of the care home, while rules for care homes in Northern Ireland vary by region.\n\nUnder the changes in England, residents on trips out must be accompanied by either a member of staff or one of their two nominated visitors and they must follow social distancing throughout.\n\nThey cannot meet in groups or go indoors, except for the use of toilets, and public transport should be avoided where possible.\n\nAn exemption is in place for those who wish to vote in person in the local elections on 6 May, the government says.\n\nOnly trips deemed \"low risk\" are exempt from the self-isolation rule, so this does not include activities such as overnight visits.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said updated guidance would be published in due course.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"pleased\" residents can \"now leave their homes to reunite with their loved ones outdoors\".\n\n\"With the data continuing to head in the right direction and as restrictions ease, it is my priority to keep increasing visits for residents in the coming weeks in a safe and controlled way,\" he said.\n\nFourteen days is a long time to be stuck in your room because you have ventured out with a relative for a walk or a visit to a park.\n\nGuidance put in place to protect people from a virus which has claimed so many lives in care homes has more recently become a source of great anguish for many residents and families.\n\nAs life has begun to open up for others, younger people with disabilities, as well as older residents, have felt unable to leave their care home, trapped by the requirement to self-isolate on return.\n\nGovernment guidance is there to balance the risks faced by an extremely vulnerable group of people, but with most residents vaccinated and infection rates falling, families complain that the guidance is too slow to change.\n\nThey argue that with each month of restrictions, the damage to the people they love deepens.\n\nCare Minister Helen Whately said: \"I know residents and their families have found the restrictions on trips out of care homes incredibly difficult.\n\n\"This is one more step towards getting back to normal, while protecting care homes from the continued risk of Covid-19.\"\n\nThe government is expected to review the self-isolation requirement for more visits when it reaches the next stage of the government's road map for easing restrictions on 17 May.\n\nMs Jones from John's Campaign said it seemed \"massively inadequate\" to retain any restrictions on leaving care homes. Keeping residents \"under surveillance\" had a \"terrible impact\", particularly on younger people living in care homes, she said.\n\nShe said: \"It's not just about going for a walk in the park, it's about meaningful contact and inclusion in society and everyday life.\n\n\"It's about equal access to healthcare, it's about equal access to the outside world. It's about being treated as a person in a home not some sort of second-class citizen with no rights or choices.\"\n\nCampaigners say the rule encourages care homes to act unlawfully by \"falsely imprisoning\" residents, with family members calling it \"barbaric\".\n\nLeigh Day partner Tessa Gregory, who is representing John's Campaign, said: \"It appears under the threat of legal proceedings, which the John's Campaign were due to issue next week, the government has finally agreed to drop the blanket requirement that care home residents self-isolate for 14 days following any visit out.\n\n\"This will be a huge relief to residents, families and care homes who have all been crying out for change.\"\n\nShe added they would be \"scrutinising\" the new guidance once it is published \"to ensure that it is lawful and fit for purpose\".\n\nThe Independent Care Group also welcomed the move, saying a lack of social contact and visits has been detrimental to the health of residents.\n\nMike Padgham, the group's chair, told BBC Radio York the decision could have come earlier, adding that residents' human rights had been breached \"to an extent\" by the rules.\n\n\"Who are we to say that just because people live in a care home that you can't do this, you can't do that? Everyone in this country deserves freedom and when people see the rest of the country being unlocked it seems very unfair on these clients,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Nadra Ahmed, executive chairman of the National Care Association said that while it was a \"cautious step forward\", care homes still had to deal with insurance policies that do not cover them if residents catch Covid.\n\n\"One claim would be it for us,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, urging the government to underwrite the risk of care home residents going out and mixing with the general population.\n\nCare home residents in England have been allowed one regular visitor since 8 March, in the first easing of lockdown.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I feel comfortable in my body for the first time.\"\n\nElliot Page says having transition surgery has been a \"life-saving\" experience.\n\nThe Oscar-nominated star of Juno has opened up about coming out as a trans man in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.\n\nHe told Winfrey it was \"crucial and important\" to announce his transition at a time when the trans community is facing a \"horrible backlash\".\n\nIt was his first TV interview since he announced his transition in an open letter on social media in December.\n\nThe Canadian-born actor, 34, said having top surgery had allowed him to \"feel comfortable in my body for probably the first time\".\n\nTop surgery involves the removal of the breast tissue to create a masculine chest.\n\nPage said the surgery had given him a new energy, \"because it is such a freeing, freeing experience\".\n\n\"Not only has it been life-changing for me, I do believe it's been life-saving and it's the case for so many people. And because there is such an attack on trans healthcare right now, when already there's such lack of access.\"\n\nThe actor was referring to a swathe of laws in states across the US outlawing young transgender people from accessing certain medical treatments.\n\nPage told Oprah Winfrey transitioning allowed him to \"feel comfortable in my body for probably the first time\"\n\nThe interview, which will be released on Apple TV+ on Friday, was Page's first since he came out as transgender in December, an announcement that was hailed by Hollywood's transgender community as \"inspiring\".\n\nThe actor said making the announcement had been \"crucial and important\".\n\n\"In this time we're in right now and especially with this horrible backlash we're seeing towards trans people, particularly trans youth, it really felt imperative,\" he said.\n\nDuring the interview, Page became tearful when asked what had brought him the \"most joy\" in transitioning.\n\nPage said it was the \"little things\", such as being able to wear a T-shirt.\n\n\"It's getting out of the shower and the towel's around your waist and you're looking at yourself the mirror and you're just like, 'There I am'. And I'm not having the moment where I'm panicked,\" he said.\n\nPage received international acclaim for starring as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film Juno.\n\nOther major films include Inception and the X-Men series, while the actor has more recently starred in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.\n\nPage came out as gay in 2014, telling an audience in Las Vegas: \"I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission.\"\n\nThe actor, who was married to choreographer Emma Portner, before announcing their divorce in February, has been a prominent advocate for LGBT rights.\n\nPage also used the interview to criticise moves by some US states banning transgender athletes from competing in girls sports teams.\n\n\"If you're not gonna allow trans kids to play sports, children will die,\" Page said. \"And it really is that simple.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by issues raised in this story, sources of support are available at the BBC Action Line.", "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”.", "In what's meant to be a grown-up Western democracy surely we'd all like to think so. It doesn't pay to be naïve. Politicians, even really honest ones, regularly say things they don't quite believe.\n\nThe public knows this. We don't expect our politicians to be angels. But outright lying, in my experience, is relatively rare. It is too easily found out.\n\nOnly one senior politician still in the game has ever privately told me something that was utterly, entirely, and completely untrue. It was proved publicly to be a lie a few days later.\n\nIt's also rare for opposition parties to accuse a prime minister, on the record, of lying.\n\nWhich brings us to Boris Johnson.\n\nThe prime minister's relationship with the truth is under intense scrutiny at the moment. He is refusing to give full explanations on some issues. There are questions about how the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was initially funded, and about incendiary comments he made last autumn as England was about to enter a second lockdown.\n\nDowning Street is repeatedly denying that he has done anything wrong.\n\nIt is not the first time in Boris Johnson's long career that he has faced questions about his conduct and character. But the stakes are so much higher now. His unique way of running things - and sometimes chaotic approach to decision-making - has, sources tell me, led exasperated colleagues in No 10 to nickname him \"Trolley\".\n\n\"You think you are pushing it along a path towards your goal then suddenly it veers off disastrously,\" says one insider.\n\nIf anyone wanted to submit accurate Freedom of Information requests on government WhatsApp messages, \"you'd have to include the trolley emoji\", adds my source. No 10 declined to comment on the name.\n\nIt was Mr Johnson himself who may have coined the analogy, telling friends he was \"veering all over the place like a shopping trolley,\" over whether to back Leave or Remain, ahead of the Brexit referendum, according to the Sunday Times. He famously wrote two versions of his newspaper column, one backing Leave, the other Remain, arguing through all the options to be completely sure.\n\nSome of his allies cite this desire to argue things backwards and forwards before reaching a decision as a strength, saying: \"He challenges organisations and conventional wisdom.\"\n\nOthers have a more straightforward explanation.\n\n\"He is just sometimes unable to face the truth because he doesn't like making hard decisions,\" says one insider. Another says: \"You are never sure what the real truth of a situation is.\" Others say it is hard to get clarity and a sense of purpose, or that it is \"hard to work out where his motives begin and end\".\n\nSo what does this tell us about the prime minister's relationship with the truth?\n\nFirst, the benign interpretation of how the PM operates. One insider who knows him well says it is simply \"unfair and easy to cry 'liar', as the opposition has done\".\n\n\"He's far more complex and strategic and people don't give him credit for how calculating and clever he is.\"\n\nAnother source told me Mr Johnson has a \"genuinely selective memory\" and that \"'I choose to remember certain things or not remember others'\" is his default way of dealing with the pressures of life at No 10.\n\nFor years, it's been the case that when things get sticky, particularly with Boris Johnson's personal life or financial affairs, he refuses to engage in those conversations at all, even in private with his close aides. The message to staffers is, effectively: \"Don't ask, because I won't tell.\"\n\nOne source told me that is why, right now, life in No 10 is bound to be tense and difficult.\n\n\"Part of the problem is that these two things, his personal relationships and his financial situation are colliding. He'll be finding it very difficult, and people trying to advise him will also find that hard.\"\n\nBut is he not telling the truth?\n\nThis particular source believes that the PM may try to evade questions about matters of the home and heart, but not on political issues.\n\n\"To a degree every politician has to go out and say things they don't always agree with. He is a professional and he does that.\"\n\nThere's another layer when it comes to Mr Johnson though. And discussing his habits with many of those who have worked alongside him, his former life as a journalist is often mentioned.\n\nEven his worst enemy would acknowledge that he is a skilled wordsmith, and he regularly uses his vast range of sometimes nonsensical vocabulary to deflect, to entertain, or even ridicule. It's certainly not unusual for politicians to try to avoid answering questions that would cast them or their parties in a less than flattering light.\n\nOne of the PM's strategies, however, seems to be to bamboozle the listener with a blizzard of verbiage, suggesting agreement, but not committing to anything. Former colleagues suggest that by the time they have decoded what he actually meant, the conversation's over.\n\nAn insider told me: \"He frequently leaves people with the belief that he has told them one thing, but he has given himself room for manoeuvre,\" believing that, \"the fewer cast iron positions you hold the better, because you can always change political direction.\"\n\nThe verbal flourishes and rhetorical tricks are part of the reason why he has prospered.\n\n\"A lot of his magic has been those off-the-cuff comments, that's why a lot of the public like him,\" says an ally.\n\nHe was like an \"untamed political animal\" when he first developed his political style says another, playing with phrases as he would in his byzantine and flamboyant newspaper columns, teasing with words, presenting a character like no other politician.\n\nBut another told me it has developed into a way of shrouding what's really going on.\n\n\"I think he is an extremely shrewd and calculating character that hides it all under the costume of a performer,\" says this source.\n\nOne Brexiteer even suggests his mannerisms encourage others to be complicit: \"It's like a comedian, you are willing him on, you want it to be plausible\" - even if, according to them, it simply isn't.\n\nThat's where his personal style, according to others, tips into something much less appealing. A former minister, once close to him, told me: \"The problem is that it's becoming clearer that the PM treats facts like he treats all his relationships - utterly disposable once inconvenient.\n\n\"It's all about power. Facts, policies, people - they all get ditched if they get in the way. Whatever is necessary.\"\n\nYet what's suggested time and again is that the prime minister's attitude to the truth and facts is not based on what is real and what is not, but is driven by what he wants to achieve in that moment - what he desires, rather than what he believes. And there is no question, that approach, coupled with an intense force of personality can be enormously effective.\n\nIn his political career, Boris Johnson has time and again overturned the odds, and that's a huge part of the reason why.\n\nOne former colleague compares him to the late Steve Jobs, the hard-driving founder of tech giant Apple. Jobs was said to have a \"reality distortion field\", described by his biographer as a \"confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand\".\n\nIn other words, ordering the truth to suit his ambitions, refusing to take no for an answer, relishing proving that the impossible could be done.\n\nMr Johnson's former colleague told me: \"Is there wilful lying? I would struggle to point to a direct example. Does he recreate the truth to suit him? Yes.\"\n\nThis source, and several others, told me the prime minister has a \"deep dislike of being accused of lying\". Several sources have even suggested that during the 2016 Brexit campaign he was nervous about the now infamous promise, plastered on the side of his battle bus, to spend the £350m a week the UK sends to the EU \"to fund the NHS instead\".\n\nMr Johnson was nervous about the claim plastered across the Vote Leave battle bus, several sources say\n\nMr Johnson was conscious that every time he used this claim, it could be challenged by the fact that the £350m did not take into account the budget rebate the UK got from the EU.\n\nMr Johnson was all about \"images, emotions, he didn't want to be pinned down to a number\", says my source.\n\nHe was also understood to be unhappy about the campaign's claims about Turkey's proposed entry to the EU, and the potential impact on immigration. If you're reading this, you probably don't need a reminder of how controversial those claims were at the time. Just in case, you can read about them here and here.\n\nBut private doubts about whether the claims were convincing did not stop Mr Johnson from becoming the biggest cheerleader for leaving the EU. The rest, of course, is history.\n\nSome of those with him on the Brexit journey don't think that he was ever a true believer.\n\nA veteran Brexiteer told me: \"Boris is not one of us, but we put him there - and that is a truth he is never going to want to confront.\"\n\nForgetting the recent history, does any of this actually matter politically now? Voters don't generally consider politicians to be particularly trustworthy.\n\nBoris Johnson's reputation and popularity is certainly not based on a view that he tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but. He has what pollsters call \"authenticity\" - what you see is what you get. He's not super smooth and he doesn't pretend to be perfect.\n\nThe current allegations about his conduct, which he characteristically describes as a \"farrago of nonsense\" do not seem to be shifting public opinion much, if at all.\n\nBut just because the Conservatives can shout loudly that no one cares about this stuff, that doesn't mean that the prime minister's complicated relationship with truth can be easily dismissed. Most straightforwardly, there are several investigations now into exactly what has happened with the Downing Street flat that could trip up him and the Conservative Party.\n\nSources who told the BBC and other news organisations that Mr Johnson did say he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" than take the country into a third lockdown have said they would be prepared to testify under oath if they have to.\n\nDepending how and when those two issues unwind, there could be big trouble for Downing Street.\n\nPolitics is an extremely tough business, as Mr Johnson has been discovering of late. Huge parliamentary majorities do not protect you from personal criticism. And many of the government's current woes can, arguably, be traced back to the PM's relationship with the truth.\n\nI've been told on more occasions than I can count that Boris Johnson trusts hardly anyone, and suspects almost everyone. As one source describes it, he \"behaves in such a way that people eventually tire of him, feel let down, and behave in the way he feared they would\". The breakdown in his relationship with his former adviser Dominic Cummings is spectacular evidence of that.\n\nBut people who work alongside Mr Johnson are often kept guessing, unsure of what he really thinks.\n\nIt leaves him all powerful. His whim rules.\n\nBut it also can make it harder to achieve what he says he wants - the priorities he was elected to deliver.\n\nYet popularity matters in politics too. Despite the horrors of coronavirus, hard realities have never been part of the PM's desired script. To use one of his tactics, quoting the classics, the Greek philosopher Plato said: \"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.\"\n\nBut as one of the few people who genuinely knows Boris Johnson once told me, he is a politician who above all, wants to be loved.", "A campaign is being launched to raise £2.3m to build a memorial inside St Paul's Cathedral to those who have died as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIt would see an online book of remembrance installed in a purpose-built structure in the London landmark.\n\nMore than 7,300 names have already been entered into the book as part of the cathedral's Remember Me project.\n\nIt is hoped the memorial would provide a reflective space for visitors to remember loved ones.\n\nSt Paul's set up the online book to enable families, friends and carers to record and mourn those who have died as a result of the pandemic. It is open to people of all beliefs.\n\nThe campaign for the memorial, which is being carried out in partnership with the Daily Mail newspaper, is hoping to unite people from across the UK who are grieving the deaths of family and friends.\n\nMore than 127,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, government figures show.\n\nThe online book would sit in a new portico structure which would take a year to build.\n\nIt has been designed by Oliver Caroe, the cathedral's surveyor of the fabric, whose mother died of Covid-19.\n\nHe said it would be a \"fitting memorial\" to those who have died and would be \"part of the fabric of St Paul's and part of history for centuries to come\".\n\n\"There will be many families like mine who never have had an opportunity to gather; to properly acknowledge thanks for the lives lived and to appreciate carers and clinicians we will never have met,\" he said.\n\nThe memorial would be built on the site of an earlier porch which was destroyed by a bomb in 1941 during World War Two.\n\nVisitors would be able to call up entries in the online book, including a photograph of those who have died and an epitaph written by their loved ones.\n\nThe Very Reverend David Ison, dean of the cathedral, said: \"The physical memorial at St Paul's will anchor the online book in a place where significant events and people have been commemorated for many centuries.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the memorial would be a \"way of inspiring reflection, prayer or lighting a candle\".\n\nLondon is already home to the National Covid Memorial Wall, which consists of thousands of painted hearts on a wall opposite the Palace of Westminster.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive", "A police officer was punched and knocked unconscious as he responded to a report of underage drinking and Covid rule breaches at a County Tyrone bar.\n\nA second officer was then punched when he tried to detain the suspect at the premises in Fintona on Friday evening.\n\nPolice said there were about 150 people present when they entered the premises at about 18:35 BST.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was arrested for assaulting a police officer and disorderly behaviour.\n\nThe bar was issued with a warning and £1,000 fine.\n\n\"It is completely unacceptable that two of our colleagues were carrying out their duties when they were assaulted in such a nasty way. Such despicable behaviour must never be tolerated,\" said Ch Insp Johnston McDowell.\n\nThe officer who was knocked unconscious was taken to hospital as a precaution, police confirmed.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Covid-19 lockdown rules were relaxed on Friday, allowing hospitality businesses to operate outdoors.\n\nThey are required to provide table service only and must limit numbers at each table.\n\n\"Police have been working with partners, including the local council environmental health team, to carry out checks at premises to ensure our community can socialise in a safe environment,\" Mr McDowell added.\n\nHe said they would continue to speak to licensees to check they are adhering to Covid-19 public health regulations as well as alcohol licensing legislation.\n\n\"Our approach continues to centre around the four Es - engage, explain, encourage and, if necessary, enforce.\"", "All flights from India, including repatriation flights, have been banned\n\nAustralian citizens returning home from India could face up to five years in jail and fines after the government made the journey temporarily illegal.\n\nThe health ministry said the ruling had been made \"based on the proportion of people in quarantine who have acquired a Covid-19 infection in India\".\n\nEarlier this week, Australia banned all flights from India.\n\nThere are an estimated 9,000 Australians in India, 600 of whom are classed as vulnerable.\n\nThis will be the first time Australians have been criminalised for returning to their country, Australian media report.\n\nOne doctor told ABC that the government's move was disproportionate to the threat posed by those returning from India.\n\n\"Our families are quite literally dying in India overseas... to have absolutely no way of getting them out - this is abandonment,\" GP and health commentator Dr Vyom Sharmer said.\n\nFrom Monday, anyone who has been in India within 14 days of their intended arrival date in Australia will be banned from entering the country.\n\nFailing to comply with the new ruling could result in a five-year jail sentence, an A$66,000 (£37,000) fine, or both. The decision will be reviewed on 15 May, the health ministry said.\n\n\"The government does not make these decisions lightly,\" Health Minister Greg Hunt said in the statement.\n\n\"However, it is critical the integrity of the Australian public health and quarantine systems is protected and the number of Covid-19 cases in quarantine facilities is reduced to a manageable level.\"\n\nThere's an inscription inside the front jacket of every Australian passport. It calls for protection and assistance for citizens when they're in strife abroad.\n\n\"The Commonwealth of Australia… requests all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer, an Australian citizen, to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford him or her every assistance and protection of which he or she may stand in need.\"\n\nWho would have thought that Australians are now struggling to \"pass freely\" back into their own country? Re-entering and living in your nation is a basic aspect of citizenship. A right of return is recognised in international law, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.\n\nBut the problem for stranded Australians is that you can't argue a UN treaty in an Australian court. Citizenship rights - and many other freedoms - aren't guaranteed under their law. Australia lacks a human rights charter or explicit protections in its constitution.\n\nSo in an emergency situation, the government can make something a criminal offence overnight. At the height of the pandemic last year, the government beefed up its Biosecurity Act to give the health minister near unconditional powers bypassing parliament.\n\nThat's why citizens now trying to flee a danger zone can face jail for trying to come home. A legal challenge to this two-week ban will take time and be costly - public outrage and pressure may be the only effective remedy.\n\nThe ministry said it had agreed with India to send emergency medical supplies, including ventilators and personal protective equipment.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to the people of India - and our Indian-Australian community,\" the statement added.\n\nIndia has seen cases soar to 19 million and deaths total 200,000. The past week has seen more than 300,000 new cases reported each day.\n\nAustralia has implemented a series of strict measures to keep the virus out of the country since the pandemic began in February 2020. While the country is enjoying near zero infections rates and has had far fewer fatalities than most countries, the strict lockdown policies have left many Australians stranded overseas.\n\nThe ban on Indian arrivals this week has marked an escalation - the first time the country has stopped evacuations and blocked citizens from returning home altogether. It has intensified calls for more to be done to get Australians home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia has enforced strict travel restrictions throughout the pandemic which have kept families apart", "People from a South Asian background were at even greater risk of infection, hospitalisation and death in the second wave of Covid than the first, compared with other ethnic groups, a study says.\n\nA study published in the Lancet looked at health data from 17 million adults.\n\nIt confirmed that nearly all ethnic minority groups were disproportionally affected in the first wave in England.\n\nIn the second wave, the differences for black and mixed ethnic groups narrowed compared with white groups.\n\nBut those from an Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi background were even more likely to test positive, need hospital treatment and lose their lives.\n\n\"It's concerning to see that the disparity widened among South Asian groups,\" said Dr Rohini Mathur, assistant professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and lead author of the research.\n\n\"This highlights an urgent need to find effective prevention measures that fit with the needs of the UK's ethnically diverse population.\"\n\nThe study, thought to be the largest of its type, was funded by the Medical Research Council and conducted by scientists from a group of universities including LSHTM and the University of Oxford along with the National Institute of Health Research.\n\nThe team analysed medical data collected by GPs covering 40% of England and compared it with coronavirus-related data for the first and second waves of the pandemic - including testing, hospital and mortality records.\n\nIn the first wave of the pandemic, from February to September 2020, nearly every ethnic minority group in the UK had a higher relative risk for testing positive, hospitalisation and death.\n\nThe largest disparity was in intensive care admissions, which more than doubled for most ethnic minority groups compared with white groups, with black people more than three times more likely to be admitted to ICU after age and sex were taken into account.\n\nFor black and mixed groups the differences narrowed between the first and second wave from September to December for reasons that are still not fully understood. It's thought access to better testing, targeted publicity campaigns and new ways of reducing risk at work may have all played a part.\n\nBut the data shows that those from the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi community were still significantly more likely to get sick, end up in hospital and die compared with those who self-reported as white.\n\nThe authors of the research said medical factors including weight, blood pressure and other underlying health conditions played the biggest role in explaining the increased risk in South Asian groups.\n\nAccording to the most recent 2011 census, 21% of South Asian groups live in multigenerational households, compared with about 7% of white groups.\n\nThe report said greater household size was also an important factor in explaining the increased death rate.\n\n\"In general, living in multigenerational households and highly networked communities is of huge social benefit,\" said Dr Mathur at LSHTM.\n\n\"But with infectious diseases it may also increase risk of exposure to the infection from younger or working age adults who may bring the virus into the household and may potentially put older members at risk.\"\n\nBased on their findings, the researchers are calling for more support to tackle what they call the structural racism faced by some communities. They said improved access to healthcare could increase the uptake of both testing and vaccination in the future.", "Boomtown Fair was postponed until next year because it could not get Covid cancellation insurance\n\nMost of the music festivals still due to take place this year could be scrapped without the safety net of government-backed cancellation insurance, organisers have warned.\n\nA quarter of UK festivals have already been called off, but 76% of the rest are at risk, according to the industry.\n\nThe Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has called for \"urgent intervention\" to save the season.\n\nThe government said it was exploring what further support it could provide.\n\nThe AIF said events had been scrapped because of \"government inaction on insurance\".\n\nIt has been calling on the government to back cancellation insurance.\n\nThat would allow organisers to go ahead with their plans without suffering financial losses if they were forced to cancel their events due to a new spike in Covid cases.\n\nPaul Reed said insurance is a \"Don't pass go\" issue for festival organisers\n\n\"For months now, we have been warning government that the UK's 2021 festival season would be quickly eroded if they failed to back their own roadmap out of lockdown and act on Covid related cancellation insurance,\" said Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) chief executive Paul Reed.\n\n\"It's now red alert for the UK's festival season. By the end of this month, 76% of the remaining festivals planned for 2021 could very quickly disappear from the calendar.\n\n\"Without a safety net, independent promoters cannot begin to confidently invest in their events.\n\n\"If government-backed insurance is off the table, festival organisers deserve to know what [the] government is proposing as an alternative to prevent the widespread collapse of the festival season.\"\n\nThe \"long-term survival of many of the businesses behind these events\", was also at stake, he added.\n\nBlossoms will headline a concert at Liverpool's Sefton Park which is part of a government pilot\n\nA spokesperson said the government was \"aware of the wider concerns about securing indemnity for live events and are exploring what further support we may provide\".\n\nMore than £34m from the Culture Recovery Fund had supported festivals including Glastonbury, Boomtown, and Hay Literary Festival, the spokesperson said.\n\nHowever, people should be aware that there is a risk in booking festival tickets for the summer, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC on Thursday.\n\n\"People have to be careful,\" he said. \"If you are now booking [festival tickets], then you do carry some risk clearly, because we have to follow the [infection] data.\n\n\"The good news is the vaccinations are working. About 70% of the adult population of England now have antibodies... but we have to remain cautious.\"\n\nInsurance really is a \"Don't pass go\" issue for many festival organizers, Mr Reed said.\n\nHe added that festivals contribute £1.76bn to the UK economy and support 85,000 jobs.\n\nThe Association of British Insurers said: \"We understand that this has been a difficult and uncertain time for the events industry.\n\n\"With the Covid-19 public health emergency continuing to present a significant risk of cancellation or disruption, commercial insurers remain unable to offer this type of cover, or only at a cost that is unaffordable for many.\"\n\nOf UK festivals with a capacity of more than 5,000, 26% have already been abandoned, including Boomtown Fair and Deer Shed.\n\nThat leaves 131 still due to go ahead, mostly in July and August.\n\nIt is uncertain whether the Nozstock festival will go ahead this year\n\n\"Most of the festivals that are holding their position in July and August will need to commit to substantial, non-refundable costs by the end of May,\" said AIF.\n\n\"And 72% of AIF members have said that if they do not take place in 2021, they will require financial support to return in 2022.\"\n\nSome festival organisers have already delayed their events.\n\nAccording to the AIF 22% of festivals it tracks are now taking place in September and October, up from 10% earlier in the year.\n\nBoomtown director of communications and strategy Anna Wade said Boomtown decided to postpone the event until next year as it could not get Covid cover.\n\n\"It basically means you're proceeding without the safety net of insurance, which no company or even individual would want to do, because the risks are just so high, with so many unknowns,\" she said.\n\nElla Nosworthy, creative director at the Nozstock festival, said they would wait until the results of the government pilot in Liverpool to see whether they could get insurance so their festival could go ahead in July.\n\nHelen Kenny, a freelance stage and production manager, said that typically she would work on 25 to 30 festivals per year over a six-month period in the UK and Europe, including Boomtown.\n\nSo far this summer she has only been booked for six, and she is unsure whether any of those will cancel.\n\n\"I wake up every day at the moment with a smile on my face, attending meetings, and finally back to doing what I love,\" she said.\n\n\"However, I'm totally aware that we are still in a pandemic and anything declared or planned could change at any time.\"\n\nMs Kenny added that she worries about the mental health of freelance colleagues and friends who are finding it difficult to make ends meet.\n\n\"Can they feed their families and pay rent? Will we all be able to hug and be on a site somewhere doing what we love, and what we've worked towards for years as our careers?\" she said.\n\n\"Not enough support has been provided for self employed freelancers and watching them struggle when they come from a background of high grossing events just blows my mind,\" she added.", "A police cordon has been put in place at Braithwaite Drive in Keighley\n\nFive people, including a 16-year-old boy, have been arrested on suspicion of right-wing terrorism offences.\n\nOfficers carried out a series of raids in Keighley, in West Yorkshire, Swindon and Anglesey in Wales.\n\nFollowing the arrests, bomb disposal experts were called to a property in Keighley after officers discovered \"potentially suspicious material\".\n\nA cordon has been put in place around the property and a number of nearby homes have been evacuated, police said.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing North East (CTPNE) said two men, aged 29 and 30, and a 28-year-old woman have been arrested in Keighley on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.\n\nA 16-year-old boy was arrested in Swindon and a 28-year-old man was arrested in Anglesey on suspicion of the same offence.\n\nAll five have been taken to a police station in West Yorkshire for questioning.\n\nA CTPNE spokesperson said the arrests form part of an ongoing investigation into right-wing terrorism.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said two addresses were being searched in Keighley.\n\nA force spokesperson added: \"Following the discovery of potentially suspicious material at one of the addresses in Keighley the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit has been called to provide specialist advice and to arrange the safe removal of the items if required.\n\n\"As a precautionary measure, a cordon has been put in place and a number of local residents have evacuated whilst examinations are conducted.\n\n\"We would like to reassure people that these arrests are pre-planned and intelligence-led and there is not believed to be any immediate risk to the local community.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have continued combing woodland verges where community support officer Julia James was founded murdered, as the investigation continues.\n\nTeams of officers are searching a cordoned-off area where her body was found on Tuesday.\n\nMourners have continued laying flowers in Aylesham village, including tributes from the 53-year-old's family.\n\nMs James was found with significant head injuries in woodland near Dover.\n\nKent Police are considering \"all possible\" motives.\n\nTeams of officers resumed searches of woodland on Saturday\n\nFloral tributes included a message attached to a bunch of pink and white tulips that said: \"To our beautiful niece Julia.\"\n\nIt read: \"No words can express our sadness. Our family has lost the most beautiful soul. In our hearts always. George and Jane.\"\n\nOther bouquets with matching cards in the shape of gold love hearts were addressed to \"our cousin\".\n\nOne tribute described Ms James as \"our darling Julia, forever in our hearts\" while another said \"heaven has gained an angel\".\n\nOn one floral tribute, Ms James's family wrote \"no words can express our sadness\"\n\nPCSO Kelly Adsia, who knew Ms James, said: \"I know my colleagues will not stop - they will do that for anybody - but they will not stop until we find whoever did this.\"\n\nShe said police, including PCSOs, officers and anyone who knew Ms James, were \"completely in shock\" but looking after each other.\n\n\"We are just completely numb and can't compute it at all,\" she said.\n\n\"We are just trying to focus on the amazing times we had with her, the laughs and the hugs, rather than what happened because that dehumanises her.\"\n\nPolice have laid flowers in tribute to Ms James\n\nAt a press conference on Friday, Assistant Chief Constable Tom Richards declined to rule out Ms James had been killed by a stranger, someone she came across during her work, someone trying to steal her dog, or as part of a sexual assault.\n\nHe would also not comment on any potential weapon and declined to say whether detectives found signs of a struggle.\n\nMs James's body was discovered in Akholt Wood, Snowdown, just \"a few hundred yards from her house\" after she had taken her dog for a walk, he said.\n\nOne message said \"your police family will get you justice\"\n\nHer family, who said she was \"so much to so many people; a wife, mother, daughter, nanny, sister and a friend\", have said they are confident police are doing everything they can.\n\nA post-mortem carried out on Thursday concluded Ms James died from blunt force trauma.\n\nMs James, who was working from home on the day she died and not in uniform, joined Kent Police in 2008 and had been working with domestic abuse victims while based in Canterbury.\n\nMs James's family described her as \"so much to so many people\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The memorial was defaced by vandals and discovered on Saturday morning\n\nPolice are investigating the vandalism of a baby memorial in a Fife cemetery.\n\nOffensive graffiti was discovered painted on gravestones and a memorial, which features the names of infants who have died.\n\nPolice believe it appeared at the Dunfermline cemetery in Halbeath Road overnight into Saturday. Other graves in the location were covered in spray paint.\n\nThe graffiti has now been removed, according to Police Scotland.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Around 10:05 on Saturday, 1 May, police were contacted with regard to a vandalism at a baby memorial within Dunfermline Cemetery.\n\n\"Officers have attended and the graffiti has been removed. Inquiries, which are at a very early stage, are continuing.\"", "Clarke is known for shows including Doctor Who, Bulletproof and Viewpoint\n\nActor Noel Clarke has said he's \"deeply sorry\" for some of his actions and will seek professional help, but has again \"vehemently\" denied sexual misconduct.\n\nHis statement comes after 20 women accused him of harassment and bullying. ITV and Sky have now dropped his shows.\n\nHe said: \"I vehemently deny any sexual misconduct or criminal wrongdoing.\n\n\"Recent reports however have made it clear to me that some of my actions have affected people in ways I did not intend or realise.\"\n\nHe added: \"To those individuals, I am deeply sorry. I will be seeking professional help to educate myself and change for the better.\"\n\nThe statement follows ITV's decision not to broadcast the final episode of the police drama Viewpoint, in which he stars, on Friday.\n\nHis Viewpoint co-stars Bronagh Waugh and Alexandra Roach tweeted their support to the women who made the allegations.\n\nSky has also \"halted\" its work with Clarke, including on the fourth series of crime drama Bulletproof.\n\nAnd he has been suspended by Bafta, almost three weeks after the British film and television academy gave him an award for his outstanding contribution.\n\nClarke is known for playing Mickey Smith in Doctor Who from 2005-10, and for his film trilogy Kidulthood, Adulthood and Brotherhood. He is also a writer, director and producer.\n\nHe played a surveillance detective in Viewpoint, which has been on ITV every evening this week. It was watched by 3.5 million people on Thursday.\n\nClarke's police drama Viewpoint will no longer be screened on Friday night\n\nBut on Friday, the broadcaster said it was \"no longer appropriate to broadcast the final episode\" as planned in light of the allegations.\n\nHowever, the finale will be available on streaming service ITV Hub from Friday night until Sunday \"for any viewers who wish to seek it out, and watch its conclusion\".\n\nMeanwhile, Clarke has starred in three series of Sky crime drama Bulletproof, which had a fourth series commissioned in January.\n\nThe broadcaster said on Friday: \"Effective immediately, we have halted Noel Clarke's involvement in any future Sky productions.\"\n\nClarke won his first Bafta for Rising Star in 2009\n\nBafta has been criticised by some for honouring Clarke on 10 April. It had received reports of allegations against Clarke in the 12 days between announcing him as the award recipient and the ceremony itself.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, Bafta's chairman Krishnendu Majumdar said he had heard that as many as 12 women could be making allegations.\n\nIn a letter to members in which it defended its response, Bafta said the emails it received \"were either anonymous or second or third-hand accounts via intermediaries\".\n\n\"No first-hand allegations were sent to us,\" it said. \"No names, times, dates, productions or other details were ever provided.\n\n\"Had the victims gone on record as they have with the Guardian, the award would have been suspended immediately. Noel Clarke's counsel received a legal notice to this effect. It was always very clear what our intentions would be.\"\n\nBafta added that it was \"an arts charity that is not in a position to properly investigate such matters\".\n\nThe Charity Commission said Bafta had \"submitted a serious incident report\", which the regulator is now assessing.\n\nPaul Fleming, general secretary of arts union Equity, said it had been \"a difficult day for those who run the industry\".\n\n\"It's a phenomenally embarrassing and traumatic 24 hours if you're a gatekeeper and in charge of what goes on in our members' workplace,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM Programme.\n\n\"It really does take something to be here, [the] best part of four years on from #MeToo and still be asking these questions.\n\n\"And for big bosses, big producers to have not put in place the polices practises and cultures in workplaces that allow these things to be considered credible…\n\n\"This is a really, really damning indictment of how intimidating some workplaces and some producers are for our members to raise concerns.\"", "Hugely popular US podcast host Joe Rogan has backpedalled on his comments that young, healthy people could forgo the coronavirus vaccine.\n\n\"I'm not an anti-vax person,\" Rogan said. \"I believe they're safe and encourage many people to take them.\"\n\nBut Rogan did not walk back his suggestion that the young and healthy do not \"need\" vaccines, which drew backlash from White House officials.\n\nExperts say everyone over 16 should get vaccinated to stop the virus' spread.\n\nThe Joe Rogan Experience was Spotify's most popular podcast in 2020, though the streaming giant did not share the number of times his episodes were downloaded. Rogan has more than seven million followers on Twitter and 12.5 million followers on Instagram.\n\nHis podcast was acquired by Spotify last year for more than $100m (£77m).\n\nAsked about Rogan's comments, top US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci repeated guidance from experts that unvaccinated, asymptomatic people can still transmit Covid-19.\n\n\"Even if you don't have any symptoms, you're propagating the outbreak,\" Dr Fauci said.\n\nRogan made the comments during a 23 April episode of his podcast, which was first reported by Media Matters this week.\n\nIn that episode, Rogan told listeners that he would not suggest the vaccine to a healthy 21-year-old. \"If you're a healthy person, and you're exercising all the time, and you're young, and you're eating well...like, I don't think you need to worry about this.\"\n\nResponding to the criticism on his podcast on Thursday, Rogan said the argument that young people need the vaccine \"for other people\" made sense.\n\n\"But that's a different argument,\" he added.\n\nAnd Rogan stressed that he should not be a source of scientific advice. \"I'm not a doctor,\" he said. \"I'm not a respected source of information, even for me.\"\n\nThe TV host-turned media mogul regularly courts controversy for his blunt and sometimes inflammatory style on air. He has been accused of making sexist, racist and transphobic comments in his podcast. Rogan has denied these accusations and said his comments were taken out of context.\n\nJoe Rogan is a huge draw for Spotify - so much so, in fact, that his show was mentioned in Spotify's quarterly earnings call. Joe Rogan's podcast had \"performed above expectations,\" the company said.\n\nSpotify wants to be the place you go to for podcasts and The Joe Rogan Experience is a major plank in that strategy. You might come for Joe Rogan, but stay to listen to other podcasts. Spotify says it's seen a \"strong increase\" in the number of people listening to podcasts since the pandemic hit.\n\nHowever wrapping yourself around a controversial figure like Rogan has its dangers - and this saga illustrates that risk.\n\nRogan said when he signed the deal with Spotify that he would have editorial control. Spotify have publicly backed the podcaster.\n\nBut of course Spotify does have the power to pull the podcast.\n\nAs ever Big Tech says it's is trying to balance two things: risk to the public v freedom of speech.\n\nHowever there's always a third factor. Money.\n\nWhen the face of your podcast offering says something that US politicians, the White House and medical experts deride as dangerous - that doesn't look good for Spotify's brand.\n\nFor now, it looks like Spotify is willing to back the podcaster, and Rogan will hope his retraction will draw a line under the matter.\n\nRogan is not the only US public figure to be accused of anti-vaccine remarks.\n\nCurrent US Vice-President Kamala Harris said during the election campaign last year that she would not trust any vaccine approved by the Trump administration. Then-US Vice-President Mike Pence accused her of \"playing politics with people's lives\".\n\nUS Vice-President Kamala Harris was last year accused of anti-vaccine comments\n\nTwo coronavirus shots - by Pfizer and Moderna - were subsequently granted authorisation under Mr Trump. Ms Harris received the Moderna jab after the election and said then it was safe.\n\nLast year, both Rogan and Spotify faced criticism over the appearance of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his show.\n\nThe streaming giant has so far stood by its star host, touting Rogan's podcast in its first quarter earnings report this week. Spotify did not immediately return a BBC request for comment.\n\n\"We have 8 million creators, and hundreds of millions of pieces of content,\" Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told Bloomberg News. \"We have a content policy and we do remove pieces that violate it.\"\n\nUS and global health authorities have found Covid-19 vaccines to be safe and effective in preventing infection and safety checks continue throughout the world.\n\nExperts have warned that misinformation has been fuelling vaccine hesitancy.\n\nIn the US, nearly 100 million people have been fully vaccinated. This week, President Joe Biden urged all Americans to get their jab, calling it a \"patriotic duty\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People have been killed by falling trees and electricity poles, officials say\n\nAt least 11 people are dead and 102 injured in a violent storm that hit eastern China on Friday evening.\n\nThose killed were blown into the Yangtze River or hit by falling trees and electricity poles, officials said.\n\nAnother 11 people were in a fishing boat that capsized. Two were rescued, but nine others are still missing.\n\nLocal media report that marble-sized hailstones fell on the coastal city of Nantong, while gales ripped the sides off buildings.\n\nFootage posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo shows strong winds ripping through the city and large debris from buildings strewn across the streets.\n\nAnother video appears to show a large passenger plane being spun around by the winds while parked on the runway of the city's airport.\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\nNantong is a south-eastern city of eight million people on the north bank of the Yangtze, about 62 miles (100 km) from Shanghai.\n\nMany homes in the city have been badly damaged, officials said on the Chinese social media platform Weibo on Saturday.\n\nMore than 3,000 residents have had to be evacuated.", "Protesters skirmished with riot police during a May Day protest in Istanbul, Turkey\n\nTurkish police have arrested more than 200 people for holding unauthorised protests on May Day, which has seen rallies across the world despite the continued spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe protesters in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, were caught breaching restrictions imposed to curb a third wave of coronavirus.\n\nMarches led by workers and unions are held on 1 May every year as part of International Labour Day celebrations in many countries.\n\nThis year, the rallies took place once again against the backdrop of a pandemic that has destroyed livelihoods and upended economies worldwide.\n\nGerman riot police stepped in to break up rallies in Berlin that were deemed to be in breach of Covid-19 restrictions\n\nLabour unions traditionally lead rallies worldwide on 1 May, such as this one in Turin\n\nIn many countries, police were deployed in large numbers to deal with possible disorder and ensure coronavirus restrictions were observed.\n\nScaled-back rallies were held in Germany, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the UK, Cuba, Colombia, the Philippines, Indonesia and many other countries. Most demonstrations were peaceful.\n\nSwedish police officers take a protester into custody in Stockholm\n\nTensions were high in many cities, such as Paris, as the effects of the pandemic continue to be felt\n\nBut Turkey was among several countries where police were embroiled in May Day protests that turned violent on Saturday.\n\nThe office of Istanbul's governor said 212 people had been arrested after they broke away from marches and tried to enter Taksim Square, a symbolic area of protest.\n\nPictures showed chaotic scenes in which police used their shields to push back crowds and dragged some protesters away from the square.\n\nThe country went into its first full pandemic lockdown earlier this week, in a bid to curb a surge in infections and deaths.\n\nRiot police detained demonstrators as they attempted to march on Taksim Square in Istanbul\n\nScuffles between riot police and demonstrators broke out in the Turkish city\n\nIn France, at least 46 people were arrested in the capital, Paris, after some marchers clashed with riot police, threw stones, smashed windows and set fire to rubbish bins.\n\nFrench government agencies condemned one protester who was pictured assaulting a firefighter as they attempted to extinguish a blaze in the capital.\n\nThe Interior Ministry said more than 106,000 people marched at almost 300 rallies organised in Paris and other cities, including Lyon, Nantes, Lille and Toulouse.\n\nThe protesters voiced their opposition to government plans to change unemployment benefits and demanded economic justice.\n\nRiot police were out in force in the French capital\n\nBarricades were set alight in the streets of Paris\n\nSimilar demands were heard in Germany, where May Day protests were held nationwide despite the introduction of tougher Covid-19 rules last week.\n\nIn the capital, Berlin, thousands of police were deployed to monitor multiple demonstrations, including one organised by a group that opposes the government's coronavirus strategy.\n\nAn estimated 10,000 cyclists staged a peaceful anti-capitalist protest in the city.\n\nBut as darkness fell, the mood grew more tense as protesters set barricades alight and confronted police who were trying to enforce Covid-19 regulations at a left-wing demonstration.\n\nWorkers of the wheels united for an anti-capitalist protest in Berlin\n\nLarge crowds were seen in Berlin, where protests were held in defiance of Covid-19 restrictions\n\nGerman police were pictured dragging some protesters away in the capital\n\nBerlin police broke up a left-wing demonstration, prompting a reaction from some protesters\n\nCoronavirus was on the agenda in Indonesia as well.\n\nAt one rally, protesters in the capital of Jakarta laid mock graves on the street to symbolise the human toll of the pandemic.\n\nMock graves were laid in the street at one May Day rally in Indonesia\n\nRallies were held in multiple cities across Indonesia\n\nLabour Day celebrations were unusually muted in Cuba, where workers gather for large events to commemorate the communist revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959.\n\nBut for the second year running, Cuba called off its May Day march though Havana's Plaza de la Revolution Square, as the country battles Covid-19 and an economic crisis.\n\nInstead, a small number of national leaders gathered at largely empty public spaces, while citizens were urged to celebrate at home.\n\nCuba's May Day celebrations had little of the usual pomp and circumstance\n\nLabour Day is one of the biggest events of the year in Cuba\n\nIn Brussels, Belgium's capital, officers trying to clear a dance rave from a park used water cannon, pepper spray and batons as some of the partygoers pelted them with eggs.\n\nDuring the commotion, one demonstrator was knocked unconscious after they were struck by a water cannon truck, local media said.\n\nDubbed La Boum 2 (The Party 2), the event was a sequel to a fake concert that drew thousands of people after it was announced on social media as an April Fools' Day joke.\n\nPolice used water cannon to clear the park of revellers in Brussels\n\nThe Brussels event was organised in part as a protest against the government's coronavirus measures\n\nMeanwhile, a proposed law that would give police extra powers to curb protests was one of the main subjects of grievance at protests in the UK.\n\nHundreds gathered in London to protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill, which activists fear would be used to curb dissent.\n\nThe \"Kill the Bill\" protest saw thousands of demonstrators march through London\n\nSome protesters set off red flares during the London march against the policing bill", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday. We will have another update for you tomorrow.\n\nThere's some relief on the horizon for care homes in England, as the government says residents will be able to leave their home for low-risk trips without having to self-isolate for 14 days afterwards. The restrictions will be relaxed from Tuesday, allowing for walks or garden visits without self-isolation. Check the current rules for visiting care homes in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nPeople from a South Asian background were at even greater risk of infection, hospitalisation and death in the second wave of Covid than the first, compared with other ethnic groups, a study says. The research, published in the Lancet, looked at health data from 17 million adults and confirms that nearly all ethnic minority groups were disproportionally affected in the first wave in England. In the second wave, the differences for black and mixed ethnic groups narrowed compared with white groups. But those from an Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi background were even more likely to test positive, need hospital treatment, and lose their lives.\n\nA campaign is being launched to raise £2.3m to build a memorial inside St Paul's Cathedral to those who have died in the Covid-19 pandemic. It would see an online book of remembrance installed in a purpose-built structure in the London landmark. More than 7,300 names have already been entered into the book as part of the cathedral's Remember Me project.\n\nSticky floors, queues for the loos, that sweaty smell and, inevitably, losing your phone. All stuff we never thought we'd miss. But, for the first time since the pandemic began, clubbers have been back on the dance floor in Liverpool - as part of a test to see how large events can be held going forward. The response? \"This is the best day of my life,\" one clubber said. Watch how others enjoyed their night below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clubbing comes back: 'This is the best day of my life'\n\nRestrictions on weddings are due to be lifted, along with other lockdown measures, on 21 June. But for many couples who have already experienced upset and delays, the anxiety around planning a wedding in a pandemic is far from over. BBC London's Olivia Demetriades is due to get married in July and has been meeting other couples who are hoping their big days can go ahead as planned. Hear their thoughts in the video below, and check the current rules for weddings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Restrictions on weddings are due to be lifted in June, but many couples are still anxious\n\nHere's a reminder of the rules for holidays in the UK.\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.", "Counting has been slowed down this year by the Covid pandemic\n\nThe Conservatives have continued to sweep aside Labour in its traditional north-eastern English heartland.\n\nThe party lost control of Durham County Council, which it has run since 1925, losing 15 seats as the Tories took 14.\n\nThis follows the Conservatives winning the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election and receiving 73% of the vote in the Tees Valley mayoral election.\n\nBut, elsewhere, Labour has kept hold of its mayoralties in London and Greater Manchester.\n\nMost of the results of Thursday's local elections in England are now in.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have won St Albans council, Hertfordshire, which was previously under no overall control.\n\nAnd the Conservatives have taken Derbyshire's Amber Valley Borough Council from Labour.\n\nSo far, the Conservatives have made a net gain of 12 councils, while Labour has lost control of eight.\n\nThere was better news for Labour when Sadiq Khan was re-elected as London mayor, with the result coming late on Saturday, although his margin of victory over Conservative rival Shaun Bailey was not as big as opinion polls had predicted.\n\nThe party also beat the Tories to win the West of England mayoral election, and Labour's Andy Burnham was re-elected mayor of Greater Manchester in a landslide victory.\n\nBut Labour failed in its attempt to oust Conservative Andy Street as mayor of the West Midlands.\n\nAmong the results still to come are Bristol, where Labour is one seat off a majority, but where the Green Party are expected to do well.\n\nThe Conservatives would need to gain five seats to take control of Oxfordshire County Council, which is also expected to declare later on Sunday.\n\nThe results of the contest for the newly created role of West Yorkshire mayor will also be announced.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nThe elections are the biggest test of public opinion since the 2019 general election and the first electoral test for Sir Keir Starmer since he became Labour leader last year.\n\nBBC analysis estimated the Conservatives would have won a 36% vote share in a nationwide general election, if those who voted in England's local elections behaved in the same way.\n\nThe projection, based on detailed data from 1,000 key wards, estimated a 29% share for Labour, 17% for the Liberal Democrats and 18% for other parties.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said his party, which has lost a few council seats but held control of Cheltenham and Eastleigh, was \"moving forwards and making progress\".\n\nThe Green Party has picked up seats with 70 new councillors, with the party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, saying it felt like a \"green spring is happening\".\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 Conservatives picked up control of several councils, including Southampton, Cornwall, Nottinghamshire and Basildon, as well as winning Harlow from Labour.\n\nThe party also celebrated winning the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election on Friday, taking a Westminster seat which Labour had held since its creation in 1974.\n\nAnd it managed to keep the Tees Valley mayoralty - in an area once considered a Labour stronghold - with Ben Houchen increasing his share of the vote.\n\nLabour lost control of councils including Sheffield and Plymouth - although it retained areas including Liverpool, Manchester, Hastings and Exeter.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said Labour had been punished in Leave-voting areas by \"wrangling\" over Brexit in recent years.\n\nHe added that the Conservatives had also reaped the benefit from the successful roll-out of Covid vaccines.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Labour needed to be \"humble\" in the face of disappointing results, and would be carrying out a \"root and branch\" review of its policies.\n\nBut he added that the Covid crisis \"clearly has been a restriction on Keir being able to set out his own vision\" to voters in England.", "There were 60 seats up for grabs in the Welsh Parliament election - a unique election under the unique circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDespite pledges to challenge all the way by Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservatives, it was Welsh Labour who emerged with half the seats, and pretty much a 40% share of the constituency votes.\n\nIt means Mark Drakeford's party will retain power in the Senedd.\n\nCelebrating in Porthcawl, the Welsh Labour leader accepted the way they had dealt with Covid had been a \"strong theme\" on the doorstep.\n\nBut he's also vowed to be \"radical\" and \"ambitious\".\n\nThe only fly-in-the-ointment for Labour was the loss of the Vale of Clwyd to the Tories.\n\nHowever, the Welsh Conservatives could not repeat their feat in the 2019 UK general election, and tear down the \"red wall\" of Labour seats in north-east Wales.\n\nAt the end of the day, the Conservatives are the second largest party, with 16 seats.\n\nThey also managed to take Brecon and Radnorshire off the Lib-Dems, and in Natasha Ashgar, they have the first women from a BAME background in the Senedd.\n\nWhile Plaid Cymru's leader Adam Price has congratulated Mark Drakeford on the Labour victory, he has also acknowledged disappointment at their performance.\n\nThey return in third place with 13 seats, but it comes at a cost - the loss of former leader Leanne Wood and the Rhondda seat.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats remain with a single Senedd member, in their Welsh leader Jane Dodds.\n\nThe vote is over. And the work begins again next week, when the new Senedd will meet again - with some new faces, but ultimately, another Welsh Labour government.", "The Met Police are appealing for witnesses who saw the fight\n\nEight people have been arrested after a man was stabbed in the leg in Selfridges in central London.\n\nThe Met Police said a fight broke out at the Oxford Street shop just after 19:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nFootage posted on Twitter shows a man wielding a knife in front of shocked shoppers inside the famous department store.\n\nAnother man can be seen throwing a mannequin onto the floor before two other men start fighting.\n\nThe clip then shows the group making their way to another part of the store as security guards follow.\n\nThe victim, aged 20, was taken to hospital and later discharged, but was then arrested on suspicion of affray.\n\nSix other men, aged between 18 and 26, as well as a 20-year-old woman were also arrested on suspicion of affray and grievous bodily harm.\n\nAll eight remain in custody, the Met Police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited the leaders of the devolved nations to a summit on how \"Team UK\" can recover from the pandemic.\n\nIt follows the SNP's fourth Scottish Parliament election win in a row and Labour's win in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nThe SNP's Nicola Sturgeon said there was \"no democratic justification\" for blocking an independence vote.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said talk of \"ripping our country apart\" would be \"irresponsible and reckless\".\n\nHe has telephoned Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford and Ms Sturgeon, who has confirmed she will attend the summit.\n\nAn SNP spokesman said Scotland's First Minister had \"re-iterated her intention to ensure that the people of Scotland can choose our own future when the crisis is over, and made clear that the question of a referendum is now a matter of when - not if\".\n\nIn letters sent to the leaders, the prime minister highlighted the Covid vaccine rollout as an example of \"Team UK in action\" and called for a continued \"spirit of unity and cooperation\".\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 SNP fell one seat short of an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament elections, but with eight Scottish Greens elected, Holyrood will have a pro-independence majority.\n\nScotland held a referendum on leaving the in 2014 - billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" event - with just over 55% voting to remain part of the UK.\n\nBut after the UK backed leaving the EU in 2016, Ms Sturgeon began pushing for another referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show she did not believe any bid for a second referendum would end up in a legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nShe also warned that any such move it would mean Westminster \"saying the UK is no longer a union based on consent\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says it would be \"absurd\" if things ever got close taking the SNP to court over a referendum.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said the SNP could not expect a second referendum to be approved as the party had not secured a majority in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHe said there was a \"significant difference\" between Ms Sturgeon's win and her predecessor Alex Salmond's majority in 2011.\n\nAsked whether the UK government would try to block legislation from the Scottish Parliament on a second referendum, Mr Gove said: \"We're not going near there.\"\n\nMr Drakeford, who is not pushing for more powers for the Welsh Parliament, urged the prime minister to \"reset relationships\" with the devolved administrations.\n\nNorthern Ireland did not have elections on Thursday, but Mr Johnson confirmed its first minister and deputy first minister would also be invited to the summit.", "In the pandemic, hundreds of Chinese migrants who lost their jobs moved to a remote city on the Navajo Nation Indian reservation in New Mexico, to do what they thought was legal agricultural work. Instead, they and the local Native community found themselves pitted against one another in a bizarre cautionary tale about the boom in cannabis production in the US, and the impact on Asian migrant labourers.\n\nWhen Xia (not her real name) first heard about the job as a \"flower cutter\", she pictured roses.\n\nDetails were scant, but a roommate told her it was 10 days' work for $200 a day, room and board included. Unemployed in the pandemic and unable to send money back to her adult children in southern China, Xia had been living at one of the crowded boarding houses common in the large Asian immigrant enclave of LA's San Gabriel Valley. The job sounded like a fine temporary solution.\n\nIn early October, Xia and five other women made the 11-hour drive to the outskirts of Farmington, a small city nestled in the stunning but sparsely-populated high desert of northern New Mexico. When they arrived, their new boss checked them into a bright pink, roadside motel called the Travel Inn.\n\nIn a series of rooms on the first floor, Xia and her co-workers sat in chairs around heaps of plant material that were delivered by rental van in the night, trimming the \"flowers\" off the top. These were definitely not roses - the fan-leafed plants reminded Xia of àicǎo, or silvery wormwood, which the Chinese burn to ward off mosquitoes. The piles smelled so strongly that the odour hung around the motel like a cloud.\n\nBut for the moment, Xia was content. A convivial middle-aged mother of two, she had worked many jobs since arriving in the US in 2015 - home carer, nanny, masseuse. This was a lot less lonely.\n\n\"I was happy. I could talk to other people at work,\" she recalls in Mandarin. \"I much prefer cutting flowers.\"\n\nJust three days into their work, there was a knock at the door. Xia assumed it was someone calling them to dinner, until she saw men in uniforms with badges. Initially, it was impossible to communicate, until an officer who spoke Mandarin arrived. He asked the workers if they knew what kind of \"flowers\" they were cutting. One by one, they shook their heads.\n\n\"I wasn't afraid. I thought, 'I didn't commit any crime,'\" recalls Xia. \"When they put the handcuffs on me, I realised it's serious.\"\n\nAs a police convoy drove the workers to jail, someone attempted a joke: \"Hey, we are almost 60 years old, and it's our first time being handcuffed and riding a police car!\"\n\nWith no translators to help communicate with law enforcement or her court-appointed lawyer, Xia says that for days she did little more than sit on her bunk and cry. She assumed the worst: that whatever she'd done would land her in prison doing hard labour, and she would never make it back home.\n\n\"I thought, 'My life is over,'\" she says. \"I thought of my son, and that he wouldn't even know if I died in America.\"\n\nMeanwhile, her mugshot and those of her co-workers were all over the local news. They'd been charged with multiple felonies for trafficking, conspiracy and intent to distribute a controlled substance: high-grade marijuana.\n\nWhat Xia did not know was that over the summer, about 30 minutes up the highway from the bright pink motel, a massive marijuana farming operation had sprung up in the tiny town of Shiprock on the Navajo Nation reservation. Hundreds of Asian migrant workers like herself had flocked there from all over the US to live and work on the farms, having lost their jobs due to the pandemic.\n\nIt was part of a recent, surprising expansion of Chinese-American investment into the US cannabis industry. Investors sought to recoup losses from shuttered restaurants, spas and tourism businesses by ploughing millions into cannabis - all despite the fact that marijuana remains a social taboo in the Chinese immigrant community.\n\nThe mighty Shiprock or Tsé Bitʼaʼí, which means \"winged rock\"\n\nWhile hardly the only minority community interested in cannabis, in rural parts of the US, the Asian workforce stood out. This set the stage for a bitter fight with locals on the Navajo Nation, where unscrupulous entrepreneurs took advantage of the complex and confusing laws governing the industry, and set the farms on course for disaster.\n\n\"Everybody at one time was for the hemp because they lost their jobs in the pandemic,\" recalls one Navajo Nation resident. \"And then all of a sudden things changed... I think it turned everybody against one another.\"\n\nThe view from the top of Bea Redfeather's property on the Navajo Nation is breathtaking and severe. To the southwest is the cathedral-like Tsé Bitʼaʼí, or Shiprock pinnacle, a giant rock which rises nearly 1,580ft (480m) from the desert floor. Redfeather, a petite, 59-year-old tax accountant and silversmith, has lived here almost 30 years.\n\n\"This was peaceful,\" she says, looking out over the horizon. \"Calming.\"\n\nBea Redfeather looks into the distance at the top of a hill near her home in Shiprock, New Mexico\n\nAll that changed in early June, when Redfeather saw an enormous lorry jostling down the narrow frontage road that separates her property from her neighbour's. A group of men got out and started unloading equipment into the empty field.\n\nIt astonished Redfeather that on a reservation where new development is tightly controlled by tribal bureaucracy, a large-scale farming operation was going up across the street without her even hearing about it. The Navajo Nation was also struggling with a severe coronavirus outbreak, one of the worst in the country, and movement on and off the reservation was supposed to be tightly controlled.\n\nShe decided to record what was going on on her phone.\n\n\"They're like, 'What are you doing here?'\" she recalls. \"These are non-Natives. So of course, I fired back saying, 'What are you doing here? You guys aren't allowed here.'\"\n\nNot long afterwards, Redfeather says that San Juan River Farm Board president Dineh Benally drove up, and came over to speak to her. She says he asked her how they could resolve the situation.\n\n\"I says, 'I'm going to stop you and what you're doing.' And you could see it in him. He was angry,\" she recalls.\n\nBenally, a former civil engineer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the eldest son of a formidable tribal politician, was well known for his ambition to introduce the profitable cultivation of hemp and marijuana on the reservation.\n\nNew Mexico legalised medical marijuana back in 2007, but state laws have no bearing in Indian country, which is governed by federal and tribal law. In 2017, Benally lobbied hard for a bill that would have legalised medical marijuana in the Navajo Nation. He called his efforts a \"crusade\" in memory of his late mother, who died of pancreatic cancer.\n\nDineh Benally, the former San Juan Tribal Farm Board president, poses with cannabis plants\n\n\"Her last four months of her life she suffered,\" he told the tribal council, according to the Navajo Times. \"She didn't have the medication to have a better part of life.\"\n\nThe bill, however, was withdrawn before it ever came to a vote.\n\nBenally saw another way into the industry after the 2014 and 2018 Farm Bills made it legal to grow industrial hemp. Like marijuana, hemp comes from the cannabis plant, but it contains almost no THC, the psychoactive compound that causes a user high. However, before hemp can be farmed, the state must first create a system to regulate production, including a way of testing THC concentration. Benally tried to convince the Navajo Nation leadership to do this so that the tribe could begin generating much-needed income from textiles and CBD oil products. But the council never showed much interest.\n\nThe same year the medical marijuana bill stalled, Benally ran unopposed for the San Juan Farm Board, an entity with limited powers over farming permits on the reservation. This new position, Benally apparently believed, gave him the authority to approve his own hemp \"pilot project\".\n\nThrough his lawyer, Benally declined to be interviewed for this story or to provide a statement: however, he has previously strongly denied any breach of the law.\n\nAn aerial shot of the cannabis farms last summer in Shiprock, New Mexico\n\n\"The Navajo - we have the land and the water. We need an entity to help us hit the ground running,\" he told a reporter in 2019, boasting that he already had 100 acres of hemp growing on his property.\n\nAround this time, a friend of Benally's introduced him to Irving Lin. An irrepressible 70-year-old who immigrated decades ago from Taiwan, Lin made his fortune in California real estate but has no interest in an idle retirement. His enthusiasm for Chinese investment in marijuana is tempered only by his wife, whom he says will not allow him to profit directly from the sale of marijuana. Instead, he runs informational seminars in Los Angeles - mostly for Asian American business people drawn to marijuana cultivation as a way to bolster their flagging business portfolios.\n\n\"This is very good for our Chinese people to go into,\" he says. \"I think cannabis sooner or later will be one of the Chinese major businesses.\"\n\nLin remembers Benally explaining that the Navajo Nation was a sovereign country, and that he could \"control their decision\". Lin began acting as matchmaker between his seminar participants and Navajo landowners who were interested in subleasing to the Chinese. This eventually amounted to millions of dollars in investment. These newly-minted farmers started going to their networks of family and friends to find labour.\n\n\"Suddenly so many people go there. Every day people are looking for a house, looking for land in a very short period. In six months, we had 1,000 people go there.\"\n\nIrving Lin went so far as to personally drive workers from Los Angeles to Shiprock, for a fee\n\nBea Redfeather was seeing the results at her doorstep. Twenty-five \"hoophouses\", inexpensive greenhouses made of steel frames with heavy-duty plastic covering, appeared seemingly overnight next door. Some farms that had previously grown traditional Navajo corn varieties now had hundreds of hoophouses, lined up in neat rows that stretched to the horizon.\n\nDozens of hoop houses were built overnight last summer in Shiprock\n\n\"Corn is a sacred plant,\" Redfeather told Searchlight New Mexico, the first media outlet to do an in-depth investigation into the farms. \"You can't eat hemp and marijuana.\"\n\nRedfeather became obsessed with documenting the growth of the hemp farms in Shiprock on her Facebook Live. Her videos show heavy machinery grading the fields, trailer homes arriving on the back of trucks, and septic tanks being dug into the ground - the kind of major redevelopment that would normally take years to get approved. Before long, the air all around Shiprock hung with the smell of marijuana.\n\nAt a cannabis farm near Bea Redfeather's property, workers unload tools from a truck\n\nThe Navajo Nation police had been watching Benally, too. They suspected the \"hemp\" that he had been growing on his own land was actually marijuana. But according to Navajo Nation Police Chief Phillip Francisco, to shut him down, they had to prove that his crop's THC levels were higher than 0.3%. With no drug lab of their own, Navajo police sent samples to an outside agency.\n\nWhile the Navajo police waited, the pandemic hit.\n\n\"After Covid started, we started seeing a lot of these farms spring up fast,\" says Francisco, who had only 180 patrol officers trying to enforce health mandates over a 27,000sq-m (70,000 sq-km) reservation. \"I think that's what he took advantage of.\"\n\nThe situation was yet another example of just how complex law enforcement in Indian Country can be. Benally's interpretation of tribal hemp laws got his farms started. Meanwhile, because so many of the workers showing up in Shiprock were non-Native, the tribal police had no authority to charge them with anything. Similarly, the San Juan County Sheriff and the Farmington Police Department had no jurisdictional power on the reservation or over Native workers.\n\nThe next step would be to involve federal authorities like the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the FBI - but they have limited staffing and can be notoriously slow to respond.\n\nThe farms continued to grow throughout the summer, until there were 36 hemp operations in total.\n\n\"I've never seen anything like that in my 22-year career,\" says Chief Francisco. \"Never would we have worried about this magnitude of an operation, right under our noses.\"\n\nWhen Navajo police responded to complaints, the workers told them they had permission from the landowners to farm there - it turned out that 33 Navajo farmers had signed agreements to sublease their land to people like Benally, and Chinese investors. Like the migrant workers, many Navajo were suffering income losses during the pandemic, and these non-Native investors were paying cash. The farmers provided official-looking \"provisional cannabis cultivation\" licences, issued by Benally's farm board.\n\n\"We said yes to hemp when [we thought it was] legal,\" one landowner told the BBC before hanging up.\n\nFor Redfeather, the final straw came one morning when a worker from the nearby hemp farm gestured threateningly with what looked like an AK-47 at her mother, who was sitting on their porch drinking coffee.\n\n\"I was angry. Really, really angry,\" she says. For protection, she bought a rifle of her own.\n\nUsing her new-found social media capital, Redfeather began organising protests against the hemp farms. They called themselves Kéyah - or land - Protectors. In the first protest, roughly 100 Shiprock residents shut down a road through town carrying signs that said things like, \"We Don't Need Chinese to Farm\" and \"Hemp is Not the Navajo Way\". A young boy on a microphone shouted, \"No Asian invasion!\"\n\n\"This is in no way a racial issue,\" one resident told the Navajo Times, which broke many of the earliest stories about the unfolding disaster. \"They use all our resources within the community starting with the land, water and people… That's not right.\"\n\nThe protests led to tense confrontations between anti-hemp Navajo residents and the Navajo farm owners who had sublet their land for hemp.\n\n\"You're a traitor!\" protesters yelled at a farm owner across the gate in one particularly heated demonstration.\n\nIn another video, Redfeather comes face-to-face with a tall, barrel-chested young man in a tactical vest and a skull face mask pulled over his nose and mouth.\n\n\"Isn't your dad a medicine man?\" Redfeather shouts at him as he blocks her path on to the farm.\n\nThe young man - 25-year-old Brandon Billie - didn't particularly mind these confrontations. As Dineh Benally's head of security, Billie liked the excitement of chasing thieves and vandals off the farms. More importantly, it was steady work at a time when jobs were scarce.\n\n\"He hired anybody who was willing to work,\" Billie says. \"The income was low and all that. But it was something. It was a job.\"\n\nAs threats to the workers became more frequent, Billie moved into a mobile home alongside the Asian workers. He communicated with them using translation apps and says they hosted cookouts together. The Chinese made spicy noodles and roasted a whole pig's head for the Navajo workers. The Navajos cooked fry bread, mutton stew and blue corn mush in return. Billie started to dream about one day visiting his new friends' hometowns in China.\n\n\"I called them my brothers and sisters,\" he says.\n\nBut the job was causing problems at home. Although his father initially supported his son's work in hemp, that position became untenable as public opinion turned against the farms. When Billie told his family that he had too much riding on the farms to quit, his father cut off communication.\n\nOn the frigid morning of 9 November, Billie had just made a cup of coffee and was about to go back inside his trailer when he heard a loud thud. He turned to see police vehicles crashing over a small dirt hill towards the camp. He says officers jumped out with AR-15s pointed at him, handcuffed him and put him into the back of a state trooper's vehicle.\n\nThe Navajo Nation Police serves an injunction at a Chinese cannabis farm in Shiprock\n\nThe same dramatic scene was playing out on farms all over Shiprock. After weeks of planning, a massive task force had finally mobilised, including dozens of officers from Navajo, state and local police, as well as agents from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland Security and the Environmental Protection Agency.\n\nOver the course of three days, \"Operation Navajo Gold\" tore through the farms and seized crops. They quickly proved what everyone already knew: the farms were full of marijuana, not hemp. Agents recovered 60,000lb (27,215kg) of it on 21 farms and in two private homes. In one greenhouse, they found 1,000lb (450kg) of fully-processed marijuana already placed in baggies for individual sale.\n\nAfter the police raids many workers left overnight, leaving scenes of chaos in their trailer homes\n\nBillie and dozens of farm workers were transported to the gymnasium of Shiprock High School. In the same room where the principal had handed him his high school diploma, Billie was grilled by an FBI agent about what he knew about Benally's operation.\n\nUnlike the workers from the Travel Inn, no-one was arrested. The labourers were met by several Mandarin translators from the FBI, and Lynn Sanchez, from the New Mexico Human Trafficking Task Force. It was her job to provide services to the workers now that their homes and job sites had become an active crime scene.\n\n\"They looked very scared,\" says Sanchez. \"I just remember looking at this older man, he had to be about 65 or older than that. He had tears in his eyes that just wouldn't fall.\"\n\nThe task force and another organisation called Life Link were able to provide funds for travel and compensation for lost wages to a few dozen workers.\n\nOthers simply disappeared. Chief Francisco says in the first days after the raid, he heard reports of Asian workers trying to hitchhike and sleeping rough.\n\nSanchez says that the conditions she saw on the farms, with some sleeping outdoors or on wooden pallets, without access to proper sanitation or medical care, were clear signs of labour trafficking. However, applying the \"trafficking\" label is complicated, both in a legal sense and for the workers themselves, no matter how squalid the conditions.\n\n\"In the informal economy, it might be completely exploitative and it doesn't mean that person is not choosing to do this,\" says Erin Albright, founder of New Frameworks, an anti-trafficking organisation. \"There are no other options for them.\"\n\nBooming cannabis plants at a farm in Shiprock last summer\n\nSanchez found that some of the workers did not accept that they were \"victims\" and declined her assistance.\n\n\"It was by mutual consent,\" one 36-year-old worker told Initium Media, a Hong Kong digital magazine that interviewed many of the Chinese workers in Shiprock. \"No-one forced me to do anything.\"\n\nSanchez and her organisation were also told by a public defender that the 17 workers from the Travel Inn motel were still somewhere in Farmington. They found Xia and her five friends sharing another cheap motel room. After their release from jail, a judge told the flower cutters not to leave New Mexico. They'd been holed up in the room for 10 days, unsure of what to do next, living on nothing but plain rice porridge.\n\nBy that point, however, the county prosecutor had been convinced that the women had not knowingly been part of a drug cartel. He dropped the charges. Using funds from Sanchez's trafficking task force, Xia and her friends drove back over the mountains to California.\n\nWhen her children in China asked why they hadn't heard from her in so long, Xia lied.\n\n\"I told them my mobile phone was broken. If they know the truth, they'd be worried,\" she says.\n\n\"Thinking back,\" she adds, \"it's like a nightmare.\"\n\nBack in the boarding house, Xia was able to rest for a few weeks. But there was still no work and coronavirus case numbers began to surge once again in Los Angeles.\n\nShe heard from her friends that some workers had gone directly from the Shiprock farms to ones in Oklahoma - the latest frontier in the marijuana gold rush. A friend told Xia she could get a job with her in a massage parlour, and after that, maybe they could go back to farm work.\n\n\"All jobs are tough,\" she remembers thinking. \"I still need to endure, to make a living and to support my family.\"\n\nSo once, again, Xia packed her things and drove off towards the unknown.\n\nOklahoma City's Asia District is a roughly 10-block stretch of Chinese grocery stores, bubble tea shops and restaurants, dotted on either side of a busy four-lane thoroughfare. Near its centre is the Fujianese Association of Oklahoma, which opened its doors in late 2020.\n\nIn a room decorated with Chinese and American flags, men play mahjong at two tables as others stand around watching. The air is thick with cigarette smoke, the sound of clinking mahjong tiles, and occasional bursts of laughter and cursing.\n\nA Chinese and American flag on the wall of the Fujianese association\n\nDressed in T-shirts, jeans and sneakers, the men range in age from their 30s to 60s. One of them says they are mostly restaurant entrepreneurs who'd moved to Oklahoma to take part in the booming marijuana industry.\n\nAccording to Irving Lin, at least a dozen Chinese investors he knows took their workforce and what little they could salvage from the New Mexico farms straight to Oklahoma.\n\n\"You stopped me in New Mexico. I immediately go to Oklahoma,\" Lin says. \"So what? Next!\"\n\nOthers were not so lucky. One California investor told the BBC that she'd lost all her savings and the home she put up as collateral.\n\nSome of the luckier investors were at the Fujianese Association, but none would speak about their experiences in New Mexico. Asked directly by the BBC, a few only smile politely and shake their heads.\n\n\"What is cannabis?\" one player asks with a cheeky smile. \"None of us knows anything about it!\"\n\nEventually, a sophisticated-looking man in a long wool coat - a single AirPod hanging from one ear - arrives at the club. He says his name is Michael, and though he wasn't involved in the Shiprock venture, he is well aware of the debacle. He points out three men puffing cigarettes at one of the tables, and says he knows they lost their investment there.\n\n\"You can try,\" he says softly in Mandarin, \"but I don't think they'd talk to you about New Mexico.\"\n\nLater, in a conversation over the phone, Michael explains that the investors involved in Shiprock are embarrassed for having unknowingly broken the laws and suffered financial losses. Besides, many in the Chinese community still consider marijuana a dangerous narcotic drug, and the men are not eager to discuss it with reporters.\n\nAt the beginning of the pandemic, Michael, who's in his 50s, saw the economic fallout coming and sold his three acupuncture businesses on the east coast. He came to Oklahoma in June, after convincing a few Fujianese friends to pool their money. He says they now own several legal cannabis-related businesses, including a farm and an agricultural equipment store, even though he says he's never even smoked marijuana.\n\nMichael says most of his workers are Fujianese restaurant workers who came from all over the country, landing them - improbably - at the buckle of the Bible Belt, in a state better known for its cowboy history and staunchly Republican politics.\n\n\"If it weren't for the pandemic,\" says Michael, \"I'd have never come here.\"\n\nSince legalising medical marijuana in 2018, this socially conservative state has rapidly become the country's hottest weed market due to its hands-off regulatory approach. The cost of obtaining a cannabis licence in Oklahoma is just $2,500, compared with tens of thousands of dollars in other states. The state also has no cap on how many licences can be issued.\n\nAs a result, it's in the midst of a \"green gold rush\", says Matt Stacy, an Oklahoma City attorney who helps clients secure cultivation licences. He estimates he has about 300 Chinese clients.\n\n\"I didn't expect it,\" he says. \"It grew quickly.\"\n\nThough the cost of entry is low in Oklahoma, the cannabis business is by nature extremely capital and labour intensive. The Chinese immigrant community in the US has both resources, on a large scale.\n\nRecruitment is often done through word of mouth, cannabis groups on Chinese messaging app WeChat or sometimes through hometown associations like the Fujianese social club. There are also employment agencies in Chinatowns across the US, matching Chinese-run businesses with low-wage immigrant workers.\n\nIn a state where the Asian population is about 2%, the newcomers haven't gone unnoticed. Jayne and Vic Grissom obtained one of Oklahoma's first cultivation licences in 2018 and run a small, sleek dispensary outside Oklahoma City. Last August, when a group of Chinese men purchased an 80-acre plot and built a huge farming compound across the street from their home, the couple was surprised.\n\n\"Oklahoma is not a very diverse state,\" Jayne explains. \"To have that many Chinese coming in, especially where we are, which is really rural, I just found it really bizarre.\"\n\nThe couple - who grow three shipping containers of \"craft cannabis\" with names like 66 Cookies, OK Boomer, Spicy Berry - are concerned that these new, large-scale growers will flood the market with product or begin shipping it illegally across state lines to sell. It is only legal to grow marijuana for consumption in Oklahoma.\n\nJayne and Vic Grissom in their marijuana plant display room\n\n\"It's the wild, wild west here,\" says Vic. \"It's a gold rush, or a curse for Oklahoma, I don't know which one.\"\n\nChinese American cannabis farm owner \"Aaron\" does not want his real name used, but happily opens his gates to visitors. In his flip-flops and sweatpants, a cigarette always balanced on his lips or between his fingers, Aaron proudly shows off his weed empire.\n\nFor a man who just months earlier had zero experience growing marijuana, the fledgling operation is astonishing in its scale. The farm contains several warehouse-like buildings filled with countless cannabis plants. It's like a botanical garden, but with the ambience of an assembly line. About a dozen Chinese workers sit on small benches among the bushes, carefully pruning the adolescent plants.\n\nAaron's employees stay in a house just down the road, a couple of rambunctious puppies in the yard. That afternoon they were preparing to make a massive batch of fishball soup from fish they caught in a pond behind the property.\n\nAaron, too, hails from Fujian. He was smuggled into the US on a ship as a teenager decades ago, when illegal immigration from Fujian was rampant.\n\nLife was tough in the first years. Aaron endured back-breaking work and harsh living conditions when working in restaurants across the country, in places like Maine and Ohio. He still vividly remembers the despair he felt, when he arrived at strange new cities with all his belongings in a backpack and no clue where he was.\n\n\"My only option was to bear hardship and not to complain,\" Aaron says in Mandarin. \"If I had lost my job, I wouldn't know where I could go.\"\n\nHe learned English on the street, eventually obtained a green card, and went on to make his first pot of gold in the restaurant industry in Florida. He claims he once owned more than 30 restaurants there.\n\nAaron now employs workers with similar backgrounds to Xia's, who are relatively new to America and willing to take labour-intensive jobs to survive. But Aaron thinks things are much better than when he first arrived in the US, with mobile phones to keep in touch with family back home, a more established Asian immigrant network in the US and hence, greater leverage with the employers.\n\n\"I treat them as my grandpas and grandmas,\" he says with a big smile on his face. \"The Chinese people are very adaptable. We find ways to survive in all sorts of situations.\"\n\nThat does not mean that life in Oklahoma for the recent transplants has been easy.\n\n\"When the police see Asian faces in an out-of-state car, they will order you to pull over,\" says Michael, claiming he has been pulled over three times in Oklahoma by police officers. \"They inspected every little corner in my car.\"\n\nUnder federal and state laws, law enforcement officers can seize cash based only on the suspicion it was earned from or used to commit a crime. Michael says this is a big problem for an immigrant community accustomed to doing everything in cash - for example, he says he has never owned a credit or debit card in his 30 years living in America.\n\nMatt Stacy, the cannabis lawyer, takes on several cases involving forfeited cash every week, in some instances, for tens of thousands of dollars.\n\n\"We have to prove over and over that the money that someone was lawfully carrying with them is actually their money.\" He believes the practice has a disproportionate impact on his Asian immigrant clients, many of whom don't speak English well.\n\n\"The fact is, this is an unbanked industry,\" Stacy says - as marijuana is not yet decriminalised federally, bank options are limited for cannabis entrepreneurs.\n\nAfter the debacle in New Mexico, the Oklahoman farmers are even more concerned about the presumption by locals and law enforcement that their operations are not above board. And there are already signs of trouble. In late April, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics raided a cannabis farm, which has a legal medical marijuana licence but allegedly sold large quantities of its product on the black market. Eleven people were taken into custody, who, the police say, are potential owners and workers from Taiwan and China, and do not speak English. A bill that requires licence holders to disclose any \"foreign financial interest\" in marijuana businesses is moving through the state legislature.\n\nCannabis magazines are on display in the office of Matt Stacy\n\nNevertheless, Irving Lin insists the majority of Asian farmers are complying with Oklahoma law.\n\n\"They are good people,\" Lin says. \"They are doing nothing wrong. They need to take care of the family.\"\n\nWhile Lin still sees a bright future in cannabis in Oklahoma, back in Shiprock the community is in disarray.\n\nThe farms now lie empty. Inside abandoned mobile homes and barely insulated plywood shacks, the contents of every cupboard, drawer and closet are strewn across the floors, likely the work of law enforcement searching for evidence. The air smells of sewage and rotting food. Clothes still hang in the closets. Toothbrushes sit beside sinks. Outside, empty bottles and Chinese cigarette packets tumble across the fallow fields.\n\n\"All we see is plastic. We see trash. We see dead marijuana plants,\" says Bea Redfeather. \"That's what they left us with.\"\n\nIn the November 2020 election, Redfeather ran for San Juan Farm Board president and won, unseating Benally. She is sticking by her campaign promise to strip the 33 Navajo landowners of their farming permits, and trying to figure out how to start the huge cleanup. The Navajo Nation attorney general's office has also sued the landowners.\n\nSeventeen of those farmers have banded together to form a new, pro-hemp farmers' association, claiming they \"were unaware of hemp operator principal Dineh Benally's intentions to grow illegal crops\". A lawyer representing the group says they may even sue for what they say was an overzealous law enforcement response that included pointing guns at elderly Navajo landowners.\n\nBenally has left Shiprock, where he is facing charges of conspiracy, aggravated assault and interfering with judicial proceedings.\n\nBecause a federal investigation by the DEA and FBI is still open, it's not clear how many migrant workers were in Shiprock, or whether charges for any of the farmers or investors are being considered. According to Sanchez, momentum is building behind a labour trafficking inquiry, thanks to cooperation from the Travel Inn workers.\n\nBrandon Billie also no longer feels welcome in the Navajo Nation. Today, he works in health care in a nearby town, pulling long, late-night shifts. During the day, he sleeps in the back of his battered SUV in the parking lot. He has an apartment near Shiprock but stays away for his and his family's protection.\n\nBrandon Billie rarely goes home to see his parents any more for fear of retribution from his community\n\n\"Shiprock has changed so much,\" he says. \"I just don't feel welcome no more.\"\n\nGone, too, are the dreams of travelling to China. He says he tried to stay in touch with his favourite workers, but one by one they stopped responding.\n\nXia's experience in Oklahoma was short and disappointing, as well. The flower trimming work never materialised, and she wound up working as a masseuse again. The friends who did make it on to the farms told her to stay away.\n\n\"The snow is very heavy and thick,\" they warned.\n\nShe decided to cut her losses and go back to LA.\n\nIn March, a gunman on a shooting spree in Atlanta, Georgia, killed eight people - six of them Asian women. The murderer targeted massage businesses similar to the ones Xia has worked in for years, and the victims included Korean and Chinese immigrants who, like her, travelled all over the country searching for work. The killings came after weeks of reported increases in hate crimes and violent attacks against Asian Americans, particularly women, across the US.\n\nAs a result, Xia no longer wants to work in spas, further narrowing her already scant job prospects. Even though she hasn't made the amount of money she was hoping to send home to her family, she's not sure how much longer she will stay in the US.\n\n\"I often hear about Chinese people getting beaten up. We remind each other to be careful,\" she says. \"It's so scary. It's like living in terror.\"\n\nAfter everything she'd been through, Xia says she's still happiest among the fan-leafed plants of the cannabis farms. A few months after her return to California, she finds work at an outdoor grow where the hours are long and the sun beats down on her back. The job is seasonal and sporadic, but anytime she can, Xia says she will be back on the farm.\n\n\"If you don't mind the hardship and tiredness,\" she says, \"a day at the farm passes quickly.\"\n\nAdditional reporting and photography by Xinyan Yu; illustration by Katie Horwich", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says it would be \"absurd\" if things ever got close to the point of taking the SNP to court.\n\nScotland's first minister has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that a second independence referendum is \"a matter of when - not if\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon spoke directly with Mr Johnson for the first time since the SNP won an emphatic victory in Thursday's Holyrood election.\n\nEarlier, Ms Sturgeon said she did not expect the debate to end up in court.\n\nA senior UK government minister appeared to suggest it would not mount a legal challenge to her plans.\n\nDuring a phone call with Mr Johnson on Sunday afternoon, the first minister pledged to work with the UK government on steering the country through the Covid pandemic towards recovery.\n\nThe SNP said the leaders also agreed the importance of both governments working together \"closely and constructively\" to make the forthcoming UN climate conference in Glasgow a success.\n\nBut a party spokeswoman added: \"The FM also re-iterated her intention to ensure that the people of Scotland can choose our own future when the crisis is over, and made clear that the question of a referendum is now a matter of when - not if.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has invited Ms Sturgeon to a summit on a UK-wide approach to recovery from the pandemic\n\nThe UK Government said Mr Johnson spoke to the first minister to \"congratulate her on her party's success\" in the Scottish Parliament election.\n\nA spokesman said the prime minister emphasised \"the importance of focusing on Covid recovery at this time\".\n\nHe added: \"They both agreed that their immediate focus should be on working together to build back from the pandemic.\n\n\"The Prime Minister reiterated his invitation for the first minister to join a summit meeting to discuss our shared challenges on Covid recovery and how we can overcome them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Nicola Sturgeon was questioned whether she would introduce a referendum bill as early as next spring based on predictions that the UK will have recovered in terms of coronavirus circulation and GDP.\n\nShe said: \"That would certainly work for that timescale of within the first half of the parliamentary term.\n\n\"I desperately hope those predictions are correct but we have to judge that as we go through this year. We've still got significant challenges ahead. I wouldn't rule that out but I'm not sitting here saying that is the timescale.\"\n\nMr Johnson earlier invited Ms Sturgeon and her Welsh counterpart Mark Drakeford to a summit to discuss a UK-wide approach to recovery from the pandemic.\n\nHe has said it would be \"reckless and irresponsible\" to have a referendum right now, and the UK government is not currently expected to grant formal consent for a vote to be held - as it did ahead of the 2014 referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon congratulated five of the SNP's new MSPs on Sunday morning\n\nThere has been speculation that the row could end up with the courts being asked to rule on whether the Scottish government has the power to hold a referendum without the UK government's agreement.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she did not believe either side wanted a legal battle over the issue.\n\nShe said: \"The UK government knows that if we ever get into a situation where this is being determined in the courts then actually what the UK government is arguing is that there is no democratic route for Scotland to have independence.\n\n\"The implications of that would be very grave indeed. If the argument of the unionist side is that Scotland is trapped it strikes me that that is one of the strongest arguments for independence.\"\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\nMs Sturgeon also said it would be \"absurd and completely outrageous\" if the UK government went to court over the issue and that it was \"up to the Scottish people\" to decide the country's future.\n\nHer party stood on a manifesto to steer the country out of the pandemic, and to then hold a referendum, which she said people had \"voted overwhelmingly for\".\n\nShe added: \"The fact that we are sitting here having a debate about whether or not that outcome is going to be respected says a lot about the lack of respect for Scottish democracy that this UK government has demonstrated for quite some time now.\"\n\nAlso appearing on the programme, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said he would \"not go near\" the issue of the UK government potentially challenging a referendum bill in court.\n\nHe said: \"Whatever parties we come from, the priority at the moment is not court cases, it's not independence legislation - it is recovery from the pandemic.\"\n\nWhen asked if Scotland was allowed to leave the UK, he said: \"Of course it is, through a legal referendum which would allow people to make that choice.\"\n\nBut he also insisted that the SNP's failure to win an overall majority showed that the people of Scotland were not \"agitating\" for a referendum.\n\nThe SNP finished on 64 seats in Thursday's Scottish election - one short of a majority but one more than it won in 2016 - while the Conservatives won 31, Labour 22, the pro-independence Scottish Greens eight and Liberal Democrats four.\n\nBut Mr Gove said a majority of voters - 51% - had backed parties that were opposed to independence in the constituency ballot - although the same percentage voted for pro-independence parties in the regional list ballot.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove appeared on Marr during a visit to Scotland\n\nBBC Scotland's Sunday Show later asked Mr Gove to clarify the indication he gave to Marr that the UK government would not mount a legal challenge to a Scottish independence referendum bill.\n\nMr Gove said: \"We are not going to go down the route of talking about independence or legal challenges or anything like that now when our principal focus and exclusive attention is going on pandemic recovery.\n\n\"At the moment all we want to do is work with the first minister to concentrate on dealing with the consequences of the pandemic and the need to recover and build back better.\"\n\nMr Gove denied he was giving the Scottish government a green light to pass a referendum bill, saying \"we are concentrating on recovery at the moment\".\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Sturgeon said her priority was leading the country through the pandemic - but said she still intended to hold an independence referendum once the crisis has passed.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Sturgeon published on Saturday night, the prime minister invited Ms Sturgeon to \"discuss our shared challenges\", adding \"we will not always agree - but I am confident... we will be able to build back better, in the interests of the people we serve.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the country needed to \"show the same spirit of unity and co-operation that marked our fight against the pandemic\" in engineering a Covid-19 recovery.\n\nBut he warned it would be a \"difficult journey\", adding: \"The broad shoulders of the UK have supported jobs and businesses the length and breadth of the country, but we know that economic recovery will be a serious shared responsibility.\"", "Police investigating the death of community support officer Julia James have been granted more time to question a man.\n\nThe man, from the Canterbury area, and in his 20s, was arrested at 21:30 BST on Friday.\n\nMs James, 53, was found dead on 27 April in Akholt Wood, Snowdown, near Dover, having suffered serious head injuries.\n\nDetectives have been granted another 36 hours to question the man.\n\nOn Saturday officers began searching a house in Aylesham, about a mile from where Ms James' body was found.\n\nThis morning officers have been looking into drains at the property and searching through a skip.\n\nPolice have been searching a house in Aylesham\n\nMs James died from significant head injuries and had been walking her dog near her home at the time, police said.\n\nShe had worked for Kent Police since 2008, and her family said she was \"fiercely loyal\" and \"loved with her whole heart\".\n\nOn Saturday, Dover MP Natalie Elphicke laid flowers alongside other tributes to Ms James in Aylesham, and met officers involved in the investigation.\n\nMs Elphicke said she had spoken to officers from forces around the country, as well as specialist dog units and the British Transport Police, which were assisting Kent Police with the \"vital\" investigation.\n\n\"They've been working night and day, seven days a week, leaving no stone unturned,\" she added.\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke joined others in laying flowers for Ms James\n\nKent Assistant Chief Constable Tom Richards said: \"We continue to urge anyone with information, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem, to contact us.\n\n\"If you were in the Snowdown area between 1pm and 4.30pm on Tuesday, 27 April please contact us. This includes anyone local who may have seen something out of place at the time, or who came across someone who made them feel uneasy - such as feeling compelled to cross the road or change the route they were walking.\"\n\nJulia James' dog Toby was found next to her body, police said\n\nThe Kent force has been assisted in the investigation by a team of officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA), including experts in profiling, interviewing and psychology.\n\nNoel McHugh, from the NCA's Major Crime Investigative Support unit, said: \"The NCA is providing a significant amount of our niche capabilities in support of this high-priority investigation led by Kent Police.\n\n\"While we cannot go into any further detail in order to protect the investigation, I hope outlining the breadth of our work illustrates our commitment to seeking justice for Julia.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, police issued an image of Ms James in the clothes she was wearing before she was killed.\n\nThe picture shows her walking her Jack Russell, Toby, while wearing a light blue waterproof coat, blue jeans and dark Wellington-style brown boots.\n\nPolice said it was the same clothing, apart from the gloves, which she wore on the day she died.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Drakeford is expected to be reappointed as First Minister\n\nWelsh Labour is looking poised to go it alone and form a government without help from other parties.\n\nThursday's Senedd election left Labour with 30 seats - one short of an outright majority.\n\nBut a senior figure said the party could continue to run the Cardiff government without a deal signed with opposition politicians.\n\nLabour minister Jeremy Miles said the result allowed them to work with parties on a \"case-by-case basis\".\n\nParty leader Mark Drakeford also said Labour has governed successfully on 30 seats before.\n\nWith no significant challenge from the opposition to his position Mr Drakeford is expected to be reappointed to his job as first minister.\n\nHowever, he may in future need help from the opposition to pass laws and get Labour's spending plans through the Welsh Parliament, with one seat short of a majority.\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Wales: \"We have demonstrated over a number of governments that you can govern successfully on 30 seats, but I'm open to working with any party where there is common ground between us.\"\n\n\"I'm always much more interested in policy agreements that I am in a sort of political fixing.\"\n\nHe added: \"No party has a monopoly of good ideas, and where there are things that we can work on together, then my administration will certainly look to do that with anybody who thinks that we can work to the advantage of Wales.\"\n\nThe Welsh government ruled in a minority from 2011 to 2016, striking deals with the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru at various points to pass budgets.\n\nNeath member of the Senedd (MS) Mr Miles said there were \"precedents where we have successfully been able to negotiate budget agreements, legislative arrangements on a case-by-case basis with other parties\".\n\n\"I think the mathematics of this Senedd, the response that the people of Wales have given, allows for that range of possibilities,\" he told the Sunday Supplement programme on BBC Radio Wales.\n\nIn the last Welsh government Liberal Democrat Kirsty Williams served as education minister.\n\nJane Dodds, the Welsh Lib Dem leader elected as their only MS this time, has ruled out joining the Welsh government.\n\nShe told the Dewi Llwyd ar Bore Sul programme on BBC Radio Cymru: \"I'm not expecting [an invite to join the government] and I don't want it to tell you the truth.\"\n\n\"I don't have the experience of being in the Senedd. Kirsty had 15 or 16 years in the Senedd before she had a chance to be in the cabinet.\"\n\nMark Drakeford is in no rush. Having led Labour to a record-equalling tally of seats, he is not under pressure within the party.\n\nBut tough times lie ahead. The pandemic is not over. The outlook is uncertain.\n\nIn those circumstances, haggling over votes, lurching from deal to deal, is not an appealing prospect.\n\nThat's why Mr Drakeford is sounding conciliatory.\n\nHe wants stability in the Senedd and, if there is not to be a formal coalition, he must co-operate with opponents.\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies saw the party's seats increase from 11 to 16 - the Tories' best-ever result, although far short of the numbers needed to govern.\n\nMr Davies said: \"We've got the best result we've ever had in the assembly, nearly 50% more members returning, a new generation of Conservatives, the first lady coming to the assembly from an ethnic minority as well.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales he would like the next term's presiding officer (PO) - who chairs meetings and is a figurehead for the Welsh Parliament - to be from his party.\n\n\"I think it is important to reflect on the success of the Conservatives in this election, and give consideration to maybe a Conservative PO or DPO (deputy presiding officer),\" he said.\n\n\"I do think that from a consensual point of view, I think a progressive move would be to offer that consideration around a Conservative appointment.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru came third at the election. Although its overall seat tally rose by two, it lost its prized constituency seat of the Rhondda in the south Wales valleys.\n\nThe party's leader Adam Price told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement it was a \"disappointing result\" for Plaid Cymru electorally and a \"bitter blow\" in the Rhondda.\n\nBut he said there were \"many positives\".\n\nHe said Plaid Cymru had \"opened up the space for the Labour Party, and Mark Drakeford himself, probably, to take up a much more radical line on the constitution\".\n\n\"This is an election which actually has strengthened belief in Welsh self-government and in Welsh democracy,\" he added.\n\nLast night Prime Minister Boris Johnson invited the first ministers of Scotland and Wales to a summit on how \"Team UK\" can recover from the pandemic and face other \"shared challenges\".\n\nWelsh Labour Housing minister Julie James said she welcomed the invitation to a meeting if it was \"real\".\n\nShe told the BBC's Politics Wales programme: \"We've been calling for many many years for a proper constitutional summit, where we talk properly about the role of devolution across the UK.\"", "Reshuffles are moments when leaders have a chance to assert their authority - to show they are in charge.\n\nEven the most ardent political obsessive would acknowledge (probably) that opposition reshuffles are not necessarily noticed by the public.\n\nBut they matter to the mood and atmosphere of parties and Parliament.\n\nAnd for a party to win favour with voters over time, it needs to show the public trusted and favourite faces, to give the impression of an organisation ready for government - a group of people who we can all imagine in charge.\n\nSir Keir Starmer's first reshuffle, however, has been a very messy affair.\n\nIt began badly with a bust up with his deputy, Angela Rayner, who was being moved from one of her roles - in charge of campaigns.\n\nHer allies said she was being sacked. Sir Keir's team said she was being moved. They can't both be telling the whole truth.\n\nBut there was a late night howl of backlash to the notion she was being ousted, putting pressure on the leader to find a way to make her stay.\n\nIt took all day for the two to agree. That may seem astounding given that Sir Keir is meant to be the boss.\n\nRemember, however, that Ms Rayner's position as deputy leader is an elected one, and even the suggestion of her losing part of her role had already provoked outrage.\n\nClearly, she was in no mood to compromise.\n\nWhether it was settled in the end by an arm wrestle, a staring match, or screaming and shouting, the length of time it took created a massive vacuum - which Sir Keir's critics on the left of the party filled, almost with glee, to push him for a change in direction.\n\nAnd even some of his backers felt anxious, cross about the delays, concerned about the competence of the so called \"brains trust\" - a nickname for his team of advisers, not always used in a very complimentary way.\n\nIt took all of Sunday for Angela Rayner and Sir Keir Starmer to agree on her future role\n\nAfter a day of dispute and delay, in the end, the list emerged.\n\nSome important changes, but not a sweeping recasting of the team - you can read about the changes here.\n\nMs Rayner did stay in the end, with a prominent job, and - according to her allies - a newfound confidence.\n\nWithin minutes, they were briefing that her power has been boosted, implying she was the victor in the stand-off with the boss.\n\nOne of her supporters said: \"On Friday Keir couldn't answer a simple question about what Labour's vision is, what our offer is and how we will win back the voters in our heartland seats.\n\n\"Angela can answer that question and is the best person to lead the fight back in the Red Wall.\"\n\nAlthough an accommodation of sorts has been reached over her job, it doesn't seem like the two have reached a truce.\n\nIt's easy for moments like these to be overplayed as seismic and massively significant, when in a few months, the mood calms, events fade.\n\nBut these last few days have been an important political test for the Labour leader.\n\nIn a statement, Sir Keir said: \"The Labour Party must be the party that embraces the demand for change across our country. That will require bold ideas and a relentless focus on the priorities of the British people.\n\n\"Just as the pandemic has changed what is possible and what is necessary, so Labour must change too.\"\n\nThe election results were expected to be grim, but the handling of the reshuffle was a mess that could have been avoided - and a knock to his authority he didn't need.", "Deputy leader Angela Rayner was the campaign co-ordinator for Labour through the local election period\n\nSir Keir Starmer has started calling shadow ministers to carry out a reshuffle after hours of wrangling over the role of his deputy, Angela Rayner.\n\nThe Labour leader is facing criticism after losing the Hartlepool by-election and control of several councils.\n\nHe has already sacked Ms Rayner as the party's chair and campaigns co-ordinator, with sources saying she will be given another role in his team.\n\nBut ex-shadow chancellor John McDonnell said she had been made a \"scapegoat\".\n\nSir Keir has said he takes \"full responsibility\" for Labour's election results in England.\n\nThursday's elections marked the first test of voter opinion since Sir Keir became party leader last year.\n\nWith all of England's local authority results in, Labour has lost control of eight councils.\n\nThere was bad news for Sir Keir on Saturday night, when a swing to the Conservatives in County Durham saw Labour lose overall control of the council for the first time since 1925.\n\nThis followed the loss of the race to become Hartlepool's next MP - held by Labour since the constituency was created in 1974 - to the Conservatives.\n\nThere are some really big questions for Labour - but the most straight forward one of all right now is what exactly is going on?\n\nThe lights are still on in Sir Keir Starmer's office, but there is still no news about the reshuffle that was meant to happen on Sunday, with no names and no confirmed moves to show how his top team is going to look.\n\nAnd there is still no clarity in exactly what happened in this dispute with his deputy, Angela Rayner.\n\nYou might wonder why that fuss matters at all...\n\nWell, Labour had a hard time this week at those elections, even though they have got a new leader who has made a huge, huge effort to show how much he wants to change the party.\n\nSo this moment should have been a really clear chance for him to have a reset, to grab the party by the scruff of its neck and to get on with the changes he wants to make - even if that makes for some very difficult decisions.\n\nBut instead, he has found himself in this pretty confused picture - and perhaps a stand off with his deputy - with no clear message about who is even going to be sitting around his shadow cabinet table in the next few days.\n\nIt has also provided a vacuum into which his critics - particularly from the left of the party - have spent the whole day touring the broadcast studios, chucking in their tuppence worth, and suggesting he is taking the party in the wrong direction.\n\nThe party hopes to give the details of the top team tonight, but it has already been a long old day, with not much clarity about what is going on.\n\nBut there was some better news for Sir Keir when the party retained the mayoralties of London, Liverpool and Greater Manchester - and took the West of England mayoralty from the Conservatives.\n\nThese results were announced on Saturday, the same day that Sir Keir removed Ms Rayner from her election duties on the same day.\n\nA source said she would \"continue to play a senior role\" in the leader's team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell MP: \"The very day we are actually recovering a bit and having successes, then they do this\".\n\nBut Sir Keir has come in for criticism from senior figures on Labour's left, including Mr McDonnell, who told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show Ms Rayner had been \"scapegoated\".\n\nHe said the leader's style of running the party was \"very centralised\" and that he had \"controlled\" the election campaign.\n\nMr McDonnell also asked what \"PR genius\" had decided to remove Ms Rayner's campaigning role on Saturday, when there had been some \"good news\" with the mayoral victories.\n\nHe called it a \"huge mistake\", while former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott described it as \"baffling\".\n\nAnd MP Jon Trickett, whom Mr Starmer sacked from the shadow cabinet when he became leader last year, tweeted: \"I don't think we should rule out a leadership challenge.\"\n\nBut Dan Norris, who won the previously Conservative-held West of England mayoralty for Labour, said his leader had done \"a grand job, a brilliant job\" helping with his campaign.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"Keir made it possible for people to listen to Labour's message and then be influenced and that's why the result was so good, because people listened to what we had to say... And obviously that's really great for me and great for the Labour Party.\"\n\nSir Keir has also been criticised for picking a frontbench team lacking in well-known figures, with suggestions that senior MPs such as Yvette Cooper and Hilary Been could make a return in the reshuffle.\n\nHe took over as leader last year following Labour's worst general election defeat since the 1930s and has said the party has a \"mountain to climb\" if it wants to get back into government.", "Northern Ireland is now - by stats and numbers associated with the pandemic - roughly in the same place it was in September last year, before we entered the long, hard winter surge.\n\nAnd given the successful rollout of the vaccination programme, we're now in a much healthier place.\n\nInfection rates are generally low, as are case numbers; we have fewer people in hospital with the virus and the death rate remains quite low.\n\nNorthern Ireland still has the highest infection rate in the UK.\n\nBut it's not necessarily a high infection rate.\n\nData from the UK government for the seven days up until 2 May indicates the following infection rates per 100,000 population:\n\nThe Republic of Ireland does not publish its infection rate in the same manner, but it can be worked out. For the same seven-day period up until 2 May, it was 64.4.\n\nWales' rate is remarkably low and is undoubtedly tied to the very high vaccination uptake there.\n\nBut let's look closer at Northern Ireland's infection rate.\n\nIt may be the highest in the UK, but compared to previous rates it's still relatively low.\n\nWe entered 2021 with an infection rate of about 687 cases per 100,000 population - that's about 20 times higher than it is now.\n\nWhat we've seen recently is that Northern Ireland's rate has been more or less static, while the rest of the UK has seen slow and steady decreases.\n\nSo why is Northern Ireland's rate stubbornly staying higher than those in Great Britain?\n\nThe answer may lie in the fact that the rate in the Republic is now markedly higher than Northern Ireland's - cross-border movement is probably affecting Northern Ireland's rate, especially in the north west.\n\nThe Derry and Strabane Borough Council area has one of the highest rates in the UK. In fact, according the UK government's data for the seven days up to 2 May, it had the highest at 99.2.\n\nThe rest of Northern Ireland's council areas have a rate of 50 or lower.\n\nIn short, the high rate in Derry and Strabane is pushing up Northern Ireland's overall rate.\n\nOver the past week, almost a quarter of all infections in Northern Ireland have been in the Derry and Strabane area.\n\nAnd, in fact, the majority of the infections in the borough have been in Londonderry city itself.\n\nJust across the border, in east Donegal, you can find the areas of the Republic of Ireland with the worst infection rates in the state.\n\nThe Republic measures infection rates slightly differently than the UK, but right now, Letterkenny and Milford have infection rates about five times higher than Ireland's national rate.\n\nThe data also indicates the higher infection rate in the Derry and Strabane council area has been driven by teenagers and young adults.\n\nSo the figures indicate Northern Ireland's rate is being elevated by an infection hotspot in Derry, and most likely exacerbated by cross-border movement into another infection hotspot in east Donegal.\n\nIt is important to remember, however, that an infection rate is only one part of the picture.\n\nAt earlier points in the pandemic, a higher infection rate usually brought with it more hospitalisations and deaths.\n\nHowever, this is now not necessarily the case - and that's thanks to vaccinations.\n\nNorthern Ireland will soon have a million people vaccinated.\n\nThe latest number for individuals with a first dose is 963,531.\n\nThe UK's vaccine rollout has been very successful with two thirds of all adults having had a jab.\n\nAnd, obviously, Northern Ireland is part of that success.\n\nAccording to Our World In Data - a data research project based at Oxford University - there aren't too many nations in the world with a better rate of vaccination.\n\nInterestingly, one of the few places with a better vaccination rate than the UK is the Isle of Man.\n\nThe percentages of the adult populations in the UK and Ireland which have had a first dose are as follows:\n\nThe speed at which first doses are being given out in Northern Ireland has been fairly steady over the past few weeks at about 5,000 a day.\n\nNorthern Ireland - like the other parts of the UK - has been doing very well on second doses of vaccine.\n\nAbout half of those in Northern Ireland who have had a first dose have already had their second dose.\n\nHowever, it's expected Northern Ireland's vaccine rollout will slow down with the announcement that people under 40 are to be offered an alternative vaccine to the AstraZeneca jab, where possible.\n\nIt will be interesting to see how this change in approach affects Northern Ireland's vaccination rollout - so far the majority of doses given out here have been AstraZeneca.\n\nRecently the Department of Health has started to publish some vaccine uptake figures for age groups.\n\nMore than 43% of the 30-39 age group has now had a vaccine, although many of these people got their jab earlier in the rollout thanks to being eligible in another category.\n\nAlmost 20% of 18-29 year olds have had a vaccine dose, despite the fact this age group has not yet been called for vaccination.\n\nThis is because they met other criteria of eligibility such as being a healthcare worker, a care home worker, a carer or clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 has been around 70-75 for the past fortnight.\n\nThere have been small decreases and small increases during that time.\n\nThese numbers are quite small compared to the peak of the surge in January, when there were more than 1,000 patients in hospital with the virus.\n\nWe are also seeing quite a low rate of admission - about three admissions per day.\n\nAbout a quarter of those being admitted recently have been young adults between the ages of 20 and 39.\n\nThis is a higher proportion than at any stage in the pandemic and most likely reflects the higher vaccination levels among older people.\n\nThe number of people in intensive care units (ICUs) with the virus has also been very steady for a few weeks - between five and 10.\n\nNorthern Ireland's death rate is - thankfully - quite low, with a fatality expected every three or four days.\n\nBetween 11 January and 17 January, 160 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health.\n\nIn the latest seven-day period, two deaths were recorded.\n\nMoreover, our death rate has been at a similarly low level for nearly two months now.\n\nGreat Britain also has a very low death rate - indicating the effect the vaccination programme has had.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's death rate is higher, but has been falling in recent weeks.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency has also been recording steady but low figures in its weekly tally of death certificates which mention the virus.\n\nThe pandemic certainly has not gone away, but we have made impressive and steady progress towards a return to normality.", "Anneliese Dodds will be replaced by her Labour colleague Rachel Reeves\n\nSir Keir Starmer has sacked his shadow chancellor in a shake-up of his team after poor election results in England.\n\nAnneliese Dodds will now become the Labour Party's chair - replacing deputy leader Angela Rayner, whom Sir Keir fired from the role on Saturday.\n\nMs Rayner will instead replace Rachel Reeves in shadowing Michael Gove at the Cabinet Office, as Ms Reeves is promoted to the shadow chancellor role.\n\nThe Labour leader chaired a meeting of the shadow cabinet on Monday.\n\nSources said Sir Keir told them there was no escaping the scale of the defeats which said \"something profound about the size of the journey we have to go\".\n\nHe was said to have told the meeting: \"To be clear, I take responsibility. Nobody else. I lead the Labour Party and it is entirely on me.\"\n\nSir Keir said that his deputy, Ms Rayner, had \"a big, new role, taking the fight to the Tories\".\n\nShe later tweeted that she was \"looking forward to rolling my sleeves up and getting to work\" in order to \"reconnect with the voters that have lost faith in the Labour Party, especially in our traditional heartlands\".\n\nBut the reshuffle, announced late on Sunday following hours of wrangling behind closed doors, is already facing criticism from figures within the party.\n\nThe moves came after Labour lost control of eight councils overall in English local elections, and suffered an historic defeat to the Conservatives at a by-election in Hartlepool.\n\nThe party fared better in Wales, where it won half the seats in Welsh Parliament elections, as well as in several mayoral races in England.\n\nLabour also took the West of England and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral posts off the Tories, and prevailed in the first race for the new West Yorkshire mayor.\n\nLabour MP and former actress Tracy Brabin - the first woman to become a metro mayor - has stepped down from her role in Westminster to take up the new post.\n\nBut this means the party will soon face another by-election in her seat of Batley and Spen, which has been held by Labour since 1997.\n\nLabour was also re-elected in Greater Manchester, where its successful mayoral candidate Andy Burnham urged the party to learn the lessons of its victories.\n\nHe added that the party was too focused on a \"civil war\" between figures from different factions, which would prove \"absolutely pointless and destructive.\"\n\nA row broke out on Saturday after Angela Rayner was sacked by Sir Keir Starmer from two roles in the party\n\nLabour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, Shabana Mahmood, has taken on Ms Rayner's other former role as campaign coordinator.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast the party had to \"immerse ourselves in the communities that we currently represent - and that we want to represent once again - and to earn their trust\".\n\nBut Ms Rayner remains deputy leader of the party as it is an elected post voted for by members - and will be given additional duties to focus on the future of work and \"levelling up\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Burnham: Labour needs to stop \"pointless and destructive\" internal civil war\n\nFormer shadow home secretary Diane Abbot hit out at the \"drawn-out\" reshuffle, which she said \"hasn't been fantastically successful\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said Ms Rayner's removal from her campaign role was a sign Sir Keir was trying to make her \"carry the can for the poor results\".\n\nAnd Labour's Liverpool Riverside MP Kim Johnson called the decision a \"despicable act of cowardice\" from the Labour leader.\n\nAn ally of Ms Rayner said she had come out \"significantly more powerful, both in terms of the party and policy\", while a Labour insider told the BBC: \"Who would want to be national campaign coordinator in name only with no power when you're just made the scapegoat for the failures of Keir's team?\"\n\nIn response to the change in role, Ms Rayner tweeted: \"I will work tirelessly to reform our party and deliver a policy agenda that will enable us to reconnect with the voters that we need to win, especially in our traditional heartlands, and show that the Labour Party speaks for the working class.\"\n\nShe also thanked \"friends from all across the Labour Party and our movement\" who had contacted her over the weekend, adding: \"United we stand, divided we fall.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer's first reshuffle has been a very messy affair.\n\nIt began badly with a bust up with his deputy, Angela Rayner, who was being moved from one of her roles - in charge of campaigns.\n\nHer allies said she was being sacked. Sir Keir's team said she was being moved.\n\nThey can't both be telling the whole truth. But there was a late night howl of backlash to the notion she was being ousted, putting pressure on the leader to find a way to make her stay.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nOther movements in the reshuffle include:\n\nLisa Nandy is expected to remain as shadow foreign secretary, while Jonathan Ashworth will stay in his role as shadow health secretary.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Brown - who was chief whip under five Labour leaders - said the MP thought it was \"a reasonable time for Nick to move on\", adding he and Sir Keir had \"parted on good terms, with mutual respect\".\n\nThe party confirmed there would be no further appointments announced.", "Blasts close to a secondary school in the Afghan capital Kabul have left at least 50 people dead and more than 100 injured, officials say.\n\nThe explosions took place as students were leaving the building on Saturday, with pictures on social media showing abandoned school bags in the street.\n\nMost of the victims were girls, a ministry of education spokeswoman said.\n\nNo-one has admitted carrying out the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi - an area often hit by Sunni Islamist militants.\n\nAfghan government officials blamed Taliban militants for the attack, but the group denied any involvement.\n\nThe explosions are believed to have been caused by a car bomb and two improvised explosive devices planted in the area.\n\nThe neighbourhood in western Kabul is home to many from the Hazara minority community, who are of Mongolian and Central Asian descent and are mainly Shia Muslims.\n\nAlmost exactly a year ago, a maternity unit at the local hospital was attacked, leaving 24 women, children and babies dead.\n\nThe exact target for Saturday's bloodshed is unclear.\n\nThe blasts come against a backdrop of rising violence as the US looks to withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by 11 September.\n\nA woman is carried to hospital after the attack\n\nReports from Kabul say the city was busy with shoppers ahead of this year's celebrations for Eid al-Fitr next week.\n\nStudents were also streaming from the school. Najiba Arian, ministry of education spokeswoman, told Reuters news agency the government-run school was open to boys and girls.\n\nMost of the those hurt were girls, who study in the second of three sessions, according to Ms Arian.\n\nSeveral witnesses described hearing three separate explosions, while one woman told AFP news agency she had seen \"many bloodied bodies in dust and smoke\".\n\n\"I saw a woman checking the bodies and calling for her daughter,\" the woman, Reza, said. \"She then found her daughter's bloodstained purse after which she fainted and fell to the ground.\"\n\nThe US state department condemned \"the barbarous attack\".\n\n\"We call for an immediate end to violence and the senseless targeting of innocent civilians,\" it said.\n\nThe European Union's mission in Afghanistan said on Twitter that \"targeting primarily students in a girls' school, makes this an attack on the future of Afghanistan\".\n\nSo many places in Afghanistan have endured so much pain, but the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood in Kabul has suffered horrendously.\n\nThe neighbourhood is populated by members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority. As followers of Shia Islam, the Islamic State group (IS) views them as heretics, and has carried out a vicious campaign, attacking the softest of targets.\n\nDozens have been killed in bombings at sports halls, cultural centres, and places of education in particular.\n\nLast year, and in 2018, IS suicide bombers struck tuition centres in the area killing more than 70 people. IS is not part of the peace talks between the Taliban and Afghan government, which in any case are currently stalled.\n\nAs of yet, there's been no claim for the attack on Saturday. However, IS continues to carry out assassinations and bombings in Kabul and the city of Jalalabad, despite having recently lost much of the territory it once controlled in the east of the country.\n\nYou may also be interested in...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Afghanistan, four women were killed for working at a TV station", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Natasha Asghar said she hopes to see people from more diverse backgrounds in Welsh politics.\n\nThe first woman of colour elected to the Welsh Parliament said she wants to inspire and be \"a voice\" for those who have faced barriers entering politics.\n\nConservative MS Natasha Asghar said the Senedd is \"very outdated\" and should reflect \"more diverse communities that truly represent Wales\".\n\nThe new South Wales East member, whose late father was a Senedd member, wants to \"inspire\" others to follow suit.\n\nIt comes as less women have been elected to the Welsh Parliament.\n\nWales was the first country in the world to have a gender equal parliament in 2003, but now 26 women - out of 60 - will be the new Welsh Parliament.\n\nCampaigners have said the fall in female Senedd members is a \"step back for equality\" as after Thursday's election the number of female Members of the Senedd dropped from 29.\n\nMs Asghar, from Newport, follows in the footsteps of her late father Mohammad Asghar who died in 2020, who was the first ethnic minority member of the Senedd and also represented South Wales East.\n\nShe is not only the first woman of colour from Wales to have been elected to a seat in the Welsh Parliament but also in the House of Commons and European Parliament too.\n\nHer election comes as the first woman of colour was also elected to the Scottish Parliament in its 22-year history.\n\nMohammad Asghar represented the South Wales East region for 13 years before he died last year\n\n\"We have no real political influential women of colour in Wales and I am honoured beyond comprehension to be the first one,\" she said.\n\nMs Asghar said the Senedd was \"still very outdated when it came to representation\" and it needed to reflect \"more diverse communities that truly represent Wales\".\n\n\"I want to inspire the young men and women that it is doable, it can be achieved, and I hope to be a platform to get to where I am, if not go further,\" she added.\n\nKirsty Williams, Wales' former education minister and MS of 22 years, stood down at the election\n\nWhile campaigners and political leaders welcomed the historic moment, calls have been made for action to increase diversity in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nIn Wales, 43% of MSs elected on Thursday were women, this compares to 34% of MPs elected to UK Parliament at the 2019 general election and 37% at the outgoing Scottish Parliament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore the elections women held 48% of seats in the Welsh Parliament, with 29 female MSs and 31 men - of the party leaders, all of them were male.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, 42% of the Welsh Parliament were women but numbers rose after four women were sworn in during the parliament term.\n\nThere had been fears that Thursday's vote could be a \"massive step back\" for diversity, after polls suggested just 34% of female candidates had been in winnable seats.\n\nSarah Murphy, new member of the Senedd for Bridgend, was one of 17 Labour Senedd members elected\n\nA number of key female figures in Welsh politics stood down before Thursday's election, following the vote, all of their seats are now held by men.\n\nIn the Vale of Clwyd, where Labour's Ann Jones also stepped down after 22 years, Labour fielded a male candidate, but the seat was taken by Gareth Davies of the Conservatives.\n\nFormer Education Secretary Kirsty Williams's Brecon and Radnorshire seat, held since 1999 by the Liberal Democrat MS, was won by Tory candidate James Evans, beating the Lib Dems candidate William Powell.\n\nMeanwhile, Angela Burns' old Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire seat was held by the Tories, with the party's Samuel Kurtz elected to the Senedd.\n\nLabour were the only party to see a constituency seat formerly held by a man held by a woman\n\nNew Labour MS Sarah Murphy in Bridgend was the only female to take a constituency seat from a man, after former Labour first minister Carwyn Jones did not stand for re-election.\n\nThe largest party, Labour, now has 17 female Senedd members out of their 30 seats while Plaid Cymru has five (out of 13) and the Conservatives three (out of 16).\n\nWhile Jane Dodds is not just the only Liberal Democrat candidate to win a seat in the Senedd but also the only female party leader in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford is set to remain as first minister of Wales as his party wins 30 seats in the Senedd\n\nCerys Furlong, of gender quality charity Chwarae Teg, said parties had been \"warned repeatedly that more needed to be done\" to ensure diverse candidates were in winnable seats.\n\n\"We know what the barriers to greater diversity in politics are, it's high time action was taken to address them,\" she said.\n\nShe called for an introduction of quotas, and more initiatives to help people to stand for election, like job shares for parents.\n\n\"For too long we have heard warm words about the need to deliver greater diversity in our politics, but not only have we not made progress, the number of women has actually fallen,\" she added.\n\n\"Wales deserves a Senedd that reflects our diverse communities and our newly elected Senedd has a responsibility to make that a reality\".\n\nJess Blair, of the Electoral Reform Society (ERS), said the decrease in gender equality showed \"how risky it is to leave diversity up to parties\".\n\nShe added some regions had been at risk of having no women representing them on the list in the Senedd.\n\n\"From 2003, where Wales was the first country to achieve a 50:50 gender balanced parliament, this is a huge backwards step,\" she said.\n\n\"It is obvious that we need to introduce statutory measures such a gender quotas, linked to a more proportional electoral system, to ensure that gender equality doesn't slip back further\".\n\nPolitical consultancy Deryn said more \"positive action\" was needed to deliver equality in Welsh politics and parties needed to \"think again\".\n\nCathy Owens, of Deryn, said Welsh Labour had reintroduced all women shortlists, but Plaid had lost key seats held by women.\n\n\"The Conservatives continue to have a terrible record of representation,\" she said.\n\n\"It is great that the Conservatives have the first woman of colour in the Senedd, but they need to start taking action now to ensure that their slate of candidates at the next election is more representative of the communities they serve.\n\nMs Asghar, who has worked in media and finance, said there had been a \"lack of knowledge\" within her own community about how to get involved in politics, when asked about why she thought the Welsh Conservatives was mostly white and male.\n\nShe spoke of following in the footsteps of her father, adding: \"He always said to me, 'Natasha I'm blessed by god to be the first member, I pry to god that I'm not the last'... and I'm delighted that's not been the case since.\"\n\nThree of the four new South Wales East MS's are women, with Cons Natasha Asghar, Plaid's Delyth Jewell and Cons Laura Anne Jones elected\n\n\"There's been more men, I understand from different parties, I'm the first woman of colour...it's progress,\" she said.\n\n\"I would love to see more women, more members of the LGBTQ community joining us.\n\n\"I don't feel like there should be any restrictions or boundaries, we live in a modern world, I do feel that the Senedd should reflect that.\"", "The Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey now makes his speech.\n\nHe says he was \"written off\" by pollsters, journalist and other politicians\n\n\"But Londoners didn't write me off,\" he says.\n\n\"As a poor boy, you learn that Londoners are generous of spirit and will give you a hearing.\"\n\nMr Bailey congratulates Mr Khan but adds that he hopes the re-elected mayor won't \"blame everything on the government\".", "It's not an enormous sweeping reshuffle on some kind of vast scale, but there are some particular changes of note.\n\nFirst of all, Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the Labour party - the bust up with Keir Starmer began all the bitterness and the disputes of this reshuffle today.\n\nShe will actually go to another big job, she'll be the shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a fancy name for being somebody who will be very senior indeed in the team who will face off in the House of Commons against Michael Gove.\n\nShadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, has been demoted to become the party chair. She will be replaced by Rachel Reeves, somebody who's been prominent in Labour circles for a long time, not somebody who's identified with the left of the party in any way.\n\nAnd one other thing, perhaps not a huge household name, but a name that really matters around these parts, is the veteran chief whip - Nick Brown - he is out.\n\nHe's put out a statement saying that he and Keir Starmer have left things on perfectly decent terms but in terms of the machinations of how this place works, his departure is something that really will matter.\n\nThis is certainly not been the kind of day that Keir Starmer would have wanted. A reshuffle is supposed to be about putting a rocket in people's bellies, getting things going.\n\nParticularly after Labour had a very patchy set of results with some really tough contests, losing ground to the Tories in many areas that they like to think of as their own.\n\nThat said, Starmer's allies are saying tonight that he resisted some demands other people were making, he kept his head down, he took longer than they would have wanted and it was messy - but in the end he did manage to get it done.\n\nBut I think this does give a wobble to Labour's sentiment. He has critics on the left who have already used this as an opportunity to pile in and push him to try to change direction.\n\nThe shadow cabinet itself is due to meet tomorrow at noon, one wonders quite what the atmosphere will be like in the room.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United guaranteed a Premier League top-four finish and ensured rivals Manchester City must wait to be crowned champions as they came from behind to beat Aston Villa at Villa Park.\n\nHaving sealed their place in the Europa League final despite a 3-2 second-leg defeat by Roma on Thursday, second-half goals from Bruno Fernandes, Mason Greenwood and substitute Edinson Cavani - followed by West Ham's loss to Everton - sealed a Champions League place for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side.\n\nA win for Villa would have clinched the title for leaders City - beaten 2-1 by Chelsea on Saturday - and Bertrand Traore's emphatic finish into the top corner midway through the first half threatened to do just that.\n\nEmiliano Martinez was equal to attempts from Greenwood and Marcus Rashford as United struggled to respond initially, while Dean Henderson kept out Ollie Watkins' strike to deny Villa a second before half-time.\n\nUnited levelled shortly after the restart when Fernandes calmly slotted in a penalty after Douglas Luiz needlessly fouled Paul Pogba, and Greenwood completed a four-minute turnaround when his low strike found the bottom corner.\n\nA VAR check for handball against Greenwood was dismissed after Luiz headed the ball onto the arm of the United forward and the visitors successfully resisted late Villa pressure despite the loss of captain Harry Maguire to injury, before Cavani confirmed victory in the closing stages.\n\nIn a frantic finale, Villa forward Watkins also received a red card for a second booking for simulation when under pressure from goalkeeper Henderson.\n\nUnited are 10 points behind champions-elect City but will have the chance to move within four points as they face Leicester and Liverpool before the leaders next play.\n• None 'At least we don't travel back to a party on the Blue side' - Solskjaer happy to delay City title win\n\nWith an exhausting short-term schedule to navigate, Solskjaer made four changes from United's midweek trip to Rome for his side's second fixture in a run of four in eight days - a situation created after last weekend's league meeting with Liverpool was postponed due to fan protests.\n\nHenderson, Marcus Rashford, Scott McTominay and Victor Lindelof started at Villa Park, and while Lindelof should have offered greater resistance for Traore's opener, there was little Henderson could do to keep out his fine strike.\n\nSolskjaer's side have gone 1-0 down on more occasions (14) than they have gone ahead (13) in the competition this season but, for a Premier League record 10th time in 2020-21, they once again went on to rescue victory.\n\nWith poacher Cavani benched after scoring twice on Thursday, United initially struggled to test Martinez despite encouraging build-up play.\n\nBut they were rewarded for a much-improved second-half display, with Fernandes' spot-kick setting the tone for a side totally unfazed by falling behind.\n\nGreenwood made his latest claim to be included in Gareth Southgate's European Championship plans with his fifth goal in five Premier League games, though Maguire's early departure following a collision with Anwar El Ghazi will be a concern for both the England boss and Solskjaer.\n\nBut Cavani's accurate header from Rashford's cross ultimately capped a positive week for United, in which they reached a first final of the Solskjaer era and co-chairman Joel Glazer announced plans for his first meaningful discussions with fans since his family bought the club in 2005.\n\nVictory over an Everton side seeking to keep their European hopes alive last week was further evidence of how far Dean Smith's side have progressed this season, even if results since the turn of the year have dipped.\n\nLast term, a 3-0 home defeat by Manchester United with four games to go left Villa second-bottom and four points from safety, before they rallied to survive by a single point.\n\nBattling on without injured captain Jack Grealish for a 12th successive match, a resolute defence denied United clear chances and Martinez looked comfortable when Greenwood and Rashford offered tests.\n\nTraore's lack of defensive support for right-back Matty Cash appeared an early concern as Luke Shaw found joy out wide, but he demonstrated his quality in the opposite half as he spun past Lindelof before unleashing a powerful drive into the far corner.\n\nBut once Luiz's trip on Pogba allowed United a foothold, Villa faced an uphill task as the visitors made it 22 Premier League visits to Villa Park without defeat.\n\nVilla remain 11th and have a top-half finish to aim for in their remaining four matches of a much-improved second season back in the top-flight.\n\n'We showed character, resilience and belief' - what the managers said\n\nManchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to BBC Sport: \"A great result and it takes a little bit of pressure away from having to get results because the next two [versus Leicester and Liverpool] are against very good teams.\"\n\nOn coming from behind again to win: \"It shows character, resilience, belief, fitness. It is difficult at times, especially when you travel back and don't get home until 5am Friday and then travel here. It is a long season and I am delighted for everyone.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith to BBC Sport: \"I didn't think we started the game particularly well. We upped it and then I thought we were good first half, we high pressed well and got a good goal. We were quite comfortable at 1-0 at half-time. I think the game turns on the penalty decision.\n\n\"There was a touch but was it enough [for Paul Pogba] to go down? I watched Manchester City last night and Sterling had four touches in his back and doesn't get a penalty and today it is a penalty. This is with Stockley Park watching in slow motion so you tell me what is happening because I don't think the football world actually understands it anymore.\"\n• None Manchester United have won 10 Premier League matches after conceding first this season, a record by a team in a single season in the competition.\n• None They have also recovered 31 points from losing positions, with only Newcastle United in 2001-02 recovering more in a single Premier League season (34).\n• None United are unbeaten in their last 25 Premier League away games, with those 25 games coming in Bruno Fernandes' first 25 away Premier League appearances for the club.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his 16th Premier League goal, the most of any teenager for the club, overtaking Wayne Rooney's tally of 15.\n• None Edinson Cavani netted his fifth Premier League goal as a substitute this season, equalling the record of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in 1998-99 and Javier Hernandez in 2010-11.\n• None Harry Maguire ended a run of 71 consecutive Premier League matches for Manchester United in which he completed 90 minutes - the joint-longest run alongside Gary Pallister between 1993 and 1995.\n• None Aston Villa have lost eight home Premier League matches this season. Only Sheffield United (13) and Fulham (11) have lost more.\n• None Bertrand Traore is the first player to score home and away against Manchester United and lose both games in a Premier League season since Robin van Persie in 2011-12.\n\nManchester United host Leicester City on Tuesday at 18:00 BST, before welcoming Liverpool to Old Trafford on Thursday (20:15).\n\nAston Villa face Everton at Villa Park on Thursday (18:00) and travel to Crystal Palace on Sunday (12:00).\n• None Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) has gone down, but the referee deems it simulation.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 1, Manchester United 3. Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Luke Shaw (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Attempt blocked. Matt Targett (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Bertrand Traoré (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Matt Targett.\n• None Jacob Ramsey (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Keinan Davis.\n• None Attempt saved. Bertrand Traoré (Aston Villa) header from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by John McGinn.\n• None John McGinn (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "One of America's largest burger chains is returning to the UK after 20 years with a promise to steal market share from rivals McDonald's and Burger King.\n\nWendy's, famous for square burgers, plans up to 400 outlets nationwide creating at least 12,000 jobs, although that could take many years, it said.\n\nWendy's would still be far smaller than McDonald's, which has 1,300 UK outlets.\n\nThe firm, which has also agreed a delivery deal with Uber Eats, left the UK complaining of high operating costs.\n\nAbigail Pringle, Wendy's chief development officer, said in media interviews over the weekend that with the UK burger and takeaway market growing the time was right for a return.\n\nAnd the UK will be used a springboard for growth in the rest of Europe.\n\nA statement said: \"The UK launch will spearhead a European-wide expansion as Wendy's looks to build on strong growth on the other side of the Atlantic, where the brand last year dethroned Burger King to become the No 2 player in the US hamburger market.\"\n\nA typical restaurant employs between 30 to 50 staff, the company said. Wendy's has also promised no zero-hours contracts in a sector much-criticised for its low pay and working conditions.\n\nThe first Wendy's will open next month, in Reading, followed by Stratford and Oxford, and the company said there will be new items on the menu tailored to the British market, including more vegetarian options.\n\nBut Wendy's enters a crowded market that was facing tough times even before lockdown. Gourmet Burger Kitchen and Byron both hit financial trouble and were sold after restructurings.\n\nWendy's said that even if the UK market does not expand as fast as anticipated, it still believes it can take market share from rivals by its emphasis on quality and service. The chain's marketing likes to promote its use of locally sourced products and fresh meat that is not frozen.\n\nThe chain was founded in 1969 in Ohio and now has 6,800 outlets. It is listed on Wall Street with a valuation of $5bn (£3.6bn).\n\nWendy's left the UK in 2001, citing property costs and other overheads that made expansion unviable.", "Caroline Lucas and Sian Berry share a joke on the campaign trail\n\nThe joy of a buffet of elections is being able to graze on the details that emerge beyond the main headlines - the political afters while most people are gorging on the main course.\n\nSo, let's take a look at how the Green Party did in Thursday's polls.\n\nOr should I say, green parties.\n\nOthers are poring over the pivotal role the Scottish Greens are likely to play in the coming years in the Scottish Parliament, given they serve up Nicola Sturgeon with a majority in favour of another independence referendum, which the SNP didn't manage on its own.\n\nBut what about the Green Party of England and Wales?\n\nNo such power-broking for them on the national stage, but some fascinating trends to take a peek at.\n\nThe party has gained more than 80 council seats so far.\n\nWe should be clear: that's a rise from a very small number, to a slightly bigger small number.\n\nBut then there are mayoral races.\n\nIn Bristol, the Greens gave Labour a run for its money, and finished second.\n\n\"The Green Party is one of the two main parties in this city,\" said the party's candidate, Sandy Hore-Ruthven.\n\nSian Berry, the party's co-leader and candidate for Mayor of London, tweeted a video with delight celebrating her \"really strong third place\".\n\nShe managed just shy of 200,000 first-preference votes, double her party's total in 2012.\n\nBluntly, though, politics is a pursuit where you are either a winner, or one of the losers.\n\nSo does any of this matter?\n\nPolitics is also about building momentum, and fighting for attention.\n\nIf you get labelled as \"other,\" an amorphous blob of minnows, that is rather hard.\n\nMolly Scott Cato says voters are facing up to the climate crisis\n\nSo little wonder Jonathan Bartley, the party's co-leader alongside Sian Berry, suggested it should be their party rather than the Liberal Democrats, that found itself invited on to a television sofa this weekend to mull over the results.\n\nThe Lib Dems have 11 times as many MPs - Caroline Lucas is still the Greens' sole representative on the green Commons benches - and more than four times as many councillors in England, but the Greens claim to have more mojo, movement and growth.\n\nThe BBC's elections supremo. Professor Sir John Curtice says: \"These local elections appear to confirm that the Greens are now able to win a non-trivial proportion of the vote.\"\n\nBut is this any more than the ebb and flow of election cycles? Or is it indicative of some sort of trend?\n\nIn a typically pugnacious post on social media, former Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said: \"The way broadcasters are almost entirely ignoring the frankly astonishing gains by the Green Party is the best indicator to those who want real change and to challenge the establishment that they should always vote Green.\"\n\nI called her with a mild sense of trepidation (incidentally, Jonathan Bartley had been on Newsnight and Sian Berry talked to Huw Edwards on the BBC's election special, but we'll let that go).\n\nThe Green Party's performance at this set of elections was down to three factors, Ms Scott Cato told me.\n\n\"People are facing up to the climate crisis, which we've been thinking about for decades,\" she said.\n\nThere was also \"disillusionment with Labour\" and, finally, \"the shoe leather thing\", as she put it.\n\n\"You do find people who say they are Green voters. But you don't find anyone who says, 'My granddad voted Green.'\"\n\nIn other words, if there is any tradition to voting Green, it doesn't run very deep.\n\nThe party has to scrap and harry for every single vote.\n\nMs Scott Cato reckons that makes the Greens distinctive, where others may be more complacent about at least something of a core vote.\n\nWho is voting Green, and where? And how much of this points to evidence of a splintering on the Left, where, in very broad terms, Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP and the Greens are all chasing voters who lean in that direction, leaving the Conservatives with a near monopoly for those who lean to the Right?\n\n\"The party's performance overlapped with Labour's, with the strongest Green showings in areas with the most graduates and professionals,\" writes Professor Rob Ford of Manchester University in the Observer.\n\nProfessor Matthew Goodwin, of the University of Kent, takes the argument further in The Sunday Times.\n\n\"The quietly impressive performance by the Greens this week is a big hint that we may well be heading in the same direction as our European neighbours, such as Germany, where cosmopolitan parties are eclipsing the old centre-left.\"\n\nHe adds: \"Fast forward 10 years and I'd not be surprised to see the Greens or the Lib Dems as a much bigger force, rallying zoomer graduates, middle-class professionals and city-dwellers in the face of a Labour Party that looks bewildered and lost.\"\n\nPlenty of parties have been assumed by some to be on the brink of death, only to revive themselves.\n\nGeorge Dangerfield wrote a book called The Strange Death of Liberal England, in 1935.\n\nGeoffrey Wheatcroft wrote a book called The Strange Death of Tory England, in 2005.\n\nOthers have been talked up, as the Greens have before, only to tread water or shrivel.\n\nPredicting what might happen in politics is a brave game, which is what makes it so fascinating to observe.\n\nThe Green Party of England and Wales remains a tiddler, but there is evidence it is growing, and growing in confidence.", "Keir Starmer was out on the campaign trail with Mark Drakeford in Llangollen last month\n\nWhile Labour in England is licking its wounds after losing its traditional heartland seat of Hartlepool in a by-election and the Conservatives made significant gains in local elections, Welsh Labour appears to be living in a parallel universe.\n\nWhile UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is facing all sorts of questions, Welsh Labour leader and First Minister Mark Drakeford is riding the crest of a wave.\n\nHe is set to retain power for a sixth term of Labour-led government in Wales after matching the party's best-ever Senedd election result and winning half of the 60 seats in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nWhy then was the Welsh party so much more successful?\n\nBefore the pandemic the prevailing wisdom was that Mr Drakeford would struggle against the charisma and passionate speech maker of Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price.\n\nPundits suggested that while he might be an effective first minister, he didn't have the \"lead them into battle\" rhetorical oomph of Mr Price.\n\nAnd then there was the post-Brexit reality - traditional Labour seats had fallen to the Conservatives, particularly in north-east Wales, at the 2019 General Election just as they had in England.\n\nThen came the pandemic. Suddenly the Welsh government had huge power over the lives of the three million people living in Wales.\n\nIt could decide when they could leave their homes, it was taking decisions every day that could result in thousands of lives being lost or saved.\n\nAnd many people in Wales appreciated what's often been described as the careful, thoughtful, earnest approach that Mark Drakeford took to the challenge.\n\nMark Drakeford became a national figure, in Wales and across the UK\n\nSuddenly, his perceived weaknesses became strengths, and a frightened population facing a national crisis thought, on the whole, the first minister had handled it pretty well.\n\nHis profile soared as he appeared in live televised press conferences and got the sort of UK-wide coverage both he and his predecessors could never have imagined, albeit for the worst of reasons.\n\nIn election debates, Mr Price praised the way his political opponent had dealt with coronavirus, knowing the first minister was now popular with many Plaid Cymru voters.\n\nPlaid and Welsh Conservative figures have pointed out parties that have been in government during this coronavirus crisis all did pretty well in Thursday's election - in Wales, Scotland and England.\n\nAs lockdown restrictions ease, and increasing numbers of us are vaccinated, perhaps many of us felt now wasn't time to revolt against those in charge.\n\nLabour's Senedd election manifesto was described as over-cautious by critics\n\nLabour's Senedd election manifesto was criticised as over-cautious, and compared unfavourably with those of other parties.\n\nBut Labour figures have warned post-pandemic finances will be tight and, while disputing suggestions it doesn't amount to much, they stress the manifesto is one that the Welsh government will be able to afford.\n\nPart, they say, of the authenticity of Mr Drakeford - not making rash promises that can disappoint voters.\n\nWhile there are bound to be some lessons Labour can learn from its contrasting fortunes in England and Wales, much of it comes down to the advantage that can be taken from being in government.\n\nAnd Labour at Westminster seems a very long way away from that at the moment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe police, fire crews and the RNLI have worked through the night to try to free a whale stranded in the River Thames in south-west London.\n\nThe whale, believed to be a baby Minke, was spotted in Richmond Lock on Sunday evening - and has since been moved.\n\nA vet will now assess whether it is strong enough to be released back to sea.\n\nThe BBC's Matt Graveling, at the scene earlier, said the future of the whale \"still hangs in the balance\".\n\nIt is thought the whale was first spotted earlier on Sunday a few miles up the river near Barnes Bridge, before becoming stuck on the lock's boat rollers in Richmond.\n\nThe Port of London Authority, which owns and operates the lock, said the whale had become stranded at about 19:00 BST.\n\nRNLI rescuers arrived at about 21:00 to help the animal, which is approximately 3-4m long, off the concrete.\n\nThey were joined by fire crews and marine rescue divers, who tried for several hours to float the whale before it was successfully moved to a safer location.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Graveling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGareth Furby, at the scene, tweeted: \"The rescuers need to be sure it will survive if taken back upriver. The whale has some injuries.\"\n\nAnd Jake Manketo, 20, from Richmond, earlier said: \"Everyone here is just hoping they get it out.\n\n\"We couldn't believe our eyes when we first saw the poor fella, not every day something like this happens in Richmond.\"\n\nMinke whales are the smallest of the great whales, growing to about 10m and can usually be found throughout the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.", "With all the results now in, the SNP have secured a fourth consecutive win in the Holyrood election, only narrowly missing out on an outright majority. Covid precautions meant the count was held over two days but now the shape of the new parliament is clear, here are the headlines:\n\nPam Duncan-Glancy is the first permanent wheelchair user to become an MSP\n\nSIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage", "Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond has failed in his attempt to return to the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHe launched a new pro-independence party, Alba, in March and had hoped to be elected as an MSP for North East Scotland via the regional vote.\n\nHowever, the party fell short of winning a seat in the region - picking up 8,269 votes, just 2.3% of the total.\n\nAlba had hoped to help secure a pro-independence \"supermajority\" but will not have any MSPs at Holyrood.\n\nBut Mr Salmond insisted Alba was \"here to stay\" despite the result.\n\n\"In only six weeks, Alba has established itself as a political force with which to be reckoned. Alba is now on the political scene and we intend to stay there,\" he added.\n\nMr Salmond had attempted to encourage independence supporters to give the SNP - the party he once led - their constituency vote, and Alba their regional vote.\n\nHe hoped that if Alba won enough of these regional list seats it could lead to 90 or more MSPs at Holyrood who support independence.\n\nAnd the party secured some high-profile defections from the SNP - including MPs Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey.\n\nMr Salmond was once the highest-profile politician in the independence movement.\n\nHe joined the SNP in 1973 while at university and was elected an an MP in 1987.\n\nSince then, he served two separate terms as party leader and was Scotland's first minister during the independence referendum in 2014 - stepping down the day after Scotland voted to remain in the UK.\n\nHe bounced back frontline politics in 2015 after being elected as an SNP MP - before losing the seat again in the 2017 election.\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 Salmond was cleared by a court of 13 charges of sexual assault against nine women in March of last year.\n\nPrior to that he won a judicial review case against the Scottish government after its handling of sexual harassment complaints made about him by two female civil servants was found to have been unlawful.\n\nThe situation exacerbated the rift within the SNP between Mr Salmond and his successor Nicola Sturgeon - with the pair, who had once been close allies, becoming embroiled in an increasingly bitter war of words.\n\nSpeaking on the Through A Scottish Prism podcast on Saturday, Mr Salmond said Ms Sturgeon had \"lost her nerve\" on Scottish independence in 2017.\n\nHe said: \"Nicola will prevaricate, Nicola lost her nerve on independence back in 2017 and has never recovered it, it's as simple as that.\"\n\nHe also accused the SNP of \"grand old Duchess of York behaviour\", saying they were \"going up and down this hill innumerable times\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she intended to hold an independence referendum once the Covid crisis had passed, adding that there was no democratic justification for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, or anyone else, to attempt to block it.\n\nGiven that there is now a bigger pro-independence majority at Holyrood than before, Mr Salmond said Ms Sturgeon and her government must deliver on the \"promise to take Scotland towards independence\".\n\nAnd he said there was \"no excuse for them not to do so\".\n\nHe also insisted that Alba had been \"vindicated\" in its strategy of encouraging voters to support his party on the regional list ballot.\n\nMr Salmond said that Alba had warned that SNP votes would be wasted on the list and \"elect zero SNP MSPs in almost every region and that is exactly what has happened\".\n\nHe continued: \"Yet again up to a million SNP votes wasted.\n\n\"In contrast in the constituencies unionist parties have been successful in persuading voters to vote tactically to stop the SNP in seats the SNP should have won such as Dumbarton and Eastwood.\n\n\"Yet while the Unionists voted smart the SNP persisted with the mantra of 'Both Votes SNP' knowing that it would fail to elect SNP MSPs, but worse than that, that it would allow Tory and Labour MSPs in by the back door.\"\n\nMr Salmond hit out at his former party and said: \"The SNP sent their troops over the top to waste their votes and it is Scotland and the wider independence movement that is the loser.\"\n\nDo you have a question about the Scottish Parliament election? Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "'Proud of campaign - disappointed with results'\n\nAnother new face heading to the Senedd is Plaid Cymru's Sioned Williams. While she failed in her bid to become the new member of the Senedd (MS) for Neath, she was elected on the regional list for South Wales West. \"I'm extremely proud of the very positive campaign we fought, based on transformational ideas we had for Wales - and that work is ongoing,\" she told the BBC's Politics Wales programme. But she admitted the overall result for Plaid in the election had been \"disappointing\". \"It is also a disappointing result for Wales,\" she claimed. However, Ms Williams said the new Plaid Senedd members heading to Cardiff have \"fire in our bellies\". \"We're going to work together to hold this Welsh government to account,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTravel disruption caused by the discovery of cracks in some high-speed trains is expected to continue this week.\n\nRobert Nisbet, of the Rail Delivery Group, said initial inspections of 183 trains taken out of service on Saturday should conclude by the end of Sunday.\n\nBut he warned that disruption was expected to \"carry on for a few days\".\n\nGWR advised against travel on Monday, while LNER urged people with bookings to check before they travelled.\n\nHitachi Class 800 trains used by the firms were taken out of service for safety inspections.\n\nAndrew Barr, CEO of Hitachi Rail, apologised to passengers and said the trains were withdrawn because of cracks found on the metal that linked the train's body with the underside of the train, known as the bogie.\n\nOn Sunday evening, the UK government asked Hitachi to set out a comprehensive plan to identify the extent of the cracking and outline a longer term repair strategy.\n\nWhile this sort of problem doesn't affect the structural integrity of the train - so it's not a danger to passengers - I'm told the risk is more about the possibility of something falling off.\n\nGWR is the most affected network. As the first operator in the country to introduce the Hitachi 800 in 2017, its trains are older.\n\nIts fleet of 93 is also much bigger than other operators', meaning more trains to check and fix.\n\nSome are already back in service - and we're told inspections should be done by the end of Sunday.\n\nAnd Hitachi Rail's boss told me the company would periodically reinspect the trains while a permanent solution is found.\n\nDisruption on long distance routes will go on for at least the next few days. That's partly because some trains and crew won't be in the right place.\n\nAlso, some carriages won't be able to go straight back into use because they need repairing. We don't yet know precisely how many yet. It's possible some which aren't yet showing a crack might also need remedial work.\n\nMr Nisbet, whose organisation represents train operators and Network Rail, also apologised for the disruption.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that rail firms were running as many services as possible, including rail replacement services, putting on extra staff at affected stations, relaxing ticket acceptance rules and offering compensation for delays.\n\nHe said it was \"gratifying to see the speed\" at which initial inspections were taking place but said it was impossible to say how long the checks would take. \"We don't want to rush it,\" he said.\n\nMr Nisbet said the cracks - measuring millimetres - \"didn't pose any particular danger to passengers\" but had the potential to develop if left untreated.\n\nThe Department for Transport said independent safety regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) will be closely involved in overseeing Hitachi's plans for safety inspections for the Class 800 fleet.\n\nRail Minister Chris Heaton Harris said: \"I expect operators to explore all options for replacement services to help people complete their journeys.\" He thanked passengers for their patience in the meantime.\n\nAnna Celac had hoped to see a friend in London\n\nInstagram photographer Anna Celac hoped to travel from Cardiff to London Paddington to see a friend she hadn't seen since last year.\n\nWhen she bought her ticket on Saturday night, she said the website she booked with didn't report any disruption.\n\nShe says she was disappointed when she had to cancel her trip, as the replacement bus service would have left her with too little time in the capital.\n\nOnly around 10% of Great Western Railway's long-distance services ran on Sunday, with a similar service expected on Monday, the operator said.\n\nGWR said customers for long-distance services should not travel on Monday and refunds would be issued.\n\nLocal services have been running, but they were expected to be very busy and rail replacement services were limited.\n\nThe company earlier said cracks were detected on \"more than one\" Hitachi 800 train, so all 93 in its fleet were being inspected as a precaution.\n\nIt comes after six of the trains were taken out of service by GWR last month after hairline cracks were found in the suspension system during routine maintenance.\n\nLondon North Eastern Railway apologised to customers, saying it was experiencing \"significant disruption\" due to the checks.\n\nIt is running a limited service on the East Coast Main Line, between Edinburgh, Newcastle, York and London, and will be unable to run trains between Edinburgh and Inverness/Aberdeen until Saturday 15 May at the earliest.\n\nLNER added that some services would also be cancelled on Monday - and passengers should check before setting off to the station.\n\nGreat Western Railway services in and out of London Paddington were cancelled on Saturday\n\nHull Trains said checks on its trains had been completed and services would resume as normal.\n\nBut the operator added it expected services to be \"extremely busy\" and could not guarantee that social distancing guidelines would be adhered to. Refunds were being offered for its Sunday morning services, according to its website.\n\nTransPennine Express said it was now running a normal service, but advised customers travelling between York and Newcastle to check for any knock-on impact before travelling.\n\nLNER passengers affected by cancellations can use their tickets on the following operators' services instead:\n\nRail replacement coaches are operating at York, Newcastle and Edinburgh, and also between Doncaster and Peterborough.\n\nLNER says affected customers' tickets will be valid up to and including Sunday 16 May, though new reservations will need to be made.\n\nGWR passengers can use their tickets on the following services:\n\nAre you a passenger who was due to travel on one of the affected trains? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The last few results are still coming in after a bumper set of local and national elections.\n\nWith ballots being counted over several days final results for some areas will be spread out over the weekend and into Monday.\n\nSearch below to find the result in your area.\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 Scottish and Welsh national parliaments and the London mayor and assembly have declared all their results.\n\nThere have also been council elections across England and Police and Crime Commissioner votes in England and Wales, and some areas may have had parish or town council elections, referendums on local issues and council by-elections.\n\nSome parts of England had four votes or more, as elections postponed from last summer were carried over to this year.", "Mark Drakeford with two new Welsh Labour Senedd members Buffy Williams and Sarah Murphy\n\nLabour's response to the Covid pandemic helped the party retain power after it won the most seats in the Welsh elections, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nMr Drakeford is set to continue as Wales' first minister after Labour won 30 of the 60 Welsh Parliament seats.\n\nThe Conservatives had their best Senedd campaign with 16 seats while Plaid in third took 13 seats.\n\nWelsh Labour leader Mr Drakeford has said his next Welsh government would be \"radical\" and \"ambitious\".\n\nHe said people felt they've been \"kept safe here in Wales\" and that was a \"strong theme\" in the election.\n\n\"From the very first day of the campaign here in Porthcawl, people have been coming to the doorstep to tell us that they feel glad they've lived in Wales over the last 15 months,\" said Mr Drakeford.\n\n\"A government I lead will continue to follow the science to do what our medical advisers tells us we should do, and that does mean doing things in a way that continues to keep Wales safe.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government controls Wales' Covid response and the relaxing of restrictions - such as meeting inside pubs and restaurants and travel rules - has tended to have been more cautious in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford: \"We've got a record of delivery here in Wales\"\n\n\"But on other matters, our manifesto is a radical manifesto with a host of ideas that are ambitious for Wales,\" added Mr Drakeford.\n\n\"I'll be very keen to ensure that we give that the most powerful sense of momentum behind it to get those things happening here in Wales.\"\n\nLabour, who have been in power in Wales either in coalition or as a minority ever since devolution in 1999, did fall one seat short of the 31 needed for an outright majority.\n\nBut this is a feat no party has ever achieved in the history of the Welsh Parliament.\n\nFifty-two of the 60 Senedd seats were declared on Friday, with two final regional list results on Saturday.\n\nBoth the South Wales East and South Wales Central constituencies returned two Welsh Conservative and two Plaid Cymru Members of the Senedd (MS).\n\nIn South Wales East, Delyth Jewell and Peredur Owen Griffiths were elected for Plaid, while Laura Anne Jones and Natasha Asghar will represent the region for the Welsh Conservatives.\n\nMs Asghar has become the first woman of colour to be elected into the Welsh Parliament and she was welcomed by Welsh Conservatives' Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies.\n\nMr Davies was elected in South Wales Central alongside fellow Tory politician Joel James and Plaid Cymru members Rhys ab Owen and Heledd Fychan.\n\nLabour fell one short of an outright majority, but the Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds, who was elected as an MS for Mid and West Wales has said she will not be seeking a ministerial role, like her predecessor Kirsty Williams.\n\n\"I'm absolutely clear that I'll be working across parties and I need to focus on what we can deliver,\" she said.\n\n\"But it is it is the case, I hope that I can work with and I can influence other parties, predominantly Labour, in order to deliver some of those real liberal values\".\n\nFour parties are represented in the new Senedd, which features 34 men and 26 women. Nineteen of the 60 MSs, just under a third, are serving in the Welsh Parliament for the first time.\n\nConservative Gareth Davies, an NHS physiotherapist, won the Vale of Clwyd from Labour\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives will be the second largest party in the Welsh Parliament and made gains on both the constituency and regional lists, but failed to win some of its target seats needed to win the election.\n\nIt did take the Vale of Clywd from Labour for the first time in 22 years, but Clwyd South and Wrexham, which both voted Conservative in the 2019 General Election, remained red.\n\nThe party also took Brecon and Radnorshire from the Liberal Democrats and won eight seats on the regional lists, more than any other party.\n\nThe 16-seat total beats the Conservatives' best result in a Welsh Parliament election of 14.\n\nNatasha Asghar, Peredur Owen Griffiths, Delyth Jewell and Laura Anne Jones were all confirmed as MSs for the South Wales East region on Saturday\n\n\"The team has gone above and beyond and deserve great credit for the positive campaign we've run right across Wales,\" said leader Mr Davies.\n\n\"I am thrilled to see Natasha Asghar make history in South Wales East by becoming the first female from a BAME background to be elected to the Senedd.\n\n\"It's been an unconventional campaign and it's clear incumbency and continuity has played a significant part. To that end, I would like to offer my sincere congratulations to Mark Drakeford and Welsh Labour on a successful campaign.\"\n\nFormer Plaid leader Leanne Wood has been a Senedd member since 2003 before her defeat\n\nPlaid Cymru won 13 seats, but former party leader Leanne Wood lost her seat in Rhondda to Labour.\n\nThe party's MP for Ceredigion, Ben Lake said on Friday losing Rhondda was \"an absolutely terrible blow\" for Plaid.\n\nSpeaking after the final results came in on Saturday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam price said the Senedd would be a \"poorer place\" without Ms Wood, who served in the Welsh Parliament for 18 years.\n\nHe also extended his congratulations to Mr Drakeford.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford is set to remain as first minister of Wales as his party wins 30 seats in the Senedd\n\nHe added: \"Although disappointed not to be returning more Members to the Senedd, I am proud Plaid Cymru ran a positive campaign based on a transformational programme.\n\n\"Our Senedd group will bring renewed energy and fresh ideas, and I look forward to working with all my colleagues as we continue to build the case for independence.\"\n\nThere were no wins for smaller parties, including UKIP, Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party and Reform UK - in sharp contrast to the seven regional seats UKIP took in 2016.\n\nThe new Senedd chamber will be made up only of members of the traditional parties.\n\nBuffy Williams took back Rhondda for Labour, unseating the former Plaid leader Leanne Wood\n\nDespite fears that turnout could be exceptionally low due to the coronavirus pandemic, turnout for the election was the highest in the Senedd's history.\n\nAt 46.6% this was just slightly higher than the record high of 46.3% at the first Senedd election in 1999, but is significantly lower than turnout for general elections.\n\nFor the first time 16-17-year-olds were able to vote at an election in Wales, but less than half registered to vote for who could form the next Welsh Parliament.", "Whether you want to watch, listen, or follow online, the BBC has you covered for all your election needs.\n\nResults for Thursday's elections in England, Scotland and Wales began coming in on Friday morning.\n\nThe BBC News website will have all the results as they are announced, with live results, and live pages with the latest reaction and analysis from our correspondents.\n\nThe BBC's Election 2021 results programme will begin later than usual, as the pandemic will delay vote-counting.\n\nThe programme will kick off at 09:00 BST on Friday and run until 22:00 BST on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer. It will also be available on BBC Two in the morning and BBC One from 14:30-18:00.\n\nHuw Edwards and Kirsty Wark will lead the show, co-hosted from London and Edinburgh, bringing the latest results, analysis and in-depth reporting from the BBC's election teams.\n\nThey will be joined by political editor Laura Kuenssberg, polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice as well as Reeta Chakrabarti and Lewis Goodall, and correspondents will be on the ground at closely fought council, mayoral and police commissioner contests.\n\nAs results are expected to continue coming in over the weekend, the special programme will continue on Saturday from 13:15 to 22:00. It will be broadcast on the BBC News Channel throughout the day, and on BBC One until 18:00.\n\nBBC local radio stations will carry results and analysis throughout the day on Friday and into the weekend, with special programmes across the network. You can find your local station's schedule here.\n\nOn BBC Radio 4, the latest results and forecasts will be broadcast on Friday on The World at One at 13.00 and PM at 17.00, presented by Evan Davis.\n\nOn Saturday from 07.00, the Today programme will have news and analysis, and Jonny Dymond will present PM later in the day at 17.00.\n\nAnd, as the inevitable fallout continues into the following week, the Today programme will be co-presented from Glasgow with Scotland editor Sarah Smith on the Monday, from 06.00.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live will have full coverage of the results across Friday and into the weekend. Reporters will be based at the key counts, political experts will explain the significance of the results and listeners will be sharing their reactions throughout.\n\nIn Wales, TV coverage will begin on BBC One Wales from 13:30 on Friday, with a special programme led by Nick Servini and Wales political editor Felicity Evans. S4C's coverage begins at 13:15 and is presented by Bethan Rhys Roberts.\n\nViewers in Wales who want to watch the BBC's election special with Huw Edwards and Kirsty Wark can see it online, on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer.\n\nBBC Radio Wales will have an extended election special with Gareth Lewis on Friday between 16:00-19:00, while on Radio Cymru Dewi Llwyd and Kate Crockett will present Etholiad 2021 from 13:30.\n\nAnd the Walescast podcast will provide a lighter look at issues and developments across the campaign.\n\nAll the latest results, news and up-to-the-minute analysis from our election teams in Wales will be on Twitter in English @walespolitics and in Welsh @BBCCymruFyw.\n\nIn Scotland, coverage begins on BBC One Scotland from midday on Friday.\n\nSpecial coverage will run on English-language and Gaelic programmes and platforms across Friday, Saturday, and into the Sunday if there are still results outstanding.\n\nBBC Naidheachdan will bring the Gaelic audience the latest news with a series of An La specials, and extended reports on radio, TV and online.\n\nViewers in Scotland who want to watch the BBC's election special with Huw Edwards and Kirsty Wark can see it online, on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer.\n\nFollow the latest results in Scotland on Twitter @bbcscotlandnews", "Boris Johnson, pictured on his first visit to Edinburgh as PM in 2019, has invited Nicola Sturgeon and other first ministers for a summit Image caption: Boris Johnson, pictured on his first visit to Edinburgh as PM in 2019, has invited Nicola Sturgeon and other first ministers for a summit\n\nBoris Johnson has written to Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford to congratulate them on their election victories and invite them to a summit on how \"Team UK\" can recover from the pandemic.\n\nHe said the people of the UK are “best served when we work together”.\n\nIt comes after Ms Sturgeon marked her re-election as Scotland's first minister by declaring there was \"no democratic justification\" for Johnson to block an independence referendum.\n\nThe prime minister earlier told the Daily Telegraph a referendum would be \"irresponsible\".\n\nIn his letter, he pointed to the vaccine roll-out as well as the support for jobs and businesses as successes for the union. He called on Sturgeon and Drakeford to \"show the same spirit of unity and co-operation that marked our fight against the pandemic”.\n\nA similar invitation is also being sent to the first minister and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland.", "Families began to bury some of the victims on Sunday\n\nAfghan families have been burying their children who were killed in explosions outside a secondary school in the capital, Kabul, on Saturday.\n\nMore than 60 people, mostly girls, are now known to have died in the attack that hit students as they left class.\n\nNo-one has admitted carrying out the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi, an area often hit by Sunni Islamist militants.\n\nThe Afghan government blamed Taliban militants for the attack, but the group denied involvement.\n\nThe exact target for Saturday's bloodshed is unclear. The blasts come against a backdrop of rising violence as the US looks to withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by 11 September.\n\nThe neighbourhood in western Kabul where the blasts occurred is home to many from the Hazara minority community, who are of Mongolian and Central Asian descent and are mainly Shia Muslims.\n\nAlmost exactly a year ago, a maternity unit at the local hospital was attacked, leaving 24 women, children and babies dead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Malala This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHeather Barr, who works for Human Rights Watch, tweeted a series of videos and photos of what she said was the school in Kabul - including a tour of the site given by one of the students. Ms Barr said the group had filmed a documentary there in 2017.\n\nNobel Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai - who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 - posted about the \"horrendous attack\" on Twitter.\n\n\"My heart is with the Kabul school victims' families,\" she wrote.\n\nThe first burials took place at \"Martyrs Cemetery\", where Hazara victims are laid to rest.\n\nMourners in a state of shock watched in grief as the girls' bodies in wooden coffins were lowered into graves, AFP news agency reported.\n\nOne of the residents of the area was quoted by AFP as saying: \"I rushed to the scene and found myself in the middle of bodies. All of them were girls. Their bodies piled on top of each other.\"\n\nThe explosions are believed to have been caused by a car bomb and two improvised explosive devices planted in the area.\n\nOne survivor, Zahra, told reporters she was leaving the school as the blasts took place.\n\n\"My classmate died. A few minutes later there was another explosion, and then another. Everyone was screaming and there was blood everywhere,\" she said.\n\nA woman is carried to hospital after the attack\n\nMore than 150 people were injured in the attack. Reports from Kabul say the city was busy with shoppers ahead of celebrations for Eid al-Fitr this coming week.\n\nThe Taliban announced on Sunday that they would observe a three-day ceasefire for the Muslim festival, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.\n\nThe insurgents said they would be \"halting all operations against the enemy to provide a peaceful and secure atmosphere\".\n\nThe Afghan government is expected to reciprocate with a truce.\n\nAfghanistan is seeing increasing violence as the US and Nato prepare to pull out all remaining forces from the country on 11 September.\n\nOn Saturday the US state department condemned \"the barbarous attack\" outside the school.\n\n\"We call for an immediate end to violence and the senseless targeting of innocent civilians,\" it said.\n\nThe European Union's mission in Afghanistan said on Twitter that \"targeting primarily students in a girls' school, makes this an attack on the future of Afghanistan\".\n\nSo many places in Afghanistan have endured so much pain, but the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood in Kabul has suffered horrendously.\n\nThe neighbourhood is populated by members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority. As followers of Shia Islam, the Islamic State group (IS) views them as heretics, and has carried out a vicious campaign, attacking the softest of targets.\n\nDozens have been killed in bombings at sports halls, cultural centres, and places of education in particular.\n\nLast year, and in 2018, IS suicide bombers struck tuition centres in the area killing more than 70 people. IS is not part of the peace talks between the Taliban and Afghan government, which in any case are currently stalled.\n\nAs of yet, there's been no claim for the attack on Saturday. However, IS continues to carry out assassinations and bombings in Kabul and the city of Jalalabad, despite having recently lost much of the territory it once controlled in the east of the country.\n\nYou may also be interested in...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Afghanistan, four women were killed for working at a TV station", "Andy Street has been West Midlands Mayor since 2017\n\nConservative Andy Street has been re-elected as the West Midlands mayor.\n\nThe 57-year-old won in the second preference count, with a total of 314,669 votes.\n\nLabour's Liam Byrne was unable to make up the 55,309-vote deficit from the first round, picking up 267,626 total votes to come second place.\n\nMr Street, a former managing director of John Lewis, was first elected to the position in 2017 when he defeated Labour's Sion Simon.\n\nVotes were counted across the West Midlands, with the main count at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham\n\nFollowing the result, Mr Street thanked \"everyone who has put their faith in me\".\n\n\"I want to thank everyone else who's come on board over last four years, and shares our vision for and belief in the renewal of the West Midlands,\" he added.\n\n\"It's that growing sense of unity and purpose that makes me certain we will succeed.\"\n\nPM Boris Johnson visited the region on 5 May to show support for Mr Street\n\nMr Street said the region now \"faces serious challenges\" due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"But equally there is no question that the West Midlands will bounce back strongly, and that we will create the dynamic, meritocratic, inclusive society we all crave,\" he said.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Byrne said Mr Street's mother, who died of coronavirus earlier this year, would be \"watching down today with immense pride\".\n\nThe region's mayor represents around 2.8 million people across seven local council areas - constituent members of the West Midlands Combined Authority - Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton.\n\nThe role attracts investment, is responsible for training and apprenticeships, housing development and controls the region's transport budget.\n\nIndividual counts took place across the region, with a main count at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham.\n\nThe election saw a 31% turnout of eligible voters.\n\nAlso running, but eliminated after the first preference votes, were Steve Caudwell for the Green Party, Pete Durnell for Reform UK and Liberal Democrat Jenny Wilkinson.\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\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\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.", "Deputy leader Angela Rayner was the campaign co-ordinator for Labour through the local election period\n\nLabour's deputy Angela Rayner has been sacked from her roles as party chair and campaign coordinator following poor results in the English local elections.\n\nThe party lost control of several councils and suffered defeat to the Tories in the Hartlepool by-election.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to reshuffle his frontbench team in the next few days.\n\nMs Rayner will remain deputy leader of the party as it is a position directly elected by the party members.\n\nShe is also expected to be offered another shadow cabinet role.\n\nA Labour source said: \"Keir said he was taking full responsibility for the result of the elections - and he said we need to change.\n\n\"That means change how we run our campaigns in the future. Angela will continue to play a senior role in Keir's team.\"\n\nBut Labour's former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the decision to sack Ms Rayner was a \"cowardly avoidance of responsibility\" and accused Sir Keir of \"scapegoating everyone apart from himself\".\n\nAnd shadow cabinet source said they were \"totally shocked\", adding, \"everyone is gobsmacked\".\n\nLabour's shadow schools ministers Wes Streeting said he had a lot of respect for Ms Rayner adding that she had a \"big responsibility\" along with Sir Keir to \"lead the party to victory at the next general election\".\n\nHe said it was \"time to take a cold hard look at ourselves to make sure we are changing Labour for the good\".\n\nLabour's Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham spoke out against Sir Keir's decision to sack Ms Rayner, tweeting: \"I can't support this.\"\n\nSpeaking after his re-election on Saturday, Mr Burnham warned that Labour was still too \"London-centric\".\n\nMr Burnham said the party needed to connect with voters differently, and support more powers for English regions.\n\n\"I'm getting a bit fed up of saying this to them, but they really do now need to listen and make real changes,\" he added.\n\nThe results in England contrast to Wales, where Mark Drakeford led Labour to its best performance in elections to the Welsh Parliament, falling just short of an overall majority by one seat.\n\nLabour has been in power in Wales - either in coalition or a minority - for the past 22 years.\n\nThursday's votes, including council and mayoral elections in England, are Labour's first major test since its crushing defeat at the 2019 general election.\n\nInstead of recovering ground, the party suffered a series of setbacks in England, including losing overall control of councils including Durham, Sheffield and Plymouth.\n\nThe Conservatives also picked up control of several councils, including Nottinghamshire and Basildon, as well as winning Harlow from Labour.\n\nIn former heartland Tees Valley, Labour suffered a huge defeat to incumbent Tory mayor Ben Houchen, who increased his share of the vote to 73%.\n\nBut Labour did win mayoral contests in a number of areas, including taking the West of England from the Tories, while retaining others including London, Liverpool, Liverpool City Region, Doncaster and Salford.\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\nOn Saturday, the party's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said Labour had to do more to listen to voters who had abandoned the party.\n\nHe added that the party needed to \"accelerate\" changes under Sir Keir's leadership, and would be launching a \"root and branch policy review\".\n\nHe contrasted the party's performance in England to a better showing in elections to the Welsh Parliament, where he said as a party in power it had a \"credible, radical policy offer\" to put to voters.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Sir Keir Starmer said Labour had \"lost the trust of working people.\"\n\nHe added the party had \"not made a strong enough case to the country\", but he took responsibility for \"fixing things\".\n\nFigures on the left of the party have accused him of not doing enough to challenge the government since taking over as leader last year.\n\nQuestioned about leadership ambitions, Mr Burnham said he loved the job he had just been re-elected to do and that was his priority.\n\nHe added: \"I'm not just going to put myself forward unless they needed me one day in the future. But we're not at that day.\"\n\nThe Labour leadership's response to poor results in England will be both political and organisational.\n\nThere will be a reshuffle of the shadow cabinet, and more staff will be moved out of London to regional offices.\n\nThe policies Sir Keir Starmer inherited from his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn will also be formally reviewed.\n\nLabour peer Lord Mandelson - who has advised Sir Keir's team - called for this review and envisaged the process running for 18 months to two years.\n\nLabour sources say that Sir Keir could use the exercise not just to distance himself from the 2019 manifesto, but to move away from some of the policy pledges he made in last year's leadership contest - which had been designed to appeal to the party's left.\n\nAmong those to criticise the party's direction under Sir Keir is Khalid Mahmood, who quit as a shadow defence minister around a month ago.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, he said Labour had been \"captured\" by a \"London-based bourgeoisie\" and had \"lost touch with ordinary British people\".\n\nThe Birmingham Perry Barr MP said the party needed to focus on supporting jobs, particularly in advanced manufacturing, in areas that felt left behind.\n\nAnd former leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has been suspended as a Labour MP under Sir Keir, said the party needed to present a \"real, radical alternative\".\n\n\"Offering nothing, offering insipid support for the government, causes people either to vote for somebody else or simply to stay home and disappear,\" he said.", "There is one thing that Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson can agree on. That now isn't the time to have another vote on a Scottish referendum.\n\nThat is just about where agreement between arguably the two most dominant political figures in the country right now begins and ends.\n\nBeyond that, the first minister is determined before too long to push for a vote. The prime minister, is set on saying 'no'.\n\nThere is one thing they have in common too. They are both vote winners for their parties with big personal followings, who are defying political tradition, refreshing their parties' mandates to govern after over a decade in power.\n\nBut if the dispute between them over the future of the UK is ever to be resolved, only one of these winners can come out on top.\n\nFrom today, Nicola Sturgeon is cranking up her rhetoric, suggesting that Boris Johnson is a democracy denier, set on turning down the desire of what she always terms the people of Scotland, who have expressed their wish for another vote.\n\nSome of her backers, and also some of Mr Johnson's allies, believe that saying a simple blank refusal of another referendum could stoke up support for Scotland going it on its own further.\n\nWhile she fell short of achieving the high bar of a majority for the SNP on its own, with the Green Party, the Scottish Party does have a majority who want independence.\n\nThe SNP is totally dominant in terms of seats. And the parties promising another referendum won. Those parties who vowed to block one lost.\n\nBoris Johnson will resist granting such a vote at all costs, and is keen, for now at least to keep the argument calm.\n\nIn his armoury, the legal and technical reality that the law, specifically Schedule 5, Part 1 of the Scotland Act (with which you may get familiar in the coming months, I promise) says in black and white that the constitution is a \"reserved matter\".\n\nIn other words, anything change to how the country is run, or who is in charge is a decision to be made by politicians from all parts of the United Kingdom who occupy the green benches in Parliament.\n\nIf you want to take a look for yourself, it's here.\n\nLegal experts aren't quite sure however how this would be interpreted in the courts in the rather likely scenario that the situation ends up there one way or another.\n\nWhile the first minister has the Parliament on her side, and Boris Johnson has the power and the legal backing as it stands to say no, they both have difficulties too.\n\nNicola Sturgeon can say the Parliament of Scotland is pro-independence, but she knows very well that its people are almost exactly divided.\n\nAs Professor John Curtice, the polling guru explains, \"It looks as though the SNP plus the Greens are heading for 49% of the constituency vote, and that the SNP plus the Greens and Alba may win 51% of the list vote.\n\n\"In truth, the only safe conclusion one can draw from these results is that Scotland is indeed divided down the middle on the constitutional question.\"\n\nShe has a reliable majority for a referendum in the Parliament, but not when it comes to the public.\n\nThe possibility of another referendum delights some voters, but it creates dread for others.\n\nAnd she will be reminded again and again by unionists that in 2014, she and other figures said the referendum then was a \"once in a generation\".\n\nConversely, Mr Johnson might find that a flat 'no' to a request from Holyrood proves the SNP's case that the UK government just doesn't listen - that's long been a sentiment that has driven some Scots towards to the case for independence.\n\nAnd while Downing Street is extremely sure that it doesn't want to grant another referendum, it's less sure how to it can increase support for the union.\n\nThe issue has been discussed more regularly than in recent years, there are promises of a new attitude, new spending, and a new focus on proving the case for the UK.\n\nBut while there does seem to be a genuine realisation in Tory circles that 'something must be done', quite what, and how compelling it might be, that's still rather vague.\n\nNeither the prime minister, nor the first minister want to join in full battle on this now. But it's a fight delayed, not a fight that's disappeared.\n\nBoth successful leaders, both in an uncomfortable status quo, and for that to change, would mean one of them would have to fail.\n\nP.s. Without question one of the things this complicated set of results has had in common, is that politicians have prospered where they made a big feature of standing up for their areas.\n\nWhether it's Ms Sturgeon's prominent role, and her constant vocabulary about acting for the 'people of Scotland', Andy Burnham's striking words about Manchester, Mark Drakeford in Wales, Ben Houchen in Tees Valley, Andy Street in the West Midlands - the list goes on.\n\nPerhaps, that's down in part to voters rallying behind leaders who have seen them through the pandemic.\n\nCertainly, the emergency has demonstrated more than before the responsibilities that leaders with devolved powers have, and how they can use them.\n\nFrom a purely political point of view, it's given them a platform.\n\nBut there is something else going on perhaps too. Irrespective of party, irrespective of the pandemic, politicians who define themselves against Westminster, who spend time and effort building popularity and profile among their voters are doing well.\n\nShowing up, being visible, and shouting loud on smaller political stages is having an effect on big national results.\n\nAs Westminster politicians look on with some envy, we'll return to this theme before too long!", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the Hartlepool by-election result is a \"mandate\" for his party to \"continue to deliver\"\n\nThe Conservatives have beaten Labour in the Hartlepool by-election, with a Tory MP elected for the first time in the current constituency's history.\n\nTory candidate Jill Mortimer - who defeated Labour rival Paul Williams by nearly 7,000 votes - hailed the result as a \"truly historic\" moment.\n\nIt comes as a blow to Sir Keir Starmer's efforts to win back support in traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nThe Tories are also making gains from Labour in English council elections.\n\nOn a walkabout in Hartlepool with the victorious Tory candidate, Boris Johnson said her win was a \"mandate for us to continue to deliver\" for the north-east of England and the rest of the country.\n\n\"If there is a lesson out of this whole election campaign across the whole of the UK is that the public want us to get on with focusing on their needs and their priorities, coming through the pandemic and making sure we build back better,\" added the prime minister.\n\nSir Keir said he was \"bitterly disappointed\" by the results.\n\nThe Labour leader said the party had \"lost the trust of working people, particularly in places like Hartlepool,\" but added: \"I will take full responsibility for fixing things.\"\n\nHe said Labour had \"not made a strong enough case to the country\" and he promised to set out changes in the next few days to help the party \"reconnect\" with lost voters.\n\nThe Hartlepool constituency was formed in 1974 and had returned a Labour MP in every vote since - until Thursday's poll.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the election results\n\nMs Mortimer hailed it as a \"truly historic\" result, adding: \"Not only that, I am the first woman ever to be elected as MP for this town.\n\n\"Labour have taken people in Hartlepool for granted for too long.\n\n\"I heard this time and time again on the doorstep and people have had enough and now, through this result, the people have spoken and have made it clear it is time for change.\"\n\nDiane Abbott, an ally of Sir Keir Starmer's predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, tweeted: \"Crushing defeat for Labour in Hartlepool. Not possible to blame Jeremy Corbyn for this result. Labour won the seat twice under his leadership. Keir Starmer must think again about his strategy.\"\n\nAnother Corbyn ally, union boss Len McCluskey, warned Labour faced a \"continuous downward decline\" unless Sir Keir started \"talking about the radical alternative for ordinary working people\".\n\n\"People don't know what his vision is. People don't know what Labour stand for anymore,\" said the Unite general secretary.\n\nHe told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast he did not trust Sir Keir and had not spoken to him since Mr Corbyn's expulsion from the Parliamentary party last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Corbyn, who now sits as an independent MP, tweeted: \"With millions not voting, these results show a loss of hope.\n\n\"We must offer a bolder vision to transform people's lives and give them the confidence to strive for a more equal world.\"\n\nBut key figures from the centrist wing of the party say the Hartlepool defeat, which saw a 16% swing from Labour to the Conservatives, showed Labour had not changed enough.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The general secretary of the Unite union says Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer must “reach out to the left”\n\nLord Adonis, who served under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said the party was in \"no man's land\" under Sir Keir, who he described as a \"transitional leader\".\n\nHe warned \"it could be curtains for Labour\" unless it became a \"modernising, centrist, dynamic\" party.\n\nAnd former Hartlepool MP Lord Mandelson said it was clear from his conversations with voters in the town that Mr Corbyn was \"still casting a very dark cloud over Labour\" and that the party had more work to do put that era behind it.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Hartlepool defeat was down to \"two Cs: Covid and Corbyn\".\n\nLabour's loss of Hartlepool in a by-election is the most dramatic illustration yet that the party has so far failed to connect with the Leave-supporting, working class voters they lost heavily in 2017 and 2019.\n\nSupport for the Brexit Party, which registered 26% in Hartlepool in 2019, collapsed - the successor Reform party secured just 1% of the vote.\n\nIt looks as though the Conservatives picked up the Brexit Party's former support, in line with the proportion of Leave voters preferring the Conservatives to Labour to the order of 3/4 to 1.\n\nHowever, the swing to the Conservatives of 16% is more than can be accounted for by the collapse of the Brexit Party.\n\nLabour's vote fell 9 points to 29%, so the party clearly lost some of its 2019 support, as well as suffering from the movement of Brexit Party voters to the Conservatives.\n\nPart of the explanation may lie in the success of independent candidate, Sam Lee, who won 10% of the vote.\n\nTogether with the pattern in key wards there is clearly a debate about whether Labour can win support from Leave voters by ignoring Brexit as it has in the past 12 months.\n\nThe Conservative gain of Northumberland council is a further illustration of the success of the Conservatives in Leave voting areas.\n\nThe Hartlepool seat came back into contention after its former Labour MP, Mike Hill, resigned in March.\n\nThe by-election was one of a raft of elections taking place across Britain on Thursday, with voters picking representatives for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd, as well as mayors and local councils in England, and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe result is more evidence of the long term shift in politics where areas that had chosen Labour for decades were less and less convinced.\n\nThat didn't start with Boris Johnson and didn't even start with Brexit.\n\nThe success of the vaccine programme has no doubt helped the Tories.\n\nBut Keir Starmer has questions to answer as well.", "There have been renewed clashes in Jerusalem between Israeli police and Palestinians.\n\nPalestinian medics said 90 Palestinians were wounded on Saturday, and Israeli police said at least one officer was hurt.\n\nThe police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse Palestinian protesters, some of whom threw projectiles.\n\nIt follows growing tensions over the proposed eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in a neighbourhood claimed by Jewish settlers, which has raised international alarm.", "Jonathon Seed will no longer be in the running to be Wiltshire's Police and Crime Commissioner\n\nA candidate running to be Wiltshire's next Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has been disbarred after a historical driving offence emerged.\n\nJonathon Seed was the Conservative Party's candidate to replace fellow Tory Angus Macpherson.\n\nA party spokesperson confirmed Mr Seed had been disbarred, while Mr Seed told the BBC he had withdrawn himself.\n\nVote counting for the PCC post is due to start in Salisbury at 10:00 BST on Monday and is set to go ahead.\n\nIf Mr Seed wins the vote, another election will need to be held.\n\nA Conservative spokesperson said the central party was unaware of the offence until a couple of days ago.\n\nThey said: \"Due to a historic driving offence that has come to light, the candidate has been disbarred from becoming the police and crime commissioner.\"\n\nMr Seed, a Wiltshire councillor, said he had been advised by his party that a 30-year-old drink driving offence would not affect his application and that he had believed he was eligible.\n\nHe said he withdrew his candidacy earlier on Sunday.\n\nMr Seed said he was \"bitterly disappointed\" that he would now no longer be able to take up the post if he won the vote and wished Mr Macpherson's eventual replacement \"every success in the role\".\n\n\"I will continue with my work as a local councillor and within the local community, to which I have dedicated my life for the past 20 years,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is perhaps understandable that there is lots of talk of independence and referendums the morning after a Holyrood election, given the SNP have won big once again.\n\nHowever, there is an argument to be made that the constitution is not necessarily the most interesting storyline in the wake of the polls.\n\nThere is still a pro-independence majority at Holyrood, and there is still an intense debate about mandates and process. But for all that, neither side actually wants anything to happen immediately, while there is still a pandemic to be dealing with.\n\nThe arguments being exchanged this morning are really rather familiar, and there is little incentive for anyone to change their tune straight away – not until the facts on the ground change, such as with the passing of a referendum bill at Holyrood.\n\nAnd there are some really pressing issues for the SNP in the coming days and weeks as it forms a new administration.\n\nTo start with – who will take up key Cabinet posts left vacant by retiring MSPs? These include the health secretary, during a pandemic; the constitution secretary, as Brexit unfolds; and the environment secretary, in the year of COP26.\n\nAnd then there are the other big ideas in the SNP manifesto – things like a National Care Service, a minimum income guarantee, publicly-owned rail services.\n\nThe constitution was clearly a big issue in the campaign and thus it is no surprise that it is the focus of intense discussion today.\n\nBut there is a lot more to Scottish politics than just the question of independence.", "The Neanderthal bones were discovered in a cave south of Rome\n\nArchaeologists in Italy have discovered the remains of nine Neanderthals who may have been hunted by hyenas, in a prehistoric cave south-east of Rome.\n\nThe fossilized bones, which include skull fragments and broken jawbones, were found in the Guattari Cave in the coastal town San Felice Circeo.\n\nNeanderthals, a close ancient cousin of Homo sapiens, are believed to have died out about 40,000 years ago.\n\nHowever, small traces of their DNA still exist in modern humans.\n\nEight of the remains date from between 50,000 and 68,000 years ago, while the oldest could be 90,000 or 100,000 years old, Italy's culture ministry said.\n\nThe archaeologists who unearthed the remains in the Guattari Cave, about 90km (56 miles) south-east of Rome, said they belonged to seven adult males, a woman and a young boy.\n\nMario Rolfo, a professor of archaeology at Tor Vergata University, said most of the Neanderthals had been killed by hyenas and dragged back to their cave den as food.\n\n\"Neanderthals were prey for these animals,\" the Guardian quoted him as saying. \"Hyenas hunted them, especially the most vulnerable, like sick or elderly individuals.\"\n\nItalian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini described the find as \"an extraordinary discovery which the whole world will be talking about\".\n\n\"These findings will help to enrich studies on Neanderthals,\" he said.\n\nA smaller number of remains were found by chance in the Guattari Cave in 1939, making it \"one of the most significant places in the world for the history of Neanderthal man\", the ministry said.\n\nThe cave had been closed off by an ancient earthquake or landslide, allowing the preservation of its contents.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Catherine Noakes, from the University of Leeds, says we should hug safely\n\nPeople should take precautions when hugging others, says an expert, amid expectations of a further easing of England's Covid restrictions this week.\n\nProf Cath Noakes said hugs should be selective, short, and avoid face-to-face contact.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said No 10 wants to see \"friendly contact\" between people restored.\n\nHe said the PM will on Monday confirm an easing of England's rules from 17 May.\n\nUnder the next stage of the government's roadmap for lifting England's lockdown, people can meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors, while six people, or two households, can meet indoors.\n\nPeople will also be allowed to stay overnight with those not in their household or bubble. Pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues will be permitted to reopen indoors.\n\nSome foreign holidays are set to be allowed. On Friday, the government announced that 12 countries would be added to England's travel green list, meaning anyone returning will not need to quarantine from 17 May.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded another two deaths within 28 days of a positive test and a further 1,770 cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hugging after lockdown: 'It's been too long'\n\nProf Noakes, a member of the Sage committee that advises the government, said the risks of grandparents who are fully vaccinated hugging their grandchildren are likely to be low in most cases.\n\nSpeaking in a personal capacity, she said it would worry her \"if we were advocating we could hug all of our friends every time we meet them again\" as it would \"perpetuate an awful lot of additional close contact that could spread the virus\".\n\n\"The reality is that when you hug someone you are very close to them and we know the virus is in people's breath and you are very close to that breath at that moment.\"\n\nShe advised that if people are going to hug others, it should be restricted \"to very small numbers of close family who perhaps you really value a hug from.\n\n\"I think don't hug too frequently, keep it short, try and avoid being face to face, so perhaps turn your face away slightly, and even wearing a mask could help,\" she said.\n\nProf Noakes warned that, even after vaccination, someone could get infected and could transmit it to others while unaffected themselves,\n\n\"So that's why we still need to be a bit cautious for a while yet. We've come a long way with this. The virus, although it's now very low prevalence, hasn't gone away.\"\n\nThe scientists and engineers advising the government realise that their caution about hugging might not be popular.\n\nThey know how many people see hugs as an essential form of bonding with their nearest and dearest.\n\nBut they've also studied how the virus spreads - how an infected person releases it in their breath.\n\nThat means that if someone gets very close, there's an increased chance of them inhaling the infectious particles floating in the air.\n\nThe tips for reducing those risks won't be popular - they go right against the grain of human instinct.\n\nBasically, hug as few people as possible and don't linger over it. And maybe wear a mask if someone is vulnerable.\n\nThat's why the prime minister talks of us using common sense about this.\n\nBut in the excitement of reunions, after so long apart, that might not be easy.\n\nCurrent social distancing rules advise people to stay 2m (6ft) away from those they don't live with, or are in a social bubble with.\n\nIn England, if it's not possible to stay 2m apart, the \"one-metre plus\" guidance means people should be at least 1m (3ft) apart with extra precautions in place (such as face coverings).\n\nEarlier, Mr Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that \"all being well\" Prime Minister Boris Johnson would confirm on Monday that there will be a relaxation of restrictions starting 17 May.\n\nHe also hinted that closer contact between family and friends could soon be allowed.\n\n\"Without prejudice to a broader review of social distancing, it is also the case that friendly contact, intimate contact, between friends and family is something that we want to see restored,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile Prof Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford vaccine institute, told Andrew Marr that he believed it is the right time to ease England's restrictions.\n\nAsked whether it would be safe for family and friends to hug on 17 May, he said the country has seen the \"extraordinary success\" of both the Covid vaccine rollout and the \"prolonged\" lockdown.\n\n\"I think it is time to start, based on the very careful modelling that's been done, relaxing some of those restrictions,\" he said.\n\n\"That means we're in a very fortunate position here in the UK.\"\n• None What are the social distancing rules?", "Police cordons were put in place around the canal where the baby was found\n\nThe body of a newborn baby has been found in a canal in north west London, the Met Police has said.\n\nOfficers and paramedics were called at 13:19 BST to the Grand Union Canal near to Old Oak Lane after the baby was seen in the water.\n\nThe baby was pronounced dead at the scene and the Met has launched an \"urgent\" investigation.\n\nA Met spokesman said: \"We urge the baby's mother to seek medical assistance by dialling 999.\"\n\nWitnesses said dozens of police, ambulance and fire vehicles attended the scene, close to an industrial estate in Park Royal.\n\nThe Met Police has urged the baby's mother to seek medical assistance by dialling 999\n\nA number of roads and pathways have been cordoned off and officers have said the cordons could be in place for \"hours\".\n\nEmergency staff wearing diving suits could also be seen walking close to where the discovery was made.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: \"We sent a number of resources to the scene: an incident response officer, an advanced paramedic practitioner, a clinical team manager and two ambulance crews.\n\n\"We also dispatched our hazardous area response team. Sadly, an infant was confirmed to be deceased at the scene.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A vaccination marathon is underway at Bran Castle in Romania Image caption: A vaccination marathon is underway at Bran Castle in Romania\n\nVisitors to Bran Castle in Romania this month can expect a jab in the arm rather than a bite in the neck, as the Dracula attraction takes part in a vaccination drive.\n\nHealth authorities have opened up Bran Castle in Transylvania for jabs every weekend this May, without the need to pre-book. The site is believed to have been an inspiration for Bram Stoker, who wrote the 1897 vampire novel Dracula.\n\nDoctors and nurses administered the injections to any interested visitors before they continued on their tour.\n\n\"I came to visit the castle with my family and when I saw the poster I gathered up my courage and agreed to get the injection,\" engineer Liviu Necula told AFP news agency.\n\nDoctors and nurses gave out the jabs at the castle Image caption: Doctors and nurses gave out the jabs at the castle\n\nRomania is using tourist attractions, local vaccination drives and even 24-hour vaccine \"marathons\" to get as many people to take the jab as possible.\n\nSome 3.6 million of Romania's 19 million population have had at least one dose of the vaccine so far. Authorities want to have jabbed five million by June, but are struggling to attract interest, with one study by think tank GLOBSEC suggesting that less than 50% of the population would be willing to get the vaccine .\n\nIt's thought Bran Castle was an inspiration for Bram Stoker when he wrote the novel Dracula Image caption: It's thought Bran Castle was an inspiration for Bram Stoker when he wrote the novel Dracula", "The first global review of complementary medicines for weight loss in 16 years suggests their use cannot be justified based on current evidence.\n\nResearchers found that while some herbal and dietary supplements resulted in marginal weight loss compared to a placebo, they did not benefit health.\n\nThey called for more research into their long-term safety.\n\nThe sale of diet pills, powders and liquids containing plant or animal products has grown in popularity.\n\nThe global industry was estimated to be worth $41bn (£29.3bn) last year.\n\nJust 20% of new products are audited annually to make sure they provide evidence backing their claims.\n\nIn some countries, the only requirement is that supplements contain acceptable levels of non-medicinal products.\n\nUnlike pharmaceutical drugs, clinical evidence for their safety and effectiveness is not required before they hit the market, says the review's lead author Erica Bessell from the University of Sydney.\n\n\"Our rigorous assessment of the best available evidence finds that there is insufficient evidence to recommend these supplements for weight loss,\" she said.\n\n\"Even though most supplements appear safe for short-term consumption, they are not going to provide weight loss that is clinically meaningful.\"\n\nThe Australian researchers carried out a systematic review of all randomised trials comparing the effect of herbal supplements to placebos (or dummy treatment) on weight loss, up to August 2018.\n\nThe data was analysed from 54 studies involving 4,331 healthy overweight or obese adults aged 16 years or older.\n\nWeight loss of at least 2.5kg (5.5lbs) was considered clinically meaningful.\n\nHerbal supplements included in the analysis were green tea, garcinia cambogia, mangosteen, white kidney bean, ephedra, African mango, yerba mate, veld grape, licorice root and East Indian globe thistle.\n\nThe analysis found that only one of these - white kidney bean - resulted in a statistically, but not clinically, greater weight loss of 1.61kg (3.5Ibs) than the placebo.\n\nSome combination preparations containing African mango, veld grape, East Indian globe thistle and mangosteen showed promising results, but were investigated in three or fewer trials, often with poor research methodology or reporting.\n\nThese findings should be interpreted with caution, researchers say.\n\nThe researchers also carried out a systematic review, up to December 2019, of 67 randomised trials comparing the effect of dietary supplements to placebos for weight loss in 5,194 healthy overweight or obese adults aged 16 years or older.\n\nDietary supplements included in the analysis were: chitosan, glucomannan, fructans and conjugated linoleic acid.\n\nThe analysis found that chitosan (-1.84 kg), glucomannan (-1.27 kg), and conjugated linoleic acid (-1.08 kg) resulted in statistically, but not clinically, significant weight loss compared to placebos.\n\nSome dietary supplements, including modified cellulose and blood orange juice extract, showed promising results but were only investigated in one trial and need more evidence before recommending them for weight loss, researchers say.\n\n\"Herbal and dietary supplements might seem like a quick-fix solution to weight problems, but people need to be aware of how little we actually know about them,\" says Ms Bessell.\n\nShe said very few high-quality studies had been performed on the supplements, with little data on long-term effectiveness.\n\n\"The tremendous growth in the industry and popularity of these products underscores the urgency for conducting larger more rigorous studies to have reasonable assurance of their safety and effectiveness for weight loss,\" she added.\n\nThe findings are being presented at The European Congress on Obesity held online this year.", "His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent is the Queen's first cousin\n\nPrince Michael of Kent was willing to use his royal status for personal profit, and provide access to Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, a Sunday Times and Channel 4 report says.\n\nThe Queen's cousin was filmed at a meeting in which undercover reporters were told he could be hired to make representations to the Kremlin.\n\nHis friend, the Marquess of Reading, later described him as \"Her Majesty's unofficial ambassador to Russia\".\n\nThe prince, 78, has denied the claims.\n\nAnd in a statement, his spokesperson said that the marquess had \"made suggestions which Prince Michael would not have wanted, or been able, to fulfil\" during the covertly-recorded meeting.\n\nThey added: \"As is standard practice, Prince Michael's private secretary made it clear to the company's representatives during their conversations that nothing could proceed without the agreement of the British Embassy and the help of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce, of which Prince Michael is patron.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches allege that the marquess described Prince Michael as being able to meet Mr Putin and make representations on behalf of a company set up by the reporters.\n\nThe marquess is said to have warned them that the prince's services were \"confidential\", adding: \"We're talking relatively discreetly here because we wouldn't want the world to know that he is seeing Putin purely for business reasons.\"\n\nHe estimated the prince could charge clients in the region of £50,000 for a five-day trip to Russia, the report claimed.\n\nThe prince is also said to have appeared willing to give the fictitious company his royal endorsement in a recorded speech for a fee of $200,000 (£143,000), and to use his home at Kensington Palace as a backdrop.\n\nPrince Michael's office denied to the Sunday Times that he had a \"special relationship\" with the Russian president and said in a statement that he had not been in contact with Mr Putin or his office for almost 18 years.\n\nThe newspaper said the marquess later sent an email to the reporters which it described as suggesting he might have regretted being too candid about the prince and Russia.\n\nThe email said any arrangement would be subject to the prince's advisers to make sure everything was correct.\n\nIn a statement reported by the newspaper, the marquess said he had made a mistake and \"over-promised\" during the meeting with the undercover reporters and for that he was \"truly regretful\".\n\nThe Prince and Princess Michael of Kent are not working members of the Royal Family but have represented the Queen in the past. Before the pandemic, they attended around 200 engagements a year, according to the Royal Family website.\n\nThe website includes a biography which describes the prince as being \"connected to Russia through his maternal grandmother\" and as having \"a strong interest in the country\".\n\nThe biography said he \"became the first member of the Royal Family to learn Russian, ultimately qualifying as a Russian interpreter\".\n\nThe prince and princess do not receive public money.\n\nHe earns a living through a long-established consultancy company and the couple pay market rent and fees for their home at Kensington Palace, a spokesperson for the prince said.\n\nHis father, Prince George, was the fourth son of George V and the brother of George VI, the Queen's father.\n\nRoyals for Hire: Dispatches airs at 19:30 BST, Monday 10 May on Channel 4", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'Indyref is the will of the country'\n\nNicola Sturgeon has hailed the SNP's \"historic and extraordinary\" fourth consecutive victory in the Scottish Parliament election.\n\nThe party finished on 64 seats - one short of a majority but one more than it won in 2016.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her priority was the pandemic but she still intended to hold an independence referendum once the crisis has passed.\n\nBoris Johnson has invited the devolved nations to a Covid recovery summit.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was no democratic justification for the prime minister, or anyone else, to attempt to block it.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said talk of \"ripping our country apart\" would be \"irresponsible and reckless\".\n\nThe prime minister congratulated Ms Sturgeon and Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford on their re-elections and invited them to a meeting \"to discuss our shared challenges and how we can work together in the coming months and years to overcome them\".\n\nIn Scotland the SNP won 64 seats, the Conservatives 31, Labour 22, the Scottish Greens eight and Liberal Democrats four.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her party had won the most constituency seats and secured the highest share of the constituency vote in the history of devolution.\n\nAnd she pledged that \"the task of building a better Scotland for everyone who lives here will be my priority every single day.\"\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her focus in government would be on leading the country through the pandemic and keeping people safe from Covid.\n\nShe added: \"It is then to kick-start and drive our recovery with an ambitious and transformative programme for government.\n\n\"And, yes, when the crisis has passed, it is to give people in Scotland the right to choose their future.\n\n\"All of that is what I promised and all of that is what I intend to deliver.\"\n\nShe said the result of the election meant there was \"no democratic justification whatsoever for Boris Johnson or anyone else seeking to block the right of the people of Scotland to choose our future.\"\n\nAnd she insisted that holding a referendum was now \"the will of the country\".\n\nBoris Johnson says it would be \"reckless\" to hold a referendum right now\n\nThe prime minister congratulated Ms Sturgeon and Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford on their re-elections and invited them to a meeting \"to discuss our shared challenges and how we can work together in the coming months and years to overcome them\".\n\nHe phoned Mr Drakeford on Saturday and plans to speak to Ms Sturgeon on Sunday.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Sturgeon published on Saturday night, he invited her to \"discuss our shared challenges\", adding \"we will not always agree - but I am confident... we will be able to build back better, in the interests of the people we serve.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the country needed to \"show the same spirit of unity and co-operation that marked our fight against the pandemic\" in engineering a Covid-19 recovery.\n\nBut he warned it would be a \"difficult journey\", adding: \"The broad shoulders of the UK have supported jobs and businesses the length and breadth of the country, but we know that economic recovery will be a serious shared responsibility.\"\n\nPrior to the Holyrood election's final results, Mr Johnson wrote in Saturday's Daily Telegraph that it would be \"irresponsible and reckless\" to talk about \"ripping our country apart\" with an independence referendum at a time when people wanted to recover from the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Scottish voting system was specifically designed to prevent any one party having a majority in the 129-seat parliament - although the SNP did manage to do so in the 2011 election.\n\nThe SNP, which formed a minority government after the last election in 2016, had hoped that winning another majority in this election would further strengthen its calls for a second referendum on Scottish independence to be held.\n\nIt would also have allowed the party to pass laws and the Scottish government's annual budget at Holyrood without having to rely on the support of any other party.\n\nBut there will be another, slightly increased, pro-independence majority in the parliament thanks to the seats allocated to the Scottish Greens through the regional list system and the additional seat won by the SNP.\n\nHowever, the Alba Party - which was formed by former SNP leader and first minister Alex Salmond - will not win any seats.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the results have seen 51% voters backing pro-UK parties in the constituency ballot - and 51% backing pro-independence parties in the regional list ballot.\n\nHaving secured a fourth term in power for the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon is not short of things to do as first minister.\n\nShe has to form a government - that could be another SNP-only administration, unless she wants to explore a more formal arrangement with the independence-supporting Greens to secure an outright majority.\n\nShe has to reshuffle her cabinet with four cabinet posts including that of health secretary needing filled as a result of retirements.\n\nThere are also important decisions that need to be taken on coronavirus - with a further easing of restrictions due on 17 May, plans to reopen international travel to consider and concern over Covid cases in Moray to address.\n\nMs Sturgeon has insisted that dealing with the pandemic and its aftermath will be her immediate priority — although clearly she intends to press the case for another independence referendum too.\n\nThere are also formalities - being sworn in with the other 128 MSPs on Thursday before putting herself forward in parliament for re-election as first minister the following week.\n\nThe SNP won two seats from Labour and one from the Conservatives in the constituency results that were declared on Friday.\n\nBut those wins caused the party to lose seats on the regional list, effectively cancelling out some of the gains it has made.\n\nNo other constituency seats have changed hands after Thursday's vote, which saw a record turnout for a Scottish Parliament election despite the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut the SNP's Kaukab Stewart and Pam Gosal of the Scottish Conservatives making history by becoming the first women of colour to win seats in the Scottish 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 SNP has pledged to push forward with legislation for a second Scottish independence referendum and have said they could go to the courts if the UK government attempts to block it.\n\nMs Sturgeon has also said she will not hold an illegal wildcat vote on the issue, arguing that it would not actually lead to Scotland becoming independent because the result would not be recognised by the UK government or the international community.\n\nAnd she has repeatedly stressed that she would only want a referendum to be held once the pandemic is over.\n\nOpinion polls suggest that voters are essentially split 50-50 on the question of whether Scotland should be an independent country.\n\nSIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage", "The SNP has won 64 seats in the Scottish Parliament election - one short of a majority but one more than it won in 2016.\n\nNicola Sturgeon hailed her party's fourth consecutive victory as a \"historic and extraordinary\" result.\n\nWe look at the picture across Scotland and the shape of the new Scottish Parliament.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nScotland's electoral map gives you a pretty good idea of who has won the election - it is swathed in SNP yellow. But look closely and you can see why they fell just short of an outright majority.\n\nThe seats they failed to win are islands in regions otherwise dominated by the SNP, meaning it was all but impossible for them to win seats back from the regional list, in the swings and roundabouts of the Holyrood system.\n\nTwo of the constituencies they did gain, in Ayr and East Lothian, were in a region where they already had list seats, two of which were subsequently lost.\n\nThe small strongholds that other parties have scattered across Scotland ultimately proved decisive.\n\nThe fact the SNP did not win a majority will make a real difference to the next five years at Holyrood. A minority government needs support from other parties to pass budgets and all its major reforms.\n\nIf it had been a majority, we could have put every other manifesto in the bin and taken the SNP's manifesto to be the definitive guide to the term ahead.\n\nThe Scottish Greens in particular - who were the SNP's partner of choice last term - will be looking forward to potentially having some of their policy priorities passed in return for crucial votes.\n\nIt also means the SNP will not have a majority on any Holyrood committee, meaning their legislation will not necessarily sail through the parliament with ease.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives retained their position in second place in a vindication of the party's strategy to target the \"peach vote\" - the colour of the regional list ballot paper\n\nThere were initially some nerves that they might have neglected the \"lilac\" constituency vote, but they ultimately held their key seats with the help of transfers from other pro-union parties.\n\nTactical voting may have had a huge impact overall - every seat seems to have become a race between the SNP and the party that was judged most likely to beat them locally.\n\nLabour - the party which may have the most to do to come up with a convincing answer to the constitutional question - finds itself marooned in third place again.\n\nThe Lib Dems meanwhile have slumped to just four seats due to their failure to pick anything up from the regional lists.\n\nThey have a number of strongholds in different parts of Scotland, but these are so tightly focused that the party's constituency wins in those areas make it very hard for them to pick up list seats too.\n\nIn an election of continuity, there was one surprise result which was quite different from previous years - turnout.\n\nSome 63% of the electorate came out to vote, a full ten percentage points above the average for previous Holyrood polls.\n\nIt is hard to say exactly why this happened, but a number of factors will likely have been at play.\n\nThe rise in postal vote registrations could be one, as could the expansion of the franchise to new groups including refugees.\n\nAnd the pandemic may have ultimately boosted turnout, rather than held it down, as many had predicted.\n\nPeople might have had more time to engage with activists or go out to vote due to lockdown.\n\nIndeed lockdown itself may have encouraged some to vote, having been a very clear example of the powers that governments can exercise.\n\nHolyrood's diverse representation had somewhat stalled in recent years - but that has all changed now.\n\nThe class of 2021 includes a record number of 58 female MSPs. The SNP now has 34 women, Labour have 10, the Conservatives have eight, the Scottish Greens have five and the Lib Dems have one female MSP.\n\nIt has chiefly been driven by the SNP's policy of having all-women shortlists for many seats where male MSPs were retiring - meaning a lot of older male MSPs have effectively been replaced by younger women.\n\nAmong those are the first women of colour elected to Holyrood, the SNP's Kaukab Stewart and Pam Gosal of the Scottish Tories.\n\nLabour's Pam Duncan-Glancy became the first wheelchair user returned to Holyrood, in what may be the most diverse parliament to date.\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", "The government has no plan to meet the \"huge challenge\" of persuading motorists to switch to electric vehicles, MPs have warned.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said the official target of banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 could be missed without urgent action.\n\nIt also argued that electric vehicles were still too expensive and there were not enough charging points.\n\nThe government said it was on track to meet its targets.\n\nA spokesman said it was investing £2.8bn to help the car industry and drivers make the switch to electric.\n\nSales of electric vehicles are by far the fastest growing segment of the car market, but they still only account for only 11% of new registrations.\n\nThe committee warned that this would not get to 100% unless prices fell and charging infrastructure was installed quickly.\n\nOnly 13 electric car models on sale in the UK at the moment cost less than £30,000, its report said.\n\nIt pointed out that the majority of charging took place at home and claimed the government had not focused enough on helping people who do not have off-street parking.\n\nThe committee also said the government needed to develop the skilled workforce and electric power infrastructure needed to support the transition.\n\nIts chairwoman, Labour MP Meg Hillier, said the UK had \"a mountain to climb\" to meet its targets.\n\nChallenges included making the car industry \"environmentally and socially compliant\", but getting the government \"wean itself off carbon revenues\" could be the biggest obstacle, she added.\n\n\"What we've got is a government throwing up a few signs around base camp, and no let-up in demand for oversized, petrol-guzzling vehicles,\" Ms Hillier said.\n\nBut the government said it had a \"highly ambitious and world-leading approach to increasing the uptake of zero-emission cars\".\n\nA spokesperson said the \"progress we're making in this area will help us to meet our targets\".\n\nThe government had allocated £1.3bn over the next four years to support the roll-out of charging points on motorways and major A roads, in homes and businesses and on streets, they added.\n\nThe cost of electric vehicles would fall as production scaled up around the world, the spokesperson claimed.\n\nThe RAC motoring group said it expected sales to grow further as new models came out.\n\nIt called for the government to look at \"ways to incentivise take-up\", adding that the plug-in grant - under which motorists are given help in purchasing zero-emissions vehicles - was not guaranteed to continue beyond 2023.\n\nSales of new hybrid vehicles are to be banned from 2035, under government plans.", "Jennifer Johnson denied perverting the course of justice in 1987\n\nThe ex-girlfriend of Babes in the Wood murderer Russell Bishop has been jailed after being found guilty of lying at his original trial in 1987.\n\nJennifer Johnson \"significantly undermined\" the prosecution's case against Bishop, who was cleared of killing nine-year-olds Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows in Brighton.\n\nHe was eventually convicted in 2018.\n\nMr Justice Fraser sentenced Johnson, who did not attend the hearing, to six years in prison.\n\nSentencing Johnson at Lewes Crown Court, the judge described her offences as being \"at the most serious end of the scale\".\n\nHe said he did not accept that pressure or coercion caused her to help Bishop saying \"you were a willing participant in his dishonest offence\".\n\nHe called Johnson \"an accomplished liar\", who \"lied and lied again to the jury and to the court\".\n\n\"In my judgement your prime motivation was that you could simply not face life without him... You wanted Bishop home with you, not in prison.\"\n\nKaren Hadaway (left) and Nicola Fellows (right) were killed in Wild Park, Brighton, in 1986\n\nThe families of the two girls had campaigned for decades for justice.\n\nMichelle Hadaway, Karen's mother, said Johnson's \"web of lies\" in 1987 left her \"completely numb to the core\".\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, she said: \"I don't know if any sentence would have been good enough for her.\n\n\"But she will have to sit behind bars for the next three years and think about the awful lies she's told, the suffering she's been a part of causing - and think 'was it worth it?'.\"\n\n\"The pain I have had to endure over the loss of my beautiful daughter Karen over the last 30 years has been unbearable,\" she added.\n\nSpeaking of Johnson's refusal to leave her cell for the sentencing, the judge called it an example of her \"refusal to accept responsibility\" for her actions, and Ms Hadaway said it was \"the coward's way out\".\n\nRussell Bishop faced a second trial in 2018 and was convicted\n\nChris Henley QC, for the defence, said Johnson had been \"a vulnerable young mother in 1987\" and was \"in a relationship with a violent, abusive and coercive man\".\n\nShe denied recognising a sweatshirt belonging to Bishop found in wasteland near where Karen and Nicola were found sexually-assaulted and strangled in Wild Park.\n\nShe claimed she had no choice to lie after being threatened by her partner, but was found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice earlier this week.\n\nMichelle Hadaway, Karen's mother, said Johnson's lies \"left me completely numb to the core\"\n\nDuring Johnson's month-long trial, the jury was told she had lied \"prolifically\" and \"significantly undermined\" the original trial.\n\nLibby Clark, senior crown prosecutor at the CPS, said the sweatshirt had been a \"key part in the prosecution's case\" in 1987.\n\n\"Johnson's actions played a part in the families of Nicola and Karen living in decades of despair as to whether anyone would ever be convicted of the killings of their little girls,\" Ms Clark said.\n\nThe parents of the girls lobbied MPs in 1988 and called for the reopening of the police investigation\n\nThree years after Bishop was acquitted, he struck again, leaving a seven-year-old for dead at Devil's Dyke, near Brighton. He was jailed for life.\n\nIn 2014, after advances in DNA testing technology, the sweatshirt was re-examined and evidence was found linking it to Bishop's home and the girls.\n\n\"Double jeopardy\" laws in the UK were scrapped in 2005, meaning Bishop's acquittal could be quashed and he was finally convicted of the murders 32 years after the girls died.\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.", "Top Whitehall civil servants are even posher today than in the 1960s, says the Social Mobility Commission (SMC).\n\nHidden rules favour those with the \"right accent\", a report - Navigating the Labyrinth - claims.\n\nAlmost three-quarters (72%) of those in senior posts are from privileged homes, up from two-thirds (67%) in 1967.\n\nThe survey of more than 300,000 civil servants found a \"behavioural code\" that makes it harder for people from working-class homes to get promoted.\n\nOnly 18% of senior civil servants are from a low socio-economic background, says the SMC, the body appointed by government to advise on social mobility,\n\nMost of the 445,000 civil servants are employed by government departments.\n\nJobs range from administrative and operational roles such as prison officers and tax collectors, up to permanent secretaries, the most senior grade, who work with ministers to run their departments.\n\nAmong those top Whitehall mandarins, 59% attended a private school - three times the rate among the wider population.\n\nThe permanent secretary at the Department for Transport who leads on social mobility, Bernadette Kelly, has welcomed the report.\n\n\"It chimes with much of my experience in talking to colleagues right across the civil service, and at all grades, about social mobility,\" she says.\n\n\"The sense that there is a hidden route to the top that those from more privileged backgrounds find easier to navigate.\"\n\nThose from advantaged backgrounds are defined as having parents in professional or managerial occupations.\n\nThe parents of those defined as coming from disadvantaged backgrounds had either never worked, or had jobs such as drivers, cleaners, receptionists or mechanics.\n\nThere is a culture that favours polish over performance, creating a \"class ceiling\" that prevents people from poorer backgrounds getting the top jobs, the report finds.\n\nOne civil servant told researchers how senior staff would sometimes break into Latin.\n\n\"I know that is a bit of a stereotype, but it is so real,\" Kristine says.\n\n\"You'll be in a ministerial meeting and they'll sort of talk in Latin, but they're making what you'll realise later is a sort of joke about Brussels that everyone sort of understands, and laughs.\"\n\nThe report identifies how \"cosy fireside chats\" conducted in a neutral received pronunciation accent help those with the right background navigate the \"velvet drainpipe\" of recruitment.\n\n\"There is a definite style of speaking,\" one interviewee tells researchers in the report.\n\nAnother civil servant says people with working-class accents tend to fare less well: \"I used to put on a bit of an accent or try to enunciate a little bit better,\" Pauline says. \"Ridiculous and humiliating, when I look back on it.\"\n\nThe report finds those from advantaged backgrounds are much more likely to work in policy jobs in Whitehall, benefiting from \"the propulsive power of being in London\".\n\nTwo-thirds of civil servants in the capital come from privileged backgrounds, compared with 41% in north-east England.\n\nThe government has plans to reform the civil service, initiated by the prime minister's former adviser Dominic Cummings, but this has been delayed by the pandemic.\n\nMr Cummings said he wanted to encourage \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government.\n\nOne ambition is to move more officials out of London, but the Social Mobility Commission warns the proposal to relocate 22,000 civil servants away from the capital risks increasing the concentration of civil servants from advantaged backgrounds still further.\n\n\"The civil service should be a role model for fair recruitment and career progression,\" says the report.\n\nThe authors accept that the civil service is acutely aware it needs to do better, and has made progress on diversity and inclusion.\n\nHowever, getting in is not enough and more action is needed to nurture career progression, the report says.\n\n\"When I get feedback, one of the things [staff from disadvantaged backgrounds] raise is the degree to which the conversation is all about politics and about people on Twitter that everyone's following,\" civil servant Alistair tells the researchers.\n\n\"You know, the majority of the country are not reading these tweets. Probably the entire audience for this tweet that we're discussing at the moment is in this room!\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth authorities in Malawi have incinerated 19,610 expired doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, saying it will reassure the public that any vaccines they do get are safe.\n\nIt is the first African country to publicly do this.\n\nThe World Health Organization initially urged countries not to destroy expired doses but has now changed its advice.\n\nUptake of the vaccine in Malawi has been low and health workers hope the move will increase public confidence.\n\nOut of a population of about 18 million people, the country has recorded 34,232 confirmed coronavirus cases and 1,153 deaths.\n\nMalawi received 102,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine it acquired from the African Union on 26 March and used almost 80% of them.\n\nBut the expiry date on the labels was 13 April and officials say this wasn't enough time to use them all.\n\nSo in a 30-minute process, officials destroyed thousands of Covid-19 vaccines, leaving behind just broken pieces of the vials holding the liquid.\n\nMalawi's principal health secretary told the BBC that it was unfortunate they had to destroy the vaccines but the benefits outweighed the risks.\n\n\"When news spread that we had out-of-date vaccines, we noticed that people were not coming to our clinics to get immunised,\" said Dr Charles Mwansambo.\n\n\"If we don't burn them, people will think that we are using expired vaccines in our facilities and if they don't come, Covid-19 will hit them hard.\"\n\nThe government says it has adequate stocks of vaccines and has urged everyone over 18 years old to get a jab.\n\nIn addition to the 102,000 from the African Union, it has received 300,000 doses under the Covax vaccine-sharing facility and 50,000 sourced direct from India.\n\nHowever, future supplies could be threatened by India's decision to halt exports.\n\nThe vaccines had been taken out of cold storage some time ago\n\nOn the streets of the capital Lilongwe, some people are worried about the safety of the vaccine.\n\n\"I would like to get vaccinated but how sure am I if I go to the hospital I won't be given the expired vaccines?\" shopkeeper Jack Chitete told the BBC.\n\n\"I have heard a lot of stories about people getting blood clots and some even dying after getting immunised. Are those people telling lies? If it is the truth, why are we being given the same vaccines?\" asked another shopkeeper, Mphatso Chipenda.\n\nThe link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and rare blood clots is not yet proven, and health experts say the risk from Covid-19 is far higher. They advise people to get vaccinated if they can.\n\nMalawi is not the only country in Africa to have expired vaccines. The WHO initially asked affected countries to hold onto the vaccines until it could establish whether they could still be used.\n\nBut it now says vaccines already sent out by the manufacturer with a set expiry date should be destroyed.\n\n\"While discarding vaccines is deeply regrettable in the context of any immunisation programme, WHO recommends that these expired doses should be removed from the distribution chain and safely disposed of,\" it said in a statement on 17 May.\n\nOther vaccines that are currently in use have a shelf life of up to 36 months. The challenge with Covid-19 vaccines is that they have been in use for less than a year and there is no substantive data around their effectiveness after long periods.", "Teachers' grades will be an important factor in replacements for cancelled exams this summer\n\nTeachers' grades could be biased towards students with more \"agreeable\" personalities - rather than actual ability, claim psychologists.\n\nAn international study found a 10% advantage in teachers' grades for those seen as being likeable, compared with results in anonymous exams.\n\nUniversity researchers warned students should not be \"penalised\" because of negative expectations about them.\n\nTeachers' grades will be used this year for cancelled exams across the UK.\n\nThe international psychology study looked at how personality could influence perceptions of ability.\n\nIt did not draw on the replacement exam systems being used in the UK, but head teachers' leader Geoff Barton rejected the idea of teachers being unfairly swayed.\n\n\"Teachers are highly trained professionals who are well aware of the importance of assessing all their students fairly and without any form of favouritism or bias,\" he said.\n\nThe psychology study, from researchers at Queen's University Belfast and Goldsmiths, University of London, analysed how the personalities of students compared with grades awarded by teachers and then their written exam results.\n\nIt was based on a sample of 1,200 students in Russia, whose psychological profiles had been mapped against their academic record.\n\nIt found that those with personality traits seen as more positive - such as more sociable, well-behaved and \"agreeable\" - received a boost in teachers' grades, which were not then borne out by performance in anonymous exams.\n\nTeachers also seemed to be more sympathetic in grading towards students who were stressed or anxious, showing more \"leniency\" in grades for those seen as more \"emotionally fragile\".\n\nThis pattern worked against those who were perceived as having more negative, anti-social or annoying traits.\n\n\"It seems teachers awarded higher grades to pupils who were more agreeable and marked them down if they were less likeable,\" said Kostas Papageorgiou from Queen's University Belfast.\n\n\"But we shouldn't penalise students for these characteristics,\" said Dr Papageorgiou.\n\nThe study, also involving academics in Russia and Italy, found no clear pattern between personality types and actual performance in exams.\n\nBut the evidence suggested \"teacher ratings might reflect some conscious or unconscious biases\", said the psychologist Dr Papageorgiou.\n\nThis is a higher profile issue in the UK this summer - with teachers' grades playing an important part, along with other assessments, in deciding results for exams cancelled by the pandemic.\n\nThe findings, although based on a sample of 14 to 18 year olds in Russia, have a relevance in all education systems, says Dr Papageorgiou.\n\n\"Bias is universal, it's part of all of us,\" warned Dr Papageorgiou. \"I don't see any reason why this sort of bias wouldn't apply here.\"\n\nThe study did not look at bias in terms of gender or ethnicity, but researchers said the findings revealed how much perceptions of academic ability could be influenced by other factors, in this case students' personalities.\n\nDr Papageorgiou says that a variation of 10% in grading might not seem high, but it could mean a significant difference in an academic setting.\n\nHe said it showed that \"bias can operate on many levels\".\n\nBut the psychologist said that: \"Marking exams blindly and having a moderation system in place will definitely reduce the negative impact of this bias.\"\n\nMr Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said teachers' professionalism would prevent favouritism and measures were in place to ensure fairness in this year's results.\n\n\"They are following detailed guidance from the exam boards and the exam regulator Ofqual, and schools and colleges are operating quality assurance processes to ensure fairness and consistency.\n\n\"Teachers and leaders are working incredibly hard to carry out these assessments following the government's decision to cancel public exams this summer.\n\n\"They are utterly committed to making sure that their students receive fair and accurate grades in GCSEs, A-levels and other important qualifications,\" said the heads' leader.", "There has been growing scrutiny of the government's decision to put India on the red list, weeks after neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh.\n\nThey were placed on the list on 9 April and India was added on the 23 April - days after Boris Johnson cancelled his trade visit to the country.\n\nAsked in Parliament, on Monday, 17 May, why India had not been added earlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock replied: \"The truth is that when we put Pakistan and Bangladesh on the red list, positivity among those arriving from those countries was three times higher than it was among those arriving from India.\"\n\nBut Mr Hancock's claim is not supported by the publicly available NHS Test and Trace figures.\n\nThey show that between 25 March and 7 April, the proportion of travellers testing positive for coronavirus on arrival in the UK were:\n\nThe government announced its decision to add Bangladesh and Pakistan to the red list, on 2 April\n\nWe asked the Department of Health whether figures from a different source support Mr Hancock's claim - but it has not answered the question.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"All decisions on red, amber or green list assignment and our border regime are taken by ministers based on regular scrutiny of the latest scientific data, the Joint Biosecurity Centre's risk assessment and wider public health factors.\"\n\nIn response to an earlier request for evidence, the Department of Health told us that the only published data covered 26 March to 22 April but not more precisely the point when Pakistan and Bangladesh were added to the red list.\n\nThanks to Ed Conway, at Sky News, who managed to find the dataset for the period between 25 March and 7 April, which also reveals about half of positive tests from people arriving from the three countries were being sent for genome sequencing to identify variants of concern (VOC) or variants under investigation (VUI).\n\nAt the time, the variant identified in India was neither a VUI nor a VOC, so the tests were looking for the variants identified in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nAnd the proportions in which they were found were:\n\nOn 19 May, the health secretary was asked about his claim - and what the Test and Trace figures show - in Parliament.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"The positivity rate in India, on which the decision to put Pakistan but not India on the red list was 1.6% in India and 4.6% in Pakistan, which is three times higher, as I said.\"\n\nBut those are not published figures. He did not give the date for them (so we cannot tell how rapidly India's rate climbed to the 5.1% recorded by 7 April) and he did not mention Bangladesh this time.\n\nThe statistical regulator has been clear that when unpublished information is \"used publicly to inform Parliament, the media and the public, it should be published\".\n\nUpdate: Since this piece was published on 19 May, new government figures have been released on the positivity rate of travellers arriving in the UK. In one period - from 25 February to 10 March - the rate for arrivals from India was 1.6% compared with 5.0% from Pakistan and 1.5% from Bangladesh. However, these figures do not show that Bangladesh's rate was three times that of India's, as Mr Hancock claimed on 17 May.\n\nThe Department of Health has told us that the figures they prepare for ministers covered the period 3 March to 17 March and these are what the health secretary was referring to. These figures have not been published.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDUP leader-designate Edwin Poots has defended the ousting of Arlene Foster as the \"rough and tumble\" of politics.\n\nIn an interview with BBC News NI, Mr Poots said sometimes \"people are on the wrong side of it\".\n\nMrs Foster announced her resignation as DUP leader and first minister last month after an internal party revolt.\n\n\"That is how politics is and we do not get involved in discussing internal affairs of the DUP in a public way,\" Mr Poots said.\n\nMr Poots said he \"would assume at some stage it may well happen to me\".\n\n\"Politics is a rough and tumble game and sometimes people are on the wrong side of it,\" Mr Poots said.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to Mrs Foster and would speak on a one-to-one basis \"in due course\".\n\nMrs Foster is due to step down as DUP leader on 28 May and as first minister at the end of June.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Life, Mr Poots indicated he will consult with the party about whether Arlene Foster should stand down as first minister earlier than her intended departure date.\n\nMr Poots is not due to take over as leader until Arlene Foster steps down on 28 May\n\nThe DUP leader-designate said he wanted to split the DUP leader and first minister roles because he believes there is a \"real piece of work\" to do in building the party and he wants to give his attention to that.\n\nBut he added: \"We will see in due course. But I move forward with the commitment that I wasn't going forward as first minister... if in the future members think it would work better with me as first minister, then we will have that discussion. But for this time, I don't have any interest or intent to do that.\"\n\nMr Poots also signalled he has no intention of collapsing Stormont over the Northern Ireland Protocol, which places a border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHe said Stormont is an asset in making the arguments against the protocol.\n\n\"It gives us authority to make arguments. It takes us right to the centre of government in the United Kingdom and I have made these arguments.\"\n\nHe said the arguments would be put forward forcibly and that legally, every course that can be taken to tackle the protocol will be taken.\n\n\"We will take every reasonable exercise that we can to ensure that we can inflict damage to the protocol,\" he said.\n\nMr Poots has said he is keen to ensure a smooth transition when Mrs Foster steps down.\n\nHe has been holding individual meetings with DUP assembly members, seeking their views before beginning any shake-up.\n\nHis plans are thought to include changing the ministerial team, as well as the DUP chairs and vice-chairs of Stormont's committees.\n\nHe also met Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis on Tuesday.", "Damage from an Israeli air strike overnight in Gaza City\n\nUS President Joe Biden has told Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu he expects a \"significant de-escalation\" in the Gaza conflict on Wednesday.\n\nMr Biden wanted a \"path to ceasefire\", the White House said.\n\nThe US is a staunch ally of Israel and has so far opposed a joint UN Security Council statement on the conflict.\n\nIn response Mr Netanyahu said he was \"determined to carry on\" until \"calm and security are restored to Israeli citizens\", according to Israeli media.\n\nThe conflict is in its 10th day, with a continuing exchange of rocket fire from Palestinian militants into Israel and Israeli air strikes on Gaza.\n\nOn Wednesday, four rockets were also fired from Lebanon into Israel and Israel's military responded by firing artillery shells at \"a number of targets in Lebanese territory\". It was not immediately clear whether this would prove to be a significant escalation.\n\nThe Gaza fighting began after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem that culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas, which controls Gaza, began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.\n\nAt least 227 people, including more than 100 women and children, have been killed in Gaza so far, according to its health ministry. Israel has said at least 150 militants are among those killed in Gaza. Hamas does not give casualty figures for fighters.\n\nIn Israel 12 people, including two children, have been killed, its medical service says. Israel says some 4,000 rockets have been fired towards its territory by militants in Gaza.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, Mr Biden held his fourth call with Mr Netanyahu since the conflict started.\n\nA statement released by the White House said: \"The president conveyed to the prime minister that he expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-UN rapporteur John Dugard: US is not honest broker in Israel-Gaza conflict\n\nThe US has called before for a truce but has held up any joint UN statement, saying it would not help with de-escalation.\n\nThe Palestinian representative at the UN, Riyad Mansour, called the Security Council's failure to express a unified position \"shameful\".\n\nThe latest bid for a council resolution calling for a ceasefire, launched by France, failed on Wednesday when the US said it could \"undermine efforts to de-escalate\".\n\nOne Israeli military source told Reuters that Israel was assessing whether conditions were right for a truce.\n\nThe Ynet news website said that the Israelis were talking with Egyptian mediators. It quoted sources in the Israeli cabinet as saying Israel could achieve its objectives and end the fighting \"within days\".\n\nA Hamas leader said that efforts by mediators were \"serious and continuous\" but that Palestinian demands had to be met.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday Mr Netanyahu did not appear ready to begin a truce.\n\nHe said there were \"only two ways that you can deal with\" Hamas. \"You can either conquer them, and that's always an open possibility, or you can deter them, and we are engaged right now in forceful deterrence, but I have to say we don't rule out anything.\"\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said there had been renewed rocket fire from Gaza on Wednesday and that its fighter jets had attacked military infrastructure, including tunnels, and the homes of Hamas commanders.\n\nThe BBC's Rushdi Abualouf in Gaza said two Palestinian militants were killed in Gaza City, as dozens of strikes targeted both it and the southern city of Khan Younis.\n\nGaza City mother of seven Randa Abu Sultan, 45, told AFP news agency: \"My four-year-old son tells me he's scared that if he falls asleep, he'll wake up to find us dead.\"\n\nIDF spokesman Brig Gen Hidai Zilberman said Israel had tried to assassinate Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas's military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades.\n\nMohammed Deif has survived repeated attempts on his life, including in the last major conflict in 2014. He tends to stay in the background and his whereabouts remain unknown.\n\nSirens sounded across much of south and central Israel on Wednesday.\n\nHamas also targeted an Israeli air base overnight but the IDF said no bases were hit.\n\nOf the 3,750 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip since the fighting began, 550 have fallen short in Gaza, according to the IDF. Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system has intercepted about 90% of the rockets that have crossed into Israeli territory, it says.\n\nThe IDF estimated that at the start of the conflict, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the two main groups in Gaza, had an arsenal of about 12,000 rockets or mortars.\n\nMr Netanyahu said the Israeli operation had \"set Hamas back by many years\".\n\nThere has also been unrest within Israel and in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, where Palestinians took part in a general strike on Tuesday. There were clashes in several locations.\n\nThe party of Turkish President Erdogan rejected US accusations of anti-Semitism\n\nSeparately on Wednesday, Turkey rejected US accusations that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had made anti-Semitic remarks about Israel.\n\nHe had accused Israel of \"terrorism\" against the Palestinians and recently said: \"It is in their nature\".\n\nState department spokesman Ned Price said the US found the remarks \"reprehensible\".\n\nOmer Celik, a spokesman for Mr Erdogan's party, said the president had given very strong messages against anti-Semitism, adding: \"Accusing our president of anti-Semitism is an illogical and untrue approach. This is a lie.\"\n\nThe worst violence in years between Israel and the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip has seen dozens killed. It follows a month of spiralling tensions before open conflict broke out. Here is what happened in the lead-up to the fighting. Clashes erupt in East Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israeli police. Palestinians are angry over barriers which had been placed outside the Damascus Gate entrance to the Jerusalem‘s Old City preventing them from gathering there after prayers at the Old City’s al-Aqsa Mosque on what is the first night of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Palestinian discontent had been stoked earlier in the day when President Mahmoud Abbas called off planned elections, implicitly blaming Israel over voting arrangements for Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Hamas - Mr Abbas' Islamist rivals who control Gaza and were running in the elections - react angrily to the postponement. Violence around Damascus Gate and elsewhere in East Jerusalem continues nightly. Rockets are fired from Gaza at Israel, which responds with air strikes after a relative period of calm between Israel and the Palestinian enclave. Clashes spread to the mixed Arab-Jewish port city of Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv. In Jerusalem, Jewish youths, angry over a spate of filmed assaults by Palestinians on Orthodox Jews posted on the TikTok video-sharing app, attack Arabs and chant anti-Arab slogans. Israeli security forces clash with Palestinians outside the Damascus Gate Hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews shouting “Death to Arabs” march towards Damascus Gate in protest at the Arab assaults on Jews. Clashes erupt at the site between Palestinians and police trying to separate the two groups, injuring dozens of people. Violence between Arabs and Jews spreads to other parts of the city. Militants fire dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza, drawing retaliatory air strikes. President Abbas' Fatah faction and Hamas condemn the looming threatened eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah district of East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers ahead of a planned court hearing. Hamas calls on Arabs to form “human shields of resistance” there. In the days that follow, police and protesters repeatedly clash at the site as it becomes a focal point for Palestinian anger. Militants in Gaza begin sending incendiary balloons into Israel over successive days, causing dozens of fires. Two Palestinian gunmen are shot dead and a third is wounded after opening fire on Israeli security forces in the northern West Bank. Israeli authorities say the group planned to carry out a “major attack” in Israel. The al-Aqsa mosque has been a frequent flashpoint for violence Later on after Friday prayers - the last of Ramadan - major clashes erupt at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, injuring more than 200 people. Israel's police force says it used “riot dispersal means”, firing rubber bullets and stun grenades after officers came under a hail of stones and bottles. A second night of violence erupts in East Jerusalem after tens of thousands of worshippers prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque for Laylat al-Qadr, the holiest night of Ramadan. Police and protesters clash at Damascus Gate, with police using water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas against crowds of Palestinians, some throwing stones. More than 120 Palestinians and some 17 police are injured. Israel's Supreme Court postpones the hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah case following calls to delay it because of the growing unrest. Tensions remain high though and more clashes take place between Israeli police and Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and at Damascus Gate. Early morning clashes break out between police and Palestinians at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, where crowds throw stones and officers fire stun grenades. Palestinian anger has been inflamed by an annual Jerusalem Day march planned for later in the day by hundreds of Israeli nationalists to celebrate Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967. The march is due to pass through predominantly Arab parts of the Old City in what is seen by Palestinians as a deliberate provocation. It is rerouted at the 11th hour, but the atmosphere remains volatile with more than 300 Palestinians and some 21 police injured in the violence at the holy site. Hamas issues an ultimatum to Israel to “withdraw its soldiers... from the blessed al-Aqsa mosque and Sheikh Jarrah” by 18:00. When the deadline passes without an Israeli response, rockets are fired towards Jerusalem for the first time in years. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the group has “crossed a red line” and Israel retaliates with air strikes, killing three Hamas fighters. A continuing exchange of rocket-fire and air strikes quickly escalates into the fiercest hostilities between the two sides since they fought a war in 2014.\n\nAre you in Israel or Gaza and affected by the fighting? 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.", "There have been long queues for jabs in Bolton, where the Indian variant now makes up the majority of new cases\n\nSurge testing and jabs will be expanded to six new areas of concern in England to combat the spread of the Indian Covid variant, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe areas were identified using new techniques, including analysing wastewater and travel patterns, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nThe government is also supporting Scotland in rolling out more tests and vaccinations in Glasgow and Moray.\n\nSome 2,967 cases of the Indian variant have now been identified in the UK.\n\nThis is up from about 2,300 on Monday.\n\nMr Hancock said early evidence suggested that this variant - B.1.617.2 - passes on more easily from person to person than the one first discovered in Kent, adding that it was now \"even more important that people get vaccinated\".\n\nBut he said ministers were \"determined to do all that we can to ensure this new variant doesn't put our recovery at risk\".\n\nFurther surge testing and vaccinations will now be introduced in:\n\nThe health secretary said these were selected via \"an incredibly sensitive biosecurity surveillance system\", which spotted cases in earlier variant hotspots Bolton and Blackburn.\n\nMonitoring travel patterns, along with analysis of wastewater - or sewage - in 70% of the country had helped identify where variants were and also where they were at risk of spreading to, he said.\n\nOutlining the spread of the Indian variant, he added: \"The weekly case data in Bolton is now 283 per 100,000 and it doubled in the last week.\n\n\"There are now 25 people in Bolton Hospital with Covid - the majority are unvaccinated, nearly 90% have not yet had two vaccines.\n\n\"This shows the importance of getting vaccinated, not once but twice.\"\n\nScientists will know more about the transmissibility of the new Indian variant by \"some time next week\", England's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said.\n\nOverall, a further three deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test have been recorded in the UK, and there have been 2,696 more cases overall.\n\nAnother 174,100 people have been given a first dose of a vaccine, and 324,001 more have received their second dose.\n\nThe spread of the Indian variant has cast doubt on plans to ease remaining restrictions in England next month.\n\nThe number of cases of Indian variant is climbing, but what this means remains to be seen.\n\nThe variant should soon be dominant - it is clearly more infectious than the UK variant which emerged last year.\n\nScientists are busy studying it to work out just how much more transmissible it is.\n\nThat means unpicking to what extent the rise is being driven by the sudden importation of the variant from abroad and the environmental factors in the communities where it is spreading.\n\nIn densely-populated housing conditions it's easier for the virus to be passed on - rather than because of an inherent biological advantage.\n\nScientists believe it could be anything between 10% to 50% more infectious depending on what influence each of those factors have.\n\nIf it's nearer 50%, that could drive a surge in cases that could spill over into significant hospital admissions even with the vaccine rollout.\n\nAt the lower end, the impact will be more muted and the full lifting of restrictions on 21 June could still be on.\n\nThere are some early signs it could be at the lower end, but it will be a week or two before we know that with any confidence.\n\nAt the briefing, Mr Hancock praised the UK's development of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by Oxford University, highlighting the worldwide benefits it had brought. He said:\n\n\"It is something every British taxpayer has had a part supporting and everyone in this United Kingdom should be incredibly proud of it,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Van-Tam told the news conference that scientists were sure the Indian variant was more transmissible but the \"million dollar question\" was how much more transmissible.\n\n\"We have a credible range that goes from a few per cent more transmissible through to 50% more transmissible - I think most people feel it is going to be somewhere in the middle... but it is just too early,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said transmission of the new variant was \"not inevitable\" and it could be slowed down through \"cautious behaviour\".\n\n\"I think I've said 'don't tear the pants out of it' once before from this or a similar podium, but frankly we're back to that again now,\" he said.\n\nHe urged those living in hotspots to think carefully about their new freedoms and try to stick to outdoor activities in small groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Jonathan Van-Tam: \"People will have to learn to manage Covid risks for themselves\"\n\nEarlier, at Prime Minister's Questions, Boris Johnson said there was \"increasing confidence\" that Covid-19 vaccines were effective against all variants, including the Indian one.\n\nBut his official spokesman said ministers would want to see more information before making decisions on the next steps toward lifting lockdown.\n\nAt PMQs, Mr Johnson also repeated his warning that people should not be holidaying in amber list countries. This includes France, Spain and Greece.\n\nVisits to those countries should only be made in \"extreme\" circumstances such as a family illness, he said.\n\nEU ambassadors are recommending that restrictions on travel into the EU should be relaxed for fully vaccinated people, and those from countries with low infection rates.\n\nA decision on whether the UK will be included on a so-called \"white list\" will be made on Friday.\n\nPortugal, Italy and Greece have already dropped quarantine restrictions for British travellers and Spain is expected to make an announcement in the coming days.\n\nPortugal is the only EU country currently on the UK's own green list, allowing travellers to return without going into quarantine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hancock defends MPs: 'We have been crystal clear'", "Former US President Donald Trump has lashed out after the New York attorney general said her inquiry into the Trump Organisation was now a criminal probe.\n\nLetitia James, the state's top prosecutor, has been scrutinising the ex-Republican president's financial dealings before he took office.\n\nA spokesperson for Ms James said the inquiry into Mr Trump's property company was \"no longer purely civil\".\n\nMr Trump on Wednesday said she was \"in desperate search of a crime\".\n\nMs James' spokesman, Fabien Levy, told the BBC on Tuesday: \"We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the Organization is no longer purely civil in nature.\n\n\"We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA. We have no additional comment.\"\n\nThe offices of the state attorney general and city district attorney are separate and, according to National Public Radio (NPR), have historically been rivals. The fact that they are now co-ordinating their efforts underscores the high profile of their investigation.\n\nThe two prosecutors are combing through millions of pages of financial information in a search for evidence, reports NPR.\n\nThe statement did not say what turned the inquiry from civil to criminal in nature, or whether the former president himself might be personally implicated in any allegations.\n\nMr Trump accused Ms James and District Attorney Cyrus Vance, both Democrats, of being \"possessed\" by their political vendettas against him.\n\nA statement from his office rebuked the investigation as \"a continuation of the greatest political Witch Hunt in the history of the United States\".\n\n\"After prosecutorial efforts the likes of which nobody has ever seen before, they failed to stop me in Washington, so they turned it over to New York to do their dirty work. This is what I have been going through for years,\" he wrote.\n\nThe former president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, condemned the inquiry as \"flagrant abuse of political office\". On Twitter, he shared an old video of Ms James promising to pursue all legal options against Mr Trump while she was still campaigning for the attorney general role.\n\nThe video drew fiery comments from other top Trump allies, like senior advisor Stephen Miller, who said the US system of law was being turned into \"a weapon of vengeance not an instrument of justice\".\n\nCivil cases usually have to do with injury to individuals or other private parties, including businesses; criminal law applies in cases where the damage is thought to affect society at large, including the state.\n\nMs James launched a civil inquiry in March 2019 into claims that Mr Trump had inflated the value of his assets to banks when seeking loans, and understated them to lower his taxes.\n\nHer office has also been seeking documents on four Trump Organization properties in Manhattan, upstate New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.\n\nManhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr said in court documents last August that his office was investigating alleged \"protracted criminal conduct\" at the Trump Organization.\n\nMr Vance's legal filing cited newspaper articles about purported bank and insurance fraud at the company.\n\nThe Manhattan district attorney has also been investigating whether any of Mr Trump's financial records were doctored to cover up hush-money payments to two women in 2016 who say they had affairs with him.\n\nMr Vance's office said in February it had obtained Mr Trump's tax returns as part of the investigation, after a long legal battle.\n\nThroughout his presidency, Mr Trump resolutely refused to reveal his tax returns, despite coming under great pressure to do so.\n\nAllen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, and members of his family have been the focus of the investigators.\n\nThe clock is ticking. Mr Vance leaves office in December, and he would be expected file any criminal complaint by the end of the year.\n\nThroughout his time in office, Donald Trump dismissed any probe into his financial dealings or those of his organisation as a politically-motivated \"witch hunt\" led by Democrats desperate to see him forced from power.\n\nYet now that he no longer enjoys protection from prosecution, this latest development will trouble him. That a former US president is facing not one but two criminal investigations is a significant development, one which could have repercussions for his political future.\n\nThe New York State Attorney General, Letitia James, clearly believes that there is enough at play to warrant moving the investigation from a civil to a criminal one. When combined with the ongoing examination of the former president's tax returns by the Manhattan District Attorney, Cy Vance, Mr Trump is looking at a complex and tangled legal battle ahead — one which he remains adamant he shouldn't have to face but which he now almost certainly cannot avoid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Trump repeats his false claims that he won November's election and hints at another run in 2024", "The tram derailed at about 06:00 GMT on 9 November 2016\n\nThe driver of a tram that crashed in Croydon, killing seven people, could have been \"disorientated\" following a micro-sleep, an inquest jury has heard.\n\nSimon French, of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), said there was evidence the driver thought he was travelling in the opposite direction.\n\nMr French earlier described the event of November 2016 as \"fast and violent\".\n\nIt was \"absolutely clear within hours\" the crash was caused by excessive speed, he added.\n\nHe told the inquest if there had been a micro-sleep, \"it is quite possible that the driver was fatigued\", which could be a result of \"cumulative sleep deprivation and insufficient sleep the previous night\".\n\nHe also showed the hearing a video reconstruction of the crash.\n\nThe film, of a tram emerging from a tunnel at 78km/h (48mph) before slowing down to 73km/h (45mph), was shown first in slow motion and then at full speed.\n\n\"The consequence of the tram hitting the curve at 73km/h was more than the capability of the tram to stay upright,\" Mr French said.\n\nAs it reached a bend, the tram started to tip over and slid on its side.\n\nMr French told the inquest, being held at Croydon Town Hall: \"From this moment onwards we start to see all sorts of marks, damage to sleepers, damage to concrete drainage covers.\"\n\nHe said by studying the clues provided by the damaged infrastructure, the RAIB was \"very confident\" about the sequence of events. Mr French said his team had arrived at the site at about 10:00 GMT, four hours after the crash, and worked there for three days and three nights.\n\nHe added that the braking applied by the driver was \"insufficient\" to slow to a safe speed and said that if the curve of the track had been \"more gentle\" the tram would not have overturned.\n\nThe tram tipped over near Sandilands tram stop\n\nMr French said: \"Witnesses spoke of it like being inside a washing machine, being thrown, it was a very sudden event.\n\n\"Speaking for myself I do find that quite shocking. It is fast and quite violent, it takes place in a matter of seconds.\"\n\nThe normal speed for the curve out of the tunnel at Sandilands in south London, where the tram derailed, was 50km/h (31mph) - with a speed limit of 20km/h (12.5mph) at the bend, the inquest jury was told.\n\nThe passengers who were killed had all been thrown or partially thrown from the tram after the glass in the windows and doors had shattered.\n\nIn addition to the six men and one woman who died, 51 passengers were taken to hospital, eight with life-changing injuries.\n\nMr French also told the inquest jury there were apparent \"culture issues\" at Tram Operations Ltd (TOL) that meant drivers were unwilling to admit to speeding or other errors.\n\n\"If you reported speeding there was an automatic move to a disciplinary procedure,\" he added.\n\nThere was a previous incident 10 days before the crash when a driver hit the same bend at 45km/h (27mph) and very nearly overturned the tram, but the matter was insufficiently investigated, the jury heard.\n\nThe hearing is expected to last 13 weeks.", "As president of the United States, Donald Trump enjoyed unique protection from legal action, be it criminal or civil.\n\nNow, after losing the 2020 presidential election, Mr Trump will soon become a private citizen again.\n\nThat means he will lose his presidential privileges, putting him in the crosshairs of litigators and prosecutors.\n\n\"Once he is out of office, the atmosphere will change,\" Daniel R Alonso, a former US federal and New York state prosecutor, told the BBC. \"He will no longer have the reality or the threat of presidential power to thwart investigations.\"\n\nA wide-ranging criminal investigation in New York is the most serious legal concern for Mr Trump and his real-estate company, the Trump Organization.\n\nOn top of that, there is an array of lawsuits ranging from allegations of fraud by a family member to sexual harassment by an advice columnist.\n\nA legal storm is brewing. Here, we consider how the six biggest legal battles may develop.\n\nWhat we know: Playboy model Karen McDougal, adult film actress Stormy Daniels and claims of a conspiracy of silence.\n\nThis was the gist of the so-called hush-money scandal. Both women said they had had sexual relationships with Mr Trump and had received payments to keep them quiet, ahead of the 2016 presidential election.\n\nWhen they spoke out in 2018, they threw political dynamite under Mr Trump's presidency, lighting the fuse of two criminal investigations.\n\nStormy Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, says she had sex with Mr Trump in 2006\n\nThe first focused on violations of federal, or national, laws and the role of Michael Cohen, Mr Trump's former personal lawyer and \"fixer\".\n\nUnder investigation, Cohen admitted to arranging payments to the two women. The payments were prosecuted as campaign-finance violations and Cohen was sentenced to three years in jail in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things Cohen said about Trump\n\nCohen alleged that Mr Trump had \"directed\" him to make the payments, yet no charges were brought against the president. Why?\n\nFirstly, to charge Mr Trump, prosecutors would have needed to prove that he had indeed directed Cohen to make those payments. Secondly, even if prosecutors did have sufficient evidence, it is against US government policy to indict a sitting president on federal criminal charges, legal experts say.\n\nCase closed, right? Well, not exactly. This is where it gets technical.\n\nKaren McDougal apologised to Melania Trump for the affair she says she had with her husband\n\nPut simply, a second criminal investigation into the payments is still under way in New York.\n\nWe know that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is examining whether the Trump Organization falsified business records related to the payoffs.\n\nWhat we don't know is whether Mr Vance has any evidence to file criminal charges. That matters.\n\nWhat might happen next: Falsifying business records is a misdemeanour under New York law. A misdemeanour is a minor crime that can be punishable by a jail term of up to a year.\n\nNow, here's the tricky part for Mr Vance.\n\nThere is a two-year time limit for filing criminal charges for a misdemeanour in New York.\n\n\"So, because those payments happened over two years ago, it looks like [prosecutors] are out of luck,\" Mr Alonso said.\n\nThat said, there are other possibilities.\n\nCyrus Vance has been leading a criminal investigation into the Trump Organization since 2018\n\nIn New York, falsifying business records can be charged as a felony if it is done to conceal other crimes, such as tax fraud.\n\nFelonies are more serious crimes that can be prosecuted over a longer period and are punishable by tougher jail sentences.\n\nStill, the route to prosecution is uncertain. It is not clear if Mr Trump can be prosecuted under New York law for campaign-finance violations - the federal crime Cohen was jailed for.\n\nThis is where the other strands of Mr Vance's investigation come in.\n\nWhat we know: It's a \"political hit job\", a Trump Organization lawyer said of Mr Vance's inquiry in August 2019.\n\nMr Vance had just issued a request for documents, known as a subpoena. He demanded to see years of financial records, including the Holy Grail - Mr Trump's tax returns, eight years of them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSince then, Mr Trump has tried to block the subpoena, arguing in courts that it amounts to political harassment. In October, a federal appeals court disagreed, putting his tax returns within touching distance of prosecutors.\n\nIndeed, Mr Vance has stressed the significance of Mr Trump's tax returns in court papers.\n\nWhen requesting the returns in August, Mr Vance referred to \"public reports of possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization\", including allegations of possible insurance and bank fraud. Another court filing in September mentioned tax fraud as a hypothetical crime that could be established, should evidence be found to support it.\n\nIn New York, some types of tax fraud can be charged as felonies, which can carry lengthy prison sentences. At the moment, though, the \"public reports\" of possible crimes cited by Mr Vance's office are merely grounds for investigation, nothing else.\n\nWhat might happen next: Mr Trump is expected to appeal against the demand to hand over his tax returns in the Supreme Court. There, the matter may be settled.\n\nFor Mr Trump, the stakes are high.\n\n\"The most significant criminal investigations are those exploring his tax and bank filings,\" Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University, told the BBC. \"But whether there's a criminal case has yet to become evident.\"\n\nIf Mr Vance does obtain Mr Trump's tax returns, a criminal case may or may not become evident. Either way, Mr Vance needs those tax returns to move his investigation forward.\n\nWhat we know: New York Attorney General Letitia James has been another thorn in Mr Trump's side.\n\nSince March 2019, Ms James has been leading a civil investigation into whether the Trump Organization committed real-estate fraud.\n\nAgain, the roots of this investigation lead back to Cohen who, in February 2019, told Congress that Mr Trump had inflated the value of his property assets to secure loans and understated them to reduce his taxes.\n\nMichael Cohen, fixer for Mr Trump, was called to testified before the House Oversight Committee in February 2019\n\nCohen's testimony gave Ms James grounds to seek information about Mr Trump's property empire. Like Mr Vance, Ms James has had to fight for that information in the courts.\n\nEric Trump, the executive vice-president of the Trump Organization and the president's son, has accused her of waging a \"political vendetta\". Despite this, he complied with a request to sit for testimony with her office in October.\n\nWhat might happen next: Ms James needs more testimony and information to take the investigation forward.\n\nIn office, Mr Trump argued that he was too busy to deal with lawsuits. Now, he cannot use that excuse.\n\nMs James can treat Mr Trump with less deference, pressing him to sit for questioning under oath, just like his son.\n\nLetitia James has taken testimony from Mr Trump's son, Eric\n\n\"Most courts would be very indulgent with a president-defendant on things like scheduling, for instance. Not so with a private citizen,\" Mr Alonso said.\n\nCivil investigations like this can result in financial penalties, if evidence of wrongdoing is found. If it is, another criminal inquiry cannot be ruled out.\n\nWhat we know: Emolument is an archaic word that is seldom used today, except in legal contexts. The definition is contested, but it is generally understood to mean gain, profit or advantage from employment or holding public office.\n\nSo what does this have to do with Mr Trump?\n\nHe has been accused of breaking rules against \"emoluments\" during his presidency. These rules, known as the emoluments clauses, were written into the country's bedrock legal text, the US Constitution.\n\nMr Trump's hotel in Washington was often the site of protests during his presidency\n\nOne clause requires all federal officials, including the president, to seek the consent of Congress before accepting any benefits from foreign states.\n\nThree separate civil lawsuits alleged that Mr Trump had not sought that consent. One cited the hosting of foreign officials at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC as a possible violation.\n\nMr Trump has derided \"this phony emoluments clause\", suggesting other sitting presidents have made money.\n\nWhat might happen next: Regardless, the emoluments lawsuits will probably be dismissed or dropped, legal experts say. One brought by congressional Democrats has already been rejected by the Supreme Court.\n\n\"Emoluments are not likely to be the basis of any criminal action,\" said Mr Turley, an expert on constitutional law.\n\n\"The emoluments cases relate to Trump holding office, so once he leaves office, the controversy becomes largely academic.\"\n\nWhat we know: Mr Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women whose allegations span decades. Mr Trump has denied all the allegations, dismissing them as \"fake news\", political smears and conspiracies.\n\nMany of the accusers came forward ahead of Mr Trump's election win in 2016. Mr Trump vowed to sue them all but, as yet, has not done so.\n\nInstead, some of the accusers have sued Mr Trump. Two of those women have filed defamation lawsuits against Mr Trump for calling them liars.\n\nE Jean Carroll has accused Mr Trump of raping her in the 1990s\n\nE Jean Carroll, a long-time columnist for Elle magazine, is one of them. She has accused Mr Trump of raping her in a dressing room at a luxury Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Mr Trump denies it and is contesting the defamation claim.\n\nIn her lawsuit, Ms Carroll argues Mr Trump defamed her by saying he could not have raped her because \"she's not my type\". Her lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and a retraction of Mr Trump's statements.\n\nMs Carroll v Mr Trump seemed straightforward enough until September, when the US Department of Justice weighed in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Leeds, one of Mr Trump's accusers, has demanded action\n\nThe department took the unusual step of trying to replace Mr Trump with the United States as a defendant in the case.\n\nIn the end, a federal judge ruled against the department's intervention, arguing \"the allegations have no relationship to the official business of the United States\".\n\nWhat might happen next: The case can now proceed, allowing Ms Carroll's lawyers to gather evidence.\n\nFor example, they could press on by attempting to verify if Mr Trump's DNA is on a dress Ms Carroll says she was wearing at the time of the alleged assault. For that, they would need a DNA sample from Mr Trump.\n\nA similar but separate defamation lawsuit filed by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Mr Trump's television show The Apprentice, may go the same way.\n\nSummer Zervos (left) was one of several women to accuse Mr Trump of sexual misconduct ahead of the 2016 election\n\nMs Zervos alleged that Mr Trump had sexually assaulted her during a meeting to discuss job opportunities at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007.\n\nMr Trump dismissed the allegation as \"phony\", accusing Ms Zervos of fabricating it for fame. Ms Zervos then sued him for defamation in 2017, seeking damages of at least $3,000.\n\nMr Trump tried to get the case dismissed during his presidency. His lawyers suggested that, as president, he should be immune to lawsuits in state courts.\n\n\"That argument completely evaporates on 20 January,\" Barbara L McQuade, professor of law at the University of Michigan, told the BBC. \"Once that happens, we move to the discovery phase of the case and there could be some movement there.\"\n\nWhat we know: \"Fraud was not just the family business - it was a way of life,\" reads the first line of Mary Trump's lawsuit against her uncle Donald.\n\nAs an opening salvo, it could hardly be more contemptuous.\n\nIt mirrors the animosity of Ms Trump's newly released memoir, in which she chastises her uncle as a \"narcissist\" who threatens the life of every American.\n\nIn her book, Mary Trump calls her uncle the \"the world's most dangerous man\"\n\nThe family beef is as personal as it gets and Ms Trump's lawsuit, filed in September, reflects that acrimony.\n\nIn it, she accuses Mr Trump and two of his siblings of cheating her out of an inheritance while pressuring her to give up interests in the family business.\n\nMs Trump inherited valuable interests in the family business when Fred Trump Jr - her father and the president's older brother - died in 1981 at the age of 42. Ms Trump was 16 at the time.\n\nMr Trump and his siblings \"committed to watch over\" Ms Trump's interests, the lawsuit says.\n\n\"They lied,\" the lawsuit says. \"Rather than protect Mary's interests, they designed and carried out a complex scheme to siphon funds away from her interests, conceal their grift [fraud], and deceive her about the true value of what she had inherited.\"\n\nThe lawsuit seeks at least $500,000 in damages.\n\nWhat might happen next: The White House said Ms Trump's book was full of \"falsehoods\", but Mr Trump is yet to reply to the lawsuit.\n\nIf requests for documents and testimony come, Mr Trump cannot cite his presidential duties as a reason to deny them.\n\nNo American citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the law.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned people should not be holidaying in amber list countries, after a minister said people could go and visit friends.\n\nThe confusion arose after Environment Secretary George Eustice said people could go to those countries if they quarantined when they returned.\n\nIt comes after news that some holiday companies are refusing refunds to such destinations.\n\nThat is because it is now legal to travel to countries on the amber list.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important for people to grasp what an amber list country is: it is not somewhere where you should be going on holiday, let me be very clear about that.\n\n\"And if people do go to an amber list country, they absolutely have to for some pressing family or urgent business reason, then please bear in mind that you will have to self-isolate, you'll have to take tests and do your passenger locator form and all the rest of it.\"\n\nThe warning came amid reports that thousands of people had headed for destinations such as France, Greece, Spain and the US, with more than 150 flights reported to have departed on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile the European Union is expected to relax its travel rules for British holidaymakers.\n\nEU ambassadors are meeting on Wednesday to discuss whether to allow people who have been fully vaccinated to visit countries in the bloc without any restrictions.\n\nThey are also considering whether or not to lift the current ban on non-essential travel from the UK to Europe.\n\nAfter the legal ban on foreign holidays ended on Monday, Environment Secretary George Eustice said that people could go to those countries if they quarantined when they returned.\n\n\"We don't want to stop travel altogether and the reason, as [Health Secretary] Matt Hancock set out, that we have the amber list is there will be reasons why people feel they need to travel, either to visit family or indeed to visit friends,\" he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.\n\n\"They can travel to those countries but they then have to observe quarantine when they return and have two tests after returning.\n\n\"So people can travel to those areas, yes, but they will then have to subject themselves to the quarantine requirements on return.\"\n\nBut the prime minister's spokesman insisted travel to amber list destinations was only allowed for a strictly limited number of reasons.\n\nHe said people should not be going to those countries for holidays or leisure.\n\n\"The position remains that people should not travel to amber list countries and that is to protect public health,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"There are some limited reasons why it might be acceptable to travel - for work purposes, protecting essential services or compassionate reasons such as a funeral or care of a family member - but otherwise people should not be travelling to these countries.\"\n\nHe said holidays and leisure travel should be restricted to the short \"green list\" of destinations such as Portugal.\n\n\"We are working with the travel industry and others on this. All of us have a personal responsibility to protect one another as we cautiously reopen international travel,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"We are moving to a situation where the public can take responsibility for their actions. I think it is important to stress that, by and large, that is what we are seeing.\n\n\"Obviously we will keep this under review, we are keeping a careful eye on this and we will take further action if necessary.\"\n\nA health minister, Lord Bethell, advised people not to take a foreign holiday this year.\n\nAsked about reports that passengers at Heathrow had been forced to stand next to people arriving from red list countries, the minister told the House of Lords that \"segregation is unbelievably difficult during travel\".\n\nAnd he said that was why travelling was dangerous.\n\nHe told peers: \"The ultimate sanction here is that, particularly as we go into the summer, we tell people: travelling is not for this year. Please stay in this country.\"\n\nChief executive of Airlines UK Tim Alderslade accused the government of causing confusion.\n\n\"People should not travel to red countries, we know that, but to generalise against perfectly legal travel even to green countries is deeply unhelpful,\" he said.\n\nThe government's traffic light system is guidance rather than a legal requirement, and some travel companies have opted to still offer holidays to amber destinations so long as the Foreign Office has not advised against all but essential travel there.\n\nThat means some travel companies are refusing refunds for holidays booked last year for summer 2021, or that were moved from 2020 by tour operators - or even to defer the bookings.\n\nThe UK's largest tour operator, Tui, is currently offering holidays to amber countries such as Cuba, Barbados and Antigua and to some Greek and Spanish islands.\n\nThe company is offering customers free changes to holiday bookings if they don't want to travel, but they will be required to pay any price difference for the new dates, which can be more expensive because demand is high.\n\nFlying to an amber list country for a holiday isn't illegal - but it remains deeply frowned upon.\n\nUntil Monday, travelling without good reason was illegal - and you could be fined a great deal of money for doing it.\n\nNow, although you're technically allowed to travel, the government doesn't want you to - unless you go to a green list country.\n\nIf you find all this confusing, you're not alone, and reports suggest there are plenty of people for whom \"not illegal\" is a big green light for a holiday in France, Greece or the US.\n\nWith some travel companies refusing to refund would-be holidaymakers who pre-booked trips to countries which are now on the amber list, it's clear that in many cases there's a powerful incentive to disregard official advice.\n\nBut passengers should be clear about what they're letting themselves in for: mandatory self-isolation on their return, with possible fines if they don't; and the risk that if anything goes wrong, their insurance might not pay out.", "British tourists returned to Portugal this week after both countries eased their travel measures\n\nEU ambassadors have backed proposals to reopen borders for non-essential travel from countries with low infection rates, with a list to be agreed this week.\n\nDiplomats in Brussels said visitors should be allowed to come from countries with an incidence rate of below 75 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nA \"safe list\" is still to be decided.\n\nUnder those terms UK travellers would be eligible, but there are concerns about the Indian Covid-19 variant.\n\nAccording to BBC Europe correspondent Jean Mackenzie, there is some hesitation to add the UK to the safe list as some EU countries want to see how the surge of cases related to the Indian variant plays out.\n\nEU envoys have also recommended that non-essential travel should be allowed from outside the EU for people who have been fully vaccinated. However, they say it should be up to member states to decide on measures they impose, such as Covid tests or quarantine.\n\nTheir recommendations are expected to be adopted soon by the EU Council of member states.\n\nSpain, with its important tourism sector, is expected to announce whether UK travellers will be allowed in for non-essential reasons\n\nWelcoming the move, European Commission spokesman Christian Wigand told reporters: \"This will help improve international inbound travel and it's possible to do so safely while at the same time ensuring quick action to counter the spread of new virus variants.\"\n\nIf the UK is added to the EU's \"safe list\", anyone will be allowed to visit if they have the necessary documentation, not just people who have been fully vaccinated. The ambassadors have also recommended that an emergency brake be agreed for Covid variants of concern.\n\nHowever, the terms of the planned EU-wide digital green certificate are yet to be signed off. The certificate would include either a negative test, proof of vaccination or recent recovery from Covid.\n\nThe EU currently only recommends non-essential travel from a small number of third countries, including Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand and Israel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holidaying Brits touch down in Portugal: 'It feels unreal'\n\nPortugal, Italy and Greece have already dropped quarantine restrictions for British travellers and Spain is expected to make an announcement in the coming days.\n\nPortugal is the only country currently on the UK's own green list, allowing travellers to return without going into quarantine.", "A new report has found that too often \"special measures\" - designed to help witnesses give evidence and relieve stress - were not being offered to victims. Photo posed by a model.\n\nRape victims in England and Wales should be able to pre-record evidence and cross-examinations so that they do not have to face perpetrators in court, the victims' commissioner has said.\n\nIn a new report, Dame Vera Baird has called for the practice to be rolled out \"as soon as practically possible\".\n\nIt would also reduce stressful waits in the run-up to trials, she told the BBC.\n\nThe BBC understands the government is considering the move, but it is not clear how it would be implemented.\n\nA plan will be laid out in a government review due to be published next month.\n\nIn a review of the provision for vulnerable and intimidated witnesses in courts, Dame Vera said pre-recording interviews would relieve unnecessary stress for those who had experienced sexual assault.\n\n\"We've found that almost everybody who was asked had heard victims say how frightened they were to come to court,\" she said.\n\nThey did not want to come face-to-face with the defendant or their \"supporters\", she said, nor did they want people in the public gallery.\n\nShe also said the practice would reduce the wait between the witness giving initial evidence to police and being cross-examined in court, which can sometimes be two years because of backlogs made worse by the pandemic.\n\nInstead, the evidence and cross-examination could both be filmed soon after the alleged offence, and played to a jury in court once the case reached trial, without any further involvement from the victim.\n\nDame Vera said this would mean the complainant could give their account \"whilst their memory is good\" then move on - and, if they choose, get therapy without fear that their notes could then be used by the defence.\n\nShe said asking people alleging rape to wait for years before being cross-examined \"preserves the traumatisation\" and can lead to them withdrawing from prosecution altogether.\n\nAround 43% of rape complainants dropped out of prosecutions in the nine months to December 2020, according to Home Office figures.\n\nThose who do proceed can give up if their case is listed for a certain date but cancelled last minute, Dame Vera said, adding: \"It's a torture you don't have to put anyone through.\"\n\nThe law in England and Wales says that under \"special measures\", witnesses who are classed as vulnerable or intimidated are eligible to pre-record their initial evidence and cross-examination.\n\nThis practice was rolled out for all vulnerable witnesses - which includes all children - last year. However, it is not currently used for intimidated witnesses, which includes those who allege sexual offences.\n\nA pilot was introduced in three courts September 2019 and an evaluation has not yet been published.\n\nDame Vera Baird's report was based on interviews with people working in the criminal justice sector and victim support services.\n\nThe victims' commissioner's report found that the guilty plea rate was \"notably higher\" when evidence was pre-recorded and the process was less traumatic for witnesses.\n\nIt also said, more broadly, that too often \"special measures\" - designed to help witnesses give evidence and relieve stress - were not being offered to those who were entitled to them.\n\nThese measures include the provision of screens to shield witnesses from the defendant in court, and the option to appear in court from a separate room via television link.\n\nAmong its recommendations is a call for the government to make sure that separate entrances and waiting rooms are available for vulnerable and intimidated witnesses, and to make greater use of remote centres where witnesses can give evidence without attending court.\n\nThe BBC understands that a government review to be published next month will also include plans to ask judges to bar the public from courts more often and to ensure mobile phones are returned to victims within 24 hours.\n\nKatie Russell, spokeswoman for Rape Crisis England and Wales, told the BBC that these measures, as well as pre-recording evidence, would have the \"potential to improve the unacceptably low levels of criminal justice\" that rape and sexual violence complainants receive.\n\n\"All sexual violence and abuse victims and survivors have been subjected to trauma and deserve trauma-informed and sensitive treatment,\" she said.\n\nShe also said the \"significant length of time\" that mobile phones were kept for had been \"a cause for concern for some time\".\n\n\"Being disconnected from friends, family and support networks at such a difficult and stressful time can undoubtedly be distressing,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: \"We understand how traumatic the court process can be and despite the pandemic we are continuing to improve the support provided for victims.\"\n\n\"This includes protective screens and video links in every criminal court, more separate waiting rooms as well as piloting the pre-recording of cross-examination for rape victims to help further reduce the stress of attending court,\" it added.\n\n\"At the same time, a new Victims' Bill - set out in the Queen's Speech - will strengthen the rights of victims at every stage of the justice system.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by the issues in this video, you can find help and support from BBC Action Line.", "Last updated on .From the section West Brom\n\nSam Allardyce will leave his role as West Brom manager at the end of the season.\n\nAllardyce suffered his first Premier League relegation when defeat at Arsenal on 9 May ensured they would drop into the Championship.\n\nThe former Bolton, Newcastle, West Ham, Sunderland and England boss succeeded the sacked Slaven Bilic at West Brom on an 18-month contract in December.\n\nAllardyce, 66, said he felt unable to commit to Albion for the long term.\n\nHe said: \"West Bromwich Albion made me a generous offer to stay at The Hawthorns that shows the commitment of an ambitious club. After serious consideration, I have decided not to accept that offer.\n\n\"If I were to stay and achieve promotion next season the expectation would be for me to continue for at least another season and, sadly, that is not a commitment I feel able to make at this stage of my career.\"\n\nWest Brom technical director Luke Dowling said the club had \"very much hoped to have Sam in charge for next season and beyond\".\n\nThe club, promoted as Championship runners-up last term, suffered their 21st defeat of the campaign with a 3-1 loss at home to West Ham on Wednesday. They are 19th in the table, having taken 26 points from 37 games.\n\nAllardyce's final match in charge will be away to Leeds United on Sunday.\n\nHis assistant Sammy Lee and first-team coach Robbie Stockdale will also leave the club.\n\n\"Sam, Sammy and Robbie came in at a really difficult time for the football club and worked tirelessly in their efforts to keep the club in the Premier League,\" Dowling said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, collectively, we were unable to achieve our goal of surviving relegation. In the second half of the season, we played with passion and desire, delivering some memorable results with organised, entertaining football.\n\n\"Ultimately, we were unable to accumulate the points total required to keep us here, but Sam certainly restored pride with a number of resilient displays.\"\n\nAllardyce was sacked by Everton in May 2018 after six months in charge, having taken the club from 13th in the Premier League to eighth - but he was criticised for the side's style of play.\n\nBefore joining the Toffees, Allardyce had resigned as Crystal Palace manager after five months in charge, in what was his first job since a one-game spell as England manager.\n\nHe said leaving West Brom was the result of \"a long, hard decision with a lot of thought about what is best for me and the club\".\n\n\"We chose our words very carefully,\" he added. \"I am flattered they wanted me to stay on.\n\n\"I was given the assurances over the budget but it is about me being a short-term manager. When you are put in that pigeon hole, that is how I see myself now, as a troubleshooter or a Red Adair. I didn't expect to be in this situation.\n\n\"We fought and fought but were not quite good enough at the end. I was more confident we would get out of trouble. Chelsea away [a 5-2 win] was brilliant. I was sad we couldn't keep those results up.\"\n\nOn whether he will continue in management, Allardyce said: \"We don't last forever.\n\n\"I went 20 years without a break. It was only when I got sacked at Newcastle when I got a break. The tingle will never leave you. It is an addiction.\n\n\"I am not going to say I am retiring because I have done that before and it makes you look a fool.\"\n\nThe news came as a surprise to the West Brom squad, as defender Kyle Bartley explained Allardyce only told the players when they returned to the dressing room at full-time.\n\n\"It's a bit of a shock. I think most of us expected he would be here next season,\" Bartley told Sky Sports.\n\n\"He just said that he had come to a decision that he won't be here next year. He thinks the club would be in better hands going in a different direction.\n\n\"I thought he would have been fantastic for us next year. I'd have thought we would have a really good chance of going back up. But I fully respect his decision.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Match of the Day, former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy, said: \"He was talking about being pigeon-holed. I think he was having a little dig. But four wins in 24 is not good enough.\n\n\"You cannot hide behind the numbers. He does talk about the lack of activity early in the January window when he could have got some players in more quickly. They need a big change of direction now in terms of the way they play.\"\n\n'Allardyce will wait for the call from a club in crisis'\n\nTwenty-four hours after one former England manager confirmed he was stepping away from the club scene, Sam Allardyce has followed Roy Hodgson's lead.\n\nAt 66, Allardyce is seven years younger than Hodgson. And while it doesn't sound as though he is ready to abandon football management just yet, he was without a job for 18 months after he left Everton in 2019 before West Brom called in the middle of this season, so there can be no guarantees of another opportunity.\n\nIndeed, given the clubs he has already managed, there are not a huge amount of obvious alternatives remaining for Allardyce to take.\n\nA blunt, entertaining speaker, Allardyce has already proved adept as a pundit and will not be short of work if he heads in that direction.\n\nAnd then, by his own admission, he will wait for the call from a club in crisis. Red Adair, Allardyce memorably said his mates have started calling him, after the renowned American oil well firefighter. He will hope there is one last fire to put out - and that when the chance comes, this time he is equal to the task.\n• 1991-1992: Limerick. First stint in management as player manager of the Irish club.\n• 1992: Preston North End. Youth-team coach and a brief stint as caretaker manager.\n• 1994-1996: Blackpool. First managerial role in England but sacked after failing to achieve promotion.\n• 1997-1999: Notts County. Led them to the Third Division (now League Two) title in 1997-98.\n• 1999-2007: Bolton Wanderers. Won promotion to the Premier League in 2001 and led them to a League Cup final and Uefa Cup qualification.\n• 2007-2008: Newcastle. Left after just eight months in charge following a disappointing run of results.\n• 2008-2010: Blackburn. Guided club to Premier League safety in his first season before he was sacked in December 2010 with Rovers 13th.\n• 2011-2015: West Ham. Led Hammers to promotion to Premier League in 2012 but left three years later following criticism of his playing style.\n• 2015-2016: Sunderland. Appointed in October and guided the Black Cats to Premier League safety.\n• 2016: England. Appointed Three Lions boss but left by mutual consent after one match and 67 days in charge following a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to \"get around\" rules on player transfers.\n• 2016-17: Crystal Palace. Appointed in December 2016 and led the Eagles to Premier League safety.\n• 2017-18: Everton. Finished eighth with the Toffees after joining in November 2017 but left in May the following year.\n• 2020-21: West Brom. Took over from Slaven Bilic with the club 19th in the table but was unable to avoid relegation\n• None Searching for truth in the fog of war\n• None Watch as former rugby players take legal action over their brain injuries", "Average UK house prices soared by 10.2% in the year to March, the highest annual growth rate for 14 years, according to official figures.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said average prices rose by £24,000 to £256,000 - a new record high.\n\nPrices have been pushed up by the temporary stamp duty reduction, low interest rates, as well as people wanting more space after lockdown.\n\n\"We're back to the kind of double-figure house price rises we saw in the heady days before the financial crisis [of 2008],\" the analyst said.\n\n\"And while lenders are far more cautious than they were back in 2007, in this kind of market, there's still the risk buyers will lose their heads, and make a property mistake that could haunt them for years.\"\n\nAnna Clare Harper, chief executive of asset manager SPI Capital, said the sharp rise in prices would mean fewer people were able to afford new homes.\n\n\"The effects are clear: with wages rising significantly more slowly than house prices, affordability constraints are increasing,\" she said.\n\n\"This is creating huge inequalities between older and younger generations, and growing demand from both younger and older renters who are priced out.\n\n\"For first-time buyers, this is a hideous market,\" she added. \"With average prices up £24,000 in a year, saving a 10% deposit needs £2,400 extra in savings.\"\n\nTax breaks introduced during the pandemic to boost the housing market had a marked effect over the period.\n\nThe ONS report said: \"Changes in the tax paid on housing transactions may have allowed sellers to request higher prices as the buyers' overall costs are reduced.\"\n\nA stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland, which had been due to end in March, was recently extended.\n\nIn Wales, a holiday on the equivalent tax has also been extended until the end of June 2021.\n\n\"The extension of the stamp duty holiday helped ensure this won't be the last of the record months this year,\" said Sarah Coles.\n\nAverage house prices increased over the year in England to £275,000, a 10.2% annual increase.\n\nIn Wales prices climbed 11% to £185,000, in Scotland 10.6% to £167,000 and in Northern Ireland they were up 6% to £149,000.\n\nIn England, Yorkshire and the Humber had the highest annual house price growth, up 14% in the year to March.\n\nThe lowest annual growth was in London, where average prices increased by 3.7% over the year.\n\nHowever, London's average house prices remained the most expensive of any region in the UK at an average of £500,000.\n\nThe figures also suggested a switch in demand for different types of property.\n\nThe average price of detached properties increased by 11.7% in the year to March 2021, while flats and maisonettes were up just 5.0% over the period.\n\n\"The demand for a new type of home, coupled with the government's mortgage guarantee scheme, will continue to support transaction levels in the months ahead, and potentially in the medium-term,\" said Andrew Montlake, managing director of independent mortgage broker Coreco.\n\n\"Everything has changed due to the pandemic and that change will play out over several years yet.\"", "Gwyneth Paltrow's controversial health and wellness company Goop has been warned it could be shut down in the UK after failing to file its accounts.\n\nGoop was originally set up in Britain when Ms Paltrow lived there with her ex-husband, Coldplay's Chris Martin.\n\nBut when they \"consciously uncoupled\" in 2014, she moved the headquarters of the brand to the US.\n\nThis is the second time Ms Paltrow's firm has received such a notice, after failing to file its annual accounts.\n\nGoop Inc Ltd was first incorporated at Companies House, the UK's official register of companies, in August 2011.\n\nFollowing her divorce in 2014, Ms Paltrow moved the firm to the US and launched six retail stores in New York, San Francisco, Montecito, Santa Monica and Hawaii.\n\nAt the time, Goop's UK directors stepped down and Ms Paltrow was appointed director.\n\nThe company became dormant in December 2017. Two years later, Companies House issued its first notice warning of a compulsory strike-off.\n\nShe objected and submitted abridged accounts for 2019 last July, but a first notice was once again issued in April for the 2020 accounts filing.\n\nThe dissolution of Goop Inc Ltd has once again been temporarily put on hold, giving the firm more time to submit its accounts.\n\nShould Goop fail to do so, the firm will be struck off the register and all property and rights will belong to the Crown.\n\nThe lifestyle and beauty brand, reportedly worth £190m ($250m), has attracted controversy over its wellness tips and therapies that some critics call \"pseudoscience\".\n\nIn January, the NHS criticised Ms Paltrow's six-part Netflix series The Goop Lab, which saw doctors, researchers and alternative health practitioners investigate practices ranging from \"energy exorcisms\" to the use of psychedelic drugs in the treatment of mental-health disorders.", "The price of Bitcoin fell below $34,000 (£24,030) for the first time in three months on Wednesday, after China imposed fresh curbs on crypto-currencies.\n\nBeijing banned banks and payment firms from providing services related to crypto-currency transactions.\n\nIt also warned investors against speculative crypto trading on Tuesday.\n\nIt follows falls in Bitcoin of more than 10% last week after Tesla said it would no longer accept the currency.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, Bitcoin recovered some ground, although it was still down -10.4% at $38,131.\n\nMeanwhile, other digital currencies such as Ether, which acts as the fuel for the Ethereum blockchain network, and Dogecoin lost as much as 22% and 24% respectively.\n\nAt the same time, Tesla shares fell more than 3% on Wall Street, possibly because of the electric carmaker's exposure to Bitcoin.\n\nThe firm, owned by Elon Musk, still holds around $1.5bn worth of the crypto-currency.\n\nCrypto-currency trading has been illegal in China since 2019 in order to curb money-laundering. But people are still able to trade in currencies such as Bitcoin online, which has concerned Beijing.\n\nElon Musk said crypto-currency could \"not come at great cost to the environment\"\n\nOn Tuesday, three state-backed organisations, including the National Internet Finance Association of China, the China Banking Association and the Payment and Clearing Association of China issued a warning on social media.\n\nThey said consumers would have no protection if they were to incur any losses from crypto-currency investment transactions.\n\nThey added that recent wild swings in crypto-currency prices \"seriously violate people's asset safety\" and are disrupting the \"normal economic and financial order\".\n\nNeil Wilson of Markets.com said: \"China has for some time been putting pressure on the crypto space, but this marks an intensification - other countries might follow now as central banks make strides towards their own digital currencies.\n\n\"Until now, Western regulators have been pretty relaxed about Bitcoin, but this might change soon.\"\n\nIn March, Tesla boss Elon Musk announced unexpectedly that the electric carmaker would allow customers to buy cars using Bitcoin.\n\nBut last week, he did a U-turn and suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin because of environmental concerns.\n\nHis fears centre on Bitcoin mining - the energy-intensive process through which the digital currency is generated, using high-powered computers. It often relies on electricity generated with fossil fuels, particularly coal.\n\n\"We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel,\" Mr Musk wrote.\n\n\"Cryptocurrency is a good idea... but this cannot come at great cost to the environment.\"\n\nHe said the electric carmaker did not intend to sell any of its Bitcoin and intended to reinstate crypto-currency transactions once mining shifted to using more sustainable energy sources.\n\nAlthough the digital currency cannot be traded in China, more than 75% of Bitcoin mining around the world is done in China.\n\nFor anyone who has followed the crypto-currency scene for a while, the events of recent weeks are a familiar story.\n\nSome random event - say, a tweet from Elon Musk announcing Tesla will accept crypto-currency payments - sends Bitcoin to new highs, and people begin to say it's winning mainstream acceptance.\n\nThen another random event happens, perhaps a change of course from the Tesla tycoon. It comes tumbling down again, and talk of it going mainstream fades into the background.\n\nLast month, in a chatroom on Clubhouse (another phenomenon that seems to be swinging from boom to bust) I expressed some scepticism about crypto-currencies.\n\nUp popped a senior figure from London's thriving fintech scene: \"Rory, Rory,\" he chided me, \"crypto is becoming an accepted asset class.\"\n\nWith big City institutions taking an interest, that had a ring of truth - back in April, at least.\n\nBut this week, the weather had changed, with the Financial Times reporting \"new doubts among institutional fund managers over the future of crypto-currencies as an asset class\".\n\nMy mind went back to 2013, when I had first taken an interest in Bitcoin. In a report for Radio 4's PM programme, I had bought a pizza for 0.5 BTC, a tortuous process which had not seemed worth the £30 it cost back then - of course, at today's exchange rate, that was a £14,000 pizza.\n\nI had also written a blog post headlined \"The Bitcoin Bubble\", in which I tried to mine some lessons from a period when the price of the cryptocurrency shot up from $15 to $276 and then hurtled lower again.\n\nI ended a piece in which I compared the cryptocurrency with 17th-Century Dutch tulips or London houses in the 1980s with this thought: \"Unless and until Bitcoin can be used to buy a sandwich, or be accepted by your friends when you pay them back for a restaurant meal, then it is likely to remain just a playground for geeks and gamblers.\"\n\nEight years on, it is still virtually impossible to buy a sandwich with Bitcoin.\n\nAnd why would you want to, when there's a good chance you'll be mocked a few years later - as I've been for my transaction - for giving away an asset that goes on to soar in value?", "Residents of two tower blocks in a west German town have been quarantined after a woman in the building tested positive for the Indian variant of Covid-19.\n\n\"We just saw a mass of public order officers suddenly turn up and we were locked in,\" said a woman from the town of Velbert.", "Princess Beatrice is expecting a baby in the autumn, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said: \"The Queen has been informed and both families are delighted with the news.\"\n\nThe princess, the elder daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in a private ceremony last July.\n\nThey had previously postponed the ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe announcement comes as the Royal Family mourn the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last month.\n\nThe baby will be the Queen's 12th great-grandchild, following the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's second child, due in the summer.\n\nBeatrice, 32, and her husband are \"very pleased\" to be welcoming their first child together, the palace said.\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi, who is 37, has a young son known as Wolfie with his former fiancee, so Beatrice is already a stepmother.\n\nShe also became an aunt for the first time in February, when her sister Princess Eugenie gave birth to a baby boy named August.\n\nPrincess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi married in a private ceremony in July last year\n\nBeatrice's son or daughter will be 11th in line to the throne.\n\nThe princess herself will move from 9th to 10th in line following the arrival of the Sussexes' second child.\n\nShe was last seen in public at the funeral of her grandfather, Prince Philip, as the royals gathered for an intimate ceremony under pandemic restrictions.\n\nThe princess, who is not a full-time working royal, is vice president of partnerships and strategy at Afiniti, an artificial intelligence software firm.\n\nShe is also patron of a number of charities, including the Forget Me Not Children's Hospice, the Teenage Cancer Trust and the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre.\n\nHer husband, known as Edo, is the son of former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople whose properties were badly damaged by flooding after a mine shaft \"blew out\" have said they are in constant fear of another flood.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated because of flooding related to mine works in January in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nMany residents are months away from returning to their homes, while other said trying to get help from the Coal Authority is a \"nightmare.\"\n\nThe Coal Authority said it should have completed its work on site by August.\n\nMeanwhile, a campaign led by Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock is being launched on Thursday to ensure \"not a single victim of the awful flooding in Skewen is left out of pocket\".\n\nEmma Jones, 42, lives on Skewen's worst hit street, Goshen Park, where the blow out happened.\n\n\"It feels like an absolute living nightmare. Absolute nightmare,\" she said.\n\n\"I think because it was about five months ago, people have forgotten and think 'oh they must be all right now', but we're not, it's continuing.\"\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nHer two daughters were rescued from the family home by firefighters while she was at work.\n\nInitially, she said families like hers who were made homeless overnight were offered lots of support, but feels things have changed.\n\n\"We did have a lot of help,\" said Mrs Jones.\n\n\"But it seems like that help has really faded now and people are feeling really angry because we are not being given answers, we are not being kept up to date with information of the work that's going on by our houses.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in Skewen after a mine blow-out caused flooding\n\nAsked whether she feels the Coal Authority are helping enough, she said: \"Absolutely not.\"\n\n\"It would just be nice to know what their plan is for today, tomorrow, next week. Up-to-date information, that's what we would really like to have.\"\n\nMrs Jones said there is constant anxiety that homes could flood again due to the damage done to the drainage system in the area.\n\n\"When there's heavy rain there's a lot of standing water around here,\" she added.\n\n\"Water is managing to get back into people's houses, not a great deal but still, once your house is dry you don't want to see more water getting in, and the thought of it happening again is giving everybody great anxiety.\"\n\nBBC Wales understands the Coal Authority has had to buy at least one home in order to install a new water management system.\n\nNatasha and Karl Jones are locked in a battle with their insurance companies and the Coal Authority\n\nNatasha and Karl Jones live with their two children at the bottom of Goshen Park. Mrs Jones, her daughter and the family cat were also rescued by the fire service.\n\nThe incident has left her seven-year-old \"traumatised\" and having to \"go through counselling\".\n\n\"It's been awful,\" she said. \"Obviously we're living in a building site at the moment because everyone is having so much work done, and we understand that, but every bang you hear you think 'oh my gosh has it happened again?'\n\n\"When you hear running water, you think 'has the water come back? It is unsettling.\"\n\nThe family is one of many locked in a battle with their insurance companies and the Coal Authority.\n\nTheresa Dalling says she cannot sleep because she is \"waiting for the next thing to happen\"\n\nThe Authority is not accepting liability for the damage caused by the flood and its £500 offer to reinstate ruined gardens was branded \"disgusting\". It has since increased the offer to £2,000 but that has been described as \"not on\".\n\n\"People just want to go back home,\" Mrs Jones added. \"They just want their homes to be as they were, and why should we be fighting and trying to chase around everyone, just trying to get everything as was?\"\n\n\"It's just like living through hell, for us and our neighbours, it's a daily battle trying to get everything sorted. Nothing is easy.\"\n\nResidents also fear the drainage system is so badly damaged there could be another flood.\n\nTheresa Dalling's bungalow on Dynevor Road escaped the water by inches.\n\nBut since January, water has been seeping through the retaining wall next to her drive, and a large volume of water is constantly gushing through the drain in her back garden, even during dry weather.\n\n\"We don't know where it's coming from, we've had no answers,\" she said.\n\nthey don't know where it's coming from. Welsh Water say it's not theirs, the Coal Authority say it's not theirs, well who's is it then?\"\n\n\"It wasn't there before. In the 22 years that we've had this bungalow we've never had water on the drive. Where's it coming from?\"\n\nShe added her mental health, with which she was already suffering, has deteriorated badly.\n\nThe Coal Authority said its \"sympathy remains\" with those affected by the flooding on 21 January.\n\n\"Whilst the Coal Authority are not liable for the flooding we recognise that it has had a significant impact on many homes and developed the Skewen support policy to offer whatever practical help and support we can within the bounds of the legislation and guidance we have to operate within,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We have just completed a general clean-up of garden areas and our teams are now scheduling outdoor remediation works with each resident as we agree the full schedule with them.\n\n\"We expect that work on site will be completed by the end of August and we have ensured that residents have access to their homes since 6 February 2021 to allow repairs to be undertaken by their insurers in as timely a fashion as possible.\"", "Firefighters at the scene on Wednesday\n\nA masked man was captured on CCTV deliberately setting fire to three vehicles outside the home of Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell.\n\nThe club earlier said Mr Lawwell and his family are \"extremely shaken\" after the blaze, which also caused extensive damage to a garage.\n\nThe alarm was raised in Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire, at about 01:00.\n\nPolice said footage shows the suspect pouring an accelerant on vehicles outside the house on Peel Road.\n\nNo one was injured as a result of the incident, which is being treated as wilful fire-raising.\n\nMr Lawwell is Celtic chief executive and due to retire next month\n\nThe suspect is described as 5ft 10in and of slim build. He was wearing black jogging trousers, a black hooded jumper with the hood up, black trainers and a face mask.\n\nOfficers said a silver or grey hatchback car was also seen near to the house at the time of the fire.\n\nDet Insp Susie Cairns said: \"This was a completely reckless act which destroyed three cars and caused significant damage to the property's garage.\n\n\"The consequences could have been so much worse.\"\n\nShe urged anyone who was in the area at the time or who has relevant dashcam footage to get in touch with officers.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service confirmed eight appliances responded to the blaze.\n\nThe road leading to Mr Lawwell's home was cordoned off after the fire\n\nMr Lawwell confirmed in January he is to retire at the end of June after 17 years at Celtic.\n\nHe has been replaced by Dominic McKay, who has already moved from Scottish Rugby to take up the post.\n\nA Celtic spokeswoman said: \"We can confirm that significant damage has been caused to Peter Lawwell's house and vehicles there, following an explosion and fire early this morning, forcing the family to leave the property.\"\n\n\"Clearly, Peter's family are extremely shaken and shocked by these terrible events, but thankfully all are safe.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jenny McGee with the prime minster at a Downing Street garden party last summer\n\nA nurse who cared for Boris Johnson when he was in intensive care with Covid has quit the NHS and criticised the government's handling of the pandemic and nurses' pay.\n\nJenny McGee said she was \"taking a step back\" from the NHS after her \"toughest year\" in the job, but hoped to return.\n\nShe told a Channel 4 documentary that nurses were not getting \"the respect and now pay\" they deserve.\n\nThe government has recommended a 1% pay rise for NHS staff this year.\n\nMs McGee also told the programme, The Year Britain Stopped, that \"a lot of nurses\" felt the government \"hadn't led very effectively\" and that there had been \"indecisiveness\" and \"so many mixed messages\".\n\nShe said it had been \"very upsetting\".\n\nMs McGee, originally from New Zealand, now plans to work abroad and spend time in her home country.\n\nShe told the documentary: \"Yes, we have put ourselves on the line and we have worked so incredibly hard, and there's a lot of talk about how we're all heroes and all that sort of stuff.\n\n\"But at the same time, I'm just not sure if I can do it. I don't know how much more I've got to give to the NHS.\n\n\"We're not getting the respect and now pay that we deserve. I'm just sick of it. So I've handed in my resignation.\"\n\nShe gave the comments to the programme recently and a spokeswoman for the hospital confirmed she has now left.\n\nIn a statement released through Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Ms McGee said: \"After the toughest year of my nursing career, I'm taking a step back from the NHS but hope to return in the future.\n\n\"I'm excited to start a nursing contract in the Caribbean, before a holiday back home in New Zealand later in the year.\n\n\"I'm so proud to have worked at St Thomas' Hospital and to have been part of such a fantastic team.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nurse Jenny McGee speaking last year about treating the PM\n\nMs McGee also told the documentary, being broadcast on 24 May, that Mr Johnson was surrounded by sick patients, \"some of whom were dying\", when he was admitted to hospital in April last year.\n\n\"I remember seeing him and thinking he looked very, very unwell,\" she said. \"He was a different colour really.\"\n\nShe described it as a \"surreal\" time, and added that as Covid patients are complicated to look after, \"we just didn't know what was going to happen\".\n\nAfter his release from hospital, Mr Johnson gave a statement in which he praised Ms McGee and fellow nurse Luis Pitarma for staying by his bedside all night.\n\nShe was invited to Downing Street in July for a garden party to celebrate 72 years of the NHS. In the documentary, the nurse said she was asked to take part in the clap for carers alongside the prime minister.\n\nIt would have been a \"good photo opportunity\" but she said she wanted to \"stay out of it\", adding: \"Lots of nurses felt that the government hadn't led very effectively - the indecisiveness, so many mixed messages.\"\n\nMs McGee has been speaking about her experience of the NHS during Covid in a Channel 4 documentary\n\nDowning Street said in a statement: \"Our NHS staff have gone above and beyond over the past year and this government will do everything in our power to support them.\n\n\"We are extremely grateful for the care NHS staff have provided throughout the pandemic in particular.\"\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the nurse's decision to leave the NHS was a \"devastating indictment of Boris Johnson's approach to the people who put their lives on the line for him and our whole country\".\n\nPat Cullen, acting general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said it was warning of \"an exodus\" from the profession. She said the government should \"demonstrate its respect by giving nurses a fair pay rise for the skilled work they do\".\n\nSara Gorton, head of health at the Unison union, said many more staff could quit \"unless the prime minister sees sense over pay\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he is sorry for the pain the Ballymurphy victims' families have endured\n\nThe prime minister has publicly apologised to the families of the 10 people killed in Ballymurphy in 1971\n\nBoris Johnson began prime minister's questions on Wednesday by reading the names of the victims.\n\nHe went on to say that he was sorry for how the investigations were handled and for the pain endured by the families.\n\nLast week an inquest found that the victims, who were shot during an Army operation in Belfast, were \"entirely innocent\".\n\nMr Johnson told the House of Commons: \"No apology can lessen their lasting pain, I hope they may take some comfort in the answers they have secured and in knowing this has renewed the government's determination to ensure in future that other families can find answers without distress and delay.\"\n\nJohn Teggart, whose father Daniel was one of those killed in Ballymurphy, has called Boris Johnson's apology \"totally unacceptable\" and said he \"personally rejects it\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, Mr Teggart labelled Mr Johnson's apology \"totally insincere\" and said it \"again has caused annoyance to the families\".\n\nMr Teggart ruled out ever meeting the prime minister and said he \"wouldn't waste a minute of his time with him\".\n\n\"I won't be letting him annoy me anymore, I have no time for him and his feeble attempts to apologise,\" Mr Teggart said.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson's apology should have focused on \"our loved ones who were murdered\" and not how the investigation was handled.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mary Kate Quinn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary Kate Quinn, whose uncle John Laverty was killed in Ballymurphy, said the Balllymurphy families \"were not informed\" that Mr Johnson was making a statement on Wednesday in the House of Commons.\n\nIn a tweet, Ms Quinn said: \"We found out from journalists. Yet again, that was not an apology. Boris did not apologise for the killings of our loved ones.\"\n\nThe inquest examined the deaths of 10 people in Ballymurphy in 1971\n\nAmong the victims were a priest who was trying to help the wounded and a mother of eight.\n\nNine of the 10 victims were killed by the Army, the coroner said.\n\nHowever, Mrs Justice Keegan said she could not definitively rule who shot the tenth victim, former World War Two soldier John McKerr.\n\nFamilies of the victims received a written apology from Mr Johnson last week, which they said had angered them.\n\nThey said the letter was received minutes before Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis apologised in Parliament for \"the events at Ballymurphy\" in 1971.\n\nMr Lewis said the events at Ballymurphy should never have happened.\n\nMr Johnson also told Parliament that the UK government was committed to introducing legislation in the current session to address the legacy of the Troubles.\n\n\"And to introduce a fair package for veterans as well, to protect them from unfair, vexatious litigation where no new evidence has been brought forward,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe government is to bring forward legislation in the course of the next year to deal with legacy issues related to the Northern Ireland Troubles.\n\nBased on details of the plan leaked in recent weeks, it is proposed that all prosecutions prior to 1998 and related to the Troubles will, in future, be banned under a statute of limitations.\n\nSimon Hoare, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee chair, said it was right for the prime minister to apologise\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said Mr Johnson had added \"insult to injury\".\n\n\"I don't think that he has delivered anything that approximates a sincere or complete apology,\" Ms McDonald said.\n\n\"The bigger problem beyond that is that Boris Johnson and his government are determined to deliver an amnesty for British soldiers.\"\n\nSDLP leader and Foyle MP Colum Eastwood said Mr Johnson's apology was \"too little, too late\".\n\n\"I don't know why he couldn't make a proper apology to the families last week when he had many, many opportunities,\" Mr Eastwood said.\n\n\"He didn't actually apologise for their loved ones being killed by British soldiers. I just think it was frankly insulting to the victims.\"\n\nMr Eastwood said the prime minister should have met the families in Belfast.\n\nSimon Hoare, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee chair, said he had hoped the prime minister would give an apology and he was pleased that he had now done so.\n\n\"I think it was the right thing for the prime minister to do,\" Mr Hoare said.", "The handling of Daniel Morgan's murder has been the subject of five inquiries\n\nThe family of Daniel Morgan has criticised a Home Office decision to review a report into his unsolved murder before it can be made public.\n\nThe private investigator was killed with an axe in a pub car park in south London in 1987.\n\nThe panel investigating the case was due to publish its report on Monday, but government lawyers will now examine it first, due to \"national security\".\n\nMr Morgan's family called the delay \"an outrage\" and a \"kick in the teeth\".\n\nThe panel chairperson, Baroness O'Loan, said the Home Office review was \"unnecessary and not consistent with the panel's independence\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the home secretary had a duty to ensure the report complied with \"human rights and national security considerations\".\n\n\"This has nothing to do with the independence of the report and the Home Office is not seeking to make edits to it,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nMr Morgan, from Monmouthshire, was found dead in Sydenham in March 1987.\n\nHis family has always maintained he was on the cusp of exposing police corruption.\n\nAlthough he had not been stripped of his valuables, notes he was earlier seen writing in the pub had been ripped from his trouser pocket.\n\nThere have been five separate failed investigations into Mr Morgan's murder - all plagued by allegations of police corruption and links between police, private investigators and tabloid journalists.\n\nIn 2011 a trial was abandoned, and two years later the government commissioned an inquiry into the murder.\n\nThen Home Secretary Theresa May, who set up the inquiry panel, described Mr Morgan's death as \"one of the country's most notorious unsolved murders\".\n\nThe panel's remit was to \"shine a light on the circumstances of Daniel Morgan's murder, its background and the handling of the case over the whole period since March 1987\".\n\nThis report won't be able to tell us who the murderers were - but it might be able to shed light, finally, on why the case hasn't been solved.\n\nFor Daniel's family, in particular his brother Alastair, that is crucial and the potential this report has to embarrass the Met Police is very real.\n\nThe Home Office says it has a duty to check the report will not breach anyone's human rights, or put national security at risk.\n\nWhat's not clear is why the government left it until the very last minute to intervene, given the impact that would inevitably have on Daniel's family.\n\nIt has said it is not \"seeking\" to edit the report, but could redact it, leaving passages of black which raise new questions rather than finally settling old ones.\n\nThat appears to have frustrated the panel - which has a robust view of its own independence.\n\nWith the end in sight, it has infuriated Daniel's family.\n\nIn a statement, it said of the intervention: \"It is an outrage which betrays her ignorance - and the ignorance of those advising her - with regard to her powers in law and the panel's terms of reference.\n\n\"It also reveals a disturbing disregard for the public interest in safeguarding the independence of the panel and its report.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"For us, as the family of Daniel Morgan, the home secretary's belated and unwarranted interference in this process is simply unacceptable.\"\n\nThe family called on Ms Patel to \"try to understand... the need for sensitivity and basic human decency in the exercise of her powers, mindful of the unending distress she is causing to each and every member of our family\".\n\nThe family's lawyer Raju Bhatt said the family had \"every reason to be suspicious about the motives behind this very belated and completely unwarranted intervention\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he added that there was \"every reason to believe that police corruption was at the heart of this ordeal the family have faced\".\n\nMr Morgan's brother Alastair said the family was looking to the panel to defend itself from Home Office interference.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"We're now looking to the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel to defend their independence and fend off this unwarranted intervention from the home secretary.\n\n\"We're very hopeful that they will.\"\n\nNuala O'Loan and Priti Patel are at odds over the delay\n\nOn Tuesday, the panel released a statement saying in the subsequent eight years there had been \"no mention\" of any need to review the report before publication.\n\nIt also provided details of how both national security and human rights legislation had been adhered to during the investigation.\n\nThe panel was originally told the home secretary would be unable to table the report in Parliament on 17 May, as planned, because of delays caused by the Duke of Edinburgh's death and local elections.\n\nA new date of 24 May was set, but the Home Office has said before a publication date can be agreed checks must be made.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Under the terms it was commissioned in 2013, it is for the home secretary to publish the report which she hopes to do as soon as possible.\n\n\"The home secretary also has an obligation to make sure the report complies with human rights and national security considerations.\n\n\"As soon as we receive the report, we can begin those checks and agree a publication date.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added Ms Patel hoped to meet Mr Morgan's family to \"discuss the report and its findings in person\".", "Nine-year-old Yara (left) and five-year-old Rula (right) were killed alongside several family members on Sunday Image caption: Nine-year-old Yara (left) and five-year-old Rula (right) were killed alongside several family members on Sunday\n\nOf the 219 people killed in Gaza at least 63 are children, according to its health ministry, while of the 10 people killed in Israel, two children are among the dead, the country's medical service says.\n\nAmong the children killed in Gaza were sisters Yara, 9, and Rula, 5 from the al-Kawalek family. Both had been receiving treatment for trauma from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).\n\nThe al-Kawaleks were polite girls who always did their homework on time, one of their teachers, who did not want be named, told the BBC.\n\nIdo Avigal, five, who was killed in a Hamas rocket attack Image caption: Ido Avigal, five, who was killed in a Hamas rocket attack\n\nThe youngest victim on the Israeli side is thought to be Ido Avigal, a five-year-old boy killed last Wednesday in the southern town of Sderot.\n\nIdo was killed inside a fortified room in what the Israeli military described as an \"incredibly rare\" incident.\n\nRocket shrapnel pierced the protective metal plating used to cover the window of the room he was in, also injuring his mother and seven-year-old sister. He died of his injuries hours later.\n\nIbrahim al-Masry was playing with his siblings in the front yard of their home in a northern neighbourhood of Gaza last week, when a strike hit, according to reports.\n\n\"We were laughing and having fun, when suddenly they began to bomb us, everything around us caught fire,\" his brother told the AFP news agency .\n\nYou can read more about the children who have died in the fighting here.", "Serious patient safety issues are being buried in confidential hospital reports, BBC Panorama has found.\n\nFreedom of Information requests revealed 111 reports, written by medical royal colleges, which NHS trusts have a duty to share.\n\nEighty reports were given to the BBC but only 26 had been shared in full with regulators, and 16 published.\n\nThe Department of Health would not comment on whether it might change the law to ensure publication.\n\nSince the 2015 Morecambe Bay maternity scandal in which 11 babies and a mother died, NHS Trusts are supposed to publish summaries of external reviews, and share them with the regulator.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup said the findings were \"a great disappointment\"\n\nAn earlier review into the hospital had previously identified concerns but had not been made public.\n\nDr Bill Kirkup, who led a 2015 investigation into the Morecambe Bay scandal, said Panorama's findings were a \"great disappointment\".\n\n\"People should know that there is something that is important enough to be looked at and they should know what the results of that scrutiny are.\n\n\"I can't understand what the rationale would be for withholding the existence of a report or the findings of the report. These are important matters of accountability in the public service.\"\n\nJames Titcombe, who became a patient safety campaigner after his baby son Joshua died due to failures of care at Morecambe Bay, said by not publishing reports \"there are possibly risks out there that the regulator is unaware of, and ultimately those risks can have tragic consequences\".\n\nFreedom of Information (FoI) requests were sent to all NHS Trusts in the UK requesting any Royal College reviews of services in the last five years.\n\nThe colleges set standards of care and can be commissioned to review how a health care provider is performing.\n\nOf the 80 reports released to the BBC, just 16 are in the public domain, and only 26 were shared in full with the regulators.\n\nIn another 22 cases the regulator was only aware of the review or had only seen part of it. Sixty-five of the 80 contained potential or actual patient safety concerns.\n\nThough the BBC had been told about 111 reports, the Royal Colleges told Panorama they had carried out about 260 reviews in the same period.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said she was \"dismayed\" summaries of reports were not being made public, and it had published guidance in 2016 saying reports dealing with safety or care concerns should be made public.\n\n\"If things are not being shared, and if that has implications for patient safety, that must be put right. The fact that a review is done should never be secret and indeed a summary of the findings should always be published\".\n\nThe vasculitis department at the Royal Liverpool Hospital treats people with a disease affecting the blood vessels.\n\nIn 2015, after concerns were raised by other clinicians, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) was called in.\n\nThe college recommended there should be an audit of patients treated during the previous two years \"without delay\" to ensure they were on the correct treatment.\n\nFoI requests reveal there were 400 patients under the care of the unit at that point.\n\nBut 18 months after the review, less than a quarter had been checked.\n\nOut of a group of 26 who were on powerful medications, two were found to have been given them \"inappropriately\", four were given \"possibly excessive\" doses and three had died while suffering side effects from the drugs.\n\nBBC Panorama has seen emails from the RCP threatening to tell the regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), if the audit wasn't completed, but it did not follow through.\n\nIn addition, the CQC was never told by the hospital or the college about the concerns or given the full report. Instead it was only told a review had happened.\n\nThe CQC said if it had known an audit was required, it would have monitored the outcomes.\n\nAnd the RCP said it was \"satisfied that the trust made reasonable attempts to complete the audits\" but was \"very disappointed with the speed of response and progress\", adding that the trust \"had a clear obligation to share serious ongoing concerns with patients and the regulator\".\n\nThe Royal Liverpool Hospital said it was \"committed to providing safe and excellent care\" and that the recommendations identified within the RCP's 2015 report have since been \"successfully implemented, or are part of longer-term actions currently in progress\".\n\nThe CQC does not currently have the legal power to compel trusts to share the reports or make the trust implement recommendations.\n\nProf Ted Baker, the CQC's chief inspector of hospitals, said: \"Both hospital trusts and the professional bodies undertaking invited reviews have a responsibility to ensure that any serious patient safety issues raised in an invited review are shared with CQC.\n\n\"It is extremely disappointing that despite this very clear expectation, we continue to see examples of a lack of transparency.\"\n\nDr Kirkup said a legal duty may have to be placed on trusts compelling them to disclose royal college reviews.\n\nNHS England and NHS Improvement said there are \"robust and transparent systems to ensure hospitals and other care providers learn and improve services\".\n\nIt said \"all independent reviews should be made available\" to health commissioners and regulators and it \"expects trusts to take prompt action to address recommendations made\".\n\nOut of 111 reports the BBC was made aware of, 100 came from NHS trusts in England.\n\nThe NHS in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland all emphasised the usefulness of the Royal College review system and stressed the importance of openness and transparency in healthcare.\n\nBBC News asked the Department of Health whether they would consider a change in the law to enforce publication and sharing with regulators but they declined to comment.\n\nYou can watch Panorama: Hospital Secrets Uncovered on BBC One at 19:30 BST or afterwards on BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How did a cyber-attack lead to US petrol queues?\n\nColonial Pipeline has confirmed it paid a $4.4m (£3.1m) ransom to the cyber-criminal gang responsible for taking the US fuel pipeline offline.\n\nIts boss told the Wall Street Journal he authorised the payment on 7 May because of uncertainty over how long the shutdown would continue.\n\n\"I know that's a highly controversial decision,\" Joseph Blount said in his first interview since the hack.\n\nAccording to the firm, it carries 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel, petrol and jet fuel.\n\nChief executive Mr Blount told the newspaper that the firm decided to pay the ransom after discussions with experts who had previously dealt with DarkSide, the criminal organisation behind the attack.\n\n\"I didn't make [that decision] lightly. I will admit that I wasn't comfortable seeing money go out the door to people like this.\n\n\"But it was the right thing to do for the country,\" he added.\n\nThe US government has recommended in the past that companies do not pay criminals over ransomware attacks, in case they invite further hacks in the future.\n\nColonial Pipeline took itself offline on Friday 7 May after the cyber-attack.\n\nIn return for the Bitcoin payment, the company received a decryption tool so it could unlock the systems compromised by the hackers - although that was not enough to restart systems immediately, according to the newspaper.\n\nFears over fuel shortages spurred some customers to panic buy petrol in the United States.\n\nOperations resumed on the pipeline last week, although petrol shortages seen across states such as North Carolina and Georgia have persisted, according to data tracking firm Gas Buddy.\n\nMr Blount added that it would take months before some other business systems are recovered, and estimated that the attack would ultimately cost the company tens of millions of dollars.\n\nHe also regrets that the company has lost some degree of anonymity, having led the firm since 2017.\n\n\"We were perfectly happy having no one know who Colonial Pipeline was, and unfortunately that's not the case any more,\" he said. \"Everybody in the world knows.\"\n\nAt the time of the hack, the DarkSide criminal gang acknowledged the incident in a public statement.\n\n\"Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society,\" DarkSide wrote on its website.\n\n\"We do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for... our motives,\" the group added.", "Dominic Cummings has claimed that government \"secrecy\" in its handling of the Covid crisis \"contributed greatly to the catastrophe\".\n\nThe prime minister's former adviser tweeted that its performance had been \"part disaster, part non-existent\".\n\nMr Cummings, who will appear before a committee of MPs next week, also called for more scrutiny of policy to ensure the Indian variant is dealt with.\n\nThe government said it was always guided by the \"best scientific data\".\n\nThis had \"allowed us to secure early development of vaccines\", a spokesman added.\n\nMore than 127,000 people diagnosed with coronavirus have died in the UK since the start of the pandemic, but 36.7 million people have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAccording to the government's \"roadmap\", the remaining restrictions on social contact in England are set to end on 21 June.\n\nIn a series of tweets Mr Cummings posted, apparently while in the waiting room for his first Covid jab, he attacked his former colleagues in government and the Civil Service (abbreviations he used have been turned into full words here).\n\nLooking back at the start of the pandemic last year, he wrote: \"One of the most fundamental and unarguable lessons of February to March is that secrecy contributed greatly to the catastrophe.\n\n\"Openness to scrutiny would have exposed government errors weeks earlier than happened.\"\n\nMr Cummings claimed he and the UK government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, had \"supported opening up\" the Sage committee - the scientists who advise ministers on handling emergencies - earlier to greater scrutiny.\n\nHe wrote that delaying the release of its minutes until late May last year had been due to a \"cultural hostility to openness\" in Whitehall.\n\nAnd \"human challenge\" trials, where individuals are deliberately infected with the the virus, should have begun as soon as it was detected in the UK, he added.\n\nThis could have meant \"jabs in arms\" by last summer, Mr Cummings argued.\n\nMr Cummings quit his government job after a Downing Street power struggle in the autumn, and has been critical of the government since his departure.\n\nHe is expected to express further thoughts when he appears before the Commons Health and Social Care Committee and Science and Technology Committee - holding a joint inquiry into \"lessons learnt\" about coronavirus - on 26 May.\n\nMore than 36.7 million people in the UK have had a first Covid jab\n\nCovid restrictions eased in England, whose health policy is overseen by the UK government, on Monday, but there are concerns about the spread of the Indian variant.\n\nIt is feared this could be 50% more transmissable than the UK-originated strain involved in the deadly second wave of infections this winter, although this claim is still being investigated.\n\nMr Cummings urged MPs to push the government for details on how variants are to be tackled with vaccines, writing: \"The best hedge re: a variant escaping current vaccines is PUBLIC SCRUTINY of government plans.\n\n\"This will hopefully show it's been taken seriously. If not, better learn now that the government has screwed up again than when 'variant escapes' news breaks.\"\n\nHe also called for a review of contingency plans to prepare for \"more dangerous things than Covid\" in the future.\n\nOn a visit to a vaccination centre in London, Mr Johnson said there was \"nothing conclusive\" in the available data which might change plans to end restrictions on 21 June.\n\nBut information from Indian variant hotspots, including Bolton, and elsewhere was being analysed, meaning the situation would remain \"under close review\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the government's \"approach to the pandemic throughout\" had been \"guided by the best scientific data\".\n\nThis had \"allowed us to secure early development of vaccines, allowing us to move through\" the easing of restrictions, he added.\n\nAsked about what Mr Cummings might tell MPs next week, the spokesman also said he would \"not speculate about what individuals may have and may or may not decide to present\".\n\nScotland and Wales, like England, eased Covid restrictions on Monday, while Northern Ireland is set to do so next Monday.\n\nThese changes will be subject to review.", "Pose actor Billy Porter has revealed he has been living with HIV for the past 14 years.\n\nThe US star was diagnosed in 2007 but said he had since \"lived with that shame in silence\".\n\nMaking it public would also have been \"another way for people to discriminate against me in an already discriminatory profession\", he explained.\n\nBut speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, he said: \"There's no more stigma - let's be done with that. It's time.\"\n\nPorter made his name on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for his role in the musical Kinky Boots in 2013.\n\nHe won an Emmy in 2019 for playing Pray Tell, an MC on the 1980s New York ballroom scene, in Ryan Murphy's acclaimed TV drama Pose. He earned Golden Globes nominations for best TV drama actor in both 2019 and 2020.\n\nPorter was on the red carpet at last week's Brit Awards in London\n\n\"I was the generation that was supposed to know better, and it happened anyway,\" he said of contracting HIV.\n\n\"The shame of that time compounded with the shame that had already [accumulated] in my life silenced me, and I have lived with that shame in silence for 14 years. HIV-positive, where I come from, growing up in the Pentecostal church with a very religious family, is God's punishment.\"\n\nHe said he told \"everybody who needed to know\", explaining: \"I was trying to have a life and a career, and I wasn't certain I could if the wrong people knew.\n\n\"It would just be another way for people to discriminate against me in an already discriminatory profession. So I tried to think about it as little as I could. I tried to block it out.\"\n\nHe said he was making it public now because \"it's time to grow up and move on because shame is destructive - and if not dealt with, it can destroy everything in its path\".\n\nHe did not even tell his mother until recently, he said. \"I was embarrassed. I was ashamed. I was the statistic that everybody said I would be.\n\n\"So I'd made a pact with myself that I would let her die before I told her. That's what I was waiting for, if I'm being honest. When we moved her into the Actors Fund Nursing Home, I was like, 'She's not going to be here long, and then I'll write my book and come out and she won't have to live with the embarrassment of having an HIV-positive child.'\n\n\"That was five years ago. She ain't going anywhere.\"\n\nHe and his sister made a plan to visit her to break the news, but he decided to do so over the phone on the last day of filming Pose, he said.\n\n\"Not two minutes into the conversation, she's like, 'What's wrong?' I said, 'Nothing.' She's like, 'Son, please tell me what's wrong.'\n\n\"So I ripped the Band-Aid off and I told her. She said, 'You've been carrying this around for 14 years? Don't ever do this again. I'm your mother, I love you no matter what. And I know I didn't understand how to do that early on, but it's been decades now.'\n\n\"And it's all true. It's my own shame. Years of trauma makes a human being skittish. But the truth shall set you free. I feel my heart releasing.\"\n\nModern treatments mean people can live long and healthy lives with HIV. \"This is what HIV-positive looks like now,\" Porter said.\n\n\"I'm going to die from something else before I die from that. My T-cell levels are twice yours because of this medication.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"This will be the first clinical study in the world to look at the impact of a booster jab\"\n\nThe public is being urged to take part in trials to find out whether a third dose of Covid vaccine could protect against new variants.\n\nAll seven vaccines the UK has ordered will be tested on working-age people and over-75s as part of a randomised trial.\n\nData on side-effects and immune responses will be gathered.\n\nThe findings will help vaccine advisers decide if re-vaccinating some people in the autumn is necessary.\n\nMore than 20 million people have been fully vaccinated - with two doses of a Covid vaccine - since the UK's vaccination programme started, but it's still not clear how long protection lasts.\n\nOffering some groups a third dose to boost protection from coronavirus ahead of winter has been suggested - but not confirmed.\n\nThe Cov-Boost study, which starts in June, will recruit 3,000 people of all ages who had their first dose in December or January, to test if this is worthwhile.\n\n\"It could be that some age groups may not need a booster and others do,\" said Prof Saul Faust, chief investigator for the trial, from the University of Southampton.\n\n\"We are not trying to say one is better than the other.\n\n\"The aim is to find out whether there should be a booster campaign and which vaccine to use,\" he said.\n\nProf Faust said he was not expecting any vaccines to be \"detrimental\" but some could cause high fevers or very sore arms, for example, which would be useful to know.\n\nThe vaccines will be trialled at 18 sites across the UK, and half doses will also be tested.\n\nThe full list of sites is: Southampton, London (University College Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and Northwick Park Harrow), Leicester, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Wrexham, Bradford, Oxford, Glasgow, Leeds, Cambridge, Birmingham, Brighton, Stockport, Liverpool and Exeter.\n\nParticipants will be asked to keep diaries of any side-effects after a third dose, which could be one of seven different Covid vaccines, and researchers will test participants' immune response after one, three and 12 months.\n\nThis involves testing their blood for antibodies to coronavirus - high levels are a sign that the body's defences are primed to fight off the virus.\n\nAll doses would be from current vaccines, designed to protect against the original form of the virus.\n\nIn addition to doses of AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna, some people will be given doses of vaccines from Novavax, Janssen, Valneva and CureVac, which are currently being trialled in large numbers of people, but have not yet been approved by the UK regulator. There will also be a control group, who will be given a dummy vaccine.\n\nEven though the study is using current vaccines, rather than vaccines which have been updated to target new variants, scientists say they expect a boost in antibodies which could be enough to protect against all circulating forms of the virus.\n\nDr Matthew Snape, associate professor of paediatrics and vaccinology at the University of Oxford, said the study was a world-first and there would be global interest in the results.\n\nAnother study, called ComCov, which is testing using different doses of vaccines for the first and second doses found that mixing doses increased mild-to-moderate symptoms after vaccination.\n\nThe Cov-Boost study, which costs £19.3 million, is being funded by the government and led by the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, as part of the National Immunisation Schedule Evaluation Consortium (NISEC).", "The pandemic has placed a huge strain on the NHS\n\nThe government did not plan enough for a threat on the scale of coronavirus, its spending watchdog has found.\n\nThe National Audit Office also urged ministers to come up with ideas to prevent widening inequality caused by the pandemic.\n\nBut it said they had enjoyed some success in their efforts to deal with the crisis, on which £372bn had been spent by March this year.\n\nThe government said it had acted \"quickly and decisively\" throughout.\n\nAlmost 127,700 people diagnosed with coronavirus have died in the UK, but more than 38.6 million people have received their first vaccination jab since the programme began in December.\n\nWhen coronavirus struck in early spring last year, the government lacked plans for many areas of its response in England, including identifying who needed to shield and managing mass disruption to schooling, the NAO said.\n\nIt added that there had been problems setting up employment support schemes, for which as many as 2.9 million people were not eligible.\n\nThe report said: \"While the response to the pandemic has provided new learning from both what has worked well and what has not worked well, it has also laid bare existing fault lines within society, such as the risk of widening inequalities, and within public service delivery and government itself.\"\n\nThe government has said it will review the report's recommendations closely and build on its commitment to data transparency and accountability.\n\nThe criticism comes as Dominic Cummings, former adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said the government's pandemic planning had been \"part disaster, part non-existent\" and said \"secrecy contributed greatly to the catastrophe\".\n\nAhead of his appearance before a committee of MPs next week, he said the lack of public scrutiny is still affecting the response to the rise of new variants, such as the B.1.617.2 variant first identified in India, as the UK rolls out vaccinations and takes major steps towards ending coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe NAO said in its report that communications had not always been clear and timely, stating that guidance on personal protective equipment (PPE) changed 30 times up to the end of last July.\n\nAnd the report said there had not always been a clear audit trail to support decisions to award PPE contracts.\n\nThe NAO also warned that the hundreds of billions of pounds spent in response to the pandemic so far may have an impact on the longer-term sustainability of the public finances.\n\nUK government borrowing hit £303bn in the financial year 2020-21 - the highest amount, as a proportion of national income, since 1946.\n\nNAO head Gareth Davies said: \"Covid-19 has required government to respond to an exceptionally challenging and rapidly changing threat.\n\n\"There is much to learn from the successes and failures in government's response.\"\n\nLessons learned were \"not only important for the remaining phases of the current pandemic, but should also help better prepare the UK for future emergencies\", Mr Davies said.\n\nIn response, the government said its approach throughout the pandemic had been \"guided by data and the advice of scientific and medical experts\".\n\nIt said its public health response had brought together Public Health England, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and NHS Test and Trace under one leadership to increase capacity needed to handle a full-blown pandemic.\n\n\"As new evidence emerged, we acted quickly and decisively to protect lives and livelihoods,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We have committed to a full public independent inquiry to look at what lessons we can learn from our response to this unprecedented global challenge.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp likened his side's victory at Burnley to winning \"a semi-final\" that takes them to Sunday's \"final\" against Crystal Palace and the chance to seal a top-four finish.\n\nLiverpool's incredible win at West Bromwich Albion on Sunday kept their Champions League hopes alive and at Turf Moor they built on their last-gasp weekend heroics with a victory that was much tighter than the scoreline suggests.\n\nA cool finish from Roberto Firmino turned the game Liverpool's way then a first club goal for Nathaniel Phillips and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's late drive made the points safe and improved the Reds' goal difference.\n\nThe Reds are now in the fourth Champions League spot, level on points with fifth-placed Leicester City and with a goal difference four better than the Foxes.\n\nKlopp's side host the Eagles in Roy Hodgson's last game in charge in four days' time, with 10,000 fans inside Anfield.\n\nThe Foxes are at home to Tottenham while Chelsea, who are a point better off than both, are at Aston Villa.\n\n\"Today was a semi-final,\" Klopp told Sky Sports. \"We had to win the semi-final and we did.\n\n\"Nothing is decided yet but we improved our position and we have the final. That's what we needed. It's what we deserve because this was a top performance.\n\n\"Now we have to make sure we recover quickly. We have a thin squad in some positions. We have to wrap them in cotton wool.\n\n\"I can't wait for the 10,00 fans at Anfield. Nothing is decided - Palace are strong.\"\n• None Action from Burnley v Liverpool, plus the rest of Wednesday's Premier League games\n\nHaving required a sensational injury-time goal from goalkeeper Alisson to complete a comeback and beat West Brom at the weekend, the Reds endured another stressful encounter at Turf Moor.\n\nThey were harried all over the pitch throughout by a committed home side keen to impress their 3,000 fans and provide them with an end to a terrible run of home form.\n\nLiverpool struggled to deal with the Clarets' energetic pressing, especially in the first-half, with the home side's physicality posing a challenge the Reds failed at times to deal with.\n\nHowever, despite their relative inexperience at the back, Phillips and Rhys Williams did well on the whole against the in-form Chris Wood, with the former even adding a welcome goalscoring element to his play.\n\nHaving come up for a corner, the 24-year-old was perfectly placed to head home when Mane swung over a cross from the left - his first goal in what has been an unexpected but vital 20 appearances for the injury-hit Reds this season.\n\nPhillips also positioned himself perfectly on the line to clear a Ben Mee header that would have given the visitors a far more challenging final 20 minutes.\n\nAs it was, they snatched a third, with Oxlade-Chamberlain scoring his first goal - a fine finish after evading Charlie Taylor - at the end of a season hampered by injury as well as long spells on the bench.\n\nIt was Firmino's goal, though, that had much earlier provided the crucial breakthrough, his low finish from Andy Robertson's pull-back being the first shot the visitors had managed on target in a frantic and often end-to-end first half.\n\nIt was not a comfortable experience for Klopp's side but not much has been during their run of nine games unbeaten that has put them on the verge of salvaging something from this hugely disappointing season.\n\n\"It never is easy,\" Klopp told BBC Sport. \"I can't remember an easy game against Burnley.\n\n\"What a job Sean Dyche is doing here. The way they play is so tricky to defend against. They are smart.\n\n\"Apart from a nervy start passing-wise, we had to adapt to the atmosphere in the stadium, but then we played really good football.\"\n\nThe Reds are now into the top four for the first time since February off the back of a fourth straight victory - their longest winning run of the campaign.\n\nOne more will be enough unless Leicester run riot against Tottenham and significantly improve their goal difference.\n\nBurnley have now extended an unwanted club record to 10 consecutive top-flight home league games without a win, dating back to January.\n\nWith fans back inside Turf Moor, the home side were clearly in a mood to make amends, harrying all over the pitch, snapping into tackles and diving in to block shots.\n\nJames Tarkowski and Mee were typically combative in an attempt to protect goalkeeper Will Norris, starting his first Premier League game for the club.\n\nThings could have been different had Wood not fired an effort wide after nipping in behind the Liverpool defence to get on to a long ball forward, but this was indicative of the lack of ruthlessness that has, at times, blighted their season.\n\n\"We've had a really tough season,\" Dyche told BBC Sport. \"We've had some knocks on the way.\n\n\"I thought we gave a good account of ourselves. We have actually played pretty well over the last few weeks but we haven't taken our chances.\n\n\"We could have been effective in the final third when it really counts. That's probably been my biggest bug.\"\n\nThere is little more Dyche could have asked from his players both in this game and the league campaign, which has again seem them defy their relatively small budget to stay in the division.\n\nHowever Dyche will be eager to end on a high at Sheffield United before a summer that the long-serving manager will hope sees more investment than in the previous close season.\n\n\"There's always a lot to do here,\" said Dyche. \"It's a restart every summer. We will see what happens and what can be done investment wise.\n\n\"We have a base here to work on and it's how we layer up on top of that to find the next generation of players to keep moving forward.\"\n• None Liverpool haven't lost any of the 14 Premier League matches in which Roberto Firmino has scored the opening goal of the game (W12 D2) - including winning each of the last 11 in a row.\n• None Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino is only the second player to score in three consecutive Premier League away games at Turf Moor, after Anthony Martial. Indeed, the Brazilian has now scored as many times in his last three league appearances as in the 19 matches beforehand (3).\n• None Including a spell at Stuttgart last season, Nathaniel Phillips' header was his first career goal as a professional, on what was his 20th appearance for Liverpool across all competitions.\n• None Since the start of last season, Burnley have lost all five of their Premier League games without Nick Pope in goal, conceding 3.4 goals per game on average, compared to just 1.2 in the 70 top-flight games in which he has started for the Clarets.\n• None Since the start of the 2017-18 season, only Kevin de Bruyne (49) has more Premier League assists than Liverpool full-back Andrew Robertson (35), who assisted twice in a Premier League game for the first time since April 2019.\n• None Matthew Lowton (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Burnley 0, Liverpool 3. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Andrew Robertson following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Searching for truth in the fog of war\n• None Watch as former rugby players take legal action over their brain injuries", "Sister Joanna Sloan received the first Covid-19 vaccine in Northern Ireland on 8 December\n\nMore than one million people in Northern Ireland have received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nThat is about 69% of the adult population.\n\nPatricia Donnelly, who leads NI's Covid vaccination programme, said she was \"determined to maintain momentum\".\n\nIt is almost six months since the first vaccine was administered to Sister Joanna Sloan at the Royal Victoria Hospital last December.\n\nThe 28-year-old County Down woman was applauded by colleagues after being given the Pfizer/BioNTech jab.\n\nMuch has happened since then.\n\nPatricia Donnelly said health officials \"will keep vaccinating people as quickly as supplies allow\".\n\n\"As we have stated, supplies are limited at present, but we expect that to improve in June.\n\n\"I would once again ask people waiting their turn to be patient. Keep checking the online booking portal as new appointment slots are being opened up on a regular basis.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccine effort ramped up with the opening of a mass vaccination centre at the SSE Arena in Belfast in March\n\nSeven vaccination centres were set up across Northern Ireland, while the SSE Arena in Belfast opened its doors as a regional centre on 29 March.\n\nGPs have also administered about 666,000 AstraZeneca vaccines, while the 350 community pharmacies have given out 47,000 of the jabs.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann received his first dose at his local pharmacy in Ballymena, County Antrim, in March.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Swann said he could not praise the programme \"too highly\", adding it was a \"massive logistical undertaking\".\n\n\"I have seen up close the dedication and the long hours that have been invested in making it work,\" he said.\n\n\"Vaccination saves lives. It is vital to our hopes of a better summer and of continuing progress against the virus. It has been central to the progress we have made.\n\n\"I would again urge everyone to get their first and second jabs when their turn comes. I am certainly looking forward to getting my second AstraZeneca jab in the coming weeks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUptake of the vaccine has been high in Northern Ireland, especially among older groups with 100% of those aged 80 and over having received it.\n\nIn the 70-79 age group about 96% have been inoculated while almost three-quarters (74.8%) of people aged 50 to 59 have received a jab.\n\nEarly booking for 30 to 39-year-olds opened this month and to date about 52% have had a vaccine.\n\nAlthough uptake has been high, it has slowed.\n\nIt is not clear whether this is to do with supplies or a reluctance among some people to get the vaccine.", "Demi Lovato is non-binary and is changing their pronouns from she/her to they/them, the singer has told fans.\n\nNon-binary people don't identify as male or female, and tend not to conform to gender norms of either.\n\n\"Today is a day I'm so happy to share more of my life with you all,\" Demi, who's 28, wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"I am proud to let you know that I identify as non-binary & will officially be changing my pronouns to they/them moving forward.\"\n\nDemi said they came to understand their gender identity after spending time doing \"healing and self-reflective work\" over the past year.\n\nUsing they/them as pronouns \"best represents the fluidity I feel in my gender expression\", the Sorry (Not Sorry) singer added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Demi Lovato This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe singer said they are still \"learning and coming into myself\" and doesn't consider themselves an \"expert or spokesperson\" on the subject.\n\nThey said they will speak to other non-binary people in a video series about gender identity.\n\n\"I'm doing this for those out there that haven't been able to share who they truly are with their loved ones,\" Demi added.\n\n\"Please keep living in your truths & know I am sending so much love your way.\"\n\nMany fans have said they're \"proud\" of Demi's announcement, with some describing the singer as a \"role model\".\n\nIt comes after Demi announced in March that they were pansexual - which is when someone is attracted to other people, regardless of their gender.\n\nThroughout their career, Demi has been an outspoken supporter of LGBT rights.\n\nDemi, along with Nick Jonas, cancelled tour dates in the US cities of Raleigh and Charlotte in 2016 after an anti-LGBT bill was passed in North Carolina.\n\nAnd in 2017, they wrote a letter to the LGBTQ+ community for Billboard magazine, as part of its Pride Month coverage.\n\n\"I struggle with wrapping my head around the fact that we live in a world where love and equal rights still have to be questioned or discounted,\" they wrote.\n\nEarlier this year, when two contestants on the second series of Drag Race UK discussed their non-binary identities on the BBC show, viewers told Radio 1 Newsbeat how they felt to see their gender identity represented in mainstream media.\n\n\"When I tell people, they react in a way as if it's embarrassing,\" one non-binary 22-year-old told Newsbeat.\n\n\"I think it's because they've never known someone like that on TV or in their life.\"\n\nThey said they felt able to tell their mum about their gender identity because of the representation they'd seen on TV.\n\nUK singer Sam Smith confirmed they were non-binary, and also use they/them pronouns, in 2019.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Bloodstaining found on the boot of a police officer accused of a former footballer's murder was consistent with being caused by \"forceful\" contact, a forensic scientist says.\n\nPC Benjamin Monk used unlawful force on Dalian Atkinson, 48, before he was handcuffed near his father's home in Shropshire in 2016, prosecutors claim.\n\nMr Atkinson died in hospital on 15 August, after police were called to a disturbance at the home in Meadow Close, Telford.\n\nPC Monk, an officer with West Mercia Police, is alleged to have intended to cause really serious injury to the former Aston Villa star, who also played for Sheffield Wednesday and Ipswich Town, after initial uses of a Taser proved ineffective.\n\nBlood matching the ex-footballer was found on the laces and tongue of the officer's right boot and the instep area of his left boot, the trial at Birmingham Crown Court was told.\n\nMs Griffiths showed jurors staining to PC Monk's boots, which were exhibited in a clear plastic bag.\n\nProsecution QC Alexandra Healy asked the forensic scientist to show where she had found contact bloodstaining on the officer's footwear.\n\nThe witness said: \"If you look at the diamond shape where the laces cross, that is where the bloodstain is... and underneath the laces on the tongue itself.\"\n\nMary Ellen Bettley-Smith (L) and Benjamin Monk (R) have been charged\n\nSpots and splashes of blood were also found on PC Monk's boots, Ms Griffiths said, adding: \"If you have forceful contact with a surface... blood would be forced away from the site of that impact in the form of small airborne droplets.\n\n\"If you have contact staining and spots and splashes radiating away, that indicates that the boot has had a forceful contact with a surface.\"\n\nEarlier in the trial, the officer's QC, Patrick Gibbs, said it was not in dispute that the defendant must have kicked Mr Atkinson twice in the head, as it was \"the only explanation\" for marks found on his forehead.\n\nPC Monk's colleague and then partner, PC Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, 31, is also facing trial.\n\nPC Bettley-Smith, who is alleged to have used a police baton unlawfully after Mr Atkinson was tasered, denies a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\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 annual UK inflation rate more than doubled in April, as a rise in energy and clothing costs drove prices higher.\n\nThe jump to 1.5% in April from 0.7% in March, means consumer prices are rising at their fastest rate since March 2020 at the outset of the pandemic.\n\nThe sharp increase largely reflected a jump in prices from low levels a year ago at the start of the pandemic, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nHigher oil prices also pushed up petrol prices, it added.\n\nAccording to the ONS, inflation climbed as lockdown restrictions were eased and shops reopened on 12 April. The rise in clothing and footwear prices reversed an unusual fall in February.\n\nMeanwhile, gas and electricity prices rose sharply after the default tariff cap was increased compared with a cut a year earlier.\n\nHannah Audino, economist at PwC, said she expected inflation to continue to rise as lockdown restrictions eased and the economy continued to reopen \"allowing consumers to unleash some of their excess savings\".\n\n\"Recent survey evidence suggests that the share of households who plan to spend some of their savings has increased in recent months, as the vaccine rollout boosts confidence,\" she added.\n\nApril's inflation rise had been predicted by economists, but there are concerns that soaring inflation this year as the global economy recovers from the pandemic could push central banks to raise interest rates.\n\nInflation is the rate at which the prices for goods and services increase.\n\nIt's one of the key measures of financial well-being because it affects what consumers can buy for their money. If there is inflation, money doesn't go as far.\n\nIt's expressed as a percentage increase or decrease in prices over time. For example, if the inflation rate for the cost of a litre of petrol is 2% a year, motorists need to spend 2% more at the pump than 12 months earlier.\n\nAnd if wages don't keep up with inflation, purchasing power and the standard of living falls.\n\nA little inflation, however, typically encourages people to buy products sooner and makes it easier for companies to put up wages. And both of those things boost economic growth.\n\nThat's why most countries' central banks have an inflation target of between 2% and 2.5%.\n\nIn the UK, the government has set the Bank of England an inflation target of 2%.\n\nEarlier in May, fears about rising inflation in the US hit financial markets after consumer prices recorded their biggest annual jump since 2008.\n\nHigh government spending on Covid support programmes, coupled with a build-up in consumer savings, have driven prices higher, says experts.\n\nLiz Martins, senior economist at HSBC, said that it looked like UK inflation would go above the Bank of England's 2% target, although this was \"not too much of a worry for the Bank\".\n\n\"Their view is that they need to keep inflation sustainably around 2% two to three years out from now, so the short term overshoot won't worry them too much, if it does prove temporary - and that's where opinions really seem to diverge,\" she told the BBC.\n\nMany central bank governors, particularly in the US, are saying that the rise is due to bottlenecks in the aftermath of the pandemic which will go away, Ms Martins said.\n\nBut some people, including Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane, say higher prices could stunt the recovery and that the Bank may need to raise interest rates to cool things down.\n\nLaith Khalaf, a financial analyst at AJ Bell, said that the rise in prices was \"in key areas where it's hard for consumers to control spending, namely transport, clothing, and household energy\".\n\n\"At current levels, inflation is nothing to fret about, but there is rising concern that the fiscal and monetary response to the pandemic has sown the seeds of an inflationary scare further down the road,\" he said.\n\nHe said the Bank of England has made it clear it will tolerate inflation above its 2% target without \"pulling the trigger\" on interest rate rises.\n\n\"However, if inflation looks like it's going to get a significant foothold, markets will take matters into their own hands and raise borrowing costs across the economy,\" he said.\n\nTwo weeks ago the Bank of England said that UK inflation is heading above its 2% target and is expected to hit 2.5% at the end of 2021.\n\nThat is due to a rise in global oil prices and the expiry in September of Covid emergency cuts to value added tax (VAT) in the hospitality sector, as well as comparisons with the pandemic slump of 2020.\n\nThe Bank thinks inflation will then slip back to 2% in 2022 and 2023.\n\nBank of England governor Andrew Bailey said on Tuesday that so far there was no strong evidence that higher prices paid by manufacturers were feeding through to consumer prices.\n\nHowever, he said the Bank \"will be watching this extremely carefully\" and would take action if necessary.\n\nLockdowns are deflationary; because they forcibly stop us shopping, travelling and mixing they reduce demand for everything from consumer goods and energy.\n\nSo a return to more normal levels of inflation was always likely as the global economy slowly started to re-open.\n\nClothes prices, for example, contributed to the rising cost of living not because they were rising by much but because they were no longer falling.\n\nWhat's spooked markets recently is the risk of inflation coming down the pipeline.\n\nIn a literal sense it already is: the price of oil has been rising in anticipation of a global recovery, pushing up petrol and household bills.\n\nLast week, markets took a knock fearing that the rising cost of raw materials would force the Bank of England to raise interest rates from their rock bottom official level of 0.1% sooner than anticipated to stop inflation getting out of control.\n\nThe Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has twice spoken publicly to play down that anxiety, saying on Tuesday that he had not yet seen strong evidence of those rising costs being passed through to consumers.\n\nBut Wednesday's figures for what manufacturers are paying for raw materials show a rise in input prices - what manufacturers pay for raw materials - of 9.9%.\n\nThat's the fastest rise in four years and faster than most economists expected.", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour leader Keir Starmer accused the government of having “lost control of the messaging” over its advice for people on travelling to countries on its “amber list”.\n\nThere is lots of advice on the government website about coming back from these countries (which include France, Spain and Italy). This includes taking Covid tests, filling out a passenger locator form and self-isolating at home for 10 days.\n\nOn going out, it says simply ‘‘You should not travel to amber list countries or territories’. From Monday, it is no longer illegal to go to these countries though.\n\nBut yesterday, Environment Secretary George Eustice said: \"There will be reasons why people feel they need to travel [to amber list countries] either to visit family or indeed to visit friends but they then have to observe quarantine when they return.\"\n\nLater, Boris Johnson said it was “very important people grasp what the amber list is – not somewhere to go on holiday” and said people should only travel to these countries for “pressing family or business reasons”.\n\nThen, Health Minister Lord Bethell said overseas travel was “dangerous”, telling peers “The ultimate sanction here is that…we tell people: travelling is not for this year. Please stay in this country.”\n\nRead our guide: which countries are on the green list for travel?", "Politicians have been discussing whether 60 members is enough for decades\n\nCalls to expand the Senedd have been endorsed by the first minister, who says there is a \"significant tide\" across Cardiff Bay parties in favour.\n\nMark Drakeford said there was \"growing enthusiasm\" for a Welsh Parliament \"fit to discharge its responsibilities\".\n\nLast year, a report by Labour and Plaid members on a Senedd committee concluded the institution should expand to up to 90 politicians, from the current 60.\n\nThe committee was boycotted by the Conservatives and the Brexit Party.\n\nIncreasing the Senedd to 90 members would make it the same size as the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Scottish Parliament has 129 MSPs.\n\nBoth Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats back having a bigger Senedd, but want that to be accompanied by changes to the electoral system to better reflect the share of the vote parties receive.\n\nHowever, the Tories say the new Welsh Parliament should focus \"solely on Wales' recovery from coronavirus\", not creating more Cardiff Bay politicians.\n\nAny changes would require the backing of at least 40 Senedd members, a so-called \"super majority\".\n\nIt has been estimated an additional 30 Senedd members would cost around an extra £12m per year.\n\nWelsh Labour leader Mr Drakeford was talking to BBC Wales ahead of the parliament meeting on Wednesday for its first session since he was renominated as first minister, after his party matched its best previous election performances and won 30 seats on 6 May.\n\nPlaid Cymru was the only large party to officially back last September's electoral reform committee report, Senedd reform: the next steps.\n\nThat review also called for a more proportional system to be used at the next Senedd election, due in 2026.\n\nMark Drakeford says he hopeS the Senedd will \"get on with\" working through the issues\n\nThe report warned that if the changes were to take effect at that election, consensus on them must be established \"very early\" in the new Senedd term.\n\nMr Drakeford said it would be \"for the Labour Party to take a view\" but added: \"I think there is a significant tide across parties in the Senedd to grasp this difficult issue of making the Senedd fit for the responsibilities it now discharges.\n\n\"It's a very, very different body to the one that was formed in 1999\", he said, referring to the then Welsh Assembly's lack of primary law-making and tax-raising powers.\n\n\"Ivor Richard said in his report in 2003 that the Senedd needed more members to do the job that it's asked to do for Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"Now I think we need just to make sure the practicalities of that are properly understood and, if there is a momentum for it, it's not for the government to take this forward, it is for the Senedd itself.\"\n\nThe Senedd's powers are far greater than those of Cardiff Bay politicians 20 years ago\n\nThe first minister said there was \"an enthusiasm amongst a growing number of members\" for change.\n\nAsked if he shared that enthusiasm, Mr Drakeford said: \"Yes, I want to see the Senedd properly fit to discharge its responsibilities.\"\n\nHe said the chances of a bigger Senedd at the next poll \"have improved as a result of the election, and it's a matter not just of numbers but it's a matter of method of election as well, which is a thorny issue, on which there are many views\".\n\n\"So there are still significant practical issues to work through. I hope the Senedd will get on with it.\"\n\nAndrew RT Davies says politicians should be focusing their energies elsewhere\n\nThe Conservatives won 16 seats at this month's election, their highest total, having pledged not to expand the Welsh Parliament.\n\nResponding to the first minister's comments, Tory Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said Mr Drakeford was \"badly mistaken\" in his views as \"only Labour and Plaid Cymru have an appetite to create more politicians in Cardiff Bay\".\n\n\"Welsh Conservatives have been clear that this parliamentary term should be focused solely on Wales' recovery from coronavirus, not increasing the size of the Senedd,\" he said.\n\n\"It's regrettable that just a couple weeks after polling day this is featuring on the political agenda when all energies should be directed at saving jobs, tackling waiting lists and ensuring our children catch up on their missed education over the past year.\"\n\nAdam Price says it has long been known that the Senedd is too small\n\nPlaid Cymru took 13 Senedd seats in May's poll, which combined with the 30 Labour politicians in the chamber would reach the 40 seat threshold needed to expand the parliament.\n\nPlaid leader Adam Price said: \"We've long known that the Senedd is currently too small to fulfil its role of holding the government of the day to account.\n\n\"Plaid Cymru supports delivering the democratic representation Wales deserves - and needs - and ensuring that our Senedd and wider democracy reflects our modern nation in all its diversity along with all the voices and aspirations of Wales' citizens.\n\n\"That means urgently demanding more powers to a larger and stronger Senedd and implementing a fairer voting system in the form of STV.\"\n\nJane Dodds says she is encouraged by the first minister's words\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats have just one seat in Cardiff Bay, as they did after the 2016 poll, now held by their leader Jane Dodds, who called Mr Drakeford's comments \"encouraging\".\n\n\"Welsh Liberal Democrats are prepared to work with other parties in order to increase the number of Senedd Members by 20-30 in line with the 2017 McAllister Review,\" she said.\n\n\"This option should be made cost neutral by the planned reduction in the number of Westminster MPs by the UK government.\"\n\n\"Any change to the number of MSs [members of the Senedd] should also go hand in hand with the introduction of a proportional voting system for Senedd elections, to make sure that every vote counts and every member elected is elected by the majority of voters.\"\n\nJess Blair, director of the Electoral Reform Society Cymru, said the comments \"represent a big step forward to address the democratic deficit in Wales\".\n\n\"In the two decades since devolution the powers and responsibilities in Cardiff Bay have grown, yet the size of the Senedd has not, remaining the same size as Pembrokeshire County Council,\" she said.\n\nThere are two main difficulties with proposals to increase the size of the Senedd.\n\nThe first is that creating more politicians is hard to sell to voters - but boundary changes for Westminster elections are coming, and bringing with them a reduction in the number of Welsh MPs, perhaps this could provide some cover for introducing changes to the Senedd?\n\nThe second is that it would mean changing the voting system itself - this would be a chance to adopt a fully proportional system for Senedd elections.\n\nSome in Welsh Labour are concerned that could undermine their current dominance, and so far the party has been reluctant to commit to change, even though many of their elected Senedd members support it.\n\nBut after his recent electoral success, Welsh party leader Mark Drakeford has momentum behind him as well as a departure date in front of him.\n\nHe says he'll stand down during this term - could this be a legacy project?\n\nOne thing is for sure, if he can get his party on board, Plaid Cymru and Lib Dem support mean the votes are there to get this through.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A UK-Australia trade deal would be the “final nail in the coffin\" for Scottish crofters, says SNP's Ian Blackford\n\nBoris Johnson is prepared \"to throw farmers and crofters under the Brexit bus\" in his bid to secure a trade deal with Australia, the SNP's leader in Westminster has said.\n\nIan Blackford urged the PM to rule out giving Australia tariff - or tax-free - access for its lamb and beef products.\n\nMr Johnson replied that an agreement with Australia would be a \"massive opportunity\" for UK farmers.\n\nThe Scottish government has written to the trade secretary about its concerns.\n\nRural affairs secretary Mairi Gougeon wrote: \"A trade deal that liberalises tariffs for Australian farmers, to put it bluntly, will put UK farmers out of business.\"\n\nThere are also reported tensions among ministers over the proposed trade pact.\n\nCurrently imports from Australia face tariffs, making their products more expensive to buy in the UK.\n\nAustralia is one of a number of countries the UK is negotiating with to remove or lower tariffs, following its departure from the EU.\n\nThe BBC has been told that Environment Secretary George Eustice has raised a number of concerns with the prime minister and senior cabinet ministers about the deal trading away farmers' interests.\n\nAnd the Financial Times reported that Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove is also concerned, while International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Brexit minister Lord Frost are more keen to grant tariff-free access to Australian goods.\n\nSpeaking to MPs on Wednesday, Ms Truss said she was confident British farmers would \"thrive\" under a deal with Australia, adding it would have \"benefits for all nations and regions\" of the UK.\n\nNegotiators from both sides are \"currently in a sprint with a view to getting to agreement in principle by early June,\" she added.\n\nOne compromise Mr Eustice has suggested is to negotiate quotas on Australian meat imports - so that only a limited amount could be tariff-free.\n\nLabour first minister of Wales Mark Drakeford will raise concerns about the impact of a deal on Welsh farmers in a meeting with Mr Gove later.\n\nSenior UK cabinet ministers are expected to meet on Thursday morning to discuss how the agreement could impact farming.\n\nThe subject was raised at Prime Minister's Questions, where Mr Blackford - himself a crofter - said a tariff-free deal with Australia \"would be the final nail in the coffin for many Scottish crofters and farmers\".\n\nHe added it would \"end a way of life that has endured for generations\" and that \"families would be driven off the land\".\n\nHe urged Mr Johnson to \"permanently\" rule out signing up to an agreement that would guarantee tariff-free access for Australian imports of lamb and beef.\n\nThe prime minister did not give the guarantee, instead accusing Mr Blackford of \"grossly underestimating\" UK farmers' ability to \"make the most of free trade\".\n\nAnd he said the SNP MP was \"frightened of free trade\".\n\nThe prime minister also face criticism from Plaid Cymru's Hywel Williams who said Mr Johnson was backing Australian instead of UK farmers.\n\nMr Johnson said the MP had \"no ambition for Welsh farmers\" and that it was \"a disgrace that not a single morsel of Welsh lamb had passed the lips of Americans in the last 20 years\".\n\nMinette Batters, the president of the National Farmers' Union, said: \"We know that if we're to open up the opportunities of new markets overseas for UK farmers, we will have to offer greater access to our own markets in return.\n\n\"However, this trade-off needs to be balanced, and we need to make sure concessions to our hugely valuable home market are not given away lightly.\n\n\"There is a very real risk that, if we get it wrong, UK farming will suffer irreversible damage rather than flourish in the way we all desire, to the detriment of our environment, our food security and our rural communities.\"\n\nThe government says our ability to do trade deals around the world is one of the big benefits of Brexit.\n\nThey've been trumpeting all sorts of deals over the last year but those deals are basically roll-overs of what we had before as members of the EU.\n\nThe deal with Australia would be the first big deal to expand markets, so it is politically and symbolically important but at what price?\n\nAustralia wants tax-free access to our markets for their big industrial farms so they can export lamb and sheep more cheaply.\n\nBut famers here are saying we wouldn't be able to survive that competition unless we are protected by tariffs.\n\nThey say a free trade deal would only add a tiny bit to the size of the British economy so is it really worth threatening famers for that.\n\nThey also say there is also a precedent being set.\n\nAustralia may be a relatively small market - but if they get a complete tariff-free access then what will the Americans or Brazilians want to have?", "Nancy Pelosi said heads of state should not attend the Winter Olympics\n\nUS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for a diplomatic boycott of next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing due to concerns over human rights abuses.\n\nWhile athletes would still participate, Ms Pelosi said heads of state should not attend.\n\nMs Pelosi said the US could not proceed as if nothing was wrong with the Olympics being held in China.\n\nShe is the latest American politician to call for a boycott over the treatment of Uyghur Muslims.\n\nChina is believed to have detained more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, a large region in north-western China.\n\nMost of those detained in Xinjiang are sent to \"re-education\" facilities - prison-like camps where they are held for indeterminate periods of time without charge.\n\nMs Pelosi, a Democrat, told a bipartisan congressional hearing on the issue that heads of state around the world should boycott the Winter Olympics, which are to take place in February.\n\n\"Let's not honour the Chinese government by having heads of state go to China,\" she said.\n\n\"For heads of state to go to China in light of a genocide that is ongoing - while you're sitting there in your seat - really begs the question, what moral authority do you have to speak again about human rights any place in the world?\" she said.\n\nIn response, Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington, was scathing of Ms Pelosi's proposal.\n\n\"I wonder what makes some US politicians think they actually have the so-called 'moral authority'? On human rights issues, they are in no position, either historically or currently, to make wanton groundless criticism against China,\" Mr Liu told the Reuters news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC visits the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\"\n\nThe Chinese government has been accused of carrying out forced sterilisations on Uighur women and separating children from their families.\n\nThe country initially denied the existence of the camps, before defending them as a necessary measure against terrorism. It has denied allegations of human rights abuses.", "Glastonbury organisers have secured a licence for a one-off concert this September, after the main festival was cancelled for a second year.\n\nMendip District Council, which covers the festival's Somerset location, approved the licence, allowing up to 50,000 people to attend the show.\n\nIt does not guarantee that an event will take place in September, but means the first hurdle has been cleared.\n\nEmily Eavis recently told the NME the event would be called Equinox.\n\nThe regular Glastonbury Festival normally takes place in June and attracts 200,000 people.\n\nEavis said that the proposed autumn show would be a larger version of the annual Pilton Party, which Glastonbury runs as a \"thank you\" and fundraiser for villagers, workers and other local people.\n\n\"We do that every September, but it will just be bigger and the public can come down,\" she said.\n\nThe festival is not expected to be confirmed for several weeks, with organisers keen to avoid a situation where they announce a show, only to have to cancel it again.\n\nIf it does go ahead, it will be a one-day event, although the original application had proposed a two-day festival.\n\nAccording to the conditions in the licence, the concert would be held solely on the Pyramid Stage, with no camping allowed, and the 50,000 capacity would include the audience, performers, staff and crew.\n\nPermission was granted days before the Glastonbury site hosts a global live-stream concert, with performances from Haim, Coldplay, Wolf Alice, Jorja Smith, George Ezra, Michael Kiwanuka and a yet-to-be-announced special guest.\n\nThe ticketed event will \"help to secure the festival's return in 2022\", organisers said.\n\nBut speaking to BBC 6 Music on Wednesday, Eavis said plans for next year's comeback were already fully under way.\n\n\"We are going to throw everything at 2022,\" she told Matt Everitt. \"The light is coming in. We're able to move out of this very awkward time and plan to be back in fields again and to be watching live music and camping for five days outside with 200,000 other people.\n\n\"That is now a possibility and it's looking highly likely that that will happen next year.\n\n\"So we're booking bands for that [now]. It's hugely reassuring to be able to actually plan something that might happen.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Suzanne Hughes (r) wants answers over the death of her mother Violet\n\nA woman whose mother died with Covid says a lack of basic information about her death has left her feeling \"numb\" and finding it difficult to grieve.\n\nThe 82-year-old's daughter Suzanne said she had been unable to find out if she was alone when she died, details of her treatment and her time of death.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it was \"committed to learning lessons\" from concerns raised by families.\n\nSuzanne, from Merthyr, said she wanted a Covid public inquiry to look into the way hospitals communicated with affected families.\n\nHer mother suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and kidney failure, and had been in hospital with similar symptoms before.\n\nThe following day the hospital called Suzanne to say a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) notice had been put in place for her mother.\n\nHowever, she was also told it was believed her mother could recover so an end-of-life plan was not being activated, meaning under Covid regulations Ms Hughes could not visit.\n\nShe called the hospital throughout the day and was told her mum was \"fine\" and sitting up in bed.\n\nWhen she called at about 17:20 BST, she was told Violet had tested positive for Covid-19 but was OK and being given oxygen.\n\nThen about 90 minutes later, Suzanne was called by the hospital and told to come in as her mum had deteriorated.\n\nThe health board said it was committed to learning lessons\n\nBy the time she arrived a short time later, her mother had died.\n\n\"My mum was cold, had no colour,\" said Suzanne.\n\n\"I asked what time my mother had passed away, she [a member of staff] was unable to give me that info.\n\n\"She told me the nurse that was in charge of my mother had left to go home.\n\n\"So I said surely there was some handover in regards to the information about my mother and she said, 'oh I don't know anything about it, I've just come on to the ward'.\"\n\nA time of death has still not been given, nor have details about Violet's final hours as her medical notes are blank from 14:00 onwards - other than an entry stating that Suzanne had been informed of the positive Covid test.\n\nSuzanne said not being able to get information, such as whether any treatment for coronavirus was given, was \"awful\".\n\nShe added: \"I just wanted to know certain answers to questions and it felt as if I was being forgotten.\n\n\"I didn't feel there was any dignity. There was no respect given to us as a family, nor to my mother.\n\n\"That's quite hard, that's difficult to accept.\n\n\"I just dwell on the facts. I don't know when she died, how she died and was anyone with her. I don't know anything.\n\n\"The impact is so emotional. Was my mum alone, was somebody with her? It's playing on our minds.\n\n\"I'm just thinking if they'd provided a Covid treatment maybe she would have had more time to spend with her family.\n\n\"Would she have been here today?\"\n\nGreg Dix, director of nursing and patient care at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said: \"While we are unable to comment on the circumstances of individual cases, losing a loved one is devastating for any family and our thoughts and sympathies are with them.\n\n\"We take the quality of care and treatment provided to our patients extremely seriously and apologise to anyone who feels let down by our health board or where the level of care has fallen short.\n\n\"We remain committed to learning lessons from the pandemic as well as the experiences of any patients or families who raise concerns with us so we can continually work to improve our standards of care.\"", "There have been long queues for Covid vaccines in Bolton, where the spread of the Indian variant is being studied\n\nThere is \"nothing conclusive\" in the data that means England \"would have to deviate from the roadmap\" out of lockdown, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe government plans to end remaining legal limits on social contact from 21 June, but there is increasing concern about the Indian variant.\n\nThe situation, including data from hotspots such as Bolton, was \"under close review\", the prime minister said.\n\nMinisters will \"let people know in a few days' time\" after data is studied.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a vaccination centre in London, Mr Johnson continued to urge people to be cautious.\n\nHe said the situation with the Indian variant was \"under very careful, close review\", saying: \"We're looking at all the data as it comes in from places like Bolton, Blackburn, Bedford, Sefton.\"\n\nMr Johnson said they were trying to understand if the Indian variant was more transmissible and \"to what extent our vaccine programme has sufficiently fortified us\".\n\n\"We've got a few more days of looking at that data,\" he said.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded another seven deaths within 28 days of a positive test and 2,412 new cases.\n\nOn Monday the government said 86 local councils in England had five or more cases of the variant first discovered in India, which is thought to be more transmissible.\n\nIn Bolton, a new vaccine centre has opened up and ministers have been stepping up calls for people to book vaccinations as soon as they are offered appointments.\n\nElsewhere, regional public health directors are concerned about rising cases of the variant in London. Cases have spread across a number of boroughs, although currently most are linked to foreign travel.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said that while the government was not ruling out measures such as local lockdowns at this stage, it was \"too early to speculate\" on what future measures it may need to take.\n\nAsked if a decision was expected sooner than 14 June on progressing to the final step of England's roadmap, the spokesman said that in relation to certification and social distancing, ministers \"do want to update pubs and businesses, if possible, before 14 June\".\n\nBut he added they needed to \"allow the experts to do their work\" and \"couldn't be more specific on timings\".\n\nDay by day the scientists are learning more about the Indian variant - and the implications for the UK.\n\nOn Friday it was reported the variant could be 50% more transmissible than the UK variant, which was responsible for the deadly winter wave.\n\nBut confidence in that figure was always a little shaky. In the past few days there are some tentative signs its advantage over the UK variant may not be so great.\n\nThat's important. There's estimated to be an eight-fold difference between the impact in terms of hospital admissions a variant with a 20% advantage will have compared to one with a 50% advantage.\n\nThat clearly has a major implication for what restrictions are needed while the vaccination programme continues to be rolled out.\n\nThe next significant update is expected on Thursday. It will be too soon for a definitive answer, but it should help us understand more about what the variant means for the UK.\n\nThe government has already warned its next review of social distancing rules - set to take place by the end of May - may be delayed because of concern over the variant.\n\nOn Monday millions of people were able to enjoy new freedoms - such as drinking indoors in pubs, hugs with loved ones and foreign holidays - for the first time in months, under the latest relaxation of rules across England, Wales and most of Scotland.\n\nBoris Johnson visited a vaccination centre at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London\n\nHowever, Labour has accused the government of \"giving out conflicting and confused advice\" about travel to countries on the amber travel list, where people must quarantine for up to 10 days on their return to the UK.\n\nGovernment guidance states people should not travel to amber list countries.\n\nBut earlier Environment Secretary George Eustice suggested in a BBC interview that people could travel to such destinations if they \"feel the need\" to visit family or friends.\n\nAsked about the issue, Mr Johnson said it was \"very important people grasp what the amber list is - not somewhere to go on holiday\".\n\nHe said travellers should only go to these countries for \"pressing family or business reasons\". Those who break their self-isolation period on returning to the UK from these destinations face £10,000 fines, he added.\n\nYvette Cooper, who chairs the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said the current traffic light system was \"very messy\" and \"clearly isn't working\", adding that it should be linked to legal restrictions.\n\n\"We all seem to be in a position where the government has opened up to summer holiday travel by accident, by making it possible, but at the same time, a day later, saying 'no, people should not be travelling to amber countries,'\" the Labour MP told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, which developed the AstraZeneca vaccine, has said it feels \"morally wrong\" that children in some richer countries are being offered a Covid-19 jab before some high-risk people in poorer countries.\n\nHe told the All Party Parliamentary Group on coronavirus: \"There are many unvaccinated people in the world whilst people whose risk is extremely low are being vaccinated, including children who have near to zero the risk of severe disease or death.\n\n\"That inequity is absolutely plain to see at this moment in a very troubling way.\"", "The NRS said the three deaths should be considered in the context of the millions of first doses that have been administered in Scotland\n\nThree \"extremely rare\" deaths in Scotland have been linked to adverse effects from Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nNational Records of Scotland (NRS) said the effects had been recorded as the \"underlying cause\" in each of the three deaths, which were before 30 April.\n\nMore than 2.8 million people had received at least a first dose of the vaccine by that date.\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld said the \"vast, vast majority\" of Covid vaccine side effects were very mild.\n\nThe professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh told BBC Scotland that serious adverse effects from any vaccine were extremely unusual.\n\n\"The vast, vast majority of side effects from the Covid vaccines are very mild. You do have severe cases, but only very rarely,\" she said.\n\n\"We have been aware of the rare blood clots that we think are linked to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine... but it's not always possible to say the vaccine caused it. There may be other contributory factors.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it was \"important to be cautious\" when drawing conclusions from associations between vaccinations and deaths.\n\n\"All medicines, including vaccinations, can have side effects but serious adverse events and deaths are very rare with Covid vaccines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Over three million first doses of Covid vaccines have been administered in Scotland, and only a very small number of people are thought to have died. However, our thoughts and sympathies are always with those few affected, and their families.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that vaccines remained the \"best way\" to protect people from Covid-19 and had already saved thousands of lives.\n\nThree Covid-19 vaccines - Pfizer/BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Moderna - are currently being used in the UK. All have been authorised for supply by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).\n\nThe vaccines are known to cause a number of mild side effects like a sore arm or headache.\n\nIn April, the MHPRA confirmed that seven people had died from unusual blood clots after getting the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, but it was not clear if this was a coincidence or side effect from the vaccine.\n\nIn total, 30 people out of 18 million vaccinated in the UK by 24 March had these clots and the regulator said the benefits of the vaccine continued to outweigh the risks.\n\nThe latest monthly figures from the NRS reported that 10,109 deaths have been registered where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nSix deaths were registered between 10 May and 16 May, a decrease of one death from the previous week.\n\nThe figures also show that post Covid-19 conditions - including \"long Covid\" - were mentioned on 11 death certificates in the period from March 2020 to April 2021.\n\nPete Whitehouse, the NRS director of statistical services, said: \"Last week there were no registered Covid-19 deaths in 29 of Scotland's 32 council areas. Across Scotland, six Covid-19 deaths were registered which is the lowest number since early September last year.\n\n\"The report also shows that deaths from Covid-19 continues to have a greater impact on people living in Scotland's more deprived communities.\n\n\"Over the course of the pandemic, people living in these most deprived areas are 2.4 times as likely to die with Covid-19 than those living in the least deprived areas after adjusting for age.\"\n\nIn the week up to 16 May, one Covid death was of someone aged 75 or over, while the other five deaths were of people aged under 65.\n\nFour deaths occurred in hospitals, one death occurred in a care home, and one was in a home or other non-institutional setting.", "The Scottish government has launched a service enabling people to access their vaccine certificate\n\nPeople in Scotland travelling to a foreign country will now be able to access a vaccine certificate, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nOnly those travelling to destinations which require a record of vaccination status should download their certificate from an NHS portal.\n\nIt can also be requested in the post via a Freephone Covid Status Helpline.\n\nThere are currently no countries requiring vaccination status to travel but restrictions can change quickly.\n\nPublic health officials previously said this digital scheme would mean Scotland was \"ready to join\" an international vaccination passport programme.\n\nThe Scottish government said the service was intended to allow people access to the certificate without asking their GP, thereby \"easing the burden\" on the NHS.\n\nPeople have been advised to request the document if they are due to travel in the next 21 days.\n\nAs more people are vaccinated, the system will be replaced by digital Covid status certificates - which will include vaccination and testing data to be used for outbound international travel.\n\nThe system differs from that being used in England where an NHS app - separate from its contact tracing app - can show vaccine status if enabled by a GP.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said people should continue to limit their travel abroad, \"play it safe\" and instead go on a staycation this summer.\n\nHe said: \"Given the risk of returning with infection, and especially of introducing new variants of the virus, we continue to be highly cautious about international travel.\n\n\"For those that do need it, this new service will provide people with a record of their vaccination status for outbound international travel.\n\n\"They should only access their record if they are planning to travel within 21 days and it is a requirement of their destination.\"\n\nA traffic lights system for foreign travel came into effect in Scotland on Monday - meaning people travelling to \"green list\" countries do not need to quarantine on their return.\n\nCovid status certificates have been trialled in England since mid April.\n\nThe UK government previously said such a scheme could have an important role to play both domestically and internationally and is \"likely to become a feature of our lives until the pandemic recedes\".", "Forensics officers have arrived in the centre of Gloucester to begin excavation work at The Clean Plate\n\nPolice searching for a suspected victim of serial killer Fred West have begun excavation work at a cafe.\n\nTeenager Mary Bastholm, who worked at the Pop-In Cafe in Gloucester, went missing in 1968.\n\nEarlier this month, a TV production company filming at the site - now called The Clean Plate - reported finding blue material buried.\n\nGloucestershire Police said experts are focusing on six areas underneath a toilet floor.\n\nOfficers arrived at about 08:00 BST to start the excavation work, which a senior officer said would be carried out \"carefully and painstakingly\" and could take at least two weeks to complete.\n\nMary Bastholm went missing after going to catch a bus near the Pop-In Cafe where she worked\n\nThe discovery of blue material, spotted after the production company inserted a camera in a hole they had drilled, prompted police to carry out their own surveys of the cellar.\n\nThe 15-year-old was wearing a blue jacket, blue and white dress and was carrying a blue bag when she went missing in January 1968.\n\nDet Ch Insp John Turner said Gloucestershire Police had carried out their own analysis and discovered six \"voids or anomalies\" which were at a maximum of half a metre under the toilet floor.\n\nThe excavations at the Clean Plate could take at least two weeks police have said\n\nArchaeologists and anthropologists are involved in the search and would work on each anomaly in turn, he added.\n\nThe last sighting of Miss Bastholm was as she waited to catch a bus on Bristol Road.\n\nNo trace of her has ever been found, but West's son Stephen told police his father admitted to killing her.\n\nThe disappearance of 15-year-old Mary Bastholm in Gloucester in 1968 has been linked to murderer Fred West\n\nWest, who took his own life in 1995 before he could stand trial for the murders of 12 women and girls, was a regular at the cafeteria.\n\nDet Ch Insp Turner said it had become part of Gloucester folklore that Miss Bastholm was buried in the cafe, but that his job was to \"search for the truth\".\n\nHe said: \"That's why we're here now, on behalf of Mary's family, to look in the basement and find out what is in there.\"\n\nAfter standing undisturbed for several days there has now been signs that work here inside the white tent in front of the cafe is under way.\n\nTwo vans arrived this morning and police officers in face masks carried bags inside.\n\nIt's been 10 days since the tent first appeared here but now police say this search could take several weeks more, as forensic archaeologists explore voids detected below the cellar floor and a piece of blue material photographed inside - the same colour as the coat Mary was wearing when she disappeared.\n\nThe name of Fred West is now back on everyone's mind in Gloucester.\n\nMembers of the public are stopping to look at the tent as they pass by - many of whom say they remember the initial investigation into the West's crimes when his murders were first uncovered in the 1990s.\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.", "Charles Grodin won several awards for his parts in TV and film productions\n\nCharles Grodin, an American actor whose comic roles in films such as Midnight Run and Beethoven brought smiles to faces for decades, has died at 86.\n\nGrodin died at his home in Wilton, Connecticut on Tuesday, the New York Times newspaper reported.\n\nThe actor's son, Nicholas, told the newspaper his cause of death was bone marrow cancer.\n\nKnown for his dry wit, Grodin was a familiar face in Hollywood comedies and prime-time talk shows in the US.\n\nTributes have been made on social media, including a tweet from fellow American actor Steve Martin, who described Grodin as \"one of the funniest people I ever met\".\n\nCharles Grodin had a career in acting, writing and comedy that spanned decades\n\nBorn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Grodin dropped his studies at the University of Miami to launch a career in acting.\n\nIt was a decision that paid off in the 1960s, when he started to land parts in plays on Broadway, including his debut in a production of Tchin-Tchin, which starred Anthony Quinn.\n\nHe soon moved to TV and film, building his profile with a small role in Rosemary's Baby, a 1968 psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski.\n\nBut the 1970s was the decade Grodin's career really took off. A series of roles in films including Catch-22 in 1970 and The Heartbreak Kid in 1972 cemented his status as one of Hollywood's go-to comedy actors.\n\nFor his role in The Heartbreak Kid - in which he plays an unlucky-in-love sporting goods salesman - he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for best actor.\n\nThe fact he didn't win the award may not have bothered him too much.\n\n\"I never complain about anything, because I'm aware of what's going on around me, and I'm also aware that there are a lot of very gifted people that never even get a job in show business,\" Grodin told the AV Club website in a 2009 interview. \"It's just because they can't handle the rejection, and I can handle it, and I'm used to it.\"\n\nGrodin played an angry dad in the 1992 film Beethoven\n\nGrodin had his share of success as well. He won best actor at the 1988 Valladolid International Film Festival for his role in Midnight Run. In that film, a 1988 action-comedy, he co-starred with Robert De Niro as an accountant who embezzled millions from a mob boss.\n\nGrodin also won an Emmy as a co-writer on a 1977 Paul Simon TV special, hosted his own 1990s chat show, and was a regular fixture on shows hosted by Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Jay Leno.\n\nOne of Grodin's most well-known roles was in the popular family film Beethoven in 1992. He plays a short-tempered dad who, to his fury, is bedevilled by a slobbering, accident-prone dog.", "UK has done more than any other nation to help vaccinate the world's poorest - Hancock\n\nHancock says the UK has \"probably done more than any other nation to help vaccinate the world poorest\". That is \"thanks to the gift to the world of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine\" which the UK makes available to other countries at cost, he says. Almost 1.5bn vaccine doses have now been given across the world and 400m of those have been the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, which has now been delivered in 160 countries. Two thirds of the 400m doses have gone to low and middle income countries, including 170m in India \"where they've been obviously so badly affected by this virus\", he says. We have donated £0.5bn to Covax which has delivered vaccines in over 120 countries, he says. Of the 67m jabs delivered through Covax over 65m have been the AZ vaccine, he says. \"This vaccination programme is something every British taxpayer has had a part in supporting and everyone in the United Kingdom should be incredibly proud of it,\" he says.", "There must be a sustained focus on Northern Ireland's \"dreadful\" hospital waiting lists, a leading academic has said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has the worst waiting lists in the UK.\n\nIn April, the Department of Health estimated it could take up to 10 years to tackle the current lists.\n\nProf Deirdre Heenan, co-author of the Change or Collapse review of how to improve NI's health service, said a plan was needed to address the issue.\n\n\"I think we need to be honest with the public, to say we've lost control of this,\" she said.\n\nProf Heenan said she would like an assurance that there would be a dedicated full-time team putting an \"unrelenting focus\" on waiting lists.\n\nProf Deirdre Heenan said she believed there was no accountability when targets were missed\n\nProf Heenan, a senior associate for the independent health think-tank Nuffield Trust in London, added that there appeared to be no accountability when health and care trusts missed their targets.\n\n\"I would really like to see a group of people managing a regional waiting list coming and telling the public what they're doing, setting targets, telling us what the plans are.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, she said many people in Northern Ireland had been waiting years for treatment for conditions such as hip replacements and cataract surgery.\n\nEileen Wilson said her condition has worsened in the past year\n\nEileen Wilson, a 47-year-old mother of six, has been waiting for four years for a neurology appointment.\n\nIt is suspected she may have MS and can choke on food and has motor skill and bladder issues.\n\nShe said she hasn't heard from her hospital in four years.\n\n\"Every day is like living a battle really. I think if I had medication the symptoms would be under more control.\n\n\"I think to the NHS I'm just a name on a list, they don't see the people trying to live their lives.\n\n\"I feel my life's on hold. I have a granddaughter who's two and a half and I can't enjoy her, I just don't feel well enough.\"\n\nKevin McIvor, 36, suffers from scoliosis, a condition that causes the spine to curve abnormally and can crush internal organs.\n\nHe went to Turkey for a consultation after learning he faced \"years\" on the waiting list in Northern Ireland.\n\nMr McIvor is fundraising for surgery in Turkey.\n\n\"I received more care there [in Turkey] in that one day I was in that hospital.\n\n\"I was told I had three herniated discs, I was never told that before.\"\n\nMr McIvor said he had spent eight or nine hours in Antrim Hospital last year before being sent home.\n\n\"If they had picked up the severity of the scoliosis back then maybe I would be in a different place.\n\n\"I feel let down, the fact of the matter is that I require emergency surgery.\"\n\nMary Anderson, 65, is living with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia.\n\nShe was told she needed surgery on her ankle in June 2019, but needed a three-month review, due to her rheumatoid arthritis medication, before going onto the waiting list.\n\nThat review didn't happen until March 2020, and by then it was too late - a proper assessment could not be done due to the pandemic. She said she was now in \"limbo\".\n\n\"There's just that overwhelming sense of powerlessness. I'm stuck in constant pain,\" she said.\n\n\"It's very wearing in every sense.\n\n\"Some days I wake up and try to walk and it's very painful and other days it's not too bad but I never know day to day.\n\n\"It just becomes something that gnaws you down and leaves you feeling lost in the system.\"\n\nRoisin Curran is a 55-year-old mother of two.\n\nShe has been on tablets for a stomach complaint for two years, but has been advised to have a scope test to try to find the underlying problem.\n\nShe said she was shocked to be told she will wait at least two and a half years for the test.\n\n\"It would mean it would be five years since I'd been told I need to go on medication because of it.\n\n\" I just think it's too long to be waiting.\n\n\"The health service we have here, it's a disgrace.\"\n\nIt is not the first time we have heard from people facing long waits on waiting lists.\n\nPatients sound weary and demoralised. It is not just a case of their physical health, their mental health is affected as well.\n\nThe figures have been horrendous for a decade, if not more. We've had seven major health reports and six health ministers in that time, and very little has changed.\n\nIf you're told you are waiting six or seven years - what really does that mean?\n\nIt is a sign that the system is broken, so what are we going to do about it?\n\nThe pandemic has shone a light on the fact that when hospitals need to change, they can. Some of our hospitals and systems changed in a matter of weeks. Look at what happened with the Nightingale Hospital.\n\nUnfortunately, there doesn't seem to be the same agility, or the same desire, to change systems when it comes to other specialities across the system.\n\nBBC News NI asked the Department of Health to comment on the current waiting list difficulties and was referred to a ministerial statement, given by Health Minister Robin Swann, in the assembly on 13 April.\n\nMr Swann said he was \"absolutely determined to put this [waiting lists] right\" but described it as a \"long-term task\" that needed \"long-term, recurrent funding.\"\n\nHe told MLAs the pandemic had had a significant impact on \"our already appalling waiting lists\".\n\nIn March, the department's figures showed that almost all of NI's cancer waiting time targets were missed in the last quarter.\n\nIn December 2020, 792 people began treatment, 93.4% of them within 31 days, missing the 95% target.\n\nThere was also a breach in the target to see all urgent breast cancer referrals within 14 days.\n\nThe Department of Health has been asked for comment.", "Ministers hope the scheme will create opportunities for a younger, more eco-savvy, generation to own farmland\n\nOlder farmers in England will be paid to retire under a UK government scheme to bring new blood into the trade.\n\nThe average farmer could receive a lump sum payment of £50,000 - capped at £100,000 for farmers with most land.\n\nIt is part of a massive overhaul of farm grants, incentivising farmers to protect the environment.\n\nSome older farmers are resistant to new \"green\" methods, Environment Secretary George Eustice believes, and he wants them to move on.\n\nCurrently, under the old EU system, farmers receive grants based largely on the amount of land they farm.\n\nThe average farmer currently receives about £21,000 in grants - although those who own large amounts of land, such as the Queen, have been receiving more than half a million pounds each year.\n\nFarmers in Wales are expected to be able to benefit from a similar scheme to the England plans announced by Mr Eustice. Plans in Scotland and Northern Ireland will be different.\n\nMr Eustice says the EU's grants system encourages some farmers \"to coast, to take no risks\" and hold on to their land in order to collect the subsidy.\n\nHence the need for help for older farmers to move on.\n\nAt the Oxford Farming Conference earlier this year, Mr Eustice said some veteran farmers were \"standing in the way of change\" and coasting along on state subsidies.\n\nHe said: \"I understand the burden of expectation that can exist to loyally continue the family tradition (of farming) and how this sometimes stands in the way of change.\"\n\nBut, he said: \"A fresh perspective can make a world of difference. New entrants are the lifeblood of any vibrant industry and farming is no exception.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), told BBC News: \"There's evidence that farmers who wish to leave farming can find it difficult to generate capital to do so.\n\n\"So, a lump sum payment could help contribute to the costs of moving somewhere new or moving into an alternative sector.\"\n\nNearly four in 10 UK farmers are over the age of 65, with an average age of 59.\n\nThe agriculture sector accounts for about 9 per cent of the UK's annual greenhouse gas emissions\n\nThe Tenant Farmers' Association sought the views of 360 farmers and reported that three-quarters of them were seriously interested in the proposed retirement scheme, which is launched in a consultation today.\n\nThe organisation's chief executive, George Dunn, told BBC News he supported the plan for a lump sum for farmers based on the grants they would have received if they'd stayed in business.\n\nBut he warned: \"The government have got to make it easy enough for people to take up the scheme - not drown them in bureaucracy.\n\n\"The payments on their own won't be enough - but when you tie in other factors such as selling livestock, some farmers will want to take it up.\n\n\"For people on larger holdings, it won't be very attractive - but a lot of owner-occupiers might find it attractive.\"\n\nAt the launch of today's consultation, Mr Eustice explained: \"We need to address the twin challenges of helping new entrants fulfil their dream and gain access to land, while also helping an older generation retire with dignity.\n\n\"Our exit scheme will offer farmers real incentive to confront what can often be a difficult decision and will help them clear bills and settle debts.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the National Farmers' Union (NFU) said: \"As our agricultural support is overhauled, farm businesses across the country will be making life-changing decisions about the future of their farm.\"\n\nThey added: \"We want to see a fair transition which allows farmers who are considering leaving the industry to have sufficient time and information to make those life-changing decisions.\"\n\nAbout £3bn of state subsidy is paid to UK farmers each year, but this will be phased out. An estimated 61% of farm income comes from subsidy.\n\nUnder the new post-Brexit scheme, grants will be used to incentivise so-called \"public goods\", such as protecting water supplies; holding floodwater on land; capturing carbon in soil and trees, and increasing wildlife.\n\nThe government believes that younger farmers will be more open to new nature-friendly ideas and more inclined to seek income by diversifying into businesses such as camping or glamping.\n\nClarification 8th March 2022: This article was amended on the day of publication to make clear that the scheme is for older farmers in England and that farmers in Wales are expected to be able to benefit from a similar scheme, while plans in Scotland and Northern Ireland will be different.", "Offering children in some richer countries a coronavirus vaccine before some high-risk people in poorer ones is \"morally wrong\", a group of MPs has been told.\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, who helped develop the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, said the \"inequity\" of vaccine distribution must change \"urgently\".\n\nThe US and Canada have made a jab available to children as young as 12.\n\nBut in many low-income countries those most at risk are yet to be vaccinated.\n\n\"The overall aim of a global vaccination programme in a pandemic is to stop people dying,\" said Prof Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, who led the trials for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\n\"I have worked in Nepal and Bangladesh and colleagues there are facing the most appalling circumstances - they're not working in a situation where there's an NHS to support them,\" he told the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus.\n\n\"It feels completely wrong to be in a situation morally where we are allowing that to happen whilst in many countries vaccines are being rolled out to younger and younger populations at very, very low risk.\n\n\"Children have near to zero risk of severe disease or death.\"\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine, which has been approved in the US and Canada, has completed trials in adolescents.\n\nAnd a number of other Covid vaccines are being tested on this age group and younger.\n\nBut Prof Pollard said: \"The main issue at the moment is to try and make sure the doses go to those in greatest need.\n\n\"This is a global problem which impacts our economies and puts pressure on health systems.\"\n\nStudies show over-50s, people with certain health conditions and healthcare workers are most likely to become seriously ill or die from coronavirus - but many in parts of Africa and South Asia are still waiting for a vaccine.\n\nCovax, the international scheme to ensure equal access to Covid vaccines, is currently short of 140 million doses, after a disruption in supply from India.\n\nUnicef and the World Health Organization have both called on wealthier countries to share their surplus supplies, as some have ordered enough to vaccinate their populations many times over.\n\nA Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson said £548 million has been provided to deliver more than a billion vaccines to more than 70 countries.\n\nThey added the UK will share the \"majority of any future surplus coronavirus vaccines from our supply with the COVAX pool, when these are available\".\n\nProf Pollard said his key message to the government would be to act with \"absolute urgency\" or \"many millions could die between now and September\".\n\n\"We can't wait until later this year to make decisions, he said.\n\n\"It has to be now that we look at redistribution and how we get doses to countries that have poor access at the moment - and that is through Covax.\"\n\nAnother witness told the MPs' panel richer countries were \"hoarding doses\" and he feared they would do the same with potential booster shots in the future.\n\nBut the production of vaccine in low- and middle-income countries would prevent this.\n\n\"We hear from so many manufacturers in places like Pakistan and Bangladesh and Indonesia - they're ready, they've got some capacity,\" Prof Gavin Yamey, director of the Centre for Policy Impact in Global Health, at Duke University, in the US, said.\n\n\"It's fine to continue donating - but there has to be a long-term vision.\n\n\"This pandemic could be with us for years.\n\n\"Is it really just going to be charity - drip, drip, drip of a few doses from rich countries?", "The government must urgently act on its pledge to extend bereavement payments to co-habiting couples, a cross-party group of MPs has said.\n\nThe group wants ministers to comply within three months of court rulings that say limiting the benefits to married couples breached human rights.\n\nA Labour MP behind the move said current rules \"punished\" the children of unmarried parents.\n\nBoris Johnson vowed last year to \"remedy\" the \"injustice\".\n\nCampaigners said around 2,000 co-habiting families a year lose out on the payments, made to individuals whose husband, wife or civil partner has died.\n\nMinisters pledged in July last year to extend the payments to cover co-habiting couples with children, but are yet to bring forward proposals.\n\nThe Department of Work and Pensions said it was \"carefully considering\" how to implement the change.\n\nBereavement Support Payment is a benefit paid to families for 18 months if a husband, wife or civil partner dies - but unmarried partners are ineligible.\n\nIt is awarded at different levels according to individual circumstances, but can rise to almost £10,000 if a couple receives child benefit.\n\nIn February 2020, the High Court found denying co-habiting parents the payments was against their human rights.\n\nIt followed a similar judgment at the Supreme Court in 2018.\n\nMPs and child poverty campaigners have been lobbying ministers since then to update the legislation to reflect the ruling.\n\nSuch a law was not included in last week's Queen's Speech - when the government set out its legislative programme for the coming year.\n\nOn Wednesday, a group of 54 MPs signed a symbolic amendment to the programme, calling on ministers to \"fully remedy\" the situation by complying with the rulings within three months.\n\nIt was later defeated by 366 votes to 265.\n\nOne of the MPs to sign the amendment, Labour's Stella Creasy, said it would support \"some of the most vulnerable people in our communities\".\n\nShe added that figures from the Child Bereavement Network showed \"every 22 minutes in this country, a child loses a mother or a father\" and risked losing their home or their family circumstances as a result.\n\nMs Creasy said: \"It's estimated 2,000 families a year who find themselves in that horrific situation - many more who will have done because of Covid - are then not eligible for financial support.\n\n\"The reason they are not eligible is something very simple. Because the state has decided that because their parents are not married those children must be pushed in to poverty.\"\n\nShe added: \"The government knows it has to remedy this situation, because otherwise we are punishing children for the decisions that their parents have made.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Work and Pensions said it was committed to extending the payments to co-habiting couples, adding: \"We understand how vital this support is to families.\n\n\"We are carefully considering the detail and implementation which we will outline in due course.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has unveiled her new cabinet team, with several new faces being appointed to ministerial roles.\n\nShirley-Anne Somerville has been named as the country's new education secretary, with Humza Yousaf moving from justice to health.\n\nMr Yousaf has been replaced as justice secretary by Keith Brown.\n\nFinance Secretary Kate Forbes will take on an expanded role which will also give her responsibility for the economy brief.\n\nAnd Angus Robertson has been appointed as the constitution, external affairs and culture secretary - which is likely to be a key role as the Scottish government pushes for a second independence referendum.\n\nMr Robertson was once the SNP's leader at Westminster and became an MSP in the election earlier this month.\n\nOther changes saw Michael Matheson take on a new role as cabinet secretary for net zero, energy and transport.\n\nShona Robison is the new social justice, housing and local government secretary, and has been tasked with reducing child poverty as well as working to deliver on the SNP's pledge to build 100,000 affordable homes.\n\nMairi Gougeon replaces Fergus Ewing as the rural affairs and islands secretary after Mr Ewing stood down earlier on Wednesday - as did Fiona Hyslop, who had been the economy, fair work and culture secretary.\n\nIt was announced on Tuesday that Deputy First Minister John Swinney would be given a new role with responsibility for co-ordinating the country's recovery from the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe move meant Mr Swinney would no longer be the country's education secretary - with that role now being filled by Ms Somerville.\n\nSeveral other senior posts were left empty when ministers retired from parliament ahead of the election.\n\nPaul Wheelhouse - who had been energy minister - lost his seat in the election.\n\nHumza Yousaf is the new health secretary after previously being responsible for the justice brief\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said Ms Sturgeon had only been able to muster \"the same tired faces that have already failed Scotland's schools, hospitals and justice system.\"\n\nAnd Scottish Labour said the new ministerial team must focus on the recovery from the pandemic rather than \"the arguments of the past\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon has made big changes to her cabinet - even if many of the \"new\" faces are rather familiar ones.\n\nTo start with, she has slimmed down the full cabinet from 12 to 10, with roles such as environment and transport being combined.\n\nKate Forbes is the only minister who keeps their old job, with a beefed-up finance portfolio.\n\nMichael Matheson keeps his transport job, but \"net zero\" and the climate emergency will be a big focus of his new role.\n\nShirley-Anne Somerville and Humza Yousaf have arguably the biggest jobs in education and health, and this is part of a pattern of posts going to more experienced hands rather than fresh faces.\n\nThis team actually has more in common with the cabinet appointed in 2016 than with the most recent version, from 2018 - with Keith Brown and Shona Robison reclaiming their places at the top table.\n\nAnd another of the \"new\" ministers is Angus Robertson, a former deputy leader of the SNP who has 16 years of experience as an MP.\n\nMairi Gougeon is the only junior minister to win promotion into the full cabinet.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her new team would ensure that Scotland had a \"serious government for the serious times we face as a nation\".\n\nShe added: \"It is a government which will drive Scotland forward, as we look to build a just, fair and sustainable recovery from the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"My cabinet team combines experience with new arrivals and fresh faces, giving us the range and depth of talent we need to tackle the pressing issues we need to tackle, from covid to climate change.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was sworn in as first minister at a ceremony in the Court of Session\n\nMs Sturgeon later headed to the Court of Session to be formally sworn in as first minister.\n\nShe won a vote of MSPs on Tuesday to ensure she remains in the role following the SNP's victory in the election on 6 May.\n\nThree new MSPs were among 15 junior ministerial appointments made later on Wednesday.\n\nMairi McAllan, who was previously part of Ms Sturgeon's team of special advisers, became the new minister for environment, biodiversity and land reform.\n\nGeorge Adam, who has been an MSP since 2011 and was the SNP group chief whip at Holyrood, was made the new minister for parliamentary business.\n\nThomas Arthur, who had been deputy whip, was given the role of public finance, planning and community wealth minister.\n\nThe remaining junior appointments were as follows:", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nSteve Clarke has sprung a surprise by including uncapped trio Billy Gilmour, Nathan Patterson and David Turnbull in Scotland's 26-man squad for Euro 2020.\n\nChelsea's Gilmour, 19, Rangers' Patterson, 19, and Celtic's Turnbull, 21, are all under-21 internationals but have never previously been called-up.\n\nLiam Cooper of Leeds United and Greg Taylor of Celtic, plus Hibernian's Kevin Nisbet, are also included.\n\nIt will be Scotland's first appearance at a major men's tournament since 1998.\n\nClarke's side face Czech Republic (14 June), England (18 June) and Croatia (22 June) in Group D, with the first and third games at Hampden in front of 12,000 spectators.\n\n\"Well done to the lads that have made the squad and a big thank you to the ones that haven't but have been part of the journey to get here,\" Clarke told the Scottish FA.\n\n\"When you've got talent coming through and players injured and three extra places, it's a chance to bring the young boys in.\n\n\"But I've tried to remain true to the spirit of the squad I've had before, and keep the core and nucleus together.\"\n\nTurnbull scored nine goals in 35 appearances in his debut season at Celtic while Patterson helped Rangers win the Scottish Premiership and reach the last 16 of the Europa League.\n\nGilmour has featured 22 times since breaking into the Chelsea team last season and could play in this month's Champions League final against Manchester City.\n\nNisbet has scored 18 times for Hibs this season, including the opener in the 2-0 semi-final victory over Dundee United that set up Saturday's Scottish Cup final meeting with St Johnstone.\n\nHe will compete with recent debutant Che Adams and Lyndon Dykes for attacking places.\n\nThe rest of the squad is along familiar lines, with captain Andy Robertson one of three left-backs in a selection that also includes Ryan Fraser, who has not played since scoring for Scotland in two games in March.\n\nExperienced campaigners Stuart Armstrong, Ryan Christie, John McGinn and Scott McKenna all make the cut along with the established goalkeeping trio of Craig Gordon, David Marshall and Jon McLaughlin.\n\nScott McTominay is included, too, but came off injured during Manchester United's draw with Fulham on Tuesday.\n\n'Ones that haven't made it should stay fit'\n\nScotland depart for a training camp in Spain on 27 May, and play friendlies against Netherlands and Luxembourg on 2 June and 6 June respectively.\n\nChanges to the squad can be made up until the eve of the opening game, in case of injury or Covid issues.\n\nAndy Considine, Liam Palmer, Callum Paterson, Leigh Griffiths and Lawrence Shankland miss out after featuring in recent months, while Ryan Jack, Kenny McLean, Oli McBurnie and Oliver Burke are injured.\n\nUncapped Ryan Gauld also misses out, despite a stellar season in the Portuguese top flight with Farense.\n\n\"The ones that haven't made it, they have to keep themselves in good shape because you never know, things can change - especially at this strange time in the world,\" Clarke added.\n\n\"For the ones that have made it, they have to be excited and look forward to the summer and they have to dream. When we get to the first game against Czech Republic, we'll be ready.\"\n\nMy Scotland XI for the European Championship\n• None Searching for truth in the fog of war\n• None Watch as former rugby players take legal action over their brain injuries", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The footage was shared on social media\n\nA Met Police officer who was filmed hugging a demonstrator at a march and shouting \"free Palestine\" is being investigated.\n\nThe footage shared on social media also shows the unnamed officer holding a white rose and raising her arm in apparent support of those gathered.\n\nThousands took part in the march through central London on Saturday.\n\nThe Directorate of Professional Standards has been informed, the Met Police said.\n\nPeople expressing support for the Palestinians marched through central London\n\nIn a statement, a Met spokesperson said: \"Whilst we expect officers to engage, they must remain impartial.\n\n\"Officers know they are not to actively participate or adopt political positions, and this is made clear in their training and in the oath that all police officers take. This is vital to ensuring the public have confidence in our officers.\"\n\nThe Met said the full circumstances of what happened would be investigated to determine what further action was appropriate.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two Thai men working on a farm near Israel’s border with Gaza were killed on Tuesday by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants.\n\nAnother Thai farm worker, Aryae Aryi, told the BBC what it's like working under near-constant threat of attack.\n\nVideo produced by BBC Thai's Issariya Praithongyaem, edited by Kaona Pongpipat and with footage from Aryae Aryi.", "Lead singer Daði Freyr said it was a \"huge surprise\" for his fellow band member to test positive\n\nIceland's entrant for the Eurovision song contest will not perform in this year's live shows after a band member tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nDaði og Gagnamagnið will stay in the competition but won't perform live at Wednesday's rehearsal, Thursday's semi-final or the final on Saturday.\n\nFootage recorded during a recent rehearsal will be used instead.\n\nBand member Jóhann Sigurður Jóhannsson said he was \"shocked and disappointed\" at finding out he had tested positive.\n\n\"I'm generally very sad about the whole situation,\" he said in a clip on the band's Instagram story.\n\n\"I'm healthy. It's difficult because we've worked so hard and I really wanted this and it's been so long in the making.\n\n\"We're really proud of our rehearsal [performance] and I'm hoping we will make Icelanders proud and make our supporters proud.\"\n\nLead singer Daði Freyr said the news was a \"huge surprise\", but added: \"We are very happy with the [recorded] performance and super excited for you all to see it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Daði Freyr 🥑 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEurovision organisers said in a statement: \"In close collaboration with the EBU and the host broadcaster, Daði og Gagnamagnið have taken the difficult decision to withdraw from performing in this year's live Eurovision song contest shows.\n\n\"They only want to perform together as a group. Their song will remain in the competition and we will broadcast their rehearsal performance, recorded on the stage on 13 May.\"\n\nDaði and his group will be devastated to lose their big moment in the live Eurovision spotlight, which is something they've been working towards for two years.\n\nOne of the group - Árný - is Daði's wife, and the song 10 Years is about their lasting relationship.\n\nDaði's DIY approach to Eurovision, eccentricity and deadpan humour is one of the reasons he's proved so popular.\n\nWhen we caught up with the band in their matching green jumpsuits last week, they were in good spirits and described themselves as \"a hivemind\" - where they all think as one person.\n\nEurovision bosses had factored in artists getting positive Covid tests, so they'll use last week's rehearsal footage to make sure Iceland can still compete in the second semi-final.\n\nIf the band gets through to the final it's expected the pre-recorded performance will be used again.\n\nA member of the Iceland team had tested positive at the weekend but on Monday the band said all tests had returned negative.\n\nThey have all been isolating in a hotel and taking regular tests during the week.\n\nDaði and his band missed out on representing Iceland in 2020 when the event was cancelled because of coronavirus.\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. Jan Spivey and Louise Smith, two of the women affected, were delighted by the court's decision\n\nThousands of women who were victims of the PIP breast implant scandal should receive compensation, a French appeal court has decided.\n\nWomen involved in the case say they are elated and exhausted after 10 years of fighting for justice.\n\nThe court also upheld an earlier judgement finding German safety body TUV Rheinland negligent.\n\nTUV said it had acted \"diligently\", and that women must prove they had a PIP implant to be entitled to compensation.\n\nIt awarded safety certificates for faulty breast implants made by French company Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP).\n\nThe court decision could have far-reaching implications for thousands of other victims around the world.\n\nJan Spivey, one of 540 British women involved in the case, was given PIP implants after she had a mastectomy due to breast cancer.\n\nAfter hearing the decision, she said she was \"elated and exhausted\".\n\n\"It's been a very long journey,\" she said.\n\n\"We've been in and out of court, and that's been really difficult for women. We've got health issues and we've got lots of other responsibilities too - PIP has had an impact on the whole of our lives.\n\n\"It's been an inescapable issue.\"\n\nJan developed aching joints, pain and fatigue after having the implants, and once they were removed it was clear they had been leaking silicone into her body.\n\nJan Spivey suffered years of health problems after having PIP breast implants\n\n\"My PIP implants from 20 years ago are still impacting on my life and my health and my wellbeing, even today,\" Jan said.\n\n\"I think I've been angry every single day for the 20 years I've been affected by PIP.\"\n\nOlivier Aumaître, the lawyer representing Jan Spivey and around 2,700 others in the current case, said it was an historic day for the victims and for women's rights. He said the company would now have to fully compensate all the women judged to be victims.\n\n\"I'm very happy for all the women I represent who have waited for such a long time for this decision and suffered for such long periods,\" he said.\n\nBut many hundreds of women in the UK are still waiting for legal decisions on their cases and their right to compensation.\n\nOliver Thorn, lawyer with Slee Blackwell Solicitors, represents 500 women. He said many still had their breast implants in place because they did not have the money to get them replaced, and that was why they needed compensation.\n\n\"The cosmetic surgery industry as a whole needs to sit up and see what has gone on here and it's time things were changed,\" he said.\n\nThe president of The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons Mary O'Brien said the UK medicines' regulator, the MHRA, had an important role in ensuring a similar scandal over implants never happened again.\n\n\"The human cost and distress to many women and their families following surgery involving PIP implants is sobering,\" she said.\n\nPlastic surgeons supported the setting up of a breast implant registry to improve patient safety.\n\nThey advise patients to consult their surgeon if concerned about symptoms related to their implants and read all reliable sources of information before undergoing breast implant surgery for any reason.\n\nAnother woman affected by the case, Nicola Mason - who had breast implants which then ruptured - said the court decision was \"a victory, it's amazing\".\n\n\"We've waited a long time for this,\" she told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.\n\nNicola first found out about the rupture when she was pregnant, after noticing a large lump under her arm.\n\nShe said it was \"quite traumatic and there was absolutely nothing I could do\".\n\nEventually, the implants were removed but she says she has been left with a massive lump of silicone under her arm which still flares up.\n\n\"I don't think anyone knows the long-term effects,\" she says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBetween 2001 and 2010 the substandard implants were manufactured by the French company Poly Implant Prothèse or PIP.\n\nIt was liquidated in 2010 and its founder was later given a prison sentence after it emerged the implants were filled with cheap, industrial-grade silicone which was not cleared for human use.\n\nIt is estimated up to 400,000 women worldwide have received the illegal implants.\n\nLatin America was worst hit, in particular Colombia, where there are estimated to be 60,000 victims. In the UK it is thought 47,000 women are affected.\n\nThe case, known as TUV1, was the first to be brought, a decade ago, against TUV Rheinland which issued European safety certificates for the PIP implants.\n\nLawyers for the German company said they disagreed with the French court's decision for holding the company liable, \"even partly\".\n\n\"The evidence in this case clearly shows that TÜV Rheinland acted diligently, in compliance with applicable regulations,\" they said.\n\nAt no time, the company said, had it been aware that breast implants manufactured by PIP were not compliant.\n\nThe ruling is expected to have wider implications for almost 20,000 other women, half of whom are British, who are taking similar legal action in France.\n\nAlifie Jones had her implants removed last month\n\nAlifie Jones is recovering at home after having her faulty PIP breast implants removed last month.\n\nShe was finally convinced by a friend to take them out after suffering years of extreme exhaustion and debilitating pain.\n\nShe says the worst thing about it was wondering why she felt so ill all the time: \"Not knowing what it was, the mysterious illnesses, not being able to exercise. Not being vibrant, having my life, sort of stolen from me in a way.\"\n\nThe surgeon was shocked by what he found when he removed one of the implants. It had broken into multiple pieces inside her - exposing her body to an industrial-grade silicone gel.\n\n\"I can't believe they were allowed to be implanted in me. I don't know how they got through regulations.\n\n\"But I feel guilty that I messed about with my body and I put them in in the first place. But I'm angry that a human being can do that to another human being.\"\n\nDid you receive a PIP implant? 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.", "Lee and Louise know they'll be taking their two children on holiday this summer.\n\nWhat they don't know is where they'll go. It might be Norfolk or it might be their preference - Fuerteventura.\n\nThey booked both in case Covid restrictions prevented them from going to the Canary Islands.\n\nAnd because they're not the only ones doing this, some UK resorts fear they could be facing a rush of cancellations.\n\nLow and no-deposit bookings have been offered by lots of companies this summer to allow extra flexibility because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nWhile that's led to record bookings for lots of UK resorts, plenty of customers have taken advantage by booking not one, but two holidays for the same time slot, knowing they'll not lose any money at all.\n\nI spoke to Lee and Louise under a gazebo in their garden, in the pouring rain, in Lancashire, so it's no surprise that they are holding onto a dream of basking in the sunshine.\n\nThey've booked time off work and are determined to get away somewhere. When they splashed out on a holiday to the Canary islands they weren't sure if travel there would be allowed, so they booked a reserve option too.\n\nThey're keeping both bookings and hedging their bets a little longer, in the hopes of guaranteed heat, while ensuring themselves a get-away somewhere.\n\nAlthough they love Cromer in Norfolk, there is no hesitation when I ask which holiday they'd rather go on. \"Fuerteventura, fingers-crossed\", says Louise.\n\nLee and Louise have booked two getaways this summer so they don't miss out altogether\n\nShe says: \"In this country it can be a bit more difficult to find things to do if the weather is not great.\"\n\nLee says the family all get so excited about the prospect of a holiday, that after a tough year, they are determined to make sure they have a great summer.\n\n\"You start planning, you start preparing, and if that's suddenly taken away it can actually impact our mental well-being,\" explains Lee. That's why they are keeping the Norfolk booking and will decide nearer the time.\n\nAnd it seems Lee, Louise and their children may not be alone.\n\nThe peak for holiday bookings came early on in the year, before the government issued its rules on travel. Plenty of people are still hoping for some amendments before the summer holiday season begins, so some industry insiders reckon they may have doubled-booked in order to keep their options open.\n\nAvvio provides the software behind 500 of the UK's top hotels. They say bookings are very high but cancellation rates at the moment are running at just 4%, far below the usual 30% levels.\n\nChief commercial officer Michael De Jongh says this is because of double-bookings, although concrete evidence of the phenomenon won't kick in until later this summer, when consumers actually start cancelling UK trips in favour of European ones or vice versa.\n\nHe says cancellations would cause problems for hotels, in the same way as multiple restaurant bookings did during the Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Eat Out To Help Out scheme.\n\n\"There's a growing trend to book rooms at multiple hotels, with a view to cancelling all but one at the last minute. This causes so many problems for hotels, in the same way as multiple restaurant bookings did during Eat Out To Help Out.\n\n\"If someone does have to cancel,\" he says, \"I'd urge them to always give the hotel as much notice as possible or better still modify the booking to an alternative date.\"\n\nAt Hipping Hall hotel, George Norrie says if people cancel early enough he should be able to fill the rooms\n\nHipping Hall, like most venues, has kept its bookings policy as flexible as possible to allow people to book without fear of losing money.\n\nIt's a small boutique hotel in Kirkby Lonsdale, part-way between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. It's only been able to open its doors to guests again this week, and its 15 rooms are fully booked for months to come.\n\nGeneral manager George Norrie says if people cancel with enough notice, the hotel should be able to fill the slot, because on some nights it even has a waiting list.\n\nHe thinks the bigger challenge for them is giving first-time staycation holidaymakers a brilliant experience so that they come back again next year.\n\n\"When our guests get here we're going to do our best to make sure they get the best experience they possibly can. Next year they might go abroad, but they might come and see us for a two-day stay as well.\"\n\nLee and Louise say they'll make sure they give enough notice for either of their chosen destinations to fill the slot, and the flexible booking they were given means they won't lose any money. For them it's a win-win.\n\nWhile a late flurry of cancellations may cause headaches for UK hoteliers, there is good news for disorganised holidaymakers. There'll be plenty of last-minute bargains for UK holidays, whatever the weather.", "Spanish troops were sent to El Tarajal beach, near the Spanish-Moroccan\n\nSpain has deployed troops after record numbers of migrants entered its north African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.\n\nSome 8,000 people have reached Ceuta in two days, Spanish officials say.\n\nThey say the migrants - who include about 1,500 minors - either swam around the border fences that jut out into the sea or walked across at low tide.\n\nSpain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez has vowed to restore order. Spain says around half of the migrants have been sent back to Morocco.\n\nBy Tuesday evening, footage of the beach showed that nearly all migrants had been cleared.\n\nMr Sánchez travelled to Ceuta and Melilla to deal with the crisis, which exacerbated diplomatic tensions with Morocco.\n\nMorocco withdrew its ambassador for consultations after Spain's foreign minister told the envoy of her \"disgust\" at what had happened.\n\nMost of the migrants are said to be from Morocco. The Spanish troops have been deployed to the beach to help border police at Ceuta's main entry point - Tarajal, on the enclave's south side.\n\nDramatic scenes were captured offshore as families waded through the water and officers from Spain's Guardia Civil went into the sea to rescue young children.\n\nSpain's Guardia Civil posted pictures of a baby and toddlers being rescued from the sea off Ceuta\n\nInterior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said 200 troops, plus 200 extra police were going to assist Ceuta's normal 1,100-strong border force. The enclave has some 80,000 residents.\n\nBy evening reports said the number of people trying to enter by sea had decreased. Some migrants were voluntarily returning to Morocco while others could be seen being carried away by soldiers.\n\nSpain's Ceuta and Melilla enclaves have become magnets for African migrants trying to reach Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In May Spanish troops were deployed when thousands of migrants entered Ceuta, a Spanish North African enclave.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Moroccan security forces at Fnideq, the adjacent town to Ceuta, fired tear gas to disperse a large crowd of migrants at the border fence, AFP news agency reported.\n\nMr Sánchez has received support from senior EU officials, with European Council President Charles Michel tweeting: \"Spain's borders are the European Union's borders.\"\n\nEU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson described the number of arrivals in Ceuta as \"unprecedented\" and \"worrying\", noting that \"a big number of them [are] children\".\n\nAt the other enclave, Melilla, 86 sub-Saharan Africans entered on Tuesday via its southern jetty.\n\nMelilla has a formidable border fence, and several hundred more migrants were blocked by security forces, Spain's Efe news agency reports.\n\nSpanish officials quoted by Efe said Moroccan guards had helped the Spanish forces in Melilla.\n\nSpanish media said it was different in Ceuta, where Moroccan border guards stood by and watched as migrants took to the sea to try to reach the enclave.\n\nMost of the migrants were said to be young men, but there were also several families. Many had used inflatable rings and rubber dinghies.\n\nThey started arriving in Ceuta in the early hours of Monday. At least one died during the crossing.\n\nLast month, more than 100 migrants arrived at Ceuta's Tarajal entry point. Most were sent back, except about 30 minors whose ages were confirmed by medical tests.\n\nMigrants entered shallow water at Fnideq, a Moroccan border town, to get to Ceuta\n\nSince the 17th Century Ceuta and Melilla have been under Spanish rule, though they are long claimed by Morocco. They have semi-autonomous status, like some regions of mainland Spain.\n\nThe influx comes amid renewed tension over Western Sahara, a territory occupied by Spain until 1975, when Morocco annexed it. Since then it has been disputed between Morocco and the indigenous Sahrawi people, led by the Polisario Front.\n\nIn April, Spain allowed Sahrawi leader Brahim Ghali, 73, to be treated in hospital for Covid-19, reportedly in Logroño. He leads the Polisario Front, fighting for Western Saharan sovereignty against the claims of Morocco. The Moroccan government responded angrily and warned Spain that harbouring Mr Ghali would bring \"consequences\".\n\nSpanish Foreign Minister Arancha González said she was not aware of Morocco using the border issue to exert political pressure. But many see Monday's events, when Moroccan border guards appeared not to stop migrants from crossing, as evidence of a reprisal.\n\nSuch difficulties are likely to complicate the two neighbours' normally tight co-operation on the migrant issue. However, Spain says it has already repatriated about half of the migrants, following talks with Morocco.\n\nThe vast majority of those who reached Ceuta were Moroccan. Local police have clamped down on sub-Saharan migrants in northern Morocco in recent years, meaning they have sought other routes to Spain, such as across the Atlantic to the Canary Islands.\n\nThe EU border force Frontex reports that illegal migration to Spain's Canary Islands - off the Moroccan coast - has surged this year.\n\nHowever, the overall number of undocumented migrants reaching Europe so far this year remains far below the levels seen in 2015-2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aicha was found this year after three weeks drifting in the Atlantic trying to reach the Canaries", "A thick covering of snow at Errogie in the Highlands\n\nMay snowfall has brought disruption to parts of Scotland, with the Highlands under a thick blanket of snow.\n\nThe Met Office issued a yellow \"be aware\" warning as the unseasonal weather affected travel on key routes in the area.\n\nThe southbound carriageway of the A9 at Daviot, south of Inverness, was blocked for a time by a fallen tree.\n\nThis was later cleared but Traffic Scotland said snow continued to affect driving conditions.\n\nThe A939 near Tomintoul in Moray was closed because a tanker was stuck in snow. Police said diversions would be in place while the road was closed.\n\nSnowy conditions at a polling station in the village of Farr, near Inverness.\n\nA chilly start to Thursday at Carrbridge in the Cairngorms\n\nThere were some difficult driving conditions on roads in the Highlands\n\nThe Met Office warning, in place until 11:00, covers parts of north, north east, central and south west Scotland.\n\nForecasters said snow could accumulate to up to 3cm (1in) below 150m (492ft) and possibly 6cm (2in) over higher roads.\n\nBear Scotland North West said it had seven gritters on the A9 between Drumochter and Inverness working to keep the road clear.\n\nA power cut affected the polling station at Gergask Primary School in Laggan, but Highland Council said the electricity supply was restored at 10:00.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Scottish Avalanche Information Service has said it will be issuing forecasts for this weekend following what it described as \"significant snowfall\" in Scotland's mountains.\n\nThe service's season is usually wrapped up by mid-April.\n\nThe cold and snowy start to May follows what is expected to have been a record month of frosts.\n\nProvisional data from the Met Office suggests it was the frostiest April for at least 60 years - with the lowest average minimum temperatures since 1922.\n\nThe frostiest place of all was Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, which dropped below freezing on 25 different nights.\n\nThe scene at Loch Morlich - the location of Britain's highest beach - near Aviemore in the Cairngorms\n\nSnowy at Bridge of Gaur in Perthshire\n\nA wintry scene at Drumgask in the Highlands\n\nA dusting of snow at Stow in the Scottish Borders", "Thousands lost work when Broadway theatres closed in March last year\n\nTickets for Broadway will go on sale this week, although shows will not restart until 14 September.\n\nTheatres will then be allowed to fill 100% of capacity, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced.\n\nThousands lost work when Broadway theatres closed in March 2020 due to the pandemic.\n\n\"Broadway is a major part of our state's identity and economy, and we are thrilled that the curtains will rise again,\" Mr Cuomo said on Twitter.\n\nNew York plans to lift the majority of coronavirus restrictions later this month, but Broadway needs more time for rehearsals and producers need time to advertise the shows.\n\n\"Restarting Broadway is a complex endeavour,\" Charlotte St Martin, president of the Broadway League, an industry group, told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"Today's green light by the governor to put our shows on sale now for the fall is vital to our success.\"\n\nSafety procedures are still being ironed out, with one possibility being a requirement for audience members to show proof of vaccination.\n\n\"We've never done this before,\" Victoria Bailey, executive director of TDF, a non-profit organisation which oversees a ticket-selling booth in Times Square, told the New York Times.\n\n\"The last time the theatre industry opened from a pandemic, Shakespeare was still writing new plays.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The New York City musicians with a big secret\n\nThirty-one Broadway shows were in production when Covid-19 hit, including Hamilton, Wicked and The Lion King. Some productions, including Mean Girls and Frozen, will not be returning for the reopening.\n\nBroadway supports more than 96,000 jobs in New York and contributed nearly $15bn (£11.2bn) to the city's economy in 2019, according to the Broadway League, a theatre union. That number does not just take into account ticket sales but also the investment to put on and run a show, and the money tourists spend when they come to New York to see a performance.", "Istanbul in Turkey is under a lockdown but foreign tourists are exempt\n\nUK travellers returning from \"red list\" countries are flying home via Turkey to avoid hefty hotel quarantine fees.\n\nPassengers are breaking their journey in Istanbul, and staying in hotels there for a fraction of the cost they would have to pay in Britain.\n\nTravellers from countries on the red list would otherwise face bills of up to £1,750-per-person to isolate in a hotel if they flew to the UK directly.\n\nThose using the route must still quarantine at home once back in the UK.\n\nOne hotel worker in Istanbul said he had seen British nationals flying in from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh - which are all on the UK's red list.\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to travellers returning from Pakistan to the UK, many of whom were attending weddings or funerals and say they couldn't afford the cost of quarantining once the rules changed.\n\nAs long as they isolate at home for 10 days after returning from a non-red list country, they are not breaking the UK government's Covid rules.\n\nThe UK has a so-called red list with travel heavily restricted to countries on it - usually those with high coronavirus rates.\n\nAny British citizen arriving home who has been to a country on the list in the past 10 days must then pay to quarantine in a government-approved hotel.\n\nThe cost is £1,750 for a single adult, while a family of four with teenage children would pay £3,700. Guests are largely restricted to their rooms for the duration.\n\nBy comparison, anyone arriving in the UK from a country not on the list is told to self-isolate at home - so long as they've not been in a red list country in the past 10 days.\n\nHashir, a student, said he could not afford the cost of quarantining in the UK\n\nOne travel agent in Bradford said some of his clients who had travelled to Pakistan had been left facing a hefty bill to return home after the country was placed on UK's banned list on 9 April.\n\n\"I've got customers who can't afford to come back,\" said Ascher Khawaja of Oltrax Travel, citing UK quarantine costs. To ease the burden on his clients, Mr Khawaja says he has arranged 15-20 journeys home via Turkey.\n\nThe country brought in a three-week lockdown last week because of rising infections - but it has not been added to the UK's red list. \"With the hotel factored in, it works out at around £600 compared to £1,700-plus,\" he said.\n\nAnyone entering Turkey must have had a negative Covid test within 72 hours. They also must have a negative PCR test to leave the country. Foreign tourists are, however, exempt from Turkey's current lockdown rules.\n\nBradford businessman Mohammad Saad travelled to Pakistan on 23 March to attend his nephew's funeral and had been due to fly home on 10 April - the day after Pakistan was added to the red list.\n\nWhen he couldn't change his flights, he and his 16-year-old son flew to Turkey instead. The cost was about £450 for 10 days in Istanbul, he said.\n\n\"It's like an extra holiday. Then you can fly back into the UK from Istanbul without any hotel quarantine.\"\n\nHashir, a 21-year-old student returning from Pakistan, said he had met other Britons at the airport when he arrived in Istanbul.\n\n\"There's no way I have that money, I'm a university student,\" said Hashir, referring to the cost of returning directly to the UK. He is due back in the UK on 7 May.\n\nZulfiqar Ali, a 45-year-old taxi driver from Leeds, travelled from Pakistan to Istanbul on 24 April. \"I paid £100 for 11 nights. It's a double bed, a TV and a fridge. It was online and food was very cheap.\"\n\nHe said he was returning to the UK on 5 May.\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to staff at hotels in Istanbul. One accommodation worker in the old city said British travellers were using the country as \"a bridge\".\n\nHis hotel had booked British passport holders travelling from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India - all on the red list, he said.\n\nTurkey has since tightened its rules on people arriving from India, who must now quarantine in designated dormitories.\n\nA manager at another hotel in the city said, through his membership of an international booking website, he could see there had been a rise in people travelling from Pakistan and India to Istanbul.\n\nBradford MP Naz Shah said others had been unable to book family rooms on the UK hotel quarantine booking system. She said she was \"deeply concerned\" about children potentially missing school because their parents can't afford to fly home.\n\nThe UK's Department for Transport said people who had not been in a red list country for the past 10 days were not prevented from entering the UK - but should isolate at home.\n\nIt said the rules were aimed at stopping people - other than British residents - entering the UK from red list countries.", "The single-use carrier bag charge will rise from 5p to 10p and be extended to all businesses in England from 21 May.\n\nThe government said all stores, including corner shops, will now have to apply the charge from that date.\n\nThe 5p levy on plastic bags was introduced in England in 2015. Since then their use has fallen by over 95%.\n\nThe average person in England now buys just four single-use carrier bags a year from the main supermarkets, compared with 140 in 2014.\n\n\"The introduction of the 5p charge has been a phenomenal success,\" said Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.\n\nBy extending the charge to all retailers, the government hopes the use of single-use carrier bags will fall by 70-80% in small and medium-sized businesses.\n\n\"We know we must go further to protect our natural environment and oceans, which is why we are now extending this charge to all businesses,\" said Ms Pow.\n\n\"Over the next couple of weeks I urge all retailers of all sizes to make sure they are ready for the changes, as we work together to build back greener and strengthen our world-leading action to combat the scourge of plastic waste.\"\n\nMorrisons has switched from offering plastic \"bags for life to paper bags\n\nAssociation of Convenience Stores chief executive, James Lowman, said: \"We strongly welcome the inclusion of local shops and other small businesses into the successful plastic bag charging scheme, which not only helps the environment, but is also a great way for retailers to raise money for local and national charities.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said it was trialling the removal of single-use bags from its Cheltenham, Kingston and Leeds stores from 21 May.\n\nCustomers will be asked to bring their own bags or buy a reusable bag made from 100% recyclable material costing 50p for a medium size and 75p for a large size.\n\nMarija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability for the John Lewis Partnership, said: \"It has become the norm to take our own bags when we go food shopping but we have a different mindset when shopping for clothes, beauty and home products.\n\n\"We expect our customers will be supportive of this change and will be listening to their feedback.\"\n\n\"Plastic pollution is one of the most visible symptoms of the environmental crisis, damaging natural habitats and putting precious wildlife at risk,\" sasid Paula Chin, sustainable materials specialist at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).\n\n\"Measures to reduce plastics consumption need to go much further. The UK government must consider a complete ban on single-use bags and make sure this is not undermined by the sale of 'bags for life', which are currently cheaply available and all too often end up as single-use items.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How plastic bags were supposed to help the planet\n\nThe Co-op became the latest supermarket chain to say it will stop selling plastic \"bags for life\" last month.\n\nThe retailer, which has 2,600 shops, said many people only used the 10p bags once before throwing them away.\n\nThe Co-op said its move would take 29.5 million bags for life, or about 870 tonnes of plastic, out of circulation every year.\n\nEarlier last month Morrisons said it would switch from offering plastic \"bags for life\" to a paper alternative.\n\nIn recent years, all supermarkets have tried to cut plastics use.\n\nWaitrose is currently trialling the removal of its 10p bags for life from several of its stores.\n\nSainsbury's has said its bags for life cost 20p to encourage customers to re-use them and are made from 100% recycled plastic.\n\nTesco increased the price of its bags for life to 20p in September 2020 and doesn't sell single-use bags.", "Labour MP Stella Creasy is currently pregnant with her second child\n\nPregnant women are struggling to get the coronavirus vaccine because clinics are unable to guarantee they will have the right type of jab available, Labour MP Stella Creasy has said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna jabs are preferable for pregnant women because there is more safety data available.\n\nBut the online booking system in England does not allow them to specify which vaccine they require.\n\nPregnant women are advised to speak to their GP instead of booking online.\n\nBut Ms Creasy, 44, said GPs do not always know when local vaccination centres will have specific types of the jab available.\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\nThe MP for Walthamstow, who is currently pregnant with her second child, said she had received five invitations to be vaccinated but she could not take them up because there is no system to specify she needs the Pfizer or Moderna jab.\n\n\"I don't think it's been made enough of a priority because there's a presumption it will become more of a priority as they move through the age groups, which is a misreading of the data about pregnancy,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"More women in this country are pregnant over the age of 40 than under 20 so there are quite a lot of us now who qualify.\n\n\"There are also pregnant women who have serious health conditions who still can't get a vaccine because of a logistics problem.\"\n\nMs Creasy is currently working with doctors in Walthamstow, north-east London, to arrange for pregnant women to receive leftover Pfizer vaccines.\n\nBut she said there should be a national system in place to allow people to specify if they need a particular type of vaccine when booking an appointment.\n\nGiuditta Fontana, 36, from Birmingham, has received a text inviting her to book her coronavirus vaccine but has been unable to do so yet.\n\nShe was told by her GP surgery that they were unable to book her in for a specific vaccine and was advised to call the 119 central booking service.\n\nBut she still encountered the same problem and was then told to visit her nearest vaccination centre to see what doses they had available.\n\nGiuditta tried a mass vaccination centre nearby but was told they did not have Moderna or Pfizer vaccines available.\n\nShe said many of her friends who are pregnant have had similar experiences - and even if they have booked an appointment they do not know which vaccine they will be offered.\n\nGiuditta is worried about catching Covid-19 in hospital\n\nAt 32 weeks pregnant Giuditta is now worried she will not be able to be vaccinated before she gives birth and is concerned about the risk of catching Covid-19 in hospital.\n\n\"In my case, I know that in six weeks' time, I'm going to be taken into hospital, and I'm going to have a booked C-section. And I'm going to have to spend two or three days there,\" she said.\n\n\"It would really make a huge difference if I was able to have at least the first dose of the vaccine before getting into hospital.\"\n\n\"The whole process is proving incredibly stressful, which is something that in theory, you shouldn't experience in pregnancy,\" she added.\n\nOn 16 April, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments, said pregnant women should get the coronavirus vaccine at the same time as the rest of the population, based on their age and any underlying health conditions.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest other vaccines are unsafe for pregnant women but more research is needed.\n\nReal-world data from the US shows around 90,000 pregnant women have been vaccinated, mainly with mRNA vaccines such as the Pfizer and Modern jabs, without any safety concerns being raised.\n\nBased on this data, the JCVI says it is preferable for pregnant women in the UK to be offered the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines where available.\n\nThey are also encouraged to discuss the risks and benefits of the vaccines with their doctor before making the appointment.\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said: \"Following the updated guidance set out by the JCVI, the NHS immediately communicated the advice to GPs.\n\n\"If you're pregnant, or think you might be, speak to your maternity team or GP surgery to discuss your vaccine appointment so that it can be arranged at a site offering the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, which is preferable for pregnant women.\"\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.", "Mr Dekas is seeking a High Court hearing with a young woman who is also concerned\n\nA father and a student campaigner are seeking a High Court hearing to consider whether the government should tighten youngsters' access to porn.\n\nIoannis Dekas and Ava Vakil want the government to implement proof of age for access to pornography promised in the 2017 Digital Economy Act.\n\nIt comes as new research suggests the majority of 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK have recently seen pornography.\n\nThe government is currently preparing a new Online Harms Bill.\n\nThis bill would go further than the Digital Economy Act, giving the watchdog, Ofcom, powers to block access to online services - including social media platforms and search engines - which fail to do enough to protect children.\n\nIt is expected to be put before Parliament later this year.\n\nIoannis Dekas, a father of four sons, became concerned after he found one of his boys had accessed pornography.\n\nHe said this was a wake-up call for him and his wife as parents, making them confront the potential danger to their son and the impact on them all as a family.\n\n\"In the two weeks leading up to this moment, we'd noticed a drastic change in his behaviour, withdrawal, a sense of anger towards his siblings, we could sense frustration in his life.\"\n\nWhen he and his wife talked to their son, they found he was under peer pressure to be familiar with the language of porn.\n\n\"What I don't often hear is how to deal with this. What happens in your household when this happens? With the availability, it's not a matter of if, but of when.\"\n\nMr Dekas wants the government to put in place the age verification requirements set out in part three of the Digital Economy Act - a law that was passed in 2017.\n\nHowever, in 2019, the then Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan said the measures would no longer go ahead, with efforts instead focused on the government's wider Online Harms Bill.\n\nBut Mr Dekas says that this bill still has to be brought before Parliament, and may be delayed if detailed regulations need to be drawn up.\n\nIn the meantime, children are being exposed to pornography, he says, when they could be protected using the Digital Economy Act's full powers.\n\nAva Vakil is also calling on the government to enforce age restrictions on porn sites\n\nMr Dekas is bringing the challenge jointly with 20-year-old University of Oxford student Ava Vakil, whose letter about what she described as a culture of sexual violence in some schools went viral online.\n\nMs Vakil told the BBC: \"I think porn is everywhere, and growing up as a young woman I've seen the influence of that.\n\n\"I think young men are ingesting pornography online to an extent that people aren't aware of.\n\n\"I'm sure everyone, and particularly young women, can look back on so many conversations they've had with boyfriends and male friends and think 100% it was impacted by porn.\"\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it would not be appropriate to comment on legal proceedings.\n\nA spokesman said the government was committed to protecting children from harmful content.\n\nThe legal action comes as research from City, University of London found many teenagers had seen porn.\n\nProf Neil Thurman conducted a survey of more than 1,000 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK, using a panel from the specialist market research company Youthsite.\n\nWhile 63% said they came across porn on social media, 47% said they had also visited porn websites.\n\nThe research suggests the government's approach of widening the range of legislation to more platforms is right, Prof Thurman said.\n\nMore worryingly, 46% had used technology that disguises identity when browsing online, such as a virtual private network, and which could allow evasion of age verification.\n\nHowever, Prof Thurman said this was not a reason not to regulate access.\n\n\"It doesn't mean we shouldn't bring in legislation,\" he said. \"Firstly I think it would reduce accidental exposure, particularly for younger children and teenagers, and it does send a signal, not present at the moment, that they are accessing something inappropriate for their age group.\"\n\nVanessa Morse, head of the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation, said there was a \"wealth of evidence\" to show that viewing pornography led to harmful sexual attitudes and behaviours.\n\n\"The government's own research, which it published this year, showed an association between porn consumption and real world violence against women. It's no surprise considering one in eight porn videos contains sexual violence,\" she said.\n\nA new report by the internet safety body, Internet Matters, looking at children's use of technology during lockdown has found that although the internet had a positive impact on how children learn and socialise, parents also reported a rise in the amount of online harms children experienced.\n\nA survey of 2,000 parents in the UK in March this year suggests a 39% increase in the sharing of sexual images among children since January 2020.\n\nPsychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos, ambassador of Internet Matters, says \"as children have come to rely on technology more than ever during the pandemic, and therefore spending sometimes several hours a day online, it also gives them increased exposure to all of the risks that go with it.\"\n• None Online harms law to let regulator block apps in UK", "A nurse takes care of one of the nonuplets in an incubator at the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca\n\nNine babies born to a Malian woman will need to spend \"two to three months\" in incubators, a director of the clinic where they were born has said.\n\nProfessor Youssef Alaoui of the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, told the AFP news agency that the case was \"extremely rare\" and \"exceptional\".\n\nThe mother, Halima Cissé, 25, and her nonuplets - five girls and four boys - are said to be doing well.\n\nThe babies weighed between 500g and 1kg (1.1lb and 2.2lb) when they were born.\n\nMedical director Prof Alaoui said that Ms Cissé was 25 weeks pregnant when she was admitted and his team managed to extend her term to 30 weeks. Ten doctors and 25 paramedics assisted at the delivery.\n\nAs far as he was aware Ms Cissé had not used any fertility treatments, Prof Alaoui told the Associated Press.\n\nHe told BBC Arabic that she had been in a serious condition to begin with because of heavy bleeding, which was brought under control.\n\n\"The mother is now in a good condition she's not in danger any more. We wish her and the babies a speedy recovery,\" he said.\n\nDoctors in Mali conducted ultrasounds and initially believed that she was expecting seven babies. They sent her to Morocco where there are better medical facilities.\n\nAfter five weeks at the Moroccan clinic, she gave birth by Caesarean section on Tuesday, Fanta Siby, Mali's health minister said.\n\nThe minister congratulated the medical teams in Mali and Morocco for the \"happy outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Cissé's husband, Adjudant Kader Arby, is still in Mali with the couple's older daughter. He says he has been in touch with his wife in Morocco and is not worried about the family's future.\n\n\"God gave us these children. He is the one to decide what will happen to them. I'm not worried about that. When the almighty does something, he knows why,\" he told BBC Afrique.\n\nThe tiny babies were born at 30 weeks\n\nTwo sets of nonuplets have previously been recorded - one born to a woman in Australia in 1971 and another to a woman in Malaysia in 1999 - but none of the babies survived more than a few days.\n\nA woman who had eight babies in the US in 2009 holds the Guinness World Record for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive. Nadya Suleman's octuplets have grown up and are now 12 years old. She conceived them through in vitro fertilisation.\n• None Malian woman gives birth to nine babies", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nArsenal's Europa League hopes were dashed as Villarreal sealed a semi-final victory that will almost certainly end the Gunners' unbroken 25-season run of appearing in European competition.\n\nTrailing 2-1 from the first leg in Spain and knowing that victory in this tournament represented their only realistic route back into the Champions League, Mikel Arteta's side could not find a way past the visitors' stubborn defence.\n\nPierre-Emerick Aubameyang struck the post with a volley but it was a rare moment of threat in a display strangely passive for large parts.\n\nNicolas Pepe and Emile Smith Rowe both fired efforts wide early in the second half and Aubameyang hit the post again with a downward header later in the game, but such moments were few and far between.\n\nThat the defeat came at the hands of former boss Unai Emery will be especially galling for the Gunners. Emery was sacked in November 2019 after 18 months in charge, ultimately leading to the appointment of Arteta.\n\nWith Manchester United seeing off Roma in the other semi-final and Chelsea and Manchester City into the Champions League final, Arsenal's loss ruins hopes of a Premier League clean sweep of European competitions this season.\n\nVillarreal will face United in Gdansk's Stadion Miejski on 26 May.\n\nMore importantly for the Gunners, though, the result effectively ends their season and their European chances - a big blow to a club that, a little over two weeks ago, was one of 12 prepared to walk away from the Champions League in order to join the proposed European Super League.\n\nArsenal blow their chance to save the season\n\nArsenal have been a mainstay in European competition since the 1996-97 season, much of that time spent in the Champions League under Arsene Wenger, with the last four campaigns in the Europa League.\n\nBut that run is now over, serving warning that the Gunners are arguably at their lowest point in terms of on-field performance since George Graham was sacked in February 1995.\n\nThere were high hopes when Arteta's side beat Liverpool in August's Community Shield, after winning last season's FA Cup, but what has followed has been a model of inconsistency, every forward stride followed by two steps back.\n\nFor such a crucial game, they were too nervous and ponderous in the first half, failing to open up a Villarreal side comforted by their first-leg advantage and determined not to be unbalanced.\n\nYoung, talented players showed flashes and then faded, while senior individuals, so crucial to guide a side through such situations, failed to step up when needed with the requisite composure and leadership.\n\nAubameyang did his best but is clearly still hampered by fitness issues following a recent bout of malaria. His withdrawal late on, when a goal was needed to save the team's season, was a clear nod to this.\n\nSimilarly, Kieran Tierney was a late addition to the starting XI, with Granit Xhaka picking up an injury in the warm-up, but after a spell out he was clearly not at his dynamic, penetrative best down the left.\n\nArsenal's first home meeting with Villarreal - a Champions League semi-final 15 years ago - was the final European game at Highbury.\n\nWithout some serious summer surgery, Thursday's game against the Spanish side may well be the last continental encounter the Emirates sees for some time.\n\nEmery has the last laugh\n\nVillarreal's boss is the undoubted master of the Europa League.\n\nHe won the competition three times on the trot as Sevilla boss between 2014 and 2016 before leading the Gunners themselves to the final in 2019, where they were comprehensively beaten by Chelsea.\n\nThis is another triumph for the Spaniard and a sweet one at that, coming at the ground where he was never fully embraced by a crowd fed on a regular diet of success by Wenger and frustrated at the way the Frenchman's regime was allowed to slide from its early heights.\n\nAs in the first leg, in which Villarreal were somewhat unfortunate to concede, Emery won the tactical battle against his successor and compatriot Arteta.\n\nThey were disciplined, well-drilled, alive to where the danger might come from and willing to battle when they had to.\n\nThey had to face some adversity too, with arguably their most dangerous player, Samuel Chukwueze, departing injured in the first half.\n\nBut they adapted and continued to compete with a minimum of fuss.\n\nA sweet moment for Emery, but also for Villarreal, who were beaten by Arsenal in the Champions League semi-finals in 2006 and quarter-finals three years later, and now, finally, have their revenge.\n\nYellow Submarine sets sail for first European final - the stats\n• None Villarreal have reached the final of a major European competition for the very first time, having been eliminated from each of their previous four semi-finals - Uefa Cup/Europa League in 2003-04, 2010-11, 2015-16 and Champions League 2005-06.\n• None Having progressed from each of their first six semi-finals in major European competition, Arsenal have been eliminated from three of their four appearances at this stage in Europe since (2008-09 Champions League, 2017-18 & 2020-21 Europa League).\n• None Since the competition's rebranding in 2009-10, Unai Emery has reached the final of the Europa League on more occasions than any other manager (5 - 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2018-19 & 2020-21) - indeed, the Spaniard has won the competition on three of the previous four occasions he has reached the final.\n• None Arsenal have failed to reach the final of a major European/domestic cup competition for the first time since 2015-16 (reaching the 2016-17 FA Cup, 2017-18 League Cup, 2018-19 Europa League & 2019-20 FA Cup finals since).\n• None Villarreal remain unbeaten in 14 games in European competition (W12 D2), last suffering defeat in April 2019 (0-2 v Valencia in the Europa League quarter-final 2nd leg).\n• None Arsenal have failed to score in 10 home matches within a single season in all competitions for the first time in the club's history.\n• None This was Villarreal's first goalless draw in Europe in 21 matches, since a stalemate against Rangers in November 2018.\n• None Arsenal have failed to win in three consecutive home matches in Europe (D2 L1) for the first time since September 2003 (a run of six).\n• None Eddie Nketiah (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nicolas Pépé.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Héctor Bellerín tries a through ball, but Gabriel Martinelli is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Alexandre Lacazette. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why Kwabena's dream job might mean risking it all\n• None Fidel Castro's Cuba as told by the spies, revolutionaries and diplomats who shaped it", "Arthur was the biggest bear in Romania and probably the whole of the European Union\n\nEnvironmental campaigners suspect a Liechtenstein prince shot dead probably the biggest bear alive in the EU on a hunting expedition in Romania in March.\n\nThey say Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein had been granted a permit to shoot a female bear that had caused damage to some farms.\n\nBut it was not a female that was shot but Arthur, a 17-year-old brown bear.\n\nThe prince who lives in Austria has not yet responded, and the BBC's attempts to reach him have been unsuccessful.\n\n\"We don't have a personal problem with the prince,\" Gabriel Paun of Environmental group Agent Green told the BBC. \"We believe the hunting association was meeting his needs.\"\n\nThe office of the Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein told AFP news agency it did not know the background of this \"private and personal matter\". But it did stress that nature \"has been one of the fundamental concerns of the House and is a central element of the family's commitment to ecological and social sustainability\".\n\nRomania's national environmental guard has launched an investigation into the bear's death.\n\nThere is no verification that a hunting permit was granted to the prince. However, Agent Green has produced a leaked document that appears to be a permit from authorities to a hunting association in Covasna granting the prince several days in March, and detailing the death of a bear in the village of Ojdula in Transylvania.\n\nTrophy hunting was barred in Romania in 2016 as the brown bear is protected by an EU directive. But hunting is allowed for \"problematic\" bears that cause damage. Campaigners say a local farmer had complained of an issue with three females and their cubs some time ago, but that the March kill had not solved the issue.\n\n\"To get a derogation [permit] you have to prove you've done all diligence. Derogation is the exception and not the rule,\" said Mr Paun. \"Once you extract large bears out of the population you start to destabilise the population so he had a crucial role.\" Without bears such as Arthur there is a risk of in-breeding, he fears.\n\nEnvironment Minister Tanczos Barna confirmed that a permit had been issued to get rid of a nuisance bear but did not give details of who received it.\n\nThe head of Romania's National Environmental Guard protection agency, Octavian Berceanu, said an inquiry had been opened last week into why a male bear had been shot and that poaching was one of the suspicions of the case.\n\nAs females are far smaller than Arthur, activists believe the older alpha male was deliberately targeted for his trophy value of 592.8 points out of a possible maximum 600.\n\nAnn-Kathrin Freude of Austrian environmental group VGT told the BBC that as far as they were aware the shooting of Arthur had produced the highest score ever recorded. \"It is a really great trophy to get one of these iconic animals - it's like a good wine.\"\n\nThe bear was killed in March, months after a local farmer complained\n• None Murdered for trying to save Europe's oldest forests", "Vaccine status could be exploited by \"companies, insurers, employers or scammers\", privacy campaigners warned\n\nThe NHS is revising the booking system for Covid-19 jabs in England after complaints that it could reveal individuals' vaccination status.\n\nBy entering details such as their name, date of birth and postcode it may be possible to work out if another person has been given both doses, one or none.\n\nNHS Digital said the system had no direct access to medical records and allowed millions to quickly book jabs.\n\nThe flaw in the website was first revealed by the Guardian, which said it could allow employers to monitor their workers' vaccination status or put people at risk of peer pressure from anti-vaccination friends and colleagues not to get the jab.\n\nIt comes as the UK reported another 543,323vaccinations given in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people who have had both jabs to nearly 16.3 million, with 34.9m first doses given out.\n\nA further 13 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded, while there were 2,613 new confirmed cases.\n\nThe website allows people to book appointments without using their NHS number, by entering their name, date of birth and postcode.\n\nBut it gives different results depending on whether the individual has already had two doses, one or none, allowing another user to quickly determine other people's vaccination status.\n\nIn the case of someone who has had both doses it currently says: \"You do not need to book any coronavirus (COVID-19) appointments using this service.\" The Guardian earlier reported that it said \"you have had both of your appointments\".\n\nFor people who have had one dose, the site presents a screen referring to their booking for a second appointment.\n\nAnd for those who have not had any jabs, it goes to a standard screening page.\n\nSilkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, said it is \"a seriously shocking failure to protect patients' medical confidentiality at a time when it could not be more important\".\n\nShe said the data was \"exposed to absolutely anyone to pry into\" because date of birth and postcode information can easily be found or bought.\n\n\"This is personal health information that could easily be exploited by companies, insurers, employers or scammers,\" Ms Carlo said.\n\n\"Robust protections must be put in place immediately and an urgent investigation should be opened to establish how such basic privacy protections could be missing from one of the most sensitive health databases in the country.\"\n\nThe National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care, which advises healthcare organisations about handling personal data, said it had been contacted by some people with concerns about the way the NHS booking site works.\n\n\"It is important that it is as simple and easy as possible for people to book their vaccinations and we understand that the website has been developed to support this aim,\" a spokeswoman for the Office of the National Data Guardian said.\n\nBut the spokeswoman said the organisations responsible for the site had been contacted to raise its concerns and discuss \"the twin important aims of protecting confidentiality whilst maintaining easy access to vaccinations for the public\".\n\nNHS Digital said it was revising the messages used by the booking system to improve privacy, but suggested that conclusions about someone's vaccine status from entering other people's data would not always be accurate.\n\nThe online booking system enabled millions of people to book their vaccinations quickly and easily, it said.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"This is making a significant impact on the management and containment of the pandemic and is saving lives.\n\n\"The system does not provide access to anyone's medical records and people should not be fraudulently using the service - it should only be used by people booking their own vaccines or for someone who has knowingly provided their details for this purpose.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nChelsea will face Manchester City in the Champions League final in Istanbul after convincingly overcoming a fading Real Madrid at Stamford Bridge.\n\nOn a night of high tension, even behind closed doors, Chelsea fully deserved a victory that sets up an all-English final against Pep Guardiola's Premier League leaders on 29 May.\n\nThomas Tuchel's hosts were grateful to goalkeeper Edouard Mendy for two fine first-half saves from Karim Benzema but they were able to build on the 1-1 draw they achieved in Madrid when Timo Werner headed in from almost on the goal-line in the 28th minute after Kai Havertz had lofted a finish on to the bar.\n\nIt set the platform for a second half of total Chelsea domination that was nevertheless laced with anxiety as the hosts missed chance after chance to put the game to bed.\n\nReal's former Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois saved from N'golo Kante and Havertz, who also headed against the bar, while Mason Mount shot wildly over the top when clean through.\n\nIt was Mount, though, who finally sealed Chelsea's place in their first Champions League final since they won the competition in 2012.\n\nThe outstanding Kante, who was also instrumental in the opening goal, fed substitute Christian Pulisic and his cross was turned in by Mount with five minutes left.\n\nThe result adds another chapter to the remarkable transformation under Tuchel since he succeeded the sacked Frank Lampard in January - and gives him the chance to make amends for the 2020 Champions League final, when his Paris St-Germain side lost to Bayern Munich.\n• None Relive Chelsea v Real Madrid as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n\nChelsea take all the plaudits\n\nChelsea's win over two legs was almost as emphatic as Manchester City's dismissal of PSG in the other semi-final. The Champions League has two high-quality finalists.\n\nTuchel's side, totally rejuvenated under their impressive German manager, were starting to assume dominance as the first half drew to a close before totally over-running a Real side that suddenly started to look its age in the face of the energy of Havertz, Werner and Mount - as well as Pulisic when he came on - allied to the all-round brilliance of Kante in midfield.\n\nMendy played his part with those crucial interventions from Benzema, with Antonio Rudiger also a rock, but the home goalkeeper was virtually redundant after the break as Chelsea produced a terrific display of skill and intensity.\n\nThe only downside was their failure to take one of the many chances they created until late on, leaving the door open for a potential reprieve for Real that would have amounted to grand larceny given how they were being let off the hook.\n\nThe crucial opening strike by Werner, whose endeavour has not been matched by goals this season, will be a major plus for Chelsea, as will the display of the rapidly improving Havertz, a smooth, elegant operator who knitted midfield and attack together superbly and was a constant threat.\n\nChelsea will go into the final as underdogs given City's current form, but make no mistake they will fancy their chances and will pose a huge threat.\n\nThey have increased in stature as the season - and indeed this competition - has progressed and would not have been flattered had the scoreline on the night been even more convincing.\n\nChelsea were rock solid at the back, have a strong platform in midfield and were a real threat - albeit one that often went unfulfilled because of their own profligacy.\n\nTuchel will be burning to make up for last season's final loss with PSG and he has already proved he can come up with a plan to beat Manchester City after Chelsea's 1-0 win in the FA Cup semi-final, which has set up a Wembley meeting with Leicester City.\n\nCity will look back on a convincing win against Lampard's Chelsea at Stamford Bridge earlier this season that really kick-started their campaign into action.\n\nThe final has the makings of an outstanding game and it would take some courage to predict the outcome with any conviction.\n\nUefa have reiterated the final will take place in Istanbul, despite current lockdown measures in Turkey, after reports Wembley would be considered for an all-English final.\n\nReal coach Zinedine Zidane called on the great old warrior Sergio Ramos, fit again, and former Chelsea forward Eden Hazard in an attempt to navigate a route to another Champions League final.\n\nRamos provided organisation and a customary yellow card but this Real side looked well past its best and in need of a rebuild, Hazard game but clearly nowhere near full fitness.\n\nThey got past Liverpool over two legs in the quarter-final based on a fine win at home but this was a toothless performance with only the evergreen Benzema, now 33, a danger.\n\nRamos and Luka Modric, while still making key contributions, are both 35 and Real must now start looking even beyond those Bernabeu legends when plotting the future.\n\nReal looked tired, uninspired and well beaten at the final whistle. This looked like a team that needs breaking up and a new era ushered in, exposed by Chelsea's youth, zest and energy.\n\n'A huge performance' - what they said\n\nChelsea manager Thomas Tuchel, speaking to BT Sport: \"They deserve to win. First off, it's difficult because Real had a lot of possession and they made us suffer, but we were dangerous with counter-attacks and never lost the hunger, never lost their desire to defend.\n\n\"Second half was even better, the structure to defend and in the second half, we could've scored much earlier. It's a fantastic achievement and big congratulations to the team.\n\n\"Real Madrid are always dangerous, they can turn nothing into goals. So, to hang in there, even when you have chances and miss them, they never lost concentration, focus, and a positive energy on the pitch. This was a huge performance.\n\n\"I'm very happy we've achieved this. I'm very grateful to have the opportunity to live my life in football and this passion as a profession. So grateful to do it on this level and to get to another final, I'm very grateful for that.\"\n\nReal Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane to Movistar: \"They deserved the win. We fought and tried but they deserved to win and go through.\n\n\"The players who have played were fit to play. I'm proud of my boys: we tried, we have got this far - just one game from the final. Chelsea played a great match and have gone through and we have to say well done to them.\n\n\"We needed to be better going forward. We didn't have any clear chances, they made a number of them and that's football. Now we rest and think of La Liga.\n\n\"Of course we're not happy. When you lose a semi-final you can't be happy and that's normal. It's tough to take, but tomorrow we'll be back out on the training pitch ready to go again.\"\n• None Chelsea have reached their third Champions League final, also doing so in 2008 and 2012. Only Manchester United and Liverpool (four each) have reached more among English teams.\n• None Having also led PSG to the 2019-20 Champions League final, Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel is the first manager to reach the European Cup/Champions League final in consecutive seasons with different clubs.\n• None Real Madrid have faced Chelsea more often without winning (played five, drew two, lost three) than any other opponent in their entire history in all competitions, while Thomas Tuchel has faced Real Madrid more often without losing than any other manager in Champions League history (played six, won two, drew four).\n• None This season's Champions League final will be contested by two English teams for a third time, also occurring in 2008 (Chelsea v Manchester United) and 2019 (Liverpool v Tottenham). It's only the eighth time two teams from the same nation will be contesting the final, with Spanish teams also doing so a joint record three times - 2000 (Real Madrid vs Valencia) and 2014 & 2016 (Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid).\n• None Timo Werner scored his first Champions League goal in open play for Chelsea and his first since September 2019 for RB Leipzig against Benfica, ending a run of 17 appearances in the competition without one.\n• None At 22 years and 15 days, Mason Mount became the second-youngest Englishman to score in the semi-finals of the Champions League, after Wayne Rooney (21 years 182 days vs Milan). Mount is also the first Englishman to score at this stage for Chelsea since Frank Lampard in 2008.\n• None This was only the second time Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has lost a two-legged Champions League tie in 13 attempts, also losing in the Last 16 in 2019-20 against Manchester City.\n• None Chelsea goalkeeper Édouard Mendy has kept eight Champions League clean sheets this season, the most ever by a goalkeeper for an English club in a single season.\n• None Chelsea have kept 18 clean sheets in 24 matches under Thomas Tuchel in all competitions (75%), compared with 26 in 84 games under his predecessor Frank Lampard (31%).\n• None Offside, Real Madrid. Eder Militão tries a through ball, but Mariano is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Reece James (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kai Havertz.\n• None Federico Valverde (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Mason Mount (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 2, Real Madrid 0. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Christian Pulisic. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why Kwabena's dream job might mean risking it all\n• None Fidel Castro's Cuba as told by the spies, revolutionaries and diplomats who shaped it", "Mass vaccination of Sweden's general population is expected to start later this month Image caption: Mass vaccination of Sweden's general population is expected to start later this month\n\nMore than one in 10 Swedes have now tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic; in other words, one million out of the country’s small population of ten million.\n\nHowever, many epidemiologists believe the true figure is likely to be much higher, since testing rates were low during the first wave, and Sweden doesn’t have a national test-and-trace app.\n\nThe country has been struggling to contain its third wave of coronavirus infections, and currently has one of the highest rates of infection in the EU, with 675 cases per 100,000 residents.\n\nHowever, Sweden’s Public Health Agency says it is starting to detect a downward trend in cases.\n\nThe agency’s head, Johan Carlsson, told a news conference earlier that he expects case numbers to return to low levels in July and August, as long as vaccination rates continue and Swedes follow ongoing social distancing recommendations.\n\nSo far, only those over 60 or in risk groups have been vaccinated, with mass vaccination of the general population expected to start later this month.", "The UK's services sector rebounded in April with growth climbing to a seven-year high as lockdown restrictions were eased, according to an influential survey.\n\nThe sector, which accounts for 80% of the UK economy, had the fastest rise in output since October 2013.\n\nThe purchasing managers' index from IHS Markit/CIPS climbed to 61 for April, up from 56.3 in March.\n\nAny figure above 50 shows growth in the sector.\n\n\"April data illustrates that a surge of pent-up demand has started to flow through the UK economy, following the loosening of pandemic restrictions, which lifted private sector growth to its highest since October 2013,\" said Tim Moore, economics director at survey compiler IHS Markit.\n\nHe said the road map for reopening leisure, hospitality and other customer-facing activities \"resulted in a sharp increase in forward bookings and new project starts across the service sector\".\n\nHe added that if the rebound in order books continues along its recent trajectory during the rest of the second quarter, \"then service sector output growth looks very likely to surpass the survey-record high seen back in April 1997\".\n\n\"Service sector companies were creating jobs at a level last seen since in October 2015 and paying more in wages to get the best talent; a sign of ever-increasing confidence about the year ahead,\" said Duncan Brock, group director at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply.\n\nHe said the positive trend in recovery is likely to accelerate in the coming months, but warned that stretched supply chains remain a sticking point, along with inflation potentially biting chunks out of wages and business margins.\n\nThat threatens \"to put a brake on this fast track to economic normality\", he added.", "Online coverage of election night comes from the BBC newsroom in central London\n\nThe BBC, like other broadcasters, is not allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while polls are open on Thursday for elections in England.\n\nThe BBC is required by electoral law to adopt a code of practice, ensuring fairness between candidates, and that is particularly important on polling day.\n\nThe code of practice is contained in more detailed election guidelines which are written and published for each election, and they include guidance about polling day.\n\nOn polling day, the BBC does not report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 BST until polls close at 22:00 BST on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk, or on social media and other channels.\n\nHowever, online sites do not have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer. Any lists of candidates and the guide to parties' policies remain available online during polling day.\n\nCoverage of what is happening on the day is usually restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations, or the weather.\n\nIt tends to focus on giving information that will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.\n\nSubjects which have been at issue or part of the campaign - or other controversial matters relating to the election - must not be covered on polling day itself; it's important that the BBC's output cannot be seen to be directly influencing the ballot while the polls are open.\n\nThe BBC, however, is still able to report on other political events and stories which are not directly related to the elections.\n\nNo opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.\n\nWhile the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.\n\nFrom 22:00 BST normal reporting of the election resumes.", "The downward trend in birth rates in the US has been seen throughout the world\n\nThe American birth rate fell for the sixth consecutive year in 2020, with the lowest number of babies born since 1979, according to a new report.\n\nSome 3.6 million babies were born in the US in 2020 - marking a 4% decline from the year before, found the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.\n\nThe slump was seen across all recorded ethnicities and origins, according to the findings.\n\nThe national picture mirrors a decline in births seen worldwide, a trend some experts say has been accelerated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn the CDC report, demographers examined the country's general fertility rate, which compares the number of live births with the number of women considered to be of childbearing age - between 15 and 44 years old.\n\nIn 2020, the general fertility rate in the US was about 56 births per 1,000 women - the lowest rate on record and about half of what it was in the early 1960s.\n\nThe decline in birth rates was seen across all measured racial and ethnic groups. Births dropped by 4% among white, black and Latina women, 9% for Asian women, 3% for Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders and 7% for Native American and Alaska native women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How has giving birth changed during the pandemic?\n\nThe report also analysed the total US fertility rate, which estimates how many babies a hypothetical group of 1,000 women would have over their lifetime based on actual birth rates. For a generation to exactly replace itself, this number must be at or above 2.1.\n\nAccording to the CDC, this rate has generally been \"below replacement\" since 1971 and has consistently been below replacement since 2007. Today, the US total fertility rate sits at 1.6 - another record low.\n\nExperts say the country's tumbling birth rate is closely linked to the average age of American mothers. Women are becoming mothers later in life - a phenomenon tied to increases in educational attainment, growing labour force participation and delays in marriage, according to the Pew Research Center. The average age of mothers at first birth is 27, up from 23 in 2010, recent CDC data has found.\n\nThis changing picture of motherhood has been driven in part by declines in pregnancy among teenagers. The birth rates among teenagers aged 15-19 had the steepest decline of all age groups: down by 8% in 2020 to around 15 births per 1,000 females.\n\nThe National Center for Health Statistics has said it is too early to determine whether the pandemic had a significant effect on birth rates because this year's data is in keeping with past trends. But initial research suggests that Covid-19 may have compounded existing patterns.\n\nThe average age of mothers is rising - driven by the decline in teenage pregnancies\n\nIn a June 2020 study by the Guttmacher Institute, one in three US women said that because of Covid-19, they were likely to delay having children or have fewer children altogether. And researchers from the Brookings Institution - who predicted a \"large, lasting baby bust\" due to Covid-19 - have suggested that the anxiety and economic uncertainty wrought by the pandemic will further depress birth rates going forward.\n\nData from the CDC shows births falling most sharply toward the end of last year when babies conceived at the start of the pandemic would have been born.\n\nThe slowing US birth rate is echoed by worldwide trends.\n\nWhile wealthy countries like Germany and Japan have seen slowing birth rates for some time, the same is now happening in middle-income countries as well, including Thailand and Brazil. Globally, the fertility rate is expected to fall below replacement levels - 2.1 births per woman - by 2070, according to a 2019 report from the UN.\n\nBy the end of this century, the report found, the world's population is projected to virtually stop growing for the first time in history. And a widely cited study published in the Lancet last year suggested this population peak would come even earlier - in 2064.\n\nBetween 2020 and 2100, 90 countries are expected to lose population, including two-thirds of all countries and territories in Europe. According to the UN numbers, Africa is the only region in the world projected to have strong population growth for the rest of the 21st Century - mostly concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nSimilar to trends in the US, the UN has linked falling fertility rates and population growth to gradual delays in childbearing among women. Though the mean age of childbearing varies widely throughout the world, overall increases will continue to lower fertility rates and global population growth in turn.", "Reducing emissions of methane gas is vital for tackling climate change in the short-term, a major UN report says.\n\nMethane is produced when living things decompose; it's also in natural gas.\n\nIt persists for just a short time in the atmosphere - unlike carbon dioxide - but methane is a much more potent global warming gas than CO2.\n\nThe report says \"urgent steps\" are necessary in order to reduce methane if global warming is to be kept within a limit laid down in the Paris deal.\n\nThis agreement, signed by 200 countries, aims to keep the global temperature rise to within 1.5C above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century.\n\nThe 1.5C target is regarded as the gateway to \"dangerous\" warming, where the planet could experience serious adverse effects of climate change.\n\nThe report comes as data showed both CO2 and methane (CH4) in the atmosphere reached record highs last year.\n\nThis happened despite pandemic lockdowns, which massively reduced economic activity.\n\nThe good news is that the UN report says rapid and significant reductions in the greenhouse gas are possible using existing technologies and a very low cost.\n\nMethane is also a source for another gas - ozone - in the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere (known as the troposphere)\n\nIn addition to saving money, cutting methane would yield significant health benefits by reducing the amount of ground-level ozone - a pollutant that's harmful to the human body.\n\nThe recommendations come from an international team of scientists, who have produced the Global Methane Assessment for the UN Environment Programme (Unep).\n\nMethane is the major component of natural gas\n\nDrew Shindell, the study's lead author, and a professor of Earth science at Duke University in Durham, US, agrees CO2 is the number one target in the fight against climate change, but says cutting methane will have a more rapid impact.\n\n\"So many aspects of climate change are happening faster than expected\", he said. \"We see more fires, more of the strongest hurricanes, more heatwaves, and methane is the best lever we have to reduce the growth in those over the next 30 years.\"\n\nScientists regard a temperature rise of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels as a gateway to \"dangerous\" warming of the planet. The Paris agreement, signed by nearly 200 countries, aims to keep the increase to within the 1.5C target.\n\nThe new report says measures available now could reduce emissions from human activities by as much as 180 million tonnes a year by 2030 - 45% of the total per year.\n\nThe main sources of human-related methane are the fossil fuel industry, which accounts for 34% of total emissions, agriculture which contributes another 40% and the waste sector 20%.\n\nOne of the difficulties in tackling the methane problem has been knowing precisely where the gas is coming from. But this is changing thanks to an emerging satellite capability that can pinpoint sources. The Canadian company GHGSat has the highest-resolution instrument in orbit currently, able to detect plumes of CH4 down to about 25m across.\n\nIn the example above, the technology is tracking emissions from a giant landfill area serving the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. The area is outputting 16 tonnes of CH4 every hour, equivalent to nearly 400 tonnes/hr of CO2.\n\nOn an annualised basis, this is like the greenhouse gas output of 750,000 cars driving for a year. GHGSat's spacecraft are being followed by a fleet of other methane-detecting satellites this decade. Identifying super-emitters is about to get a lot easier.\n\nThe Unep report says the fossil fuel industry has the greatest potential for low-cost methane cuts.\n\nPlugging leaks in oil and gas wells and along production and transmission lines would significantly cut methane emissions at little to no cost, it concludes.\n\nMany of the reductions could quickly pay for themselves because reducing leaks means more gas available for sale.\n\nBut the report warns the continued expansion of the use of natural gas is not compatible with keeping warming to 1.5C without what it calls \"massive-scale deployment of unproven carbon removal technologies\".\n\nThe waste sector could cut its methane emissions by improving the disposal of sewage around the world.\n\nImproving the management of rice paddies has the potential to reduce emissions from agriculture but the report says the biggest generators of agricultural methane - livestock - are harder to abate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gases produced by livestock are a major factor in global warming, so should we change our eating habits?\n\nThere is little scope for technical solutions, it concludes, so the effort needs to be focused on reducing food waste and loss, improving livestock management and encouraging consumers to adopt what the report calls \"healthier diets\" - those with a lower meat and dairy content.\n\nIf a concerted effort managed to achieve that 45% cut in methane emissions, it would help avoid nearly 0.3C of global warming as early as the 2040s, the report claims.\n\nBecause of methane's contribution to the formation of ozone, up to a quarter of a million premature deaths could be avoided worldwide under the most aggressive emission abatement efforts.\n\nThis attempt to focus on the issue of methane is very welcome, said Myles Allen, professor of geosystem science at Oxford University, provided it does not distract from the need to reduce CO2 emissions to net zero as soon as possible.\n\nProf Euan Nisbet, from the greenhouse gas group at Royal Holloway, University of London, said: \"The actions it suggests, like cutting gas leaks and landfill emissions, are sensible, cost-effective and economically realistic. If fully implemented, these relatively inexpensive measures will help avoid nearly 0.3C of warming by mid-century.\"", "Poor pupils have fallen further behind in maths as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to research.\n\nThe Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) study suggests primary-school pupils eligible for free school meals have fallen another month behind their classmates since the first lockdown.\n\nAnd the gap is unlikely to narrow without intervention, despite all pupils returning to class in September.\n\nThe government has already made £1.7bn catch-up funding available in England.\n\nBut Sir Peter Lampl, who chairs the EEF, is calling for significant extra funding to mitigate against the long-term impact of school closures as failing to act now will be a \"catastrophe\" for disadvantaged children.\n\nPupils from 132 primary schools in England were tested in autumn 2019, September 2020 and then towards the end of the autumn term.\n\nContrary to previous estimates, the interim findings of this study indicated no discernible change to the disadvantage gap in reading.\n\nPrevious studies have suggested children in England are up to three months behind in their studies after lockdown, with boys and poor pupils worst hit.\n\nResearch by the National Foundation for Educational indicated the learning gap between rich and poor pupils had grown by almost 50% between March and July 2020.\n\nThe EEF report found considerable variation in how schools and teachers responded to the huge disruptions caused by Covid-19.\n\nFor example, 23% of teachers surveyed reported phoning pupils at least once a week, while 37% never called them.\n\nAnd 24% of schools in the study provided video lessons, while the remaining 76% did not.\n\nBut the research found no clear evidence of a link between different teaching methods and changes to the achievements of pupils.\n\nEEF chief executive Prof Becky Francis said: \"The pandemic has brought the significance of social and educational inequality into sharp focus.\n\n\"Research studies like this one are providing clear evidence that substantial existing gaps have grown further due to the disruption to learning caused by the pandemic.\"\n\nA department for education spokesperson said: \"We have invested £1.7 billion in ambitious catch-up activity, including high-quality tutoring and summer school provision. The majority of the funding is targeted towards those most in need, while giving schools the flexibility to use it 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 as quickly and comprehensively as possible.\"", "Boxes of mystery animals have been seen for sale on shopping sites such as Taobao\n\nA craze in which pets are sold in mystery parcels has caused outrage in China after a number of animals were found dead in a vehicle on Monday.\n\nThe \"blind box\" craze sees people order a box containing an animal that is then sent to them through the post.\n\nOn Monday, 160 distressed cats and dogs were located inside a courier company's truck in Chengdu.\n\nIt has prompted calls for action on the phenomenon as well as on the purchase of animals online in general.\n\nAccording to Chinese law the transportation of live animals is prohibited, but \"blind boxes\" are incredibly popular, state media reports.\n\nA range of the boxes containing animals such as tortoises, lizards and rats have been reported for sale on sites such as Taobao.\n\nOn Monday animal rescue group Chengdu Aizhijia Animal Rescue Centre said it had intercepted a vehicle carrying 160 dogs and cats, all under three months old. It said a number of them had died.\n\nThe group posted video footage of the boxes piled up to the ceiling of the truck on social media site Weibo.\n\n\"The cargo box is full of screams from cats and puppies,\" the group wrote.\n\nImages from the scene show boxes of animals inside the truck\n\nVolunteers stayed with the animals throughout the night, feeding them and giving them water, while they underwent health inspections.\n\nThe rescue centre announced on Thursday that it had managed to bring the animals back to their base for resettlement and a further 38 were receiving medical treatment.\n\nThe courier company involved, ZTO, said the person in charge of delivery safety in Sichuan province has been suspended and his annual performance bonus had been deducted. It confirmed that it had broken China's postal regulations and apologised to members of the public, People's Daily Online reported.\n\nZTO also said it had launched additional training regarding postal safety and national animal protection.\n\nThe animals were found in a delivery truck in Chengdu on Monday\n\nThe incident has caused outrage on social media with people calling for a boycott of such boxes and buying animals online. The phrase \"pet blind box\" has had millions of views on Weibo.\n\n\"Have we made any achievements in the rescue and management of stray animals? Now there is a pet blind box industry?\" one user wrote.\n\nAnother wrote: \"Let's talk about boycotting pet blind boxes again. What they need is a home, not an uncertain possibility\".\n\nState media Xinhua described pet \"blind boxes\" as a \"desecration of life\" and said courier companies and e-commerce platforms must \"strengthen self-examination and self-correction\".\n\nIt also called on buyers and sellers to have \"more goodwill and more respect for life\".", "Cases, deaths and hospital admissions have been mainly declining since the end of January\n\nScotland has seen its first seven-day period without any Covid deaths - following a positive test - for eight months, according to official figures.\n\nPublic Health Scotland (PHS) data shows there were no deaths between 29 April and 5 May - the longest period without deaths since early September.\n\nPHS counts Covid deaths that occur within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe figures relate to the actual date of death, rather than the date of registration.\n\nThe Scottish government reported a further 283 Covid-19 cases on Thursday, although the total includes the results of some tests delayed from earlier in the week.\n\nThe percentage of positive tests was 0.9% and there were 58 Covid patients being treated in Scottish hospitals. Eleven people are in intensive care.\n\nScotland saw a prolonged period over the summer with virtually no Covid deaths following a positive test for the virus.\n\nDeaths began to rise in September as the second wave took hold, eventually rising to a peak on 19 January, when there were 70 deaths.\n\nSince then, the number of deaths per day has mainly been declining.\n\nA total of 7,660 people have died in Scotland following a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nHowever, if you count all death certificates that mention Covid-19, the death toll is 10,097, according to the National Records of Scotland.\n\nThe number of Covid cases detected and Covid hospital admissions have also seen a steady decline over the last few months, although Moray is tackling an outbreak of infections which health officials have described as a \"rapidly deteriorating\" situation.\n\nThe rising number of cases could see the region remain under level three restrictions when the rest of the country moves to level two on 17 May.", "Millions of people could be using outdated routers that put them at risk of being hacked, Which? has warned.\n\nThe consumer watchdog examined 13 models provided to customers by internet-service companies such as EE, Sky and Virgin Media and found more than two-thirds had flaws.\n\nIt estimated about six million people could have a device not updated since 2018 or earlier.\n\nSo, in some cases, they would not have received crucial security updates.\n\nThe devices found to be lacking in updates included:\n\nSeveral routers from BT, including the Home Hub 3B, 4A and 5B, and Plusnet's Hub Zero 270N, passed all the security tests.\n\nThe government plans to ban default passwords being preset on devices, as part of upcoming legislation covering smart devices.\n\nIt is also planning to make manufacturers:\n\nWhich? computing editor Kate Bevan said that proposed legislation \"can't come soon enough\".\n\n\"Internet service providers should be much clearer about how many customers are using outdated routers and encourage people to update devices that pose security risks,\" she added.\n\nIn response, Virgin said nine out of 10 of its customers were using its latest modem and it did not \"recognise or accept the findings of the Which? research\".\n\nBT, which owns EE, also said \"the vast majority of its customers\" used its latest modem.\n\n\"We want to reassure customers that all our routers are constantly monitored for possible security threats and updated when needed,\" it said.\n\n\"These updates happen automatically so customers have nothing to worry about.\"\n\nTalkTalk said the routers looked at in the research represented a \"very small proportion\" of those in use - and customers could easily change their passwords at any time.\n\nAnd Vodafone said its HHG2500 router examined by Which? had not been supplied to customers beyond August 2019 but updates would continue \"as long as the device remains on an active customer subscription\".\n\nSky engaged with the research but did not provide a comment.\n\nPen Test Partners security consultant Ken Munro said the research mirrored his own.\n\n\"We have been trying to convince one of the ISPs in question to fix a critical security flaw that allows several million of their customer routers to be remotely hijacked and gain access to home networks,\" he said.\n\n\"We reported the issue over a year ago - but they have procrastinated multiple times.\"\n\nMr Munro also suggested ISPs could be \"reluctant to push updates to routers in case they fail in the process\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gymnast Latalia Bevan and rugby international Angharad de Smet say the pandemic left their careers in the balance\n\nIncreasing numbers of top female athletes will walk away from their sport due to difficulties during the pandemic, leading figures have warned.\n\nGymnast Latalia Bevan, 20, and rugby international Angharad de Smet, 24, say Covid has left their careers in the balance.\n\nSports sociologist Dr Ali Bowes said it had highlighted inequalities in sport.\n\n\"There are absolutely concerns women will walk away,\" she said.\n\nWales rugby international de Smet, who has worked on the front line during the pandemic, said she's been left wondering whether \"the love of the game is enough?\"\n\nThe 24-year-old from Ammanford, who was playing for Wales in the Autumn Internationals and as part of the sevens squad before Covid-19, was \"living the life of a professional athlete, without the pay cheque\".\n\nBut as Wales began its first lockdown, games and training were cancelled.\n\nAngharad de Smet has been working on the Covid front line while also maintaining her fitness\n\nOver the last year, she said she's trained with just one kettlebell, unable to access proper equipment or facilities. Her last game of rugby was 14 months ago.\n\nThe physiotherapist technician, who works on an elderly care ward in Swansea, said she has struggled to train after gruelling shifts in hospital.\n\n\"You've seen things you would hope to never see again in your lifetime, to come home and try and do a gym session... in your tiny kitchen... you think 'why am I bothering?'\"\n\nIn 2019, the 24-year-old had been travelling to Worcester to train a couple of times a week after work, arriving home in the early hours.\n\n\"Nobody understands how much we give, just the wear and tear on your car, the petrol, putting food on the table, trying to get good food into you to aid recovery is expensive.\"\n\nNow, she describes her future in the sport as \"uncertain\".\n\n\"Do I put my career first or do I pursue my dream of playing internationally, becoming a professional athlete? I am 24, should I have to make those sorts of calls already?\"\n\nCommonwealth Games silver medallist Latalia Bevan said the challenges of a global pandemic were a \"massive\" factor in her decision to retire from elite gymnastics earlier this year.\n\nLatalia Bevan has been working as a home carer since retiring\n\n\"It was so hard to keep your motivation, we'd do two or three Zooms a day, so my home turned into a gym and I'm from a family of seven.\"\n\nThe 20-year-old from Merthyr Tydfil, who won Wales' first gymnastics medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Games in Australia, had been training for 32 hours a week as well as studying at university in Cardiff.\n\nAs a student, she used her loan to help cover costs after losing GB funding and while recovering from an operation.\n\nBut after leaving her studies, she lost the financial support and struggled to adjust to a new life away from the gym after 14 years.\n\nShe's been working as a home carer since retiring and said it's nice not to have to rely on her family to pay for things.\n\nLatalia won silver at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia\n\nThe former gymnast said she'd thought about returning to the sport but, if she did, she'd have to quit her job and that isn't an option with rent to pay.\n\nShe's now focused on becoming a gymnastics coach and personal trainer.\n\nAlecs Donovan says the pandemic gave her the chance to sit back and prioritise seeing family and friends\n\nRugby player Alecs Donovan \"would never have thought\" that at the end of the third lockdown she'd retire.\n\nWith her yoga businesses closed, the 30-year-old said she was able to train \"more than ever\".\n\nThe business owner said the pandemic has given her the chance to sit back and prioritise seeing family and friends.\n\nAs a personal trainer who works with professional male athletes, she said it can be worse seeing their schedules and the support they get.\n\nShe added she was aware of women who don't go for promotions because their current job allows them to play the sport, but she wonders what will happen when rugby stops.\n\nDr Ali Bowes, senior lecturer in sociology of sport at Nottingham Trent University, said: \"It's one year on from lockdown and it's really obvious where the inequalities exist.\"\n\nHer research, looking at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on elite women's sport, found women struggled to access equipment, a gender \"play\" gap where men's sport returned faster and financial difficulties for women who were unable to play.\n\n\"There are absolutely concerns that women will walk away and we've seen that already with some examples in a number of sports where it's been too difficult for them to continue,\" she said.\n\nThe sociologist is optimistic that discussions about the problems in women's sport, and the difficulties athletes face can be used for positive change.\n\n\"There's also been significant forward steps, and it's put equality really on the agenda for lots of sports organisations, teams, clubs and national governing bodies. There's no hiding place now.\"\n• None 'We value men's work more than women's'", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shared a picture of their son Archie to mark his second birthday.\n\nThe sepia-toned picture, taken on Thursday, shows the toddler standing in a garden with his back to the camera, holding a large bunch of balloons.\n\nIt was shared on their Archewell website, along with a plea for donations to a fund for Covid vaccinations in poor nations.\n\nThe Queen and other members of the Royal Family sent birthday messages.\n\nA message from the Royal Family's official Twitter account said: \"Wishing Archie Mountbatten-Windsor a very happy 2nd birthday today.\"\n\nThe post was shared alongside a picture of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex with their son days after he was born.\n\nIn a statement on their Archewell foundation website, Prince Harry and Meghan - who are expecting their second child - said they were \"deeply touched\" by people who had donated to charities in honour of Archie's birthday in previous years.\n\nThey urged people to support GAVI, the global vaccine alliance, saying: \"We will not be able to truly recover until everyone, everywhere, has equal access to the vaccine.\n\n\"We cannot think of a more resonant way to honour our son's birthday. If we all show up, with compassion for those we both know and don't know, we can have a profound impact.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the duke and duchess also wrote an open letter to major Covid vaccine manufacturers such as Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, urging them to redouble support for the UN-sponsored Covax programme distributing doses in poorer parts of the world.\n\nAnd as momentum builds around a US-backed proposal to waive vaccine patents, Harry and Meghan called on the firms to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nArchie lives with his parents in California, following Prince Harry and Meghan's decision to step back as senior royals and move to the US.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Archie's uncle and aunt, along with his grandparents the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, also posted birthday messages from their Twitter accounts.\n\nAlongside their message, Charles and his wife shared a photo of the Prince of Wales with Harry and Archie at his christening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall\n\nArchie, the Sussexes' first child, was born on 6 May 2019 weighing 7lbs 3oz.\n\nHe is seventh in line to the throne and does not have a title.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Royal Family This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Royal Family\n\nFor Archie's first birthday, the Sussexes released a video of Meghan reading the popular children's book, Duck! Rabbit!, to her son.\n\nHe has rarely been seen in public but last December made a surprise appearance in the couple's first podcast for Spotify, during which he was heard speaking with an American accent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Sussex read the book Duck! Rabbit! to her son\n\nIt comes after Meghan revealed she was publishing a children's book about father-son relationships, inspired by the bond between Archie and the duke.\n\nIn February the couple announced they were expecting their second child.\n\nPrince Harry was last in the UK in April for the funeral of his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh. However, Meghan stayed in California on the advice of her doctor.\n\nThe Sussexes stepped back as senior royals and said they would work to become financially independent last March.", "Mayra Zulfiqar, a Belgian national living in London, studied at Middlesex University and went to school in Twickenham\n\nA London woman killed in Pakistan had warned police in Lahore her life was in danger less than two weeks before her murder, the BBC has learned.\n\nMayra Zulfiqar, 24, was found in a pool of blood in a flat on Monday.\n\nThirteen days earlier, she had asked police for protection after accusing a man of abducting her at gunpoint.\n\nThe law graduate had been threatened by two men who both wanted to marry her, according to legal documents seen by the BBC.\n\nPakistani police are conducting a murder inquiry and so far no formal arrests have been made.\n\nForensic investigations are continuing and it is understood a number of interrogations have been conducted.\n\nIn a police report filed on 20 April, Ms Zulfiqar named and accused a man of abducting her at gunpoint and attempting to sexually assault her a few days earlier.\n\nShe said she managed to run away by alerting bystanders, but the man threatened her, saying \"you won't be able to escape, I will kill you.\"\n\nResidents in the upmarket street where Ms Zulfiqar was renting the upper portion of a house, said police had previously visited the area looking for CCTV of a car involved in the alleged abduction.\n\nA neighbour, talking on condition of anonymity, told the BBC that loud arguments could often be heard from the property, and that on one occasion men brandishing knives had been seen threatening Ms Zulfiqar from the street.\n\nPolice would not respond to requests for comment on the report.\n\nOn Monday morning a maid working in the house called the emergency services after discovering Ms Zulfiqar's body.\n\nShe had been shot twice, and police believe she may have also been strangled.\n\nResidents described hearing shouts in the early hours of the morning.\n\nMs Zulfiqar had arrived in Pakistan with her parents about two months ago to attend a family wedding.\n\nBut when they returned to the UK, she decided to stay on in the country.\n\nMourners paid their respects to Ms Zulfiqar at a funeral service in Lahore\n\nMs Zulfiqar's funeral was held in Lahore on Tuesday, attended by her father, who had travelled back to the city.\n\nPrayers for the law graduate were also offered near the family home in West London.\n\nMs Zulfiqar was a Belgian national living in London, according to the UK Foreign Office, which has referred her family to Belgian consular services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alcohol killed more people in 2020 in England and Wales than in any of the previous 20 years, official data shows.\n\nThere were 7,423 deaths from alcohol misuse last year - a rise of 20% from 2019, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nDeaths increased from March 2020 onwards when the UK's coronavirus epidemic forced the first national lockdown.\n\nMost deaths were related to long-term drinking problems and dependency.\n\nThe ONS defines alcohol deaths as those directly caused by misuse of alcohol.\n\nLast year, around 80% of those deaths were from alcoholic liver disease, 10% from mental and behavioural disorders due to alcohol use and 6% from accidental poisoning by exposure to alcohol.\n\nIn England, men living in the most deprived areas were four times more likely to die from alcohol than men living in the wealthiest areas.\n\nThe alcohol death rate for men in 2020 was twice the rate for women - and this is no different from previous years.\n\nIn the last few months of 2020, when alcohol deaths were highest, death rates were 17.8 per 100,000 for men and 9.7 per 100,000 for women.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care in England said it was giving £3.2bn to local authorities to spend on services including drug and alcohol treatment. It also said the new Office for Health Promotion would lead national efforts to tackling the issue of harmful alcohol consumption.\n\nProf Sir Ian Gilmore, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance - a coalition of charities and campaign groups - said the increase in deaths linked to alcohol was \"devastating\".\n\n\"Each of these numbers represents a life of an individual cut short by alcohol consumption and a family that has been left in mourning.\"\n\nProf Gilmore said the government must urgently introduce an alcohol strategy which addresses health inequalities, improves access to treatment \"and stops the sale of cheap, strong alcohol that is so harmful to health\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikki, a recovering alcoholic, describes how she stopped drinking during the pandemic.\n\nOver the past year charities and health experts have warned that changing drinking habits, which saw more people drinking at home during lockdown, could lead to a sharp rise in people misusing alcohol and increased demand for services.\n\nEven before last year's coronavirus restrictions which forced the closure of pubs and restaurants for many months, the UK had some of the highest levels of alcohol-related harms in Europe.\n\nProf Julia Sinclair, chair of the addictions faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said the numbers were \"a wake-up call to the government\".\n\n\"Since the start of the pandemic, millions more people have been drinking at levels that are putting them at risk of addiction and serious physical conditions that could be life-threatening,\" she said.\n\n\"Addiction services must be given the resources they need to tackle this public health crisis.\"\n\nBut Dr Sadie Boniface, from the Institute of Alcohol Studies at King's College London, said the reasons behind the 2020 increase needed to be better understood, with most deaths occurring in people already drinking heavily.\n\n\"Liver disease often presents as an emergency, but people may have been frightened to go to A&E because of the virus,\" she said.\n\n\"Last year there was a reduction in emergency presentations and admissions across the board, and addiction treatment data also showed fewer new clients starting treatment last summer.\"\n\nUK guidelines advise people to drink a maximum of 14 units of alcohol (equivalent to six large glasses of wine or six pints of beer) a week, and to spread any drinking over three days or more.\n\nDrinking too much alcohol can damage the liver and increase the risk of a number of other health conditions, such as heart disease and stroke.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We are committed to supporting everyone's mental and physical wellbeing through the pandemic and we encourage anyone who is struggling to come forward for help.\"\n• None Check how much you are drinking - Alcohol Change UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "French fishing vessels are heading away from the St Helier Harbour after talks with officials over a fishing dispute.\n\nThis morning a fleet of about 60 French and Jersey boats gathered to protest over post-Brexit fishing rights.\n\nFrench fishermen say their rights in Jersey waters are being unfairly restricted by licenses issued by the island.\n\nJersey politicians spoke with French fishermen in St Helier Harbour to discuss their concerns.\n\nThe French fishing boats are now heading east away from the harbour.\n\nWe are finishing our live coverage, but you can keep up to date with the story here.", "The UK economy will enjoy its fastest growth in more than 70 years in 2021 as Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, according to the Bank of England.\n\nThe economy is expected to expand by 7.25% this year, with extra government spending helping to limit job losses.\n\nHowever, it follows a contraction of 9.9% in 2020, the biggest in 300 years.\n\nAndrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, said the recovery was \"strong\" but likened it to \"more of a bounce back\" than a boom.\n\nHe added that the surge in growth, while \"good news\", would only return the UK economy back to its 2019 size.\n\nMr Bailey told the BBC: \"We're going to see a continued strong recovery this year, but let's put that into perspective.\n\n\"That's two years passed with no growth in the economy.\"\n\nHis comments came as Bank policymakers held interest rates at a record low of 0.1%.\n\nThe Bank expects the recovery to gather pace as the reopening of high streets paves the way for a mini-spending boom.\n\nThe UK's rapid vaccine rollout is also expected to boost consumer confidence.\n\nGrowth of more than 7% this year would represent the strongest expansion since official records began in 1949.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced in the March Budget that the furlough scheme, which subsidises employees' wages, would be extended until the end of September.\n\nMr Bailey said the extension would limit the rise in unemployment \"significantly\" by providing a \"bridge of support that will last until the recovery is underway\".\n\nThe Bank now expects the unemployment rate to peak at 5.5% later this year. This is far below the 7.75% it predicted in February.\n\nMr Bailey added: \"Longer term unemployment is one of the most difficult things to deal with. And we think that will be substantially reduced.\"\n\nThe number of people on furlough is expected to fall to 2.75 million in the three months to June, from just under five million at the start of this year.\n\n\"Given the expected near‑term recovery in activity, unemployment is projected to increase only slightly,\" policymakers said in the Bank's latest Monetary Policy Report.\n\nThe Bank of England is trying to play down the idea that there is a post pandemic boom, but nonetheless these are very significant increases to the forecast for economic growth this year, and a substantial cut to predicted peak unemployment.\n\nMuch of this is \"rebound\" - the natural and obvious result of large swathes of the economy reopening. But the changes indicate the underpinning of a more sustained recovery too.\n\nThe peak in unemployment has been sharply downgraded, from close to 8% to 5.5%, thanks to the furlough scheme extension, a stronger recovery, and an assumption that the long-term damage from the pandemic will be smaller than previously expected.\n\nThat means about 700,000 expected job losses not materialising. If this does come to pass, it will far exceed even the most optimistic assumptions from the start of the pandemic crisis.\n\nThe Bank also assumes that vaccinated Britons feel safer, more confident and are now spending more of the savings arising from a year of lockdowns.\n\nThere are clear uncertainties, relating to virus variants. But the Bank is at least pointing to a summer recovery, with the economic damage from the pandemic repaired by the end of this year.\n\nHouseholds have squirrelled away more than £150bn in extra savings over the past year as more people have worked from home, particularly higher earners.\n\nThe Bank expects them to spend about 10% of this extra cash as the economy returns to normal.\n\nHowever, more than half of those surveyed by the Bank said they would keep the money in savings, suggesting that many households remain cautious about the economic outlook.\n\nPolicymakers stressed that the outlook \"remains uncertain\" and \"continues to depend on the evolution of the pandemic\".\n\nNon-essential shops, pubs and restaurants started reopening last month as part of a phased easing of restrictions across the UK.\n\nThe Bank's survey of businesses showed that \"footfall increased rapidly in the first few days of trading\", with hairdressers, pubs and restaurants all reporting a surge in bookings.\n\nAnecdotal evidence suggested that many people were also opting to take holidays in the UK instead of overseas, with demand \"much higher\" than pre-Covid levels.\n\nThe Bank also suggested that pay rises were likely to remain subdued this year.\n\nWhile fewer businesses are freezing pay, the Bank said most were awarding increases of between 1.5% and 2%.\n\nIt added: \"Where bonuses were being paid, these were generally lower than a year ago.\"\n\nRecent increases in commodity and factory gate prices, combined with record low interest rates, have raised fears of a bigger rise in the price of goods and services.\n\nInflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI), currently stands at 0.7%.\n\nHowever, this is expected to increase sharply towards the Bank's target of 2% in the next few months amid a rise in energy prices.\n\nThe Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that sets interest rates was split on Thursday over the size of its latest round of bond buying, as it announced it will slow the pace of purchases.\n\nOutgoing chief economist Andy Haldane voted for a reduction in the Bank's quantitative easing programme to guard against the risk of the economy overheating.\n\nHowever, the MPC stressed it would not raise interest rates until there was \"clear evidence\" that the recovery was sustainable.", "New Shepard is operated from desert land in West Texas\n\nAmazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is now ready to take people into space.\n\nThe US entrepreneur's Blue Origin company says it will launch a crew aboard its New Shepard rocket and capsule system on 20 July.\n\nThe astronauts are likely to include company personnel, but one seat is being auctioned online.\n\nNew Shepard's flights are sub-orbital. They're designed to take passengers on a straight up-and-down trip that briefly goes above 100km (62 miles).\n\nThis is the so-called Kármán Line, which has been designated by broad international agreement as the starting point of space.\n\n\"Only 569 people have ever been over the Kármán Line. With our New Shepard vehicle, we're about to change that and change it dramatically,\" said Ariane Cornell, Blue Origin's director of astronaut sales.\n\nShe declined to comment on whether Mr Bezos himself might be on the 20 July flight.\n\nJeff Bezos has big ambitions, with far bigger rockets under development\n\nBlue Origin's announcement is further evidence of a resurgence in space tourism after a gap of almost 12 years.\n\nMr Bezos's proposition is just one of several now open to the super wealthy. Rival businessman Elon Musk is expected to launch one of his SpaceX Dragonships in the autumn with an all-civilian crew aboard. It will go orbital; the capsule will stay up for several days.\n\nAt 18m in height and 4m wide, New Shepard is a fully reusable, vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) space vehicle.\n\nThe New Shepard capsule has six seats with large windows\n\nIt operates from desert land in Van Horn in West Texas.\n\nDuring a flight, the booster unit lifts the pressurised passenger vessel to about 76km in altitude, where the pair then separate.\n\nMomentum carries the capsule on upwards into space, before dropping back down to the ground under three parachutes. The booster also comes home in a controlled manner, making a propulsive landing on a concrete pad.\n\nBlue Origin is hoping the New Shepard experience will prove a big draw. Passengers will experience about three minutes of weightlessness at the top of the climb. They'll also get to see the blackness of space and Earth's curved horizon.\n\nThe whole system has gone through several years of rigorous testing\n\nFor the moment, the company is not discussing future pricing options - just the details of the public auction for one seat on that first mission in two months' time. Blue Origin says the cash raised from this particular sale will go to its foundation that promotes science and technology education.\n\nBut long-term, the company could expect to earn perhaps $200,000 (£143,780) per seat, maybe even more initially.\n\n\"This is a nascent market,\" said Ms Cornell. \"We're opening the doors and look forward to seeing what the market says.\n\n\"I personally think people are going to see what a cool experience this is and are going to want to do it themselves. And then, as hopefully the prices come down, the scale goes up.\"\n\nThe hope is that ticket prices will eventually fall\n\nThroughout the 2000s a number of high-value individuals paid to visit the International Space Station (ISS). But this tourism, organised under the patronage of the Russian space agency, ceased in 2009.\n\nNow, it seems, the sector is being rekindled. As well as the initiatives from Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson continues to push his Virgin Galactic rocket plane concept. There are also those who want to launch private space stations this decade. Among these is Axiom, a company started by a former Nasa ISS programme manager.\n\nBlue Origin's announcement was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the first spaceflight made by an American astronaut - Alan Shepard, in whose honour the new tourist vehicle is named.\n\nAlan Shepard conducted a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in his Project Mercury Freedom-7 capsule on 5 May, 1961.", "This Is America topped the US chart and won the Grammys for both record and song of the year\n\nChildish Gambino is being sued for copyright infringement over his Grammy Award-winning rap song This Is America.\n\nEmelike Nwosuocha, a rapper who performs as Kidd Wes, claims the song copied his track Made In America, which was released two years earlier.\n\nThe \"lyrical theme, content and structure\" of the two songs' choruses are \"glaringly similar\", he said in court documents filed in New York.\n\nChildish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, has yet to respond to the claims.\n\nIn 2019, This Is America made history by becoming the first rap track to win song of the year at the Grammy Awards.\n\nOne of the most-discussed and powerful songs of the year, it delivered a scathing message about racial inequality, police brutality and gun violence, which was amplified by its provocative music video.\n\nHowever, in court documents, Nwosuocha said there was a \"substantial similarity\" between Glover's track and his own.\n\nHe claimed the songs shared a \"distinct and unique vocal cadence, delivery, rhythm, timing [and] phrasing\", and noted how the choruses of Made In America and This Is America were written in the same metre.\n\nNwosuocha alleged that the similarity in lyrical content and delivery was \"striking to an extent beyond coincidence\" and \"audible to the average lay person\".\n\nThe rapper also employed a musicologist to compare the two tracks, who concluded that \"these similarities are likely not coincidences\", the court documents said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I choreographed This is America, and this is my story'\n\nNwosuocha is demanding a trial and is seeking damages including lost profits and opportunities. While no sum is mentioned, he claimed that Glover and his co-writers made \"hundreds of millions of dollars\" from This Is America.\n\nHis legal case also named Childish Gambino's record label, RCA, Roc Nation and Young Thug, who performed backing vocals on the track.\n\nHowever, it is not the first time that Glover has been accused of plagiarising This Is America.\n\nIn 2018, a hip-hop blogger named Akademiks noted a similarity between the song and American Pharaoh by New York rapper Jase Harley.\n\nHowever, Harley said he had no interest in pursuing legal action. \"I feel extremely humbled to be recognised and labelled as one of, or the original inspiration, for one of the most important pieces of music and visual art of our time,\" he posted on Instagram.\n\n\"I appreciate all the love and support! But please don't let this controversy dilute the message me and Childish Gambino are trying to convey.\"\n\nChildish Gambino's manager Fam Udeorji rejected the claims of plagiarism, saying his client's song actually dated back to 2015, \"and we have the Pro Tools [computer] files to prove it\".\n\nIf so, the song would also pre-date Nwosuocha's Made In America, which he first posted on SoundCloud in September 2016.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Childish Gambino's team for a response.\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. SN15 launched with improvements in its structures, avionics, software, and engines\n\nStep by step, the SpaceX company is progressing the development of its novel Starship rocket.\n\nThe latest prototype, Serial Number 15 (SN15), has just completed a successful high-altitude ascent and landing.\n\nThe four previous test artefacts all ran into trouble as they went through their touchdown manoeuvres, ultimately destroying themselves in the process.\n\nBut SN15 had no such difficulty, making a tidy, controlled return to the ground at SpaceX's R&D facility in Texas.\n\nA small fire licked around the base of the vehicle on touchdown but was soon extinguished.\n\nThere's considerable interest in the Starship concept now that the American space agency (Nasa) has chosen it to land astronauts on the Moon later this decade.\n\nThe Starship prototype approached the ground with the thrust of two Raptors\n\nFor SpaceX, lunar missions would be just one application of many for the new system.\n\nThe expectation is that Starships will replace the company's Falcon rockets.\n\nThese existing vehicles carry out regular missions - both crewed and uncrewed - for Nasa, as well as satellite deployments for the US military and other commercial operators.\n\nBut SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, believes the new 50m-tall Starship can do it all, bigger and better - and not just at Earth; he says the technology will get people to Mars.\n\nArtwork: A vehicle based on Starship has been selected to land Nasa astronauts on the Moon\n\nWednesday's test proceeded much like the previous prototype flights.\n\nThe uncrewed SN15 left its launch mount at the Boca Chica facility, and rose vertically on the thrust of three methane-burning Raptor engines.\n\nThese power units shut down in sequence as the target height of roughly 10km (6.2 miles) was approached, with the vehicle then leaning over into the horizontal for the drop to the ground.\n\nThis belly-flop descent, controlled by large flaps at either end of the vehicle, is intended to simulate how future, operational Starships will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere from orbit, presenting a large surface area to the direction of travel to scrub off speed.\n\nA small fire persisted for a while at the base of the vehicle\n\nThe vehicle is supposed to transition back to a tail-down configuration just before reaching the surface.\n\nSN8, SN9, SN10 and SN11 couldn't manage the process cleanly and were destroyed just before, at, or shortly after the moment of touchdown.\n\nSN15, in contrast, made a perfect flip back to the vertical and set itself down gently on its stubby legs.\n\nSpaceX has more prototypes in various stages of readiness. It is iterating the design, making upgrades as engineers learn how to build and fly the rockets.\n\nThis will feature perhaps 28 Raptors, producing more than 70 meganewtons (16 million lbs) of thrust - about double that of the mighty Apollo Saturn 5 rocket, which sent men to the Moon.", "The club said members were \"giddy with excitement\"\n\nSkiers in the Lake District have taken advantage of unseasonal snowfall to head to the slopes for the first time in months.\n\nCovid-19 restrictions forced the 85-year-old Lake District Ski Club to close during the winter.\n\nSnow which started on Tuesday was deep enough by Wednesday to allow the club's tow up Raise, near Helvellyn, to run.\n\nMembers were \"giddy\" at the unusual sight of snow-covered mountains in May, club president Mike Sweeney said.\n\n\"I haven't seen snow at this time of year before, but I was speaking to some other members who said there was snow in June in 1963, although that was a very unusual year for weather,\" he said.\n\n\"It was fabulous, people were just giddy with excitement.\"\n\nThe club operates a 360-metre button tow to give access to the mountain\n\nFormer president of the club and assistant hut warden Gerard Unthank, 80, said there had been \"quite a bit of snow this year\" which members were previously prevented from enjoying because of lockdown.\n\n\"Up here we rely on drifts and have snow fences because we don't get a great depth of snow, but some of the drifts today are as high as the fences,\" he said.\n\nThere are still Covid restrictions in place in the club's hut to ensure social distancing, he added.\n\nSnow on the top of Blencathra on Wednesday\n\nWalkers and climbers have also been enjoying the unusual conditions.\n\nAs well as bringing unexpected snow, the weather pattern has bathed some peaks in sunshine while others have been covered in mist or fog.\n\nAbout 40 people used the tow to get to the top of the slope on Wednesday, with more on Thursday\n\nBBC Weather presenter Simon King said falling snow was not common in May, but was also \"not out of the question\".\n\nCurrent conditions were being caused by a northerly wind which was dominating the weather pattern across the UK, he said.\n\nIn this set up, cold arctic air flows across the UK and there's been enough moisture to produce showers.\n\n\"As the air is cold enough, those showers have been wintry with snow falling to relatively low levels.\"\n\nSnow has been falling over winter but skiers had not been allowed on the slopes\n\nBethany Smith said a hike up Helvellyn on Wednesday was her first since the end of the third lockdown.\n\n\"We knew it was white on the tops and I'm always prepared for all weather conditions, but we didn't realise quite how deep the snow was until we got to Grisedale Tarn and noticed people descending from Fairfield Peak on their backsides,\" she said.\n\n\"At some points, the snow drifts were up to our knees.\"\n\nTaking a breather from her PhD to hike, Bethany Smith said she had not been expecting Helvellyn to be quite this snowy in May\n\nMs Smith said the route up to Dollywaggon Pike was \"a bit gnarly\".\n\n\"But it was such beautiful weather for hiking; it felt more like we were in the Alps,\" she said.\n\nA few yards away and the scenery changed dramatically for Bethany\n\nThe weather conditions have prompted those closer to ground level to record the effects of the combination of chill and damp.\n\nFrost has been unusually prevalent during April and May.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "As always, one of the biggest counts will be at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow - but it will be staggered over two days\n\nScots have cast their ballots in the Holyrood election, but don't need to stay up all night as Covid-19 restrictions have put paid to the usual overnight count. With votes to be tallied across Friday and Saturday, when will you know the result in your local area - and when will the overall winners be declared?\n\nCounting will kick off from 09:00 on Friday morning, with the Electoral Management Board projecting 48 of the 73 constituencies to be tallied that day.\n\nThe full lists can be found here, or you can look up your local results here:\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\nFriday's constituencies include both the most marginal and safest seats from 2016, and eight of the SNP's top 10 target seats.\n\nThese include the Labour defences of Dumbarton, Edinburgh Southern and East Lothian, none of which have a majority exceeding 3%, and the Conservative seats in Ayr, Edinburgh Central, Dumfriesshire and Eastwood.\n\nIf the SNP manage to pick off the lion's share of these seats, they will feel good about going into Saturday and winning a majority.\n\nAs always, one of the biggest counts will be at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow - but it will be staggered over two days\n\nThis will particularly be the case if they can gain ground without suffering defeats in any of their own more marginal seats - Angus North & Mearns, Moray and Perthshire North are those with single-digit majorities.\n\nThe reverse is also true of course - if the SNP struggle to gain many of these marginal seats or lose some of their own, the path to a majority narrows.\n\nBy the end of Friday, it should be fairly clear which way the wind is blowing - but there will still be plenty to play for on Saturday.\n\nIf all goes well on Friday, the remaining 25 constituencies will count on Saturday - with the most marginal contests being between the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nThe most marginal constituencies to count on Saturday are again SNP-Tory contests, with the SNP hoping to pick off Aberdeenshire West and Galloway&West Dumfries, both with majorities under 5%.\n\nIt is not yet clear how Covid-safe protocols will affect the speed of counting\n\nThere are a few chances for the Tories to fight back too, with the SNP defences of Perthshire South& Kinross-shire, Edinburgh Pentlands and Aberdeen South and North Kincardine all having single-digit majorities.\n\nOnce each region has declared all of its constituencies, we will also start to get results from the regional lists - which could be pivotal for the overall result, as well as questions over who claims second place and the fate of smaller parties.\n\nBefore we turn to the regional results, a quick note on how they are worked out.\n\nScotland is divided into eight electoral regions, with the 73 constituency seats scattered across them. Each region elects an extra seven MSPs from lists submitted by the parties - voted for via the peach ballot paper - giving a total of 129.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe idea of the list system is to make the outcome of the election more proportional.\n\nOnce the constituency results have been declared, you divide the number of list votes each party has won by the number of seats they have already won in that region, plus one. So if a party has won nine seats in an area already, their list vote tally is divided by 10 - making it 10 times harder for them to win a seat from the lists.\n\nThere has been particular focus on the list system in 2021 thanks to the emergence of some list-only parties which encourage tactical voting, leading to a debate over whether this is \"gaming the system\" or simply testing the limits of the rules.\n\nTimings for the counts remain very much up in the air, given we don't yet know how difficult it will prove to stack up ballots in line with Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nBut under current plans, with the exception of the big centres of Glasgow and Edinburgh, most of the count centres only have one constituency to finish off on the Saturday.\n\nThis means they could well finish up quickly - and indeed simultaneously, if there are similar numbers of ballots to count in each constituency.\n\nWhich regions will declare first?\n\nIt is hard to say, but the Highlands and Islands - normally one of the last regions to come back in an overnight count due to the vast and varied geography of the area - only has one seat to count on Saturday.\n\nSimilarly there will only be one seat left to count from the West Scotland region - so it is possible these two will be able to declare their full regional lists first.\n\nOther regions have at least a couple of constituencies still to polish off before they can run the equations and calculate list seats. Mid Scotland and Fife could be next in line with three seats to count, all at separate locations.\n\nHowever, this is largely guesswork, and a lot will depend on how the Covid-safe procedures play out at count centres. There will be four constituencies counting at the Emirates Area in Glasgow on Saturday, and three at Ingliston for the Lothian region.\n\nSouth Scotland also has four counts still to run on Saturday, as does North East Scotland - with two of the latter at P&J Live in Aberdeen, which may delay matters from a logistical standpoint.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows suspects of a wanted drug gang trying to escape police\n\nAt least 25 people including a police officer have been killed in a shootout in Rio de Janeiro, according to local media.\n\nThe shootout took place during a police operation in a favela in the Jacarezinho area of the city.\n\nPolice launched the operation after receiving reports that drug traffickers were recruiting children for their gang.\n\nTwo passengers on a metro train were hit by bullets but survived.\n\nPolice in the Brazilian city confirmed the death of one of their officers, Inspector Andre Leonardo de Mello Frias. A statement on Facebook said \"he honoured the profession he loved and will be missed\".\n\nPolice Chief Ronaldo Oliveira told Reuters news agency that Thursday's raid was \"the largest number of deaths in a police operation in Rio\".\n\nAccording to local news, the gang targeted in this raid engages in drug trafficking, mugging, murders and kidnappings.\n\nTelevision images showed suspects trying to escape across rooftops as police entered the favela.\n\nCivil Police showed off weapons and drugs seized during the raid\n\nMeanwhile, residents of Jacarezinho have shared accounts of what they witnessed on social media.\n\nOne resident posted a photo of his blood-covered floor and said two people had died in his house as police chased the criminals. The man, who did not want to give his name, said he would try to move out of the area as soon as possible.\n\n\"We're trying to sell the house as fast as possible, we can't continue to live here,\" he said.\n\nOther residents said officers had seized their phones, accusing them of warning gang members of the raid.\n\nSociology professor Ignacio Cano from the Laboratory for the Analysis of Violence at Rio State University dismissed the reasons the police gave for the raid: \"To say that drug traffickers recruit children and teenagers to deal drugs is almost laughable because everyone knows that these gangs have minors who work for them.\n\n\"To say that you're going to launch a massive raid because you've discovered that traffickers recruit children is a joke,\" he told O Dia newspaper.\n\nRio de Janeiro is one of Brazil's most violent states\n\nRio de Janeiro is one of Brazil's most violent states and vast areas are under the control of criminals, many of them linked to powerful drug-trafficking gangs.\n\nSecurity forces in Brazil have often been accused of excessive use of force against the civilian population during anti-crime operations in major cities.\n\nA court ruling last June restricted police action in poor neighbourhoods of Rio during the pandemic unless it was deemed essential.\n\nRio de Janeiro is the city with the biggest percentage of people living in shanty towns in Brazil - 22%. It's a population of 1,3 million, 70% of which are black.\n\nPolice operations targeting favelas controlled by drug traffickers are quite common in Rio. This, however, is the deadliest operation since 2016.\n\nSince a court ruling last June restricted police action in poor neighbourhoods in Rio, the number of deaths in shootouts in favelas has fallen.\n\nIn the first month alone, deaths plummeted 70% when compared to the average recorded since 2007, according to the research group Grupo de Estudos dos Novos Ilegalismos, from Universidade Federal Fluminense.\n\nThe drop was not followed by a rise in crime. In fact, property crimes were down by 40% and homicides by 48%. Researchers argue this shows that police operations are not the best strategy to tackle crime.", "Madonna gave Nick Kamen a song that was left over from her third album True Blue\n\nMadonna has paid tribute to Nick Kamen, the model, actor and singer whose biggest hit was co-written by the star.\n\nKamen caught the eye in a 1985 Levi's jeans advert - baring his chest in a launderette - and the queen of pop invited him in on a track the following year. He died this week aged 59.\n\n\"Heartbreaking to know you are gone,\" the superstar posted online.\n\nThe pair had a top five hit with Each Time You Break My Heart, which featured Madonna on backing vocals.\n\n\"You were always such a kind, sweet human and you suffered too much,\" she added.\n\n\"Hope you are happier wherever you are Nick Kamen.\"\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\nKamen - real name Ivor Neville Kamen - rose to fame in the Levi's commercial, which showed him stripping down to his boxer shorts in a launderette as several women looked on.\n\nThe advert, soundtracked by Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through The Grapevine, helped to boost the company's denim sales and made him a sex symbol in the process.\n\nIt also caught the attention of Madonna, who told the BBC at the time she had been taken by Kamen's \"charisma\" and \"beautiful voice\".\n\nShe then contacted Kamen and asked him to record Each Time You Break My Heart - a synth-pop track left over from her third album True Blue.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Thursday, fashion designer Wayne Hemingway said the memorable Levi's advert was a game-changing cultural moment.\n\n\"This was an advert that came totally out of club culture, and back then club culture was totally underground,\" he said. \"We didn't have the internet we didn't have social media so things stayed underground and this brought a movement on to mainstream telly.\"\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\nHemingway added that Kamen was, at the time, \"one of the glamorous young men\" on the London club circuit.\n\n\"They picked the right person, the right music,\" he continued.\n\n\"They dressed everybody [in] what today we call vintage styling - it starts off with a vintage car and an old laundrette, and with the 50s-style haircuts.\n\n\"They got everything right, and on top of that they broke the rules because back then the idea of women ogling men in an advert rather than the horrible other way around - we've now moved on as a society, not fully.\n\n\"This broke all of the norms and it just stands the test of time, everything about it.\"\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 amandadecadenet 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\nKamen's former girlfriend Amanda de Cadenet also posted a tribute, along with \"one of the sweetest\" photos she took of him with her daughter Atlanta.\n\n\"Any notoriety you gained, was something you never embraced,\" she wrote. \"It almost embarrassed you. My experience of you, and our time together was that you spent much of your days making art, cooking, travelling, and chanting.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "James Gibbons had just celebrated his two-year-old twin daughters' birthday\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of a father of four who was stabbed to death in the street where he lived.\n\nJames Gibbons, 34, was attacked at Iris Mews, Laindon, Basildon in Essex, at about 21:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nPolice believe the self-employed plumber had gone to the aid of another man and died during an argument that followed.\n\nThe teenager will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nEssex Police said it had arrested six teenagers as part of the investigation.\n\nA 13-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of murder and a 14-year-old boy held in connection with Mr Gibbons' death have been released on bail.\n\nAnother 13-year-old boy has been released on bail in connection with an assault, while two girls, aged 15 and 16, arrested on suspicion of murder will not face charges, officers said.\n\nFlowers have been left near where James Gibbons was attacked\n\nEarlier on Sunday Mr Gibbons had celebrated his two-year-old twin daughters' birthday at home, his family said.\n\nIn a statement released through Essex Police, they said: \"We are absolutely broken beyond belief at this pointless loss which has had a devastating effect on us all.\n\n\"James was the kind of person who would always be prepared to help anyone less fortunate than himself, which is what he was doing on Sunday night.\"\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.", "Whether you want to watch, listen, or follow online, the BBC has you covered for all your election needs.\n\nResults for Thursday's elections in England, Scotland and Wales began coming in on Friday morning.\n\nThe BBC News website will have all the results as they are announced, with live results, and live pages with the latest reaction and analysis from our correspondents.\n\nThe BBC's Election 2021 results programme will begin later than usual, as the pandemic will delay vote-counting.\n\nThe programme will kick off at 09:00 BST on Friday and run until 22:00 BST on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer. It will also be available on BBC Two in the morning and BBC One from 14:30-18:00.\n\nHuw Edwards and Kirsty Wark will lead the show, co-hosted from London and Edinburgh, bringing the latest results, analysis and in-depth reporting from the BBC's election teams.\n\nThey will be joined by political editor Laura Kuenssberg, polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice as well as Reeta Chakrabarti and Lewis Goodall, and correspondents will be on the ground at closely fought council, mayoral and police commissioner contests.\n\nAs results are expected to continue coming in over the weekend, the special programme will continue on Saturday from 13:15 to 22:00. It will be broadcast on the BBC News Channel throughout the day, and on BBC One until 18:00.\n\nBBC local radio stations will carry results and analysis throughout the day on Friday and into the weekend, with special programmes across the network. You can find your local station's schedule here.\n\nOn BBC Radio 4, the latest results and forecasts will be broadcast on Friday on The World at One at 13.00 and PM at 17.00, presented by Evan Davis.\n\nOn Saturday from 07.00, the Today programme will have news and analysis, and Jonny Dymond will present PM later in the day at 17.00.\n\nAnd, as the inevitable fallout continues into the following week, the Today programme will be co-presented from Glasgow with Scotland editor Sarah Smith on the Monday, from 06.00.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live will have full coverage of the results across Friday and into the weekend. Reporters will be based at the key counts, political experts will explain the significance of the results and listeners will be sharing their reactions throughout.\n\nIn Wales, TV coverage will begin on BBC One Wales from 13:30 on Friday, with a special programme led by Nick Servini and Wales political editor Felicity Evans. S4C's coverage begins at 13:15 and is presented by Bethan Rhys Roberts.\n\nViewers in Wales who want to watch the BBC's election special with Huw Edwards and Kirsty Wark can see it online, on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer.\n\nBBC Radio Wales will have an extended election special with Gareth Lewis on Friday between 16:00-19:00, while on Radio Cymru Dewi Llwyd and Kate Crockett will present Etholiad 2021 from 13:30.\n\nAnd the Walescast podcast will provide a lighter look at issues and developments across the campaign.\n\nAll the latest results, news and up-to-the-minute analysis from our election teams in Wales will be on Twitter in English @walespolitics and in Welsh @BBCCymruFyw.\n\nIn Scotland, coverage begins on BBC One Scotland from midday on Friday.\n\nSpecial coverage will run on English-language and Gaelic programmes and platforms across Friday, Saturday, and into the Sunday if there are still results outstanding.\n\nBBC Naidheachdan will bring the Gaelic audience the latest news with a series of An La specials, and extended reports on radio, TV and online.\n\nViewers in Scotland who want to watch the BBC's election special with Huw Edwards and Kirsty Wark can see it online, on the BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer.\n\nFollow the latest results in Scotland on Twitter @bbcscotlandnews", "Accountancy giant KPMG has told its 16,000 staff they can leave early one day a week as part of a move towards more flexible working after lockdown.\n\nIt said staff will work at KPMG offices four days each fortnight, with the rest of the time at home or client sites.\n\nStaff will also get an extra two-and-a-half-hours off per week in the summer to \"promote wellbeing\" if they complete their normal 35 hours of work.\n\nKPMG's move is another example of big firms overhauling home-office life.\n\nJon Holt, chief executive at KPMG UK, said: \"We trust our people. Our new way of working will empower them and enable them to design their own working week. The pandemic has proven it's not about where you work, but how you work.\n\n\"We have listened to our people and designed this strategy around our staff and how they can best support our clients.\"\n\nKPMG UK head Bill Michael resigned in February after reports that he told staff to \"stop moaning\" about the impact of Covid-19 on their lives. He was replaced by Mr Holt.\n\nKPMG said the plan is being introduced in response to feedback from staff who have said that they would feel comfortable spending most of their time at home.\n\nIn a staff survey conducted in March, 87% of respondents said they liked not having to commute, 76% enjoyed the greater flexibility working from home offers, and 65% felt they now had a better work-life balance.\n\nEmployees who have to attend offices for work, meetings or training that need to be held in person, will not have to stay for the whole day.\n\nKPMG said it would spend £44m during 2021 on new home-working technology and introducing more collaborative spaces at offices.\n\nMr Holt added: \"Our offices will become a place people go to collaborate and learn. The consequence of the pandemic means we have a whole cohort of people who have never been in the office and never been coached face-to-face - we need to get those connections back.\n\n\"Our new strategy for the future of work will enable our people to reconnect and test our new ways of hybrid working. This is all about flexibility.\"\n\nSeveral big UK employers are introducing flexible working, including HSBC, British Airways and BP. In March, Nationwide building society said it would allow its 13,000 office staff to \"choose where they work\" - offices, homes or High Street branches.\n\nSome 36% of employees in Britain did at least some work from home last year as the coronavirus outbreak closed many workplaces, a jump from around 26% in 2019, the Office for National Statistics said in April.", "Tel Aviv's beaches have been busy again as coronavirus restrictions have eased\n\nPrices for international travel are set to rise this year due to pent-up demand and fewer aeroplanes in service, a travel boss has warned.\n\nBooking.com's chief executive Glenn Fogel told the BBC that holiday \"prices are already going up\".\n\nMany airlines have significantly reduced the number of flights they operate due to travel restrictions.\n\nHowever, Tui's UK boss Andrew Flintham said it would be \"a long time\" before holiday firms try to boost profits.\n\nMr Fogel said that despite huge demand, uncertainty makes it hard for airlines to plan bringing more planes back into service.\n\n\"There's so much pent-up demand,\" said Mr Fogel. \"Everybody wants to go travelling, but we all want to do it safely.\"\n\nJohn Grant, an aviation analyst with global travel data provider OAG said this will have a knock-on impact on air fares as travel restrictions are eased.\n\n\"That will, in the short term, create a rush of pent-up demand and revenge spending,\" he said.\n\n\"In turn, the airline algorithms will detect an uptick in demand and move prices up accordingly\".\n\nAirlines have reduced capacity by putting aeroplanes into storage, such as these in France\n\nThe government will shortly announce which foreign destinations holidaymakers from England can visit from 17 May without needing to quarantine on their return.\n\nAir fares to Portugal - which is expected to be on the green list - have already started to rise as airlines respond to higher demand.\n\nAccording to PA, British Airways is charging £530 for a flight from Heathrow to the Algarve on 17 May, compared with £276 two days earlier.\n\nA Ryanair flight from Stansted to Lisbon costs £262 on 19 May, PA found, more than double the price of £128 on 14 May.\n\nBut Tui's managing director for the UK and Ireland, Andrew Flintham, told BBC Breakfast travel firms were unlikely to push up prices anytime soon.\n\n\"Our prices are very, very stable. They're pretty much like for like, flat, year over year. There isn't a big increase in there.\n\n\"We've got plenty of holidays to sell. I think everybody in the industry has.\n\n\"It'll be a long time before the idea of trying to increase prices to make more money. We want to get people away on holiday, having a great time, because we think they genuinely all deserve it.\"\n\nA lack of clarity about how governments will go about recognising vaccine and testing statuses from other countries is troubling the travel industry, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Fogel believes a single system would be helpful: \"So many different people in so many different governments are talking about different programmes, but right now, there is nothing out there that is unified, so it's very confusing.\n\n\"I listened to the prime minister of Italy saying how they want to let people into Italy soon and you just have to prove that you have a vaccine and it'd be great.\n\n\"And my thinking is, well, I have my vaccine myself, but how do I prove it? Do I just bring my little white card that I got in the US that said I got it, is that going to be good enough? We need some clarifications.\"\n\nSeveral systems are being explored, including the International Air Transport Association (IATA)'s travel pass, which is being trialled by a number of airlines.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Union is working on having a digital pass ready in time for the summer holidays.\n\nThe idea of a scheme that allows passengers who have had the vaccine to travel has proved divisive.\n\nThe UK equality watchdog recently warned it could create a \"two-tier society, whereby only certain groups are able to fully enjoy their rights\".\n\nThat's a view supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) but Mr Fogel disagrees.\n\n\"It's true that if you're not vaccinated, you may not be able to enter a country under this type of a system,\" he said.\n\n\"But I'm okay with that. Because the alternative is what - nobody gets to go in? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.\"\n\nHe added that there are countries that people cannot go into if they don't have proof of vaccination against yellow fever, for example.\n\n\"There's nothing wrong with using technology to prove you are a safe traveller that can help get the industry up faster,\" said Mr Fogel.\n\nHow to verify the coronavirus vaccine and test status of travellers like this man at Milan's Malpensa Airport has become a divisive issue\n\nThe lack of clarity has hurt the finances of Booking.com's US owner Booking Holdings, which also owns Kayak and rentalcars.com.\n\nRevenues for the three months to the end of March fell to $1.1bn (£790m) - 50% lower than the same period a year ago.\n\nFigures from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) reflect a similar picture across the industry, showing tourism's value to the global economy fell from nearly $9.2tn in 2019 to $4.7tn in 2020.\n\nAs a share of the global economy that equates to a fall from 10.4% to just 5.5%.\n\nBut Mr Fogel, who is chief executive of both the Dutch-based Booking.com and its parent firm Booking Holdings, told investors that there is still reason to be optimistic things will improve.\n\n\"While the pace of vaccine distribution remains frustratingly slow in most places around the world, Israel, the UK and the US are benefiting from successful vaccine distribution programs,\" he said.\n\n\"In each of these countries, we have seen encouraging booking trends, which supports our view that vaccine distribution is key to unlocking pent-up travel demand.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Two Royal Navy ships are preparing to return home after a protest by French fishermen over post-Brexit rights in Jersey's territorial waters ended.\n\nThe UK government said \"the situation is resolved for now\" but \"we remain on standby\" to assist Jersey.\n\nFrench fishermen say their rights are unfairly restricted by licences issued under the Channel Island's new system.\n\nJersey's External Relations Minister Ian Gorst said discussions with the French crews had been \"positive\".\n\nThe UK said it had agreed with Jersey's government that one of the Royal Navy offshore patrol vessels will return to its home port on Thursday night while the other will leave on Friday morning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"pleased the situation in Jersey has been resolved.\"\n\n\"The UK will always stand resolutely by the people of Jersey,\" he said.\n\nAbout 60 boats took part in a protest at St Helier, Jersey's capital and main port, prompting the dispatch of two Royal Navy ships - HMS Severn and HMS Tamar - and two French vessels to the area.\n\nThe French government said it was acting \"in a spirit of responsibility\" after the \"British failure\" to abide by the trade deal.\n\nIt said it hoped the situation would be \"swiftly resolved by the full and total implementation\" of the deal, which France said allowed continued access to British waters for fishermen who worked in them prior to Brexit.\n\n\"We want to use all the leverage at our disposal to protect the fishing industry and enable it to continue its activities,\" a spokesman for France's ministry for Europe and foreign affairs said.\n\nBy Jean Mackenzie, BBC Europe correspondent, in Carteret port on the Normandy coast\n\nAs the boats pulled out of this harbour at 02:30 on Thursday morning, the fishermen were prepared for this 15-hour stand-off in the cold and rain.\n\nThis protest was their plan to get noticed and it worked.\n\nYes they are angry, but they are also shaken by these unexpected restrictions and worried about their livelihoods. Some fishermen have only been given permission to fish for a handful of days a year.\n\nOne fisherman, who catches half his whelks and lobsters along Jersey's shores, told me if he can't get full access to Jersey's waters he will have to sell his boat and change his job.\n\nWhen they returned to the French coast this evening, drenched and exhausted, they were surprisingly upbeat. Talks with Jersey's government did not go well, they said, but they know they have been heard.\n\nThey are now hopeful their government and Brussels will step in to resolve the issue.\n\nThey feel their part is done, for now.\n\nA spokesman for fishermen from France's Normandy region suggested the situation was still in \"deadlock\". Hugo Lehuby told Reuters news agency: \"Either this gets resolved, or retaliatory measures are taken.\"\n\nAnd a European Commission spokeswoman said \"additional conditions\" attached to the new fishing licences were a breach of the Brexit trade deal.\n\nFrance has threatened to cut off electricity to Jersey, the largest Channel Island and a Crown dependency, located 14 miles (22km) off France. Crown dependencies are not part of the UK, but are defended and represented internationally by the British government.\n\nThe boats were protesting against new fishing rules - introduced last week by the Jersey government under the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA) - which require French boats to show they have a history of fishing in Jersey's waters. But it has been claimed additional requirements were added without notice.\n\nFrench authorities say \"new technical measures\" had not been communicated to the EU, rendering them \"null and void\".\n\nJersey's Senator Gorst said after Thursday's talks \"all sides remain committed\" to resolving the concerns that led to the fisherman's protest.\n\nHMS Tamar is one of two Royal Navy ships sent to Jersey\n\nThe Royal Navy ships sent to Jersey, HMS Severn and HMS Tamar, are based in Portsmouth and are routinely used for fisheries protection - with sailors able to board other boats for spot checks.\n\nThey are both 90.5m in length, have two large guns, including a short-range anti-aircraft weapon, and are crewed by 45 sailors and up to 50 Royal Marines.\n\nFrance said its two vessels were not on military missions and were told to stay in French waters and to be near the French fishermen to ensure safety.", "Julia James's body was found near her home in Snowdown\n\nA £10,000 reward has been offered for information that leads to the conviction of a police community officer's killer.\n\nJulia James, 53, was found on 27 April near woodland in Snowdown, Kent, having suffered serious head injuries.\n\nCharity Crimestoppers appealed for people to come forward anonymously and help the killer \"face up to the consequences of their violent actions\".\n\nMeanwhile, police have broadened the search area away from the crime scene.\n\nMick Duthie, of Crimestoppers, said that anonymous information, no matter how small, could help police find those responsible and \"may even prevent someone else from coming to harm\".\n\nHe said the charity was \"not interested\" in the identity of those giving information, but was there to \"help people who, for whatever reason, won't or can't speak directly to the police, but want to do the right thing\".\n\nPolice would like to speak to anybody who was in the area pictured on 27 April\n\nThe body of Ms James, who had left home to walk her dog, was found in Akholt Wood, a few hundred yards from her house.\n\nOfficers continue to appeal to anyone in the area on the afternoon of 27 April to come forward.\n\nAssistant chief constable Tom Richards said: \"We are keeping an open mind and not ruling anything out.\"\n\nPolice would not say where the additional searches were being conducted.\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.", "Twitter will now prompt users to review and revise \"potentially harmful or offensive\" replies.\n\nThe social media platform, which has often faced criticism over abusive user behaviour, tested the feature last year.\n\nTwitter said the tests showed that the prompts reduced offensive replies.\n\nOn Wednesday, the company said it would roll the prompts out to English language accounts using Twitter on Apple and Android.\n\nIn a blog post, Twitter said they had found that prompts led 34% of people to revise their initial reply or to decide against sending their reply at all.\n\nUsers composed, on average, 11% fewer offensive replies after being prompted for the first time, Twitter said.\n\nThey were also less likely to receive offensive and harmful replies back.\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\nIt seems, however, that you can still swear at your friends.\n\nTwitter said the prompts are designed to consider the nature of the relationship between the accounts that tweets and the account that replies.\n\n\"If two accounts follow and reply to each other often, there's a higher likelihood that they have a better understanding of preferred tone of communication,\" the blog post said.\n\nTech platforms have grappled in recent years with how to police offensive content, abuse and harassment on their platforms.\n\nTwitter's most recent statistics, for January to June last year, show that the platform removed potentially offensive content posted by 1.9 million accounts, and suspended 925,700 accounts for violating Twitter rules.\n\nThe debate over content moderation has recently become more intense, because of decisions taken by social media giants against public officials, particularly former US President Donald Trump.\n\nMr Trump was banned from a number of platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, following the Capitol Hill riots on 6 January.\n\nFacebook's oversight board upheld the decision on Wednesday, but criticised the platform for an making the suspension indefinite and gave it six months to determine a proportionate response.\n\nAlthough many believe platforms should be more aggressive in policing online abuse and false information, many see Mr Trump's ban as an act of political censorship.", "A coronavirus variant first identified in India is being investigated by scientists across the world\n\nThe Prime Minister has said the government needs to carefully handle outbreaks of the India variant of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nIt comes as Public Health England (PHE) said one version of it had been elevated to a \"variant of concern\".\n\nB.1.617.2 appears to be spreading more quickly than two other identified subtypes of the Indian variant.\n\nScientists believe it is at least as transmissible as the variant first detected in Kent last year.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government needs to think \"very carefully\" about the public health response.\n\n\"We're doing a huge amount, obviously, to make sure that when we do find outbreaks of the Indian variant that we do surge testing, that we do door-to-door testing,\" he said.\n\nPHE said there was currently \"insufficient evidence\" to indicate that any of the variants recently detected in India cause more severe disease or make current vaccines any less effective.\n\nScientists are now carrying out laboratory testing to better understand the impact of the mutations on the behaviour of the virus.\n\nViruses mutate all the time, producing different versions of themselves. Most of these mutations are insignificant - and some may even make the virus less dangerous - but others can make it more contagious and harder to vaccinate against.\n\nThe original India variant - officially known as B.1.617 - was first detected in October.\n\nThat version has now been re-characterised as three different subtypes, all with slightly different genetic mutations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nThe UK has seen a sharp increase in one type in particular, known as B.1.617.2, which now makes up the majority of all Indian variant cases and appears to be growing faster than other versions.\n\nCases have increased from 202 to 520 in the last week, with most detected in London and the North West of England.\n\nAlmost half were related to travel or contact with a traveller but there have been examples of community transmission linked to work and religious gatherings.\n\nIn one cluster at a care home, 14 elderly residents who had all been vaccinated, were infected with the variant, a source told the BBC. A number needed hospital treatment, but not for severe disease, and it is thought all have now recovered.\n\nAll current vaccines are thought to offer some degree of protection against variants but can never completely stop all infections, especially among vulnerable or elderly people.\n\nIt is tempting to conclude that because there is now evidence this variant is more infectious and because cases have risen rapidly in the UK, this marks the start of the rise of this Indian variant.\n\nBut there are some good reasons why we should not jump to that conclusion.\n\nThe rapid rise in cases is being linked to an increase in international travel from India ahead of the country being put on the \"red list\".\n\nThere are some early signs in the data, Public Health England sources say, that the increase may be coming to an end, meaning that it may reflect that rise in travel rather than significant community spread.\n\nTwo key factors are in our favour - the vaccines appear to work just as well against this variant as the dominant virus circulating in the UK (although uptake in the Indian community is a little lower) plus there are still significant social distancing restrictions in place that should help to limit spread.\n\nLots of testing and contact tracing in different areas are taking place - and some surge testing is expected to be announced later in areas where there is most concern.\n\nIt will be a couple of weeks before we know for sure. The message is clear - this needs to be taken seriously, but there is no need to panic.\n\nPHE said extra surge testing was now being put in place in affected areas along with more targeted contact tracing to try and stop the spread of the variant.\n\nAll individuals living in specific postcodes will be asked to get a PCR test, even if they don't have symptoms.\n\nEnhanced testing is already being rolled out in parts of Bolton which has seen an increase in cases of B.1.617.2 in the last week.\n\nAnyone living, working or studying in the Rumworth, Deane or Great Lever areas is strongly urged to visit a mobile testing unit, whether they have symptoms or not.\n\n\"The way to limit the spread of all variants is the same and although we are all enjoying slightly more freedom, the virus is still with us,\" said Dr Susan Hopkins, Covid-19 strategic response director at PHE.\n\n\"We are monitoring all of these variants extremely closely and have taken the decision to classify this as a variant of concern because the indications are that it is more transmissible.\"\n\nLaboratory work is needed to sequence individual Covid tests and identify specific variants, meaning the latest figures are likely to represent the situation about a week ago.\n\nFigures from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, which analyses positive swabs for different variants, also showed clusters of B.1.617.2 in places including Leicester, Bolton, Nottingham and Blackburn in the week to 24 April.\n\nIt comes as seven confirmed cases of the same variant have been detected in Northern Ireland - the first discovered in the region.\n\nIndia has said the B.1.617 variant may be linked to a deadly second coronavirus wave that has swept the country in recent weeks.\n\nThe country reported a record 412,000 cases in the space of 24 hours on Wednesday, and 3,980 deaths.\n\nThe surge in infections has already overwhelmed the healthcare system with hospital beds, oxygen and even crematorium space in short supply, while several states are under localised lockdowns and curfews.", "NHS Grampian is urging people in Moray to get tested, even if they do not have symptoms\n\nMoray is experiencing \"uncontrolled, sustained community transmission\" of Covid-19, public health officials have warned.\n\nChris Littlejohn, deputy director of public health at NHS Grampian, said the situation was \"rapidly deteriorating\".\n\nThe region currently has an infection rate of more than 81 cases per 100,000 - four times the Scotland-wide level.\n\nMr Littlejohn said there would be deaths if the outbreak could not be controlled.\n\nCovid hospital admissions in NHS Grampian have been mainly rising since mid-April.\n\n\"We are urging everyone to protect Moray and get tested, even if they have no symptoms,\" Mr Littlejohn said.\n\n\"We hope that by intervening further now we can avoid the possibility of further restrictions or a continuation of level three in Moray - but we need to act now and we need the people of Moray to act with us.\"\n\nMr Littlejohn said the current Covid restrictions in Moray were not working to contain the number of cases.\n\n\"We are seeing hospitalisations from this - including in the under 50s - and we will see deaths, if the situation is not brought under control,\" he said.\n\nAll of Scotland is due to move to level two on 17 May, but Moray could remain in level three if cases do not begin to go down.\n\nThe situation in Moray is a test of Scotland's much enhanced Test and Protect system. Mobile units and surge testing have been used in other areas but here they are dealing with a series of unrelated clusters and community transmission.\n\nActively encouraging people to come forward will root out cases in asymptomatic people that may previously have gone undetected. It does mean the numbers in Moray are likely to remain higher for a while longer.\n\nThe key will be how much pressure does it put on hospitals? The vaccine has proven to be effective but there are still many people to get either a first or second dose. Officials will be watching carefully.\n\nOn Wednesday there were 17 Covid patients in NHS Grampian hospitals - higher than any other health board - though this figure dropped to 11 on Thursday.\n\nHealth officials have pinpointed Elgin as the \"epicentre\" of the outbreak, but rising levels are also being seen in Lossiemouth, Buckie and Keith.\n\nMobile testing units are being sent to the area and door-to-door testing is being considered in Elgin.\n\nMr Littlejohn added: \"Since 10 April we have seen 210 cases in Moray. More than half of those have come in the last eight days alone. This is a rapidly accelerating situation.\n\n\"Test positivity in Moray is at 3.2% - across Scotland that figure is close to just 1% - and the R-rate in Moray is at 1.8, so every person in Moray that becomes infected is, on average, passing it on to two other people.\"\n\n\"Analytics have shown us many people in the region have returned to their workplaces, rather than working from home. It remains the advice people should work from home where possible and we really need people to do that, where they can.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, NHS Grampian announced that 48 Covid cases were being linked to Elgin Academy, but parents were assured that it was still safe to send their children there.\n\nJillian Evans, the head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said the health board was expecting cases to rise still further in the coming days.\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the cases were not the result of just \"one or two people\" not following the guidelines.\n\n\"This is something much more widespread in the community which is why we need such targeted action and people to really to take up their guard, to try to do their best particularly as we start to think about easing restrictions further,\" she said.\n\n\"When you see a big drop in infection rates it's usually the result of a lockdown situation. We're not talking about doing that, of course not, but we are thinking very carefully about what this means for easing restrictions further.\n\n\"It would seem wrong to consider moving down a level while you've got infection rates that continue to rise.\"\n\nDr Evans also confirmed that a number of the recent NHS Grampian hospital admissions were Moray residents and that the increase in admissions was \"more than we would expect\".\n\nThe Moray Chamber of Commerce said the rise in Covid cases was \"worrying\" as businesses in the area were looking forward to a further easing of restrictions.\n\nIn a statement, the chamber added: \"It is crucial that everyone follows the guidelines to protect the NHS and help to contain and bring the case numbers down so we can move to level two along with the rest of Scotland.\n\n\"Being able to trade brings a glimmer of hope that together we can push through this towards something resembling normality.\"", "The swan was rescued on Sunday after being spotted with the black sock on its head\n\nA sock was pulled over a swan's head in a \"mindless prank\" that could have led to the bird's death.\n\nPolice believe the garment was put on intentionally due to the \"snug fit\" and \"how far down the neck the tube was\".\n\nHad it not been rescued, officers said, the swan, found in Coulson Road, Lincoln, would likely have starved to death or suffocated.\n\nOfficers have launched a joint witness appeal with the RSPCA in a bid to trace the culprits.\n\nInspector Kate Burris, from the wildlife charity, said the \"mindless prank could have resulted in this poor swan suffering over a long period of time and ultimately ended in their death.\n\n\"Given that this is the breeding and nesting season this could also have resulted in suffering and sadly death for any dependent offspring.\"\n\nWild birds are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, and it is an offence to kill, injure or take them without a licence.\n\nThe maximum penalty is six months in prison and/or an unlimited fine.\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.", "Nicola Sturgeon easily saw off a challenge from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar in her Glasgow Southside constituency\n\nThe SNP has won three key seats but its hopes of securing an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament election remain on a knife edge.\n\nThe party has taken both Edinburgh Central - where former MP Angus Robertson was standing for the SNP - and Ayr from the Conservatives.\n\nIt also won the East Lothian seat from Labour.\n\nBut it fell short in other targets, with counting in the remaining seats due to resume on Saturday.\n\nNo other constituencies have changed hands so far, with the SNP currently on 39 seats, the Liberal Democrats four, Tories two and Labour one.\n\nBut the opposition parties will see their number of seats increase dramatically once the regional list results are finalised on Saturday.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said it was now unlikely, but not impossible, that the SNP would achieve an overall majority in the new Holyrood parliament.\n\nAnd he said there were clear signs that tactical voting by pro-UK voters in some parts of the country had been successful.\n\nThe Alba Party, which was founded by former first minister and SNP leader Alex Salmond, looks unlikely to win any seats.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive.\n\nAs the count resumed on Saturday, Aberdeenshire East was first to declare with the SNP's Gillian Martin holding her seat with a reduced majority of 1,889 over the Scottish Conservatives - who increased their vote share by 11%.\n\nFriday's results included First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - the SNP leader - easily holding off a challenge from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar in her Glasgow Southside constituency.\n\nMs Sturgeon won by 9,456 votes, only marginally lower than the 9,593 she won by in 2016.\n\nTurnout has been higher than anticipated in many areas, with the SNP's share of the vote falling in many of the early constituencies to declare but increasing in others.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that the SNP \"appears to be on course for a fourth consecutive election victory and to be on course to have the privilege of forming a government again\".\n\nShe pledged to \"get back to work immediately\" and lead the country's Covid recovery.\n\n\"And then, when the time is right, to offer this country the choice of a better future,\" she added.\n\nIt comes as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested he would reject any calls for a second independence referendum, saying it would be \"irresponsible and reckless\" right now.\n\nAsked if an SNP majority would mean there was a mandate for another vote, he told the Daily Telegraph: \"I think that count is still taking place and we'll have to see what happens. I listened to the Scottish election carefully. My impression was that they [the SNP] moved away from the idea of a referendum, and I think very wisely.\n\n\"I don't think this is anything like the time to have more constitutional wrangling, to be talking about ripping our country apart, when actually people want to heal our economy and bounce forward together. That's what people want.\"\n\nJohn Swinney told BBC Breakfast he was 'confident' there would be a pro-independence majority\n\nHowever deputy first minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast that his party would legislate for a second referendum if Mr Johnson were to block one.\n\nHe said: \"We've said we will take forward legislation to have a legal referendum - we already have put in place some of the legislative arrangements for that process. We will embark on such an agenda should there be a majority for such a proposition in the Scottish Parliament.\"\n\nMr Swinney said that although he was waiting to see the \"electoral arithmetic\" of the final results, he was \"very confident\" there would be a majority of candidates \"elected on a programme to deliver a referendum on independence\".\n\nThis election has a long way to go with a further 26 constituencies and all 56 regional list seats still to declare.\n\nWhile the SNP is on course to finish as the largest party, there are only limited opportunities left for them to do so with an overall majority.\n\nTo achieve that they really need to hold all they have and pick up an additional constituency seat like Aberdeenshire West, where the Conservatives are defending a majority of 900 votes.\n\nThere is also a possible pathway if they do better than expected on the regional lists which are very hard to predict because of the proportional voting system.\n\nIf the SNP fall short of that outright majority they could enter a fourth term in office as a minority government (as they are now) or seek a more formal arrangement with another party - most likely the Greens.\n\nTogether the SNP and the Greens will almost certainly have a pro-independence majority at Holyrood - committed to holding another referendum that the UK government seems determined to resist.\n\nA big wrangle over indyref2 is coming and it could end up in the UK Supreme Court.\n\nThe constituencies that declared on Friday included eight of the SNP's top 10 target seats.\n\nThe Conservatives held Dumfriesshire, which had been one of the SNP's goals, with Oliver Mundell increasing his majority, while Jackson Carlaw held the marginal Eastwood seat for the Tories from the SNP.\n\nAnd Labour's Daniel Johnson held off the SNP challenge in Edinburgh Southern and the party's deputy leader Jackie Baillie increased her majority over the SNP in Dumbarton.\n\nThe election is seen as being crucial to the future of the UK as the result could impact on whether or not there is a second referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nThe SNP - which has formed the devolved Scottish government since 2007 - will once again finish as the largest party, but is seeking to win an overall majority to strengthen the case for indyref2.\n\nAlthough it is not yet clear that it will win a majority by itself, there is likely to be a pro-independence majority in the parliament once the Scottish Greens are allocated regional list seats on Saturday.\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 coronavirus pandemic meant that traditional overnight counting was impossible, with the results instead being announced over the course of Friday and Saturday.\n\nA record number of people had already cast their ballots by post before the polls opened on Thursday morning - with more than a million having registered for postal ballots.\n\nOther elections also took place across the UK on Thursday, including for the Welsh Parliament, 143 English councils and 13 local mayors, as well as a by-election for the Westminster seat of Hartlepool in the north east of England - which was won by the Conservatives from Labour.\n\nSIGN UP FOR SCOTLAND ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage", "The Government of Jersey granted 41 licences to French fishing boats on Friday\n\nA French government threat to cut off Jersey's electricity over a post-Brexit fishing dispute was \"clearly unacceptable and disproportionate\", the UK government has said.\n\nFrench Maritime Minister Annick Girardin threatened \"retaliatory measures\" over the new licensing regime for fishing in Jersey's waters.\n\nAbout 95% of the island's electricity comes from France via undersea cables.\n\nA UK government spokesman said they were working with the EU and Jersey.\n\n\"To threaten Jersey like this is clearly unacceptable and disproportionate,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"We are working closely with the EU and Jersey on fisheries access provisions following the end of the transition period so trust the French will use the mechanisms of our new treaty to solve problems.\"\n\nThe row emerged over a new licensing system for French fishing vessels.\n\nThe system was introduced by the Government of Jersey under the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA).\n\nJersey issued 41 licences for access to its waters on Friday when an interim agreement came to an end.\n\nThe Jersey government said the permits must \"correspond to the previous activity a vessel has carried out in Jersey waters\" under the terms of the TCA and its new system was \"in line with the data submitted by the French and EU authorities\".\n\nA spokeswoman said it took French complaints over the terms of the licensing agreement \"very seriously\" and would respond, but said it had acted in \"good faith\" setting up the regime.\n\n\"The government remains committed to the sustainable management of Jersey waters for the benefit of this and future generations,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ian Gorst, External Relations Minister for the Government of Jersey, argued there was no justification for such severe measures.\n\n\"This is not the first threat that the French have made to either Jersey or the United Kingdom since we are into this new deal,\" he said.\n\n\"It would seem disproportionate to cut off electricity for the sake of needing to provide extra details so that we can refine the licences.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, he explained there was \"no time limit\" for the French fishing industry or government to provide evidence of previous activity in Jersey waters and he wanted to \"heal this relationship\".\n\n\"If French fishermen or the authorities have further evidence they would like to submit, we will update the licences to reflect that evidence.\"\n\nFrench authorities said \"new technical measures\" for fishing off the Channel Islands had not been communicated to the EU, rendering them \"null and void\".\n\nRepresentatives from Normandy have closed their office in St Helier in protest of \"inexplicable conditions\" in the new scheme, which had been introduced \"against all expectations\".\n\nThese include caps on the number of fishing days for different vessels, restrictions on gear and the closure of fishing areas.\n\nThe UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the self-governing Crown Dependency is \"responsible for its own territorial waters\".\n\nFollow BBC Jersey on Twitter and Facebook. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Europe's longest-serving ruler, is facing unprecedented opposition to his power.\n\nThe 66-year-old former Soviet farm boss claimed a sixth term as president in a widely disputed election on 9 August. He has faced weeks of mass protests against his rule.\n\nAbout 100,000 people have rallied against him weekly in Minsk - by far the biggest opposition protests of his rule.\n\nMr Lukashenko has been in power since 1994, with an authoritarian style reminiscent of the Soviet era, controlling the main media channels, harassing and jailing political opponents and marginalising independent voices.\n\nThe country's powerful secret police - still called the KGB - closely monitors dissidents.\n\nPolitical novice Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is now Mr Lukashenko's main political rival. She stepped in to challenge him for the presidency after her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, a popular blogger, was barred from running and sent to jail.\n\nOn 30 July a huge crowd rallied in support of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya\n\nShe claims to have won 60-70% in places where votes were properly counted - but the president claimed a landslide victory.\n\nNone of the previous presidential elections held during Mr Lukashenko's long reign were ever judged free and fair by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), a top election monitoring body.\n\nBut the latest vote, and subsequent crackdown with thousands arrested, has sparked the widest condemnation yet.\n\nMajor opposition figures, including Ms Tikhanovskaya, are now in exile in neighbouring countries, amid a wave of arrests.\n\nFor years Mr Lukashenko has sought to convince the nation of 9.5 million that he is the best guarantor of stability, a tough nationalist protecting them from foreign meddling.\n\nThat message still appeals to many older Belarusians. The country was devastated in World War Two - victim of a Nazi scorched-earth policy - and lost nearly one-third of its population. So suspicion of foreigners and pride in the security forces play well among many voters.\n\nBack in 2005 the administration of then US President George W Bush called Belarus \"the last remaining true dictatorship in the heart of Europe\".\n\nMr Lukashenko once warned that anyone joining an opposition protest would be treated as a \"terrorist\", adding: \"We will wring their necks, as one might a duck\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Activists and journalists were rounded up and jailed in Belarus before the election\n\nIn recent years, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban have also drawn strong Western criticism for harassing opponents and extending state power.\n\nCoronavirus has added an extra dimension to the political ferment in Belarus.\n\nOpponents consider Mr Lukashenko's bravado about the virus to be reckless and a sign that he is out of touch.\n\nIn late May he said Belarus was right not to lock down. \"You see that in the affluent West, unemployment is out of control. People are banging on pots. People want to eat. Thank God, we avoided this. We didn't shut down.\"\n\nIn March, as countries across Europe were imposing lockdowns, he said: \"I am convinced that we may suffer more from panic than from the virus\". He suggested combating the virus with hard work, the sauna and vodka.\n\nWhen the rest of Europe cancelled football matches the continuing Belarus fixtures - still drawing big crowds to stadiums - suddenly attracted international interest.\n\nIn February Mr Lukashenko (C) played against Mr Putin (L) in a friendly ice hockey match in Sochi, Russia\n\nBefore the election Mr Lukashenko's security chiefs accused unnamed Russian forces of trying to help his opponents and foment unrest.\n\nRussia remains Belarus's chief ally - they have held joint military exercises and the struggling Belarus economy relies on trade with its powerful neighbour.\n\nBut in recent years relations have cooled since Moscow moved to end subsidised oil and gas supplies.\n\nBelarus authorities arrested 33 Russians near Minsk - all but one at a sanatorium - in July and said they belonged to Wagner, a shadowy Russian mercenary group active in Ukraine, Africa and the Middle East.\n\nRussia denied the Belarusian claim that the detained Russians were plotting acts of terrorism, insisting that they were actually in transit, waiting for a flight to Istanbul. They were later released.\n\nA former Soviet state farm director, Mr Lukashenko became president in 1994 after leading an anti-corruption drive in parliament.\n\nIn the August 1991 botched coup attempt against then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Mr Lukashenko supported the communist hardliners.\n\nLike Vladimir Putin, Mr Lukashenko remains nostalgic for the Soviet Union. And both are keen ice hockey players.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA referendum in 2004 lifted the two-term limit on presidents, making it possible for Mr Lukashenko to lead Belarus indefinitely.\n\nHis origins were humble - raised by a single mother in a poor village in eastern Belarus.\n\nHe is married to Galina Lukashenko, with whom he has two adult sons, Viktor and Dmitry. He told an interviewer in 2015 that he had no intention of divorcing Galina, although they have not lived together for decades.\n\nHe has a third son, Nikolai, born in 2004, whose mother Irina Abelskaya was Mr Lukashenko's personal doctor.\n\n\"An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it,\" he said in August 2003. \"You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.\"\n\nDespite the mass unrest, Mr Lukashenko insists he will not leave office - but has acknowledged some Belarusians might be \"fed up\" with his rule.\n\nHe said Belarus could not return to the instability of the years following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, and he has twice appeared brandishing a gun during the protests.\n\nPresident Putin says he has formed a police reserve force to intervene in Belarus if necessary - as requested by Mr Lukashenko. Russia could send them in if the protests got really \"out of control\", Mr Putin said.", "Fourteen-year-old Bradley John died after being found at St John Lloyd Catholic Comprehensive in September 2018\n\nA 14-year-old boy who was found hanged at his school suffered \"horrific\" bullying before his death, his father has told an inquest.\n\nBradley John died after being found in a toilet block at St John Lloyd Catholic Comprehensive School in Llanelli in September 2018.\n\nByron John told the inquest his son, who had ADHD, had been bullied at two different secondary schools.\n\nA four-day inquest into Bradley's death is taking place at Llanelli Town Hall.\n\nMr John told the inquest Bradley was diagnosed with ADHD, which he took medication for, while at Tycroes Primary School, in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, where he was \"lively and generally happy\".\n\nAfter leaving primary school, he initially attended Amman Valley Comprehensive, where Mr John said Bradley became \"withdrawn\" with older pupils seeking to provoke a reaction from him.\n\nBradley's father Byron John told the inquest his son had been bullied at two different secondary schools\n\nMr John said his son was \"very easy to wind up\" which \"other pupils found fun\".\n\nThe inquest heard Bradley left the school after his school clothes were scattered around the grounds of the school by older pupils, and other incidents of alleged bullying.\n\nHe subsequently moved to St John Lloyd Catholic Secondary School in Llanelli towards the end of July 2016 on a two-week trial.\n\nMr John said that his son suffered \"horrific\" incidents on the school bus where pieces of his school clothing went missing and he was beaten up.\n\nHe added his son's mobile phone was stolen and smashed in school.\n\nCoroner's Officer Malcolm Thompson told the inquest Bradley was an \"extremely talented horseman\" who enjoyed show jumping, while Mr John told the inquest his son \"loved competing\" and planned to leave school to attend equestrian college.\n\nMr John said his son was \"probably at his most confident and in the best place he had been in\" between July and September 2018 and had enjoyed a family holiday during the summer break.\n\nA memorial bench was unveiled at the David Broome Event Centre in Caldicot, where Bradley trained in showjumping\n\nHe told the inquest \"everything was on the up\" on the morning of 12 September, and the last thing Bradley had said to him was to ask for petrol for his quadbike.\n\nMr John said he received a text message at 11:54 that morning from his daughter to say Bradley had \"skipped science\".\n\nHe tried to ring the school and said they would get back to him. Ashley Howells, the head teacher, called Mr John to say Bradley \"tried to take his own life and paramedics are with him\".\n\nMr John went to the school and said there was a \"heavy presence of medics and police\". He then travelled to Morriston Hospital in Swansea where his son was being treated.\n\nHe said staff were \"all trying\" to save his son.\n\n\"I said 'don't stop'. I just wanted him to move or open his eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"It still doesn't seem real.\"\n\nMr John was later questioned by Andrew Faux, representing the teachers at the St John Lloyd school, who drew attention to a letter sent from Bradley's technology teacher praising his \"enthusiasm, dedication and effort\".\n\nBut Mr John said Bradley was \"not happy in school\" and the school did not have the \"full picture\".\n\nThe inquest was shown CCTV footage of Bradley in a school corridor leaving a technology lesson on the morning he died.\n\nMr John told the inquest it was clear his son was upset in the images because he \"had his hands in his sleeves\" and was \"not walking proudly\".\n\nHe was also questioned by Edward Ramsay, representing Carmarthenshire council, about how change was affecting his son as he began competing in both adult and junior show jumping events.\n\nMr John said Bradley was \"growing up and getting his ADHD under control\".\n\nFamily friend Stephanie Bonwell described Bradley as being \"mad about horses and quads\", and said he was bullied in school \"because of his riding\".\n\nShe said he felt \"teachers didn't care and didn't do anything\" about this and there was no point complaining.\n\nThe inquest also heard from another family friend Fiona McCulloch, who had known Bradley \"since he was a baby\".\n\nShe said he was a \"normal little boy\" and his ADHD was well controlled with the last medication he was prescribed before his death.\n\nShe told the inquest that Bradley had told her about \"problems in school… and of instances when he was bullied\" and he felt \"nobody at the school was listening to him\".", "An explosion that killed a child was caused by a gas pipe being cut inside a neighbouring house, police said.\n\nTwo-year-old George Hinds died in the blast in Mallowdale Avenue in Heysham, Lancashire, on 16 May.\n\nFour other people were also hurt in the explosion which destroyed two homes and seriously damaged a third.\n\nLancashire Police said it was investigating how and why the pipe became severed and treating it as a criminal investigation.\n\nTwo houses collapsed and a third was seriously damaged in the blast\n\nDetectives said they had identified, along with gas experts, the cause of the explosion as a cut gas pipe inside a property on Mallowdale Avenue.\n\nGeorge's parents, Vicky Studholme and Stephen Hinds, who were also injured in the explosion, have been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nTwo others, a man, 44, and a 50-year-old woman, remain in hospital with critical injuries.\n\nCadent North West had said earlier the gas mains and service pipes were \"sound and did not contribute to or cause the explosion at Heysham\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Jane Webb, of Lancashire Police, said \"an incredible amount of work\" had been done at the scene \"in a relatively short space of time\" and officers had been able to identify the source.\n\n\"We have also managed to recover some items of George's, which I know means a lot to his parents,\" she said.\n\nShe said the focus was now on establishing how and why the pipe came to be cut and that investigation would be \"complex and lengthy\".\n\nForensic examination of the scene had been completed, the force said, and it had been handed over to the local authority.\n\nThe blast caused debris to cover nearby streets and fields and residents described it as sounding \"like a bomb going off\".\n\nGeorge was described as a \"beautiful little angel\" by his parents who said they were devastated by his death.\n\n\"He was so precious to us,\" they added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich is under house arrest after the extraordinary diversion of his Ryanair flight from Greece, denounced by some as a \"state hijacking\".\n\nMr Protasevich, 26, was until November 2020 editor of the opposition Nexta channel on the Telegram messaging app. The channel was founded by fellow dissident Stepan Putilo and run from outside Belarus.\n\nNexta and Nexta Live, used for mobilising street protests, now have nearly two million subscribers, managing to get round heavy state censorship.\n\nMr Protasevich faces serious charges. He and Mr Putilo - who calls himself Stepan Svetlov - were put on Belarus's list of \"individuals involved in terrorist activity\" last year. The charge of causing mass unrest can be punished by up to 15 years in jail. But terror offences carry higher sentences and as he was led off the plane passengers quoted him saying \"I'll get the death penalty here\".\n\nMass protests erupted across Belarus after long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in a 9 August presidential election widely condemned as rigged, and a crackdown followed.\n\nHe had just been visiting Greece along with his Russian girlfriend, Sofia Sapega. The blogger had attended an economics conference in Athens along with other Belarusian dissidents before the couple spent some time on holiday in Crete.\n\nThey were flying back to Lithuania, where they were both living, when their jet was made to land in Minsk over a fake bomb threat.\n\nPassenger Monika Simkiene remembered seeing Mr Protasevich panicking as the flight was diverted. Another said he looked \"super scared\".\n\nOn the ground, he and Ms Sapega were led away by police, and later appeared in videos where they were shown making what appeared to be forced confessions to crimes against the Belarusian authorities.\n\nOn 25 June, it was revealed that both had been placed under house arrest. Ms Sapega in a flat on her own in Minsk, and Mr Protasevich at an undisclosed location, allegedly under secret police supervision.\n\nHis fellow blogger Mr Putilo said they had once discussed the risks of flying over their home country.\n\n\"It's a real shame that Roman made this mistake, he said. \"But unfortunately Roman's colleagues say he had relaxed a bit in recent times, not feeling threats.\"\n\nThe small Nexta (pronounced \"nekhta\", meaning \"somebody\" in Belarusian) team is based in Poland but also works closely with Belarusian dissidents in neighbouring Lithuania. It was launched by Mr Putilo in 2015 as a YouTube music channel, but soon switched to focus on political content.\n\nTelegram, a secure messaging app for smartphones, is one of very few ways Belarusian dissidents have been able to organise.\n\nNexta Live's posts have included crowd-sourced photos and videos of police brutality and have informed people about opposition rallies and strikes.\n\nMr Protasevich now works for a different Telegram channel, Belamova. He stepped in to write for it after blogger Igor Losik was arrested by Belarusian authorities in June 2020.\n\nStepan Putilo at Nexta HQ in Warsaw last August\n\nWhen once asked by BBC Russian if Nexta was a protest hub or a media outlet, Mr Protasevich said: \"It is hard to say who we are. I guess we are primarily Belarusians who would like to come home and live in a free country without dictatorship.\"\n\nHis anti-Lukashenko activities go back to 2011 - as a teenager he was expelled from school for taking part in a protest.\n\nHe was later admitted to the journalism department of Belarusian State University, but expelled from there too.\n\nIn 2014-15, he was in eastern Ukraine, spending time with the ultra-nationalist Azov Battalion when it was fighting Russian-backed rebels.\n\nHe says he was there as a journalist and got wounded in the chest, but there exists a contemporary interview with a Belarusian Azov fighter (in Russian) using the nom de guerre Kim, who fits Mr Protasevich's description and calls himself a soldier.\n\nWhile the exact nature of his involvement with Azov is difficult to know, Belarusian state media have seized upon it in an attempt to portray Mr Protasevich as an extremist.\n\nThe blogger left Belarus in 2019 and in January 2020 applied for Polish citizenship.\n\nHis parents moved to join him in Poland last August. His father Dmitry is an army reserve officer who lectured in ideology at a Belarusian military academy.\n\nSince his capture, Mr Protasevich has appeared in several videos apparently speaking under duress.\n\nIn one appearance on Belarusian state TV, he admitted trying to topple Mr Lukashenko.\n\nRoman Protasevich's father was adamant that his words had been forced out by torture\n\nBelarusian rights group Viasna condemned the broadcast, saying: \"Everything Protasevich will say was said under duress - at the very least psychological duress.\"\n\nHis father Dmitry said watching his son speaking was painful: \"No-one should believe these words because they were beaten out, through abuse and torture of my son.\"\n\nAt the end of the interview, the dissident broke down in tears and lifted his hands to his face, revealing marks on his wrists.", "More ways of supporting people to self-isolate in areas with higher coronavirus infection rates are to be piloted in nine parts of England.\n\nThere will be \"buddying\" services for people needing mental health support and alternative accommodation for those in overcrowded homes.\n\nSocial care support and translation services will also be available.\n\nIt is hoped the schemes will encourage more people to get tested and self-isolate if required.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said this was \"vital\" in the fight against new Covid variants.\n\n\"Variants have the potential to be a Trojan horse for our hard won progress and it is more vital than ever that we do what we can to show them the exit door, following the rules and self-isolating when asked,\" he said.\n\nThe areas that will receive funding from a £12m pot for the pilots are:\n\nThere will be language communications support for those who do not speak English as their first language, and social care support, such as increasing existing social care support for vulnerable adults.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"We recognise just how challenging self-isolation is for many people and these pilots will help us find the best ways to support people and making it easier for everyone to keep doing their bit.\"\n\nHowever, people in pilot areas will not receive further financial support when self-isolating.\n\nUnder current rules, a £500 grant has been made available in England to people on low incomes who have to self-isolate.\n\nLabour has been calling on the government to expand eligibility for this scheme.\n\nThe government is already backing a pilot across the Greater Manchester region with £2m of funding to assess ways of helping people self-isolate.\n\nThis includes \"support and engagement teams\" who work with households within 24 hours of a positive Covid test to develop a bespoke plan for self-isolation.\n\nJames Jamieson, chairman of the Local Government Association, said rapidly targeting local outbreaks was crucial to tackling the spread of the virus.\n\n\"These pilot schemes will provide further insight into what works best in supporting those who test positive and their contacts to do the right thing to protect themselves, their families and their wider communities,\" he said.\n\nPeople who have tested positive for coronavirus and those considered at risk of having been exposed to it must self-isolate.\n\nThis means staying at home and not leaving it - even to buy food, medicines or other essentials, or for exercise.\n\nOn Sunday, the government announced that 60.6 million first and second vaccine doses had been administered since 8 December.\n\nThe figure includes 37.9 million people who have received a first dose - 72% of the UK adult population - and 22.6 million have had both (43%).\n\nThe number of second doses administered in the UK hit a daily record on Saturday at 556,951.\n\nDr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, said the possibility of restrictions being eased on 21 June - as planned under the government's road map out of lockdown - was \"looking good\".\n\nBut she urged the public to be cautious to avoid another lockdown, warning that the new Indian variant has become the \"dominant strain\" in some parts of the country.\n\nUnder the plans, from 21 June nightclubs would be allowed to reopen and restrictions on large events, such as festivals, would be lifted.\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said there might be an \"adjustment\" to the lifting of restrictions on this date.\n\nHe told Times Radio on Sunday: \"We're effectively in a race with the vaccine programme against the virus.\n\n\"We know that we're letting the virus out by spreading it about now, we know that we're progressing well with the vaccine programme, but I think there's going to need to be an adjustment of some sort.\"", "Under 30s in Scotland can register for vaccine text alerts\n\nThere's good news for people aged 18 to 29 in Scotland - although they can't yet book their vaccine, they can register to receive details of jab dates by text or email, rather than by letter. Vaccinations for that age group - the final one - are expected to begin in mid-June, but a two-week registration period is now open. It means 18 to 29-year-olds will receive digital alerts so they don't miss an invitation to book. Registration is not compulsory and people who don't sign up will still get a vaccine appointment offered through the post, as long as their GP details are up to date. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is urging people to sign up, tweeting: \"Please do - it is the best way to protect yourself and others, and get us all back on the path to normality.\" The announcement comes after about half of people due to get a Covid jab at one of Scotland's largest vaccination centres failed to turn up in recent days, said BBC Scotland's Connor Gillies. It's believed a considerable number of no shows were recorded at the Hydro in Glasgow, on both Saturday and Sunday. Between 4,000 and 10,000 vaccinations can be administered there each day. To find out when you're expected to get the jab, head here.", "Phil Mickelson became the oldest man to win a major title as he claimed the US PGA Championship at Kiawah Island amid extraordinary scenes as thousands of fans swarmed on to the final fairway to witness the winning moment.\n\nIt was a throwback victory for 50-year-old Mickelson and a reminder of what sport has been missing in the absence of crowds during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nSpectators swamped the American as he marched up to the 18th green on his way to clinching a sixth major title, eight years after his last.\n\n\"It was quite unnerving, but exceptionally awesome. I don't think I've ever experienced anything like that before,\" said Mickelson, who won on six under par at the Ocean Course after a closing one-over 73.\n\nHe finished two clear of fellow American Brooks Koepka, who closed with a 74, and South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who signed for a 73.\n\nMickelson takes the record of oldest major winner from Julius Boros, who won this title in 1968 at the age of 48, and also joins England's Sir Nick Faldo and American Lee Trevino as a six-time major winner. Only 11 male players have won more.\n\n\"This is just an incredible feeling. I just believed that it was possible yet everything was saying it wasn't and I hope that others find that inspiration,\" added Mickelson.\n\n\"It may take a little extra work and harder effort to maintain the physicality, or maintain the skills, but gosh is it worth it in the end.\n\n\"I just love this game and I love what I do and I love the challenge of competing against such great players.\"\n\nHe will now be among the favourites at next month's US Open, the only major he needs to become the sixth man to complete the career Grand Slam. It is being held near his home in San Diego at Torrey Pines, a course on which he has won three titles.\n\nIreland's Padraig Harrington and Shane Lowry finished in a tie for fourth at two under after closing rounds of 69.\n\nThey were level with American Harry Higgs and England's Paul Casey, who scored consistently throughout the week and posted his third 71 on Sunday.\n\nIt was a final pairing packed with potential storylines: Mickelson aiming to become the oldest major championship winner, Koepka looking for victory just two months after serious knee surgery.\n\nIn the end, it was Mickelson who controlled the narrative and held his nerve during a tense final round.\n\nKoepka was eight months old when Mickelson claimed the first of his 45 PGA Tour titles as an amateur at the Northern Telecom Open in 1991 and 13 years later the American became a major champion with the first of his three Masters crowns.\n\nHe added to those at the 2005 PGA Championship and 2013 Open, but victory at Kiawah Island must rank as the most remarkable after dropping out of the top 100 earlier this year for the first time since 1993.\n\nMickelson says he has being trying to improve his concentration and stay more \"present\" by practising meditation and other drills to increase his focus and he needed all of that composure on a rollercoaster front nine.\n\nHe led by one overnight on seven under, but began with a bogey and when Koepka rolled in a birdie from 12 feet a two-shot swing handed the 31-year-old the lead.\n\nBut a double bogey followed for Koepka as he duffed a chip from a bank behind the second green and then watched as Mickelson clipped on before sinking a birdie putt to reclaim top spot and take a two-stroke advantage on the field.\n\nMickelson held on to the sole lead despite a bogey at three after two loose chips around the green, but only because Koepka missed a three-footer for birdie.\n\nThen came a moment of magic from the champion, chipping in from the sand to birdie the par-three fifth and send the Kiawah Island crowd almost delirious.\n\nMickelson followed up with a bogey and Koepka took advantage by pulling back level, only to send a disastrous approach at seven on to the cart path on his way to another dropped shot as Mickelson got up and down for a birdie that sent him clear once more.\n\nThe veteran hit the turn with his two-stroke lead intact and increased it to four at 10 with a well-made birdie as Koepka found the sand and failed to recover.\n\nThe left-hander had a five-stroke lead at the same stage on Saturday, only to watch it evaporate over the next three holes, but not even a fan picking up his ball after a wayward drive at 11 could faze him this time as Mickelson saved par and Koepka bogeyed to drop five back, meaning Oosthuizen was once again his closest challenger.\n\nHaving avoided the water off the tee at 13, Mickelson then found it with his approach to the green and made back-to-back bogeys, though Oosthuizen dropped two shots on the same hole after also finding the water.\n\nThat meant Mickelson led by three shots with four to play.\n\nOosthuizen, whose sole major win came at the 2010 Open, birdied the 16th to keep the fight alive but moments later Mickelson, who turns 51 next month, hit the longest drive of any player this week on the hole - 366 yards - on his way to a birdie of his own.\n\nMickelson said he was having fun this week, though there was nothing enjoyable about the daunting par-three 17th, but he could afford to drop a shot and head to the 18th with a two-stroke advantage.\n\nHe pushed his drive left and as he assessed his options from in front of a hospitality stand, fans started to swarm onto the fairway.\n\nAfter some deliberation, he hit a nine-iron into the heart of the green, and the boisterous crowd immediately surrounded Mickelson who, with the help of officials, had to push his way through to reach the putting surface to put the finishing touches on his historic win.\n\nKoepka was disappointed with his putting on Saturday and also missed several close-range attempts on Sunday.\n\nHe still had an outside chance of taking the tournament to a play-off on the last but had to finish amid the madness surrounding Mickelson.\n\n\"It would have been cool if I didn't have a knee injury and got dinged a few times in the knee in that crowd,\" said the four-time major champion who took a couple of extra minutes to make his way through to the green.\n\n\"It's cool for Phil. But getting dinged a few times isn't exactly my idea of fun.\"\n\nAn eagle at the par-five second and chip-in birdie on the 14th were the highlights of European Ryder Cup captain Harrington's round as he rolled back the years to card a three-under 69 on Sunday and finish at two under par for a share of fourth place.\n\nThat is the three-time major champion's best finish at a major since winning this event in 2008.\n\nThe 49-year-old had a terrific time playing with fellow Irishman Lowry and the Open champion also posted a 69 to finish at two under.\n\n\"I don't think I have enjoyed a round of golf as much as I have playing with Shane,\" said Harrington.\n\n\"It was amazing how relaxed I was from tee to green. When you have your head in the right place it is much easier to play good golf. It was a very nice pairing.\"\n\nCasey also shared fourth and briefly threatened to put an early run together with back-to-back birdies on two and three, but five birdies overall were offset by four bogeys as he finished four off the lead.\n\nJustin Rose failed to break par in the opening three days but posted one of the rounds of the day with a five-under 67 that included eight birdies, a bogey and a double to leave the Englishman one under for the tournament.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Rory McIlroy was unable to tame the Ocean Course as he did during his 2012 victory, with the pre-tournament favourite finishing on five over par.\n\nJordan Spieth's wait to complete the career Grand Slam continues after he finished at two over par, one behind Japan's Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, while US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau faded to three over par with a final-day 77.\n\nA walk that will live in the memory\n\nThe US PGA Championship's Covid-19 protocols for fans included \"no handshakes, fist bumps, autographs, photographs or selfies\"; for people attending to \"respect their [players'] space and watch your distance\" and \"avoid unnecessary touchpoints and large crowds\". Fans who had not been vaccinated were advised to wear masks when they could not be socially distant.\n\nBut Mickelson needed a security and police escort to make his way through the jam-packed crowd of spectators to complete his historic moment.\n\n\"I've never had that experience and to see that, to feel that kind of excitement and enthusiasm, and be at the forefront of that, was pretty special. That's a moment I'll always, always cherish.\"\n• None \"The UK is all I've ever known\": Panorama look into the impact of immigration status on those born or raised in Britain\n• None Three youngsters embark on the wildest activities Scotland has to offer", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sasha Johnson in June 2020: \"Why should we stay quiet?\"\n\nProminent Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is critically ill after being shot in the head, her party says.\n\nThe Taking the Initiative Party (TTIP) said she was being treated in intensive care after being \"brutally attacked\" in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe 27-year-old has life-threatening injuries following the shooting on Consort Road, in Peckham, south London.\n\nTTIP said Ms Johnson had undergone an operation and remained in critical care, in recovery post-surgery.\n\nA vigil was held in Ruskin Park, close to King's College Hospital, where Ms Johnson is being treated.\n\nWell-wishers played African drums and prayed for Ms Johnson to pull through.\n\nOne speaker told the crowd: \"In every community there are good eggs and bad eggs and we have to make sure those bad eggs are held accountable for their actions.\n\n\"Because it's not acceptable for those bad eggs to be attacking our warriors - be they male or female.\n\n\"Warriors who are out there every day without pay working for our families, working for our communities.\"\n\nA vigil for Ms Johnson was held earlier in Ruskin Park, beside King's College Hospital in south London\n\nPolice said at this stage there was no evidence the attack was targeted.\n\nAfter fears grew among other activists that it was a targeted attack, Charles Gordon, one of TTIP's founding members said: \"I would like to say that we need to stay cautious and aware; the truth is that we don't know what has happened here.\"\n\nA party spokesman said: \"Whilst we understand there is much speculation around the nature of the incident, our priority is Sasha's health and recovery.\"\n\nDetectives said there was currently nothing to suggest the shooting victim had received any credible threats against her, and have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThey have not confirmed her identity.\n\nIt is believed Ms Johnson had been at a party when she was shot\n\nEarlier, Imarn Ayton, a friend of Ms Johnson's, told the BBC doctors had carried out surgery on her fellow activist, which had gone well and she was \"now with her parents\".\n\nShe said Ms Johnson had been at a party or gathering when she was injured but she did not believe \"she was the intended victim\".\n\n\"As far as I am aware... this incident is more related to rival gangs as opposed to her activism,\" Ms Ayton said.\n\nDetectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command have been investigating at the scene and the surrounding area and are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry.\n\nIt is believed the shooting happened near a house where a party was taking place and a number of people may have been in the area, a Met Police statement said.\n\nThe Taking the Initiative Party said the attack followed \"numerous death threats\".\n\nForensic officers have been carrying out searches in the area where Ms Johnson was shot\n\nDet Ch Insp Jimi Tele said: \"This was a shocking incident that has left a young woman with very serious injuries. Our thoughts are with her family who are being provided with support at this terribly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you saw anything suspicious in the Consort Road area in the early hours of Sunday morning, or if you have heard information since that could help detectives, it is crucial that you get in touch.\"\n\nDr Darren Henry, who knew Ms Johnson through community activism campaigns, called on those speculating about the shooting to \"let the police do their jobs\".\n\n\"Like any shocking or horrendous crime in our community, we hope that the offenders are brought to justice and that there is no bias and no racism.\n\n\"Let the police do their watching and monitoring, but we are out here as well doing our watching and our monitoring.\"\n\nTributes on social media have been pouring in from all over the world since the shocking attack on the young mother.\n\nTamika Mallory, a well-known US activist posted on her Instagram account: \"Pull through sis! People think it's a game out here. Smh. #SashaJohnson\", while Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy tweeted: \"This is gut wrenching. Praying for Sasha Johnson, her family and friends that she makes a full recovery #BlackLivesMatter\".\n\nAnd Harriet Harman, the Labour MP for Camberwell and Peckham, tweeted: \"Whoever carried out this dreadful shooting of Sasha Johnson needs to be caught quickly. Give any info you have to MPSSouthwark. Reported death threats will need to be investigated. Wishing her a full recovery. With thanks to the NHS for much needed expertise and care.\"\n\nMs Johnson was a well known anti-racism campaigner who organised a Black Lives Matter protest last summer, in her home city of Oxford.\n\nMany have praised her courage and determination to stand up for the rights of black people, tirelessly calling out injustices and inequality.\n\nMs Johnson has previously spoken about living in a society where her black sons would be accepted and which had a better system that could help them grow. She said she was determined to carry on campaigning and wanted to make a difference within her own community.\n\nMs Johnson, who works in community activism and community support and got a first in social care from Ruskin College in Oxford, has been a leading figure in the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK and is a member of the Taking the Initiative Party's leadership committee.\n\nIn its manifesto, the party describes itself as aiming \"to create real change in communities across the UK by setting the agenda in government\".\n\nIt said it wanted to do this by putting forward \"exceptional candidates who truly represent their communities, winning seats to create a Parliament that looks like the society it leads\".\n\nPolice said there was currently no evidence to suggest it was a targeted shooting\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, the party said Ms Johnson is a mother of two and a \"powerful voice\" who has always been fighting for black people and against the injustices that affect the black community.\n\n\"Let's all come together and pray for Sasha, pray for her recovery and show our support to her family and loved ones,\" the statement said.\n\nBlack Lives Matters UK said it was shocked by the shooting of \"a young mother and fearless political campaigner who was at the forefront of many BLM protests last summer\".\n\nIt said that while she was not part of the organisation, \"she impressively founded a new Black-led political party and was dedicated to resist anti-Black racism\".\n\nThe group added: \"Any attempt to intimidate or silence her, is an attack on all of us.\"", "Kim Leadbeater says she is a \"proud Yorkshirewoman\" and understands the area\n\nJo Cox's sister has been chosen as the Labour candidate in the constituency the murdered MP once represented.\n\nKim Leadbeater will contest a by-election for the Batley and Spen seat on a date yet to be confirmed.\n\nThe election was prompted by the resignation as Batley MP of Tracy Brabin, who was recently elected as West Yorkshire's first regional mayor.\n\nMs Brabin was voted in as an MP in October 2016 after Ms Cox, 41, was shot and stabbed by a right-wing extremist.\n\nSpeaking after she was chosen by the constituency Labour Party, Ms Leadbeater said she was \"overwhelmed and humbled\".\n\nDuring the selection meeting, Ms Leadbeater told party members she was the candidate the Conservatives \"feared\".\n\nShe added: \"I'm a proud Yorkshirewoman and have lived in Batley and Spen all my life. I have a deep understanding of the area, its people and some of the challenges it faces.\n\n\"I feel passionately about the strength there is in such a diverse constituency.\"\n\nMother-of-two Jo Cox was murdered while doing constituency work in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on 16 June 2016\n\nMs Leadbeater, 45, who has received backing from Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, also spoke about the importance of \"strong northern voices\" representing their communities in Westminster.\n\nShe added: \"Nobody should be in any doubt about the scale of the task we have to keep Batley and Spen Labour.\"\n\nIt will be seen as a key test for the party, which lost the Hartlepool by-election to the Conservatives earlier this month.\n\nMs Brabin held Batley and Spen for Labour with a reduced majority in the general election of 2019 - down to 3,525 from 8,961 in 2017. The Conservative Party's candidate came second.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Ms Leadbeater's \"roots in the community will make her a fantastic champion\".\n\nHe added: \"Batley and Spen holds an important place in the Labour Party's heart. And Kim's work to bring people together, just as her sister Jo Cox did, has inspired us all.\"\n\nFor Kim Leadbeater, standing in this election is deeply personal, following in her murdered sister's footsteps. For the Labour Party, selecting her as their candidate is highly strategic.\n\nLabour was stung by the recent loss of the Hartelpool by-election. The leadership was blamed for losing touch with local voters and criticised for fielding a candidate from outside the constituency.\n\nThis time, in Kim Leadbeater, they hope they have one with intimate ties and an emotional appeal in the area. But having a local candidate isn't Labour's only issue.\n\nIn 2019, Labour won Batley and Spen securing about 3,500 more votes than the Conservatives. However 6,500 people voted for an independent Brexit-supporting candidate.\n\nIf many of them now turn to the Tories, Kim Leadbeater will have a tough task on her hands. In Hartlepool a similar thing happened.\n\nThere Labour's majority had been 3,500 too. But around 10,000 had supported the Brexit Party in 2019 and many switched to the Conservatives, helping them win the seat.\n\nMs Leadbeater has worked as an ambassador for the Jo Cox Foundation, which was established to campaign for issues the MP cared about.\n\nShe was appointed MBE in the New Year's Honours for her work in tackling social isolation.\n\nThe Conservatives announced on Wednesday that Ryan Stephenson, a Leeds councillor, had been selected as the party's by-election candidate.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 60 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been given in the UK, the health secretary has announced.\n\nThere were 762,361 first or second jabs on Saturday, the second highest daily total of the rollout, and more than 22 million people have now had both doses.\n\nIt comes as a study found the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines are highly effective after two doses against the variant identified in India.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency's head urged people to get their second dose.\n\nDr Jenny Harries said the study was the \"first real-world evidence of vaccine effectiveness\" against the variant and the \"straightforward message\" was for people to make sure they took up the offer of the second jab.\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, she urged the public to remain cautious to avoid another lockdown, warning of the threat from the Indian variant which has become the \"dominant strain\" in some parts of the country.\n\nThe latest government data shows 556,951 UK adults received a second jab on Saturday, meaning that 43% of the adult population - 22,643,417 people - have now been fully vaccinated.\n\nOf them 205,410 were first doses, bringing the number of people to have had one dose to 37,943,681 people, or 72% of UK adults.\n\nOnly on 20 March, when 844,285 doses were administered, have more jabs been given on a single day. But Saturday's second dose figure surpassed the previous highest daily total of 547,636 set on 24 April.\n\nAnother 2,235 new cases and five deaths within 28 days of a positive test have also been announced.\n\nPublic Health England, which ran the study into the two vaccines said they are likely to be even more effective at preventing hospital admission and deaths.\n\nSome 13,000 deaths and 39,100 hospitalisations have been prevented in the UK due to the vaccination programme up to 9 May, according to PHE analysis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Test and Trace boss urges people to go for their second jab\n\nResponding to the latest vaccination figures, the health secretary tweeted: \"This is a fantastic milestone in our fight against this virus.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone involved in our national effort. When you get the call, get the jab.\"\n\nEarlier Matt Hancock also said the PHE study's findings showed that getting both doses of the vaccine was \"absolutely vital\".\n\nHe added the research made him \"increasingly confident\" that the government was on track for the final stage of easing restrictions in England on 21 June.\n\nHowever, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there would not be a \"green light all the way\", telling the Andrew Marr Show that people have to remain \"conscientious.... following all the rules.\n\n\"That is part of our normal life now and that will continue, and that, of course, will help us to that unlocking on 21 June.\"\n\nAppointments for second doses for people in England have been brought forward from 12 to 8 weeks for those in the top nine priority groups.\n\nIt follows advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which recommended reducing the interval to counter the threat of new variants.\n\nThe variant first discovered in India - also known as B.1.617.2 - is responsible for the majority of new cases in parts of England.\n\nThe PHE study found two jabs of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the Kent one.\n\nHowever, both vaccines were only 33% effective against the Indian variant three weeks after the first dose. This compared with 50% effectiveness against the Kent variant.\n\nThe Moderna vaccine has also been used in the UK since April but the study said the numbers who had received it were too small for them to include it in their research.", "Fiame Naomi Mata'afa (pictured centre, in white) is sworn in at the makeshift ceremony\n\nSamoa's first female prime minister has been sworn into office in a tent after she was locked out of parliament by her opponent, who has refused to step down.\n\nFiame Naomi Mata'afa took the oath of office in a marquee in the parliament's gardens, leaving uncertainty over who controls the Pacific island nation.\n\nTuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, who has been prime minister for 22 years, has ignored a court order to step down.\n\nMs Mata'afa, 64, arrived at parliament on Monday expecting to be sworn in.\n\nBut the former deputy prime minister, who arrived alongside the chief justice, found herself barred from the building, which had been locked by allies of Mr Malielegaoi in advance of her arrival.\n\nSamoa's chief justice Satiu Simativa Perese was also barred from parliament in the capital Apia\n\nInstead, Ms Mata'afa and members of her Faatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (Fast) party gathered in a marquee in parliament's gardens, in the capital Apia, with supporters looking on, and were sworn in one by one.\n\nIn a statement, the Fast party said: \"Democracy must prevail, always. There can be no exceptions from this fundamental principle. Those who claim otherwise and act accordingly play with fire.\"\n\nThe ad-hoc ceremony was rejected by rivals as unofficial. Mr Malielegaoi called the improvised swearing-in ceremony \"illegal and unlawful\".\n\nThe controversy comes a month after the closest-run general election in Samoa's history, which was followed by bitter disputes and legal challenges.\n\nFiame Naomi Mata'afa had served as first deputy prime minister\n\nMr Malielegaoi's Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) was ousted from power after four decades by Ms Mata'afa's insurgent Fast party. Both parties won 25 seats, but a single independent MP broke the tie in favour of the Fast.\n\nThat led to legal manoeuvring by the HRPP, which claimed its opponents had not correctly met the quota of female MPs. Samoa's election commission revoked the results of the April vote and called a fresh election for 21 May.\n\nBut five days ahead of the re-run, the supreme court ruled against the HRPP, re-endorsing the results of the election and ordering the swearing in of Ms Mata'afa to go ahead.\n\nTuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, the world's second-longest service prime minister, is refusing to step down\n\nAfter 22 years in charge, Mr Malielegaoi is the world's second longest-serving prime minister.\n\nAfter serving as Polynesia's first female deputy prime minister, Ms Mata'afa success in the general election makes her only the second woman in the region to head a government.\n\nShe is the daughter of the country's first prime minister, and has been politically active since the mid-1980s.", "The new parliament was officially opened by King George V in June 1921\n\nIt is exactly 100 years since the first election was held in Northern Ireland.\n\nOn 24 May 1921, voters went to the polls across the newly-created state and elected 52 members to a new parliament in Belfast.\n\nAn overwhelming majority of the successful candidates, 40, were unionists.\n\nAlso elected were six Sinn Féin representatives, including Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera, although they refused to take their seats.\n\nSir James Craig was the first prime minister of Northern Ireland\n\nUnionists hailed the result as a significant victory and believed it copper-fastened the new border, following the partition of Ireland.\n\nHowever, with six seats going to Sinn Féin and six to nationalist candidates, the political divide within the new state was clear.\n\nThe election, which used a proportional representation system, was held exactly three weeks after Northern Ireland became a legal entity on 3 May and the poll marked a tangible sign of the new state taking shape.\n\nMembers of the new parliament gathered inside Belfast City Hall to hear from King George V\n\nIndeed, some historians have suggested it could be argued that May 24 is the political birthdate of Northern Ireland, rather than May 3 which was more of a technical milestone.\n\nThe parliament was similar to the Westminster model with an upper house, the Senate and a 52-member lower chamber, the House of Commons.\n\nTwo weeks after the May election, the Commons met for the first time in Belfast and unionist leader Sir James Craig was appointed Northern Ireland's first prime minister.\n\nJust over half a million people voted in the election, which amounted to almost 90% of those entitled to vote at the time.\n\nHistorian Dr Éamon Phoenix said the unionist triumph was not surprising.\n\n\"Unionism was a class alliance between the shipyard worker, the small farmer and the industrialist in the big house - they were all together,\" he said.\n\n\"Nationalism was divided - you had a rift between Joe Devlin's [nationalist] home rulers and Sinn Féin who looked south and hoped to undo these partition arrangements.\n\n\"The result was an overwhelming unionist victory.\"\n\nDr Phoenix said the absence of an opposition within the new Commons proved to be significant.\n\n\"It wasn't until the mid-late 1920s that the nationalists took their seats in the Northern Ireland Parliament and, of course, this was a major problem because the groundwork of the state in terms of law and order, education had been laid down in those critical, bitter violent years.\"\n\nThe new parliament was set up by the 1920 Government of Ireland Act which divided the island in two, with separate parliaments in Belfast and Dublin.\n\nThe 128-seat House of Commons in the newly-created Southern Ireland only met briefly as Sinn Féin boycotted it, even though it won almost all of the seats.\n\nSinn Féin's Michael Collins refused to take his seat in the new parliament\n\nThe party treated the election in the south as a second election to the independent parliament, the Dáil, which was set up in Dublin in 1919 in defiance of British rule.\n\nIn total, 124 Sinn Féin candidates were elected unopposed, along with four southern unionists elected for the University of Dublin (Trinity College).\n\nNo actual polling took place as the candidates were unopposed.\n\nThe elections took place against a background of violence, with sectarian tensions high and the Anglo-Irish war raging.\n\nWithin two months, a truce had been agreed in the war and negotiations began which led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, and more political changes.\n\nElection posters such as this one were produced\n\nHowever, the border remained, and the May 1921 election had helped to secure it.\n\nHistorian Dr Marie Coleman, a member of the panel of historians advising the UK government on the centenary of Northern Ireland, recently wrote about the election.\n\nShe stated: \"Home Rule had finally been implemented in Ireland, but ironically it was the Ulster unionists who had been so strongly opposed to the idea a decade previously upon whom it was conferred.\n\n\"The partition of Ireland was now a reality.\"\n\nThe BBC News NI website has a dedicated section marking the 100th anniversary of the creation of Northern Ireland and partition of the island.\n\nThere are special reports on the major figures of the time and the events that shaped modern Ireland available at bbc.co.uk/ni100.\n\nYear '21: You can also explore how Northern Ireland was created a hundred years ago in the company of Tara Mills and Declan Harvey.\n\nListen to the latest Year '21 podcast on BBC Sounds or catch-up on previous episodes.", "The UK's third largest steel maker, Liberty Steel, has announced plans to sell off its Stocksbridge steel plant as part of a restructuring plan.\n\nIt says the move will allow it to pay back one of its main creditors in full.\n\nThe announcement comes after a meeting over the weekend in Dubai between Liberty boss Sanjeev Gupta and representatives of Credit Suisse.\n\nThe investment bank lost more than £1bn when Mr Gupta's main financial backer Greensill Capital went bust in March.\n\nMr Gupta is now struggling to finance his UK operations, and 5,000 steel jobs at Liberty hang in the balance.\n\nHis global steel business, GFG Alliance, is also under investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office.\n\nCredit Suisse have agreed to pause their court proceedings against Mr Gupta's empire while the sale of Stocksbridge is conducted.\n\nThe sale will also include Stocksbridge's downstream plants, which include the narrow strip mill at Brinsworth, and Performance Steels at West Bromwich which will be launched shortly.\n\nThe aerospace industry is a major customer of the Stocksbridge plant and the acute distress in that industry has seen demand for steel made at Stocksbridge plummet.\n\nSources close to Liberty Steel conceded that it was not clear what, if any, value would be realised in a sale.\n\nThey also said they were looking at other options apart from an outright sale including joint ventures with third parties.\n\nHowever, offloading Stocksbridge would reduce the demands on the capital of the overall group and might therefore be attractive to creditors like Credit Suisse.\n\nThe move would allow Liberty to focus on its Rotherham plant which recycles scrap steel into new.\n\nSources close to Credit Suisse described the developments as \"inching towards a solution\".\n\nHowever, Liberty Steel insiders conceded that the launching of investigations into the relationship between Liberty and its now-defunct backer, Greensill, by both the Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Conduct Authority were complications in refinancing the UK's third largest steel maker.\n\nA spokesperson for the National Trade Union Steel Coordinating Committee, said: \"Stocksbridge and its downstream plants are strategically important businesses vital to our country's defence, energy and aerospace sectors.\n\n\"The future for these businesses must be secured and the trade unions will hold Sanjeev Gupta to his promise that none of our steel plants will close on his watch.\n\n\"Liberty must act as a responsible seller and run a transparent sales process which fully engages the trade unions. We will expect to meet any potential buyer to scrutinise their plans and test their commitment to the workforce and our industry.\"\n\nThe Labour Party said the government should ensure Stocksbridge remained open, arguing the government should have a \"plan B\" in case the sale failed to secure the plant's future.\n\n\"Public ownership must remain an option on the table,\" said shadow business secretary Ed Miliband.\n\nLabour metro mayor for the Sheffield City Region Dan Jarvis said the government should be \"prepared to help provide finance to bridge any transition period until a new buyer is found\".\n\nIn a series of comments on social media, business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng wrote that he was \"monitoring developments closely\".\n\n\"There is a future for steel-making in the UK, and I remain committed to supporting the sector's low-carbon transition to protect high-quality jobs,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"I'll be meeting the company, trade unions and local MPs over the coming days.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has denied claims the government pursued a herd immunity policy early in the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's ex-aide Dominic Cummings has said in tweets that the UK's original plan was to let the virus spread through the population - achieving so-called \"herd immunity\".\n\nMr Cummings said No 10 later realised it would be a \"catastrophe\".\n\nBut the UK Health Security Agency chief said allowing people to become infected \"has never been on the agenda\".\n\nDr Jenny Harries said she had \"never been in a government meeting where herd immunity was put forward as a mechanism of control\" for the pandemic.\n\n\"But bear in mind I would not have been in most of the high-level ones as deputy chief medical officer,\" she said.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr whether herd immunity had been government policy at the beginning of the Covid pandemic - before a vaccine had been created - Ms Patel replied \"absolutely not\".\n\nShe said she would not comment on what Mr Cummings would say ahead of his appearance in front of a parliamentary committee this week, but added \"our strategy was always about public health, saving lives and protecting the NHS\".\n\nAlso speaking to Andrew Marr, Dr Harries said that the term herd immunity had been \"misinterpreted\".\n\nShe said there was a difference between the widespread immunity achieved through vaccinations, and herd immunity produced by allowing the public to catch the virus naturally.\n\n\"What you're looking at in a population is to try and see at which point your population would be safe, and this is what we do with this very successful vaccination programme,\" she said.\n\n\"That's not the same as saying... that the aim would be to allow people to become infected and develop herd immunity.\n\n\"That has never been on the agenda but you would always look to see how safe you can get your population through a vaccination programme.\"\n\nHerd immunity is a term used to mean that most people are immune to a particular disease.\n\nThis means that the disease is much less likely to spread from person to person, so those who are not immune are at reduced risk of illness.\n\nThe more infectious a disease is, the greater the number of people that need to be immune in order to reach the threshold where the unprotected are safe.\n\nThere are two ways of achieving herd immunity: First is through the natural progression of the disease, which will cause illness and death as people become infected. The second is through vaccination.\n\nAdding to a series of tweets Mr Cummings began a week ago, the former No 10 advisor referred to the government's handling of Covid as a \"disaster\".\n\nOn Saturday evening, he said the \"official plan in all the documents, graphs and meetings\" at the outset of the pandemic was to achieve so-called \"herd immunity\" by September 2020.\n\nHe added: \"How herd immunity could have been the plan is a fundamental issue in the whole disaster\", adding it was only changed after \"No 10 was made aware... it would lead to catastrophe\".\n\nIn addition to saying \"awful decisions\" were made, and \"lives and money\" were \"needlessly lost\" he also said \"if competent people had been in charge\" lockdowns may have been avoided.\n\nFollowing Ms Patel's interview on Sunday morning, he said herd immunity had not been a \"secret\" policy but \"official strategy\" explained on TV and radio.\n\nHe said herd immunity had been viewed as \"unavoidable\" until 9 March when government policy started to shift to \"Plan B\" - to \"dodge herd immunity until vaccines [were available]\".\n\nHe continued to tweet on the subject throughout Sunday and ahead of his appearance on Wednesday before the Commons Health and Science Select Committee which is considering lessons to be learned from the pandemic.\n\nMr Cummings was the prime minister's closest political aide, and in the room when decisions were being made early in the pandemic.\n\nBut, since parting ways with his boss last November, he has become a trenchant critic of Mr Johnson's actions.\n\nEarly on in the pandemic the government's chief scientific adviser's comments about herd immunity attracted attention.\n\nOn 13 March 2020, Sir Patrick Vallance told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the government's aim was to \"try and reduce the peak - not suppress it completely, also because most people get a mild illness, to build up some degree of herd immunity whilst protecting the most vulnerable\".\n\nSir Patrick later insisted that herd immunity was \"not the plan\" and the Department of Health said his comments had been misinterpreted adding: \"Herd immunity is not part of our action plan but is a natural by-product of an epidemic.\"", "Video posted on social media showed what appeared to be the packed plane, mid-flight\n\nAn Indian couple reportedly chartered a plane and held a mid-air wedding with more than 160 guests in an effort to escape coronavirus restrictions.\n\nVideo footage posted on social media appeared to show the couple and their guests packed into the hired jet.\n\nThe state of Tamil Nadu, where the flight was said to have originated, recently imposed tougher restrictions, limiting weddings to 50 guests.\n\nIndia's aviation authority has launched an investigation, reports said.\n\nAn official from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) told the Times of India that the SpiceJet staff aboard the flight had been taken off duty.\n\nA SpiceJet spokesperson told the Indian Express that the Boeing 737 was booked from Madurai to Bangalore by a travel agent for a trip after a wedding.\n\nThe spokesperson said the client was \"clearly briefed on Covid guidelines to be followed and denied permission for any activity to be performed on board\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DONTHU RAMESH This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIndia is suffering a devastating second wave of coronavirus that has killed at least 300,000 people, according to official figures. Experts estimate that the real death toll is far higher.\n\nHospitals and crematoriums in the country have been overwhelmed in recent weeks, leading to severe oxygen shortages and bodies being burned around the clock.\n\nMany families unable to afford the costs of cremation have illegally buried their loved ones on the banks of the river Ganges or pushed their bodies into the river's waters, raising fears that the death toll is being significantly under-counted.", "Cineworld enjoyed a \"strong opening weekend\" in the UK as film fans rushed back to cinemas, led by demand for Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.\n\nThe chain said more people than expected returned as lockdown eased and it now anticipates \"a good recovery in attendance over the coming months\".\n\nIt also saw \"good concession income\" as families snapped up popcorn to accompany their viewing.\n\nThe UK-owned chain has seen huge losses due to closures during the pandemic.\n\nIn November the business, which owns cinemas across Europe and the US, was even in talks over a rescue deal that would have meant shutting UK sites.\n\nOn Monday, it said it was \"thrilled\" to have its UK and and US cinemas open again.\n\n\"We are especially pleased with the warm welcome our employees have received, and the positive feedback from returning guests,\" said chief executive Mooky Greidinger.\n\nThe world's second-largest cinema chain said more than 97% of its US cinemas had now reopened, while most of its screens in the rest of the world were expected to be open by the end of the month.\n\nThe chain hopes that crowds will keep coming with the releases next week of Cruella, and A Quiet Place 2 next weekend.\n\nIt said its success was down to \"improving consumer confidence and the success of the vaccination rollout\".\n\nRuss Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said: \"Cinema operators have been waiting for this moment for a long time, keeping their fingers crossed that consumers would feel confident enough to return to the big screen.\n\nBut he pointed out the \"strong weekend\" came as atrocious weather hit many parts of the UK. \"What happens if we finally get some good weather this weekend and from then on?\"\n\nHe warned that cinemas rely for success on the quality of the films available \"and there aren't that many big films lined up for release until later in the summer\".\n\nThe cinema industry has been one of the worst hit sectors during the pandemic with many theatres closed for extended periods or operating at reduced capacity.\n\nGlobal box office takings in 2020 fell by more than 70% from the previous year to $12.4bn, according film technology firm Gower Street Analytics.\n\nMajor releases such as the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, have been delayed a number of times because of Covid.\n\nThe much-anticipated sci-fi movie Dune, starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya, was originally slated to be released in December 2020, but is now set to premiere in October 2021.", "The BBC understands that the number of missed appointments at the Hydro was higher on Sunday than on Saturday\n\nAround half of people who were due to get a Covid jab at a mass vaccination centre in Glasgow failed to turn up over the weekend.\n\nThe BBC has learned a \"considerable\" number of no shows were recorded on both Saturday and Sunday at the Hydro.\n\nThe venue can administer a minimum of 4,000 vaccinations each day, with a capacity to scale up to 10,000.\n\nIt comes amid efforts to accelerate vaccination following a rise in cases in the city.\n\nThe BBC understands that the number of missed appointments at the Hydro was higher on Sunday than on Saturday.\n\nBoth NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Scottish government said they were looking into the issue to establish if it was a localised issue or more widespread.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives suggested there may have been an issue with people receiving their vaccination appointment letter on time while the Lib Dems pointed to younger age groups who they said \"move frequently\" and have less contact with their GP.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf received his first jab on Monday\n\nIn Scotland, people are invited to vaccine appointments, usually by letter, rather than booking slots themselves.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf, who received his first jab on Monday, said there had been a \"slight increase\" in those not attending appointments.\n\nHe said: \"My plea would be to please attend and if you can't attend the appointment you're given of course you do have details where you can switch appointments, rearrange and reschedule - which is really important to do.\"\n\nGlasgow City currently has the second highest coronavirus rate in Scotland at 136.8 cases per 100,000 people, having recorded 866 new positive tests in the seven days to 21 May.\n\nClackmannanshire has overtaken it for the highest case rate, at 139.7 per 100,000 although the number of positive tests is much smaller, at 72.\n\nGlasgow is the only council area in Scotland under level three Covid restrictions amid concerns over the prevalence of the variant first identified in India - referred to as the April 02 variant by the Scottish government.\n\nPeople aged 18 to 39 who live in postcodes G41, G42, G5, G51 or G52 in the southside of Glasgow are being offered jabs early to tackle surging cases.\n\nMobile testing units have been set up in some parts of Glasgow\n\nThe national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, confirmed there were bigger numbers of non-attendees than expected and that it was being looked into.\n\nHe told Radio Scotland's Drivetime with John Beattie: \"It's not simple, it will be a mixture of reasons. Some of it will be our fault, because we didn't send letters in time or the appointments didn't go where they were supposed to go.\n\n\"Some of it will be vaccine hesitancy and some will be complacency. But it doesn't matter if you didn't attend, we just want you to come. Make a new appointment and come back.\"\n\nHe also said he was optimistic that case numbers in Glasgow would stabilise and that the city might be able to move down to level two next week.\n\nThe Scottish government is now inviting 18-29 years to self-register after a successful trial for unpaid carers.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"This age group is particularly mobile and having the ability to text these groups means they will receive details of their vaccination appointment regardless of where they are.\n\n\"This is particularly relevant for students who may have registered with a GP near their term time address but be heading home for the holidays. Therefore, once they receive their appointment details vie text or email they simply contact the helpline should they need to change the location.\"\n\nThe service is open between 24 May and 4 June and those who register for their vaccination during this period will be allocated the first available slots from mid-June until the end of July.\n\nBut anyone in this age group who does not register for whatever reason will still receive a blue envelope appointment.\n\nTo sign up, visit nhsinform.scot/under30register or call 0800 030 8013.\n\nUniversity of St Andrews psychologist Prof Stephen Reicher, who advises the UK and Scottish governments, said the message should be that it is important to get both jabs. But he said it was not as simple as assuming people were to blame for not going for their vaccinations.\n\nHe said: \"Sometimes it's a matter of practicality. Getting to the SECC if you have caring responsibilities over the weekend, or if you are a single parent and you have got to take a couple of buses to get there, it is quite tricky.\n\n\"It makes sense that rather than ask people to come to you, to go into communities, take mobile labs there to get people vaccinated.\n\n\"We also need to talk to people and understand what their concerns are.\"\n\nHospital admissions in Glasgow have increased recently, and the health secretary said the Scottish government would be monitoring whether this figure translates into more severe cases which require ICU 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 Scot Gov Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Yousaf also said this new variant meant it was \"vitally important\" that people received both doses of the vaccination when it was offered.\n\n\"The second dose offers greater and longer lasting protection, and should not be missed,\" he said.\n\n\"We want everyone to come forward for a vaccine and we continue to work with community organisations to address any barriers people may experience to ensure that everyone is able to get an appointment.\n\n\"The vaccines we have are extremely safe and highly effective.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservative health spokeswoman Annie Wells said the number of missed vaccine appointments was \"extremely concerning\" and called for further transparency from the government on the issue.\n\nShe said: \"If there are any issues with people receiving their appointment letters on time, then SNP ministers must give health boards the resources to ensure that people's details are fully up-to-date.\n\n\"That is even more important now as we encourage younger people to take up the vaccine and ensure we can safely ease restrictions in the coming weeks.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP added: \"Younger age groups are more likely to move frequently and have less contact with their GPs so the government should be exploring a range of options as to how they can get people registered and get their jab.\n\n\"If you did not receive your letter, please check with your GP.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's energy regulator has approved plans to invest £300m in low carbon projects including support for 3,550 charging points for electric vehicles.\n\nOfgem said the funds would allow energy networks to build robust electricity infrastructure for installing charging points across UK motorways.\n\nIt said while more people are buying electric cars, others are put off due to a lack of charging points near home.\n\nOfgem said a wider charging network would help address \"range anxiety\".\n\nThe new funding will support the infrastructure needed to support 1,800 new ultra-rapid charging points at motorway service areas.\n\nThere are currently 918 ultra-rapid charge points in the UK which can add a range of 100 miles to an electric car in around 30 minutes.\n\nThe investment will also allow an additional 1,750 rapid charging points to be installed. In addition to motorways, cities and train stations will also see increased network capacity to support more charging points.\n\nIn total, the UK has nearly 24,000 charging points, which have more than 41,000 connectors - or cables - that can be plugged into an electric car, according to electric vehicle app and website Zap-Map.\n\n\"As drivers make the switch from petrol and diesel to electric, Britain's cables, substations and other infrastructure need a massive upgrade to support this new demand for electricity,\" Ofgem said.\n\nWhen it comes to public charging points for electric cars, the UK isn't doing too badly.\n\nAccording to Zap-Map, there are nearly 24,000 chargers installed around the country. That's less than half the number available in the Netherlands, but not far short of what France and Germany have to offer. It's also more than double the number available in 2018.\n\nBut with the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to be banned from 2030, more infrastructure is needed, and Ofgem has acknowledged that fact.\n\nToday's announcement is not a game changer, but rather a statement of intent. Some 1,800 ultra-fast chargers, capable of charging car batteries in minutes rather than hours, will be installed across the motorway network - as reassurance for electric vehicle drivers who want to embark on long journeys.\n\nThe £300m investment is, relatively speaking, a drop in the ocean. But it forms part of a much bigger £40bn investment programme for the energy network as a whole approved last year.\n\nIt's likely a much more significant portion of those funds will ultimately be allocated towards getting the country ready for electric vehicles.\n\nThe investment, which will be made over two years, will also support the provision of more \"clean\", low carbon electric heating for homes and businesses.\n\nSales of new cars powered solely by petrol or diesel will be banned in the UK from 2030.\n\nA recent report by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) found that while demand for electric vehicles is growing in the UK - accounting for one in 10 car registrations last year - it was mainly fuelled by businesses or buyers of fleets.\n\n\"Just 4.6% of new consumer vehicles were battery powered,\" it said.\n\nSo far, the installation of charging points has mainly been concentrated in London and the South East. Ofgem said the investment by energy networks would support more ultra-rapid charge points in cities such as Glasgow, Kirkwall, Warrington, Llandudno, York and Truro.\n\nWhile the number of charging points in the UK is growing, it is still far short of the estimated 2.7 million the SMMT said the country would need by 2030, the vast majority of which need to be available for people who park their cars on a nearby street at home.\n\n\"Drivers need certainty that they can recharge their vehicle conveniently and on demand,\" it said. \"For many, that means using a charging point at home.\n\n\"However, at least one in three households rely on on-street parking as they have no driveway or garage and still more have no designated off-street parking.\"\n\nThe SMMT said that to accommodate these drivers \"there must be a commitment to expand on-street public charging in residential areas\".", "Former motorsport boss Max Mosley, who later became a privacy campaigner, has died aged 81.\n\nEx-Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone said it was \"like losing a brother\".\n\nMr Mosley, who had been suffering from cancer, led motorsport's governing body the FIA from 1993 to 2009.\n\nHe also campaigned for tighter press regulation after winning £60,000 damages from the News of the World when it wrongly published a story alleging he had attended a Nazi-themed orgy.\n\nMr Mosley, in his role as FIA president, initiated widespread reforms of safety procedures in Formula 1 following the death of Ayrton Senna in 1994.\n\nMr Ecclestone added: \"He did, a lot of good things not just for motorsport, also the [car] industry. He was very good in making sure people built cars that were safe.\"\n\nCurrent FIA president Jean Todt said in a tweet he was \"deeply saddened\" by the news, adding that Mr Mosley \"strongly contributed to reinforcing safety on track and on the roads\".\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesman for F1 described Mr Mosley as \"a huge figure in the transition\" of the sport.\n\nMr Mosley - the son of 1930s British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley - took his privacy action against Sunday tabloid the News of the World in 2008 over the paper's story.\n\nThe newspaper had secretly filmed him with five prostitutes and later published a front-page story.\n\nA judge ruled there was no substance to the allegation that there had been a Nazi theme to the sex party and found that his privacy had been breached. The High Court also said the article was not in the public interest.\n\nAlthough Mr Mosley was awarded damages, everyone had learned the details of his sexual preferences, and he argued money alone could not restore his reputation.\n\nHe went on to seek reform of celebrity privacy laws, making a bid in 2011 for newspapers to warn people before exposing their private lives.\n\nHis case was unsuccessful, but it led Mr Mosley to use some of his family fortune to support victims of the Fleet Street phone-hacking scandal.\n\nHe also backed the independent press regulator Impress through a family charity, which Mr Mosley set up in his son Alexander's memory, after he died in 2009.\n\nMr Mosley said in 2011 that the story had a \"very bad effect\" on Alexander, whose death was ruled as being due to non-dependent drug abuse.\n\nImpress chief executive Ed Procter said Mr Mosley improved access to justice for victims of press misconduct and put \"his own resources behind efforts to ensure that these issues will not be forgotten\".\n\nHacked Off, which was set up in response to phone-hacking, said it was thanks to Mr Mosley's \"courage and generosity that the movement for a more ethical press remains so effective today\".\n\nAnd media lawyer Mark Stephens, who represented phone-hacking victims, described Mr Mosley as \"effectively the author of modern privacy law\".\n\nWith a family history that ruled him out of politics, Max Mosley turned his brilliant, devious mind to motorsport\n\nMax Mosley was one of the most influential and important figures in motorsport over the last half-century - and also among the most controversial.\n\nWith a brilliant intellect and a devious, sometimes malicious mind, he was arguably better suited to a career in politics.\n\nBut he was the son of the 1930s British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, and in his youth was involved in his father's post-war political party the Union Movement. He realised his personal history would prevent him from entering Parliament, so he directed his attention towards motorsport instead.\n\nMosley was a fascinating and contradictory character. Urbane and charming, he was never less than engaging on a personal level.\n\nBut not everyone felt so kindly towards this patrician and sometimes patronising figure. Mosley had a vindictive streak. His political and legal abilities were widely admired, but not everyone found him easy to like.\n\nBorn in London on 13 April, 1940, Mr Mosley studied physics at Christ Church, Oxford, and later turned to law and became a barrister.\n\nAfter a brief career as a racing driver in the late 1960s, in which he rose to race in Formula 2, he co-founded the racing car constructor March in 1970 with Robin Herd, Alan Rees and Graham Coaker - the company name formed from the initial letters of their surnames.\n\nThe company won its first three Formula 1 races in 1970 and later diversified into other forms of motorsport, but by the end of 1977 Mr Mosley had left the company to work full-time in motorsport politics.\n\nHe joined forces with Bernie Ecclestone at the Formula 1 Constructors' Association (FOCA) and the two fought a bitter political war for control of the sport with the governing body, then called FISA, in 1980 and 1981.\n\nThe arguments were finally settled with the so-called Concorde Agreement, which essentially set up the structure of the sport that remains in place to this day - FOCA, later to be renamed F1, held the commercial rights, while FISA controlled the rules.\n\nMax Mosley at his wedding to Jean Taylor in London in 1960\n\nMr Mosley left motorsport in 1982 to work for the Conservative Party but returned four years later to become president of the FISA manufacturers' commission.\n\nHe used the role as a springboard to launch a bid for the presidency of FISA in 1991. Mr Mosley then became president of its parent body the FIA, the international automobile federation, when the two were merged in 1993.\n\nHe quickly established a modus operandi as a president who was proactive, provocative and controversial.\n\nIn 1993, he instigated a ban on driver aids such as traction control and active suspension against the wishes of the teams. And his combative approach, in which he used a vast intellect to devise clever strategy and often Machiavellian tactics, continued over his near two-decade stay in his role.\n\nHis biggest challenge came a year later, when Ayrton Senna was killed in an accident at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix that was broadcast live around the world - just 24 hours after Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger died in a crash during qualifying for the same race.\n\nAs a global sporting icon, and an almost God-like figure in his native Brazil, Mr Senna's death raised serious questions about safety in Formula 1, and world leaders contacted Mr Mosley questioning the sport's position.\n\nRecognising the threat to the sport's existence, Mr Mosley introduced a series of changes to the cars, setting in motion a new approach whereby the safety of the drivers and spectators was central to the ethos of motorsport and attempts were made to constantly improve it.\n\nIn this, he was backed by Mr Ecclestone, and supported by the FIA medical delegate Professor Sid Watkins and the FIA F1 director Charlie Whiting. Together they changed the face of the sport.\n\nMax Mosley became a prominent privacy campaigner after winning his 2008 legal action\n\nAs FIA president he also turned his attention to road cars, and was central in introducing the EuroNCAP crash testing programme.\n\nThis required manufacturers to meet minimum safety standards in their cars for the first time and has played a significant role in reducing the number of deaths in road accidents.\n\nBut the longer Mr Mosley remained in situ, the more F1 teams began to become uncomfortable with what they saw as an authoritarian and arbitrary approach, along with sometimes questionable methods and motives.\n\nMr Mosley's reputation with the F1 teams was badly damaged by his deal to remove the TV rights to F1 from Foca and sell them on a 100-year lease to Mr Ecclestone's companies for what many considered to be a paltry one-off figure of $360m in 1995.\n\nHis antagonistic style of running the sport continued through the 2000s and the beginning of the end of his time at the FIA came with the News Of The World's story.\n\nHe survived the initial outcry but when in 2009 he tried to introduce a budget cap into F1, the big teams had had enough.\n\nThe latest of many political fights began, and this time Mr Mosley lost. The major teams and car manufacturers threatened to set up a rival championship, and to bring them back into the fold Mr Mosley had to agree not to seek a further term as president when his latest one expired in October 2009.", "James Wolffe and Alison Di Rollo will remain in their posts until replacements are appointed\n\nScotland's top law officers have confirmed they are leaving their posts.\n\nLord Advocate James Wolffe QC and Solicitor General Alison Di Rollo QC have said they will continue in their roles until replacements are appointed.\n\nThe lord advocate is the head of Scotland's prosecution body and is the principal legal adviser to the Scottish government. The solicitor general is his deputy.\n\nThere have been calls for the lord advocate's role to be split.\n\nIn England and Wales, there is an attorney general who gives legal advice to the UK government, as well as a director of public prosecutions.\n\nIn February, former first minister Alex Salmond said Mr Wolffe should resign over his role in the Scottish government's handling of harassment complaints against him.\n\nSpeaking before a Scottish Parliament inquiry into the affair in March, Mr Wolffe denied any political influence relating to Mr Salmond's criminal prosecution, which ultimately saw him acquitted of 13 charges at Edinburgh's High Court last year.\n\nMr Wolffe told the Holyrood committee: \"Any suggestion, from any quarter, that the Crown's decision-making has at any time been influenced by irrelevant considerations or improper motivations would be wholly without foundation.\n\n\"Insinuation and assertions to the contrary are baseless.\"\n\nThe controversy led to suggestion from Scottish Labour that the roles should be separated.\n\nAnd following news of the resignations, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Liam McArthur said: \"With the departure of the lord advocate this is an opportunity to consider how the role works going forward.\n\n\"Scottish Liberal Democrats believe that now is the time to separate the lord advocate's position as the Scottish government's legal advisor and appoint an independent director of prosecutions to run the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.\"\n\nMr Wolffe also made a public apology over the wrongful prosecution of two men following a fraud investigation relating to the sale of Rangers.\n\nHe was not the lord advocate at the time of the initial prosecutions of David Whitehouse and Paul Clark.\n\nThey had been appointed joint administrators of the club in 2012 but were arrested in 2014 regarding their involvement with the administration.\n\nThe pair were later awarded more than £20m after charges brought against them were either dropped or dismissed.\n\nIt is not uncommon for Scotland's law officers to change after a Holyrood election but it doesn't happen every time.\n\nThe departure of the current lord advocate and solicitor general comes after a period of sustained controversy for the Crown Office.\n\nThe Salmond case raised questions about the dual role of law officers - as independent prosecutors and as ministers in, and legal advisers to, the Scottish government.\n\nThe SNP manifesto committed to considering whether that dual role should end and to a wider review of the prosecution system.\n\nBoth will take place under new leadership to be nominated by Nicola Sturgeon and approved by parliament and the Queen.\n\nWhoever is appointed will have an important role in certifying whether or not any indyref2 bill is within Holyrood's law making powers.\n\nThe pair were appointed as Scotland's two law officers in 2016.\n\nPrior to taking on their roles, Mr Wolffe was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and Ms Di Rollo was head of the National Sexual Crimes Unit.\n\nTheir successors will be nominated by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, then approved by the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe parliament will then recommend the new law officers' appointment to the Queen.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the lord advocate informed the first minister last year that he intended to leave office after this month's election, and then confirmed his intention before her re-election by the Scottish Parliament as first minister.\n\nHe added that the solicitor general had now confirmed she intended to stand down at the same time.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is for the first minister to nominate new law officers and, subject to approval of her nominees by the Scottish Parliament, to recommend their appointment to Her Majesty the Queen.\n\n\"The current law officers intend to remain in office until the new law officers are appointed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There will be an investigation into the re-hiring of Martin Bashir, says BBC chairman Richard Sharp\n\nThe BBC is to review its editorial practices and investigate how journalist Martin Bashir was rehired, following an inquiry into his interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nLord Dyson's report found the BBC covered up \"deceitful behaviour\" used by Bashir to secure the interview.\n\nThe BBC board accepted the findings in full and reiterated its apology.\n\nCulture minister John Whittingdale told MPs that the BBC had \"damaged its reputation\" in the UK and abroad.\n\nThe inquiry, published last week, found Bashir had faked bank statements designed to suggest Princess Diana was under surveillance - to win the trust of her brother Earl Spencer, and eventually gain access to the princess for the 1995 Panorama interview.\n\nAs media interest in the interview increased, the BBC covered up what it had learned about how Bashir secured the interview, the inquiry said.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said his mother was failed \"not just by a rogue reporter\" but by BBC bosses.\n\nThe BBC rehired Bashir as religion correspondent in 2016, when questions had already been asked about his conduct.\n\nIt said the post was filled after a competitive interview process.\n\nBut Mr Knight, chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, told the House of Commons on Monday the BBC rehired and promoted Bashir \"who they know was a liar.\"\n\nHe said: \"My sources suggest Mr Bashir wasn't interviewed, he was simply appointed. Hardly a highly competitive process.\"\n\nHowever, the BBC said Mr Knight was not correct on that point, adding: \"We can confirm there was an interview process for this position, and that Martin Bashir was interviewed as part of that.\"\n\nMr Knight also said the Dyson report left more unanswered questions such as \"who was precisely involved in the 25-year cover-up and instituted the action against whistleblowers?\"\n\nHe also asked: \"Was Bashir rehired in essence so that he would keep his mouth shut?\"\n\nBashir, who was promoted to religion editor after his rehiring, has since resigned without a pay-off.\n\nThe BBC board said in a statement it hoped to ensure the \"mistakes of the past\" could not be repeated.\n\n\"We accepted Lord Dyson's findings in full and reiterate the apology we have offered to all those affected by the failings identified,\" it said.\n\n\"We recognise the impact that the events it describes has had on so many people, not least those whose lives were personally affected by what happened. We also acknowledge that audiences had a right to expect better from the BBC.\"\n\nThe board said it had \"confidence\" that the \"processes and guidelines in today's BBC are much stronger than they were in 1995\".\n\nBut it said \"it is right that we review the effectiveness of the BBC's editorial policies and governance in detail\".\n\nDame Melanie Dawes, Ofcom's chief executive, said: \"We've told the BBC that we expect its review to draw from a range of broadcasting expertise. We have also highlighted the need for greater openness and transparency at the BBC in order to maintain public trust, and will pay close attention to the review as it proceeds.\"\n\nBBC chairman Richard Sharp told the BBC's World at One: \"I take comfort from the fact that Martin Bashir is no longer here. I don't take comfort yet from understanding why he was rehired. We will find that out.\"\n\nAsked what he knew of Bashir's rehiring, including whether due diligence was carried out, he said: \"I actually don't know, that is being examined by the executive and they will report to the board on that. \"I want to see the facts.\"\n\nMr Sharp said that there was \"no doubt... that the practices adopted in advance of the interview were entirely unacceptable in any ethical news journalism broadcasting entity, and that was a clear failure\".\n\nHe added: \"It's also clear that the approach to reviewing the programme and the practices failed. And that's a separate failure which was identified in the prince's statement to do with governance, accountability and scrutiny.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Whittingdale told the Commons on Monday the government should not interfere in editorial decisions, but ensure there was \"a strong and robust system of governance at the BBC with effective external oversight.\"\n\nHe said: \"The BBC has been and should be a beacon, setting standards to which others can aspire. That it has fallen short so badly has damaged its reputation both here and across the world.\"\n\nMr Whittingdale said there was \"no question of dismantling the BBC or defunding it\".\n\nThe BBC now needs urgently to demonstrate that these failings have been addressed and that this can never happen again, he said.\n\nThe Panorama interview featured Princess Diana giving an extraordinarily frank account of her marriage to the Prince of Wales, famously saying \"there were three of us in this marriage\" - a reference to her husband's affair with the future Duchess of Cornwall and admitting to an affair of her own.\n\nRichard Sharp's intervention is significant partly because it is the first time a BBC figure has spoken since Prince William's statement.\n\nHe made clear that his concern was not only the (lack of) integrity of the original broadcast, but the \"culture\" that allowed Bashir's deceit and the subsequent \"woeful\" investigation.\n\nThe focus of this story is moving on, as Sharp acknowledged, to why Bashir was rehired by the BBC in 2016.\n\nHe was an employee of the BBC until this month.\n\nAs the clamour for reforms grow, this re-entry of Bashir to the BBC, and his subsequent promotion, undermines any hopes the corporation had that it could argue this all belongs to the past.\n\nJames Harding, who was director of BBC News when Bashir was rehired, said last week that he had not known the journalist had forged bank statements and, had he known, \"he wouldn't have got the job\".\n\nAsked about whether he had consulted then-director general Lord Hall about the reappointment, Mr Harding, who left the BBC at the beginning of 2018, did not answer directly but said he himself took responsibility for Bashir's rehiring.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Responsibility for rehiring Martin Bashir \"sits with me\", says the BBC's former news director James Harding\n\nLord Dyson's report, published last Thursday, said the BBC had fallen short of \"high standards of integrity and transparency\" over the interview.\n\nThe report said an internal BBC investigation in 1996, led by Lord Hall, into the initial complaints had been \"woefully ineffective\".\n\nThe independent inquiry was commissioned by the BBC last year, after Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, questioned Bashir's tactics to get the interview.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Diana was failed not just by Martin Bashir but by leaders at the BBC, says Prince William\n\nLord Dyson found that Bashir had lied to BBC managers about deceiving Earl Spencer with the forged bank statements.\n\nThe inquiry said Bashir told his bosses he had not shown the fake documents to anyone.\n\nThe report described significant parts of Bashir's account of the events of 1995 as \"incredible, unreliable, and in some cases dishonest\".\n\nBashir has said mocking up the documents \"was a stupid thing to do\" and that he regretted it, but said they had had no bearing on Diana's decision to be interviewed.\n\nSpeaking to the Sunday Times, Bashir said he was \"deeply sorry\" to her sons, the dukes of Cambridge and Sussex.\n\nBut he rejected Prince William's claim that he had fuelled her paranoia, saying they were close and he \"loved\" her.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, the Duke of Cambridge said the deception fuelled his mother's paranoia and worsened his parents' relationship.\n\nDue to the way it was obtained, Prince William has said the interview should not be shown again.", "The Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit said it was working with Royal Mail and other groups as part of the investigation\n\nEight men have been arrested in dawn raids targeting scam text messages.\n\nThe suspects were allegedly involved in sending fake messages, primarily posing as Royal Mail and asking people to pay a fee to retrieve a parcel.\n\nThe men were arrested in Birmingham, Coventry, London and Colchester, Essex, a specialist unit of the City of London and Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA man from London was charged with three offences and the others were released under investigation.\n\nThe charged man, from Enfield, will appear at Inner London Crown Court on 21 June.\n\nHe faces charges of fraud by false representation; possession of articles for use in fraud; possession of criminal property (money laundering), a spokeswoman for the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU) said.\n\nThe unit added the arrests were made as part of a week of action against scam messages.\n\nSuch messages, known as \"smishing\" texts, steal a victim's personal and bank details by getting them to follow a link to a fake version of a trusted website.\n\nDet Ch Insp Gary Robinson, head of the DCPCU, said it was working with Royal Mail, the financial services sector and mobile phone networks to fight the crime.\n\n\"Ongoing investigations are now under way and we will continue to work together to bring those committing smishing scams to justice,\" 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.", "Carwyn Jones stepped down as a member of the Senedd this month after 22 years\n\nTackling climate change slipped \"down the agenda\" in the years following the 2008 financial crash, according to Wales' former first minister.\n\nCarwyn Jones was defending his record in power after being announced as chair of climate charity Size of Wales.\n\nMr Jones, a Senedd member for 22 years, said the issue needed to be the world's \"top priority\", warning communities and livelihoods risked being \"destroyed\".\n\nHe stood down from the Senedd ahead of the election earlier this month.\n\nMr Jones said he now wanted to make campaigning for action on climate change - \"the biggest challenge that humanity has faced since the second world war\" - a focus of his post-politics life.\n\nDuring his time as first minister between 2009 and 2018, major new laws such as the Environment Act and Well-being of Future Generations Act were passed, but Wales consistently failed to meet tree-planting targets and experienced years when greenhouse gas emissions went up instead of down.\n\nPressed on his actions in office, he said there was \"always more to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. University Hospital of Wales staff are planting trees to offset the environmental impact of treating Covid patients\n\nHe pointed to support for public transport and the creation of Transport for Wales as examples of positive action, despite criticism from the environment sector that emissions from transport only fell 3% in Wales between 1990 and 2016.\n\n\"I think the problem we've had in the past decade is people seem to be more supportive of dealing with climate change when they feel financially secure,\" he said.\n\n\"After 2008 and the crash that happened there, climate change started to go down the agenda across the world.\n\n\"People were more interested in the need to prop up our economies, making sure people have money in their pockets and are secure.\n\n\"The two things are not contradictory, and I'm glad to see now that climate change is going back up the agenda across the world.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic had shown how changes could be instigated quickly, it had also highlighted a problem of \"countries not working together\", something that needed to be addressed in responding to global warming, he warned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could changes we have been forced to make in the pandemic become long-term environmental solutions?\n\nHis successor Mark Drakeford's decision to set up a climate change department in the Welsh government with a new minister and deputy minister to take charge of the issue was a \"hugely important signal\", he said.\n\n\"We can give practical examples to show other countries that we're doing our bit in Wales - we're a small country but we can have a positive effect,\" he said.\n\nSize of Wales' director Nicola Pulman said the former first minister would bring \"a track record at the highest level of government in tackling climate change\" to the charity's work.\n\nIt supports forest protection and tree growing projects in Africa, South America and south-east Asia as well as running a Wales-wide educational programme to help teach young people about climate change.", "Teachers say they do not feel equipped to deal with peer-on-peer sexual abuse because they have had no training.\n\nMore than 1,500 UK teachers replied to a questionnaire from BBC Radio 4's File on 4 and teachers' union the NASUWT.\n\nMore than half said they did not think adequate procedures were in place in their schools to deal with abuse.\n\nMany are also unsure how to deliver elements of a new sex-and-relationships curriculum, which the government says third parties might now help with.\n\nIn England, the Department for Education has introduced a compulsory Sex and Relationships Education (RSE) curriculum in all schools, focusing on relationships in primary schools and sex and relationships in secondaries.\n\nIt has also asked Ofsted to review peer-on-peer safeguarding procedures.\n\nOf the teachers surveyed, almost a third said they had witnessed peer-on-peer sexual harassment or abuse and almost one in 10 said they saw it on a weekly basis.\n\nThe debate about a culture of sexual abuse at schools has escalated in recent months after a website set up for victims to post their experiences anonymously gained more than 16,000 posts - some from children as young as nine.\n\nThe Everyone's Invited website publishes anonymous allegations which refer mostly to sexual harassment carried out against young women by young men at their school or university.\n\nThe government has now launched a dedicated hotline with the NSPCC for young people who feel they have been harassed and abused.\n\nSince the helpline launched at the beginning of April, it has received more than 350 calls, and 65 referrals have been made to agencies including social services and the police.\n\nAmina is now 19 and still trying to come to terms with what happened to her at high school. She says her harassment started when she was in Year 7, aged 11.\n\n\"I started to get bullied and people were making rumours up about me. They were saying I would go home with so many different guys and have sex with them - that was really upsetting for me.\n\n\"It was during the summertime and we were practising for PE, and then I'm sitting there with my friends and then there's this group of boys next to us. And then I just feel a hand on my back, forcing me onto the floor and then this boy starts grinding on me, and I think during that moment - I just completely froze.\n\n\"And then I look up at my teacher and then he looks at me and then he looks away. I just felt so alone in that moment. Part of me felt like it was my fault because of other people's responses. I remember telling myself just to stay strong and just wait until I got home to cry.\"\n\nAmina is now being supported by the Rape Crisis charity.\n\nThe new RSE curriculum in England was introduced in September 2020.\n\nAndrew Fellows, associate head of policy at child-protection charity the NSPCC, says that while the new lessons are a positive development, schools have not been given the support and guidance to deliver the new curriculum effectively.\n\n\"Coercive control, sexual consent, healthy relationships, online safety, pornography - that's all in there.\n\n\"But what schools haven't been given is the guidance and the support to cover that and to deliver that in a way that works for their students,\" he said.\n\nFlora Cooper, head teacher of Crowmarsh Primary School in Oxfordshire, where staff have just started to teach the new RSE lessons, said: \"In terms of external training, we've not had any.\n\n\"We actually haven't seen much being offered in terms of training and it is absolutely in the training - that's what is essential, which we don't have.\n\n\"Until the teachers are confident with the delivery of the content, then I don't think any of them will be confident and fully teaching the children the full curriculum. It feels as though we are on our own.\"\n\nOfsted is currently conducting a review of safeguarding policies and practices relating to sexual abuse in state and independent schools and colleges.\n\nIt was ordered by the government after thousands of young people - mostly girls and young women - contacted the Everyone's Invited website.\n\nChildren's Minister Vicky Ford said: \"We've seen these enormously worrying and very shocking allegations that have come through the Everyone's Invited site.\n\n\"One of the things that Ofsted will be looking at in this review is, are schools getting enough training and support? Do they need, for example, third parties to come in and train elements of that curriculum?\"\n\nAnyone who has suffered sexual abuse at school can contact the dedicated NSPCC helpline on 0800 136 663.\n\nFile on 4 is on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 on Tuesday, May 25 and then available on BBC Sounds.", "What looks like normal sports kit is treated as a political statement in Belarus\n\nThe Belarus authorities are now punishing not only those who fly the opposition red-and-white flag but even people sporting socks in those colours.\n\nA woman on her way to a driving lesson was grabbed by four men in black balaclavas in the capital Minsk. They told her she was dressed improperly.\n\nThe reason? She was wearing white socks with red stripes, like the banned flag.\n\nShe was also accused of flashing V for Victory signs to passing drivers - who saluted back - and was heavily fined.\n\nThe white flag with a red stripe across it was the flag of Belarusian nationalists for brief periods in the 20th Century.\n\nThe Soviet Communists replaced it with a red-and-green flag, including the hammer and sickle symbol and a traditional folk motif. That flag was reintroduced by President Alexander Lukashenko in 1995 - after the fall of communism - but minus the hammer and sickle.\n\nShe was prosecuted under laws banning unauthorised protests. Her offending socks and red trainers were easy to see as she was wearing short jeans at the time.\n\nThe internet shop where she bought the socks has now stopped selling them - it does however sell similar white socks with black stripes.\n\nMs Sivtsova-Sedushkina was fined a similar amount previously for adorning her balcony with red and white ribbons.\n\nTens of thousands of protesters thronged Minsk for months last year, furious at President Lukashenko for claiming re-election in an August vote widely condemned as rigged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice used tear gas and baton charges to break up the demonstrations and arrested thousands. Many cases of police brutality were documented, and Mr Lukashenko remains internationally isolated except for Russian support.\n\nThe anti-government protests have largely died down, with the main opposition leaders either in exile or in prison.\n\nMore than 2,700 people have been prosecuted this year for anti-Lukashenko activities, as the crackdown continues.\n\nLast month some women in Minsk still defiantly paraded the opposition colours\n\nOlga Klimkova and Sergei Skok were found guilty of mocking the president", "Cremation sites are struggling with the number of dead\n\nThe number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in India has moved past the 300,000 mark as the country continues to grapple with the pandemic.\n\nExperts warn that the real number of fatalities might be much higher as many deaths are not officially recorded.\n\nIndia has recorded 26 million cases - second only to the US - and is now the epicentre of the global pandemic.\n\nThe country is also only the third in the world to record more than 300,000 deaths - behind the US and Brazil.\n\nIt took less than a month to record its last 100,000 deaths.\n\nA deadly second wave in recent weeks has overwhelmed the country's healthcare system, with hospitals struggling to cope with the influx of patients and with critical drugs and oxygen running out.\n\nNearly half of India's virus deaths occurred in the last three months.\n\nIn the last 26 days alone, the country has recorded 102,533 Covid-19 deaths.\n\nSome experts say the number of daily deaths may rise further. Dr Murad Banaji, a mathematician at Middlesex University London, has been tracking the pandemic closely.\n\n\"We expect a delay between cases peaking and deaths peaking. But also, as with cases, we know there are huge variations in death surveillance and recording between states, and between urban and rural areas,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Even once recorded fatalities start to fall, we'll need to be wary of reading too much into this until we stop hearing reports of large numbers of rural deaths,\" Dr Banaji said.\n\nOver the past days, concerns over a rising number of deadly fungus infections linked to Covid treatment have added to the overall crisis.\n\nIndia's medical system is overwhelmed by the crisis\n\nIn some places, even crematoriums have run out of space and have been forced to expand to makeshift sites in public parks.\n\nMortality data in India is poor and deaths at home often go unregistered, especially in rural areas.\n\nThere are reports of journalists counting bodies at morgues themselves, to try to get a more accurate number. Some models speculate that about a million people may have actually died.\n\nThe country's vaccination drive is also not nearly making enough progress to ease the current crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Before he was detained in Minsk, opposition journalist Roman Protasevich is said to have told a fellow passenger: \"A death penalty awaits me here.\"\n\nSo how realistic is that fear?\n\nBelarus is the only country in Europe and the former Soviet Union that still passes and carries out death sentences. Although no prisoners were executed last year, two were killed in 2019, according to Amnesty International.\n\nLast year, Protasevich tweeted that his name had appeared on a list of terror suspects in Belarus - and terrorism charges can carry the death penalty, Al Jazeera reports.\n\nJournalists have faced deteriorating conditions in the country. Earlier this year, media freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged the UN to investigate the \"persecution of journalists\" in its investigation into the Belarusian government's post-eleciton crackdown, after two reporters said they were tortured in detention. And Belarus fell five places to 158 out of 180 countries on RSF's World Press Freedom Index.\n\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists, meanwhile, has spoken of its shock at Protasevich's detention, \"even as President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s government has increasingly strangled the press in Belarus for the past year, detaining, fining, and expelling journalists and sentencing them to longer and longer prison terms\".", "The lead singer of the Italian glam rock band which won the Eurovision Song Contest has been cleared of drug use.\n\nIt follows an investigation and negative drug test, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) says.\n\nDamiano David denied taking cocaine following online speculation after footage showed him leaning over a table during the grand final on Saturday.\n\n\"No drug use took place in the Green Room and we consider the matter closed,\" the EBU said in a statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMåneskin, who had been among the favourites to win the contest, took the top prize with their song Zitti e buoni.\n\nViewers watching the contest during a live broadcast started asking questions as to what the singer was doing when he appeared to bend his face towards a table as the band celebrated their victory.\n\nAt a press conference, David said he had been looking down because guitarist Thomas Raggi had broken a glass. EBU confirmed broken glass was found on the floor, and it can be seen in the live broadcast footage.\n\n\"I don't use drugs. Please, guys. Don't say that really, no cocaine,\" David said on Saturday.\n\nThe EBU said it was \"alarmed that inaccurate speculation leading to fake news has overshadowed the spirit and the outcome of the event and unfairly affected the band\".\n\n\"We wish to congratulate Måneskin once again and wish them huge success,\" it added. \"We look forward to working with our Italian member Rai on producing a spectacular Eurovision Song Contest in Italy next year.\"\n\nThe band robustly denied any drug use, and reacted to the allegation in an Instagram story: \"We really are AGAINST drugs and we never used cocaine. We are ready to get tasted [tested], cause we have nothing to hide.\"\n\nFrench singer Barbara Pravi came second, and defended the band on her Instagram page as speculation grew online, and some called for the Italians to be disqualified before EBU gave its verdict.\n\n\"Måneskin were AWESOME on Saturday night, they were voted in by viewers, this is their place, their victory, their moment,\" she wrote.\n\nMåneskin are the first group to win the competition since 2006. They also gave Italy its first victory since 1990, despite their rock number not being typical Eurovision fare.", "Cases of the coronavirus variant of concern have been linked to international travel\n\nPeople \"should be worried\" about a resurgence in Covid, with an increase in cases of the Indian variant of concern, the Welsh government's chief medical officer says.\n\nDr Frank Atherton said the increase to \"around 57\" cases was \"something we need to watch very carefully\".\n\nThe total last Thursday was 28 cases of B617.2, the variant of concern.\n\nHealth minister Eluned Morgan repeated government advice that people take holidays at home to reduce the risk.\n\nDr Atherton said most cases of the variant of concern were in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, although they had been identified in all health board areas apart from Powys.\n\nHe said measures such as social distancing and using face coverings were \"the things that keep us safe\" and there was risk that the situation could \"go into reverse\" if those measures were relaxed.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Frank Atherton and Health Minister Eluned Morgan gave an update on Monday\n\n\"We should continue on the cautious approach here in Wales,\" he told journalists at a Welsh government update on the pandemic.\n\n\"The public should be worried about the resurgence in coronavirus in general really.\n\n\"We have a small number of cases - 57 at the moment of the so-called Indian variant - but that will be an underestimate and I expect the numbers to rise.\"\n\nDr Atherton said the cases in Wales were \"traceable back to a point of entry, so we're managing them as clusters\".\n\nHe added: \"If we look across the border in to England and certainly in to Scotland, Glasgow area, what seems to be happening there is broader widespread community transmission and that's a much more difficult thing, of course, to contain.\"\n\nCovid vaccinations have been encouraged in English towns such as Blackburn amid concern about Indian variants\n\nUnlike in Scotland, people in Wales are not being restricted from travelling to places in England with a high number of cases of the Indian variant, Ms Morgan said.\n\nHowever, she stressed the Welsh government \"will be constantly keeping the situation under review\".\n\nIn her first press conference as health minister, Ms Morgan repeated the advice that people should take their holidays in Wales this year and only go abroad for essential travel.\n\n\"Our whole economy could come to a grinding standstill again if we were to let new variants take hold,\" she said.\n\nMs Morgan added the Welsh government had \"a responsibility to stand by our own tourism sector and hospitality sector\".\n\n\"We live in a fantastically beautiful country and I would encourage people to use the opportunity to holiday here in Wales and to support those sectors of the economy that have really suffered during pandemic,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The helpline, run by the NSPCC, opened on 1 April (stock image)\n\nA helpline launched for victims to report abuse and harassment in educational settings has taken hundreds of calls since it opened on 1 April.\n\nThe service was set up by the Department for Education after testimonies alleging abuse were posted on the website Everyone's Invited.\n\nThe helpline has had 353 calls and has made 65 referrals to agencies such as the police or children's services.\n\nIt is is being run by the children's charity the NSPCC.\n\nThe Everyone's Invited website was set up last year as a place where victims can post anonymous accounts of abuse they had suffered.\n\nThousands of testimonies were shared on the site, and many of the allegations referred to sexual harassment carried out against young women by young men at their school or university.\n\nIn response to the allegations, the Department for Education decided to work with the NSPCC to ensure processes were in place in the education system to support victims in coming forward.\n\nAnnouncing the new helpline in March, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said it was vital these allegations were \"dealt with properly\".\n\nThe NSPCC said sexual abuse, exploitation and harassment by peers were the most common issues reported to the helpline so far. These ranged from incidents such as pupils looking up classmates' skirts, to sharing indecent images and rape.\n\nHelpline staff have also responded to contacts from parents who were concerned that safeguarding incidents are not being appropriately handled in schools.\n\nOne parent of a 14-year-old girl told the helpline: \"Just this week we received a visit from a police officer who told us they were investigating an incident of upskirting by a male pupil at my daughter's school.\n\n\"We were told that a teacher had been searching this boy's phone for something unrelated, and discovered several pictures of upskirting of different girls. The only girl that could be identified was my daughter.\n\n\"As you can imagine, this came as a huge shock to us. We have no idea who the boy is, or if the images have been shared anywhere.\"\n\nIn June 2020, Soma Sara, who is now 22, shared her experience on Instagram of what she calls \"rape culture\".\n\nWithin a week she had received and shared more than 300 anonymous responses of people with stories of \"misogyny, harassment, abuse and assault\".\n\nThe Everyone's Invited website now carries thousands of victims' testimonies, often from schools and universities.\n\nExperiences range from being drugged and raped at parties to explicit images being shared over messaging platforms.\n\nKam Thandi, head of the NSPCC helpline, said it was \"absolutely vital\" that people felt comfortable to raise concerns about child abuse and harassment, including children themselves.\n\n\"We thank everyone so far who has found the courage to contact the helpline,\" she said.\n\n\"Through these calls we have been able to provide much needed support, advice and, where necessary, to refer the information on to police and local authorities for further action.\n\n\"We have also heard about the devastating impact this abuse can have later in life if it's not addressed, and have been able to share our experience and expertise to help with the recovery process.\"\n\nMr Williamson said: \"I want all victims of abuse to be supported and feel confident to report any allegations.\"\n\nHe added: \"Ofsted is also undertaking a review into safeguarding measures in schools and colleges which will be published shortly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Everyone's Invited said: \"We encourage survivors who need support to contact the NSPCC, whose helpline is run by very capable and well-trained practitioners.\"\n\nThe Report Abuse in Education helpline can be reached on 0800 136 663, on Monday to Friday 0800-2200, or 0900-1800 at weekends. It can also be contacted by email at help@nspcc.org.uk", "Mhari O'Neill's body was discovered on Edinburgh's Calton Hill in December 2018\n\nA man has admitted killing a schoolgirl after buying her alcohol and abandoning her on Edinburgh's Calton Hill.\n\nEwan Fulton, who was 18 at the time, bit and throttled Mhari O'Neill, 15, before leaving her on Edinburgh's Calton Hill on 7 December 2018.\n\nHer body was found by a dog walker. Hypothermia, with intoxication, was said to be the most probable reason for her death.\n\nFulton, now aged 20, was remanded in custody at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nHe will be sentenced next month following background reports.\n\nThe court heard that Fulton met Mhari through social media site Yubo.\n\nBefore they met, he sent her a message which read: \"It is freezing today should've worn my pimp coat\". In a later message he wrote: \"Ur gonna freeze to death OMG.\"\n\nAfter she was found dead he told police he was aware Mhari was 15 years old.\n\nHe said he had bought a large bottle of vodka for them to share after he travelled to Edinburgh from Livingston to meet her.\n\nEwan Fulton was aged 18 at the time of the killing\n\nFulton told police Mhari had been so intoxicated that she kept falling off a bench and could not walk.\n\nHe claimed he was starting to panic and knew he needed to get the last train home. He maintained he told her several times he was leaving, but did not get a response as she was \"unable to speak\".\n\nThe following day the shop worker sent her a text stating: \"Are you alive?\" He said he was \"freaking out\" because he had not heard from her.\n\nAdvocate depute Alex Prentice told the court after his meeting with Mhari, Fulton had texted a friend the next day.\n\nIn a message he wrote: \"I had no choice but to leave, what was I supposed to do?\" and \"I got her drunk she's 15\".\n\nHe told another friend: \"That girl has a family and if I had stayed she would be alive.\"\n\nMr Prentice said pathologists considered hypothermia, with intoxication, was the most probable reason for the Portobello High School pupil's death.\n\nFulton pleaded guilty to culpable homicide. He admitted taking part in sexual activity with the schoolgirl, culpably and recklessly endangering her health and life, and exposing her to risk of injury and death.\n\nHe had provided her with alcohol which resulted in her becoming intoxicated and incapable of looking after herself.\n\nFulton, from Livingston, West Lothian, abandoned the girl \"in a remote and exposed location\" in a state of partial undress without means to contact anyone and failed to seek help for her.\n\nThe culpable homicide charge stated he behaved with \"utter disregard\" for the consequences of his actions towards her.\n\nIn impact statements, Mhari's parents described her as \"a much-loved daughter\".\n\nMhari had asked her mother, Donna O'Neill, if she could go to the city's Christmas market with a friend. Her mother agreed and told her she had to be home by 21:00.\n\nWhen she failed to return home her family began looking for her and contacted her friends, before reporting her to police as a missing person at about midnight.\n\nDet Insp Susan Balfour from Police Scotland's major investigation team said: \"This has been a distressing time for Mhari's family and our thoughts remain with them and her friends.\n\n\"We welcome the conviction of Ewan Fulton and hope it brings some comfort to Mhari's loved ones.\"\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\nErnestine Kabuo returned home after fleeing the lava flow in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, to find that her husband had not survived.\n\nThe 68 year old was unable to carry her sick husband out of their house and she found him burnt to death, she told Reuters news agency.\n\nAt least 22 deaths have been confirmed following Saturday's eruption of a nearby volcano, Mount Nyiragongo.\n\nBut the lava stopped short of the city's built-up area.\n\nThis avoided the level of death and destruction witnessed in 2002. It did, however, hit the Buhene district, where Ms Kabuo's home was.\n\n\"I said to myself: I can't go alone, we've been married for the best and for the worst,\" she told Reuters reflecting on what happened on Saturday.\n\nErnestine Kabuo was unable to save her husband\n\n\"I went back to at least try to get him out but couldn't. I ran away and he got burned inside. I don't know what to do. I curse this day.\"\n\nFive people died of asphyxiation while trying to cross the lava when it was cooling in a place just north of Goma.\n\nA sixth person is in hospital with breathing difficulties, civil society leader Mambo Kawaya told the AFP news agency.\n\nSince then, the authorities have tried to prevent people from visiting places where the lava is cooling, Goma journalist Esdras Tsongo told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme.\n\nOther Goma residents, a city of 670,000 according to UN estimates, are searching for missing loved ones as the city, and the region, continues to experience earthquakes.\n\nMore than 170 children are feared to be missing and 150 others had been separated from their families, the UN's children's agency, Unicef, said, adding that centres would be set up to help unaccompanied minors.\n\nNine of the deaths so far recorded by the authorities occurred in a traffic accident as people fled.\n\nFour others died as they tried to escape a prison while two were burned to death, government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said on Sunday.\n\nBut there are fears that more deaths may be confirmed as people return to the remains of their houses.\n\nThe lava stopped in the Buhene district, on the outskirts of Goma, burying hundreds of houses and even large buildings. Reconstruction efforts are likely to take months.\n\n\"All the houses in Buhene neighbourhood were burned,\" Innocent Bahala Shamavu told the Associated Press news agency.\n\nLocal people have been sifting through the remains of flattened houses\n\nElsewhere, lava crossed the N2 road connecting Goma to the city of Beni, severing a key aid and supply route. However, the city's airport was untouched, despite earlier reports that it had been affected.\n\nThe volcano, located 10km (six miles) from Goma, last erupted in 2002, killing 250 people and making 120,000 homeless.\n\nResidents started leaving their houses even before the government announced an evacuation plan. At night, crowds were seen fleeing on foot with mattresses and other belongings.\n\nRwandan authorities said more than 3,000 people had officially crossed from Goma. Some started to return on Sunday. Others went to higher ground to the west of the city.\n\nOne Goma resident, Richard Bahati, said he was in his house when he heard screaming and became extremely worried as he saw the sky reddening outside.\n\n\"I lived through the problem with this volcano in 2002. The volcano devastated all our homes and possessions,\" he said.\n\nA local trader, Kambere Ombeni, was among those who returned to the scene as the rubble still smouldered. \"We watched the whole neighbourhood in the Nyiragongo territory go up in smoke. The fire came right down to here. Even now we can still see lava,\" he said.\n\nAnother resident, Irene Bauma, said people would need help from the government to rebuild their lives.\n\n\"There's land, people, a population that has lost everything, maybe there are also deaths, who knows? We are asking the government to come and help the survivors of this eruption.\"\n\nTom Peyre-Costa, from the Norwegian Refugee Council in Goma, told the BBC what had happened.\n\n\"The lava was pretty slow, like, 1km/h, but it didn't stop.... It started burning the houses,\" he said, adding that humanitarian organisations were already trying to address people's needs.\n\nThis image captured on Saturday shows how the lava was destroying everything in its path\n\nMount Nyiragongo is one of the world's more active volcanoes but there were concerns that its activity had not been properly observed by the Goma Volcano Observatory, since the World Bank cut funding amid allegations of corruption.\n\nProfessor Mike Burton, a volcanologist at the University of Manchester in England, told the BBC that the lava in Mount Nyiragongo is particularly fluid and has the potential to move fast.\n\nIn a report on 10 May, the observatory warned that seismic activity at Nyiragongo had increased.\n\nLast year, the observatory's director, Katcho Karume, told the BBC World Service's Science in Action that the volcano's lava lake had been filling up quickly, increasing the chances of an eruption in the next few years. But he also warned that an earthquake could trigger a disaster earlier.\n\nThe volcano's deadliest eruption happened in 1977, when more than 600 people died.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roman Protasevich's father tells the BBC he is fearful his son may be tortured\n\nThe father of a journalist who was arrested after his flight was diverted to Belarus has told the BBC he fears his son may be tortured.\n\nRoman Protasevich, 26, was on a flight from Greece which was rerouted to Minsk on Sunday over a supposed bomb threat.\n\nWestern countries accused Belarus of \"hijacking\" the Ryanair plane in order to arrest the dissident reporter.\n\nA video has also emerged of Mr Protasevich that appears to have been recorded under duress.\n\nIn the clip, which was released late on Monday, the journalist said he was in good health and seemingly confessed to crimes he had been charged with by the Belarusian state. But activists, including the country's main opposition leader, criticised the video and suggested Mr Protasevich was under pressure to admit wrongdoing.\n\nThe journalist's father, Dmitri Protasevich, told the BBC on Monday that he was \"really afraid\" of how his son would be treated by the authorities in his home country.\n\n\"We hope that he will cope. We are afraid to even think about it, but it's possible he could be beaten and tortured. We are really afraid of that,\" he said in a video call.\n\n\"We are really shocked and really upset,\" he said. \"This sort of thing shouldn't be happening in the 21st Century at the heart of Europe.\n\n\"We hope that the whole international community, including the European Union, will put unprecedented pressure on the authorities. We hope the pressure will work and the authorities will realise they've made a really big mistake.\"\n\nShortly after the footage of Mr Protasevich was released, the European Union said it had agreed to impose more sanctions on Belarus. It also called on airlines to avoid the country's airspace and gave the go-ahead to banning Belarusian airlines from flying over EU territory.\n\nThe plane landed in Vilnius more than six hours after its scheduled arrival\n\nBelarus sent a fighter jet to force flight FR4978 - which had departed from the Greek capital, Athens, and was bound for Lithuania - to land, claiming a bomb threat. It touched down in the capital Minsk at 13:16 local time (10:16 GMT) on Sunday.\n\nPolice then took Mr Protasevich away when the plane's 126 passengers disembarked. The activist, who witnesses said was \"super scared\", was arrested along with his girlfriend Sofia Sapega.\n\nMs Sapega's mother told the BBC that the 23-year-old had been taken to a Minsk jail, adding that the last word she managed to write on her WhatsApp messaging account was 'Mummy'. The accusations against her are unclear.\n\nBelarus is the only European country that still executes prisoners, and witnesses said Mr Protasevich told fellow passengers he feared he would face the death penalty.\n\nThree other passengers did not reach the plane's final destination, which was the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said he believed some Belarusian KGB agents also departed the plane at Minsk, but this has not been independently verified.\n\nBelarus said the flight had been diverted because of a bomb threat from the Palestinian militant group Hamas. A senior transport official read a letter to reporters that he claimed was from the militant group.\n\n\"If you do not fulfil our demands, the bomb will explode over Vilnius,\" it said.\n\nBut Hamas has denied any involvement. The group has no history or known capability of mounting operations outside Israel and the Palestinian territories. German leader Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Belarusian claim was \"completely implausible\".\n\nThe incident has drawn sharp condemnation from across the world, with countries urging the immediate release of Mr Protasevich and a full investigation.\n\nDozens of Belarusian officials, including President Alexander Lukashenko, are already under EU sanctions including travel bans and asset freezes, imposed in response to the repression on opponents.\n\nState media in Belarus said Mr Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994, personally gave the order for the plane to be diverted.\n\nThe 66-year-old leader has cracked down on dissenting voices since winning a disputed election last August. Many opposition figures have been arrested, while others fled into exile.\n\nMr Protasevich is a former editor of Nexta, a media operation with a Telegram channel. He left Belarus in 2019 to live in exile in Lithuania. From there he covered the events of the 2020 presidential election, after which he was charged with terrorism and inciting riots.\n\nNexta played a key role for the opposition during the vote, which was won by Mr Lukashenko and is widely regarded as rigged. It has continued to do so in its aftermath, particularly with the government imposing news blackouts.\n\nMr Protasevich now works for a different Telegram channel, Belamova. He stepped in to write for it after blogger Igor Losik was arrested by the Belarusian authorities in June last year.\n\nWhere is Belarus? It has its ally Russia to the east and Ukraine to the south. To the north and west lie EU and Nato members Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.\n\nWhy does it matter? Like Ukraine, this nation of 9.5 million is caught in rivalry between the West and Russia. President Lukashenko has been nicknamed \"Europe's last dictator\" - he has been in power for 27 years.\n\nWhat's going on there? There is a huge opposition movement demanding new, democratic leadership and economic reform. The opposition movement and Western governments say Mr Lukashenko rigged the 9 August election. Officially he won by a landslide. A huge police crackdown has curbed street protests and sent opposition leaders to prison or into exile.\n\nWere you on the flight? 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.", "Britain's human rights watchdog has not renewed its membership of a diversity scheme run by LGBT group Stonewall.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission says it told Stonewall it would be leaving the Diversity Champions scheme in March.\n\nMembers pay Stonewall a fee and allow it to vet their internal policies, such as who can use their toilets and changing facilities.\n\nBut the EHRC says it \"did not constitute best value for money\".\n\nNancy Kelley, Stonewall's chief executive, said the charity was proud of its work supporting organisations to create inclusive working environments, but added that it was \"up to individual employers how they meet their statutory requirements\".\n\nHundreds of private and public bodies are members of Stonewall's scheme.\n\nBut the scheme is not without controversy - earlier this week an independent report commissioned by the University of Essex found that Stonewall gave it incorrect and potentially illegal advice on transgender issues.\n\nNews that the EHRC left the scheme in March comes just days after Stonewall and several other LGBT groups criticised the organisation in an open letter, saying it was not doing enough to champion LGBT rights.\n\nThe letter followed a Times interview in May in which Lady Falkner, who was appointed head of the EHRC in December, said that women must have the right to question transgender identity without being abused, stigmatised or risking losing their job.\n\nA spokesman for the EHRC said: \"We remain committed to creating an inclusive workplace that will attract people from all backgrounds, where all of our colleagues will thrive and where all LGBT employees are accepted without exception.\"", "First pictures have emerged after the cable car fell on a mountain in northern Italy.", "Will Beckett said Hawksmoor needed to \"turbo-charge\" its recruitment drive\n\nRestaurant group Hawksmoor is offering bonuses of up to £2,000 to workers who recommend friends for jobs in a bid to fill staffing shortages.\n\nAnother chain has emailed customers with a promise of gift vouchers if they introduce candidates who go on to be hired by the firm.\n\nIt comes as the hospitality sector faces a jobs crisis that threatens to hold back its recovery.\n\nHawksmoor co-founder Will Beckett told the BBC there \"aren't enough people\".\n\nThe firm's problems underline the wider staffing crunch facing hospitality with indoor dining in Britain having resumed last week.\n\nPub chains Marston's and Mitchells and Butlers both warned last week that they were finding it hard to recruit workers, blaming overseas staff returning home and the stop-start nature of lockdown forcing people to give up on the sector.\n\nMr Beckett said: \"Hospitality is struggling with recruitment at the moment. It's a little hard to tell whether this is because there aren't enough people due to them leaving the country or leaving the sector, or because everyone is recruiting at the same time.\"\n\nWhatever the reason, he said, Hawksmoor needed to \"turbo-charge\" its recruitment efforts.\n\nFor each person recommended and who is hired after passing a one-month trial they will get a bonus - £200 for a first friend, £300 for the next one, and up to £2,000 for five friends.\n\nMr Beckett said he wanted to re-direct the recruitment budget \"at our own staff, who've had financial problems while on furlough. So instead of a huge amount spent on recruitment websites or agencies, we did this policy.\"\n\nAnother restaurant chain, Caravan, said it was offering £100 gift vouchers to customers if they successfully recommend someone for a job.\n\n\"We have emailed our lovely customers to help us find superstars to work with us,\" the firm said in an email to the BBC.\n\nThe Sunday Times, which reported the quirky practices some firms were using, quoted the chairman of recruitment giant Reed as saying the jobs pendulum had swung back in favour of workers.\n\nBut James Reed said there were job shortages across the board, not just in hospitality, with 18,000 vacancies added online in just one day last week - \"the highest number I can recall in years\".\n\nLatest figures from global recruitment firm Broadbean Technology found that in April, vacancies in UK hospitality soared 77% from the previous month. However, compared with April 2020, the number of applications slumped 82%.\n\n\"The decline in application numbers is a concern and could hinder the growth of the hospitality sector in the immediate future,\" said Broadbean's managing director Alex Fourlis.\n\nHe said that, as work dried up during the pandemic many people chose to leave the sector and firms now face a challenge enticing them back.\n\nBut he added: \"Perhaps more concerningly, though, this drop in applications follows the UK's exit from the EU and potentially suggests that Brexit has had a long-lasting impact on hospitality.\"\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of industry body UK Hospitality, told the Sunday Times it was time for the government to review its \"shortage occupations\" list.\n\n\"We've also suggested an Australian-style coronavirus recovery visa for lower-skilled workers who don't meet the point-based system [but] who are crucial to the recovery,\" she said.\n\nUK Hospitality has estimated that more than 52,000 venues employing about 900,000 people were planning to reopen last week in England, Scotland and Wales. That's on top of about 26,000 venues that opened in April for outside trading.", "Belarus has been condemned for diverting a plane, in order to arrest Belarusian opposition journalist Roman Protasevich.\n\nFighter jets were sent to take down the plane after claiming there was a bomb threat, which witnesses on the flight said \"wasn't true\".\n\nRyanair boss Michael O'Leary also suggested there were KGB security agents on the flight.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trials are underway to train dogs to sniff out coronavirus\n\nSniffer dogs could contribute to efforts to prevent the spread of Covid as society reopens, according to scientists.\n\nAs part of a trial, dogs were trained to recognise a distinctive odour produced by people with the virus, but undetectable to the human nose.\n\nThis could come in useful for screening at airports or mass events.\n\nBut the dogs' findings would have to be confirmed by lab testing, the researchers said.\n\nAlthough the dogs correctly picked up 88% of coronavirus cases, they also incorrectly flagged 16% of people who didn't have Covid as having the virus.\n\nDogs can have up to 100,000 times the smelling ability of humans and have long been used to sniff out drugs and explosives.\n\nRecent research has shown dogs - particularly breeds like spaniels and retrievers - can detect the unique scents of diseases including cancer, Parkinson's and malaria.\n\nAs part of the current canine screening trial, six dogs were trained to recognise the smell produced by people with Covid-19 using worn socks, face masks and t-shirts of various materials.\n\nThey were rewarded with treats when they correctly identified whether the sample was from an individual who had tested positive or negative.\n\nSome of the people in the negative group had common cold viruses, to make sure the dogs were able to distinguish Covid from other respiratory infections.\n\nThe dogs were able to sniff out the disease even when it was caused by different variants, and when the person had no symptoms or only had very low levels of the virus in their system.\n\nClaire Guest, Chief Scientific Officer at charity Medical Detection Dogs, which trained the animals, said the results were \"further evidence that dogs are one of the most reliable biosensors for detecting the odour of human disease\".\n\nThey picked up roughly 88% of positive cases - meaning, for every 100 cases, the dogs failed to recognise just 12 infected people.\n\nBut out of 100 people who did not have Covid, the dogs wrongly suggested - via the sniff test - that 16 of them were infected.\n\nSo if one person on a plane of 300 passengers has coronavirus, the dogs are likely to correctly identify that person, but may also wrongly indicate that another 48 Covid-negative people are infected.\n\nIt means a proportion of infections will be missed, and more will be told they have the virus when they don't. This is the case for all tests to different extents, but the canine method incorrectly tells a lot more people they have the virus than the type you swab up your nose.\n\nSo the research team does not recommend dogs alone are used to sniff out positive cases.\n\nDr Claire Guest lives with Asher, one of the dogs involved in the trial, along with prostate cancer detection dog Florin and E. coli detector Tala\n\nBut they believe the dogs could be an additional screening tool alongside more conventional tests. They say dog screening, followed by swab testing, will pick up 91% of infections.\n\nThe real potential advantage, though, is speed: even the quickest tests take 15 minutes to show a result, while dogs can sniff out the disease in seconds.\n\nTwo dogs could screen 300 people in half an hour, researchers say.\n\nThis could make the sniff test \"a suitable method for mass screening\", argues Prof James Logan at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, which conducted the research alongside the University of Durham.\n\nIn theory, people could be screened as they queue for a flight or to enter an event, and anyone flagged up by the dogs would need to take a PCR test - the more accurate type of swab tests which is processed in a lab.\n\nThis could cut down on the numbers having to enter hotel quarantine.\n\nDogs could also potentially be used in areas where there isn't currently much screening, such as busy train stations, to help prevent a super-spreading event.\n\nThe research is at an early stage so it still needs to be reviewed by other scientists before it can be published and, in the next phase of the study, tried out on infected people - rather than bits of sock.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe lead singer of the Italian band who won the Eurovision Song Contest has denied taking drugs, following online speculation over competition footage showing him leaning over a table.\n\nMåneskin's Damiano David rejected the idea that he had been taking cocaine.\n\n\"I don't use drugs. Please, guys. Don't say that really, no cocaine,\" he said at a press conference.\n\nIn a statement, Eurovision said the singer would \"take a voluntary drug test after arriving home\".\n\nMåneskin, who had been favourites to win the contest, took the top prize with their song Zitti e buoni.\n\nPeople at home speculated as to what the singer was doing when he appeared to bend his face towards a table as the band celebrated their victory during the live broadcast.\n\nWhen asked about the incident during a press conference after their victory, Damiano David said he had been looking down because guitarist Thomas Raggi had broken a glass.\n\nEurovision said the singer would be tested to see if he had taken drugs.\n\n\"This was requested by them last night but could not be immediately organised by the EBU,\" the statement said.\n\n\"The band, their management and head of delegation have informed us that no drugs were present in the Green Room and explained that a glass was broken at their table and it was being cleared by the singer. The EBU can confirm broken glass was found after an on site check.\n\n\"We are still looking at footage carefully and will update with further information in due course.\"\n\nThe band later also reacted to the allegation in an Instagram story, saying they were shocked and did not condone drug use:\n\n\"We really are AGAINST drugs and we never used cocaine. We are ready to get tasted [sic], cause we have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anna holligan 🎙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMåneskin had been firm favourites despite their rock number not being typical Eurovision fare.\n\nThey are the first group to win the competition since 2006. They also gave Italy its first victory since 1990.\n\nFrance's Barbara Pravi came second with Voilà, while Switzerland's Gjon's Tears came third with his ballad Tout l'Univers.\n\nThe UK came last in the contest, with James Newman's Embers scoring nul points.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A private special needs school, whose directors include businessmen associated with the Winterbourne View care home scandal, has been accused of putting profit ahead of pupils' needs.\n\nAnnual fees paid by councils to send pupils to Leaways School in east London are £53,000 - higher than Eton.\n\nOne parent told a BBC investigation she is pulling out her son as she fears for his mental state if he stays there.\n\nHowever, Leaways denied the claims that it put money ahead of welfare.\n\nIn a statement, the school said: \"We strongly refute the suggestion profit is ever put ahead of the needs of children.\n\n\"The vast majority of families are happy with our school and they see their children doing very well here.\"\n\nThe school says it was \"deeply saddened to hear the opinions of a small minority... of our parent and staff community\".\n\nOne is Donna, who fought to get her 10-year-old son Javon into Leaways almost two years ago, believing the school would provide state-of-the-art support for an autistic child.\n\nNow she says: \"I was sold a dream. They actually have no idea... I feel like if my son stays there any longer, it will be detrimental to his mental state.\"\n\nBeing there makes him anxious, she says, often he becomes mute, not speaking all day, or isolating himself for hours in the school's sensory room.\n\nLee Boyce, a former assistant head at Leaways, describes \"a kind of systemic failure at a leadership level to... understand the complexity of those children's needs and to put in place provision that met them\".\n\nFormer Leaways assistant head Lee Boyce (R) with another former teacher, Lucy\n\nWhen she left in 2019, she says working conditions were stressful and a high staff turnover and absence rates contributed to a \"chaotic environment\" for pupils who were often already volatile.\n\nLee, now a principal inclusion advisor for a London borough, specialises in keeping such pupils in mainstream schools and says the £53,000 could be better spent.\n\n\"If you had even half of what you get for a child at Leaways... you could do amazing things,\" she says.\n\nLeaways is part of Kedleston Group, which runs 13 schools and homes in England.\n\nKedleston's directors include Denis and Paul Brosnan. In 2011, they were directors of Castlebeck, which owned the Winterbourne View private hospital near Bristol, where serious abuse was uncovered by a BBC Panorama investigation.\n\nAn inquiry the following year found Castlebeck \"took financial reward without the responsibility\".\n\nSome current Leaways staff believe profit is paramount at the school.\n\n\"It's a business that happens to be a school,\" one support worker told the BBC.\n\nIn 2019, Kedleston Group, which is owned by a Jersey-based holding company, had:\n\nDonna says Javon's Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) - a legal document which details a child's special educational needs and the support required - was not reviewed for nearly two years.\n\nBy law, these documents must be reviewed annually and this timescale remained in place during the pandemic.\n\nDonna claims the amount of speech and language therapy and emotional literacy coaching provided by the school fell below the levels specified in his plan.\n\n\"How do you explain to a child with autism, that in actual fact mum got it totally wrong?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donna: \"How do I explain to him I got it wrong?\"\n\nDonna is not the only parent wanting to remove her child.\n\nAnother, who asked not to be named, also told of delays to educational reviews and inadequate therapy.\n\nAt first sight Leaways \"appears to be a super specialist school, glory and glitter. It ignites hopefulness and it's just not that\", she said.\n\nIn 2016, when Brenda's son Ethan started at Leaways, she says: \"Everything was perfect.\"\n\nBut in 2017 the head teacher left, followed by Ethan's teacher, and the class was led by a teaching assistant for most of the next school year, Brenda adds.\n\nLeaways says the use of teaching assistants to lead classes is \"kept to an absolute minimum\" and only when the alternative is \"not to have the children in school at all\".\n\n\"Where possible we ensure that the teaching assistant is experienced, has an aptitude for leading the class and has a higher-level qualification,\" it said.\n\n\"The school does not have a materially different staff turnover rate to the industry norm.\"\n\nBut without a class teacher, Brenda says Ethan became anxious and aggressive and started having seizures.\n\nBrenda's son Ethan now attends a state-run special needs school near their home in Enfield, north London\n\nWhen he was checked out for epilepsy at Great Ormond Street hospital, the consultant said: \"It's not epilepsy. It's anxiety,\" she remembers.\n\nEventually the school appointed a new teacher, \"a godsend\", according to Brenda, and Ethan's mental state improved,\n\nBut in the summer of 2019, she also left and Brenda decided it was time to remove Ethan.\n\nThe family felt there was no-one to hear why they were taking out their son: \"There was nobody to tell. We just weren't confident any more,\" says Brenda.\n\nLucy, who asked not to use her full name, was Ethan's teacher in his last year at Leaways.\n\nShe was hoping to gain experience as a specialist autism teacher, an area where she had no formal training, but within weeks of starting in the school's specialist unit, says she was asked to lead it.\n\nShe declined, saying: \"It wasn't what I was expecting... It became clear quite quickly that the school were making a profit from not meeting the needs of children.\"\n\nLeaways is in a converted building in Hackney, east London\n\nSome of the teachers were unqualified, she says, and support staff often had very limited experience and training.\n\n\"When you start working there, you're just kind of thrown in,\" she says, adding: \"It's harder to teach children with complex needs than it is to teach typically developing children.\"\n\nShe says during her time at Leaways, access to therapies was limited. For example, there was one part-time counsellor to support some 50 children with social, emotional and mental health needs.\n\nShe says children in the mainstream school where she now works \"have better access to therapy\".\n\n\"This very high fee-paying school is just not meeting the need.\"\n\nLeaways emphasises that Ofsted's latest report, published in March, says the school's leaders \"ensure standards are met consistently\", that children are \"well supervised\" and staff supervision is \"proportionate and appropriate\".\n\n\"We are also regularly visited for quality assurance by the local authorities who place children with us, who have also raised no concerns of any kind.\n\n\"No school is perfect and all have faced challenges as a result of Covid-19.\n\n\"Leaways has faced the dual challenges of both the pandemic and an industrial dispute.\n\n\"Where improvements are required, we are actively working with parents, our colleagues and all parties to make positive changes and progress wherever they are needed.\"\n\nA long-running dispute over pay and conditions ended recently with a deal between Leaways and the National Education Union.", "Paul Farrell targeted his victims between 1985 and 2020, committing offences at addresses across London\n\nA Great Ormond Street Hospital porter who befriended the parents of his young victims to allow him to abuse boys across London has been jailed for life.\n\nPaul Farrell, 55, kept a diary of threats and bribes used to keep one of the children under control, Wood Green Crown Court heard.\n\nFarrell admitted 76 offences against eight victims, from 1985 to 2020. He must spend at least 18 years in jail.\n\nHe used an area of the hospital for abuse but did not target patients.\n\nProsecutors linked Farrell, of Camden, north London, to at least 500 instances of abuse, although they estimate the true figure is \"likely to be in the thousands\".\n\nHis 35-year campaign of abuse included attempted rape, sexual assault of a child under 13 and making indecent photographs of children.\n\nFarrell worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital between 1994 and 2020\n\nFarrell, who pleaded guilty at a previous hearing, acted as a babysitter to people he had befriended in order to gain access to their children.\n\nHe kept a diary of threats and bribes made to one of his victims, who was aged 12 when the abuse began.\n\nTo stop the boy from telling anyone about the attacks, Farrell hid a camera in the boy's room.\n\nProsecutors said Farrell had \"groomed\" the entire family to enable him to abuse the boy and his two younger brothers, setting reminders to buy members of the family presents or to offer himself as a babysitter.\n\nAnother victim, who was five years old when the abuse began, told Farrell in court: \"Innocent children like me and my brother will be profoundly scarred by your actions for the rest of our lives.\n\n\"I now feel hopeless, lost and disgusted at my silence that has allowed you to ruin the lives of so many innocent children.\"\n\nPaul Farrell was sentenced to a minimum term of 18 years in prison at Wood Green Crown Court\n\nJudge Noel Lucas said Farrell had a \"deep-seated fixation with sexual activity with very young boys\".\n\nThe judge said: \"It is difficult to fully comprehend the fear, confusion and vulnerabilities your young victims must have suffered as you repeatedly used and abused them to satisfy your sexual desires.\n\n\"For the whole of your adult life you have pursued your predatory interest in committing intimate sexual acts with very young boys with an all-consuming determination, irrespective of their attempts to make you desist.\"\n\nA Great Ormond Street Hospital spokesman said: \"Our thoughts remain with the brave victims and their families whose stories have been shared in court.\n\n\"While we have heard in court that Paul Farrell did not target children at GOSH, his association with our hospital is distressing for the hospital community.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry that he was able to exploit his position and use our hospital to commit some of his crimes.\n\n\"Our safeguarding practices will remain rigorous and under regular review and we are actively considering whether anything more can be done to prevent crimes like this.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cars were left burnt out when violence erupted in Mayhill on Thursday\n\nA father has said he does not want his late son's name \"dragged through the mud\" by \"scumbags\" who rioted after his vigil.\n\nCars were burnt out and windows smashed in Mayhill on Thursday after a balloon release for Ethan Powell, 19, who collapsed and died on Wednesday.\n\nSeven arrests have already been made.\n\nMr Powell's father Jonathan Russ said: \"We want it all to stop and we want to grieve in our own way, that's all we want.\"\n\nHe continued: \"It's been very tough, I've lost my baby, my little boy.\n\n\"It was disgusting, I don't want [Ethan's] name to be dragged through the mud.\n\n\"They were supposed to go ahead to let balloons off, and then you've got scumbags who are turning up and causing all [those] riots.\"\n\nEthan Powell, 19, who collapsed and died suddenly on Wednesday\n\nHe said he wanted his son to be remembered as a \"cheeky chappie\".\n\nHe said the rioters were not his son's friends.\n\n\"They've just gone out to cause trouble, it's disgusting,\" he said.\n\n\"They dragged [Ethan] through the mud, and if anyone thinks he's associated with that, he's not, I'm telling you now, no way.\n\n\"I hope the police come down hard on them. If there's one thing I hope it's that they don't lose a baby like I've lost a baby, because someone that night could have got killed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Romain says his family are leaving Mayhill because they no longer feel safe\n\nAdam Romain, whose house was targeted after he tried to stop youths setting fire to his car, is leaving Swansea, saying: \"I don't feel safe here any more.\"\n\nHe described bricks being thrown through windows while his girlfriend and children screamed, and feared his home would be looted.\n\nWhile his children have now \"bounced back\", he added: \"My partner is frightened, she's too scared to come home and I'm on a rollercoaster. Up and down, thinking I don't know where to point the anger sometimes.\"\n\nOriginally from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, he has privately rented in Swansea since 2015, but now wants to move away from the area for the sake of his family.\n\nHe believes the events were part of \"a bigger problem, a societal problem that didn't happen overnight\", and called on those involved to think of more constructive ways to \"express their pain and hurt in the future\".\n\nMr Romain described another incident two months ago when a car was rolled down a hill, saying it was now too dangerous for children to play outside in Mayhill.\n\nWhile talking to the authorities has made him realise the situation was \"more shades of grey not black and white\", he added: \"I did feel like we were alone, I did feel like nobody was coming to help.\n\n\"My feeling was we would have to leave and take as many valuables as we could in case it became a looting.\"\n\nHis family have now moved out and Mr Romain has returned on a number of occasions to pack up belongings.\n\nHe said the rioters \"brought shame\" to the name of their friend who had died, telling them: \"Don't throw your life away.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police said more arrests were due to be made this week and facial recognition would be used to trace others following the violent disorder.\n\nThe force said eight others had been identified and those involved have been urged to hand themselves in.\n\nSeven officers were injured during the incident on Waun-Wen Road and families described being trapped in their homes.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Travis told BBC Radio Wales: \"Today we will be using our facial matching technology and we're going to use that to identify everybody. It works really well with masks.\n\n\"It takes key points on your face, around your eyes and key features and it compares them to previous photos we have.\n\n\"It has a very high rate of success.\"\n\nConcrete barriers have been placed on the road where violence broke out on Thursday\n\nExplaining why it had taken several days before arrests were made, South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael said: \"When you arrest someone you take at least a couple of police officers off the street - but they are useful in reducing further offending and preventing any more bad things. Also, you can sometimes make a bad situation even worse.\"\n\nOn Saturday three men, aged 36, 20 and 18, and a 16-year-old boy, were arrested on suspicion of unlawful violence.\n\nThree more men, aged 18, 21, and 23, were arrested on Sunday.\n\nAll have now been released on bail with a number of strict conditions, including a night-time curfew.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shoppers have returned to central Glasgow this month\n\nConcern is growing about a rising number of Covid cases in Glasgow as the area prepares to move down to level two.\n\nThe latest published case rate is 58.3 per 100,000 population - well above a key threshold for easing restrictions.\n\nA senior health official said there were clusters of high infection rates in parts of the city.\n\nThe so-called India variant is suspected to be involved, although this has yet to be confirmed.\n\nAll mainland council areas with the likely exception of Moray are due to move to level two on Monday.\n\nAttention has been focused on a surge in cases in Moray although this increase appears now to be slowing.\n\nMoray's latest rate stands at 100.2 per 100,000 population, almost five times the Scotland-wide average, according to Public Health Scotland (PHS).\n\nGlasgow, however, has also seen a steady rise, and is now above 50 cases per 100,000 population - one of the benchmarks for deciding if level two or level three restrictions are appropriate. Other factors taken into account include the ability of the local NHS to cope.\n\nScotland's clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, told BBC Scotland's The Seven that the case rate in Glasgow has been rising for the last five or six days.\n\nHe said he was concerned but he was confident Glasgow would still be able to move to level two as hospital admissions, intensive care and mortality remained low.\n\n\"The doesn't mean I'm complacent,\" he said. \"In fact I want to encourage people to follow the rules tonight, tonight over the weekend, into Monday and then the new rules on Monday.\n\n\"And any suggestion that people should gather in groups, or march or parade or anything that breaks rules - please don't do that because Glasgow is at a fragile moment.\"\n\nLinda de Caestecker, director of public health at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said she \"anticipated\" that Glasgow would still move to the lower level.\n\nBut she said officials were carefully monitoring case rates in particular districts such as Pollokshields and Battlefield in the south of the city.\n\nWhile the figures published by Public Health Scotland relate to three days ago, she told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime the most recent data was indicating a city-wide rate of 74 cases per 100,000.\n\nAsked what was driving the increase, she told BBC Scotland: \"It seems particularly to be household mixing.\n\n\"We know that restrictions are going to be lifted in a few days' time and I do understand people thinking if we can do it on Monday, why can't we do it now. But it is people mixing together in households that we think is the source of this increase.\"\n\nMs Caestecker said some upturn in case numbers was to be expected as restrictions eased, but she was \"concerned\" about the increase in Glasgow.\n\n\"It shows we cannot be complacent. The numbers go up very, very quickly - particularly as we see new variants coming in that are more transmissible,\" she said.\n\nA proportion of the cases in Glasgow are suspected to involve the Indian variant though this has still be confirmed through genomic sequencing.\n\n\"What we know is that it's not the Kent variant, so the assumption is it's the Indian variant but we haven't got the sequencing yet so we can't be sure,\" she said.\n\nThe PHS heat map indicates the highest case rates are in the south of Glasgow and Easterhouse in the east.\n\nNicola Sturgeon announced on Tuesday that all mainland council areas would move to level two next week, with the exception of Moray where a final decision on whether it should remain in level three is to be made on Friday.\n\nLevel two rules mean people can meet up inside homes, pubs and restaurants can sell alcohol indoors and venues such as cinemas can reopen.\n\nThe previous major relaxation of Covid restrictions was on 26 April when non-essential shops and hospitality businesses reopened.\n\nThe impact of the easing of restrictions tends to show up in the figures about a fortnight later because of the incubation period of Covid-19 which is five to six days on average but can be as long as 14.\n\nClackmannanshire has also seen rising Covid rates recently, currently just below the 50 case threshold, with provisional data from PHS indicating the figure will rise further in the coming days.\n\nMidlothian, currently with 36 cases per 100,000, is another local authority area where case rates appear to be on the rise.", "Three-quarters of adopted children experienced neglect or abuse in their birth families, raising concerns about contact\n\nClaire and Ed adopted their sons 13 years ago. When the brothers found their biological family on social media aged 15 and 16, it took just three months for them to cut off all contact with their adoptive parents.\n\nClaire and Ed say their children were sent \"intrusive\" messages from their birth family and withdrew from their parents. Both children no longer attend school and there have been reports the older boy is involved in drug dealing.\n\n\"For us, it's just been devastating to have our family broken,\" Ed tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"But the big tragedy and the big, human cost is theirs. Because they've just been manipulated.\"\n\nAdoption UK says such complete breakdowns of relationships are rare - but unsupervised contact is becoming more common.\n\nThe charity's research suggests nearly a quarter of adopted children make direct contact with their birth family - often via social media - before they gain the right to access information about their origins at the age of 18.\n\nFormer High Court family law judge Sir Mark Hedley says there are no legal means of preventing young people from using social media to get in touch with their biological family, and banning their relatives from responding could be counter-productive.\n\nThe situation has prompted a call from Labour MP Rachael Maskell, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on adoption, for social services to enable safer, supervised contact before the age of 18.\n\nThree-quarters of adopted child have experienced neglect or abuse in their birth families, according to Adoption UK, raising concerns that post-adoption contact could be risky in some circumstances.\n\nClaire and Ed say despite more than 30 emails and repeated phone calls to social services and their regional adoption agency asking for support, no one intervened. \"You just scream into a void for help,\" says Claire.\n\nIn October last year, before the contact happened, Claire says she felt her family seemed happy and settled, perhaps for the first time in years.\n\nTheir older son was attending a specialist school, having therapies which seemed to be helping him, while the younger boy was in a mainstream school, seemingly a \"happy lad\" on course for his GCSEs, she says.\n\nThe couple say their older child had been increasingly curious about his birth family and they had arranged for him to send a note through letterbox contact - a system that is used in many adoptions to keep birth families updated as a child grows up, monitored by the local authority.\n\nBut before that happened, it took him just a \"matter of minutes\" to look his family up on social media using details he had been given during the adoption process, they say.\n\nHis birth family welcomed the contact and were \"very persistent\" in keeping in touch. He began to go missing from home overnight and was found close to his biological family's house.\n\nIn December, he stopped going to school and Claire says there were allegations he had been dealing drugs. \"He was completely knocked off course and started to follow a completely different life trajectory,\" she says.\n\nClaire says the younger boy had been \"resistant\" to being introduced to his birth family, but was subjected to \"intrusive\" contact over phone and Facetime.\n\nAbout a quarter of adopted children now search for birth relatives online\n\nHe withdrew from his adoptive family and from school, began meeting with his birth family, and would return with vapes, clothes and money, she says.\n\nClaire says: \"Our boys struggled with friendships, they struggled with school, they struggled with attention, they struggled to live within society's boundaries.\n\n\"And then what happens if a group of people come along and say, look, you don't need to go to school, you don't need to live in society's boundaries, we love you no matter what?\n\n\"[They say] 'Your parents are too harsh on you. They're too critical. And this is your escape clause.' I'm sure, you know lots of children, at that stage in their life would be tempted to move away from their families.\"\n\nNow the couple say they have not had any meaningful contact with their sons for three months.\n\n\"They no longer live with us or regard as their parents and they don't want us to be their parents going forward. They're quite hostile towards us,\" Ed says.\n\nHe says the boys have blocked their adoptive parents' phone number, and when their sons initiate a call it is \"not in a positive way\".\n\n\"There might be a chance of amicable relations sometime in the future, but not as a family,\" says Ed.\n\nHe says they cannot compromise on their values of \"hard work, honesty and being law-abiding\" but they now think their sons are \"in a different world to that\".\n\nThey feel they cannot be a part of that world and cannot influence the boys back onto the right path, he says.\n\nClaire says she felt they were \"naive\", believing themselves to be a close family unit. Ed says they had not been prepared for the possibility of contact before the boys were 18, and the result was \"beyond any worst-case scenario we could ever have contemplated\".\n\n\"You wouldn't believe it was possible for you to try to instil values and raise children for so many years and for it just to be totally wiped out in such a short amount of time,\" Claire says.\n\nCharlotte Ramsden, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, says when children contact birth family through social media and relationships are damaged, it is a \"really complex and tragic situation\".\n\nModern adoption needs to recognise that \"children have multiple attachments, they have complex identities, they are desperate to be loved and to understand their backgrounds\", she says.\n\nBut while lifelong support and advice for adoptive families has improved, \"it's not at the level we think it needs to be\", Ms Ramsden says.\n\nTrying to prevent contact by restricting information is not the answer, she says.\n\n\"In a sense that's where adoption was a very long time ago, that information wasn't shared with children, but that actually was proved to cause them more difficulties.\"\n\nThis story is based on Sinead Heekin and Mishal Husain's interview with Claire and Ed for the Today programme. UK audiences can hear it on BBC Sounds. Names were changed to protect the identities of children.", "Arlene Foster, during a visit to Clandeboye Golf Club on Wednesday, said the executive will discuss Covid changes elsewhere in the UK\n\nNI is winning against Covid and it is hoped further restrictions can be lifted to return to \"some sense of normality\", Michelle O'Neill has said.\n\nThe NI Executive is due to meet on Thursday to review the current restrictions.\n\nThe deputy first minister said NI is in a \"really good place\" and it is hoped progress can be made at the meeting.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said ministers will discuss what has been taking place elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"We've noted what's been happening in other parts of the United Kingdom and we'll want to discuss that tomorrow,\" said Mrs Foster, when asked when people will be able to hug again.\n\n\"It's something that we're discussing today amongst ourselves. We know that there's a lot of people who have been waiting for that time and I'm looking forward to be able to have those discussions tomorrow.\"\n\nMs O'Neill said: \"We're in a really good place in terms of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are winning. If things keep moving in the right direction we hope we'll be able to lift even more of the restrictions that are in place and get back to some sense of normality.\"\n\nMichelle O'Neill said NI is in a \"good place\" in terms of the pandemic\n\nPeople in England, Scotland and Wales will be allowed to meet in each other's homes and enjoy indoor hospitality from Monday.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, indoor hospitality is due to reopen on the indicative date of 24 May. All retail, outdoor hospitality and self-contained tourist accommodation have already reopened.\n\nMrs Foster said international travel will be discussed at Thursday's executive meeting.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill held a virtual meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss the response to Covid-19 across the UK.\n\nIt is understood he raised the prospect of holding a Covid-19 recovery summit with first and deputy first minister when they spoke on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThere were also updates on the vaccination programme, the pace of change with lockdown restrictions and the government's plan to hold an independent public inquiry into the pandemic next year.\n\nMs O'Neill also raised the outcome of the Ballymurphy inquest and said the prime minister should issue a full apology to the families of those who were killed.", "Max Caller told the BBC council staff were offered the chance to give evidence to his team on street corners\n\nStaff felt intimidated about speaking out on failings at a city council and there were \"credible\" fears for their safety if they did, an inspector says.\n\nMax Caller told the BBC his report into problems at Liverpool City Council left out the names of those who spoke to him because they worried about reprisals.\n\nThe report was published in March, and a police investigation continues.\n\nThe council has said it accepts all the report's findings and it was one of the most difficult periods in its history.\n\nSetting out its response to the government, the council said it would work with commissioners appointed to oversee parts of the authority.\n\n\"Although this is one of the most difficult periods in the council's recent history, it is also an opportunity to reset the council as a leading local authority,\" it said.\n\n\"It provides a platform to shine a light on, and remove, practices and behaviours of both officers and members which have no place in our council.\"\n\nGovernment inspectors were sent to investigate the Labour-run council after five men were arrested by police investigating allegations of fraud, bribery, corruption, misconduct in public office and witness intimidation at the council.\n\nThey included then Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson, who has since stood down. All the men deny the allegations.\n\nOn Saturday, Joanne Anderson - no relation to Mr Anderson - was declared as the city's new mayor.\n\nMr Caller's review found a dysfunctional council, which frequently did deals that did not provide good value for taxpayers. However, the subsequent report did not include a list of the people who had spoken to the inspection team, which is highly unusual.\n\nIn his first full interview since the release of the report, Mr Caller told BBC News the need to protect the identity of council staff \"really weighed quite heavily on what we did\".\n\nStaff \"felt that if they came forward and were named, there would be retribution\", Mr Caller said, adding: \"I came to the conclusion that to protect the individuals I could publish no names.\"\n\nHe described it as \"serious people\" who had \"serious concerns\", who were \"seriously worried about the outcomes if they were identified as coming forward\".\n\nMr Caller said some staff were \"seriously worried about the outcomes if they were identified as coming forward\"\n\nTo reassure staff they could talk to his team in confidence, Mr Caller made it known they didn't have to meet him inside the council building, where he was running his investigation.\n\nHe said: \"I made it clear to people that we would meet them on street corners. That we would meet them on Zoom. That they didn't have to be seen coming into any meeting room where I was at.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to council officials who don't want to be identified. They said during the years in question, there was a \"small cabal of people\" ruling the roost at the council.\n\nThey talked of insidious intimidation, of pressure being put on some staff to make questionable decisions, and of colleagues leaving on the grounds of stress.\n\nThe government inspection ran alongside a Merseyside Police criminal investigation. It meant Mr Caller wasn't able to publish all of his findings publicly, for fear of prejudicing those proceedings. But he was able to supply the police with material he had uncovered.\n\nMr Caller is now helping the council work on its recovery plan. He believes there is a hard road ahead, with further setbacks likely, and more revelations to \"creep out of the woodwork\".\n\nBut he says he is optimistic the council will get back on its feet and \"signal that it's committed to being back in the mainstream of local government\".\n\nThe council said it would take forward his recommendation to move away from annual elections and to all-out elections every four years. And it said it was considering a motion to bring forward the date of the proposed referendum on a city mayor from 2023 to 2022.\n\nThe measures will be debated at an extraordinary meeting of the city council next week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A priest and a mother of eight were among the 10 people killed at Ballymurphy\n\nMore legal action is expected over the deaths of 10 people killed in the Ballymurphy shootings of August 1971.\n\nOn Tuesday, an inquest found that ten people killed in west Belfast almost 50 years ago in the wake of an Army operation were \"entirely innocent\".\n\nThey included a priest trying to help the wounded and a mother of eight.\n\nNorthern Ireland Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the UK government must apologise to the families of the victims as a \"bare minimum\".\n\nShe said the government has been \"exposed for covering up for 50 years the fact that they killed Irish citizens on our streets\".\n\nStormont Justice Minister Naomi Long and SDLP leader Colum Eastwood have also called for a government apology.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said whatever legacy process is put in place in the future must apply to all families.\n\nShe said the approach to legacy has to be \"careful\" and must include \"everybody\". She added that other families deserve access to justice and truth \"just as the Ballymurphy families did\".\n\nSolicitor Paddy Murray, who represents nine of the 10 victims' families, said further legal action is being planned.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said whatever legacy process is put in place in the future must apply to all families.\n\n\"One of those avenues is civil proceedings against the Ministry of Defence and, in parallel with the inquest, the families initiated those proceedings,\" he told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"They were stalled pending the outcome of these findings. Given the very critical commentary by the coroner we will be moving forward with some vigour in relation to the civil action.\"\n\nEileen McKeown, whose father Joseph Corr was one of those shot dead in Ballymurphy, said police should now investigate the killings.\n\n\"I think it's now in the hands of the police and I think they now need to do what they should have done 50 years ago.\n\n\"I think the police need to do the job that they're paid to do and investigate the murders.\"\n\nThe victims included a mother of eight and a priest\n\nIn a statement issued after the announcement, a government spokesperson said it would now \"take the time to review the report and carefully consider the conclusions\".\n\nThe shootings happened after an operation in which paramilitary suspects were detained without trial.\n\nNine of the 10 victims were killed by the Army, the coroner said.\n\nHowever, they could not definitively rule who shot the tenth victim, John McKerr.\n\nMrs Justice Keegan, who delivered her findings over the course of more than two hours, said the deaths took place during Northern Ireland's Troubles in a \"highly charged and difficult environment\".\n\nFamilies of the victims gathered in Ballymurphy following the inquest\n\nThe killings happened over three days immediately following the introduction of internment - the arrest and detention of paramilitary suspects without trial.\n\nMrs Justice Keegan noted that during that time there was widespread disorder.\n\nAcross Belfast alone on 9 and 10 August 1971, it was recorded that there were approximately 12 explosions, 59 shooting incidents, 17 reported deaths, 25 reported injuries, 13 incidents of rioting, 18 reports of arson and other reports of civil disorder of various kinds.\n\nBut Mrs Justice Keegan concluded, to a round of applause: \"What is very clear, is that all of the deceased in the series of inquests were entirely innocent of any wrongdoing on the day in question.\"\n\nMs O'Neill said the UK goverment must respond and the families \"deserve access to justice\", while Mrs Long said the UK government needed to \"step up and formally apologise\".\n\n\"We saw how much a similar apology in relation to Bloody Sunday meant to the families there, and I encourage the government to acknowledge the courage of the Ballymurphy families with a similar statement,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking in parliament, Foyle MP Colum Eastwood said: \"Will this prime minister now finally apologise for what those British forces did by murdering 10 entirely innocent people, or will he continue to pursue an amnesty for their killers?\"\n\nFormer UK veterans minister Johnny Mercer said that what had happened to the families was \"not fair\" and he welcomed the coroner's findings.\n\n\"I think we should have a serious look at what happened and I would support an apology to the families of those who died for the way in which they have had to fight to have their loved ones declared innocent,\" he said.\n\nMr Mercer said he did not support the idea of amnesties, but that the evidential threshold for cases going to court must be looked at \"to avoid the scenes that we saw in the court in Belfast last week\" when the trial of two soldiers accused of murdering Official IRA man Joe McCann collapsed.\n\nHe said it was a challenge and a standard \"that should be met by any country that wants to call itself a democracy\".\n\nUlster Unionist Party assembly member Doug Beattie said an an apology by the prime minster \"would be a small step but it would go an awful long way\".\n\nHe added: \"These families have the absolute right to seek justice. Without a shadow of a doubt, the families, if they want to go down a legal route, they should be allowed to go down that legal route.\"\n\nLord Dennett, a former head of the Army, said an apology \"was not inappropriate\". However, he added it was not for him \"to say that\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch families of Ballymurphy victims react to the inquest verdict\n\nMrs Justice Keegan said the effects of the killings on the families of the 10 victims had been \"stark\".\n\nInquests were held into the deaths in 1972, but they were separate and returned open verdicts.\n\nThe new inquests, which began in November 2018, have been held together.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The roots of Northern Ireland’s Troubles lie deep in Irish history\n\nThe court heard almost 100 days of evidence from more than 150 witnesses.\n\nThese included more than 60 former soldiers, more than 30 civilians and experts in ballistics, pathology and engineering.", "The boy, named locally as Jordan Banks, was taking part in a football coaching session in Blackpool\n\nTributes have been paid to a nine-year-old boy who died after being struck by lightning during a football coaching session.\n\nThe child, who has been named locally as Jordan Banks, was injured when a thunderstorm hit as he was on a playing field in Blackpool on Tuesday evening.\n\nFlowers, footballs and messages of condolence have been left at the scene.\n\nJordan played for Clifton Rangers Junior Football Club, who described him as \"an extraordinary young man\".\n\nIn a Facebook post, the club said the keen Liverpool FC fan was \"a shining light and an inspiration to everyone that he met\" and \"a strong, determined and courageous young man, who will be missed by everyone\".\n\n\"We cannot begin to imagine the grief of the family. Our thoughts, prayers, love and hugs go out to them all and to his teammates, friends and coaches who are devastated by the loss,\" it added.\n\nThe club said it would be working with the FA to support the family and anyone affected by his death.\n\nFlowers, football boots and messages of condolence have been placed on the field\n\nLancashire Police said officers were called at about 17:00 BST and Jordan was taken to hospital but died a short time later.\n\nThey said although enquiries were ongoing it was believed he was struck by lightning.\n\nFamily members have been among those who have been to the playing field in Common Edge Road to pay tribute.\n\nMessages of condolence have been written on football shirts and placed at the side of the playing field.\n\nPeople have also been posting nine footballs on social media in honour of Jordan, using the hashtag #RIPLittleMan.\n\nJordan raised £3,000 for charity in memory of his uncle\n\nOne of Jordan's best friends, CJ, and his father laid flowers and a football on the field.\n\nThe nine-year-old said: \"We were best friends, we were in the same class.\n\n\"He was very kind and caring. Football was very important to him. He loved it. He played it every day and at school with me.\"\n\nThroughout the day flowers, footballs and football shirts have been left in remembrance of a life snatched away playing the game Jordan Banks loved so much.\n\nHis family and friends have described him as a \"superstar footballer\", telling me he lived for football and played at every single opportunity he could.\n\nHe came here after school with a small group of people for specialist training.\n\nGrassroots football is coming to the end of the season and there were some crucial matches coming up and he was absolutely determined to play.\n\nJordan raised £3,000 for a mental health charity for his late uncle earlier this year, running 30 miles in 10 days.\n\nTwo crowdfunding pages have been set up in Jordan's memory, raising more than £20,000.\n\nOne of them praised his charity work, adding: \"There are no words that could possibly be written to begin to explain the pain the family of Jordan must be feeling.\"\n\nIt said it was \"time for us to come together as a community and help give back to such an incredibly, thoughtful and caring young lad who has been taken way too soon in a tragic incident\".\n\nSpirit of Youth Junior FC, which uses the field at the end of School Road in South Shore, said Jordan was understood to have been taking part in a private coaching session.\n\n\"We are entrenched in the local community, and we will give whatever support is required to both the family and to those that were with him at the time,\" the club added.\n\nBlackpool Council, which owns the playing fields, said it was flying the town hall's flag at half-mast in tribute to Jordan.\n\nJordan was injured when a thunderstorm hit as he was on a playing field in South Shore\n\nBlackpool South's MP Scott Benton said he was \"incredibly sorry to hear this tragic and heartbreaking news\".\n\n\"I'm sure I speak for the whole community when I say that everybody in Blackpool will be thinking of the boy's family and friends at this sad time,\" he said.\n\nAndy Mellor, from the Blackpool branch of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said the school Jordan attended was a \"very strong school\".\n\n\"The head and deputy will be making every effort to support pupils and I know the governors will be rallying round as well,\" he said.\n\nTraining on the playing field has been cancelled until further notice.\n\nWhile more are injured, on average in the UK two people are killed by lightning every year.\n\nBBC Weather meteorologist Simon King said lightning was not uncommon, especially during the spring and summer months.\n\nThere were an estimated 3,000 lightning strikes across northern England between 16:00 BST and midnight on Tuesday.\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 controversial US embassy move to Jerusalem is going ahead amid celebration and protest. The BBC's Yolande Knell explains why the city is so important.", "Benjamin Recio-Nugent is due to be released on licence after serving half his 12-year jail term\n\nA woman whose attacker is due to be freed after serving half his prison sentence for rape says she feels \"sick at the thought\" of his release.\n\nBenjamin Recio-Nugent, from Sheffield, was jailed in 2016 for 12 years, but is due to be automatically released on licence towards the end of May.\n\nHis victim, who was repeatedly raped and tortured, said his release was \"incredibly difficult\" to comprehend.\n\nHer family is campaigning for Recio-Nugent to serve his full jail term.\n\nDuring her ordeal in 2015, the victim, who goes under the pseudonym of Laura as she has a right to life-long anonymity, was held captive, had piping hot water poured over her and, at one point, had a sock stuffed into her mouth to muffle her screams.\n\nThe attack in Recio-Nugent's Sheffield flat lasted seven and a half hours, police said.\n\nWhen he is released, he will have served half his jail term for rape, attempted rape, four counts of sexual assault by penetration and assault, for which he was convicted following a trial.\n\nLaura said: \"I'm finding it incredibly difficult to come to terms with the fact he will be released from prison within a month.\n\n\"How do you get your head around the thought of running into someone at the local shops who held you captive and violated you in the most degrading ways imaginable?\"\n\nA Sheffield-wide exclusion zone is being sought by Laura's family to prevent her encountering her attacker\n\nLaura said her attacker never showed any remorse and the thought of having to \"face the monster\" was \"re-traumatising\".\n\nShe said she hoped he would have to serve his full sentence so she could \"recover from the trauma\".\n\n\"Six years doesn't seem like anything in comparison to the psychological trauma he caused to me and my family.\n\n\"I feel sick at the thought of ever having to see him again.\n\n\"How can they possibly know for sure he will not hurt somebody else? They can't.\"\n\nThe law changed in April 2020, ending the automatic half-way release for offenders convicted of rape, manslaughter and GBH after that date, with those criminals having to spend two thirds of their sentence behind bars.\n\nBut a petition by Laura's father is calling for \"the new rules to be applied retrospectively\" to those being released half-way through their jail term and has so far received over 1,750 signatures.\n\nLaura's father said her family was trying to secure a Sheffield-wide exclusion zone for Recio-Nugent if they could not stop him being released.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said what Laura suffered was \"a horrific crime\" and added: \"Those released on licence face strict conditions - including non-contact orders and exclusion zones - and a return to prison if they breach them.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn said he was \"reassured\" crime victims were being safeguarded\n\nA police and crime commissioner has defended his force after a report found it had again failed to record thousands of crimes.\n\nInspectors issued a \"cause for concern\" notice after finding Dyfed-Powys Police had documented just 87.6% of reported crime.\n\nThe force had previously been told to improve two-and-a-half years ago.\n\nBut Dafydd Llywelyn said he had been \"reassured\" that victims were being safeguarded despite the findings.\n\nInspectors estimate 4,400 crimes are not recorded, including around 2,400 violent crimes and domestic abuse. Similar findings were identified in 2018.\n\nMr Llywelyn, who was re-elected as Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for the force on Sunday, said he had been told by senior officers within the force that improvements had been made in that time.\n\n\"What's disappointing is that hasn't been borne out by the HMIC report,\" he said.\n\nHe claimed the inspectorate sampled about 600 incidents from a three-month period.\n\n\"From those there were between 60 and 70 crimes not recorded, that's unfortunate, and all crimes should be recorded, I fully accept that,\" Mr Llywelyn said.\n\n\"What we're talking about is the lack of recording of 'crimes within crimes' - where there is a multi-faceted crime incident, where numerous allegations are made.\"\n\nHe said of the 20 incidents involving domestic abuse, 15 had at least one crime recorded and victims were fully risk-assessed and safeguarded.\n\n\"I'm still concerned about the five that haven't been risk-assessed because that's my job as the commissioner, to be the victims' champion.\"\n\nCharlie Armstrong from HMIC said they were confident the gaps in recording are being addressed\n\nCharlie Armstrong, of HMIC, said the full inspection report for Dyfed-Powys Police is due to be issued in the autumn, but they took the decision to issue a \"cause for concern\" now.\n\n\"We think there is a significant service failure in terms of the way the force is recording crime,\" she said.\n\n\"However, we wouldn't want to say that without acknowledging the force has taken steps to improve many areas of it's performance around crime recording.\n\n\"We are confident that the chief constable and her team already understand some of those gaps and are working to address those.\"\n\nShe added: \"When it has recorded the crime, it conducts effective investigations in the majority of cases.\"\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it puts victims \"at the heart of everything we do\".\n\nBBC Wales asked to speak with the acting Chief Constable, Claire Parmenter, but the request was declined.\n\nIn a statement on behalf of the chief constable, the force said: \"We accept the concerns and recommendations published by HMICFRS in respect of crime data integrity.\n\n\"As an organisation, we are firmly committed to supporting victims and putting them at the heart of everything we do. The force has plans in place to improve its crime recording and I am determined we will get this right.\n\n\"Since the date of this inspection, we are already seeing improvements as a result of the swift additional action we have taken, achieving 100% crime recording compliance in respect of anti-social behaviour for February and March 2021 which is positive.\"", "Covid-19 restrictions led to the sharpest fall in violent crime for at least 20 years, a report suggests.\n\nViolence was down by a third in England and Wales in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to research by Cardiff University.\n\n\"From a violence perspective, 2020 was the safest year on record,\" said co-author Prof Jonathan Shepherd.\n\nBut the report also found that the easing of restrictions was \"accompanied by rapid increases\" in violence.\n\nCardiff University's Violence Research Group analysed data for the whole of 2020 from 133 NHS hospital emergency departments, minor-injury units and walk-in centres, across England and Wales.\n\nThe number of people who attended for treatment of violence-related injuries in 2020 was 119,111 - 56,653 fewer than in the previous year.\n\nThe reductions were across all age groups but were most marked among children under the age of 11, where violence levels were down by 66%.\n\nThe report concluded that this was \"likely to reflect the unprecedented restrictions imposed on free movement of citizens and businesses to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic\".\n\nWhen restrictions were eased in May 2020 to include the phased re-opening of pubs and bars, violence rose again, and by August it had reached pre-pandemic levels.\n\nDuring the second lockdown in the autumn, which included a 22:00 curfew, there was another sharp fall in the number of people needing hospital treatment for injuries.\n\nThe data highlights a clear link between violence and late-night drinking.\n\n\"Efforts to prevent serious violence should be concentrated in night-time economies where pubs, clubs and other licensed premises are located,\" says the report.\n\nAnother encouraging conclusion is that there has been a gradual reduction in serious violence over most of the past 20 years.\n\nThis is because of \"advances in inter-agency collaboration, data sharing and analysis, targeted policing and real-time CCTV surveillance,\" said Prof Shepherd.\n\n\"These factors are all vulnerable when the economy is stretched; they need constant attention.\"\n\nBut while the figures are clearly welcome, they do not tell the whole picture.\n\nHomicide in England and Wales has been rising since 2015, as has knife crime.\n\nAlso, not all violence ends with a visit to hospital.\n\nStatistics for the year ending March 2020 revealed that fewer than half of all violent incidents resulted in physical injury.\n\nThe effects of lockdown on domestic violence are still unclear because few of the hospitals in this survey were able to provide information on the location of violence.\n\nData from Cardiff A&E shows levels of violence in the home in the city were unchanged in 2020.\n\nHowever, other figures have shown an increase in demand for domestic abuse services across England and Wales.\n\nA 10% rise in domestic violence-related offences was recorded by the police in the year ending September 2020, which may reflect improved levels of police recording.\n\nThe picture is further complicated because a large number of domestic offences are never reported.\n\nOn Thursday the Office of National Statistics will publish annual figures on crime patterns, which will shed more light on what happened to violence during the pandemic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson said the UK's Covid response would be \"placed under the microscope\"\n\nThe government is \"fully committed to learning the lessons at every stage\" of the pandemic, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nHe told MPs an independent public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic would be held in spring 2022.\n\nThe inquiry would place \"the state's actions under the microscope\", he added, and take evidence under oath.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why the inquiry could not start earlier, such as later in 2021.\n\nBut addressing the Commons, the prime minister said the inquiry could not \"inadvertently distract\" those within the NHS and government advisers, who were continuing to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe inquiry's terms of reference have not yet been defined but would be published in \"due course\", he said, adding that the devolved administrations would be consulted.\n\nOn Wednesday the UK reported another 11 deaths within 28 days of a positive test and a further 2,284 coronavirus cases.\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged many bereaved families would want the inquiry to begin sooner, but said because of the threat of new variants and a possible winter surge in infections, spring next year would be the \"right moment\".\n\nHe said the \"new variants pose a potentially lethal danger, including the one first identified in India which is of increasing concern here\".\n\n\"Should these [variants] prove highly transmissible and elude the protection of our vaccines, they would have the potential to cause even greater suffering than we endured in January.\"\n\nBolton has one of the highest instances of the Indian variant in the UK and is seeing a particularly sharp rise in cases among unvaccinated under-25s.\n\nHealth officials in Glasgow have expressed concern about a rising number of Covid cases in the city - the latest public case rate is 58.3 per 100,000, well above a key threshold for easing restrictions.\n\nMore than 127,600 people have died in the UK with coronavirus, making it one of the worst affected countries by number of deaths.\n\nThe inquiry is expected to examine the government's handling of the pandemic, including the timing of its decision to impose lockdowns.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the inquiry would be established on a \"statutory basis\" - where witnesses can be legally compelled to attend and give evidence and provide relevant material under oath.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for clarification on whether the inquiry would be formally opened in spring next year or whether that will be when work begins to establish the inquiry.\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said the preparatory work to establish the terms of reference and the inquiry chairman \"will happen before the spring of next year\".\n\nMr Johnson - who has set out plans to ease some of England's coronavirus restrictions on 17 May - said: \"The end of the lockdown is not the end of the pandemic.\"\n\nHe added: \"The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the pandemic has now reached its global peak and will last throughout this year.\"\n\nA WHO report released on Wednesday said the organisation should have declared a global emergency earlier than it did, and that individual governments failed to act quickly enough.\n\nMost leading healthcare systems struggled to get to grips with Covid in the early stages. France, Italy and Spain had similar challenges to the UK.\n\nThe inquiry will look at the extent to which the experience here mirrored that of other countries and how decisions and policies affecting outcomes were different.\n\nKey questions will include preparedness and why before last year health chiefs only \"war-gamed\" a serious flu epidemic.\n\nWhy were PPE supplies so inadequate and why then was procurement so flawed?\n\nWhy was testing and tracing dropped because of lack of capacity in the early stages of the pandemic?\n\nThere will be intense scrutiny of the decision to fully lock down only on 23 March last year when dire warnings about the NHS being potentially overwhelmed had come more than a week earlier.\n\nDifferent approaches to opening up in the UK's nations will be considered.\n\nThe biggest question is likely to be why the UK had one of the highest Covid death rates relative to the population of any major economy.\n\nThe inquiry will need to consider whether this might be the result of misguided official decision making - or a consequence of underlying inequalities and poor health in disadvantaged communities, and perhaps under-investment in public health.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, who were calling for a public inquiry in June 2020, said the planned timing of the inquiry meant the government were \"getting away from… early accountability\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jo Goodman, co-founder of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, said the inquiry must involve families from the start, allowing them to help to choose the chair as well as determining the terms of reference.\n\nShe said spring 2022 was \"simply too late to begin\".\n\n\"It sounds like common sense when the prime minister says that an inquiry can wait until the pandemic is over, but lives are at stake with health experts and scientists warning of a third wave later this year.\n\n\"A rapid review in summer 2020 could have saved our loved ones who died in the second wave in winter.\"\n\nAlong with the Lib Dems, the campaign group called on the government to release an internal \"lessons learned\" investigation into its handling of the pandemic.\n\nDowning Street confirmed an \"informal\" review of its response has been carried out but declined to say whether it would be published.\n\nThe PM attended a Westminster Abbey service on Wednesday that paid tribute to nurses working during the pandemic\n\nFran Hall, who had only been married three weeks to her long-term partner when she lost him to Covid last year, called for a \"rapid review\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"That is something that can be done in a matter of weeks, that wouldn't tie up people's time to the degree that a full judge-led inquiry would.\n\n\"That would hopefully begin to get some quick answers to some of the very pressing questions.\"\n\nDame Deirdre Hine - the author of the independent review into the swine flu pandemic - told BBC Radio 4's World at One: \"Looking at what will have to be the terms of reference and the ground it [the inquiry] has to cover; I can't see it reporting in less than two to three years.\"\n\nProfessor Sir Ian Kennedy, who chaired an inquiry into the deaths of babies undergoing heart surgery, warned against placing a time limit on the inquiry.\n\nHe told the BBC's Newscast podcast: \"What's got to be worked out are the mechanics. Who's going to chair it? Is he or she going to sit with others? Is it going to be time limited? That would be a disaster. It must be done as expeditiously as possible, but never put a time limit on it because you never know what circumstances will arise.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Mr Johnson also confirmed a commission on Covid commemoration is to be established to help remember those who lost their lives during the pandemic.\n\nHe added he \"wholeheartedly\" supported the plan for a memorial in St Paul's Cathedral, describing it as \"a fitting place of reflection in the heart of our capital\".\n\nIn response to a question from Conservative MP Felicity Buchan on the government's work-at-home advice, Mr Johnson said it was \"certainly\" the intention to lift the guidance on 21 June, but the government would \"say that with more clarity a bit later on\".\n\nEveryone who can work from home must do so under the current government advice.\n\nOn Thursday, England's Covid vaccination programme will open to those aged 38 and 39, with the NHS website to be updated at 07:00 BST.\n\nPregnant women will also be able to book through the national booking service from Thursday and will be directed to vaccination centres offering Pfizer and Moderna in their local area - in line with guidance from the UK's vaccine advisers.\n\nMore than 18.4m people - 35% of the adult population - have now received both doses of a vaccine, with 35.7m people having received one jab.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner: I have a 'very frank' relationship with Starmer\n\nPeople \"on the doorstep didn't know what Keir Starmer stood for\", Labour's deputy leader has said following poor results in England's local elections.\n\nAngela Rayner, who was locked in a dispute with Sir Keir over her role in the party at the weekend, told the BBC the two had \"robust conversations\".\n\nHowever, she also said she believed in him \"100% because I wouldn't still be working with him if I didn't.\"\n\nShe said the party now had to \"connect with voters we've lost\".\n\nMs Rayner was removed as the party's campaign coordinator on Saturday evening but the following day was given a job shadowing Michael Gove at the Cabinet Office and also became Labour's spokesperson for the future of work.\n\nMs Rayner did not deny she had been sacked from the position but said they had agreed she should take on a more \"front-facing\" role.\n\nShe said she had \"a very frank relationship\" with her leader, adding: \"I have always been a bit fiery... and Keir's a very measured person so actually we work incredibly well... because we bounce off each other.\"\n\nMs Rayner said she would use her new job to \"get out there and really sock it to the government\" but also to address questions from \"the doorstep\" about \"what does Labour stand for?\"\n\nThe Ashton-under-Lyne MP was speaking less than a week after Labour suffered defeat to the Conservative in the Hartlepool by-election and lost control of eight councils in England.\n\nHowever, the party achieved better results in Wales, where it remains the largest party in the Senedd - the Welsh Parliament.\n\nIt also won 11 out of 13 mayoral races in England.\n\nHowever, the results raised concern in the party that it had not done enough to win back its traditional strongholds from the Conservatives.\n\nReflecting on Sir Keir's time as Labour leader, Ms Rayner said it was \"right that we came together\" during the coronavirus pandemic but that now was the time for \"a fundamental rethink\" and \"real change in our communities\".\n\n\"The taxpayers of tomorrow will be paying off coronavirus for decades to come - I don't want them in low paid insecure work where they can't bring up their family and own their own home.\n\n\"I want to do something that tackles insecure work, tackles low pay, and delivers on high skilled jobs.\"\n\nShe also said she wanted to see green jobs go to areas that \"for decades haven't had any industry\".\n\nMs Rayner sought to distance herself from briefings by her supporters in the last few days saying, \"I say we pull together, like any family we have our fallouts and we do that in private'.\n\nShe warned, \"if we fight each other, then people don't think we're on their side and I want people to know that we are on their side - and that's what we are focused on.\"", "Downing Street is seeking to cancel a county court judgement against Prime Minister Boris Johnson that cites an unpaid bill of £535.\n\nThe order was made against Mr Johnson, of 10 Downing Street, on 26 October, according to a judgement database.\n\nThe creditor and nature of the debt, which was first reported by Private Eye magazine, is not yet known.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said the claim against the PM was without merit.\n\n\"An application will be made for an order to set aside the default judgement, to strike out the claim and for a declaration that the claim is totally without merit,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe BBC understands the case relates to a defamation claim against Mr Johnson.\n\nCounty court judgements are issued in England and Wales when people fail to repay money they owe.\n\n\"If you get a judgement, this means that the court has formally decided that you owe the money,\" according to a government website.\n\nA bailiff \"may visit your home if you do not pay your debts\", the website warns.\n\nBanks and loan companies can also use the information to decide whether to issue credit or loans.\n\n\"If you're late with your payments, you could be taken back to court and you may have to pay extra costs,\" the website adds.\n\nAnyone who has had a county court judgement (CCJ) against them can apply for it to be cancelled - or \"set aside\" in the legal language - but they must convince the court that there is a good reason for this to happen and they have also acted promptly in launching their challenge.\n\nThat could include the judgement having been issued in error - perhaps because the debt had actually been paid, or because there was never a debt in the first place.\n\nSometimes, people seek to have a CCJ cancelled because they genuinely did not know about it - or they can show the court that it has acted incorrectly in making the order.\n\nThat can happen when the court has been provided with the wrong address for a debtor who only later learns of the judgement when they discover it has damaged their credit score.\n\nThe official rules for applications to set aside a judgement state: \"Most applications will require a hearing and you will be expected to attend. The court will allocate a hearing date and time for the application. Please indicate in a covering letter any dates that you are unavailable within the next six weeks.\"\n\nThe application must come with some kind of \"statement of truth\", explaining why the judgement should be set aside.\n\nThe prime minister could instruct a lawyer to appear for him.\n\nApplicants can also ask the court to consider waiving the £100 fee if it would cause them \"undue hardship\".\n\nThe prime minister's personal finances have been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks.\n\nIn particular, he has faced questions about how renovations to the flat, above 11 Downing Street, that he shares with fiancée Carrie Symonds were paid for.\n\nHe has insisted he personally paid for the work, but has declined to say whether he received an initial loan.\n\nThe Electoral Commission is investigating whether any spending on the flat falls within its remit, and whether any donation to the Conservative Party was properly declared.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the prime minister's spokesman said the court judgement had nothing to do with the Downing Street estate refurbishment, saying: \"All bills have been paid by the government or the prime minister, personally.\"\n\nAsked if Number 10 had only become aware of the judgement when it was first reported earlier on Wednesday, the spokesman said it was something they are \"looking into currently\".\n\nAnd on being asked whether there should be concerns about the prime minister's personal finances, Mr Johnson's press secretary said: \"You should not be concerned, no.\"", "DeGeneres has hosted her daily talk show since 2003\n\nEllen DeGeneres is to end her long-running US talk show in 2022 after 19 years on the air.\n\n\"As great as this show is, and as fun as it is, it's just not a challenge any more,\" she told the Hollywood Reporter.\n\nThe announcement comes just months after the show faced accusations it was a toxic place to work.\n\nIt led to three senior producers losing their jobs and DeGeneres opening the current season with an on-air apology.\n\nThe Ellen DeGeneres Show, which has aired since September 2003, will come to an end in 2022 after its 19th season.\n\nThe daily mix of comedy, interviews and human interest stories has been a US television staple, though ratings have declined in recent years.\n\n\"I was going to stop after season 16,\" DeGeneres said. \"That was going to be my last season and they wanted to sign for four more years and I said I'd sign for maybe for one.\n\n\"They were saying there was no way to sign for one. 'We can't do that with the affiliates and the stations need more of a commitment.'\n\n\"So, we [settled] on three more years and I knew that would be my last. That was the plan all along.\"\n\nThe popular TV host issued an on-air apology last September\n\nDeGeneres' show broadcast its 3,000th edition last month, which its host admitted had been an \"emotional\" experience.\n\n\"It's going to be really hard on the last day, but I also know it's time,\" she continued. \"I'm a creative person, and when you're a creative person you constantly need to be challenged.\"\n\nThe 63-year-old went on to say that last year's allegations that the show's workplace was \"dominated by fear\" had not been a factor in her decision to pull the plug.\n\n\"If I was quitting the show because of that, I wouldn't have come back this season,\" she said, while admitting it \"destroyed\" her to see \"everything I stand for... attacked\".\n\n\"It broke my heart when I learned that people here had anything other than a fantastic experience - that people were hurt in any way,\" she went on.\n\nAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, DeGeneres told staff of her decision on Tuesday and is due to give an interview to fellow chat show host Oprah Winfrey on Thursday.\n\nHer show has won more than 60 Daytime Emmy awards, the most recent coming when it was named outstanding entertainment talk show in 2020.\n\nThe Ellen Show regularly attracts A-list Hollywood guests and clips from the show often attract millions of views on YouTube.\n\n\"Although all good things must come to an end, you still have hope that truly great things never will,\" said Mike Darnell of show producer Warner Bros.\n\nHe said the show was a \"phenomenon\" that had become \"the premiere destination for both superstars and incredible heartfelt human-interest stories\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Academics, speakers and students could take court action\n\nUniversities in England could face fines under new legislation if they fail to protect free speech on campus.\n\nVisiting speakers, academics or students could seek compensation if they suffer loss from a breach of a university's free speech obligations.\n\nThe Higher Education (Freedom of Speech Bill) was one of the proposed pieces of legislation announced in the Queen's Speech on Tuesday.\n\nUniversities said it was important not to create \"unnecessary bureaucracy\".\n\nUnder the plans, new freedom of speech and academic duties would be placed on universities and, for the first time, on student unions.\n\nIndividuals would be given a right to seek compensation through the courts if the freedom of speech duties of an institution or student union had been breached.\n\nThe Office for Students, the higher education watchdog in England, would have the power to impose fines on institutions if they breached the rules.\n\nAmong the proposals there is also an appointed \"free speech champion\" who would examine potential infringements of duties, for example, the no-platforming of speakers or the dismissal of academics.\n\nThe government hopes the changes will ensure that university staff feel safe to put forward controversial or unpopular views, without being at risk of losing their jobs.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for Universities UK (UUK) said: \"Universities are (rightly) already legally required to have a code of practice on free speech and to update this regularly.\n\n\"It is important that the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill is proportionate by focusing on the small number of incidents, while not duplicating existing legislation and creating unnecessary bureaucracy for universities which could have unintended consequences.\"\n\nThe duties would also apply to student unions\n\nJo Grady, head of the University and College Union, said: \"There are serious threats to freedom of speech and academic freedom from campus, but they come from the government and university managers, not staff and students.\n\n\"Widespread precarious employment strips academics of the ability to speak and research freely, and curtails chances for career development.\n\n\"If the government wants to strengthen freedom of speech and academic freedom, it shouldn't be policing what can and cannot be said on campus, and encourage university managers to move staff on to secure, permanent contracts.\"\n\nBut Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said it was a basic human right \"to be able to express ourselves freely and take part in rigorous debate\".\n\n\"Our legal system allows us to articulate views which others may disagree with as long as they don't meet the threshold of hate speech or inciting violence - this must be defended, nowhere more so than within our world-renowned universities.\n\n\"Holding universities to account on the importance of freedom of speech in higher education is a milestone moment in fulfilling our manifesto commitment, protecting the rights of students and academics, and countering the chilling effect of censorship on campus once and for all.\"\n\nUniversities minister Michelle Donelan added: \"This bill will ensure universities not only protect free speech but promote it too.\n\n\"After all how can we expect society to progress or for opinions to modernise unless we can challenge the status quo?\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPortugal is set to host the Champions League final after Uefa failed to receive the guarantees of exemptions it wants if it is to move the game to Wembley.\n\nUefa, UK government officials and the Football Association met on Monday to discuss moving the game between Chelsea and Manchester City from Istanbul.\n\nUefa has decided it will be moved after Turkey was put on England's red travel list meaning fans cannot travel. Portugal is on the green list so fans would be allowed to attend on 29 May.\n\nPorto's Estadio do Dragao is expected to be named as the venue on Thursday because Uefa would prefer not to stage the match in Lisbon, which hosted last year's final.\n\nEuropean football's governing body believes holding the match in Portugal will make it easier to gain access for sponsors and broadcasters, who would need to be compensated if they were unable to attend the game.\n\nHowever, Uefa is still not in a position to confirm the switch, which would see Istanbul given the 2023 final, having originally been due to host last year before the move to Lisbon.\n\nThe match could still be played at Wembley but it would require a major shift from the UK government, which has so far failed to reach an agreement with Uefa.\n\nTravellers from England to green-list countries must follows rules before departure but do not have to quarantine on their return.\n\nUK citizens returning from red-list countries are required to quarantine at a government-approved hotel for 10 days.\n\nSuch a quarantine would have an impact on players involved in Euro 2020, which starts on 11 June.\n\nOn Friday, transport secretary Grant Shapps said Covid-19 red-list countries \"should not be visited except in the most extreme circumstances\".\n\nUefa had hoped to give both clubs a minimum of 4,000 tickets each for the game at Ataturk Olympic Stadium.\n\nShapps said that the FA was in talks with Uefa about switching the game, but that it is \"ultimately a decision for Uefa\".\n\nChelsea Supporters Trust has said it will meet Uefa and will request that the final is moved to the UK, while Manchester City fan groups said they will be renewing their calls to move the game from Istanbul.\n\nThere is also a fixture issue to resolve, as Wembley is scheduled to stage the Championship play-off final on 29 May. However, it is understood the EFL would consider moving the match if asked by Uefa, and its board would make the final call.\n• None Fan favourite hard-hitting drama about the crack epidemic in 1980s LA is streaming now\n• None How are Gen Z learning to adapt and thrive?: Young entrepreneurs find new ways to make money in Covid times", "Around 70% of cats are microchipped, while for dogs - where it is compulsory - the figure is over 90%\n\nMicrochipping pet cats will become compulsory under a wide-ranging new animal welfare plan.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC the policy would be monitored by vets and enforced in the same way as it is for dogs, which he said has led to over 90% compliance.\n\nThe plan will also formally recognise the sentience of many animals.\n\nBut Mr Eustice said this measure was aimed at pets and livestock, rather than wild animals.\n\nThe government's Action Plan for Animal Welfare also includes measures to ban exporting live animals for slaughter, the keeping of primates as pets and importing hunting trophies. There may also be changes to the ways that animals can be confined - such as the practice of keeping them in cages.\n\nHowever, there is no plan to require imports to meet the same welfare standards as in the UK, which the National Farmers' Union (NFU) described as \"hypocrisy\".\n\nThe plan will also see remote-controlled training collars for dogs outlawed and the government says it will look at banning the sale of foie gras - a food made from the livers of force-fed ducks or geese.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Eustice said that compulsory microchipping for cats would resemble the current rules for dogs, where vets advise pet owners whose animals do not have a microchip to get one, and \"if they ignore it, there is an enforcement process\".\n\nDog owners can be fined £500 under the existing law.\n\nLianna Angliss at Hopefield Animal Sanctuary said that as well as helping to reunite lost cats with their owners, compulsory microchipping could help animal sanctuaries trace people who abandon their pets.\n\nThe environment secretary also told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the recognition of animal sentience would give the UK an equivalent to a declaration that already applies in the European Union.\n\nClyde was reunited with his owners six years after they moved house - thanks to his microchip\n\nIt will enshrine in law that animals have the capacity to feel hunger and pain, and are aware of what is happening to them. It will apply to vertebrates, but not to animals such as octopus and squid.\n\nMr Eustice said there would be an expert animal sentience committee which would advise on policy.\n\nBut asked if it would affect hunting, fishing or road-building projects which might disturb habitats, he said the recognition of animal sentience was \"much more applicable\" to pets and livestock than wildlife.\n\nClaire Bass, executive director of the Humane Society, said recognising animal sentience was a key part of \"probably the biggest new set of commitments on animal welfare for decades\".\n\nThe plan includes legislation in a number of bills set to be approved in the coming months. These include the Kept Animals Bill, the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill and the Animals Abroad Bill. These will expand on the protections in the Animal Welfare Act 2006.\n\nLegislation to restrict the use of glue traps, designed to capture rats and mice, will also be supported.\n\nReacting to the news that owners will have to get their cats microchipped, Jacqui Cuff, head of advocacy and government relations for Cats Protection, said she was \"delighted\".\n\nIn France, geese are force-fed to produce foie gras, which is made from their distended livers.\n\n\"We had the dog microchipping regulation passed in 2016, so we've been waiting a long time. There are around 2.6 million unchipped pet cats in the UK; that's a lot of cats wandering around with no permanent identification,\" she said.\n\nCat theft reportedly increased by more than 12% over the last year, and only around 70% of owned cats are chipped at the moment.\n\nChris Sherwood, chief executive of the RSPCA, said: \"These announcements will make a real and lasting difference to animals' welfare, so we're pleased the government is committed to improving animals' lives in the UK and abroad. We can no longer ignore the inextricable link that exists between the way we treat animals, our own health and that of the planet - but to really achieve a step change, it will take courage from right across government.\n\n\"We urge the government to put animal welfare at the heart of policy making and make these announcements just the beginning of an evolving, holistic animal health and welfare strategy.\"\n\nWith regard to farmed animals, live exports for fattening and slaughter will be banned. This is only possible because the UK has left the EU. The caging of poultry and the practice of restricting the movement of pregnant and suckling pigs will also be examined.\n\nIn 2012 Thanet council suspended live exports from Ramsgate after an incident in which 45 sheep died\n\nSows can legally be kept in a \"farrowing crate\" for up to five weeks. These crates are of a size that prevents the sow from turning around and potentially crushing her new-born piglets. However, preventing sows from engaging in normal behaviour can cause them to become stressed.\n\nThere is, however, no legal guarantee that food from animals reared abroad will have been produced to high animal-welfare standards.\n\nLast year, ministers controversially voted against a House of Lords amendment which would have blocked imports that didn't meet welfare and food safety standards in the UK. It will now depend on post-Brexit trade deals with countries such as the US, where cows are routinely treated with hormones and chickens are washed with chlorine - which is illegal here.\n\nThe deputy president of the National Farmers' Union, Stuart Roberts, said it was \"ridiculous\" if high standards weren't applied to imports as well.\n\n\"We have some of highest standards for animal welfare in the world. It's good that the government have that same ambition,\" he said.\n\n\"But at the moment we are negotiating a trade deal with Australia, where you can have journey times for animals in excess of 24 hours without access to food or water. We cannot increase standards here, and at the same time not apply the same criteria to imports, it's just hypocrisy.\"\n\nMr Eustice said the UK could use tariffs on imported produce to uphold its standards and could also impose a ban on the sale of imported food which relied on practices banned domestically - such as foie gras.\n\nOther measures in the plan include banning the advertisement of \"unacceptable low-welfare animal practices abroad\" such as elephant rides, along with prohibiting the export of \"detached shark fins\". The Ivory Act, banning the sale of ivory, will also be implemented.\n\nThere will also be new laws to \"crack down on illegal hare coursing,\" and police will be given more powers to protect farm animals from dangerous or out-of-control dogs.", "Tenants are showing signs of returning to major cities to take advantage of rents that were lowered during lockdown, a report suggests.\n\nWork and leisure restrictions, as well as younger adults returning to live with their families, meant demand dropped in the last year.\n\nThis in turn led to rent falls, including a drop of 9.4% in London, according to property portal Zoopla.\n\nBut, since Easter, it said demand had picked up.\n\nThere was a two-speed rental market over the last year, according to the Zoopla figures.\n\nOutside London, rents rose by 3% in the year to the end of March.\n\nHowever, the cost of renting in some of the UK's big cities fell. In Edinburgh, it dropped by 3.2% and in Manchester it was down by 1%.\n\nIn London, the drop was particularly pronounced. This meant average rents accounted for 42% of an average single earner income in London, down from 49% in March last year. That was considerably lower than the peak of 53% in late 2016.\n\nLondon still remained a comparatively expensive place to rent a home. The national average sees rent take up 31% of a single earner's income.\n\nDemand among renters for city properties is starting to rise significantly again, the report suggests, with tenants looking out for particular characteristics in the light of Covid.\n\nPrivate outdoor space is a priority. The proportion of renters searching for properties with gardens had doubled since last year, the report said.\n\nGráinne Gilmore, head of research at Zoopla, said the availability of mortgages for people only able to offer a low deposit meant some were keen to buy a first home rather than rent, but this would be limited by economic uncertainty.\n\n\"The opening up of the economy and the slow return to business as usual as the vaccine rolls out means [rental] demand will continue to build over the summer as more people move to rent their first property - although, as ever, this will be dependent on the economy opening up in line with the planned timetable,\" she said.\n\n\"Demand will continue to rise in city centres as offices start to reopen.\"\n\nVarious surveys have shown significant rises in house prices for buyers over the last year.", "More than 800 over-50s have participated in the Com-Cov study on mixing jabs to date\n\nAdults are more likely to report mild and moderate side-effects after mixing doses of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid vaccines, a study indicates.\n\nChills, headaches and muscle pain were reported more frequently when different vaccine doses were combined.\n\nAny adverse reactions were short lived, with no other safety concerns.\n\n\"It's a really intriguing finding and not something we were necessarily expecting,\" Prof Matthew Snape, from the Oxford Vaccine Group said.\n\nThe Com-Cov study launched in February to see whether a different jab for the second dose might give longer-lasting immunity, better protection against new variants or simply allow clinics to swap vaccines if supplies are interrupted.\n\nThe Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec have both said they plan to mix vaccines in the near future, amid uncertainty over shipments of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab and concerns about rare blood clots.\n\nThe study, led by the University of Oxford, has recruited 830 volunteers aged over 50.\n\nIt is expected to publish its first full results in June.\n\nBut preliminary data has now been published in a research letter in the medical journal the Lancet.\n\nOne in 10 volunteers given two AstraZeneca jabs four weeks apart reported feverishness - but if they received one AstraZeneca jab and one Pfizer, in any order, the proportion rose to about 34%\n\n\"The same real differences applied for other symptoms such as chills, fatigue, headache, malaise and muscle ache,\" Prof Snape, the trial's chief investigator, said.\n\n\"One things it's telling us is that you wouldn't want to vaccinate a ward full of nurses on same day [with mixed doses of different vaccines], because you might have more absenteeism the next day.\"\n\nIn April, the study was expanded, adding another 1,050 volunteers to test combinations of the Moderna and Novavax Covid vaccines alongside the AstraZeneca and Pfizer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of the only clues to the soldier's identity is a hand-written note from 1940\n\nA search has begun to find the family of a soldier executed by German troops in a cemetery during World War Two.\n\nThe soldier, who was a 51st Highlander, had managed to evade capture by hiding with a local family after the Battle of St Valery-en-Caux in June 1940.\n\nHowever, after several weeks he was found by German troops who marched him through the French town, forced him to dig his own grave then shot him.\n\nOne of the few clues to his identity is the name Keller Len Scott.\n\nIt was written on a piece of paper by the family who gave the soldier refuge, but its meaning is not clear.\n\nEfforts to find out who the soldier was and trace anyone of that name or surviving family have so far proved fruitless, prompting a public appeal for help.\n\nWhat was known about the soldier was that he was married and had two daughters at the time of his death.\n\nThe battle in the French port of St Valery-en-Caux followed the mass evacuation of British and Allied troops at Dunkirk.\n\nTroops of the 51st Highland Division mounted a \"last stand\" before being killed or forced to surrender by the Germans.\n\nAfter the war, what is believed to be the soldier's body was moved, along with other casualties of the battle, to a Franco-British military cemetery in the town.\n\nThe executed Highlander was eventually buried as an unknown soldier.\n\nThe piece of paper bearing the name Keller Len Scott was passed into the care of Patrick Prieur, a 65-year-old St Valery resident whose grandparents and father lived in the town during the war.\n\nMr Prieur's family played a part, along with others, in trying to keep the soldier hidden.\n\nMr Prieur said: \"His death deeply upset the townspeople - who had been aware of his hiding - and especially my father, who was only 11 at the time.\n\n\"His grave is marked as 'Known unto God', and my father and other villagers tended to it for decades after the war ended.\"\n\nHe added: \"My father had been gifted a piece of paper on which the soldier's name was written, and this became his prized possession.\n\n\"He desperately wanted to find the soldier's family to tell them what had happened to their beloved and where he was laid to rest.\"\n\nThe soldier was believed to have been buried in this grave after the war\n\nFollowing his own attempts to learn more about the soldier, Mr Prieur contacted Poppyscotland and the Highland Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Association for help in tracing the soldier's relatives.\n\nThe organisations, along with veterans charity Legion Scotland, have taken their search as far as they can and have now appealed to the public for help.\n\nMichelle McKearnon, of the Highland Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Association, said: \"We started to do our own research to unearth the fallen soldier's identity but only got so far.\n\n\"We believe the name order on the piece of paper may have been written in military fashion, with the surname preceding any given names, so the family name might be Keller.\"\n\nShe added: \"We're now at an impasse, struggling to find additional information through our own resources, so we need the knowledge of the wider community to continue our efforts.\"\n\nVeterans of St Valery included Donald Smith, who died earlier this year at the age of 100\n\nIn January 1940, the 51st Highland Division landed in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).\n\nIn the months that followed, the BEF, along with elements of the French army, were pushed back to northern France by attacking German forces.\n\nThe Highland division became separated from the BEF and while hundreds of thousands of expeditionary soldiers headed for Dunkirk, the 51st was ordered to \"hold the line\" with the French army in St Valery.\n\nOver the course of a few days, almost 340,000 British and French troops were famously evacuated from the beach at Dunkirk.\n\nThe 51st, meanwhile, was fighting a losing battle.\n\nOn 12 June 1940, about 10,000 men from the 51st Highland Division were captured, along with French soldiers. Soldiers of the division were forced marched to prisoner of war camps, where most spent the rest of the war.\n\nVeterans included Donald Smith, the sole survivor of a group of friends who joined the Seaforth Highlanders, which was part of the 51st.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland last year: \"I get very emotional when I think of them.\n\n\"They were true friends. To think I was the only one to come back is hard to describe unless you are in my shoes.\"\n\nMr Smith, originally from Yorkshire and lived in Forres, Moray, died earlier this year at the age of 100.\n• None The 99-year-old veteran of the 'forgotten Dunkirk'", "A nine-year-old boy has died after apparently being struck by lightning during a football coaching session.\n\nThe child was injured on a playing field in the Common Edge Road area of Blackpool shortly after 17:00 BST when a thunderstorm hit the Lancashire town.\n\nLancashire Police said he was taken to hospital but did not survive.\n\nSpirit of Youth Junior FC, which uses the field, said the boy was understood to have been taking part in a private coaching session.\n\nPolice said that although inquiries were still ongoing it was believed the boy was struck by lightning.\n\nDet Supt Nick Connaughton said: \"This is a truly devastating incident and our thoughts are wholeheartedly with the family and friends of the young boy who has passed away, at this very sad and distressing time.\"\n\nIn a statement posted on the club's Facebook page, Spirit of Youth said: \"It is with deepest regret that we have to report the news that the young boy who was struck by lightning earlier this evening has sadly passed away.\n\n\"As a club, we are heartbroken and we offer our deepest condolences to the boy's family.\n\n\"Spirit of Youth is a family and we are entrenched in the local community, and we will give whatever support is required to both the family and to those that were with him at the time.\n\nThe club secretary Daniel Pack said three teams had been due to train this evening but the sessions were cancelled due to the storm.\n\nPolice said the boy's family had been informed and were being supported by officers.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader convicted of genocide during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, is to serve the rest of his life sentence in a British jail.\n\nThe Foreign Office said he would be transferred to a UK prison from a UN detention unit in the Netherlands.\n\nKaradzic, 75, was also found guilty at his 2016 criminal tribunal of war crimes and crimes against humanity.\n\nHis original 40-year sentence was increased at an appeal hearing in 2019.\n\nHis conviction for genocide related to his responsibility for the murder of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.\n\nIt was considered one of the worst massacres in Europe since World War Two.\n\nJudges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia also held Karadzic responsible for the siege of Sarajevo, a campaign of shelling and sniping which lasted more than three years and led to the deaths of an estimated 10,000 civilians.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"Radovan Karadzic is one of the few people to have been found guilty of genocide...\n\n\"We should take pride in the fact that, from UK support to secure his arrest, to the prison cell he now faces, Britain has supported the 30-year pursuit of justice for these heinous crimes.\"\n\nMr Raab described Srebrenica as \"the darkest moment in European history since the Holocaust\".\n\n\"I think we have got a moral duty and I think we have a sense of national purpose in trying to hold to account the perpetrators of the very worst crimes,\" Mr Raab said.\n\n\"Back since Nuremburg [the trials of Nazi leaders in the German city after World War Two] we have played that role.\"\n\nHe added: \"If we want to deter these kind of crimes from happening, if we want to give justice to the many thousands of victims, I think it is right we do our bit.\"\n\nThe UK was one of the signatories to enforcement agreements with the United Nations for sentences passed by its tribunals related to the former Yugoslavia.\n\nUN officials confirmed they had asked the UK to \"enforce the sentence\".\n\nThey did not provide a date for the move but said \"all necessary measures\" should be taken \"to facilitate Karadzic's transfer... as expeditiously as possible\".\n\nRadovan Karadzic, right, pictured with General Ratko Mladic in 1995\n\nThe conflict in the former Yugoslavia stemmed from tensions among ethnic groups, following the death of President Tito in 1980.\n\nCalls for more autonomy led in 1991 to declarations of independence in Croatia and Slovenia and fighting with the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army.\n\nBosnia, with a complex mix of Serbs, Muslims and Croats, was next to try for independence. Bosnia's Serbs, backed by Serbs elsewhere in Yugoslavia, resisted.\n\nKaradzic, a former psychiatrist, was president of the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.\n\nAfter the war, he hid for years - masquerading as an expert in alternative medicine - before his eventual arrest in Serbia in 2008.\n\nIn November 2017, former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life in prison on similar charges of war crimes and genocide. A ruling in an appeal against his conviction is to be announced next month in The Hague.\n\nBritain was involved in the hunt, trial and conviction of Radovan Karadzic. And now it is taking responsibility for enforcing the sentence handed down to him.\n\nBritish intelligence played a role in his capture in Belgrade in 2008 after 13 years on the run. British judges and lawyers were involved in the trial against him at a United Nations tribunal that the UK helped to set up.\n\nOne of the young lawyers who drafted the legal procedure to transfer Karadzic to the UK was a certain Dominic Raab, who is now the Foreign Secretary - and who ultimately agreed to the request from the UN that the former Bosnian Serb leader should serve out his term in a British jail.\n\nOfficials say the reason the UK agreed is because it is on the list of UN members willing to detain those found guilty of global crimes, and it wished to show its continued support for the international rules-based order.\n\nThe UK will bear the costs of Karadzic's detention but any decision about whether he is released before his death would be a matter for the UN authorities in The Hague.\n\nKaradzic will not be the first foreign national convicted of war crimes to have been held in a UK prison.\n\nFive men convicted of war crimes by the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia have been sent to British high-security prisons in the past.\n\nThey included former Bosnian-Serb general Radislav Krstic, who was stabbed by three Muslim prisoners at Wakefield jail in 2010 in apparent retaliation for Srebrenica.\n\nKrstic was moved to a prison in Poland in 2014.\n\nThe UK had also offered to jail the former President of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, when he was on trial in The Hague on charges of war crimes and genocide. But he died in 2006 before the legal proceedings were completed.\n\nIn a separate arrangement, ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor is serving a 50-year war sentence in the UK following a war crimes conviction by a UN-backed special court, for aiding rebels who committed atrocities in Sierra Leone during its civil war.", "Masks could become mandatory in Taiwan if restrictions are further tightened Image caption: Masks could become mandatory in Taiwan if restrictions are further tightened\n\nTaiwan could be heading for a near lockdown, as a result of numerous outbreaks on the island over the last couple of weeks.\n\nThere have been a spate of cases in Yilan County and the city of Taipei, linked to an arcade and an airport hotel respectively.\n\nYesterday, Taiwan increased its alert level from Level 1 to 2, meaning that large-scale indoor and outdoor activities are now banned.\n\nPresident Tsai Ing-wen called on citizens to follow the rules in a tweet.\n\nHowever, according to Focus Taiwan, Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Centre “appears ready to further raise the alert level to Level 3” , in light of Taiwan confirming 16 cases in a single day, “the highest number reported… since the outbreak began”.\n\nTaiwan has four Covid-19 response levels, and a Level 3 alert would “stop short of a lockdown”. Masks would become mandatory, and all but essential businesses would close. Gatherings would also be restricted.\n\nThis would be unprecedented, as Taiwan has not had to resort to a Level 3 lockdown throughout the pandemic. It has been something of a success story, having only recorded 1,210 Covid-19 cases throughout. It has a population of 23.8 million.\n\nThe majority of these cases were reported very early on in the pandemic, peaking in April 2020. However, swift travel bans and strict quarantine measures led to Taiwan subsequently being able to go 253 days without reporting a single case of Covid-19 in 2020.", "Soldier who tried to help attack 'hit with the butt of a rifle'\n\nJanet Donnelly, the daughter of Joseph Murphy, tells the press conference that for 50 years her family have lived with the knowledge that her father was “an innocent civilian murdered by British paratroopers”. Ms Donnelly says that when her family requested the original inquest papers “there were missing documents, no forensic report, no post-mortem photographs”. She says after her father was shot in the right thigh he was taken to the Henry Taggart Memorial Hall where he was beaten and “shot again into his open wound”. She says a soldier who tried to help her father while he was there was “hit with the butt of a rifle”. She thanks the soldier for his courage, along with witnesses “who have lived through this harrowing inquest”.", "Jordan Banks was \"caring, considerate, generous and so loving\", say his family\n\nThe family of a nine-year-old boy killed after being struck by lightning during football training said he was \"the brightest star\" and \"our everything\".\n\nJordan Banks was injured when a thunderstorm hit as he was on a playing field in Blackpool on Tuesday evening.\n\nA statement from his family said \"our worlds stopped\" when \"we lost our beautiful boy\".\n\nJordan had an \"infectious smile\" and was \"wise beyond his years\", it added.\n\nHe was taken to hospital with serious injuries after being struck by lightning at about 17:00 BST but died a short time later, Lancashire Police said.\n\nHis family described him as \"caring, considerate, generous and so loving\", adding \"yesterday our worlds stopped\".\n\nThe statement added: \"We lost the brightest star our beautiful boy Jordan.\n\n\"His laugh, that infectious smile, golden curls, he was our everything.\"\n\nFlowers, football boots and messages of condolence have been placed on the field\n\nFlowers, footballs, football shirts and messages of condolence have been left at the playing field on Common Edge Road.\n\nPeople have also been posting nine footballs on social media in honour of the keen Liverpool FC fan, using the hashtag #RIPLittleMan.\n\nLiverpool midfielder James Milner, who had previously sent Jordan a congratulatory video message for completing a charity run for a mental health charity, tweeted: \"A special boy taken far too soon.\"\n\nThe youngster ran 30 miles in 10 days in memory of his uncle earlier this year, raising £3,000.\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\nCraig England and Jane Murphy, co-head teachers at Stanley Primary School, where Jordan went to school, said everyone was \"completely numb\" and they were \"beyond devastated that we won't see [Jordan's] cheerful face again\".\n\nHe was a \"bright, bubbly pupil loved by staff and pupils alike\" and was a \"very determined young man demonstrated by his charity efforts\", they added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by The Blackpool Tower This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Blackpool Tower\n\nOne of his best friends, CJ, and his father laid flowers and a football on the field.\n\nThe nine-year-old said: \"He was very kind and caring. Football was very important to him. He loved it. He played it every day and at school with me.\"\n\nThroughout the day flowers, footballs and football shirts have been left in remembrance of a life snatched away playing the game Jordan Banks loved so much.\n\nHis family and friends have described him as a \"superstar footballer\", telling me he lived for football and played at every single opportunity he could.\n\nHe came here after school with a small group of people for specialist training.\n\nGrassroots football is coming to the end of the season and there were some crucial matches coming up and he was absolutely determined to play.\n\nJordan played for Clifton Rangers Junior Football Club, who described him as \"an extraordinary young man\".\n\nTwo crowdfunding pages have been set up in his memory, raising more than £46,000.\n\nLiverpool FC tweeted that the thoughts of everybody at the club were with Jordan's family and friends.\n\nJordan raised £3,000 for a mental health charity in memory of his uncle\n\nMPs paid tribute to the nine-year-old during a debate in the House of Commons.\n\nSports Minister Nigel Huddleston sent the government's condolences, adding Jordan's club and the local community were \"clearly devastated by his loss, as evidenced by the absolute outpouring on social media\".\n\nThe flag at Blackpool town hall was flying at half-mast in tribute to Jordan and Blackpool Tower and the Illuminations arches were lit up in red in homage to his beloved Liverpool FC.\n\nThe leader of Blackpool Council, Lynn Williams, said the whole town was \"devastated\".\n\nShe said she hoped Jordan's family and friends would \"take some comfort from the outpouring of love and support from the whole community\".\n\nTraining on the playing fields, which are owned by the council, has been cancelled until further notice.\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.", "Lloyd worked with Alfred Hitchcock and played tennis with Charlie Chaplin\n\nTributes have been paid to actor Norman Lloyd, who worked with Alfred Hitchcock and later appeared in medical drama St Elsewhere, who has died at 106.\n\nJudd Apatow, who directed him in 2015's Trainwreck, said Lloyd had \"loved to tell stories and make people laugh\".\n\n\"What a career,\" said Ben Stiller of an actor whose films included Dead Poets Society, Charlie Chaplin's Limelight and Scorsese's The Age of Innocence.\n\nHe also played Dr Daniel Auschlander on six seasons of St Elsewhere.\n\nBorn Norman Perlmutter in New Jersey in 1914, Lloyd began his career on stage and was a member of Orson Welles' famed Mercury Theatre company in the 1930s.\n\nOne of his earliest films was Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 thriller Saboteur, in which his titular German spy falls to his death from the top of New York's Statue of Liberty.\n\nLloyd with Trainwreck director Judd Apatow (left) and Amy Schumer in 2015\n\nHitchcock cast him again in his 1945 film Spellbound and subsequently hired him to direct and produce episodes of his Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series.\n\nHe was cast in Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight after developing a friendship with the Hollywood legend based on their mutual love of tennis.\n\nHis role as stern headmaster Mr Nolan in 1989's Dead Poets Society saw him work alongside Robin Williams and a young Ethan Hawke.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Apatow said Hawke had learned \"a giant lesson\" from Lloyd telling him to \"pay attention\" and appreciate how special that film was.\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\"Got to meet Norman Lloyd once about 20 years ago, when he was a mere pup of 86,\" wrote This Is Spinal Tap star Michael McKean, who said Lloyd had been \"the real deal\".\n\n\"Look up mensch in the dictionary [and] there's a picture of Norman Lloyd,\" tweeted Brent Spiner, who appeared with him in a 1993 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.\n\n\"Oh Norman Lloyd you were so kind to me when I was a kid starting out,\" wrote actress Rosanna Arquette. \"May you Rest In Peace dear man.\"\n\nBritish choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne also paid tribute, suggesting Lloyd had been \"possibly the longest lived notable actor of all time\".\n\nLloyd made his final screen appearance alongside Amy Schumer in Apatow's Trainwreck, in which he played a feisty resident of an old people's home.\n\n\"Little Amy Schumer - what a mouth on her,\" he told the Hollywood Reporter in 2016. \"I was raised in Shakespearean decorum, and she's saying 'F*** you' every time I turn around.\"\n\nLloyd's other TV roles included appearances in Modern Family, The Practice and Murder, She Wrote, in which he was seen as three different characters.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Who does Amy Schumer think she is?", "Kim Leadbeater says she was touched by the number of people who had contacted her asking if she planned to stand as a candidate\n\nThe sister of murdered MP Jo Cox has announced her intention to stand as a candidate in the same constituency.\n\nKim Leadbeater said she hoped to stand in the upcoming by-election for the Batley and Spen seat previously held by her late sister.\n\nShe said she intended to stand as a Labour candidate if party members gave her their blessing.\n\nTracy Brabin stood down as the area's MP this week after she was elected as West Yorkshire's first mayor.\n\nMs Leadbeater told the Batley & Birstall News she had been \"knocked for six\" by the number of people who had contacted her to ask if she would stand.\n\n\"I would love to represent this extraordinary, vibrant place that I have called home all my life,\" she said.\n\n\"I am touched that so many people seem to think I would do a good job and I can promise that if they want me, I will give my all for Batley and Spen at Westminster.\n\n\"This community picked me up when I needed it most and I will be forever grateful.\"\n\nMs Leadbeater said she had met some \"truly fantastic people\" through her work with the foundation set up in her sister's memory, for which she was appointed an MBE last year.\n\nBut she said it had also exposed her to many who were \"disillusioned and disengaged\" with politics.\n\nJo Cox was killed as she arrived at a constituency surgery in June 2016\n\nMs Brabin, who was first elected after Ms Cox was fatally shot and stabbed by a right-wing extremist in June 2016, won the constituency a second time with a 3,525 majority in 2019.\n\nFormer Bradford West MP George Galloway has announced that his Workers Party GB will also put up a candidate in the Batley and Spen by-election.\n\nHe said his pro-Brexit group was a \"patriotic working-class alternative\" to the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.\n\nSir Keir came in for criticism after Labour suffered defeat to the Conservatives in the Hartlepool by-election and lost control of eight councils in England.\n\nIt performed better in Wales, where it remains the largest party in the Senedd - the Welsh Parliament - and won 11 out of 13 mayoral races in England.\n\nHowever, the results raised concern in the party that it had not done enough to win back its traditional strongholds from the Conservatives.\n\nA date for the Batley and Spen by-election has yet to be set and no candidates have been formally announced.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City have won a third Premier League title in four years after closest challengers Manchester United were beaten by Leicester City.\n\nPep Guardiola's side are now 10 points ahead of second-placed United, who have just three games remaining.\n\nIt is the seventh time City have finished top of the English football pyramid and the fifth in nine years.\n\n\"This has been a season and a Premier League title like no other,\" said Guardiola.\n\n\"This was the hardest one. We will always remember this season for the way we won. I am so proud to be the manager here and of this group of players.\n\n\"They are so special. To come through this season, with all the restrictions and difficulties we've faced - and show the consistency we have is remarkable. It is relentless.\n\n\"Every single day, they are there, fighting for success, trying always to be better. They have been so, so resilient.\n\n\"I have been in Spain, I have been in Germany and I can say this is the toughest league, I would say by far. So it means a lot to everyone.\"\n• None 'We've never seen anything like this before' - Richards on how City won title\n\nManager Guardiola, 50, has now won eight domestic trophies since arriving in Manchester in 2016.\n\nCity had the chance to wrap up the title themselves on Saturday, but suffered a 2-1 defeat by Chelsea at Etihad Stadium.\n\nHowever, Leicester completed the job for them with a 2-1 victory at Old Trafford on Tuesday.\n\nIt is the sixth time the Premier League title was decided at Old Trafford - the most of any venue, and three of which have been for other sides.\n\nIt is City's second trophy in a little over two weeks after they beat Tottenham to claim the Carabao Cup and they are also in their first Champions League final after beating Paris St-Germain in midweek.\n\nSince being taken over by the Abu Dhabi Group in September 2008, City have won 12 cups and this is the third time they have clinched a league and EFL Cup double.\n\nThey are set to lift the Premier League trophy after their final game of the season against Everton on 23 May.\n\nUp to 10,000 fans will be present inside the stadium after the latest lifting of coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nGuardiola's side finished 18 points behind Liverpool last season, and after losing another key player from recent success in David Silva, Guardiola needed to act.\n\nBut City did not have the most auspicious start to the season, slumping to a 5-2 defeat in their opening home game to Leicester City.\n\nJust a day later, Guardiola moved to fix the problem - and the signing of Ruben Dias changed the course of the season.\n\nDias brought the composure, leadership and stability that had been lacking since Vincent Kompany left and his partnership with the reborn John Stones established City as the league's most miserly team.\n\nEven so, when Tottenham beat City on 21 November to go top of a seemingly unpredictable division, City were 11th and eight points off the pace, and it looked as though this might not be their year again.\n\nBut though doubts arose and questions were asked about the Spaniard's future, City quickly shut them up.\n\nThey went on to win 22 of their next 27 matches, including a 15-game winning run and a record-equalling 11 successive away league victories.\n\nAt Anfield in February, where they had not won in the league since 2003, City bullied and dominated the defending champions, with Phil Foden brilliant in a crushing 4-1 victory.\n\nStones and Dias' partnership at the back was key, conceding just three goals in the 15 games after that Spurs defeat, while Ilkay Gundogan has been the star at the opposite end of the pitch, his 12 goals so far leading City's goalscorers.\n\nThe chasing pack did not have enough to rein them in and the title returns to the blue half of Manchester.\n\nCity captain Fernandinho said leading the team was \"an honour and a privilege\".\n\n\"I am so proud and so happy with what we have achieved,\" he said. \"The Premier League is the hardest league in world football - every single match is tough. To win it again means the world to me and the rest of the squad.\n\nHe added: \"Football is everything to us and we strive every single day to be as good as we can be in the hope we can bring success to Manchester City.\n\n\"Winning the Premier League is the ultimate fulfilment of our ambitions. It's what we all dreamed of as young players, so to do it is a wonderful feeling.\n\n\"We have missed the fans so much. We wanted to do this for them.\n\n\"We will enjoy this moment and we hope the fans do too. Rest assured we will continue to do everything we can to bring the Champions League home this season.\"\n\nFormer City midfielder Michael Brown, speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"City have been convincing all the way through the season.\n\n\"They've been relentless in all competitions and have been an absolute pleasure to watch. They have shown attacking flair but that brilliant back four too. To be within touching distance of four trophies has been just fantastic.\n\n\"Pep Guardiola has found a team he can rely on and a total team performance. They fully deserve the Premier League trophy.\n\n\"You can only imagine people's phones are going to melt trying to get tickets to see the trophy lift.\"\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We have pushed Manchester City all the way, until 10-12 days left in the season and it is a very good achievement because they are a very good team.\n\n\"They are very worthy champions. I have to say congratulations because they have played some fantastic stuff this season.\"\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers, speaking to BBC Sport: \"They are the benchmark. They have been outstanding. Brilliant players, incredible manager and they thoroughly deserve the title.\"\n• None Hard-hitting drama about the crack epidemic in 1980s LA streaming now\n• None How Gen Z is learning to adapt and thrive: Young entrepreneurs find new ways to make money in Covid times", "Upsides to living on St Michael's Mount include sea views but the downside is no pizza deliveries\n\nIf you love sea views and can live without pizza deliveries then a unique job opportunity could be for you.\n\nThe historic island of St Michael's Mount, off the coast of Cornwall, is looking for a new castle officer.\n\nThe estate wants someone who can stay at the castle at least five nights a week and take a \"hands-on approach\" to maintenance duties.\n\nBut those who suffer from sea sickness need not apply, as the only way on and off the island at high tide is by boat.\n\nCastle steward Duncan Murdoch said: \"The best thing about living here is having a sea view from every window.\n\n\"The worst thing is not being able to get a pizza delivered to your door.\"\n\nA causeway, which is submerged at high tide, is the only land route between the island and the mainland\n\nThe island is jointly run by the National Trust and St Aubyn Estates - and the St Aubyn family live in the castle.\n\nThe estate said it was looking for someone discreet and compassionate with a tactful demeanour.\n\nIt added: \"[You will] have a strong motivation to be based in West Cornwall,\" where the tidal island takes a commanding position in Mount's Bay.\n\nOther duties include a hands-on approach to conservation and checking the public rooms at the end of each day.\n\nKate Cornwell, head of HR at St Aubyn Estates, added: \"People who suffer from sea sickness need not apply - you'll need to love boats as it's the only way to get on and off the island at high tide.\"\n\nThe island was acquired by the St Aubyn family following the English Civil War\n\nThe castle dates back to 1135 when construction is said to have begun.\n\nSituated 500 yards off the coast, the island is reached by ferry boats to and from Marazion.\n\nA causeway, which is submerged at high tide, is the only land route between the island and the mainland.\n\nThe island takes its name from St Michael who supposedly appeared to a group of fishermen in 495 AD.\n\nThe oldest surviving buildings date from the 12th Century, when a Benedictine priory was founded there.\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.", "A tower block in Gaza that is reported to have housed a Hamas office has collapsed in an Israeli air strike.\n\nIn retaliation militants in Gaza fired missiles towards the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.\n\nThe escalation comes after days of unrest in the region.", "The body overseeing criminal sentences in England and Wales is proposing treating paedophiles who are caught in stings the same as abusers who harm real children.\n\nThe plan from the Sentencing Council says judges should look at intent, rather than whether a child was harmed.\n\nUndercover operations with officers posing as children are a common way of uncovering paedophile rings.\n\nOffenders have sought reduced jail terms if no child came to harm.\n\nThe rules will cover the sentencing of all abusers caught via stings, usually operating online - including those run by police forces around the world and traps set by informal groups of people often dubbed \"paedophile hunters\".\n\nCurrent guidelines have long been interpreted as meaning that in many cases, where someone was caught in a sting, the jail term would be lower because of the absence of a child.\n\nBut last year, senior judges at the Court of Appeal looked at the actions of abusers - including one who thought he was on his way to meet a real child.\n\nThe judgement said that the intentions of the men should be the key starting point for their sentences.\n\nLord Justice Fulford, the lead judge on that case and a member of the Sentencing Council, said: \"The changes we are proposing today will make sure the courts give the proper weight to the harm intended by those who commit offences against children.\n\n\"When an offender intends sexual activity with a child, that must be reflected in the sentence imposed, even where that activity does not ultimately take place.\"\n\nThe proposals would affect all abusers convicted of arranging a sexual offence with a child or inciting a child to take part in abuse, whether or not the harm was caused or the victim actually existed.\n\nThe maximum jail term for these crimes is 14 years and the guidelines set out how long offenders should be jailed for, depending on the specific circumstances of their crime.", "Bolton is seeing a surge in instances of the Indian variant of coronavirus\n\nHospitality businesses in a town experiencing a fresh spike in Covid cases have told of their concern as pubs and cafes prepare to open indoors.\n\nBolton has one of the highest instances of the Indian variant in the UK and is seeing a particularly sharp rise in cases among unvaccinated under-25s.\n\nAs lockdown rules prepare to ease on Monday, pubs and restaurants in the town are sounding a note of caution.\n\nSome are worried about a return to the surges seen in the area last year.\n\nAngela Baker, owner of Baker's cafe, said over the last week she was increasingly concerned about whether she will be prevented from reopening.\n\nAngela Baker said she was \"concerned\" about the reopening\n\n\"Bolton was shut down last year when rates were high,\" the 40-year-old said.\n\n\"It raises the question of how long are we going to be open for? It does worry me as I cannot protect my staff.\"\n\nAlex McVey, owner of Odessa, said he was \"very nervous\" about the situation.\n\n\"It's sad. I can't believe it,\" he said.\n\nAlex McVey, who owns Odessa cafe, said he \"couldn't believe\" the surge in cases\n\n\"We can't plan anything and our staff, suppliers and customers all feel very uneasy about it.\n\n\"But we need to reopen, we need to keep going. I'm asking myself again - why Bolton?\"\n\nJon Peek, the general manager of the Cross Guns Inn, said his team had \"worked tirelessly to meet and exceed all the guidance\".\n\nMr Peek said he would be reopening, albeit a little later, in June.\n\nJon Peek said his team had worked \"tirelessly\"\n\n\"We've adapted at every turn to ensure that all our guests can drink and dine in an environment that is safe and secure,\" he said.\n\n\"We can't wait to welcome people through our doors safely,\" he added.\n\nThis spike is related to international travel, particularly with people returning to Bolton from India.\n\nThe cases are now in the community and it seems to be located around the south and south-west parts of the town.\n\nInterestingly, the cases are very much stacked in those under the age of 25.\n\nThere were 721 cases reported yesterday in those aged five to 25.\n\nPart of this is because secondary school children are testing twice a week, but it is very much present in that younger age group.\n\nThe Greyhound pub's owner, who preferred not to be named, said the rise in cases was \"so daunting\".\n\n\"You keep on going but then it could change overnight and you've wasted all that money. I'm still planning to open, but I haven't planned as much as I did last year,\" he said.\n\n\"We are just going to have to run with it. It's so uncertain.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Mayor Andy Burnham appealed to the government to allow everyone over the age of 16 in the region to get a vaccine.\n\nMeanwhile, Bolton Council has urged everyone who is eligible to get the jab.\n\nThe authority also said more testing sites and a renewed push for vaccine take-up was being rolled-out over the weekend.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ten people killed in west Belfast almost 50 years ago in the wake of an Army operation were \"entirely innocent\", an inquest has found.\n\nThe inquest, which began in November 2018, examined the deaths in and around the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast in August 1971.\n\nThe deaths happened in the wake of an Army operation in which paramilitary suspects were detained without trial.\n\nBBC News NI's Will Leitch, who regularly attended the inquest, looks at the background to the events and the bereaved families' search for the truth.", "Online travel agent On The Beach has stopped selling all holidays for this summer due to Covid uncertainty.\n\nThe pause in sales until September includes \"green list\" countries such as Portugal.\n\nBy contrast, EasyJet and Tui will begin offering holidays to countries classified as amber, despite government advice remaining not to travel for leisure.\n\nEasyJet said it would let people \"make up their own mind about their holiday\".\n\nMost countries are currently classed as amber, but it is not illegal to travel to them when holidays resume on 17 May for people in England and Scotland.\n\nInstead, arrivals from these places will be required to quarantine at home for 10 days and take a Covid test before departure and on arrival.\n\nHowever, On The Beach, one of the biggest UK online travel agents, said it would not be selling any holidays for June, July and August due to \"continuing uncertainty around international leisure travel\".\n\nThe firm's chief executive, Simon Cooper, said: \"There's nothing we want more than to be able to send customers on holiday, but with the current number of unknowns, we don't think that now is the right time for customers to book new holidays departing in the next few months.\"\n\nHe told the BBC that many would-be holidaymakers had been \"jaded by the experience\" of summer 2020, when many holidays that had been booked failed to take place because of shifting travel restrictions.\n\nMr Cooper added that if On The Beach did go ahead with summer bookings, its profits risked being outweighed by \"administrative costs and loss of goodwill\".\n\nThe Foreign Office stopped advising against all but essential travel to a number of amber destinations last week. However, its advice is based on different criteria to the Department of Transport's advice.\n\nAt present, only 12 countries are on the government's \"green list\" for foreign holidays under the traffic light system for travel, meaning people are not required to quarantine when they get back. But they will need to take a Covid test before departure and another on arrival.\n\nBy contrast, those visiting amber countries such as Spain and France must take a Covid test before departure and two more on arrival. They also need to quarantine at home for 10 days when they return.\n\nOn The Beach's Mr Cooper said it would not be offering foreign holidays to \"green list\" countries because \"it is very likely that we will see regular fluctuations in destinations' traffic light classifications\".\n\n\"Given this, there is too much uncertainty for us to take new bookings with confidence that they will go ahead, or for us to know the potential inconvenience or incremental costs that customers might experience or incur,\" he said.\n\n\"Unlike many of our competitors, we have no interest in selling holidays that are unlikely to happen, as our business model enables us to put customers first, rather than needing to get cash in the door to contribute to high fixed costs, and offering refunds in the form of a voucher when holidays get cancelled.\"\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that although holidays abroad would no longer be illegal from Monday 17 May, the government advised against travel to amber countries for leisure.\n\nHowever, Tui and EasyJet are still going to push ahead with their plans to offer holidays to \"amber list\" countries.\n\nAn EasyJet Holidays spokeswoman said: \"We recognise that many our customers do still want their holidays to go ahead, so for 'amber' list destinations where holidays can be enjoyed safely and legally, which do not have 'all but essential travel' warnings and where there is no quarantine requirement in destination, we are providing flexibility and choice so customers can make up their own mind about their holiday.\"\n\nShe added that EasyJet won't operate any holidays to destinations on the \"red\" list.\n\nTui's spokeswoman said: \"We want to offer our customers flexibility and choice this summer, so where borders are open and FCDO advice allows travel, we will operate to those destinations.\n\n\"We know some customers may be unsure about travelling this summer, so we've offered free changes 14 days before travel for anyone due to travel before the end of August.\"\n\nThe flurry of activity by the FCDO at the start of last week led a few to think that they had cracked which countries would be on the green list early. But they spoke too soon; while there is overlap the two are not the same.\n\nThe government would say the two lists each serve a different purpose. The Foreign office list is advice to help British travellers assess the risk posed to them if they travel to a country. The traffic light list is about stopping the virus and variants coming into the country.\n\nEssentially, one is about personal risk, one is about national risk. There is still a strong overlap between the two and the fact that the countries differ has still left some passengers and the industry scratching their heads.\n\nUnlike now, there will be no law stopping travellers from going to amber countries, just government advice not to do so for leisure. Doing so will mean quarantine on return and added cost for tests, which will put many off. But after low passenger numbers for over a year, some operators think that it's a price that certain passengers will be willing to pay.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, Spain's Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya said the UK should take a regional approach when deciding which places should be on the green list. The country is on the amber list.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"We are having good discussions with the UK authorities to convince them there are many regions in Spain - Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Valencia - where the numbers are equivalent to those in the UK today.\n\n\"Maybe if the UK looks with a regional lens they will discover that there are many safe places already in Spain to travel to. Let's keep on working, but it's looking good for British tourists to spend their holidays in Spain this summer.\"\n\nShe said Spain was proceeding at pace with its vaccination effort and that over 30% of Spaniards had already received at least one shot, with six million were fully vaccinated. She said that the country was 98 days away from collective immunity.\n\nIt comes as Tui reported reported a sharp jump in demand for holidays this winter as more people defer their holidays.\n\nAs of 2 May, bookings this year for winter 2021/22 breaks were up 17% on the same period in 2019. But total summer bookings were down 69% due to continued uncertainty over travel rules.\n\nNevertheless, TUI said it expected the safe return of holidays in the coming months.\n\n\"The continued vaccination progress across our key customer markets and destinations, combined with more testing, and comprehensive hygiene measures throughout our eco-system, should enable the safe return to holidays this summer,\" it said.\n\nDue to the ongoing pandemic, third lockdown and travel restrictions, Tui's revenues dived by 89% to €716m (£614.6m) in the six months to March.\n\nHowever, TUI said customers were keen to travel once Covid restrictions were fully lifted.\n\nIt said nearly three times as many Britons have decided to book with the travel giant for the summer of 2022 compared with 2019.\n\nThe travel operator said it was focused on reopening a portfolio of destinations strong vaccination coverage and low incidence rates, including the Greek islands, the Balearics, the Canaries and Portugal.", "Taylor Swift picked up the global icon award in recognition of her seven number one albums\n\n\"Everybody get up out of the seats!\" shouts Chris, the warm-up man at The Brits, as he cues up Rihanna's We Found Love and encourages everyone to dance.\n\nWe don't need asking twice. For the 4,000-strong audience, this is the first chance we've had to see live music in more than a year.\n\nAs it's a pilot event for the post-Covid era, masks have been removed and drinks have been drunk. The air is feverish with anticipation but no-one's anticipating a fever: we've all had negative Covid tests.\n\nAs eight o'clock approaches, the lights dim, the titles roll, the crowd goes nuts. And then... wait, what?\n\nIt's a pre-recorded performance of Coldplay, on a pontoon in the Thames, playing their new single.\n\nThat's right. After a year of being forced to watch live music on a screen, The Brits is opening by... er, making us watch some live music on a screen.\n\nColdplay launched the show with a waterborne version of their new single Higher Power\n\nIt's hard to fathom what the organisers are hoping to achieve here. Perhaps they want to ease us in with something familiar? Or maybe they're worried that an actual band playing actual instruments will make everyone spontaneously combust?\n\nInstead, whatever sparks the warm-up had ignited are instantly doused. In the section in front of me, two people stand up to dance. Then one thinks better of it and shuffles back into his seat.\n\nIt's an inauspicious start - but luckily Dua Lipa is just around the corner to save the day.\n\nShe struts out of a Tube station on to the stage, racing through a slick and thrillingly choreographed hits medley that encompasses more than half of the songs on her recent album, Future Nostalgia.\n\nFrom there, the show finds its footing.\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 Dua Lipa This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHost Jack Whitehall delivers his jokes with just enough edge and charm to sneak past the censors - taking aim at Piers Morgan and Laurence Fox, before introducing Olivia Rodrigo to the stage with the memorable line: \"In the words of Tiger Woods: 'Driver's License, take it away...'\"\n\nRodrigo casually proceeds to cement her status as pop's most promising newcomer with a flawless performance of her ubiquitous ballad, accompanied by several thousand swaying phone lights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLater, Headie One brings together some of UK rap's leading names - including AJ Tracey and Young T & Bugsey - for a searing rendition of Ain't It Different and Princess Cuts, whose modified lyrics took aim at the demonisation of drill music and black youth.\n\n\"What else can a drill youth rap about part from my worst days,\" rapped the star, whose real name is Irving Adjei. \"You see me on stage but I was in jail for three of my birthdays.\n\n\"Two black Brits stand here at the Brits but still we ain't seen as British\"\n\nPowerful and well-received in the arena, it is clearly aiming for the impact of Dave's performance of Black at last year's awards - but the stars' quickfire delivery obscures some of the most effective lines.\n\nHeadie One (right) was up for best single for his breakout hit Ain't It Different\n\nElsewhere, Rising Star winner Griff marks out her territory as one-to-watch with a commanding version of her single Black Hole (performed from inside a black hole, in a victory for literalists everywhere); while Olly Alexander and Sir Elton John give a dramatic reading of It's A Sin, reflecting the impact of the Aids epidemic.\n\nTheirs is another pre-taped performance, as is The Weeknd's rain-soaked rendition of Save Your Tears, but to cut the organisers some slack, a normal show is simply not possible in the current circumstances.\n\nWhile the audience are free to mingle without masks and social distancing, the backstage area still has to adhere to strict Covid rules. That means no dressing rooms and minimal crew, making it almost impossible to stage quick-turnaround performances of the scale we've become used to (many of the acts, I'm told, have had to put on their outfits in a nearby hotel, drive to the venue, then leave again as soon as they come off stage).\n\n\"I was mad Elton John wasn't here in person but otherwise it was brilliant,\" says Christy Black, who's come to see the show from Bow in London.\n\n\"Honestly, the emotion you feel when you hear live music is like no other. You can't get that from Spotify. You can't get that from YouTube. When you're around people and you're all enjoying it together, it can't get any better.\"\n\n\"It's nice to be back to normality,\" says Ashley Singh, a college worker from Stratford. \"I've missed live music massively. It's such an important part of our lives.\n\n\"To be back here was a real punctuation mark to the end of this pandemic. Next month, hopefully, things will go back to normal.\"\n\nRag 'n' Bone Man was backed by the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS choir for his performance of Anywhere Away From Here\n\nThe majority of the audience are keyworkers, and every mention of their efforts during the Covid crisis receives an instant standing ovation.\n\nDua Lipa leads the charge, backing Dame Elizabeth Anionwu's campaign to give higher wages to nurses. Harry Styles, Rag 'n' Bone Man and Little Mix add their voices to the chorus, too. Even Taylor Swift, who normally lives in LA, praises the \"help and support we got from the NHS\" over the last year.\n\n\"To hear Taylor Swift say the words NHS just blew me away,\" says Gemma Fagan, an NHS dietician who specialises in intestinal failure. \"And Dua saying Boris should give us a pay rise? I couldn't cope.\"\n\n\"We worked so hard during the lockdown without time off,\" says Crystal Ihenachor, a physioptherapist from Leyton. \"Our annual leave was cancelled and some of us even lost our patients. So the fact that they thought of the keyworkers was amazing.\"\n\nLittle Mix made history with their best group win - while Leigh-Ann (left) and Perrie (right) said they were looking forward to becoming new mums\n\nIn the end, the actual awards are almost a sideshow - but it's worth noting that, for once, the Brits largely got it right.\n\nDua Lipa's intergalactic disco opus Future Nostalgia is the big winner, scooping album of the year. Billie Eilish is named best international female, confirming her position as the current queen of pop. Taylor Swift is named a global icon because, well, she is one.\n\nThe Weeknd, so mystifyingly snubbed at this year's Grammys, takes home best international male - and receives a eulogy from Michelle Obama. \"In a tough year, he's provided a light that's pretty blinding and given us all a reason to dance,\" she observes.\n\nMeanwhile, Little Mix correct a historic wrong by becoming the first girl band to win best British group.\n\nThey dedicate their win to all their overlooked predecessors - sending thousands of journalists to Wikipedia to check who beat the Spice Girls in 1997 (Manic Street Preachers, which isn't as bad as it could have been, given that Kula Shaker were also up for the prize).\n\nThe audience greet every twist and turn with uproarious applause, clearly giddy at being allowed to hear loud music again without the neighbours banging on the walls.\n\n\"I'm not going to lie: Prior to this event I was so nervous and anxious about coming out,\" says Shanelle Nwanebi, a marketer from London.\n\n\"But once we were in the arena, it just came naturally. It didn't feel like we'd been locked down for a whole year. The whole ambience and environment, I absolutely loved it.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A police investigation has been launched after an ineligible candidate won a police and crime commissioner (PCC) election.\n\nConservative Jonathon Seed was elected to serve as Swindon and Wiltshire PCC, but cannot take up the post due to a previous driving conviction.\n\nThe election's returning officer said he was taking appropriate legal advice.\n\nWiltshire Police said it had asked Thames Valley Police to investigate.\n\nThe Wiltshire force said it handed over the investigation \"to ensure independent oversight and to remove any potential conflict of interest\".\n\nA spokesperson for Thames Valley Police added: \"As our inquiries are ongoing we will not be making further comment at this time.\"\n\nElectoral Commission guidance says PCC candidates cannot stand for election if they have been convicted of an offence punishable with a prison sentence.\n\nReturning officer Terence Herbert said: \"Given this unprecedented situation and given the circumstances, I will be seeking legal advice on the next steps and at that point I will be able to make any statements necessary about the position.\"\n\nKieran Kilgallen, chief executive of Wiltshire and Swindon's Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, said operational policing will remain unaffected.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said Mr Seed, who had been hoping to take over from departing Conservative colleague Angus Macpherson, had been \"disbarred\" after a driving offence had \"come to light\".\n\nIn a statement issued on Sunday, Mr Seed - who won a combined total of 47% of the vote - insisted he had declared his 30-year-old driving conviction to the party in his application for the role.\n\n\"Party officials confirmed my belief that my offence did not disqualify me. I have now been advised that this is not the case, and that I am disqualified as a PCC candidate. I have therefore withdrawn,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Liz Webster, who came second after securing 17% of the vote in the first round and a combined total of 27%, said she wanted to know when the Conservative Party knew Mr Seed was ineligible to stand.\n\n\"It's going to cost the taxpayer £1.4m to re-run the election, and there will obviously have to be a further police inquiry and, depending on the outcome, it may be a case for the Crown Prosecution Service,\" she said.\n\nA Conservative spokesman said: \"As there are ongoing police enquiries into this matter, we will not be commenting further at this stage.\"\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.", "Ten people were killed in the wake of an Army operation in west Belfast in 1971\n\nThe prime minister has \"apologised unreservedly\" for the \"events that took place in Ballymurphy\" in 1971, Downing Street has said.\n\nA spokesperson said during a phone call with NI's first and deputy first ministers on Wednesday, Boris Johnson said what happened was \"tragic\".\n\nAn inquest found 10 people who were shot in the wake of an Army operation in Belfast were \"entirely innocent\".\n\nFamilies of some of the Ballymurphy victims have rejected the apology.\n\nPoliticians in Northern Ireland have also criticised the manner in which it was delivered.\n\nJohn Teggart, whose father Danny was among those who were killed, said Mr Johnson's comments were an \"insult\".\n\n\"The apology was to third parties, it wasn't to the Ballymurphy families,\" he said.\n\n\"What kind of insult is it to families that he couldn't have the conversation with ourselves?\"\n\nA statement from a Downing Street spokesperson said Mr Johnson told First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill he was sorry for the \"huge anguish\" which had been caused to the families due to their \"lengthy pursuit of truth\".\n\nThe prime minister was \"deeply sad\" at the findings of the inquest led by Mrs Justice Keegan, it continued.\n\nThe killings happened in the days following the introduction of internment without trial\n\nAmong the victims were a priest who was trying to help the wounded and a mother of eight.\n\nNine of the 10 victims were killed by the Army, the coroner said.\n\nHowever, she could not definitively rule who shot the tenth victim, John McKerr.\n\n\"The prime minister apologised unreservedly on behalf of the UK Government for the events that took place in Ballymurphy and the huge anguish that the lengthy pursuit of truth has caused the families of those killed,\" Mr Johnson's spokesperson said.\n\n\"The prime minister restated the government's intention to deliver a way forward in Northern Ireland that focuses on reconciliation, delivers for victims of the Troubles and ends the cycle of reinvestigations.\n\n\"He stressed the importance of working hard to keep the gains made through the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and of all parties doing their utmost to help the victims' families find out what happened to their loved ones, so that future generations are not burdened by the past.\"\n\nBriege Voyle, whose mother Joan Connolly was killed, said the prime minister's apology \"means nothing\".\n\n\"I don't care about an apology, I want to know why [our loved ones were killed],\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe added it would have been \"more respectful\" for Mr Johnson to make the apology in parliament, rather than through a phone call.\n\nThere are real question marks over the nature of how this apology was issued.\n\nNot by the prime minister at the despatch box in parliament, nor to the families who had been calling for a direct, public apology, but in a readout from Number 10 after a private meeting with Stormont's first and deputy first ministers.\n\nPart of the confusion is that the DUP and Sinn Féin statements giving their version of the call make no reference to any apology from Boris Johnson.\n\nUltimately, only the politicians who took part in the call and their advisers know exactly what was said, and how it was said.\n\nThere is speculation that Brandon Lewis's planned statement to the Commons on Thursday about the inquest's findings will include a public apology.\n\nGiven the underwhelming response from the families to the prime minister's words and how this has been handled so far, they may not take much more comfort from what the government says next.\n\nA Sinn Féin spokesperson said the first and deputy first ministers were told that Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis would make a statement on Ballymurphy on Thursday.\n\nThey said: \"Michelle O'Neill put it to Boris Johnson that he should apologise to the families of those killed in Ballymurphy by British state forces.\n\n\"After 50 years of cover-up and lies they have been vindicated and their innocence declared.\n\n\"She challenged attempts by his government to deny the Ballymurphy families, or any other access to justice now or in the future.\"\n\nRelatives of the victims celebrated the findings of the inquests on Tuesday\n\nMs O'Neill, Sinn Fein's vice-president, had previously described an apology as the \"bare minimum\" required by the government.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin said: \"I would encourage the British government to respond in a comprehensive and fulsome way to the finding that 10 completely innocent people were shot and killed.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would encourage them to understand the depth of the pain and grief felt by the families and how that pain and grief was compounded by the untruths that were told about their loved ones.\n\n\"This should be done in a manner that respects the wishes of these families.\"\n\nAlliance Party MP Stephen Farry said it was \"helpful\" that the government was \"prepared to apologise\", however, he added a statement needed to be made in parliament on Thursday.\n\n\"The scope of apology needs to be scrutinised to ensure it covers all aspects,\" he 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 Stephen Farry MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSDLP assembly member Matthew O'Toole tweeted it was \"utterly repugnant\" for the prime minister to believe it was an \"appropriate manner\" to issue a statement on the shootings through a spokesperson.", "Heathrow Airport is considering contingency plans to divert aircraft to other UK airports or EU hubs if queues at the border become too long.\n\nThe airport has seen queues of up to six hours at the border over the last few months as the number of checks and paperwork for UK arrivals increased.\n\nThe airport's chief operating officer has previously warned passengers could be held on planes to prevent crowding.\n\nThis would take measures a step further as a potential last resort.\n\nThe airport wants to see more staff processing passengers at the border, and for the passenger locator form that all passengers must now show on arrival to be automated so that passengers could use the e-gates.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson said: \"Instead of telling passengers to brace themselves for a long wait in immigration queues, Border Force should step up its efforts to automate checks for green list countries, and put in place additional resource for passengers where manual checks might be needed. Accepting delays is a further demonstration of complacency from them on the matter.\n\n\"There are protocols in place to hold passengers on planes or divert them to other airports, to prevent excessive, unnecessary and completely avoidable queues in immigration halls.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Protecting public health is our priority and as we reopen international travel safely we will maintain 100% health checks at the border to protect the wider public and our vaccine rollout.\n\n\"While we do this, wait times are likely to be longer and we will do all we can to smooth the process, including the roll-out of our e-Gate upgrade programme during the summer and deploying additional Border Force officers.\"", "Concerns have been raised about the impartiality of an Ofsted review into claims of sex abuse in schools.\n\nThe government ordered the review after thousands of anonymous allegations of abuse in schools were posted on the Everyone's Invited website.\n\nBut the head of the largest teaching union says education watchdog Ofsted is unable to conduct an impartial review.\n\nHowever, the Department for Education said Ofsted would ensure a wide range of expertise informed its work.\n\nThe mostly anonymous testimonies of abuse and misogyny started emerging mainly from within private schools but thousands of allegations have since been attributed to pupils from state schools and colleges as well.\n\nOfsted was asked to conduct a review into safeguarding policies and practices on sexual abuse in both state and independent schools in England.\n\nBut National Education Union (NEU) joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted says the watchdog is not best placed to conduct the review.\n\n\"The Department for Education wants an inquiry that it can control, so it overuses Ofsted for a whole manner of inquiries because it has a close relationship with Ofsted and can control the results of that inquiry and the recommendations,\" she said.\n\nPart of the inquiry's remit is to investigate whether Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), which inspects private schools, have been robust enough in their monitoring of schools.\n\nBut Dr Bousted said \"What is being asked of them is something they have failed to do over decades.\n\n\"Why the government thinks that they are the correct bodies to do this investigation and to make these recommendations, I simply do not understand.\"\n\nUntil recently, the Department for Education commissioned Ofsted to monitor the ISI.\n\nBut a letter from the government seen by the BBC's Newsnight programme said Ofsted's powers to investigate whether private schools were meeting all of their statutory obligations towards pupils were being removed, despite warnings about the impact this might have on safeguarding.\n\nLabour MP for Birmingham Yardley Jess Phillips also has concerns that Ofsted is conducting the review - and that Dame Christine Ryan, who chairs the education watchdog, has strong links with the ISI, as its chief inspector up until April 2017.\n\n\"There is an enormous conflict of interest,\" Ms Phillips said.\n\n\"And it is just another example of marking your own homework.\n\n\"The Department for Education, they need to admit that something has gone wrong here and that they have had a responsibility that they did not act on.\n\n\"The reason that the Department for Education commissioned this review is because it was in the public eye, it was at the peak of public interest in response to various issues.\n\n\"The government promised to collect this data and do similar reviews five years ago.\"\n\nOfsted said it had visited more than 30 state and private schools and colleges for the review, speaking to dozens of staff and nearly 1,000 pupils.\n\n\"We asked how well systems of support and response work when incidents are reported,\" an official said.\n\n\"We also asked about wider issues, from lessons in the classroom to culture in the corridors, to find out what barriers may prevent young people from reporting abuse in the first place.\n\n\"We are also considering the role of inspection and whether our work, and that of ISI, could be improved in this area.\"\n\nA Department for Education official said it was \"vital that any allegations are dealt with properly\".\n\n\"Crucially, Ofsted will work with representatives from social care, police, victim support groups, education leaders and the Independent Schools Council to ensure a wide range of expertise inform their work,\" the official said.\n\nOfsted is expected to complete its review by the end of this month.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:45 on weekdays, catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "A memorial is planned for the White Cliffs that were immortalised in one of Dame Vera's most famous songs\n\nA campaign for a memorial to Forces' Sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn has been given government support.\n\nThree sites on Dover's White Cliffs have been proposed for the £1.5m memorial overlooking the English Channel.\n\nFundraising is due to begin on 18 June, on the first anniversary of Dame Vera's death at the age of 103.\n\nCulture minister Matt Warman told MPs he \"looks forward\" to the day when a statue is in place.\n\nMr Warman said it was \"not normal practice\" for central government to fund new memorials but he highlighted the work of organisations in delivering such monuments.\n\nHe said he could think of \"few more fitting recipients\" of such support.\n\nDame Vera, seen here with the troops in 1942, released We'll Meet Again in 1939\n\nSouthend West Conservative MP Sir David Amess, a friend of Dame Vera's family, led an adjournment debate in the House of Commons calling for the project to go ahead.\n\nMr Warman pointed out that Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden was \"as much as a fan\" as Sir David of \"the great Dame Vera\".\n\n\"I wish [Sir David] and all those involved the deepest, best wishes in their efforts to raise funds for this commemoration to Dame Vera.\n\n\"It sounds like an ambitious and transformative proposal for the south coast, truly befitting Dame Vera.\"\n\nDame Vera Lynn's daughter Virginia Lewis-Jones has visited the cliffs in the hunt for a suitable site\n\nThe National Trust site in the North Downs is immortalised in one of Dame Vera's most famous songs, The White Cliffs Of Dover.\n\nThe singer, who lived in Ditchling in East Sussex and whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, was best known for performing hits such as We'll Meet Again to the troops.\n\nIt was a role that continued during coronavirus lockdown as she compared challenges faced in the pandemic to the darkest of times in World War Two - and used her birthday and VE Day to give messages of hope.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "A major trial to detect one of the most elusive and deadly cancers - ovarian - has failed to save lives, after two decades of work.\n\nThe researchers, at University College London, said the results were a disappointment - and thanked the 200,000 people who participated.\n\nThe trial had looked promising, with annual blood tests detecting cases of ovarian cancer earlier.\n\nBut routine screening for the cancer is now a distant prospect.\n\nOvarian cancer is tricky to diagnose because the symptoms are easily mistaken for less serious health problems.\n\n\"Some women are diagnosed so late they are too sick to start treatment,\" the trial's lead investigator, Prof Usha Menon, said.\n\nAnd two out of every three patients die within a decade of diagnosis.\n\nThe UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening - the largest in the world - tracked levels of CA125, a chemical released by ovarian tumours, in the blood and sent participants in whom they were rising for an ultrasound scan.\n\nBut the final results, published in the Lancet medical journal, showed the screening had failed to save lives.\n\nProf Menon told BBC News: \"I was hoping there'd be something in this - it is disappointing news.\n\n\"It is about not giving up at this point - we have suffered a setback and need to get up and march forward again.\"\n\nThere is some evidence the cases detected earlier than usual were still highly aggressive and hard to treat.\n\nAnd the researchers say they may need to find cancers even earlier and in even more women to affect survival rates.\n\nScientists hoping to detect ovarian cancer early are now looking at other chemicals in the blood, fragments of DNA released by tumours and exosomes - microscopic fatty spheres break off cancerous cells.\n\nBut these would have to go through the same long-term, large-scale trials.\n\n\"Realistically, this means we have to reluctantly accept that population screening for ovarian cancer is more than a decade away,\" Prof Ian Jacobs, from the University of New South Wales, said.\n\n\"This is deeply disappointing and frustrating given the hope of all involved that we would save the lives of thousands of women.\"\n\nAbout 4,000 people die from ovarian cancer every year in the UK alone.\n\nCancer Research UK chief executive Michelle Mitchell said people needed to be more aware of the symptoms.\n\n\"Symptoms of ovarian cancer can be quite vague [so] whether it's needing to go to the toilet more often, pain, bloating or something else, raise it with your GP,\" she said.\n\n\"In most cases it won't be cancer - but it's best to get it checked out.\"", "Covid patients, including those recovering, now make up just 3.5% of all hospital patients across Cwm Taf Morgannwg\n\nThe hardest hit area for Covid during the pandemic in Wales has had no Covid patients in its critical care units for more than three weeks.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board has also had no Covid admissions in its hospitals for more than two weeks.\n\nIt comes as numbers of Covid patients in hospital in Wales again reached record low levels for the pandemic.\n\nThere were just 65 people with confirmed and suspected Covid across Welsh hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nThese \"active\" cases have fallen by 43% in a month and are a 96% drop from the record levels we saw in late-December, according to the daily Digital Health and Care Wales figures.\n\nBut the improvement, as lower community transmission and the vaccine roll-out take effect, is particularly noticeable in the part of Wales worst hit by Covid.\n\nThe highest mortality rates covering the whole of the pandemic - and at the peak of the first wave - have been in RCT and Merthyr.\n\nThe peak of the second wave of the pandemic in January came in Bridgend, with 159 deaths due to Covid and Wales' highest monthly mortality rate, 1,277.8 deaths per 100,000.\n\nBut case rates in these communities for weeks have been among the lowest in the UK, while Covid deaths have fallen to four in five weeks.\n\nOn Tuesday, there were nine patients in hospital beds with Covid symptoms across Cwm Taf Morgannwg's three general hospitals - Royal Glamorgan near Llantrisant, Prince Charles in Merthyr and the Princess of Wales, Bridgend.\n\nAt the peak just after Christmas there were more than 420.\n\nThe health board has had no critical care patients for 23 successive days and no Covid admissions for more than two weeks.\n\nIn early January, staff at Royal Glamorgan hospital near Llanstrisant reported feeling overwhelmed as they worked through the second Covid wave\n\nMedical director Dr Nick Lyons said it was \"great news\" and paid tribute to local people and staff, who had \"worked tirelessly, in unprecedented conditions\" for more than 12 months on the front line of the pandemic.\n\n\"On behalf of our health board, I would like to thank everyone in our communities who has worked so hard to follow the restrictions and contribute towards the significant reduction of Covid-19 in our area and in our hospitals,\" he said.\n\nBut he warned against complacency and that Covid had not gone away. \"With continued diligence and uptake of the vaccine, I hope that we will be able to maintain this success,\" Dr Lyons added.\n\nWhen we count recovering patients - those in rehab or who cannot yet be discharged - the numbers are still the lowest yet across Wales.\n\nOn 11 May, there were 178 Covid patients - including recovering patients - in hospital beds, with a daily average of 190 over the week, according to daily figures from Digital Health and Care Wales.\n\nCovid-19 patients - including those recovering - now make up 2.2% of all patients in Welsh hospitals. The proportion reached 36% before Christmas.\n\nThree people were being treated on invasive ventilated beds, including in critical care, for confirmed or suspected coronavirus on Tuesday. Last week saw the number drop to a record low of two. This is 97% fewer Covid patients than in mid-January.\n\nCardiff and Vale health board had two critical care Covid patients and there was one in Aneurin Bevan health board but there were none elsewhere.\n\nOn 11 May, admissions to hospitals of confirmed and suspected Covid-19 cases were running at a daily seven-day average of 14. This is just above last month's record low of 13.\n\nThere were 13 confirmed and suspected Covid patients admitted on Tuesday - Covid admissions now make up 1.2% of all hospital admissions.", "Mary used to work at the cafe where Fred West was a regular customer\n\nPolice are searching for a body at a cafe in Gloucester linked to a girl feared to have been murdered by serial killer Fred West.\n\nMary Bastholm, 15, went missing on 6 January 1968 and has not been found.\n\nOfficers were called to The Clean Plate by filmmakers working on a documentary. West was a regular customer when the teenager worked at the cafe.\n\nThe film crew told police on Friday they had found evidence that a body could be buried within the property.\n\nOfficers could be at the site \"for a number of weeks\" and excavation work is yet to begin, Gloucestershire Police said.\n\nGloucestershire Police said the search might alarm those who worked nearby but it would carry out a proportionate investigation\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Craig Holden said: \"This could be a significant development on a case which has gained a lot of public interest over the years.\n\n\"On the basis of the information provided to us, we consider this to be new and potentially important evidence in the case of Mary Bastholm, however further detailed assessments will take place over the following few days to determine the extent of excavation needed.\n\n\"First and foremost our thoughts are with Mary's family and we would ask that their privacy is respected at this difficult time.\"\n\nIn a statement released via the force, Miss Bastholm's family said: \"We are aware of the ongoing developments around Mary's disappearance and are being kept up to date and supported by Gloucestershire Police family liaison officers.\n\n\"At this time please may we ask for privacy so we can grieve for Mary.\"\n\nPolice have begun removing evidence from the site\n\nA white tent has been set up outside the building in Southgate Street and officers are stationed at the scene.\n\nThe cafe is close to Cromwell Street, where officers found the bodies of West's victims at the home he shared with his wife Rosemary.\n\nA spokesperson for The Nelson Trust, a women's charity that owns The Clean Plate, said: \"As soon as we were made aware of the situation, we have done everything we can to accommodate the investigation.\n\n\"The Clean Plate will remain closed until all necessary activity is complete. \"It is an extraordinary twist of fate that this building, now associated with a story as tragic as that of the victims of Fred and Rosemary West, is part of a charity working to support women at risk from violence.\"\n\nA police cordon has been set up around the property\n\nMary Bastholm disappeared at a bus stop on her way to meet her boyfriend.\n\nThere has been no trace of her since. It's been a mystery for 53 years.\n\nThe cafe has been there for decades and has been under several different names.\n\nOne of its waitresses was Mary, who was 15 at the time when Fred West was a regular customer and was known to him.\n\nIt was also known he was a builder at the time renovation was needed on the cellar and the toilets at the cafe - work he was believed to have carried out in 1968.\n\nA lot of people locally put two and two together and suggested that perhaps he was responsible for her disappearance and that was where she ended up.\n\nPolice say their activity will take place over a number of weeks and there will be disruption for some time.\n\nFred West took his own life while awaiting trial for the murders of 12 people\n\nIn 2012, a petition was set up calling for a fresh investigation into Miss Bastholm's disappearance but it was rejected by then Chief Constable Tony Melville.\n\nThe confession came as police began to search 25 Cromwell Street, where they found the bodies of nine girls and young women.\n\nHe and his wife Rose were jointly charged with nine murders and he was charged with a further three.\n\nWest took his own life while awaiting the murder trial the following year.\n\nWest's former home, 25 Cromwell Street, has been demolished and was replaced with a walkway\n• None The impact of the West murders 25 years on\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\nDua Lipa demanded a pay rise for NHS workers as she won two major awards at the Brits - the UK's first major in-person ceremony of the Covid era.\n\nAnd Little Mix called out sexism in the music industry after becoming the first all-female outfit to win best British group.\n\nThe other big winners on the night were J Hus, Harry Styles and Taylor Swift.\n\nThe test event at London's O2 Arena took place with a 4,000-strong audience and no social distancing or face masks.\n\nRappers Headie One and AJ Tracey used several verses of their performance to call out the demonisation of drill music and criticise the government, while highlighting the work done by footballer and free school meals campaigner Marcus Rashford.\n\nWhile the 2021 Brits were not on a leap year it was very much a Lipa year, as the singer won two of the three awards for which she was nominated.\n\nFuture Nostalgia, the best-selling album released last year in the UK, predictably won best album.\n\nBut it was after winning the best British female award, her first of the night, that the star called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to give nurses and NHS workers pay rises, as opposed to mere applause.\n\nThis year, each of the Brit award trophies came in two parts and Dua dedicated hers to British nurse Dame Elizabeth Anionwu - who she noted has spent \"a stellar nursing career fighting racial injustice\" and \"protecting frontline workers\".\n\n\"She has also said that there's a massive disparity between gratitude and respect for frontline workers,\" said the singer. \"Because it's very good to clap for them, but we need to pay them.\n\n\"So I think what we should do, is we should all give a massive, massive round of applause and give Boris a message that we all support a fair pay rise is for our frontline.\"\n\nThe audience, which was packed with key workers, gave her a standing ovation.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast on Wednesday, environment secretary George Eustice responded to Dua Lipa's speech by stressing there was a \"difficult public finance environment\".\n\n\"There's been a pay freeze for most of the public sector and it's also important to recognise that in recent years that there have been some pay rises as well, particularly for nurses and the lower paid,\" he said.\n\n\"We can't always go as far as you'd like, but it's also the case that there's a pay review that's going on into the NHS,\" he continued.\n\nThe government recommended in March that NHS staff in England should receive a 1% pay increase this year, while many other public sector workers will have their pay frozen.\n\nBefore her double win, Dua Lipa had performed a medley of hits from her latest floor-filling record.\n\nIt was a visual love letter to her home city of London, complete with a Tube platform string quartet, Amy Winehouse-style beehive hair and a union jack skirt which evoked memories of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell's famous patriotic dress.\n\nThe night's big winner also shared her delight at seeing more women on both the stage and the winners' podium - several years after she called out the Brits for overlooking female artists.\n\nThis year, by contrast, women won four of the five mixed categories.\n\nOne such example, Little Mix dedicated their award to some of the great all-female bands who could and should have won in previous years.\n\n\"It's not easy, being a female in the UK pop industry,\" said Leigh-Anne Pinnock while accepting their award.\n\n\"We've seen white male dominance, misogyny and sexism, and a lack of diversity.\n\n\"We're proud that we've stuck together, surrounded ourselves with strong women and are now using our voices more than ever.\"\n\n\"The fact that a girl band has never won this award really does speak volumes,\" added bandmate Jade Thirlwall. \"So this award isn't just for us, it's for the Spice Girls, Sugababes, All Saints, Girls Aloud.\n\n\"All of the incredible female bands - this one's for you.\"\n\nSince the departure of Jesy Nelson, Little Mix are now a three-piece. Two of them - Pinnock and Perrie Edwards - have recently announced that they are pregnant.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC the day after Little Mix's speech, former Girls Aloud member Nicola Roberts said: \"They absolutely deserved that award last night and it's long overdue. I feel very proud of the girls because obviously they've been going for 10 years and it's not too dissimilar from the story of Girls Aloud.\"\n\nShe told 5 Live's Nihal Arthanayake: \"We were nominated a good few times for that award but we never received it, it was always a male indie band that would be recognised.\"\n\nElsewhere, rapper J Hus was not on hand on the night to pick up his award for best male solo star.\n\nBut Harry Styles was - in typically well-tailored fashion, sporting a brown and white Gucci suit - to collect best British single for his ubiquitous hit Watermelon Sugar.\n\nIf last month's Oscars took place in tinsel town then the Brits was very much tonsil town, as spectators underwent Covid tests on their way into the event.\n\nThe event formed part the government's pilot scheme for reopening live events safely, which includes the forthcoming FA Cup Final.\n\nThe live audience of about 4,000 people was about one-fifth of the O2's capacity and more than half of the ticket-holders were key workers from Greater London and their guests.\n\nSeveral performances were pre-recorded including Coldplay's show opener from a pontoon on the River Thames, and another from best international male The Weeknd.\n\nAfter being introduced by Jackie Weaver - of local council Zoom meeting fame - Chris Martin and co played their new single Higher Power with a little help from some holograms and pyrotechnics.\n\nSir Elton John later appeared on tape too alongside Years & Years star Olly Alexander for a rendition of Pet Shop Boys track It's a Sin, title track of the latter's recent drama series.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dua Lipa is among the music stars readjusting to being back on a red carpet\n\nBefore the event, US pop star Taylor Swift - who best international group-winners Haim described as \"the most incredible human being\" - was announced as the first female winner of the global icon award.\n\nSwift, who normally resides in Los Angeles, was there in-person to accept it and also praised the \"help and support we got from the NHS\" over the past year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Taylor Swift This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the only other award announced beforehand, young singer Griff was named as the winner of the rising star prize, and she demonstrated why with a career-making performance.\n\nPrevious winners of the award include Adele, who went on to win a host of more senior Brit Awards in the years that followed.\n\nAnother star in bloom, Arlo Parks, said it was \"a dream come true\" to win the breakthrough award and she sang - in front of a garden centre's worth of sunflowers - like she had been doing it forever.\n\nThe event finished with a collaboration between Rag 'n' Bone Man, a virtual Pink, and the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Choir.\n\nBefore teeing them up, comedian Jack Whitehall, hosting the awards for a fourth time, gave \"a massive big up to the key workers here tonight, and across the country\".\n\n\"We will never be able to thank you guys enough,\" he said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "There will be a public inquiry into the government's handling of the Covid pandemic in the current parliamentary session, Boris Johnson has pledged.\n\nSpeaking on the first day of a new session of Parliament, the prime minister told MPs he had already made it clear an inquiry was \"essential\".\n\nHe was responding to a question from Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey \"on behalf of bereaved families\".\n\nMr Johnson had previously only said there would be an inquiry in future.\n\nA session of Parliament is typically a year, but can be longer, with one recent session lasting two years.\n\nThe question about the inquiry came in the Commons debate after the Queen's Speech, which sets out the government's programme for the coming year.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I can certainly say that we will do that within this session. Yes, that's absolutely.\n\n\"I have made that clear before. I do believe it's essential that we have a full, proper public inquiry into the Covid pandemic.\"\n\nIt was first time Mr Johnson had put a timeframe on when a public inquiry will be held and comes a day after he had confirmed the government had met its four tests for easing lockdown restrictions in England next week.\n\nThe prime minister said deaths and hospitalisations had dropped to their lowest level since last July.\n\nThe latest government data released on Tuesday shows a further 20 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and there have been 2,474 new cases.\n\nA total of 18,088,385 people have now received both doses of a vaccine, while 35,587,348 - 67.6% of all adults - have had a first jab.\n\nLast month, Downing Street told a campaign group there was was \"simply no capacity\" for the government to divert resources to an \"intensive\" inquiry at the current time.\n\nThe Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group has been lobbying Mr Johnson since last summer to meet them and to launch an urgent independent investigation into the pandemic.\n\nJo Goodman, co-founder of the group, said: \"An inquiry must begin this summer. The prime minister may feel he can wait for answers, but bereaved families certainly can't.\n\n\"Learning lessons from the pandemic is critical to saving lives now and in the future.\"\n\nShe also urged Mr Johnson to commit to holding a statutory inquiry, where witnesses can be legally compelled to attend and give evidence under oath.\n\nDeputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said: \"We welcome this commitment and will hold the prime minister to it.\n\n\"It must be entirely open and truly independent, have the trust and confidence of bereaved families, and cannot be an exercise in the government marking its own homework.\"\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus urged the prime minister to set out a specific timeline and remit for the inquiry, with its vice-chairman, Tory MP Dan Poulter, calling for one focus to be Covid-related deaths in care homes.", "Next week will see the most significant lifting of restrictions yet in England, with indoor mixing to be allowed. The rest of the UK is making similar steps.\n\nIt means the onus is increasingly shifting on to the vaccines, rather than social distancing and restrictions, to keep the virus at bay. How well do they work? And is there now enough immunity in the population to protect us all?\n\nThe UK has benefited from both fast rollout and good uptake. Currently, a third of the adult population is fully vaccinated, with another third having had one dose.\n\nAmong those at most risk - the over-50s and younger adults with health conditions, where 99% of Covid deaths have occurred - uptake for the first dose has been 95%.\n\nSome describe that as being only partially vaccinated. But that can underplay the significance of that first dose, which provides most of the protection - the second acts to boost immunity and is important for long-lasting protection.\n\nThe latest government data - based on evidence from the rollout - suggests one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine cuts the risk of infection by as much as 70% and death by even more.\n\nData on their effectiveness after two doses is only just emerging - but, as expected, it suggests this level of protection is boosted even further. For Pfizer, which was rolled out first, the risk of death is reduced by 97%.\n\nWhat is more, those that are vaccinated but do become infected are thought to be about half as likely to pass the virus on.\n\nThe vaccines are working about as well as could be hoped in the real world - and confirm what the trial results always suggested.\n\nIn fact, the impact is so good it raises the prospect of the UK reaching the herd-immunity threshold, meaning the virus is unlikely to spread because so few people can catch it.\n\nSir John Bell, a member of the government's vaccine taskforce, believes we may indeed be at a \"tipping point\".\n\nBut it is a complex equation influenced by other factors. The amount of natural immunity from people who have had Covid already will play a role.\n\nData from April published by the Office for National Statistics indicated nearly seven out of every 10 adults had Covid antibodies - above what could be explained by vaccination alone.\n\nAnother factor is how the public reacts. Even if the government lifts restrictions completely in June, as it has suggested, it is unclear how quickly \"normal\" behaviour will return.\n\nWhat is clear is the amount of virus circulating is very low and has continued to fall even as the first steps out of lockdown have been made.\n\nWhether this will be enough to stop infections rising in the coming months remains to be seen.\n\nScientists had always warned the easing in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday, 17 May, was the one that could push numbers up the most, given the virus is most likely to be passed on indoors.\n\nBut there is good reason to hope the vaccines will be enough to stop that pretty much on their own, says Dr Adam Kucharski, an expert in infectious diseases, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\n\"It is possible we will get to a situation where [infection rates won't rise] without the need for many other measures,\" he says.\n\n\"The vaccines are working that well that domestically we can gradually relax restrictions and enjoy the summer.\"\n\nThe big unknown, Dr Kucharski says, is the variants. Those identified in Brazil, South Africa and India appear to be able to evade some of the immune response from the vaccines.\n\nBut much of this is based on testing in labs rather than evidence from the real world, which makes it hard to interpret, as it largely focuses on one element of the immune response - antibodies.\n\n\"The data is very patchy. That makes it difficult knowing with certainty what will happen next.\"\n\nThe \"most likely scenario\", he says, is vaccines lose some ability to stop infections - but provide protection against serious disease.\n\nWe are in a really good position... We are de-risking Covid\n\nEmerging real-world evidence suggests this is the case. A study in Qatar indicated the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine remained as effective at preventing serious illness and lost only a little of its ability to block infections - and that was against the South Africa variant scientists are most concerned about.\n\nBut the lack of certainty makes some uneasy. University College London clinical research director Prof Christina Pagel, a member of the Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, wants the UK to proceed with more caution, not releasing restrictions fully until all adults have received their second dose, which is not expected before the end of September.\n\nShe is calling for an Australia-style closure of borders to reduce the risk of variants being imported. \"I just don't think it is worth the risk,\" she says.\n\nBut, as always with Covid, the argument returns to what is proportionate. There is a theoretical risk the virus could mutate enough to undermine the vaccines so there is a surge in serious cases.\n\nBut what is the likelihood of that happening all of a sudden as opposed to a gradual shift over years that is more common with coronaviruses and will allow vaccines to be updated to keep up with the virus?\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, an expert in infectious disease, from Imperial College London, whose modelling led to the first lockdown, says it is the worst-case scenario and unlikely. And the UK is \"much more likely to be on a steady course\" out of the pandemic.\n\nDr Muge Cevik, from St Andrews University, agrees. Having researched the variants, she says we should take confidence from the emerging picture, with the evidence \"strongly pointing\" to the vaccines continuing to work really well, at least in terms of preventing serious illness and death.\n\nAt worst, there will be some continued low-level spread - but the vaccine programme's success means that is now less likely to translate into significant numbers of serious cases.\n\n\"We are in a really good position,\" Dr Cevik says. \"We are de-risking Covid.\"", "Around a million text messages are being sent to 38 and 39-year-olds in England, inviting them to book an appointment for a Covid vaccine.\n\nBooking will open from 07:00 on Thursday on the NHS website.\n\nPregnant women will be directed to centres offering Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, NHS England says.\n\nNearly three-quarters of people in their 40s have had one dose, while a third of all adults have had two doses.\n\nIn line with guidance from the UK's vaccines committee last week, NHS England said people 39 and under without an underlying health condition would be offered the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, as an alternative to AstraZeneca.\n\nThe decision came after a review found younger people had a slightly higher risk of an extremely rare blood clot after receiving a first dose of the AZ vaccine.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said adults aged 18-39 could be offered an alternative \"if available, and if it does not cause delays in having the vaccine\".\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\nThe committee advised that pregnant women should be offered the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines where available, at the same time as other people their age, because data on these jabs had not raised any safety concerns.\n\nBut pregnant women have complained that booking an appointment to get those vaccines was a struggle.\n\nThere is currently a lack of data on the AstraZeneca vaccine in pregnancy - but this could change in the future.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I urge everybody to get the vaccine as soon as they are eligible to protect yourself and your loved ones.\"\n\nPeople can book their appointment at a vaccination centre, pharmacy or GP site available through the national booking service.\n\nText invitations will appear as an alert from 'NHSvaccine' and include a link to the NHS website.\n\nThose who cannot go online can call the service on 119 to book a jab.\n\nIn Scotland, people aged 40 and over are being vaccinated while, in Wales, some health boards are invited people in their 30s.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, people aged 30-39 can book their first dose appointment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has said the government \"won't settle for going back to the way things were\", as the UK emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe promised to end the \"criminal waste of talent\" in parts of the UK by spreading opportunity more evenly.\n\nIt came as the government unveiled 30 planned new laws for the year ahead in the Queen's Speech.\n\n\"Today we needed a Queen's Speech that rose to scale of the moment,\" said Sir Keir, but instead, he claimed, it was \"packed with short-term gimmicks and distant promises\".\n\nSir Keir seized on the absence of new legislation to fix the funding of adult social care - something he said the prime minister had promised on the steps of Downing Street two years ago.\n\nHe said the government's failure to act on the issue after the pandemic was \"nothing short of an insult\" and it was \"a similar story on skills and education\".\n\nThe government has promised to bring forward social care proposals later this year.\n\nSir Keir Starmer accuses the government of dragging its heels over social care funding\n\nMany of the measures in the Queen's Speech are aimed at the Conservatives' new electoral strongholds in the Midlands and north of England.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs: \"We intend to unite and level up across the whole of our United Kingdom because we one nation Conservatives understand this crucial point - that you will find flair and imagination and enthusiasm and genius distributed evenly across this country while opportunity is not.\n\n\"And we need to change that because it is not just a moral and social disgrace, it is an economic mistake. It is a criminal waste of talent.\n\n\"And though we cannot for one moment minimise the damage that Covid has done - the loss of learning, the NHS backlogs, the courts delays, the massive fiscal consequences - we must use this opportunity to achieve a national recovery so that jabs, jabs jabs becomes jobs, jobs, jobs.\"\n\nAmong the planned new laws are:\n\nMissing from the government's programme was a specific bill on dealing with the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, although the speech said legislation will be introduced.\n\nAnd trade unions accused the government of \"rowing back\" on a promise to protect workers' rights.\n\nDowning Street said an Employment Bill would be introduced \"when the time is right\", citing the pandemic as the reason for the delay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spot the difference: How the Queen's Speech changed this year\n\nMr Johnson committed to setting up a \"full, proper\" public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic, which could begin in the coming year, in response to a question from Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey.\n\nSir Ed also raised concerns about plans to introduce voter ID for future general elections, which he said would hit the disadvantaged and ethnic minorities, and were \"straight from the Donald Trump playbook\".\n\nAnd he echoed criticism of planning reforms by former Prime Minister Theresa May, who said they would hand too much power to developers and \"see the wrong homes being built in the wrong places\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, told the prime minister there was a fresh mandate for a Scottish independence referendum after Thursday's elections.\n\nHe also attacked \"further power grabs\" by the Westminster government in the Queen's Speech.\n\nOne of the pleasures of the Queen's Speech for journalists is hearing Her Majesty reading out the political slogans of the government of the day.\n\nSo 15 seconds in there was mention of the prime minister's favourite: plans to \"level up\" the country.\n\nThe meaning of the phrase is gradually being refined but the agenda is still vast and encompasses jobs, schools, health, policing, industry, productivity, civic pride, the strength of local leadership and the quality of life.\n\nBut the real detail in this area will come later this year when the government publishes a White Paper where it will spell out much more detail about what levelling up means and the \"bold\" action that ministers will take to achieve it.\n\nSo for now the government is trumpeting what it's already doing: a £4.8bn fund for infrastructure projects, £830m for redeveloping High Streets, along with eight freeports and 40 new hospitals in England.\n\nAnd where there are such big promises, Labour stands ready to highlight pledges that go unmet.\n\nThis year's speech also included changes to the policing of protests, including setting time and noise limits. A previous discussion of this by MPs earlier this year led to angry demonstrations.\n\nCritics say the measures impose disproportionate controls on free expression and the right to protest - but ministers say the proposals will respect human rights and will only affect very disruptive gatherings.\n\nA ban on so-called conversion therapy - attempts to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity - is also planned.\n\nThe Queen's Speech is part of the State Opening of Parliament, normally the grandest of Westminster occasions.\n\nBut it was pared back this year because of Covid, with fewer MPs and peers than normal gathering in the House of Lords to hear it - and the Queen arriving by car rather than the usual carriage.\n\nIt was the Queen's first major public engagement since the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.", "Yat-Sen Chang abused his position of trust and power, police say\n\nA former English National Ballet principal dancer has been found guilty of sexually assaulting his students.\n\nYat-Sen Chang attacked girls and women at the English National Ballet and Young Dancers Academy in London between December 2009 and March 2016.\n\nThe 49-year-old was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration. He was cleared of one offence.\n\nHe will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on 18 June.\n\nJudge Edward Connell told Chang his offending had \"escalated in seriousness\" and warned him he faced a \"lengthy custodial sentence\".\n\nThe offences related to four females, aged between 16 and 18 at the time, who accused the dancer of touching them inappropriately during massages at the schools.\n\nThe jury was told Chang, who now lives in the German city of Kiel, had \"used his position\" as a \"famous and revered\" ballet dancer to abuse his students.\n\n\"For his part, he trusted that his fame and his position would protect him from complaint, or from consequences of his actions,\" prosecutor Joel Smith said.\n\nChang had denied all the allegations, saying he had \"no idea\" why they had been made.\n\nThe ballet dancer said he had \"no idea\" why allegations had been made about him\n\nAccording to a profile on the Theatre Kiel website, Chang joined the English National Ballet in 1993 and was a principal dancer until 2011. He performed in productions including The Nutcracker, Coppelia and Sleeping Beauty.\n\nThe Met Police said two of his victims contacted the force in 2016 about assaults that had taken place during private ballet tuition lessons at either his home, the dance school or the ballet school.\n\nThe other two complainants came forward later with further allegations.\n\nSpeaking after the court hearing, Det Con Helen Larson described the ballet dancer as \"a dangerous and predatory individual\".\n\n\"He abused his position of trust and power to prey on them when they were most vulnerable,\" she added.\n\nChang was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How did a cyber-attack lead to US petrol queues?\n\nUS motorists have been urged to not hoard fuel as supplies tighten due to a major pipeline remaining shut after a cyber-attack.\n\nSome drivers in the south east were seen stocking up as petrol stations began running dry and prices rose.\n\nThe average price for petrol was the highest on Tuesday since November 2014, at $2.98 (£2.11) per gallon, the American Automobile Association said.\n\nNorth Carolina, Virginia and Florida have declared a state of emergency.\n\nBut US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said there was no need for motorists to hoard petrol.\n\nMs Granholm said there was not a shortage but a supply \"crunch\" in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and southern Virginia, regions that typically rely on Colonial for fuel.\n\nA ransomware cyber-attack on Friday forced Colonial Pipeline to shut down the main part of its network.\n\nThe operator has forecast that it will not substantially restore operations of the 5,500-mile (8,900km) pipeline network that supplies nearly half of the East Coast's fuel until the end of the week.\n\nThe FBI has accused a criminal gang called DarkSide of the ransomware attack.\n\nThe gang is believed to be based in Russia or Eastern Europe and avoids targeting computers that use languages from former Soviet republics, cyber experts said.\n\nRansomware is a type of malware designed to lock computers by encrypting data and demanding payment to regain access.\n\nRussia's embassy in the US rejected speculation that the country's government was behind the attack.\n\nPresident Joe Biden a day earlier said there was no evidence so far that Russia was responsible.\n\nIf the general public or politicians ever needed proof of how devastating cyber-attacks can be, this hack will more than suffice: chaos at the pumps, states of emergency declared and the White House calling for calm.\n\nAnd this is just the stuff we're being told about.\n\nIn Colonial Pipeline's latest press update, we're given hints about the mayhem inside the company.\n\nWith high-tech sensors and safety systems taken offline, the firm says it's hired dozens of staff to walk or drive the 5,000-mile length of the pipeline every day.\n\nIt's also deployed helicopters to check on the pipes and a growing fleet of delivery trucks.\n\nAnother clue to the chaos is that the company's website has been periodically taken offline.\n\nColonial says this is a separate problem, but tellingly it has now blocked all traffic from outside of the US.\n\nEven the hackers themselves seem surprised by the damage they've caused.\n\nAccording to new research from cyber-security company FireEye, the hackers known as Darkside launched their global crime spree in August last year, raking in millions from organisations in more than 15 countries.\n\nBut this hack seems like it may have crossed some sort of line even for these hardened criminals. The true test of their morals, though, will depend on whether or not they will continue the extort the company or help it recover.\n\nMore than 7% of petrol stations in Virginia and 5% in North Carolina were out of fuel on Tuesday as demand jumped 20%, tracking firm GasBuddy said.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government stepped in to issue an emergency fuel waiver lasting one week, designed to help alleviate any shortages.\n\nThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said the move, which relaxes some rules usually applied to fuel, would run until 18 May in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC.\n\nIn addition, Georgia suspended sales tax on petrol until Saturday.\n\nOn Monday North Carolina declared a state of emergency and temporarily suspended vehicle fuel regulations \"to ensure adequate fuel supply supplies throughout the state\".\n\nWhile the pipeline outage is having short-term consequences in some regions, some experts believe the longer term impact will be small.\n\n\"Markets will go crazy, but two weeks later no one knows it happened,\" said Chuck Watson, director of research at Enki, which studies the economic effects of natural and other disasters.\n\nFuel prices were expected to rise with the start of the summer driving season, although the US Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday that the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic would \"significantly affect petroleum markets in the summer of 2021\".\n\nThe pipeline shutdown contributed to the rise in fuel prices, the AAA said.\n\n\"We might see the delivery challenges due to the attack add a few cents to the expected increase in the national average,\" a spokesperson added.", "The men were charged as part of an investigation into non-recent child sexual exploitation\n\nTwenty-nine men have been charged in connection with the sexual exploitation and rape of a girl over a seven-year period in West Yorkshire.\n\nThe offences are said to have taken place in and around Calderdale and Bradford between 2003 and 2010 when the victim was aged between 13 and 20.\n\nThe men are due to appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court on 7 and 9 July.\n\nEight other suspects arrested during the West Yorkshire Police investigation have been released without charge.\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.", "Myanmar's military took control of the country in a coup in February\n\nMyanmar's military has entered a small town in western Chin state which took up arms against them three weeks ago.\n\nActivists from the volunteer Chinland Defence Force say they have retreated from Mindat to spare the town further bombardment.\n\nMindat is one of several towns where opponents of the military have armed themselves.\n\nNearly 800 people have died in mainly unarmed protests at February's coup which ousted the elected government.\n\nBBC South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head says the army now appears to control Mindat.\n\nFor three weeks they have been fighting against local people armed mainly with homemade hunting guns, and dozens of soldiers are reported to have been killed.\n\nThe rebels said six of their fighters had died.\n\nSome of the population of Mindat is believed to have fled into the surrounding forests. Others remain trapped in the town.\n\n\"We will not stay any more in the town... but we will come back to attack soon,\" a spokesman for the rebel group said, quoted by AFP news agency. \"We only have homemade guns. This was not enough.\"\n\nThe army was forced to use helicopters to bring in troop reinforcements, as at least three of its road convoys were ambushed.\n\nLocal residents in Mindat set up what they called a People's Administration Team, stating that they did not recognise the authority of the military government.\n\nEarlier this week the government declared martial law in the town. It has described those defying its authority there as terrorists, and says it will set up a military tribunal to put on trial those responsible for attacks on the security forces.\n\nThe US and UK have condemned the violence.\n\n\"The military's use of weapons of war against civilians, including this week in Mindat, is a further demonstration of the depths the regime will sink to to hold onto power,\" the US embassy said in a statement.\n\n\"Attacks on civilians are illegal and cannot be justified,\" the British embassy said.\n\nMyanmar's military has justified the February takeover by alleging 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\nBut it has been met with widespread protests - which it has brutally suppressed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"They have guns but we have people\": Inside Myanmar’s Spring Revolution", "Thousands of Rangers supporters have marched on Glasgow city centre to celebrate their club's Scottish Premiership title win.\n\nThe club and the police had urged fans to disperse after they gathered at Ibrox Stadium for the final game of the season as Rangers beat Aberdeen 4-0.\n\nPolice Scotland said some arrests had been made for anti-social behaviour.\n\nGlasgow remains in level 3 of Covid lockdown restrictions, with large gatherings outdoors not permitted.\n\nFans clambered onto the gates outside the stadium after the final whistle. Flares and smoke bombs were also set off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marching fans pack the 'squinty' bridge over the River Clyde\n\nLarge numbers of fans then marched towards Glasgow city centre and unofficial celebrations in George Square.\n\nPolice Scotland said it had declined a request to facilitate the march to George Square and urged the crowd to go home.\n\nCh Supt Mark Sutherland, divisional commander for Greater Glasgow division, said: \"Today is understandably a significant day for Rangers Football Club and its supporters. We understand the importance of football in Glasgow.\n\n\"We are however still in the midst of a pandemic and under Coronavirus restrictions people should not be gathering for any reason.\"\n\nGlasgow city centre was taken over by celebrating fans\n\nThe post-match procession made its way through the streets between Ibrox and Glasgow city centre\n\nPolice Scotland said the march was \"largely peaceful in nature\" and it would not be proportionate to disperse the crowd by force.\n\nCh Supt Sutherland added: \"We will continue to police these events in a proportionate manner and officers are engaging with those who have gathered and are encouraging dispersal while tackling any anti-social behaviour.\"\n\nAfter the match, Rangers tweeted \"We are the champions\" and repeated an earlier call for fans to celebrate \"in a safe and sensible manner\" and disperse from Ibrox.\n\nFans clambered onto the stadium gates after the match\n\nHundreds of fans packed together outside the ground\n\nCrowds increased in the lead-up to the 12:30 kick-off\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf also called on supporters to take \"responsibility\" for their actions while level three restrictions remain in place.\n\nHe tweeted: \"While there is a significant Police presence at Ibrox and across City, this is ultimately about personal responsibility. If you have gathered you should disperse, particularly given yesterday's announcement about Covid in Glasgow.\n\nOn Friday night, Rangers supporters set off a large number of red flares and smoke bombs on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow.\n\nThe Ibrox club's first title in a decade was wrapped up in early March when thousands of fans gathered outside Ibrox and in Glasgow city centre.\n\nThere was a large police presence throughout the build-up to Saturday's final game of the season\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rangers fans lined the River Clyde with flares on Friday night\n\nSupporters were also accused of breaking coronavirus rules in Belfast and in Corby - which is known as \"little Scotland\" - following Rangers' win.\n\nLast May, thousands of Liverpool fans flouted social distancing guidelines and gathered outside Anfield to celebrate the club's first Premier league title in 30 years.\n\nAnd in November hundreds of Celtic supporters defied the level four restrictions and converged on Celtic Park to call for the removal of the club's then manager Neil Lennon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US climate envoy John Kerry: 50% of carbon emission cuts to come from technology \"we don't yet have\"\n\nAmerica’s climate envoy John Kerry has been ridiculed for saying technologies that don’t yet exist will play a huge role in stabilising the climate.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, he said the US was leading the world on climate change - and rapidly phasing out coal-fired power stations.\n\nBut he rejected a suggestion that Americans need to change their consumption patterns by, say, eating less meat.\n\nHe said: “You don't have to give up quality of life to achieve some of the things we want to achieve.\n\n“I’m told by scientists that 50% of the reductions we have to make (to get to near zero emissions) by 2050 or 2045 are going to come from technologies we don’t yet have.”\n\nBut his faith in unknown technologies has left some leading engineers aghast.\n\nJulian Allwood, professor of engineering and the environment at the University of Cambridge, told BBC News: \"It's virtually impossible for new energy infrastructure technologies to have a significant effect on global emissions in the time we have left to act.\"\n\nHe warned that with every new energy-infrastructure technology so far, it's taken 30-100 years from invention to 5% penetration of existing markets.\n\nJulian Allwood says the most important innovations will come in areas such as remote working\n\n\"Firstly,\" he said, \"the new idea is developed from laboratory through increasing pilot scales to initial introduction to national systems.\n\n“We have to solve physical and operational issues, solve problems with integration, develop legal and environmental regulations, understand financing requirements and explore social consent as the first accidents occur.\n\n“Growth then occurs at a linear rate, as government appetite for risk is constrained, and the incumbent technology fights to avoid closure.\"\n\nHe said no country has ever introduced a new electricity generating technology at an average rate faster than 2% of national demand per year.\n\n“Despite politicians' wishful thinking,\" he continued, \"the most important innovation opportunities will be not about new technologies, but new businesses in areas such as remote working.\"\n\nDr Jen Baxter, a spokeswoman for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, agreed that John Kerry’s timescale “seems very optimistic”.\n\nShe said some vital existing technologies such as capturing carbon from power stations and sucking CO2 directly from the air are not yet ready for mass usage.\n\nSo, rather than putting faith in start-up technologies, the world should focus on existing technologies.\n\n“We need to make use of every technology,” she said. “It’s going to be a massive amount of work and these time frames are going to be long.”\n\n“There needs to be lifestyle changes, too - such as getting people on to public transport.”\n\nThe prominent British engineer, Baroness Brown, said the climate crisis couldn’t be solved without eating less meat.\n\nCraig Bennett said most benefits would come from existing industries such as solar\n\nThe UK’s former chief scientist, Professor Dave King, is a leading voice in Mission Innovation - a global initiative working to accelerate clean energy innovation.\n\nIt’s spending $25bn of public money between the 25 nations in the coalition, rising to more than $40bn by 2025.\n\nHe said: \"We need regulatory measures to bring the new technologies rapidly into the market place, and carbon pricing on oil, gas and coal extraction to speed up the process.\"\n\nBut he, too, agreed we also need lifestyle changes - and new rules to force clean technologies on to the market.\n\nCraig Bennett from the UK Wildlife Trusts told BBC News Mr Kerry’s remarks were “frankly ridiculous”.\n\nHe said: “Of course we will benefit from new technologies, but they are most likely to be in industries that already exist such as renewables and energy storage - rather than some widget that we can’t imagine at the moment.”\n\n“We also need some forms of behaviour change, like walking and cycling more and eating less meat. These policies deliver health benefits anyway.”\n\nIn his interview, Mr Kerry defended the US record on combating climate change, saying President Biden was leading the charge to get to net zero.\n\nMr Kerry says it is now impossible to finance coal-fired power plants in the US\n\nHe said some 58 US coal-fired power stations were slated for closure, and said it was impossible to get finance to build new ones:\n\n\"The marketplace has made a decision about coal. You couldn’t build a new coal fired power plant in the United States because you can’t finance it, nor even in Europe and other places.\n\n“We’ve been pushing very hard for countries to begin to move away from fossil fuel and towards alternative, renewable, sustainable energy sources and I think, again, the marketplace is going to make that happen.\"\n\nHe said it was US policy to switch to renewable energy sources as quickly as possible: \"We are moving to alternative renewable energy. Our incentives are towards renewable alternative energy. Seventy-five percent of the electricity that’s new, that came online in the last years, came online through renewables.\n\n“So, we’re going to do what we need to do to do our fair share of this and to take a leadership role and we’re doing that now.\"\n\nHe rejected pessimism on climate change and said: “We’ll not only get there (to Net Zero emissions), we’ll get there sooner than people think.\"", "Recruitment from some communities remains a challenge for policing in Northern Ireland\n\nIsaac Andrews is rarely off his phone.\n\nAs a community worker in the unionist and loyalist Shankill area of Belfast, he responds to calls from local residents who are often in need of help or advice.\n\nHis role also involves liaising with the police on a range of community policing matters.\n\nYet, he doesn't know anyone who has joined the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nIsaac Andrews said most officers he works with are not from a working class background\n\n\"I'm sadly not aware of one person that I could tell you that I know from a working class background recently has joined the PSNI,\" he said.\n\n\"Most of the PSNI officers who I work with are from the suburbs, somewhere else in Belfast, but they're not working class.\"\n\nPolice reform via the Patten Commission Report was a key part of the peace process.\n\nHowever, two decades after the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was superseded by the PSNI, recruitment from some communities remains a challenge for policing in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"A lot of change happened in policing, like badges, uniforms, symbols, human-rights training,\" said Peter Sheridan, a former PSNI assistant chief constable.\n\n\"Unfortunately I think what happened is that all of those, if you like, shiny new police officers and new ideas and the new recruits went out into a society that largely hadn't changed, those deep-rooted divisions were there so that makes policing that environment still very difficult - and I think then that started to impact again more so in recent times around the politicisation of policing.\"\n\nPolice transformation was intended to build support for policing from all communities but attracting Catholics remains an issue for the PSNI.\n\nThe ongoing dissident republican threat to police officers, as witnessed in recent weeks, is seen as a major factor in Catholic under-representation.\n\nEmmet Doyle said he is unaware of anyone from his community who has joined the PSNI\n\nEmmet Doyle is the Aontú councillor for Ballyarnett on Derry City and Strabane District Council.\n\n\"I'm 34 and I don't know anyone, certainly from the area where I am, who has joined the PSNI,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a trade-off I suppose that many people from a nationalist/republican community would see when you join the police.\n\n\"It's almost accepted that you won't be part of the community anymore and that's not necessarily something I agree with but that's the reality of it.\"\n\nThere has been a drop-off in applications from the Catholic community in recent years - the 2018 recruitment campaign had around 500 fewer applicants than the year before.\n\nAdd to that, the problem in trying to attract working-class Protestants, women, ethnic minorities and members of the LGBT community.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne said there is \"more to do\" in order to reach out to working class communities\n\n\"The police service should reflect the society it comes from,\" said Peter Sheridan.\n\n\"We wanted young people from the Shankill Road, from Creggan, from the Bogside - that's what moderates policing when you have people from those communities - and if that disconnect is happening then it's not just a matter for the police and the police recruitment, it's a matter for all of society.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne said that in terms of recruitment, there is \"more to do\".\n\n\"I think we have tried certainly in my time, in the last recruitment round which has been the first under my tenure, we did reach out into working class loyalist and Catholic communities to try and attract people from there,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there's a recognition that there's more space to actually recruit people from all sorts of different backgrounds and it's a key commitment that I want to see fulfilled.\"\n\nSpotlight will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday, 18 May at 22:45 BST.", "Edwin Poots was elected as the DUP's fourth leader in its 50 year history on Friday\n\nThe next Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Edwin Poots has indicated he will consult with the party about whether Arlene Foster should stand down as first minister earlier than her intended departure date.\n\nMrs Foster said she would stay on as first minister until the end of June.\n\nMr Poots said he was keen to ensure a smooth transition.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Life newspaper, he confirmed he would not take the first minister post himself.\n\nMr Poots added that party members could also judge whether he is the \"right man to stay\" in his current role as agriculture minister, or whether he should take on a different brief or leave ministerial office.\n\n\"I want our party to be a party that is healing and fit for purpose going forward. Therefore, I will deal with things as gently as I possibly can but also practically going forward,\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I will ascertain those views over the next few days.\"\n\nAmong those tipped as possible successors as first minister are DUP MLAs Mervyn Storey, Paul Givan, Paul Frew and the party's new deputy leader Paula Bradley.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Poots defeated his Lagan Valley constituency colleague Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP in the DUP's first contested leadership election in its 50-year history.\n\nPaula Bradley was elected to the role of DUP deputy leader on Friday\n\nMr Poots said advice from colleagues will be \"critical\" to determining any changes to the DUP's ministerial team.\n\nHe explained that by rejecting the role of first minister, which has been held by previous DUP leaders, whoever occupies it instead can focus on \"leading the country and dealing with the machinations of government\".\n\n\"The leader of unionism can focus on reinvigorating unionism,\" he continued.\n\n\"This is absolutely critical now\".\n\nWith an assembly election a year away in 2022, Mr Poots said he planned to speak with the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) about ways to maximise the unionist vote.\n\nHe described the possibility of Sinn Féin becoming Stormont's largest party and nominating a first minister as \"destabilising\" and \"something a lot of people would find hard to swallow\".\n\nThe potential for a Sinn Féin justice minister \"would create problems\", he added, \"given the history of Sinn Féin and where they have come from and the attitude they had during the Troubles towards IRA violence\".\n\nMr Poots said he wants unionist parties to cooperate to find a \"solution\" to the issues arising from the Northern Ireland Protocol, an element of the UK-EU Brexit deal which has led to disruption and additional checks on goods arriving into Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP leader designate said he has requested to meet the prime minister and NI Secretary Brandon Lewis to discuss the issues and will \"certainly be ramping things\" in expressing his opposition to the protocol.\n\n\"I have been working with a senior UK lawyer who is advising us on what steps we can take in terms of judicial remedies,\" he said.\n\n\"If there isn't real significant political progress made in the coming weeks, I would imagine we would be launching judicial proceedings in the not too distant future.\"\n\nUUP leadership candidate Doug Beattie has accused the DUP of not being honest on the Northern Ireland Protocol\n\nMr Poots re-stated that he would not be attending North-South Ministerial Council meetings until there was a resolution.\n\nHe accused the Irish government of having \"hugely damaged north-south relations in their conduct over the protocol, the demands they have made and the aggressive nature\".\n\nDUP MLA Christopher Stalford, who supported Mr Poots' leadership campaign, told Sunday Politics that all unionist parties agree \"the protocol has to go\".\n\n\"The provision in the law says if 45 members of the assembly vote to remove the protocol then it will go and that is where I think that we do need to see, I don't want to talk about pacts, or stuff like that, but we do need to see a degree of cooperation across the broad unionist family in order to ensure that 45 unionists are elected to Stormont in the next assembly election.\"\n\nHowever, Doug Beattie, currently the only candidate for the UUP leadership, accused the DUP of \"not being honest with the electorate\" on efforts to scrap the protocol.\n\nMr Beattie told Sunday Politics the assembly cannot vote to end the protocol if unionists return with 45 MLAs, rather, only articles five to ten can be replaced.\n\n\"We have to start this off by being as honest as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\n\"We want rid of the protocol, but we have worked really hard to try and put in alternatives and mitigations to get rid of that protocol, but what we will not be doing is telling people an untruth to garner support.\"", "Police say Fabricio (left) and Patrick Hovarth (right) could be with a relative in NI or the Republic\n\nPolice are becoming increasingly concerned about the welfare of two missing children.\n\nFive-year-old Patrick Hovarth and his brother, Fabricio, who is eight, from north Belfast, were last seen on Friday at about 18:00 BST.\n\nThey were getting into a black Ford car in the Limestone Road area, police say.\n\nPSNI Insp Phil McCullagh said the brothers may be with a relative in Northern Ireland but may have crossed into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHe appealed to the boys' relative to contact police.\n\nThe boys are described as having dark hair.\n\nAt the time they were last seen, Patrick was wearing a light-coloured top and bottoms with black shoes. Fabricio was wearing grey bottoms and a purple and green top.\n\n\"We are keen to know that both boys are safe and well,\" said Insp McCullagh.\n\n\"If any members of the public have any information about the boys or have seen them since Friday evening, I would urge them to contact police immediately.\"", "Television chef Nisha Katona says debt could push firms out of business\n\nLeisure firms say they need more support after a year of \"haemorrhaging cash\" and mounting debts due to the pandemic.\n\nBusinesses from wine bars to bingo halls can reopen on Monday but at reduced capacity making it harder to cover their costs.\n\nBusiness minister Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC he did not want rent arrears to \"cripple\" firms.\n\nHe said the government was looking at ways to help firms manage their debts.\n\nWhile leisure venues, including soft play centres, amusement arcades and concert halls, are welcoming Monday's reopening, they know some customers will take longer to return to indoor activities, especially with the spread of the new Indian variant of the virus.\n\nEven if customer demand is high, venues can accommodate fewer customers at a time, due to social distancing rules.\n\nAnd according to the trade body UKHospitality, that sector alone has £2.5bn in rent arrears \"hanging around its neck\" as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Opening... will give us a certain amount of revenue, but we will still have half the number of covers we need to survive,\" says Nisha Katona, television presenter and founder of Indian restaurant chain Mowgli Street Food.\n\nShe says her business has been lucky to have had a bit of financial \"breathing room\" to help it cope with lockdown, but it has still suffered.\n\n\"Cash has been haemorrhaging out of our account all the while we have no revenue, and yet we continue to pay rents,\" says Ms Katona.\n\n\"There are lots of business costs that don't go away, so while there has been no cash, we really have become a business that is on its knees, waiting for the resurrection.\"\n\nShe says the UK's high streets are already \"littered with the gravestones\" of independent bars and restaurants that didn't have backers with deep pockets or hadn't been able to negotiate concessions from their landlords.\n\nUKHospitality has called for \"a fair amount\" of rent debt to be written off and for a ban on business evictions, currently due to expire at the end of June, to be extended.\n\nThe business minister, Mr Kwarteng, said the government was aware that businesses were facing a build-up in rent arrears after many months of not being able to trade normally.\n\n\"The government is working very closely together - the Treasury and [the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy] - to see if we can come up with an arrangement whereby tenants and landlords can work together to make sure this rent issue doesn't cripple business,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis is a big moment for the national mood and the UK economy - particularly those sectors which have been hardest hit by the restrictions.\n\nNearly one million hospitality and leisure workers will go back to work today according to industry estimates. Although many have been open for outside service, 60% of hospitality venues have no outside space and have been unable to open till now.\n\nHowever, this is not the champagne moment many had hoped for. The real prize for businesses in hospitality and beyond was the planned removal of all restrictions on 21 June. The recent increasing concerns and government warnings about the threat posed by the Indian variant to the reopening roadmap are casting an unwelcome cloud of uncertainty.\n\nEven with the restrictions being eased today, with the reintroduction of seated indoor drinking and dining, many businesses will still be unable to operate anywhere near pre-pandemic capacity and will be facing the prospect of deferred rent bills, the repayment of Covid loans and an increasingly acute staff shortage as hospitality workers who left the industry don't yet feel confident enough to return.\n\nA separate report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development said employers would have to improve pay and working conditions to get the staff they need.\n\nStephen Burns, chief executive of the Hollywood Bowl Group, which runs bowling and mini-golf sites throughout the UK, said his venues had only been able to trade for seven or eight of the past 62 weeks, costing the business £100m in lost revenue, during which time bills had mounted.\n\n\"Whilst we are incredibly grateful for the support that we have seen from the government, there has still been the cost of keeping our team members on furlough, as well as paying our rent, service charges and utility bills, so it has had a significant impact on our cashflows.\" He said maintaining the furlough scheme had cost the firm £100,000 a week.\n\nHollywood Bowl had been able to engage with its landlords, something that wasn't happening across all areas of the leisure sector, he added.\n\nHollywood Bowl is keen to get back to pre-Covid levels of business\n\nAfter reopening, the bowling alleys would only run at half capacity, said Mr Burns, until measures to curb the pandemic end altogether, currently scheduled for 21 June, according to the government's roadmap.\n\nHowever that date has now been thrown into doubt. The government has said it will make a decision on 14 June about whether the final easing of restrictions can go ahead.\n\nMs Katona said many businesses would make little or no profit while capacity was still restricted.\n\n\"In order to survive, what needs to happen is that we need to trade at the levels that we were trading prior to Covid,\" she said.\n\n\"While social distancing is in place we cannot do that. Many places will not be able to make any kind of profit while restrictions are in place.\"\n\nShe fears many businesses will go bankrupt in the Autumn as landlords demand rent arrears and says the government should look at things like business rates and VAT rates as well as support with debts due to landlords.\n\nMr Kwarteng said he hoped the final lifting of restrictions, including ending the need to distance indoors, would go ahead in June, but that he couldn't offer any \"cast iron guarantees\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency services at the scene of the collapse carried the injured away\n\nAt least two people have died and scores have been injured after a tiered seating structure collapsed at a partly built synagogue north of Jerusalem.\n\nPolice said about 650 ultra-Orthodox worshippers were in the synagogue at Givat Zeev, a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, to mark a festival.\n\nFootage showed the seating collapse and people falling on top of each other.\n\nIt comes weeks after 45 people died in a crush at an ultra-Orthodox festival on Mount Meron in northern Israel.\n\nIn Sunday's incident, initial reports from Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said medics \"provided care to about 60 injured, including about 10 in critical and severe condition\".\n\nA later update said two people were confirmed dead and about 100 were injured.\n\nThe stands had been packed for a religious festival\n\nThe seats at the back of the stands appear to have collapsed into the space below\n\nWitnesses said the collapse happened during a ceremony to mark the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Video showed hundreds of worshippers dancing and singing just before the seating gave way.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was praying for the injured.\n\nThe synagogue was described as partially constructed. Police and local officials said organisers had been warned that the building was unsafe and the event had taken place despite a lack of permits.\n\n\"We were called again to another event where there was negligence and a lack of responsibility. There will be arrests,\" Jerusalem district police chief Doron Turgeman told television reporters.\n\nIsrael's government watchdog has launched an inquiry into the deadly crush at Mount Meron - one of Israel's worst civilian disasters - saying it could have been prevented. All the victims were men or boys.\n\nThe synagogue is in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank", "Cases of Covid-19 in Glasgow are continuing to rise\n\nGlasgow may have to remain under level three Covid restrictions for longer than a week, Scotland's national clinical director has warned.\n\nProf Jason Leitch said the situation remained \"fragile\" as case rates continue to climb.\n\nThe latest seven-day average per 100,000 population in the city is 94.5 cases, well above the level two benchmark of 50 cases.\n\nEast Renfrewshire has seen its case rate jump to 75.4, overtaking Moray.\n\nGlasgow and Moray are the only local authority areas due to remain in level three on Monday, as the rest of mainland Scotland, including East Renfrewshire, go down to level two, and some islands to level one.\n\nThe outbreak in Moray appears to have stabilised, with the case rate falling for the fourth consecutive day to 58.4 per 100,000 population in the latest published figures.\n\nIn East Renfrewshire, however, the rate is climbing steeply with 72 positive cases over the past seven days.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland infection rates in every local authority were being monitored and action would be taken to contain outbreaks, if necessary.\n\n\"The last thing we want to do is to have areas going in and out of restrictions like a yo-yo, that's the worst of all possible worlds.\n\n\"What we need to try and do is what we're doing in the overwhelming majority of the country which is get to a sustained position of suppression of the virus which then enables us to take the necessary action to relax restrictions.\"\n\nThere is evidence the Glasgow surge is being driven by the so-called Indian variant, unlike in Moray where it is thought to be much less of a factor.\n\nLast Tuesday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said all mainland areas with the possible exception of Moray were expected to move to level two rules which allow different households to meet up indoors, and pubs and restaurants to serve alcohol indoors.\n\nBut on Friday she announced that the move to level two would be delayed by a week for both Moray and Glasgow after cases rose rapidly, particularly in the south of the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The decision to delay Glasgow's move to level two was a tough one, says Jason Leitch\n\nProf Leitch told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show \"it may well be\" that Glasgow would have to remain in level three for longer than an extra week.\n\nHe added: \"We'll give the best advice we can on this - we've met all weekend, we'll meet next week.\n\n\"Glasgow are doing an enormous amount of work. The leaders of the public health response in Glasgow are testing everywhere.\n\n\"If you haven't had a test and you're in Glasgow, you should do it.\"\n\nLateral flow test kits are available free on the NHS, and everyone in Scotland - but particularly in Glasgow - is being urged to take them twice a week regardless of whether they have symptoms, Prof Leitch said.\n\nOn vaccination, he said text messages were going out to younger age groups in the worst-affected Glasgow postcodes, inviting them to be vaccinated.\n\nProf Leitch said work was ongoing to identify those who did not previously come forward for their first dose, and he also urged people to take up offers of the second dose.\n\nHowever, he said the success of the vaccination programme meant there was no evidence yet that the upturn in cases would lead to significant increases in deaths or pressures on the NHS.\n\n\"We're keeping Glasgow at three. We're not locking Glasgow down. The beer gardens can still open, you can still meet outdoors,\" he said.\n\nPeople are urged to take regular tests, regardless of whether they have symptoms\n\nWhile a case rate of 50 cases per 100,000 population is a key benchmark for deciding if an area can move to level two, other factors such as the ability of the local health service to cope are also considered.\n\nOn Sunday another 292 cases of Covid-19 reported across the whole of Scotland, with 2% of tests coming back positive, the highest percentage since 19 April.\n\nEarlier, the Westminster health secretary, Matt Hancock, said the experience of Bolton, which has also seen a surge in the Indian variant, was that it was mainly spreading among younger people who had not had a vaccine jab.\n\nHe said that while this variant appeared to me more transmissible and was likely to become the dominant UK strain, he was \"confident\" that existing vaccines offered protection.\n\nIn Bolton, he said he was aware of five people in hospital despite having had one dose of the vaccine and one \"frail\" person who had received two doses - but he said the \"vast majority\" were people who had not received any vaccine.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nTyson Fury says his world heavyweight title showdown with Anthony Joshua will take place in Saudi Arabia on 14 August.\n\nThe all-British bout has been billed as one of the biggest in heavyweight boxing for decades and the winner will become undisputed champion.\n\nJoshua, 31, holds the WBA, WBO and IBF belts, while Fury, 32, is WBC champion.\n\nThe fight will see all four belts on the line in a heavyweight bout for the first time in history.\n\nThe last undisputed heavyweight champion was Britain's Lennox Lewis from 1999 to 2000, in an era when fighters did not need to hold the WBO belt to be recognised as undisputed champion.\n\nIn announcing the fight date in a video on Twitter, Fury said: \"All eyes of the world will be on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and I cannot wait to smash Anthony Joshua on the biggest stage of all times.\n\n\"This is going to be the biggest sporting event ever to grace the planet earth. Do not miss it.\"\n\nPlans for a fight between the pair were set in motion when Fury defeated Deontay Wilder to capture the WBC title in February last year.\n\nThat came two months after Joshua avenged his only career loss to Andy Ruiz Jr, a fight which was also staged in Saudi Arabia, at the Diriyah Arena.\n\nAlthough news of the fight is one of boxing's worst-kept secrets, neither Joshua, his promoter Eddie Hearn or Fury's co-promoters Bob Arum and Frank Warren have officially confirmed it will take place.\n\nLast week, Hearn said that the fight would take place in Saudi Arabia but Fury did not mention a venue.\n\nSaudi Arabia has faced criticism from campaigners who have accused the Middle East country of trying to 'sportswash' its human rights record.\n\n\"The real question is will Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and their teams just go along with it?\" said Amnesty International UK spokesman Felix Jakens.\n\nWhen Joshua fought Andy Ruiz in Saudi Arabia in 2019, his promoter Hearn insisted Saudi involvement was \"here to stay in boxing\", calling critics \"hypocrites\" and repeatedly referencing the fact other sporting institutions had worked in the country.", "Thousands of fans marched to George Square after the match\n\nPolice Scotland has said \"many more arrests will follow\" what it described as \"disgraceful\" scenes as Rangers fans celebrated in Glasgow city centre.\n\nFive police officers were injured and 28 people arrested as crowds were dispersed due to \"rising disorder\".\n\nThousands of fans had taken to the streets after Rangers' first Scottish Premiership title win in a decade.\n\nThey marched from Ibrox Stadium to George Square on Saturday where flares were set off and missiles thrown.\n\nPolice broke up the crowds after about five hours due to \"rising disorder\", with one officer suffering a serious facial injury.\n\nPolice Scotland Deputy Chief Constable Will Kerr said investigations were continuing and further arrests would be made in the coming weeks.\n\nGlasgow remains in level three of Covid lockdown restrictions, with large gatherings outdoors not permitted.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"To say I'm utterly disgusted by the Rangers fans who rampaged through the city would be an understatement.\"\n\nThere had been a high, visible police presence throughout the day as huge crowds gathered outside Ibrox before the final game of the season against Aberdeen.\n\nGeorge Square was covered in rubbish after the crowd was broken up by police\n\nPolice Scotland said it had declined a request to facilitate the march to George Square and urged the crowd to go home.\n\nAfter supporters celebrated in George Square for about five hours, officers said some fans became unruly.\n\nProperty was damaged, several people assaulted and missiles and flares were thrown at officers.\n\nOfficers formed a line and cleared the group from the area just after 21:00, with Police Scotland describing the fans' behaviour as \"disgraceful\".\n\nMounted police officers were used to control the crowd\n\n\"Our officers became the focus of the crowd's attention with missiles and flares being thrown at them,\" Ch Supt Mark Sutherland, Police Scotland's Divisional Commander for Greater Glasgow, said in a statement.\n\n\"Our policing response has been proportionate. We have responded appropriately and consistently to the behaviour of those gathered.\n\n\"This disgraceful behaviour which clearly endangered public and officer safety could not be tolerated and officers dressed in full public order equipment after appropriate warnings were given, moved in to disperse those present.\n\n\"Although most of those present dispersed, a number remained and confronted officers with violence and aggression. Missiles were thrown and officers came under direct attack as George Square and the surrounding area was cleared.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"angry on behalf of every law-abiding citizen\".\n\nThe first minister added: \"In normal times, the violence and vandalism and the vile anti-Catholic prejudice that was on display would have been utterly unacceptable. But mid-pandemic, in a city with cases on the rise, it was also selfish beyond belief.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she hoped Rangers would \"reflect on what more must be done to tackle this behaviour by fans, albeit a minority\".\n\nShe added: \"However, ultimate responsibility lies with those who behaved in such a thuggish, sectarian and selfish manner. And that's why we must let the police do their job.\"\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, said Glasgow was in a \"fragile\" place and it was \"disappointing to see people break the rules, in whatever setting and for whatever reason\".\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show: \"This virus has not gone away - we're not joking, we're not pretending - it's absolutely real.\n\n\"And the risk, particularly now in Glasgow, is quite high and Glasgow is fragile.\n\n\"You've seen us make an enormously difficult decision this week on our advice that has kept a bit of Glasgow in the same level.\n\n\"It feels like a tough day to watch that yesterday if you are a business owner or a family waiting for lunch or dinner.\"\n\nGlasgow city centre was taken over by Rangers fans on Saturday evening\n\nScottish Police Federation chairman David Hamilton said the people in George Square had shown a \"blatant disregard for the safety of the public and police officers\".\n\nHe told The Sunday Show: \"To see that number of people blatantly ignoring all the health advice, the government advice, the police advice - even the club advice to disperse - is just absolutely appalling.\n\n\"Policing in this country is, of course, done by consent. The whole strategy throughout the coronavirus pandemic has been about making sure people take personal responsibility and they have not done so.\n\n\"These people should not have been there in the first place and when they were asked to move, they should have gone.\"\n\nFans had been warned against gathering to celebrate due to rising Covid-19 cases in Glasgow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marching fans pack the 'squinty' bridge over the River Clyde\n\nThe Union Bears fan group had earlier announced plans to walk from the stadium to George Square.\n\nOn Friday night, scores of Rangers fans lit red flares simultaneously along the River Clyde in the city as they marked the end of the season.\n\nIn an earlier statement on Saturday, Ch Supt Sutherland said: \"We understand the importance of football in Glasgow, how it connects our communities and, is for many, a culture and a way of life.\n\n\"We are, however, still in the midst of a pandemic and under coronavirus restrictions people should not be gathering for any reason.\"\n\nThere was a large police presence around George Square\n\nHe said a request for a fan procession to the city centre had been declined, but police later decided to escort large groups of supporters as they made their way to George Square in order to minimise disruption.\n\nSome arrests were made in the afternoon for anti-social behaviour.\n\nBut Ch Supt Sutherland said due to the largely peaceful nature of the crowd at that time \"it would not be proportionate for our resources to use a high level of force through public order policing to disperse those gathering\".", "Almost 23 million people saw the Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nThe BBC has postponed its broadcast of a Panorama investigation into reporter Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nPanorama was expected to examine claims that Bashir used fake bank statements to convince Diana to do the interview.\n\nThe film was due to air on BBC One on Monday but the broadcaster said it had been delayed due to a \"significant duty of care issue\".\n\nBashir left the corporation earlier this week due to ongoing health issues.\n\nA new date for the programme has not yet been confirmed.\n\nThe 58-year-old was BBC News religion editor and was seriously ill with Covid-19 when the allegations emerged late last year. He has since undergone a quadruple heart bypass and another heart operation more recently.\n\nThe decision to push back the Panorama episode comes shortly after a separate investigation into the interview - led by Lord Dyson - had concluded.\n\nThe BBC said Bashir had co-operated fully with the inquiry and would not comment publicly while that process was ongoing.\n\nLord Dyson, who was Master of the Rolls - the second most senior judge in England and Wales, had been tasked with looking into the steps Bashir and the corporation took to get the interview.\n\nHis report has been given to the BBC, which the broadcaster said would be published \"very soon\".\n\nNearly 23 million people tuned in to watch the Panorama interview, recorded 25 years ago.\n\nIn the interview, Diana famously said that \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles. At the time she was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nThe princess also talked frankly about her difficulties with post-natal depression and bulimia.\n\nDiana's son, the Duke of Cambridge, welcomed the launch of the inquiry late last year and his brother, the Duke of Sussex, reportedly also supported it.\n\nQuestions arose late last year over the interview, which was one of the most watched BBC programmes of all time and won Bashir a Bafta TV award.\n\nMartin Bashir's interview with Princess Diana for Panorama took place in November 1995\n\nDiana's brother, Earl Spencer, said Bashir had used forged bank statements to persuade the princess to do the interview.\n\nIt was reported by the Daily Mail that the statements wrongly purported to show that two senior courtiers were being paid by the security services for information on his sister.\n\nThe BBC has previously apologised for the use of the statements, but has insisted they played \"no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".\n\nIn March, police ruled out a criminal investigation into the background to the interview.", "Ebrahim Raisi is a hard line cleric who has been Iran's judiciary chief since 2019\n\nIran's judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi and former parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani have registered to run in next month's presidential election.\n\nThe two conservatives, who have close ties with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are seen as the leading contenders to succeed Hassan Rouhani.\n\nMr Rouhani, a moderate, is not allowed to run for a third consecutive term.\n\nMore than 300 other hopefuls have also applied to be candidates. They must all now be vetted by the Guardian Council.\n\nThe 12 theologians and jurists on the council approved only six of the more than 1,600 candidates for the last election in 2017, which Mr Rouhani won in the first round with 57% of the vote. Mr Raisi came second with 38%.\n\nSince then there has been rising discontent in Iran over the state of the country's economy, which has been crippled by US sanctions reinstated in 2018 by then-President Donald Trump.\n\nHe abandoned a nuclear deal negotiated by Mr Rouhani that saw Iran limit its nuclear activities in return for sanctions relief. Iran stopped abiding by key commitments in response to the move.\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\n\"I have come as an independent to the stage to make changes in the executive management of the country and to fight poverty, corruption, humiliation and discrimination,\" the 60-year-old Mr Raisi said in a statement on Saturday before registering his candidacy.\n\nLater, in an apparent dig at establishment figures like Mr Larijani and candidates allied to Mr Rouhani, the hard line cleric told journalists that \"those who founded and partnered with the current situation can't claim they can change it\".\n\nReformists and human rights activists have expressed concerns about Mr Raisi's background, particularly his role in the mass executions of several thousand political prisoners in 1988.\n\nMr Raisi has said the executions were justified because the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or religious ruling.\n\nAli Larijani was speaker of Iran's parliament from 2008 to 2020\n\nMr Larijani, a 63-year-old conservative former nuclear negotiator who currently serves as an adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei, said the other presidential contenders were not capable of fixing the economy, particularly those with military or judicial backgrounds.\n\n\"The economy is neither a garrison nor a court that would be managed with shouts and orders,\" he told a news conference after registering.\n\nOther candidates in the 18 June election include Mr Rouhani's First Vice-President, Eshaq Jahangiri; former Supreme National Security Council secretary and nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili; and Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei, a former head of the Revolutionary Guards.\n\nThe Guardian Council will publish a list of approved candidates on 27 May.", "Monday sees another milestone in the reopening of the economy: people in most of the UK will be able to go to a bar or restaurant and eat indoors.\n\nBut some favourite haunts will no longer be there: over the last year, thousands of establishments have closed, latest surveys indicate.\n\nAcross Britain, there are 9.7% fewer restaurants to choose from, compared with before the pandemic.\n\nAnd mid-market \"casual dining\" venues have fallen by 19.4%.\n\nThe data in the latest Market Recovery Monitor from CGA and AlixPartners suggests that while many pubs and bars have also struggled to survive the pandemic, it is restaurants that have fared worst.\n\nThat includes places such as Oskar Ali's in Newport in Wales. Oskar and his wife opened Falafilo Island, serving grilled meats and vegetables and falafel, in August 2018.\n\nThey invested thousands of pounds to set up the business, transforming the dark interior with a cheerful yellow ceiling and tree-patterned walls.\n\n\"We had so many lovely customers, but corona just hit us so hard, we had to close,\" Oskar told BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme.\n\nThey hoped a busy Christmas might save them, but Oskar's wife caught Covid and they had to isolate for two weeks.\n\n\"Then it was January and we thought: we should just close,\" he says. \"We couldn't survive, even with the grants they gave.\"\n\nOskar, a computer science graduate, now has thousands of pounds of debt and is looking for other work.\n\nOskar and his wife invested thousands of pounds to set up the restaurant\n\nCGA and AlixPartners measured the impact of the last 13 months on pubs and restaurants that hold a licence to serve alcohol.\n\nLooking at the net number of venues, once all closures and new openings were taken into account, they found pubs across Britain fared slightly better than the restaurant sector.\n\nThe number of pubs serving food has fallen by 4.2%. Bars and pubs that only serve drinks fell by 5.2%.\n\nBut on top of the near-20% fall in casual dining outlets, bar-restaurants, which make up a smaller part of the overall dining market, fell by 9.6%.\n\nGeneral restaurants, which are the largest dining out category, are down 10.2%.\n\n\"The main challenge for restaurants, in comparison to pubs, is that the restaurants all tend to be leased premises - they all have landlords and rent to pay,\" says Graeme Smith, managing director of AlixPartners.\n\n\"When their revenues stopped, their rental bills continued to build up, unless they managed to reach an agreement with their landlord.\n\n\"Unfortunately, with the burn of costs of rent and other costs of business, for a number of restaurants, that was simply too much to keep going through the period of closure.\"\n\nAnd while restaurants that belong to larger chains were sometimes able to fall back on the group financially, or negotiate agreements with landlords across the business, independent operators have found it harder to survive.\n\nThe restaurant sector was already shrinking before the pandemic, but the net losses between 2017 and 2019 were between 0.9% and 2.2% a year, according to CGA AlixPartners data.\n\nMany of those earlier losses were in crowded sectors such as burger bars. But losses over the past year have included businesses with otherwise promising futures.\n\nHendersons, an Edinburgh institution, was an early casualty of the pandemic\n\nHendersons in Edinburgh was founded in the 1960s, and as vegetarian and vegan food became more fashionable, it had expanded to two new sites in the city.\n\nBefore the pandemic hit, it was trading strongly thanks to loyal customers and Edinburgh's throngs of summer visitors. But it relied completely on in-person footfall, says Janet Home, the third generation of the family to be involved in managing the business.\n\nWhen Covid hit, they tried to adapt, offering veg boxes and dry goods deliveries.\n\n\"We didn't have anything set up, the website wasn't set up for online delivery, there were so many processes we needed to go through,\" says Janet.\n\n\"With all the competition out there, there was no way we could cover all the running costs of the business.\"\n\nIn July, faced with redundancy payments for 35 staff, they reached breaking point.\n\n\"It was a soul-destroying decision the family had to come to, says Janet. \"We knew it was game over.\"\n\nLooking back she has no doubt it was the right decision. They would need to run at 60-75% capacity to cover their costs, which is difficult with social distancing rules still in place.\n\n\"Even if we were in a position to reopen now, the tourists are going to take time to come back, the offices are not at capacity, [some] students are working from home.\"\n\nThe Local Data Company, which monitors changes to property use across England, Scotland and Wales, says the biggest net losses were in American and Italian restaurants.\n\nBut some categories saw a net gain in the number of outlets, according to their data, including vegan and Japanese restaurants.\n\nGraeme Smith from AlixPartners says he expects the churn to continue in the next few months.\n\nThere's a \"cliff edge\" at the end of June for many restaurants, he points out, because after that point landlords can demand unpaid rents again, as the rules to support the sector are lifted. That could prompt a new wave of closures as big as the number we've seen already he warns.\n\nBut pent-up demand could encourage new openings too.\n\n\"Landlords will be keen to get new tenants into their sites,\" points out Mr Smith. \"And restaurateurs are naturally optimistic people. When you see a restaurant closed, it doesn't stay closed for long.\"\n\nTim Hall is one of the founders of a small sourdough pizza chain, Three Joes - one of the businesses poised to capitalise on a bounce-back in demand.\n\nLast year, they bought another small chain, The Stable, taking them from three to 12 sites, mostly in south-western England.\n\n\"We're quite nervous about what's going to happen,\" he says. \"We've taken a big risk.\"\n\nRestaurateurs hope customers will return after a year of restrictions\n\nThe new restaurants are all either waterside or market-square sites, most with outdoor spaces, that he thinks will appeal to customers post-Covid. Crucially, none rely on \"office block\" trade.\n\n\"I don't think overall the trend for people to eat out more is going to be damaged in the medium term,\" he says. \"And in the short term, it will accelerate hugely.\n\n\"We're anticipating a summer like no other. Apart from anything else, people are trapped in England, they want to spend their savings and enjoy themselves.\"\n\nYou can hear more on the impact of the pandemic on Britain's restaurants on BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme on 23 May.", "Coronavirus has led to a 70% fall in passenger numbers at the world's busiest airport for international passengers in Dubai\n\nThe boss of the world's busiest airport for international passengers has said Covid passports are the only way to restart mass foreign travel.\n\nDubai Airports chief executive Paul Griffiths told the BBC: \"I don't think there is an alternative.\"\n\nCritics of the digital systems argue they discriminate against those who cannot get vaccinated.\n\nBut Mr Griffiths says he is a complete supporter of the documents, which he says are \"inevitable\".\n\n\"I think the problem is not the vaccine passport and its discrimination. It's the need to roll things out and have a proper globally equitable vaccine programme,\" he said.\n\nThe World Health Organisation and World Travel & Tourism Council are among those opposed to vaccine passports amid fears they will create a \"two-tier society\".\n\nLast month, Dr Mike Ryan from the WHO repeated concerns about the ethical and fairness issues surrounding vaccine passports.\n\n\"They do need to be considered, especially in a world where vaccine is distributed in such a grossly inequitable way,\" he said.\n\nDubai Airports' Paul Griffiths thinks there is no alternative to vaccine passports\n\nThe aviation industry is desperately looking for ways to pick up speed after the damage wrought by government restrictions and a collapse in passenger confidence.\n\nAccording to the Air Transport Action Group, it was making a $3.5 trillion annual contribution to the global economy before the pandemic.\n\nHowever, with flights grounded, the numbers going through Dubai International Airport have collapsed in a similar way to the rest of the industry.\n\nEven so, 2020 was Dubai's seventh year in a row as the world's busiest airport for international passengers, having overtaken London Heathrow in 2014.\n\nA record 86.3 million people passed through in 2019, but as the coronavirus pandemic grounded flights, that fell 70% to 25.8 million last year.\n\nCoronavirus passports could become as vital as security checks, like these in Dubai, for international travel\n\nMr Griffiths wants that number to rise again: \"We need to get into risk management rather than risk avoidance.\"\n\nHe added: \"I just don't think the world can survive without that mobility for much longer, certainly socially and economically, but you can understand why countries around the world are being very conservative. The last thing any politician wants is a surge of infection on their turf.\"\n\nLast year, the United Arab Emirates saw its economy contract by 6.1% amid the global slowdown.\n\nFor Dubai, a Middle Eastern hub which plays a key role in joining East and West, air travel is key to repairing the damage.\n\nMr Griffiths says: \"The city's been built as a global hub and it's enabled a tremendous commercial and tourism centre to be developed here in the UAE.\n\n\"So we are pretty dependent, because at least 35% of GDP is based around the enablement of travel and tourism, so it has a big dramatic effect here.\"\n\nDubai International Airport has played a crucial part in the city's economic success but its had to close entire terminals\n\nTo get through the crisis, the airport has cut costs by closing entire terminals and concourses, which means a bailout from Dubai's government has been avoided.\n\n\"We were able to get into a position where we could cover all of our costs with about 20% of our throughput, which is where we are at the moment,\" explains Mr Griffiths.\n\nHe adds that 8,500 jobs have been reduced to 2,500. \"It's been a lot of pain for a lot of people. But we're well positioned to recover now.\"\n\nThe desire to recover and avoid new outbreaks of coronavirus has led to the emergence of several different Covid travel passes. The European Union, the G20 and International Air Transport Association are all working on schemes.\n\nMr Griffiths says even if multiple systems are introduced for checking passengers, his airport can avoid queues such as those seen at London Heathrow.\n\n\"Whatever the system, we will adapt our processes to ensure that our passengers aren't put in huge long queues,\" he adds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19 passports: What are the issues?\n\nThose passengers that are flying are being looked after by \"near-hospital theatre levels of cleanliness\" as well as physical distancing and insistence on mask wearing.\n\nTechnology is also helping stop the spread of germs, with the acceleration of contactless check-in and immigration arrangements.\n\nWhen it comes to the rules, passengers are \"adhering extremely well, because we make sure they adhere to them\", Mr Griffiths says.\n\n\"We've got a very, very close eye on them: 6,000 CCTV cameras watch the passenger flow, because obviously, we've got to keep everything moving, to keep everything safe and secure.\"\n\nThe luggage belts at Dubai International Airport have been quieter after passenger numbers fell 70%\n\nIf international air travel is to get moving again, \"it's up to the countries to decide what the entry requirements are, and it's up to the airlines and the airports around the world to enforce it\", says Mr Griffiths.\n\n\"If this all works, and everyone comes together, vaccine passports will be a very, very simple way of us travelling without documents around the world.\"\n\nYou can watch Paul Griffiths' 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 and 10:30 GMT and Tuesday at 12:30 GMT.", "Jordan's father described him as \"an amazing little person\"\n\nSunday league footballers from more than 80 teams have held a minute's silence in memory of a nine-year-old boy who died after being struck by lightning.\n\nJordan Banks was playing football in a field in Blackpool when he was killed on Tuesday evening.\n\nAll teams in the Lancashire Sunday League observed the silence before their matches.\n\nCars and trucks formed a convoy driving across the town's promenade earlier.\n\nThe procession saw trucks decked with Liverpool FC banners and balloons make their way to the recreation ground where Jordan was having a coaching session when he was struck.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The vehicles moved across the town's promenade\n\nPeople lined the streets and laid flowers and tributes along the promenade.\n\nBusinessman Dave Hall, 49, who organised the convoy said the turnout was \"phenomenal\" and he \"couldn't have wished for better\".\n\n\"We just wanted to show we're here and we care. When a tragedy happens like this, we want the family to know that,\" he said.\n\nFlowers were placed in tribute along the promenade\n\nThe long procession took nearly one-and-a-half hours to pass through.\n\nIn a tweet, Longsands JFC said their under-nine squad and and Ribbleton FC had earlier \"perfectly observed a minute's silence as a mark of respect and support\".\n\nJordan, a Liverpool supporter, was taken to hospital with serious injuries after the lightning strike but died a short time later.\n\nHis father Matt Banks described him as \"an amazing little person\" with \"the biggest heart\".\n\nThe young footballer made headlines when he dished out sweets to police officers during the pandemic\n\nHe said his son's organs had been donated to three children.\n\nThe minute's silence was observed by clubs across four adult leagues and four junior leagues.\n\nFormer Liverpool striker John Aldridge tweeted there was sadness \"beyond words\" for Jordan \"at all the grassroots football here in Liverpool\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Aldridge This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hall said as a father he felt moved to honour Jordan.\n\n\"I live in Kirkham and my seven-year-old lad was also playing football on Tuesday. They had to delay their training session while the storm passed,\" he said.\n\nLiverpool stars wore shirts bearing Jordan's name ahead of their match on Thursday\n\n\"I think what happened has affected everybody.\"\n\nTwo Crowdfunding pages set up in the boy's memory have raised more than £82,000.\n\nFlowers, footballs, shirts and messages of condolence have been left at the playing field in Common Edge Road.\n\nPeople have also been posting nine footballs on social media and using the hashtag #RIPLittleMan.\n\nOn Thursday Liverpool FC players wore shirts bearing Jordan's name ahead of their clash with Manchester United.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lancashire Sunday League This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJordan won praise for his fundraising efforts earlier this year after raising £3,000 for a mental health charity in memory of his uncle by running 30 miles in 10 days.\n\nHe played for Clifton Rangers Junior Football Club, who described him as \"an extraordinary young man\".\n\nThe flag at Blackpool Town Hall was flown at half-mast in tribute to Jordan and Blackpool Tower and the town's illuminations arches were lit up in red in homage to his beloved Liverpool.\n\nTributes have been placed at the field where Jordan was struck\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.", "For much of Saturday, a technical problem affected Santander's services\n\nSantander has said all of its services are now working as normal, after widespread problems left customers unable to access their money.\n\nOn Saturday the bank's online banking and app stopped working and there were also issues in branches and with cards, cash machines and telephone banking.\n\nCustomers called it a \"nightmare\", with people unable to pay for petrol to get to work and payments being rejected.\n\nThe bank apologised and promised \"no one will be out of pocket\".\n\nThe problems began on Saturday morning and lasted much of the day until about 21:15 BST when Santander tweeted that all of its services were running again as normal.\n\nHowever, some customers replied to Santander's tweet saying they were still having problems - including the app still not working, transactions not showing or being unable to use cards online.\n\n\"We are very sorry for the inconvenience you've experienced today,\" said the bank, which has 14 million active UK customers.\n\n\"If you need help, some of our branches will be open on Sunday from 10am to 12pm. We'll publish a list of these tomorrow.\"\n\nEarlier, the bank said it will share details on its website and social media channels from Monday about how impacted customers can make a claim.\n\nThe problems on Saturday left many people stuck in difficulty after they were unable to make payments.\n\nOne customer, Marcus Evans from Aberdare in south Wales, told the BBC he had lost a day's wages as he could not buy petrol to travel to his job as a CCTV operator.\n\n\"It's been an absolute nightmare,\" said the former member of the Armed Forces, who also said he could not do his weekly shop. \"It's ridiculous.\n\n\"I get my military pension and my wages paid into a Co-operative savings account and I transfer money on a weekly basis into my Santander account.\"\n\nMr Evans said Santander \"should have things in place to ensure that this doesn't happen\"\n\nSamantha Stewart said she had travelled all the way from her rural home in Argyll to the mainland to go shopping with her mother, when she realised she could not access her money.\n\n\"It wasn't until I was in the first store that I'd tried to log on,\" she said. \"I was wanting to transfer money from savings over to my account because I was planning to do quite a big shop.\n\n\"Essentially I was left with £27 in my account. I had to decide whether to chance it with Apple Pay, knowing that it would take me into unarranged overdraft, or to go home.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Stephen Curtis, 58, from Gloucester, said he was \"definitely leaving the bank\" after the problems.\n\nHe said he was in a car showroom trying to buy a new car when his card was declined. \"It was so embarrassing,\" he said.\n\n\"This is unforgivable. I work in IT, I know about systems, I know about backups and upgrades. To have this happen, I would get the sack if it happened in my job.\"\n\nAnother customer, Jason Crossland, from Rotherham, told the BBC he became stuck in an outlet shopping centre with his children, unable to buy enough petrol to get home.\n\nThe head of money at consumer magazine Which? said the technical issues would have left many customers stressed.\n\n\"Customers can incur fines, penalties and fees when they're not able to access their finances, so the bank must offer compensation to all those who have been impacted in this way,\" said Gareth Shaw.\n\nOn Saturday evening, shortly before the problem was fixed, the UK's financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, said it was aware of the issue and in contact with the firm.\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the problem. Planned maintenance had been due to be performed on the Santander mobile banking app overnight on Friday.\n• None Santander to close more than 100 branches", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Search and rescue teams are still at the scene\n\nA two-year-old boy has died and four adults have been injured in a suspected gas explosion in Heysham, Lancashire.\n\nFirefighters, police and ambulances were called to Mallowdale Avenue in the town in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nTwo houses had collapsed and a third property was seriously damaged, Lancashire Police said.\n\nGeorge Arthur Hinds was described by his parents, Vicky Studholme and Stephen Hinds, as their \"beautiful little angel.\"\n\nGeorge's parents said the two-year-old was \"so precious to us\"\n\nMs Studholme and Mr Hinds were also injured in the blast, which happened at 02:40 BST.\n\nAnother man and woman remain in hospital in critical condition, Lancashire Police said.\n\nIn a tribute the parents said: \"We are devastated at the loss of our beautiful George.\n\n\"He was so precious to us. We have no words to describe how we feel and just want time to ourselves to come to terms with what has happened.\n\n\"Our beautiful little angel grew his wings today.\"\n\nTwo houses have collapsed and others have been badly damaged\n\nAssistant chief constable Jo Edwards said at a press conference at the scene earlier that the search and rescue operation was still ongoing but \"we believe we have got everybody out\".\n\nLancashire Fire said a major incident was declared after it was reported that there had been an explosion at a property on Mallowdale Avenue.\n\nAbout 30-40 people were evacuated from their homes. Most went to stay with friends and family but the Salt Ayre Leisure Centre is welcoming anyone needing support.\n\nPolice are using specially-trained dogs to search through the rubble\n\nLancaster City Council leader Erica Lewis said councils would give housing support to those affected and a helpline has been opened.\n\nShe said it was important to understand how the incident happened and let the investigation run its course.\n\nOne neighbour said the explosion \"sounded like a bomb going off\".\n\nShe said: \"It literally shook the whole bed. We felt like we were going through the floor.\n\nFirefighters and ambulances were sent to the scene in the early hours\n\n\"We jumped out of bed and we just ran to see what was going on. It's just awful.\"\n\nSusan Faulkner, 74, who lives further down the avenue, said she was still shaken by the incident.\n\n\"I woke up with this huge bang and I thought someone was breaking into my house... I'm still quite shaken by it. I've never experienced that before.\"\n\nNeighbours said the explosion \"sounded like a bomb going off\"\n\nMs Faulkner said that her own property and others close by had been damaged.\n\n\"It was quite a blast,\" she said. \"I live quite a way down there and part of my side door was blown in and my next door neighbour's plates were smashed,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been very lucky. When I see what those poor souls have had happen to them, it's devastating. I'm really sad for those people. It's such a sad thing to happen to them.\"\n\nCars and houses were damaged by bricks and debris from the blast\n\nDan Knowles, who lives four streets away from the explosion, said he thought there had been an earthquake.\n\n\"We immediately checked on our kids and got back in bed. We then heard sirens and my wife checked Facebook.\n\n\"We stayed indoors and switched everything off at the source and then sat up all night worrying.\"\n\nAnother neighbour said he had been helping out \"making brews\" since being woken by the blast.\n\nMatt House, from North West Ambulance Service, said he had not seen an explosion like this in the UK during his 20 years of service.\n\nPolice advised people to stay away from the area\n\nBen Norman, assistant chief fire officer, said there would be \"untold\" impact on fire officers working at the scene.\n\nHe said at its peak, 80 fire officers were at the scene with two engines pulled in from Cumbria and emergency service workers \"took great risks\".\n\nHe added: \"Some of those are staff that respond from home or a workplace. They're on-call firefighters so they go back into this community.\n\n\"They live within it, they work within it, their families are within it.\"\n\nLocal MP David Morris, who represents Morecambe and Lunesdale, thanked the emergency services on Twitter and said: \"My thoughts and prayers are with all of the families on Mallowdale Avenue\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Morris MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said they were working with gas service engineers to make the area safe and they advised people to stay away.\n\nElectricity North West, which supplies electricity across the north west of England, said on Twitter that engineers were removing supplies for safety.\n\nThe company could not confirm how many properties would be affected, or for how long.\n\nHeather Brandwood, who runs the Hurley Flyer pub in nearby Morecambe, said she had asked people to donate clothing and toiletries for evacuated residents.\n\nHelpers are sorting through donations at the Hurley Flyer pub\n\nShe said people had been queuing in the car park to help.\n\n\"We are very conscious that people were evacuated from their homes with immediate effect,\" she said.\n\n\"We have heard from an elderly couple who left in their pyjamas. There is a woman who is in literally nothing but her nightie.\"\n\nLancaster City Council has also lowered flags at its town halls as a mark of respect.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "After months of good news, including falling Covid cases and a hugely successful vaccination campaign, the tone has shifted.\n\nEngland's full relaxation of rules in June is in jeopardy and there is the looming spectre of greater pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe thorn in the plans is the variant of coronavirus that emerged in India - B.1.617.2 - and has started spreading around the world.\n\nConcerns have been mounting over the past week and, for the first time, the scientists advising the UK government are now confident it does spread more easily.\n\nThe expectation is the variant will edge out the one that emerged in Kent and eventually \"dominate\" cases in the UK.\n\nWe are in a race between the virus and the vaccine. Easing restrictions on Monday and a more transmissible variant means the virus will move even faster.\n\nBut there is still huge uncertainty about exactly how much better the B.1.617.2 variant is at spreading.\n\n\"That's a really critical question to which we do not yet have the answer,\" said Prof Chris Whitty.\n\nIf it is just a smidge faster than the Kent variant, which still makes up the overwhelming majority of cases in the UK, then there's not much to worry about.\n\nHowever, the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage) says there is a \"realistic possibility\" it could spread 50% faster, which is a lot.\n\nThere are some higher estimates of 60% coming out of India, but these are based on published genetic sequences from viral samples and its not clear how representative of the overall picture they are.\n\nSage estimates the problems would really start with a variant that was 40% more transmissible as it \"would lead to a substantial resurgence of hospitalisations\" and put pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe uncertainty is reminiscent of last year when the new variant in Kent was first detected and raised questions about the approach to controlling the virus.\n\nBut it is important to remember we are not in the same situation as last year.\n\nMore than 19 million people - a third of the adult population - have had both jabs of their vaccine. Another 17 million have had one. Vaccines are weakening, if not eliminating, the link between infection and severe disease.\n\nAnd overall cases are also far lower. The Office for National Statistics estimates fewer than 50,000 people currently have the virus. The figure was 1.25 million at the start of the year. Currently there are only around 1,000 people in hospital with Covid.\n\nThe concern is that while vaccines are great they are not perfect and not everyone who is vulnerable has had one. So if there was another wave of cases from the combination of relaxing and a new variant then a worrying number of people could still end up in hospital.\n\nNote these predictions are not crystal balls. Earlier mathematical models had predicted a summer wave, but suddenly became far more optimistic once it became clear vaccinated people were less likely to spread the virus.\n\nPlans to reopen are going ahead, but the vaccination campaign is being tweaked to give more vulnerable people more immunity more quickly.\n\nThe hope is if the variant is going to pose a problem then there will be time to spot any further warning signs - such as a rise in hospital admissions - and then act.\n\nThe prime minister, Boris Johnson, said that if the Indian variant proves to be \"significantly more transmissible\" than other strains then \"we're likely to face some hard choices\" in the UK.\n\nBut the problem posed by more transmissible variants is far greater in countries that haven't got successful vaccination programmes, where they could be hugely damaging.", "Police have arrested four men in connection with a video which appeared to show anti-Semitic abuse being shouted from a car in north London.\n\nBoris Johnson earlier condemned the \"shameful racism\" aimed at British Jews, which had \"no place\" in society.\n\nThe person who filmed the video told the BBC they cried after witnessing the scene, adding: \"I don't feel safe.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the incident was \"utterly disgusting\", adding: \"There must be consequences\".\n\nIt comes as Israel launched strikes on the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired rockets at southern Israeli cities in the worst violence in the region since 2014.\n\nOn Sunday, a video was posted on social media appearing to show a convoy of cars with Palestinian flags driving down a street, with a man shouting anti-Semitic abuse from a megaphone.\n\nThe person who filmed the video - who wanted to remain anonymous - said they started filming when they heard \"excessive hooting\" outside their window in north London.\n\n\"They happened to stop at a set of traffic lights and I was able to capture what happened.\n\n\"I cried. How is this the world we live in today?\"\n\nThey added: \"I felt immediately frightened and appalled that this is happening in this country. What if I was walking alone wearing something that identified me as Jewish? What might have happened?\n\n\"I don't feel safe in my own home, and that's what terrifies me.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan Police said it deployed one of its helicopters to help trace the vehicle and officers stopped the car at approximately 18:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nFour men were arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offences. They have been taken into custody at a west London police station where they remain.\n\nThe police said the video appeared to be filmed in the St John's Wood area. St John's Wood is an area in north London which is home to a Jewish community.\n\nSuperintendent Jo Edwards, in charge of the policing operation, said the behaviour was \"utterly shocking\" and added that extra police patrols will be in place in St John's Wood and Golders Green on Sunday evening.\n\nOfficers will be sent to key venues, police said, \"to provide maximum reassurance to the local community, and deal robustly with anyone committing racially aggravated offences towards the Jewish community\".\n\nThe prime minister was among many politicians to condemn the video on social media.\n\n\"There is no place for anti-Semitism in our society,\" Mr Johnson tweeted. \"Ahead of Shavuot, I stand with Britain's Jews who should not have to endure the type of shameful racism we have seen today.\"\n\nShavuot is a Jewish festival beginning on Sunday that celebrates when the children of Israel received the Ten Commandments.\n\nSir Keir said: \"Utterly disgusting. Anti-Semitism, misogyny and hate have no place on our streets or in our society. There must be consequences.\"\n\nMike Freer, the local MP for Finchley and Golders Green, said: \"The scenes I've witnessed in my constituency today have left me sick to my stomach.\"\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the police had his \"full backing\" for their zero-tolerance approach, and Londoners could expect to see \"high visibility police patrols\".\n\n\"Hate crimes are inexcusable and have no place in our city,\" he said.\n\nThe Palestine Solidarity Campaign - one of the organisers of a protest in London on Saturday in support of the Palestinians - also condemned the incident.\n\n\"The vile anti-Semitism shouted today from a convoy of cars has no place in the Palestine solidarity movement,\" it said in a tweet. \"We condemn it and all anti-Semitism, on it's own account and also as it serves to undermine the anti-racist struggle for Palestinian rights.\"\n\nThousands of people attended Saturday's protest, which called on the UK government to step in and \"stop allowing Israel's brutal violence against and oppression of the Palestinian people to go unpunished\".", "Seven people were killed when a tram derailed near to Sandilands tram stop in November 2016\n\nOn a cold, wet morning in November 2016, Mark Smith boarded a tram bound for Wimbledon via Croydon. Just minutes later it over-turned and he was killed.\n\nAlong with six other south Londoners, the 35-year-old died in one of the worst tragedies in Transport for London's history.\n\nSixty-one other passengers onboard were injured, 19 of those seriously.\n\nMark's mother, Jean says she will never be whole again.\n\nMark Smith (far left) died in the crash along with Dane Chinnery, Phil Seary and Dorota Rynkiewicz (L-R)\n\nAfter four-and-a-half years of waiting, the inquests into their deaths will begin on Monday.\n\nJean says the last four years have been awful and difficult and at times she has felt forgotten.\n\n\"Mark drove up to the tram stop and we really wish he'd missed that tram,\" she said.\n\n\"But Mark being Mark and always being punctual, he was on that tram and within two minutes he was gone. It's as simple as that.\n\n\"Sorry but that's the reality of it. He was just on his way to work like most of them that morning especially that early.\"\n\nPhilip Logan (left), Donald Collett (centre) and Robert Huxley (right), also died\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) reported the tram was going too fast on the corner at Sandilands Junction.\n\nThe route's speed limit was 20kmph but the tram was doing more than triple that at 73kmph when it derailed.\n\nRAIB found it was probable the driver temporarily lost awareness.\n\nFamilies want to know why that happened and why the tram network was not safe.\n\nThe RAIB report found management was not aware of previous incidents involving late braking on the same corner.\n\nDrivers did not report such incidents as they were afraid they would be disciplined, the report also found.\n\nInvestigators found inadequate signage and no mechanisms to monitor driver alertness or to automatically apply the brakes when the tram was travelling too fast.\n\nBoth have since been introduced, but, that is too late for Jean and the other families. They want to know why safeguards were not in place.\n\nThere are also questions around how the industry managed fatigue and safety.\n\nThe tram had been travelling towards East Croydon before it crashed\n\nInvestigators found the tram derailed while travelling at three-and-a-half times the speed limit\n\n\"We just want a sense of peace,\" Jean said.\n\n\"Maybe the outcome from the inquest is going to answer everything that needs to be answered, that addresses everything that needs to be addressed.\n\n\"Those of us that are left to pick up the pieces can get on with the rest of our lives in the best way we know how without our loved ones and that's the best I can hope for.\"\n\nThe inquests at south London Coroner's Court are expected to last 13 weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Every adult, regardless of their means, would receive a regular sum of money under the scheme\n\nA universal basic income scheme is to be trialled in Wales, meaning adults, regardless of their means, will receive a regular sum of money.\n\nThe idea is that this would cover the basic cost of living.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the pilot would \"see whether the promises that basic income holds out are genuinely delivered\" in people's lives.\n\nBut the Conservatives said Wales should not become \"a petri dish for failed left-wing policies\".\n\nMr Drakeford said a pilot would \"need to be carefully designed to make sure that it is genuinely adding income for the group of people we are able to work with\".\n\nHe added: \"It'll have to be a pilot because we don't have all the powers in our own hands to do it on our own.\n\n\"It'll have to be carefully crafted to make sure that it is affordable and that it does it within the powers available to the Senedd.\n\n\"We need to make an early start on designing the pilot to make sure that we have the best chance of operating a pilot that allows us to draw the conclusions from it that we would all want to see.\"\n\nElon Musk tweeted his support of universal basic income last year\n\nIt means every adult in a specific area would receive a standard, unconditional payment at regular intervals.\n\nSupporters of the idea have said it provides a safety net for people who are unemployed or have irregular work, allowing them time to find a new job or learn new skills.\n\nVarious versions of the scheme have been trialled around the world, including in Finland, where 2,000 unemployed people were paid €560 (£480) per month for two years.\n\nResearchers found the scheme left those happier and less stressed, but did not aid them in finding work.\n\nMeanwhile, in western Kenya, a 12-year trial is taking place, where every adult is being paid $22 (£16) per month to see if it can help lift people out of poverty.\n\nSophie Howe has called for politicians to be \"brave and radical\"\n\nWales' future generations commissioner, who has previously called for a pilot, said she was \"delighted\" with the plan.\n\nSophie Howe said: \"Signalling basic income as a priority for the new government is an incredibly significant commitment by the first minister to tackling Wales' poverty and health inequalities - which cause lasting damage to the health and prospects of individuals, families and communities.\n\n\"It's a huge moment for the campaign, which I've been proud to be a part of, and the growing support for a fairer way of allowing people to meet their basic needs.\n\n\"The current system isn't working - Wales' commitment to exploring a basic income once again proves it's often the small countries that can be world leading and make the biggest changes.\"\n\nIn its manifesto, Plaid Cymru supported a Welsh pilot for a universal basic Income in order \"to prepare for a future where work may have a different role in the economy as a result of automation and the application of AI and related technologies\".\n\nThe Welsh Liberal Democrats also made an election commitment to support a trial because the party believes \"UBI not only reduces inequalities and increases wellbeing, but that it strengthens local economies\".\n\nBut the Welsh Conservatives said: \"The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is clear that UBI is not the answer to solving poverty, in fact they claim it can actually increase poverty.\n\n\"The first minister needs to get on with kickstarting the Welsh economy, creating long-term, well-paid jobs for people rather than using Wales as a petri dish for failed left-wing policies.\"\n\nIn a 2018 blog post, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's deputy director of evidence, Chris Goulden, said: \"It is not affordable, unpalatable to most of the public because of its 'money for nothing' tag and perhaps most importantly - it increases poverty unless modified beyond recognition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray will not play at the French Open and will instead focus on preparing for the grass-court season.\n\nThe British former world number one played doubles with Liam Broady at the Italian Open but turned down a wildcard for this week's Geneva Open.\n\nMurray's doubles return was his first match since March, after he pulled out of the Miami Open with a groin injury.\n\nIt is believed the 34-year-old is still feeling some discomfort and, therefore, has chosen to miss the French Open.\n\nMurray is now back in London preparing for the grass-court season before Queen's and Wimbledon.\n\nQueen's starts on 14 June and Murray recently said he \"cannot wait\" to play in front of British fans again at the west London club event.\n\nThere may also be other options for him to play on the grass-court circuit.\n• None Injury concerns for Barty and Halep before French Open\n\n'Wimbledon is his best Grand Slam chance' - analysis\n\nMurray has been able to play just 11 tour level matches since winning the European Open in October 2019.\n\nPelvic and groin injuries, plus a bout of Covid, have frustrated his attempts to compete at the elite level since winning the title with his metal hip in Antwerp.\n\nThe decision to skip the French Open seems a pragmatic one, as Wimbledon is by far and away his best chance to make some inroads at a Grand Slam.\n\nHis will play at Queen's Club in mid-June, and would be very welcome in either Stuttgart or at the Challenger event in Nottingham the week before.\n\nBut of course there are no guarantees, as the 34-year-old has found long periods of fitness elusive for more than four years now.\n• None Paul Massey's rise in the criminal underworld through violence and extortion\n• None Dive into 2010s nostalgia with our quiz: How much do you remember about music from the last decade?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Scotland, 3,003,339 people have now received a first dose.\n\nMore than three million people in Scotland have now received a first dose of the Covid Vaccine.\n\nThe Scottish vaccine rollout has now reached two-thirds of the eligible population.\n\nThe programme is currently moving through those aged 40 to 49 years old. More than 50% of this age group has come forward to receive a first vaccination.\n\nIn total, 3,003,339 people have now received a first dose.\n\nA second dose has also been given to 1,599,519 members of the population.\n\nScotland's chief medical officer, Dr Gregor Smith, said: \"It is down to the enormous efforts of our vaccination teams around the country.\n\n\"Everyone has a role to play in helping to bring this virus under control and we want to see our high uptake rates continuing through all the age groups.\"\n\nDr Smith said that, \"supplies permitting\", he expected that all adults in Scotland would be offered a first dose by the end of July.\n\nThe milestone came as Scotland recorded 413 new cases of coronavirus, but no new deaths in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Scottish government noted that registry offices are generally closed at weekends.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was 1.6%, according to the latest figures.\n\nWith the exception of Glasgow and Moray, mainland Scotland is due to move from level three to level two restrictions on Monday.\n\nAs the vaccination programme progresses through the 40-49 age group, appointments are also being scheduled for people aged 30 to 39 years old.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that this age group should be be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nDr Smith added: \"The latest advice from the JCVI regarding 30 to 39-year-olds is clear that it is based on the current low prevalence of the virus and the availability of alternatives to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\n\"If the situation changes, the advice is that vaccination of adults aged 30-39 years with any of the UK authorised vaccines is always better than no vaccination, except where there are specific medical reasons for not doing so.\"\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde public health director Dr Linda De Caestecker said the rollout was the \"most significant of any vaccination programme ever undertaken\" by the health board.\n\nShe added: \"The number of doses administered within NHSGGC and across Scotland is hugely encouraging.\"", "The tiger's new home is an animal sanctuary elsewhere in Texas\n\nA tiger that was missing for a week after being spotted roaming around a Houston neighbourhood has been found, police confirmed.\n\nIndia, the nine-month-old Bengal tiger, was turned in to police on Saturday and is said to be in good health.\n\nFootage shared on social media last week appeared to show the tiger wandering around the streets of in the west of the Texan city,\n\nIndia's new home is an animal sanctuary.\n\nThe animal was spotted out on the streets on 9 May. When officers arrived at the scene, a man put the tiger into an SUV and drove off, police said.\n\nHouston Police attempted to follow the vehicle but lost sight of it a short time later.\n\nThe alleged owner, Hugo Cuevas, was arrested several days later for evading arrest. At the time of the incident, Mr Cuevas was already on bail for a murder charge.\n\nMr Cuevas' lawyer has insisted that the animal was not his but told the Associated Press that he was involved \"in the caretaking of India often\".\n\nLate on Saturday, police said at a news conference that the animal was turned over to officers by Mr Cuevas' wife Giorgiana.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Houston Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not clear where the animal has been for the past week but Houston Police Commander Ron Borza said earlier this week that he believed the animal was being passed around several safe houses.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Saturday, Mr Borza said: \"In no way, shape or form should you have an animal like that in your household. That animal is only nine months old and already weighs 175 lbs (80kgs) - full grown, that animal can get to 600 lbs. It still had its claws and it could do a lot of damage if he decided to.\n\n\"Luckily for us, he's very tame and he will be going to a sanctuary tomorrow where, hopefully, he'll live the rest of his life in a very safe environment.\"\n\nThe tiger will have its own enclosure with a wooded area and pool at the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch.\n\nCarole Baskin, star of Netflix documentary Tiger King, said on Facebook that she was \"grateful\" the animal will be going to the sanctuary and said it had \"excellent facilities\".\n\nTigers are not allowed within Houston City limits although it is permitted in many parts of the state under certain conditions.\n\nAccording to the World Wildlife Fund, there are an estimated 5,000 tigers in captivity in the United States.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the Indian government launched ‘Project Tiger’ to save the animals from extinction", "Tom Cruise has come to the aid of a grassroots football club left out of pocket by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWoburn & Wavendon Football Club initially felt \"disappointed\" when they were booted off their Bedfordshire sports ground to make way for the Mission: Impossible 7 film crew.\n\nBut smiles were soon restored when Hollywood legend Cruise signed a clutch of the club's shirts.\n\nThey will now be used as part of the team's £12,000 crowdfunding campaign.\n\nMoney raised from the shirts will be put towards the club's community initiatives\n\nChairman Robert Hill said it was frustrating to be unable to use the pitches due to filming as they were \"desperate to get back on and play some football\" after lockdown restrictions eased.\n\nBut he said the club rang the production company to say staff would \"do whatever we could\" to help, and while on the phone asked if some shirts could be signed.\n\nChairman Robert Hill said everybody was delighted by the gesture\n\n\"They said they would do their best and we crossed our fingers,\" he said.\n\nClub committee member Wes Williams, who set up the crowd-funder, said it was an \"amazing surprise\" when Top Gun star Cruise granted their wish.\n\nCruise, who plays Ethan Hunt in the action film franchise, has been seen arriving in the village in a helicopter\n\nMoney raised from the shirts will be put towards the grassroots football club's community initiatives\n\nHe said the club needed to raise money as it had lost about £30,000 when some of its tournaments were cancelled.\n\nMr Williams said the money raised would support their community initiatives.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Woburn & Wavendon FC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCruise, who plays Ethan Hunt in the action film franchise, has been seen arriving in the village in a helicopter.\n\nMission: Impossible 7's release date has been delayed from November until May 2022.\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. Footage of the fight was shared by another airport user\n\nPolice have charged 11 people with violent disorder after a fight broke out at Luton Airport.\n\nFour people were injured, three seriously, in the brawl, which happened in the main departure lounge on Friday morning.\n\nThe 11 men, aged between 20 and 55, were released on bail ahead of a court hearing.\n\nFive other people were released without charge and another was released on bail with conditions.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said it was \"shocked and saddened\" by the violence.\n\nHe added: \"We take a zero tolerance approach to violence and continue to assist the police with their inquiries.\n\n\"We would like to sincerely apologise to any passengers affected.\"\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 eligible for a vaccine in areas where the Indian virus variant is spreading are being urged to get the jab.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar said there had been a \"minor increase\" in hospital presentations in Bolton, mainly among unvaccinated 35-65 year olds.\n\nThe Army is to be deployed in the Greater Manchester town and Blackburn with Darwen to help with mass testing.\n\nCases of the Indian variant have nearly tripled in the past week, data shows.\n\nSurge testing is taking place in targeted areas across England where virus variants have been found, including postcodes within several London boroughs, Sefton, Worcestershire, and Nottingham.\n\nProf Anthony Harnden, who advises the government on vaccinations, said there were still \"lots of unvaccinated people in at-risk groups in these areas\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The worry is that those unvaccinated vulnerable individuals, those over-50, unvaccinated, will develop Covid from this more transmissible [variant] and end up in hospital.\"\n\nIt comes as, according to Saturday's government figures, a further seven people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test and another 2,027 coronavirus cases have been recorded.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said initial research suggested an outbreak in the south side of Glasgow was being driven by the Indian variant - as she delayed the easing of restrictions there and in Moray.\n\nProf Harnden said the Indian variant was \"clearly more transmissible\" than the current dominant virus type - but vaccines should still protect against severe disease.\n\n\"That's why we're imploring [local authorities] to get out there and vaccinate their unvaccinated people,\" he added.\n\nSecond doses will also be speeded-up for older age groups in affected areas - in a move described by Prof Harnden as providing \"better short-term protection\" in an \"urgent situation\".\n\nDr Helen Wall, who is leading the vaccination effort in Bolton, said the target for Saturday was to distribute 4,000 jabs.\n\nShe said 10,000 people eligible for jabs had yet to be vaccinated in the BL4 and BL5 postcode areas, with issues like not having phone credit to make a booking often cited as a reason for putting off taking the vaccine.\n\nAsked what would happen if a younger person turned up for a jab, Dr Wall said vaccinators were following the guidance but would \"look for reasons to vaccinate people, not reasons not to within those criteria of eligibility\".\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the new variant - first discovered in India - could affect the timing of the last step in England's roadmap out of lockdown from 21 June.\n\nMr Johnson said he did not believe that the \"present evidence\" showed a need to delay the next stage in the easing of lockdown in England on Monday.\n\nBut on Saturday, the British Medical Association said it had serious concerns about the decision to continue with the easing of lockdown restrictions in England on Monday.\n\n\"It is a real worry that when further measures lift on 17 May, the majority of younger people, who are often highly socially mobile and could therefore be most at risk of a more infectious strain, are not yet vaccinated,\" said Dr Richard Jarvis from the BMA.\n\nOnce again, the government is being forced to draw up an assessment of risk, with only partial epidemiological data, but where the economic and social costs of the restrictions are huge.\n\nIts scientists fret that if - and it's a big if - the Indian variant continues to spread much more quickly than others, the picture could soon look bleak.\n\nEver since the publication of the plan for easing restrictions in England in February, the prime minister's language has been peppered with references to it being \"cautious but irreversible\".\n\nThat allows for a slowing down, or even a halt to unlocking. But not going backwards.\n\nTo slam on the breaks now, postponing Monday's unlocking, would have been a big moment.\n\nTo go into reverse, if the data is dire in the coming weeks, would be bigger.\n\nOn several occasions last year, the government made promises about the return of normal life - or elements of it - which circumstances later meant it was unable to keep.\n\nIt has since been much more cautious, with some critics demanding it move more quickly - pressure it has resisted.\n\nOnly data in the coming weeks will determine conclusively if the decision to press ahead with reopening on Monday was, on balance, wise.\n\nMr Argar told BBC Breakfast the government was acting \"coolly\" and \"calmly\" in response to new research on the potential increased transmissibility of the Indian variant but \"keeping everything under review\".\n\nHe said: \"All the evidence so far suggests there is no evidence of increased severity of illness or that it evades the vaccine.\"\n\nMr Argar admitted some arrivals from India may have used public transport to travel home from the airport in the days before the country was placed onto the UK's travel red list on 23 April.\n\nHe told Today: \"I do think we have the right border controls in place to do everything we can to minimise the risk of, not just this variant, but other variants in the future.\"\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\nThere will be an acceleration of the vaccine rollout in Bolton, including longer opening hours at vaccination centres.\n\nMore doses have been delivered to the town, which has also set up a vaccine bus to increase uptake among those who are eligible under national guidelines.\n\nThe previous up to 12 week gap between first and second doses will be cut to just eight weeks in hotspot areas for the over-50s and people who are vulnerable.\n\nExtra clinics will open in Blackburn and Darwen in Lancashire from next week and the vaccination capacity of local pharmacies will also be increased.\n\nCurrently, England's vaccination rollout is open to healthy people over the age of 38, as well as adults with underlying conditions, and health and social care workers.\n\nMobile testing units have been set up in Bolton, PHE said, and door-to-door PCR testing had been offered to 22,000 residents. A PCR test is the most accurate way to check for Covid.\n\nA rapid response team of 100 nurses, public health advisers and environmental health officers has also been sent in.\n\nThere were long queues at vaccination centres across Bolton on Friday\n\nThe Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has said there is a \"realistic possibility\" that the Indian variant could be as much as \"50% more transmissible\" than the Kent strain.\n\nMinutes from a Sage meeting held on Thursday said that - if the Indian variant were to be 40-50% more transmissible - proceeding to step three of England's roadmap on Monday would likely \"lead to a substantial resurgence of hospitalisations (similar to, or larger than, previous peaks)\".\n\nCases of the Indian variant found in the UK to date have nearly tripled in the past week to 1,313, Public Health England (PHE) said.\n\nMost of the cases - 1,255 - are in England, while there are 35 in Scotland, 12 in Northern Ireland and 11 in Wales, according to PHE.\n\nIt said four people have now died with the Indian variant of concern as of 12 May.", "Smashing the previous leadership and then grabbing power before his challenger even entered the race.\n\nEdwin Poots boxed off the support he needed to succeed Arlene Foster as Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader as she prepared her resignation speech - and never looked back.\n\nHe pulled off a political masterstroke to land his dream job, leader of the party he joined as a 16-year-old, after winning an election over Sir Jeffrey Donaldson on Friday.\n\nBut, for others in the DUP, his rise to the top is the nightmare outcome they dreaded.\n\n\"We didn't see this coming,\" said one party officer, as he watched his new leader march down the Stormont hill in triumph to meet the press.\n\nThe new DUP leader gave a short statement outside Stormont but did not take any questions from the media\n\nHe waited like the rest of us to hear the new leader answer questions about his plan for the DUP.\n\nInstead we got a statement with no follow-up questions before Edwin Poots, chased by the press pack, was whisked away in a car under the shadow of Edward Carson's statue.\n\nIt was a chaotic start for the new leader but not surprising for a minister prone to a political solo run.\n\nSo here are some of the questions we would have posed to the new DUP leader and why.\n\nAlmost 50% of those MLAs and MPs who voted didn't want him as leader - how does he plan to win them over?\n\nMight he consider making room for some of the 17 supporters of Sir Jeffrey in his ministerial reshuffle?\n\nIt is expected Economy Minister Diane Dodds and Education Minister Peter Weir won't survive the cull.\n\nJunior Minister, and Arlene Foster loyalist, Gordon Lyons could also be pushed out.\n\nThey, along with their special advisors, may have to make way for those who backed Edwin Poots from the outset when others were holding back.\n\nPaul Givan, Paul Frew, Christopher Stalford and Mervyn Storey could be in line for a front bench role.\n\nEdwin Poots supporters Christopher Stalford (middle) and Paul Givan (right) could be in line for big roles\n\nHis key appointment will be to the role of Northern Ireland first minister, who will sit alongside the party leader around the executive table.\n\nCould that go to the party's new deputy leader Paula Bradley who, as one of the more socially liberal voices in the DUP, already views her role as a \"critical friend\" to the leader?\n\nHere is another question we didn't get to ask - will the new leader allow his predecessor to remain in post as first minister for another six weeks?\n\nThat is the timetable Arlene Foster set for her departure but whispers of an earlier exit have already started circulating.\n\nWhat about those plans to reform the party from top to bottom?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHow nervous should some senior staff feel about that prospect is another question we didn't get to pose.\n\nEmployment contracts may prevent any immediate move to remove key figures behind the scenes.\n\nBut one member of Team Poots hinted change is on the way.\n\n\"Edwin is not going to waste any time reforming the party structures as promised, that will start over the weekend,\" he said.\n\nNext question - his critics within the party fear he will drag the DUP backwards and won't be able to grow its voter base. How does he plan to prove them wrong?\n\nAs one Donaldson-supporting MLA put it: \"Edwin's fundamental views are niche and the real winners today will be the Alliance Party.\"\n\nEdwin Poots and his new party deputy, Paula Bradley, who has said she sees her role as being a \"critical friend\" to the leader\n\nStemming the leaking of DUP votes to the left and right of the party will be a key challenge for the new leader.\n\nHe only has to look to his own backyard - Lagan Valley - where the party's vote share in the last Westminster election fell by 16% in the face of a 17% surge by Alliance.\n\nWe can expect the new DUP leader to reach out to other unionist parties to try to maximise their numbers in the Stormont chamber.\n\nEdwin Poots said he plans to galvanise unionism to fight the Northern Ireland Protocol, which is a familiar battle cry - but what will it mean in practice?\n\nCan we expect more DUP boycotts of north-south meetings?\n\nThe new leader has already snubbed two cross-border Zoom calls as agriculture minister.\n\nWill he be logging on for the full plenary meeting of the North South Ministerial Council next month?\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties which have said it undermines their place in the UK\n\nAnother more pressing unanswered question - is the new leader of the DUP prepared to bring down Stormont in his battle to scrap the protocol?\n\nCan he oppose the protocol and continue to operate it at the same time?\n\nThat was the question posed but not answered by former DUP leader Peter Robinson.\n\nAs the minister in charge of the ports operating the Irish Sea border, Mr Poots has a weak spot which his unionist opponents like to exploit.\n\nHowever, as minister he has moved to obstruct the protocol and may do so again.\n\nWe may hear more about his protocol protest plans after he meets the prime minister next week.\n\nOther questions which didn't get asked include:\n\nThe DUP effectively gagged the candidates from speaking during the election campaign.\n\nIn his first minutes as leader, Edwin Poots chose to gag himself.\n\nHe knows he can't do that for long.\n\nWhen he finally speaks. he needs to have answers to at least some of those pressing questions.", "Why do some people feel unwell - while most don't - after a Covid jab? And does it matter?\n\nFor most it's just a sore arm - for others it can wipe you out - but why does the Covid vaccine act this way?\n\nBBC Wales journalist George Herd has a special interest as he lives with an immune system health condition.\n\nMore than 35 million people in the UK have now had at least their first Covid jab - including more than 62% of the population in Wales.\n\nA study of 600,000 people across the UK found the most common side effect of the jab was pain where the needle went in.\n\nBut one in four experienced other symptoms - fever, headaches and nausea - that last about a day.\n\nThe question I wanted to ask was: Were those who had less of a reaction still protected?\n\nAnd what about those - like me - who have a condition that affects how their immune system works?\n\nMore than 1.9 million people in Wales have now had a Covid jab - more than 60% of the population\n\nI lost my spleen following an accident as a young teen.\n\nA fist-sized organ that hides just under the left ribs, it has an important role to play in the immune system. It's part of our arsenal in fighting infection.\n\nOf course, I'm living proof that you can survive without one. I have an active and full life, often to be found on the hills above my home in north Wales - where I have even taken part in the gruelling Snowdonia marathon.\n\nHowever, I am at risk of potentially overwhelming infections, and have repeat vaccinations against certain illnesses, in particular pneumonia.\n\nI also tend to get prescribed antibiotics on a much more regular basis than most.\n\nBut I've been lucky - and only once ended up on a hospital drip due to an infection.\n\nFully vaccinated: BBC Wales' George Herd has now had his second Oxford-AstraZeneca dose\n\nI had my first Covid jab back in February - now I've had my second and am fully vaccinated.\n\nI fell squarely in the no-reaction camp to the vaccinations. Sore arm, yes - but little else to note.\n\nWas that, however, because my immune systems are damaged?\n\nWhat about those who have to take drugs to suppress their immune system, such as organ transplant patients, or those undergoing treatment for cancer?\n\nIs the Covid jab working for them?\n\nAn emphatic \"yes\" says expert immunologist Veenu Manoharan.\n\n\"I get emails from people who have compromised immune systems, maybe because they are taking drugs for chronic diseases, asking me the same thing,\" said the Cardiff Metropolitan University lecturer.\n\n\"But the studies state that even though the first dose maybe does not give them enough antibodies, the second dose will. It will give them immunity.\n\n\"It is not the case that those people on immunosuppressants are without hope. The second dose really does help improve their level of antibodies.\"\n\nGood news then for those who have been facing that worry - including myself.\n\nImmunologist Veenu Manoharan says the vaccines work for those with weakened immune health\n\nBut what about those who showed no or little reaction to the jab?\n\nDoes this mean it hasn't worked as well as those laid up in bed for a day or two afterwards?\n\nNot at all, insists Dr Manoharan.\n\nAnd that's because of what vaccines are and how they work.\n\nAll the Covid vaccines being used in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna - work to stimulate a response from the immune system, triggering it to make antibodies.\n\nThese antibodies then identify specific germs or viruses, and act as a signal for the rest of the immune system to take out the unwanted invaders.\n\n\"Sometimes our immune response is exaggerated, especially when you are having a vaccine,\" explained Dr Manoharan.\n\nThe \"exaggerated\" responses are those fevers and chills or fatigue, as your body is tricked into believing it is under attack and needs to respond.\n\nBut whether you experience an exaggerated response or not will depend on many factors - including your own genetic make-up and medical history.\n\nYour sex also has a role to play.\n\nWomen are more likely to trigger a stronger immune response, because the hormone oestrogen is known to enhance the immune system.\n\nHow we respond physically to the Covid vaccine is not a measure of how effective it is, say doctors\n\nSimilarly, higher levels of the hormone testosterone in men have the opposite effect on the immune system - it suppresses the inflammatory response of the reaction.\n\nAs you get older, your immune system becomes less active. So those who got the jabs first - the oldest in our society - would be expected to have less of a reaction and that's exactly what happened.\n\nSimilarly, the younger you are, the more likely your immune system will react more energetically to the vaccine.\n\nOne review of vaccination research suggested other factors can play a role in the reaction.\n\nBehaviour such as smoking, alcohol consumption, body weight and exercise levels - even the time of day you get a jab - could influence how the vaccine works.\n\nBut Dr Manoharan's view is that none of this matters.\n\n\"If you don't have an exaggerated reaction, it does not mean your immune system isn't working.\n\n\"If you think about it, every day we are exposed to a variety of microbes and pollutants. Our immune systems are constantly detecting those.\n\n\"But we don't feel ill. Our immune system is protecting us every single minute of the day - we just don't notice it.\"\n\nSo whether you felt unwell after your Covid jab - or nothing at all - the science is telling us we should get a good level of protection.", "Priti Patel - pictured here receiving her vaccine on Saturday - is facing questions over a letter she sent\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has been accused of lobbying a fellow minister on behalf of a healthcare firm trying to get a government contract.\n\nIn May last year, Ms Patel wrote to Michael Gove expressing disappointment the government had not bought face masks from a company that had links to someone she knew.\n\nLabour has called for an investigation, saying she breached ministerial rules.\n\nBut Ms Patel's spokesman said she acted as she should have.\n\n\"The home secretary rightly followed up representations made to her about the vital supply of PPE,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"During a time of national crisis, failure to do so would have been a dereliction of duty.\"\n\nIn recent weeks there have been a series of revelations about PPE deals awarded to those with government connections.\n\nIn May 2020, Ms Patel wrote a letter to Mr Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, about a company called Pharmaceuticals Direct Ltd that was in talks with the government about an order for face masks.\n\nShe said the government's \"late stage\" decision not to use the company had caused problems for the firm.\n\n\"I would be most grateful if you could review this matter urgently,\" she wrote in the letter to Mr Gove.\n\nThe contact at Pharmaceuticals Direct Ltd was a man called Samir Jassal, a Conservative activist who Ms Patel knew. According to his LinkedIn, he worked as an adviser to Ms Patel between 2014 and 2015 and on social media describes her as a \"good friend\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock wrote back to Ms Patel to say the masks being offered by the firm were \"not suitable for use in the NHS\".\n\nBut the company was later awarded a contract in July 2020, worth just under £103m, to supply a different type of mask.\n\nThe letters - which were first reported in the Daily Mail and now seen by the BBC - have come to light as part of a legal challenge by the Good Law Project.\n\nLabour called for an investigation, saying there was \"no evidence that the Home Secretary had any interest\" in the PPE deal until contacted by Mr Jassal, suggesting she did it \"as a favour to her friend\".\n\n\"This would represent a glaring and flagrant breach of the ministerial code,\" the party said, referring to the set of rules for ministers' conduct.\n\nLabour pointed to this principle in the code: \"Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between their public duties and their private interests, financial or otherwise\".\n\nSamir Jassal (right), pictured with Boris Johnson in 2019, has campaigned alongside the prime minister\n\nThe Good Law Project, a campaign group which took the government to court over not publishing PPE contracts, is taking legal action over the £103m contract for masks.\n\nThe government has previously said ministers have no part in deciding who gets contracts.\n\nAfter coronavirus hit the UK, the government struck thousands of deals with private companies, spending billions of pounds of public money in the process.\n\nBecause it was an emergency, the government was allowed to go directly to preferred suppliers without any competition. But it has led to questions about the way the contracts were chosen.\n\nMr Jassal previously said the company has 20 years' experience in the healthcare sector and it asked to supply PPE via an online government portal. The company, he said, had supplied PPE to various outlets for many years.\n\nPharmaceuticals Direct Limited said: \"The business is proud of its successful track record of procurement and supply to various medical organisations, including supplying NHS bodies.\n\n\"As a business that has specialised in the procurement and delivery of healthcare supplies for more than 20 years, PDL was (and is) both equipped and well suited to find solutions to the urgent demands of the pandemic.\"\n\nThe company also said Mr Jassal was not employed by PDL.\n\nThis article was updated on 18 May after Pharmaceuticals Direct Limited responded with a comment.", "Is Israel’s military operation in Gaza, dubbed “Guardian of the Walls”, nearing its conclusion? Not obviously. Benjamin Netanyahu says attacks are continuing with “full force” and will “take time”.\n\nIn a news conference this afternoon, Israel’s prime minister admitted there were “pressures” but thanked US President Joe Biden, in particular, for his support.\n\nMr Netanyahu has so far resisted calls for a ceasefire with Hamas Image caption: Mr Netanyahu has so far resisted calls for a ceasefire with Hamas\n\nMr Biden’s envoy, Hady Amr, has been in Israel since Friday, discussing the crisis with Israeli officials. Unusually, at the end of a week that has also seen an alarming spate of inter-communal violence in mixed Jewish-Arab cities, he also met Israeli-Arab leaders.\n\nSince the US, like Israel and many other countries, regards Hamas as a terrorist organisation, Mr Amr will not be meeting one of the two warring parties. Any messages for Hamas will have to go through traditional interlocutors, like Egypt or Qatar.\n\nLocal reports suggest Hamas has been offering some kind of ceasefire for several days, only to be rebuffed by Israel, which clearly wants to inflict as much damage as it can on the militants before the fighting is finally brought to a close.\n\nThese episodes follow a familiar pattern: Israel presses home its undoubted military advantage until the international outcry over civilian casualties, and a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, demand that the operation end.\n\nIn Israel’s estimation, we have not yet reached that point.", "The NHS is sending a mobile vaccine bus into parts of Bolton with high infection rates Image caption: The NHS is sending a mobile vaccine bus into parts of Bolton with high infection rates\n\nA local lockdown in Bolton to help protect people from the spread of the Indian Covid-19 variant has not been ruled out, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said the \"vast majority\" of people in the town who are in hospital with the new variant had not taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was prepared to implement restrictions if necessary.\n\nMr Hancock said the plan was to \"pile in testing and vaccinations to try to get on top of this\".\n\nSpeaking to Sky's Sophy Ridge, he said five people who had received a single jab were in hospital with the Indian variant in Bolton.\n\nOne patient had received both doses - but they are \"very frail\".\n\nAsked if anyone has died with the Indian variant after receiving two jabs, Mr Hancock said: \"Not that we're aware of.\"", "Streaks of light are seen as Israel's Iron Dome system intercepts rockets launched from Gaza\n\nSome of the worst violence seen in years in Israel and Gaza has led to dramatic images of confrontation across the region's skies.\n\nMore than 3,000 rockets have been fired towards Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups in the past week.\n\nBut about 90% of the rockets have been intercepted by its flagship Iron Dome missile defence system, according to the Israeli military.\n\nThe Iron Dome was specially designed to protect against a range of incoming short-range threats.\n\nThe system has its roots in the war Israel fought with Lebanon's militant Hezbollah movement in 2006, when thousands of rockets were launched into Israel - causing huge damage, mass evacuations and dozens of deaths.\n\nAfter that Israel said a new missile defence shield would be developed.\n\nCreated by Israeli firms Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries with some US support, the Iron Dome became operational in 2011.\n\nConsidered among the most advanced defence systems in the word, the Iron Dome uses radar to identify and destroy incoming threats before they can cause damage.\n\nThe all-weather system was specially designed to help combat shorter-range rudimentary weapons like the rockets fired from Gaza.\n\nThe Iron Dome was expensive to develop but manufacturers say it is cost-effective because of technology it uses to differentiate between missiles likely to hit built-up areas and those that won't. Static and mobile units only launch interceptor missiles to shoot-down anything interpreted as dangerous.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA decade since the Iron Dome became operational, Israel now has 10 batteries deployed across the country, each with three to four launchers that can fire 20 interceptor missiles.\n\n\"The number of Israelis killed and wounded would be far higher if it had not been for the Iron Dome system, which has been a life saver as it always is,\" Israeli military spokesman Lt Col Jonathan Conricus said this week.\n\nBut some analysts say the intensity of recent barrages from Gaza suggests militant groups are attempting to overwhelm the Iron Dome - raising concerns about the system's possible limitations.", "The Queen joined Prince Charles for the first Jubilee tree planting in the grounds of Windsor Castle in March\n\nPeople across the UK are being urged to plant trees in an initiative to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022.\n\nThe Queen joined the Prince of Wales as he planted the first Jubilee tree at Windsor Castle earlier this year to launch the scheme honouring the monarch's 70-year reign.\n\nThe Queen's Green Canopy (QGC) will see new trees planted, as well as ancient woodlands and forests protected.\n\nPrince Charles encouraged people to \"plant a tree for the jubilee\".\n\n\"In other words, a 'tree-bilee'\", he said in a video message.\n\nTaking part in the scheme, hosted by climate charity Cool Earth, could range from individuals planting trees in their own gardens to the creation of platinum jubilee copses on council land or avenues in cities or housing developments..\n\nSchools and community groups will be able to apply for a share of three million free saplings from the Woodland Trust as part of the project.\n\nCharles' tree was planted earlier this year during official planting season (October-March)\n\nThe prince said: \"Whether you are an individual hoping to plant a single sapling in your garden, a school or community group planting a tree, a council, charity or business intending to plant a whole avenue of trees or a farmer looking to create new hedgerows, everyone across the country can get involved.\"\n\nHe said it is vital more of the right species of trees are planted, in the right places and that more woodlands, avenues, hedgerows and urban planting schemes should be established, while protecting and sustaining what we already have.\n\nDescribing it as a \"statement of hope and faith in the future\", the prince said planting trees and hedgerows and protecting existing woodlands and forests were simple, cost-effective ways to protect the planet.\n\nThe initiative will also highlight 70 irreplaceable ancient woodlands across the UK and identify 70 ancient trees.\n\nA pilot training programme for unemployed young people aged between 16 and 24 to plant and manage trees will also be created and run through Capel Manor College, London's only specialist environmental college, of which the Queen Mother was patron.\n\nDonations to the scheme will go to deprived areas and urban schools via one of the partner organisations of the Queen's Green Canopy, Trees for Cities.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has thrown his support behind the initiative.\n\nHe said: \"Our trees stand at the frontline of our fight against climate change and by sustaining our beautiful countryside for generations to come.\n\n\"The Queen's Green Canopy is a fitting tribute to her majesty's years of service to this country. I urge everyone to get involved.\"\n\nThe Queen has herself planted more than 1,500 trees around the world during her reign.\n\nWoodland Trust chief executive, Darren Moorcroft, said the last year had \"emphasised the central role that trees and woods play in the life of the nation\".\n\nHe added: \"We need more projects like this, giving people access to our natural heritage, opportunities to do something positive for the environment, and helping to safeguard it for our children in the face of a combined climate and nature crisis.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nYouri Tielemans produced one of the great FA Cup final goals to give Leicester City the trophy for the first time in their history with victory over Chelsea at Wembley.\n\nThe Belgian settled a closely contested encounter with a spectacular right-foot drive that flew beyond Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga into the top corner from 25 yards in the 63rd minute.\n\nIt sent manager Brendan Rodgers racing down the touchline in celebration although Leicester's fans - inside Wembley as 21,000 supporters formed the biggest attendance since lockdown - had to survive a nerve-jangling closing phase before they could celebrate the win in their first final since 1969.\n\nThe Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.\n\nAnd in a final act of drama, Wes Morgan bundled into his own net following a last-minute goalmouth scramble before it was ruled out by the barest of margins following the intervention of VAR.\n\nLeicester closed out the win to spark emotional scenes as those inside Wembley rejoiced in a landmark victory.\n\nFoxes boss Rodgers had a smile that illuminated Wembley as he joined Leicester's players in joyous scenes of celebration after the manager and his players had written their name into the club's folklore.\n\nGifted 24-year-old Tielemans will claim the glory for the sheer quality of the strike that won this FA Cup final and the rest of his performance oozed the quality that saw him named man of the match.\n\nThe Foxes had heroes elsewhere, particularly in veteran keeper Schmeichel, who was well protected for most of the match but made a huge contribution when required. His second key save from Mount, one-handed diving away to his left, even had Rodgers turning around and blowing out his cheeks in relief and admiration.\n\nYoungster Luke Thomas was composed and Leicester even survived the premature loss of the experienced and influential defender Jonny Evans, who was a doubt before the game and suffered a recurrence of his heel injury, to keep Chelsea at bay.\n\nAnd for Rodgers, who cleaned up with Celtic in Scotland, this was another significant addition to his CV, as his expert guidance of Leicester - who are in a strong position to finish in the Premier League's top four and face Chelsea again at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday - now has a tangible reward in the shape of the FA Cup.\n\nThis was the result of outstanding work by Rodgers and his players and the rest of the season may yet produce another high point if they can clinch a place in next season's Champions League.\n\n\"It is such an amazing feeling, in particular as a British coach,\" Rodgers told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"I have grown up watching this all my life and to be eventually be here and be a winner in the FA Cup is special.\n\n\"I knew we had prepared very well. The players have shown through the season they can fight, have quality and have a desire to win. We were playing against the Champions League finalists, with quality and the level they have been at. But I thought tactically we were brilliant.\"\n\nChelsea manager Thomas Tuchel revealed he was in \"angry mode\" after the surprise home loss to Arsenal suddenly put pressure on their top-four hopes in the Premier League - although the Champions League final against Manchester City could yet prove the most glittering safety net.\n\nHe certainly looked an angry man throughout this final, the body language increasingly frustrated right up until that final twist when a late equaliser was snatched from Chelsea's grasp by VAR.\n\nChelsea now face a massive game against these same opponents in midweek but they will have to recover swiftly from this disappointment and the knowledge they did not do themselves justice.\n\nThey certainly had their moments and will complain of ill-fortune, about a suspicion of handball before Tielemans' goal and those magnificent saves from Schmeichel but this was a stuttering Chelsea, not the smooth machine that saw off Real Madrid with such comfort in the Champions League semi-final second leg at Stamford Bridge.\n\nTimo Werner seemed a particular source of frustration to Tuchel, the manager enraged when he lost a physical challenge to Tielemans, and it may be he regrets that he did not start with the improving Kai Havertz.\n\nAnd Chilwell, left out for Marcos Alonso, was a source of real danger when he was eventually introduced as a substitute, almost rescuing Chelsea twice.\n\nChelsea and Tuchel now face a huge fortnight with the fight for the top four in the balance and that Champions League final to come against Manchester City - and the manager will know they will have to perform better than this.\n\nThis was the day atmosphere, emotion and deafening noise returned to English football as 21,000 supporters made Wembley sound like it was playing host to a capacity crowd.\n\nFans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.\n\nAnd how it showed in those final stages, with Leicester's fans suffering frayed nerves as their team held on for history while Chelsea's followers urged their side on in the hope of a comeback.\n\nAt the final whistle, it was just like old times as those thousands of Leicester supporters stayed in their seats for the trophy celebration to take in scenes that will live with them forever while the Chelsea end was a scene of desolation before it became a sea of deserted red seats.\n\nIt only emphasised once more that football quite simply is not the same in any form without fans.\n\n'I don't know what is handball or not'\n\n\"The players said straight away it was a handball,\" he said of the ball appearing to hit Ayoze Perez's hand in the build up to the goal.\n\n\"So now for the second game in a row there was a handball against us, and VAR is not interfering. Against Arsenal there was one on the line, and again today, and they are very decisive.\n\n\"I'm not an expert in handball any more, I don't know when it's handball or not.\n\n\"I don't know any more when they need to punish it or it's OK to play with the hand.\n\n\"We were unlucky today. But there's never any guarantee you'll end up with a trophy.\"\n\nFifth time lucky for Foxes - the best of the stats\n• None Leicester won their first FA Cup final at the fifth attempt, becoming the 44th different side to win the competition.\n• None Chelsea have become the first team to lose the FA Cup final in consecutive seasons since Newcastle United in 1997-98 and 1998-99.\n• None This was the 45th FA Cup final to finish 1-0, at least 20 more times than any other scoreline in the showpiece.\n• None Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has become the first manager to win both the English and Scottish FA Cup since Sir Alex Ferguson.\n• None Leicester's Youri Tielemans became the third Belgian player to score in an FA Cup final, with all three going on to lift the trophy that year (Eden Hazard in 2018, Kevin de Bruyne in 2019).\n• None Leicester's Kasper Schmeichel is the first goalkeeper to captain the winning side in an FA Cup final since David Seaman with Arsenal in 2003.\n• None Chelsea's Olivier Giroud played in his sixth FA Cup final - since World War Two only Ashley Cole (8), Ryan Giggs (7) and Roy Keane (7) have appeared in more.\n• None At 37 years and 114 days, Leicester's Wes Morgan became the oldest outfield player to appear in an FA Cup final since Teddy Sheringham for West Ham in 2006 (40y 41d).\n• None Offside, Leicester City. James Maddison tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Thiago Silva tries a through ball, but Ben Chilwell is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Mason Mount (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Thiago Silva.\n• None Christian Pulisic (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Paul Massey's rise in the criminal underworld through violence and extortion\n• None Dive into 2010s nostalgia with our quiz: How much do you remember about music from the last decade?", "The Common Travel Area consists of the UK, Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man\n\nTourism bodies have urged Stormont to rethink guidance on visitors arriving from the Common Travel Area (CTA).\n\nPeople visiting friends and family in Northern Ireland from GB, Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands or Isle of Man will be exempt from a requirement to self-isolate from 24 May.\n\nNew guidance states those exempt from self-isolation must take Covid-19 tests before departure and on later dates.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Tourism Alliance described this as \"unmanageable\".\n\nPreviously, Stormont ministers had only advised that people could travel from Northern Ireland to the CTA for essential reasons.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced relaxations to this rule, but introduced certain requirements for travellers arriving into Northern Ireland.\n\nThe new guidance sets out that anyone exempt from self-isolation will be asked to take lateral flow tests for Covid-19 pre-departure, as well as on days two and eight post-arrival into Northern Ireland.\n\nAll other visitors will be required to self-isolate on arrival for 10 days.\n\nBoth the Northern Ireland Tourism Alliance and the Travel Association (ABTA) have raised concerns over the new rules.\n\nNorthern Ireland Tourism Alliance chief executive Joanne Stuart said it \"remained unclear how the controls would be managed and by whom\".\n\nShe described the testing requirements as \"complicated and confusing\" and said they would have the potential to put off visitors from coming.\n\nPreviously, Stormont had only advised that people could travel from Northern Ireland to the CTA for \"essential\" reasons\n\n\"What people desperately want after months of uncertainty is confidence and clarity and this latest updated guidance does nothing to provide any of that,\" Ms Stuart said.\n\nShe added that it would also \"shut down plans to promote Northern Ireland as a visitor destination\" for travellers in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nChief executive of ABTA, Mark Tanzer, believes Northern Ireland should follow England, Scotland and Wales in publishing a green list of destinations where holidaymakers can return from without having to self-isolate.\n\nMr Tanzer said the executive must also \"continue to provide financial support through to recovery\".\n\nMembers of the Northern Ireland Tourism Alliance have requested urgent meetings with representatives from the Northern Ireland Executive Office, Department for the Economy and Department of Health to press for change.", "Nearly two thirds of people in Wales have antibodies to help protect against Covid-19, data shows\n\nMore than two million people in Wales have now received their first Covid vaccine, according to latest figures.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said a total of 2,019,160 people (64% of the population) have had their first dose.\n\nAlso, 915,674 people have had their second jab - 29% of the population.\n\nIt comes as pubs, restaurants and cafes will be able to serve indoors, and cinemas and other businesses allowed to reopen, as Wales moves to Covid alert level two as of Monday.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford revealed on Friday that he had planned to go further in easing Covid rules but paused because of the Indian variant.\n\n\"We're right to pause and make sure we have all the very best information, and then make decisions about further easements in Wales,\" told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has received his second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan said the figures were a \"fantastic achievement\".\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud and grateful to the thousands of people - NHS staff, military personnel and volunteers - who have worked so hard across the country to reach this milestone,\" she added.\n\n\"Every dose delivered is a small victory against this awful virus.\"\n\nThe vaccination figures for Wales are released daily, apart from Saturdays, so the latest data includes vaccination numbers from Friday.\n\nThe programme is pushing ahead with first doses for the younger age groups, with 40.5% of people aged between 18 and 29 having had their vaccination.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales' seven-day infection rate has risen slightly from 8.9 cases for every 100,000 people to 9.5, according to the latest data.\n\nDr Gill Richardson said she was pleased with the numbers of people having the Covid vaccine\n\nDr Gill Richardson, deputy chief medical officer for vaccines in Wales, said she was \"grateful\" many people were \"coming forward when they are called\" for a jab.\n\n\"It's really when everybody has had their second dose that we can take our feet off the pedal and just breathe a little before whatever the autumn holds for us,\" she added.\n\n\"We're looking ahead and planning now with colleagues across the four nations... to see what we will be doing with regards to autumn boosters, and to learn from the trials that have been taking place on school-age children to know how that will affect our planning going forward.\"\n\nShe said the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) would \"advise us all on the best strategy for the autumn\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 18-year-old had been at a rave the night before he disappeared\n\nDrivers have been flagged down by police in their search for a teenager after three people were arrested.\n\nOfficers have been in Pentir after Frantisek \"Frankie\" Morris, from Anglesey, went missing two weeks ago.\n\nFrankie was last seen near the Vaynol Arms, in the village in Gwynedd, on Sunday 2 May, a day after going to a rave at a disused quarry.\n\nOne of the three suspects is held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, North Wales Police said.\n\nA second man and a woman were arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.\n\nPeople have told BBC Wales of their \"shock\" and \"sadness\" over Frankie's disappearance.\n\nPolice have closed a road while investigations take place\n\n\"Local people have taken a great deal of interest as he's been missing for a fortnight and local people have been helping the police\", said Menna Baines, councillor for Pentir.\n\n\"This is a quiet area where everyone knows everyone else - it's a great shock and we're all concerned about the family.\"\n\nIn Llandegfan, where Mr Morris lives with his family, residents also expressed concerns.\n\n\"It's come as an incredible shock\", said Councillor Alun Roberts.\n\n\"Our thoughts have been with Frankie and his family over the last fortnight.\n\n\"We have full faith in the police and we wait now to see what happened to Frankie.\"\n\nOfficers spoke to a cyclist who was caught on CCTV in the area around the time of Frankie's disappearance but he is no longer part of the inquiry.\n\nCh Insp Owain Llewelyn said: \"Due to the ongoing investigation, the road from Pont Felin, Pentir heading towards Waen Wen will be closed until further notice.\"\n\nHe appealed for a number of drivers to get in touch.\n\nFrankie was last seen on CCTV pushing his bike near the Vaynol Arms\n\nPolice also want to talk to three male cyclists seen near the pub at about 13:45 BST that day.\n\nMany volunteers have been involved in the search, using drones and dogs.\n\nCh Insp Llewelyn said \"several useful reports and pieces of information\" were being assessed.\n\n\"If there is anyone who was at the rave at the disused quarry in Waunfawr on Saturday (1 May), please use this link to contact us, anonymously if you prefer,\" he said.\n\nFrankie was last seen on CCTV pushing his bike past the Vaynol Arms.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nMore than 30 officers have conducted house-to-house inquiries, and specialists have been reviewing CCTV footage between Pentir and Bangor.\n\nFrankie's brother Robin has said the family, from Llandegfan, Anglesey, was \"distraught\" over his disappearance.\n• None Community in search for missing teen after rave\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended his role in helping a former Conservative minister to secure a PPE deal at the start of the pandemic.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show it was \"perfectly reasonable\" for him to send on an email when the country needed medical equipment.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported Mr Hancock \"personally intervened\" to help Brooks Newmark in getting the £180m deal.\n\nLabour called for greater transparency over deals made during the pandemic.\n\nWhen the coronavirus pandemic first hit in 2020, the NHS and social care settings faced a shortage of personal protective equipment, such as gloves, gowns and face masks, due partly to rising global demand.\n\nThe UK government began awarding contracts for supplies worth billions of pounds under emergency terms.\n\nThis meant deals were done with companies based on price and quality but without going though the usual competitive tendering process to save time.\n\nIn recent weeks there have been a series of revelations about PPE deals awarded to those with government connections.\n\nThe Sunday Times published a series of emails between Mr Hancock and Mr Newmark, the former civil society minister who resigned in 2014 after sending sexually explicit photographs of himself to an undercover journalist.\n\nThe paper reported that in May 2020 Mr Newmark teamed up with Zoe Ley, the owner of a dog food company who had set up a firm, Life Partners, to broker PPE deals for international supplies.\n\nIt said Mr Newmark first emailed the health secretary on 27 May, detailing a proposal explaining he had links to a \"well connected and powerful\" person in China but that he needed government help in accelerating deals.\n\nThe Sunday Times said Mr Hancock replied: \"Thanks. Definitely one for the PPE team who are firing on all cylinders now.\"\n\nThe newspaper said the Department of Health awarded a £178m contract for protective goggles to the firm on 1 June.\n\nAsked on the Andrew Marr Show if it was appropriate for Mr Newmark to lobby him for the contracts, Mr Hancock said it was \"absolutely appropriate\" for people to contact him.\n\nHe said the country \"desperately needed PPE\" so when the email arrived from Mr Newmark, he \"just pinged it on\" to the relevant teams because he did not have anything to do with awarding contracts.\n\nMarr read out a message from Mr Hancock's aide to Lord Deighton, the Government's PPE tsar, in which the proposal was labelled \"excellent\" and noted that Mr Hancock hoped it could be looked at \"urgently\".\n\nBut Mr Hancock denied that any special treatment was given, adding: \"We had a process in place to ensure when there were opportunities to get hold of PPE, to save lives on the frontline, they they were looked at rapidly.\n\n\"In this case, we ended up with 90 million goggles for people in the NHS as a result of this approach.\"\n\nThe process for taking up \"high quality offers\" was \"open to everybody\", he added, and \"many many people came through that process\" ensuring that the NHS did not face a \"national outage\".\n\n\"When somebody approaches the health secretary in the middle of a pandemic when you are desperately short of PPE, it's perfectly reasonable for the health secretary then to send on the email and say can we have a look at this.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm glad that I did.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Newmark for comment.\n\nLabour has called for ministers to publish all contacts and links they have with firms awarded government contracts during the Covid crisis.\n\nDeputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"It is a recurring theme of the pandemic that ministers have bent over backwards to help their donors, friends and supporters while other companies have had to beg to provide equipment that could help.\n\n\"Returning to normal after this crisis is over must not mean a return to Conservative cronyism, deals for mates and one rule for them and another for the rest of us,\" she added.\n\nThe latest development comes after an original investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme in March found Ms Ley had secured contracts worth £258m between the government and a Hong Kong firm.\n\nThe programme revealed Ms Ley was likely to have been paid at last £1m by the firm for her work in securing the deals last spring when the UK was short of PPE.", "People expressing support for the Palestinians marched through Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy\n\nThousands of people have marched through central London in support of the Palestinians amid ongoing fighting between Israel and militants in Gaza.\n\nThe organisers of the protest called on the UK government to stop allowing what they described as \"Israel's brutal violence against and oppression of the Palestinian people\".\n\nIt comes after the worst week of violence in Gaza and Israel since 2014.\n\nAt least 139 people have been killed in Gaza and nine in Israel since the fighting began on Monday.\n\nIsrael says dozens of militants are among the dead in Gaza, while Palestinian health officials say nearly half are women and children.\n\nIt came after weeks of spiralling Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem which culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas - the militant Islamist group which rules Gaza - began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.\n\nOn Saturday, an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in Gaza killed 10 people, while a Palestinian rocket killed a man in Israel.\n\nA separate Israeli strike destroyed a high-rise building housing media organisations, including The Associated Press and Al Jazeera, plus a number of offices and apartments. The Israeli military said the building housed military assets belonging to Hamas.\n\nThe demonstration in London has been organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Stop The War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Muslim Association of Britain.\n\nA spokesperson for the organisers said: \"It is vital that the UK government takes immediate action.\n\n\"It must stop allowing Israel's brutal violence against and oppression of the Palestinian people to go unpunished.\"\n\nThey said the bombardment of Gaza \"which is killing civilians including children is a war crime\", adding: \"The UK government is complicit in these acts as long as it continues to offer Israel military, diplomatic and financial support.\"\n\nFrom the outset, it has been clear how high passions are running among the thousands who have turned out in central London.\n\nA river of protesters flows along Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington.\n\nEvery once in a while, a red or green smoke flare is set off, which is met with cheers and waving Palestinian flags which match the colours.\n\nTheir intended destination is sealed off down a private road, but that does not stop people chanting \"free Palestine\" and a minority climb scaffolding on Kensington High Street.\n\nThey essentially want Israel to stop air strikes and for the UK government to step in.\n\nBut as US negotiators call on both sides to calm things, few here think it will be resolved any time soon.\n\nAddressing the crowds at the rally, Husam Zumlot, Palestinian ambassador to the UK, said: \"This time is different. This time we will not be denied any more. We are united. We have had enough of oppression.\n\n\"Today we are saying enough, enough with the complicity. Thank you for standing with us.\"\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott also spoke to those gathered outside the embassy.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"We must remember we are part of an international movement. This is a worldwide movement for justice.\n\n\"Palestinian people are having their land seized... and they are now being killed in their homes. All of this is illegal.\"\n\nThe Twitter account of Israel's embassy in the UK posted a tweet that read: \"Hamas couldn't care less about the lives of Palestinians, in its desperate attempt to terrorize and kill Israelis.\"\n\nIn a BBC interview, the former Israeli ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev, defended Israel's actions in Gaza.\n\n\"I don't want to see any innocent bystanders hurt, let alone children. I don't want to see Israeli children or Palestinian children caught up in the crossfire,\" he said.\n\n\"But Hamas says Israel has no right to exist. So, we're only talking about deterrence, about strength, about them understanding that it's not in their interest to shoot rockets into Israel,\" he added.\n\n\"And we want to come out of this conflict with them understanding that clearly, and then have a sustained period of quiet. Ultimately, that's good for Israelis, and that's good for the residents of Gaza, too.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said the ongoing violence was \"deeply concerning and must end\".\n\n\"There is never any justification for targeting innocent civilians. Both sides need to de-escalate and offer hope to their peoples, which can only come through political dialogue.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a small minority of protesters had thrown objects of police, and warned that enforcement action \"will be taken where necessary against those who breach Covid regulations\".\n\nThere have also been pro-Palestinian demonstrations in several other European capitals.\n\nIn Paris, riot police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse a rally held despite a ban by authorities.", "The 18-year-old had been at a rave the night before he disappeared\n\nThree people have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a teenager almost two weeks ago.\n\nFrantisek \"Frankie\" Morris, 18, was last seen near the Vaynol Arms, Pentir, Gwynedd, on Sunday, 2 May, a day after going to a rave at a disused quarry.\n\nPolice said a man had been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nA second man and a woman were held on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, the north Wales force said.\n\nPolice have closed a road while investigations take place\n\nOfficers said they had spoken to a cyclist who was caught on CCTV in the area but he was no longer part of their investigation.\n\nCh Insp Owain Llewelyn said: \"Due to the ongoing investigation, the road from Pont Felin, Pentir heading towards Waen Wen will be closed until further notice.\"\n\nHe appealed for a number of drivers to get in touch.\n\nFrankie was last seen on CCTV pushing his bike near the Vaynol Arms\n\nNorth Wales Police also want to talk to three male cyclists seen near the pub at about 13:45 BST that day.\n\nMany volunteers have been involved in the search, using drones and dogs.\n\nCh Insp Owain Llewelyn said \"several useful reports and pieces of information\" were being assessed.\n\n\"If there is anyone who was at the rave at the disused quarry in Waunfawr on Saturday, please use this link to contact us, anonymously if you prefer,\" he said.\n\nFrankie was last seen on CCTV pushing his bike near the Vaynol Arms.\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 North Wales Police 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\nMore than 30 officers have conducted house-to-house inquiries, and specialists have been reviewing CCTV footage between Pentir and Bangor.\n\n\"We also have a team of 20 detectives dedicated to this investigation, and we continue to support Frankie's family through our expert family liaison officers,\" said Ch Insp Llewelyn.\n\nFrankie's brother Robin said the family, from Llandegfan, Anglesey, was \"distraught\" over his disappearance.\n\n\"Frankie is a bit of a drifter, he does go out some days and my dad doesn't hear from him, but nothing this long,\" said Robin.\n\n\"Everyone's distraught and upset and worried, the possibilities of what could have happened.\"\n• None Community in search for missing teen after rave\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Top Whitehall civil servants are even posher today than in the 1960s, says the Social Mobility Commission (SMC).\n\nHidden rules favour those with the \"right accent\", a report - Navigating the Labyrinth - claims.\n\nAlmost three-quarters (72%) of those in senior posts are from privileged homes, up from two-thirds (67%) in 1967.\n\nThe survey of more than 300,000 civil servants found a \"behavioural code\" that makes it harder for people from working-class homes to get promoted.\n\nOnly 18% of senior civil servants are from a low socio-economic background, says the SMC, the body appointed by government to advise on social mobility,\n\nMost of the 445,000 civil servants are employed by government departments.\n\nJobs range from administrative and operational roles such as prison officers and tax collectors, up to permanent secretaries, the most senior grade, who work with ministers to run their departments.\n\nAmong those top Whitehall mandarins, 59% attended a private school - three times the rate among the wider population.\n\nThe permanent secretary at the Department for Transport who leads on social mobility, Bernadette Kelly, has welcomed the report.\n\n\"It chimes with much of my experience in talking to colleagues right across the civil service, and at all grades, about social mobility,\" she says.\n\n\"The sense that there is a hidden route to the top that those from more privileged backgrounds find easier to navigate.\"\n\nThose from advantaged backgrounds are defined as having parents in professional or managerial occupations.\n\nThe parents of those defined as coming from disadvantaged backgrounds had either never worked, or had jobs such as drivers, cleaners, receptionists or mechanics.\n\nThere is a culture that favours polish over performance, creating a \"class ceiling\" that prevents people from poorer backgrounds getting the top jobs, the report finds.\n\nOne civil servant told researchers how senior staff would sometimes break into Latin.\n\n\"I know that is a bit of a stereotype, but it is so real,\" Kristine says.\n\n\"You'll be in a ministerial meeting and they'll sort of talk in Latin, but they're making what you'll realise later is a sort of joke about Brussels that everyone sort of understands, and laughs.\"\n\nThe report identifies how \"cosy fireside chats\" conducted in a neutral received pronunciation accent help those with the right background navigate the \"velvet drainpipe\" of recruitment.\n\n\"There is a definite style of speaking,\" one interviewee tells researchers in the report.\n\nAnother civil servant says people with working-class accents tend to fare less well: \"I used to put on a bit of an accent or try to enunciate a little bit better,\" Pauline says. \"Ridiculous and humiliating, when I look back on it.\"\n\nThe report finds those from advantaged backgrounds are much more likely to work in policy jobs in Whitehall, benefiting from \"the propulsive power of being in London\".\n\nTwo-thirds of civil servants in the capital come from privileged backgrounds, compared with 41% in north-east England.\n\nThe government has plans to reform the civil service, initiated by the prime minister's former adviser Dominic Cummings, but this has been delayed by the pandemic.\n\nMr Cummings said he wanted to encourage \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government.\n\nOne ambition is to move more officials out of London, but the Social Mobility Commission warns the proposal to relocate 22,000 civil servants away from the capital risks increasing the concentration of civil servants from advantaged backgrounds still further.\n\n\"The civil service should be a role model for fair recruitment and career progression,\" says the report.\n\nThe authors accept that the civil service is acutely aware it needs to do better, and has made progress on diversity and inclusion.\n\nHowever, getting in is not enough and more action is needed to nurture career progression, the report says.\n\n\"When I get feedback, one of the things [staff from disadvantaged backgrounds] raise is the degree to which the conversation is all about politics and about people on Twitter that everyone's following,\" civil servant Alistair tells the researchers.\n\n\"You know, the majority of the country are not reading these tweets. Probably the entire audience for this tweet that we're discussing at the moment is in this room!\"", "Simran campaigned for the law change after years of kidney dialysis\n\nIn the last year, the organs of 296 people have been donated under a new law which makes all adults in England potential donors unless they opt out.\n\nThis accounts for 29% of all donors (1,021) since 20 May 2020 and resulted in a total of 714 organs being transplanted.\n\nMax and Keira's Law has been in force in England for 12 months.\n\nThe 'opt-out' system has been in place in Wales since 2015 and in Scotland since March this year.\n\nUnder the law in England, people are presumed to have consented to their organs being donated after their death unless they had opted-out, although relatives are consulted and can still block organ donations.\n\nA number of groups are not covered by the opt-out rule including those who lack the mental capacity to understand the new arrangements and people who have lived in England for under 12 months.\n\nThe legislation was named after Max Johnson, a boy who received a heart transplant and Keira Ball, the girl who donated it.\n\nMaggie Sturgess was driving her partner to a hospital appointment when she suffered a sudden, fatal brain haemorrhage.\n\nThe pub landlady from Buckinghamshire had not signed up as an organ donor, but under the new rule her kidneys and liver were donated to others, saving three lives.\n\nMaggie's daughter Lizzie Durning said: \"Mum was known for her zest for life and generous nature. She lived for the moment and never wanted to talk about death as she felt she was 'too young for that'.\n\n\"As a family it was difficult to suddenly find ourselves having to make that decision as well as cope with her death.\n\n\"Ultimately we decided that organ donation was the right decision. It fitted with mum's generous nature and we have known people waiting for transplant.\n\n\"Our Christmas was never going to be good, but it felt right if we could make someone else's just that bit better.\"\n\nThe law came into force on 20 May 2020 and the latest figures show that up to 30 April, 296 people were considered to be willing to donate, despite not having expressed an organ donation decision during their lifetime.\n\nThe NHS says that before the law change, 80% of the public said they supported the practice in principle, but only 38% of people had formally opted into organ donation, with the majority saying they simply hadn't got round to registering as a donor.\n\nSince April 2016, 2,433 people across the UK have died while waiting for a donation.\n\nCoronavirus has hit the number of transplants as patients who tested positive for the virus cannot donate.\n\nThe risk of proceeding with a transplant is also greater as recipients must be heavily immunosuppressed meaning an increased chance of catching coronavirus.\n\nRecipients must take immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their lives to keep the immune system from attacking the transplanted organs.\n\n\"I began to think that my transplant call would never come\"\n\nSimran - who was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease at the age of 13 - had been one of those campaigning for the law change.\n\nFor five years she had been on the waiting list for a kidney transplant but never once received a single potential call.\n\n\"I began to think that my transplant call would never come,\" she says.\n\n\"From March 2018 I was reliant on daily dialysis, which lasted for 10 hours every night.\n\n\"The dialysis meant I couldn't sleep on my side and some nights the pain was so bad it would wake me up.\n\n\"Waiting for a transplant also means I wasn't really able to go abroad for a holiday, in case a kidney became available.\n\n\"Being from an Indian background, I was told early on that I could end up waiting longer for my transplant.\n\n\"When I finally got my call last September, I honestly couldn't believe it, I was in shock.\n\n\"The news only really sunk in when I returned home after the operation and saw my dialysis machine had been replaced by a bedside table - I burst into tears.\n\n\"While recovery took some time, it was just wonderful to finally be free of daily dialysis and I have even been well enough to start university.\n\n\"I used to feel tired all the time and felt like I couldn't stay out of my house for long.\n\n\"I worried I would miss out on having a university experience - now I'm hoping to be able to move into halls of residence.\n\n\"I am just so grateful to the donor and their family who said yes and made all this possible.\"\n\nJohn Forsythe, medical director at NHS Blood and Transplant praised the \"strength\" of families whose relatives donated organs after their death, adding: \"Many have told us how organ donation offered comfort in an otherwise tragic situation.\"\n\nFiona Loud, policy director at Kidney Care UK said: \"Simran's experience is sadly not unique - many people, particularly those from South Asian Communities, are waiting longer for a suitable kidney.\n\n\"Yet Max and Keira's Law offers so much hope to those who are still waiting, in need of a kidney transplant.\n\n\"This encouraging news gives the hope and optimism that so many people need to keep them going,\" she said.", "Teachers' grades will be an important factor in replacements for cancelled exams this summer\n\nTeachers' grades could be biased towards students with more \"agreeable\" personalities - rather than actual ability, claim psychologists.\n\nAn international study found a 10% advantage in teachers' grades for those seen as being likeable, compared with results in anonymous exams.\n\nUniversity researchers warned students should not be \"penalised\" because of negative expectations about them.\n\nTeachers' grades will be used this year for cancelled exams across the UK.\n\nThe international psychology study looked at how personality could influence perceptions of ability.\n\nIt did not draw on the replacement exam systems being used in the UK, but head teachers' leader Geoff Barton rejected the idea of teachers being unfairly swayed.\n\n\"Teachers are highly trained professionals who are well aware of the importance of assessing all their students fairly and without any form of favouritism or bias,\" he said.\n\nThe psychology study, from researchers at Queen's University Belfast and Goldsmiths, University of London, analysed how the personalities of students compared with grades awarded by teachers and then their written exam results.\n\nIt was based on a sample of 1,200 students in Russia, whose psychological profiles had been mapped against their academic record.\n\nIt found that those with personality traits seen as more positive - such as more sociable, well-behaved and \"agreeable\" - received a boost in teachers' grades, which were not then borne out by performance in anonymous exams.\n\nTeachers also seemed to be more sympathetic in grading towards students who were stressed or anxious, showing more \"leniency\" in grades for those seen as more \"emotionally fragile\".\n\nThis pattern worked against those who were perceived as having more negative, anti-social or annoying traits.\n\n\"It seems teachers awarded higher grades to pupils who were more agreeable and marked them down if they were less likeable,\" said Kostas Papageorgiou from Queen's University Belfast.\n\n\"But we shouldn't penalise students for these characteristics,\" said Dr Papageorgiou.\n\nThe study, also involving academics in Russia and Italy, found no clear pattern between personality types and actual performance in exams.\n\nBut the evidence suggested \"teacher ratings might reflect some conscious or unconscious biases\", said the psychologist Dr Papageorgiou.\n\nThis is a higher profile issue in the UK this summer - with teachers' grades playing an important part, along with other assessments, in deciding results for exams cancelled by the pandemic.\n\nThe findings, although based on a sample of 14 to 18 year olds in Russia, have a relevance in all education systems, says Dr Papageorgiou.\n\n\"Bias is universal, it's part of all of us,\" warned Dr Papageorgiou. \"I don't see any reason why this sort of bias wouldn't apply here.\"\n\nThe study did not look at bias in terms of gender or ethnicity, but researchers said the findings revealed how much perceptions of academic ability could be influenced by other factors, in this case students' personalities.\n\nDr Papageorgiou says that a variation of 10% in grading might not seem high, but it could mean a significant difference in an academic setting.\n\nHe said it showed that \"bias can operate on many levels\".\n\nBut the psychologist said that: \"Marking exams blindly and having a moderation system in place will definitely reduce the negative impact of this bias.\"\n\nMr Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said teachers' professionalism would prevent favouritism and measures were in place to ensure fairness in this year's results.\n\n\"They are following detailed guidance from the exam boards and the exam regulator Ofqual, and schools and colleges are operating quality assurance processes to ensure fairness and consistency.\n\n\"Teachers and leaders are working incredibly hard to carry out these assessments following the government's decision to cancel public exams this summer.\n\n\"They are utterly committed to making sure that their students receive fair and accurate grades in GCSEs, A-levels and other important qualifications,\" said the heads' leader.", "The man tasked with working out how to improve UK railways says a \"Fat Controller\" type figure, independent from government, should be in charge of day-to-day operations.\n\nThe former boss of British Airways, Keith Williams, said government involvement should be limited to overall policy and budget decisions.\n\nBut he said the Department for Transport should not manage the system.\n\nHis review of the rail system will be published this autumn.\n\nThe Fat Controller is a fictional character who manages the railways in Thomas the Tank Engine, the children's television series based on The Railway Series books.\n\nMr Williams said he also believed that, in the future, rail franchises should be underpinned by punctuality and other performance-related targets.\n\nThe government launched the review after passengers in northern and southern England experienced chaos over several weeks last summer following the introduction of a new timetable.\n\nBy December, punctuality across the country had dropped to a 13-year low.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Somebody needs to be accountable to the public'\n\nIn a BBC interview Mr Williams insisted the interests of passengers would shape every aspect of his work and that the creation of an individual or organisation with oversight of the entire rail system would be \"key for regaining public trust.\"\n\n\"Someone needs to be accountable to the public,\" he said.\n\nHe is still to decide on what relationship the individual or organisation would have with government but he said Network Rail, the public company managing rail infrastructure, should not take on an overall managerial role.\n\nThe idea has echoes of the Strategic Rail Authority, a body which, from 2001 to 2006, provided \"strategic direction\" for the industry.\n\nMr Williams had already said that the current rail franchising model was finished, but he has now indicated that a franchise should last longer than the current average of seven to eight years.\n\nHe argues that if train companies were in charge of networks for more time they would have more incentive to invest.\n\nAs things stand, under a franchise agreement, a train company will make a series of commitments to the government which have to be delivered.\n\nAccording to Mr Williams, a franchise should no longer be about \"how many ticketing offices there are in a station\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hydrogen trains: Are these the eco-friendly trains of the future?\n\nHis team is looking into how franchises could focus instead on performance targets such as punctuality and whether or not services have the correct number of carriages - something which continues to be a problem for passengers in the north of England.\n\nThe rail review also looks set to recommend an overhaul of the complicated rail ticketing system, which has not been reformed since the mid-90s.\n\n\"Pay-as-you-go across regions and cities has been difficult to implement because of the fares system that exists today,\" said Mr Williams.\n\nHe said a national system should be created to allow more third-party companies like thetrainline.com to improve the way people buy tickets.\n\nMick Cash, general secretary of rail union RMT, said it had warned that \"Keith Williams had been hand-picked by Chris Grayling and the Tories to try and get them off the hook over the privatised chaos on our railways\".\n\nHe added: \"RMT also warned that Keith Williams would side 100% with his big-business mates and duck the issue of public ownership of the railways - the option supported by over two-thirds of the British people.\n\n\"He has and after months of deliberation has come up with the classic cop-out of another unaccountable quango.\"", "Travellers should use \"common sense\" when considering overseas trips, the transport secretary has said, as he defended the UK's traffic light system.\n\nGrant Shapps said people should only go to countries on the \"amber\" list in \"exceptional circumstances\", amid concern over the Indian Covid variant.\n\nThe boss of airline EasyJet said people were \"confused\" by the system.\n\nMinisters say they can carry out 10,000 checks a day in England to ensure travellers self-isolate where needed.\n\nAsked on BBC Breakfast whether it was responsible to go on holiday to an amber country, Mr Shapps said: \"The guidance is not to. We've said you should only go to amber countries in exceptional circumstances.\"\n\nHe said England was \"moving towards unlock\", having passed the third stage of its roadmap out of coronavirus restrictions, and was \"starting to shift responsibility back to individuals\".\n\n\"We're not forcing people to travel right now\", he said, adding that anyone in airports will already have taken Covid tests.\n\nAsked about photographs of passengers queuing at Heathrow Airport, Mr Shapps said he wanted to see people separated \"as much as is practically possible\" and the government had asked whether unused terminals could be brought into play.\n\nThe airport would respond \"at the beginning of next month\", he said.\n\nLabour's shadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry called for the traffic light system to be paused and travel restrictions to be \"much stricter\".\n\nShe told Sky News that passengers from green, amber and red countries were spending \"four hours cheek by jowl in presumably some great petri dish, potentially bringing in Lord knows what into our country\".\n\nThe Home Office said it had the capacity to carry out 10,000 home visits a day to ensure those arriving from amber list countries self-isolate for 10 days - more than double the number of daily quarantine checks officials have made over the past week.\n\nPassengers who break the quarantine rules risk being fined up to £10,000.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government was \"almost dismantling\" its own system by discouraging travel to amber list countries.\n\nHe added that the UK risked falling behind other European countries if it did not employ a \"data based\" approach to opening up travel, and move some countries from the amber list to the green list.\n\nSome 2,967 cases of the Indian variant have now been identified in the UK, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Wednesday - up from about 2,300 on Monday.\n\nSurge testing and jabs will be expanded to six new areas of concern in England to combat its spread.\n\nA report seen by the BBC says failures in England's test-and-trace system are partly responsible for a surge in the Indian variant in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire - one of the worst affected parts of the country.\n\nFor three weeks in April and May, the council was one of eight local authorities that did not have access to the full data on positive tests in their area, it says. It had the highest number of missing cases.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), told BBC Breakfast that people should \"minimise travel abroad\" and the Indian variant passes on more easily from person to person than the one first discovered in Kent.\n\nAsked whether the UK was at the start of a third wave, he said: \"I think so. I think what we can see is that this strain can circulate very effectively.\"\n\n\"I don't really see why it wouldn't continue to spread in other parts of the country,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously we're doing everything we can to contain the spread of that, but it's likely that more generalised measures may start to be needed to control it.\"\n\nHe added that the size of a third wave would depend on how transmissible the variant proves to be and how many people have been vaccinated.\n\nNearly 37 million people in the UK - around 70% of the adult population - have received their first dose, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nMore than 20.8 million - around 40% - have had a second dose.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge, 38, said in a tweet that he received his first dose on Tuesday, and thanked those working on the vaccine rollout.\n\nPeople aged 34 and over in England are now able to book their Covid-19 jab, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. Over-30s are eligible in Scotland.\n\nNorthern Ireland has started offering the vaccination to anyone aged over 25.\n\nAnd in Wales, all over-18s in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan will have been offered the chance to have their first Covid vaccine by the end of May.", "Damage from an Israeli air strike overnight in Gaza City\n\nUS President Joe Biden has told Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu he expects a \"significant de-escalation\" in the Gaza conflict on Wednesday.\n\nMr Biden wanted a \"path to ceasefire\", the White House said.\n\nThe US is a staunch ally of Israel and has so far opposed a joint UN Security Council statement on the conflict.\n\nIn response Mr Netanyahu said he was \"determined to carry on\" until \"calm and security are restored to Israeli citizens\", according to Israeli media.\n\nThe conflict is in its 10th day, with a continuing exchange of rocket fire from Palestinian militants into Israel and Israeli air strikes on Gaza.\n\nOn Wednesday, four rockets were also fired from Lebanon into Israel and Israel's military responded by firing artillery shells at \"a number of targets in Lebanese territory\". It was not immediately clear whether this would prove to be a significant escalation.\n\nThe Gaza fighting began after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem that culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas, which controls Gaza, began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.\n\nAt least 227 people, including more than 100 women and children, have been killed in Gaza so far, according to its health ministry. Israel has said at least 150 militants are among those killed in Gaza. Hamas does not give casualty figures for fighters.\n\nIn Israel 12 people, including two children, have been killed, its medical service says. Israel says some 4,000 rockets have been fired towards its territory by militants in Gaza.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, Mr Biden held his fourth call with Mr Netanyahu since the conflict started.\n\nA statement released by the White House said: \"The president conveyed to the prime minister that he expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-UN rapporteur John Dugard: US is not honest broker in Israel-Gaza conflict\n\nThe US has called before for a truce but has held up any joint UN statement, saying it would not help with de-escalation.\n\nThe Palestinian representative at the UN, Riyad Mansour, called the Security Council's failure to express a unified position \"shameful\".\n\nThe latest bid for a council resolution calling for a ceasefire, launched by France, failed on Wednesday when the US said it could \"undermine efforts to de-escalate\".\n\nOne Israeli military source told Reuters that Israel was assessing whether conditions were right for a truce.\n\nThe Ynet news website said that the Israelis were talking with Egyptian mediators. It quoted sources in the Israeli cabinet as saying Israel could achieve its objectives and end the fighting \"within days\".\n\nA Hamas leader said that efforts by mediators were \"serious and continuous\" but that Palestinian demands had to be met.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday Mr Netanyahu did not appear ready to begin a truce.\n\nHe said there were \"only two ways that you can deal with\" Hamas. \"You can either conquer them, and that's always an open possibility, or you can deter them, and we are engaged right now in forceful deterrence, but I have to say we don't rule out anything.\"\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said there had been renewed rocket fire from Gaza on Wednesday and that its fighter jets had attacked military infrastructure, including tunnels, and the homes of Hamas commanders.\n\nThe BBC's Rushdi Abualouf in Gaza said two Palestinian militants were killed in Gaza City, as dozens of strikes targeted both it and the southern city of Khan Younis.\n\nGaza City mother of seven Randa Abu Sultan, 45, told AFP news agency: \"My four-year-old son tells me he's scared that if he falls asleep, he'll wake up to find us dead.\"\n\nIDF spokesman Brig Gen Hidai Zilberman said Israel had tried to assassinate Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas's military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades.\n\nMohammed Deif has survived repeated attempts on his life, including in the last major conflict in 2014. He tends to stay in the background and his whereabouts remain unknown.\n\nSirens sounded across much of south and central Israel on Wednesday.\n\nHamas also targeted an Israeli air base overnight but the IDF said no bases were hit.\n\nOf the 3,750 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip since the fighting began, 550 have fallen short in Gaza, according to the IDF. Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system has intercepted about 90% of the rockets that have crossed into Israeli territory, it says.\n\nThe IDF estimated that at the start of the conflict, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the two main groups in Gaza, had an arsenal of about 12,000 rockets or mortars.\n\nMr Netanyahu said the Israeli operation had \"set Hamas back by many years\".\n\nThere has also been unrest within Israel and in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, where Palestinians took part in a general strike on Tuesday. There were clashes in several locations.\n\nThe party of Turkish President Erdogan rejected US accusations of anti-Semitism\n\nSeparately on Wednesday, Turkey rejected US accusations that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had made anti-Semitic remarks about Israel.\n\nHe had accused Israel of \"terrorism\" against the Palestinians and recently said: \"It is in their nature\".\n\nState department spokesman Ned Price said the US found the remarks \"reprehensible\".\n\nOmer Celik, a spokesman for Mr Erdogan's party, said the president had given very strong messages against anti-Semitism, adding: \"Accusing our president of anti-Semitism is an illogical and untrue approach. This is a lie.\"\n\nThe worst violence in years between Israel and the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip has seen dozens killed. It follows a month of spiralling tensions before open conflict broke out. Here is what happened in the lead-up to the fighting. Clashes erupt in East Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israeli police. Palestinians are angry over barriers which had been placed outside the Damascus Gate entrance to the Jerusalem‘s Old City preventing them from gathering there after prayers at the Old City’s al-Aqsa Mosque on what is the first night of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Palestinian discontent had been stoked earlier in the day when President Mahmoud Abbas called off planned elections, implicitly blaming Israel over voting arrangements for Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Hamas - Mr Abbas' Islamist rivals who control Gaza and were running in the elections - react angrily to the postponement. Violence around Damascus Gate and elsewhere in East Jerusalem continues nightly. Rockets are fired from Gaza at Israel, which responds with air strikes after a relative period of calm between Israel and the Palestinian enclave. Clashes spread to the mixed Arab-Jewish port city of Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv. In Jerusalem, Jewish youths, angry over a spate of filmed assaults by Palestinians on Orthodox Jews posted on the TikTok video-sharing app, attack Arabs and chant anti-Arab slogans. Israeli security forces clash with Palestinians outside the Damascus Gate Hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews shouting “Death to Arabs” march towards Damascus Gate in protest at the Arab assaults on Jews. Clashes erupt at the site between Palestinians and police trying to separate the two groups, injuring dozens of people. Violence between Arabs and Jews spreads to other parts of the city. Militants fire dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza, drawing retaliatory air strikes. President Abbas' Fatah faction and Hamas condemn the looming threatened eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah district of East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers ahead of a planned court hearing. Hamas calls on Arabs to form “human shields of resistance” there. In the days that follow, police and protesters repeatedly clash at the site as it becomes a focal point for Palestinian anger. Militants in Gaza begin sending incendiary balloons into Israel over successive days, causing dozens of fires. Two Palestinian gunmen are shot dead and a third is wounded after opening fire on Israeli security forces in the northern West Bank. Israeli authorities say the group planned to carry out a “major attack” in Israel. The al-Aqsa mosque has been a frequent flashpoint for violence Later on after Friday prayers - the last of Ramadan - major clashes erupt at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, injuring more than 200 people. Israel's police force says it used “riot dispersal means”, firing rubber bullets and stun grenades after officers came under a hail of stones and bottles. A second night of violence erupts in East Jerusalem after tens of thousands of worshippers prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque for Laylat al-Qadr, the holiest night of Ramadan. Police and protesters clash at Damascus Gate, with police using water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas against crowds of Palestinians, some throwing stones. More than 120 Palestinians and some 17 police are injured. Israel's Supreme Court postpones the hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah case following calls to delay it because of the growing unrest. Tensions remain high though and more clashes take place between Israeli police and Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and at Damascus Gate. Early morning clashes break out between police and Palestinians at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, where crowds throw stones and officers fire stun grenades. Palestinian anger has been inflamed by an annual Jerusalem Day march planned for later in the day by hundreds of Israeli nationalists to celebrate Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967. The march is due to pass through predominantly Arab parts of the Old City in what is seen by Palestinians as a deliberate provocation. It is rerouted at the 11th hour, but the atmosphere remains volatile with more than 300 Palestinians and some 21 police injured in the violence at the holy site. Hamas issues an ultimatum to Israel to “withdraw its soldiers... from the blessed al-Aqsa mosque and Sheikh Jarrah” by 18:00. When the deadline passes without an Israeli response, rockets are fired towards Jerusalem for the first time in years. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the group has “crossed a red line” and Israel retaliates with air strikes, killing three Hamas fighters. A continuing exchange of rocket-fire and air strikes quickly escalates into the fiercest hostilities between the two sides since they fought a war in 2014.\n\nAre you in Israel or Gaza and affected by the fighting? 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.", "There have been long queues for jabs in Bolton, where the Indian variant now makes up the majority of new cases\n\nSurge testing and jabs will be expanded to six new areas of concern in England to combat the spread of the Indian Covid variant, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe areas were identified using new techniques, including analysing wastewater and travel patterns, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nThe government is also supporting Scotland in rolling out more tests and vaccinations in Glasgow and Moray.\n\nSome 2,967 cases of the Indian variant have now been identified in the UK.\n\nThis is up from about 2,300 on Monday.\n\nMr Hancock said early evidence suggested that this variant - B.1.617.2 - passes on more easily from person to person than the one first discovered in Kent, adding that it was now \"even more important that people get vaccinated\".\n\nBut he said ministers were \"determined to do all that we can to ensure this new variant doesn't put our recovery at risk\".\n\nFurther surge testing and vaccinations will now be introduced in:\n\nThe health secretary said these were selected via \"an incredibly sensitive biosecurity surveillance system\", which spotted cases in earlier variant hotspots Bolton and Blackburn.\n\nMonitoring travel patterns, along with analysis of wastewater - or sewage - in 70% of the country had helped identify where variants were and also where they were at risk of spreading to, he said.\n\nOutlining the spread of the Indian variant, he added: \"The weekly case data in Bolton is now 283 per 100,000 and it doubled in the last week.\n\n\"There are now 25 people in Bolton Hospital with Covid - the majority are unvaccinated, nearly 90% have not yet had two vaccines.\n\n\"This shows the importance of getting vaccinated, not once but twice.\"\n\nScientists will know more about the transmissibility of the new Indian variant by \"some time next week\", England's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said.\n\nOverall, a further three deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test have been recorded in the UK, and there have been 2,696 more cases overall.\n\nAnother 174,100 people have been given a first dose of a vaccine, and 324,001 more have received their second dose.\n\nThe spread of the Indian variant has cast doubt on plans to ease remaining restrictions in England next month.\n\nThe number of cases of Indian variant is climbing, but what this means remains to be seen.\n\nThe variant should soon be dominant - it is clearly more infectious than the UK variant which emerged last year.\n\nScientists are busy studying it to work out just how much more transmissible it is.\n\nThat means unpicking to what extent the rise is being driven by the sudden importation of the variant from abroad and the environmental factors in the communities where it is spreading.\n\nIn densely-populated housing conditions it's easier for the virus to be passed on - rather than because of an inherent biological advantage.\n\nScientists believe it could be anything between 10% to 50% more infectious depending on what influence each of those factors have.\n\nIf it's nearer 50%, that could drive a surge in cases that could spill over into significant hospital admissions even with the vaccine rollout.\n\nAt the lower end, the impact will be more muted and the full lifting of restrictions on 21 June could still be on.\n\nThere are some early signs it could be at the lower end, but it will be a week or two before we know that with any confidence.\n\nAt the briefing, Mr Hancock praised the UK's development of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by Oxford University, highlighting the worldwide benefits it had brought. He said:\n\n\"It is something every British taxpayer has had a part supporting and everyone in this United Kingdom should be incredibly proud of it,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Van-Tam told the news conference that scientists were sure the Indian variant was more transmissible but the \"million dollar question\" was how much more transmissible.\n\n\"We have a credible range that goes from a few per cent more transmissible through to 50% more transmissible - I think most people feel it is going to be somewhere in the middle... but it is just too early,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said transmission of the new variant was \"not inevitable\" and it could be slowed down through \"cautious behaviour\".\n\n\"I think I've said 'don't tear the pants out of it' once before from this or a similar podium, but frankly we're back to that again now,\" he said.\n\nHe urged those living in hotspots to think carefully about their new freedoms and try to stick to outdoor activities in small groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Jonathan Van-Tam: \"People will have to learn to manage Covid risks for themselves\"\n\nEarlier, at Prime Minister's Questions, Boris Johnson said there was \"increasing confidence\" that Covid-19 vaccines were effective against all variants, including the Indian one.\n\nBut his official spokesman said ministers would want to see more information before making decisions on the next steps toward lifting lockdown.\n\nAt PMQs, Mr Johnson also repeated his warning that people should not be holidaying in amber list countries. This includes France, Spain and Greece.\n\nVisits to those countries should only be made in \"extreme\" circumstances such as a family illness, he said.\n\nEU ambassadors are recommending that restrictions on travel into the EU should be relaxed for fully vaccinated people, and those from countries with low infection rates.\n\nA decision on whether the UK will be included on a so-called \"white list\" will be made on Friday.\n\nPortugal, Italy and Greece have already dropped quarantine restrictions for British travellers and Spain is expected to make an announcement in the coming days.\n\nPortugal is the only EU country currently on the UK's own green list, allowing travellers to return without going into quarantine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hancock defends MPs: 'We have been crystal clear'", "Protesters have been calling for several years for the statue to come down\n\nCampaigners have called the decision by an Oxford University college not to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes an \"act of institutional racism\".\n\nOriel College said its Rhodes statue would not be taken down due to costs and \"complex\" planning processes after initially backing its removal.\n\nRhodes Must Fall said the college's decision was a \"slap in the face\".\n\nThe group said it would \"continue to fight for the fall of this statue and everything it represents\".\n\nCampaigners say Rhodes, a 19th Century businessman and politician in southern Africa, represented white supremacy and was steeped in colonialism and racism.\n\nHe had been a student at Oriel and left £100,000 - about £12.5m in today's money - to the college through his will in 1902. His statue sits above a doorway on the front of the college's Rhodes Building, which faces Oxford's High Street.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, a commission set up by Oriel College to examine the figure's future and Rhodes' legacy said the \"majority\" of its members supported its removal.\n\nProtesters gathered in Oxford's High Street outside Oriel College in June 2020\n\nBut Oriel said it would not seek to move the statue due to the process potentially taking years with no certainty of the outcome.\n\nThe college said it was focused on implementing the commission's recommendations around \"the contextualisation of the college's relationship with Rhodes\" and improving diversity and educational equality among students.\n\nCampaign group Rhodes Must Fall said: \"No matter how Oriel College might try to justify their decision, allowing the statue to remain is an act of institutional racism.\n\n\"Pretending that this is a choice made due to financial costs is a slap in the face with the hand of white supremacy.\"\n\nThe group said it would \"continue to push for the removal of this harmful iconography as a critical step in the decolonisation process of the institution and the city\" and would \"seek to diversify our tactics moving forward\".\n\n\"We urge Oriel College to reconsider their position immediately and to take steps towards reparations,\" the group said.\n\nThe Cecil Rhodes statue stands on the building named after him at Oriel College\n\nLord Mendoza, provost of Oriel College, said the college understood \"this nuanced conclusion will be disappointing to some, but we are now focused on the delivery of practical actions aimed at improving outreach and the day-to-day experience of BME students\".\n\nThe college said the majority of submissions to the commission backed the retention of the statue.\n\nAny decision to move the statue would require planning permission from Oxford City Council, Historic England and the secretary of state for local government, Robert Jenrick.\n\nThe Rhodes Must Fall campaign began in South Africa, where a Rhodes statue was removed, and was adopted in Oxford by campaigners who argued his views were incompatible with an \"inclusive culture\" at the university.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Aya Hachem was a young trustee for the Children's Society\n\nA law student was \"in the wrong place at the wrong time\" when she was shot dead amid a feud between two tyre firm owners, a court has heard.\n\nAya Hachem, 19, was killed in the drive-by shooting in Blackburn, Lancashire, on 17 May 2020.\n\nThe incident was the culmination of a long-running dispute between Feroz Suleman, of RI Tyres, and Pachah Khan, of Quickshine Tyres, a jury was told.\n\nEight people are on trial at Preston Crown Court accused of her murder.\n\nProsecutor Nicholas Johnson QC said the feud started in early 2019 when Quickshine began selling tyres next door to RI after previously only washing cars.\n\nThe \"bad blood\" between the men escalated and a plan was hatched to kill Mr Khan and/or someone else at Quickshine Tyres, the court heard.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"What happened was planned in detail and involved many people.\"\n\nThe court heard Ms Hachem had been walking along King Street at 15:00 BST when she was hit.\n\nThe prosecution allege she was shot by hired hitman Zamir Raja, who was sitting in the back of a Toyota Avensis being driven by Anthony Ennis past Quickshine Tyres.\n\nMs Hachem was walking along King Street in Blackburn when she was shot\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Zamir Raja's first shot hit one of the windows of Quickshine, the second hit Aya Hachem.\n\n\"Aya had no connection to either Mr Khan, his business, Zamir Raja, or anyone else in this case.\n\n\"She was simply unlucky. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\n\nMr Johnson said Mr Suleman was the \"organiser of the whole thing\" while Abubakr Satia sourced the Avensis used in the shooting and \"made sure all the key players were in the right place at the right time\".\n\nBoth Uthman Satia and his girlfriend Judy Chapman acted as getaway drivers for Mr Raja and Mr Ennis, it is claimed, while Kashif Manzoor ensured the Avensis was running properly.\n\nThe prosecution alleges Ayaz Hussain acted as a link between Mr Suleman and gunman Mr Raja.\n\nMr Suleman, 40, Mr Manzoor, 26, Mr Hussain, 35, Mr Satia, 32, all from Blackburn, Mr Raja, 33, of Stretford, Mr Ennis, 31, of Partington, Mr Satia, 29, and Ms Chapman, 26, both of Great Harwood, all deny murder.\n\nAll eight have also pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of Mr Khan.\n\nThe trial is estimated to last up to 10 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.", "Last updated on .From the section West Brom\n\nSam Allardyce will leave his role as West Brom manager at the end of the season.\n\nAllardyce suffered his first Premier League relegation when defeat at Arsenal on 9 May ensured they would drop into the Championship.\n\nThe former Bolton, Newcastle, West Ham, Sunderland and England boss succeeded the sacked Slaven Bilic at West Brom on an 18-month contract in December.\n\nAllardyce, 66, said he felt unable to commit to Albion for the long term.\n\nHe said: \"West Bromwich Albion made me a generous offer to stay at The Hawthorns that shows the commitment of an ambitious club. After serious consideration, I have decided not to accept that offer.\n\n\"If I were to stay and achieve promotion next season the expectation would be for me to continue for at least another season and, sadly, that is not a commitment I feel able to make at this stage of my career.\"\n\nWest Brom technical director Luke Dowling said the club had \"very much hoped to have Sam in charge for next season and beyond\".\n\nThe club, promoted as Championship runners-up last term, suffered their 21st defeat of the campaign with a 3-1 loss at home to West Ham on Wednesday. They are 19th in the table, having taken 26 points from 37 games.\n\nAllardyce's final match in charge will be away to Leeds United on Sunday.\n\nHis assistant Sammy Lee and first-team coach Robbie Stockdale will also leave the club.\n\n\"Sam, Sammy and Robbie came in at a really difficult time for the football club and worked tirelessly in their efforts to keep the club in the Premier League,\" Dowling said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, collectively, we were unable to achieve our goal of surviving relegation. In the second half of the season, we played with passion and desire, delivering some memorable results with organised, entertaining football.\n\n\"Ultimately, we were unable to accumulate the points total required to keep us here, but Sam certainly restored pride with a number of resilient displays.\"\n\nAllardyce was sacked by Everton in May 2018 after six months in charge, having taken the club from 13th in the Premier League to eighth - but he was criticised for the side's style of play.\n\nBefore joining the Toffees, Allardyce had resigned as Crystal Palace manager after five months in charge, in what was his first job since a one-game spell as England manager.\n\nHe said leaving West Brom was the result of \"a long, hard decision with a lot of thought about what is best for me and the club\".\n\n\"We chose our words very carefully,\" he added. \"I am flattered they wanted me to stay on.\n\n\"I was given the assurances over the budget but it is about me being a short-term manager. When you are put in that pigeon hole, that is how I see myself now, as a troubleshooter or a Red Adair. I didn't expect to be in this situation.\n\n\"We fought and fought but were not quite good enough at the end. I was more confident we would get out of trouble. Chelsea away [a 5-2 win] was brilliant. I was sad we couldn't keep those results up.\"\n\nOn whether he will continue in management, Allardyce said: \"We don't last forever.\n\n\"I went 20 years without a break. It was only when I got sacked at Newcastle when I got a break. The tingle will never leave you. It is an addiction.\n\n\"I am not going to say I am retiring because I have done that before and it makes you look a fool.\"\n\nThe news came as a surprise to the West Brom squad, as defender Kyle Bartley explained Allardyce only told the players when they returned to the dressing room at full-time.\n\n\"It's a bit of a shock. I think most of us expected he would be here next season,\" Bartley told Sky Sports.\n\n\"He just said that he had come to a decision that he won't be here next year. He thinks the club would be in better hands going in a different direction.\n\n\"I thought he would have been fantastic for us next year. I'd have thought we would have a really good chance of going back up. But I fully respect his decision.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Match of the Day, former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy, said: \"He was talking about being pigeon-holed. I think he was having a little dig. But four wins in 24 is not good enough.\n\n\"You cannot hide behind the numbers. He does talk about the lack of activity early in the January window when he could have got some players in more quickly. They need a big change of direction now in terms of the way they play.\"\n\n'Allardyce will wait for the call from a club in crisis'\n\nTwenty-four hours after one former England manager confirmed he was stepping away from the club scene, Sam Allardyce has followed Roy Hodgson's lead.\n\nAt 66, Allardyce is seven years younger than Hodgson. And while it doesn't sound as though he is ready to abandon football management just yet, he was without a job for 18 months after he left Everton in 2019 before West Brom called in the middle of this season, so there can be no guarantees of another opportunity.\n\nIndeed, given the clubs he has already managed, there are not a huge amount of obvious alternatives remaining for Allardyce to take.\n\nA blunt, entertaining speaker, Allardyce has already proved adept as a pundit and will not be short of work if he heads in that direction.\n\nAnd then, by his own admission, he will wait for the call from a club in crisis. Red Adair, Allardyce memorably said his mates have started calling him, after the renowned American oil well firefighter. He will hope there is one last fire to put out - and that when the chance comes, this time he is equal to the task.\n• 1991-1992: Limerick. First stint in management as player manager of the Irish club.\n• 1992: Preston North End. Youth-team coach and a brief stint as caretaker manager.\n• 1994-1996: Blackpool. First managerial role in England but sacked after failing to achieve promotion.\n• 1997-1999: Notts County. Led them to the Third Division (now League Two) title in 1997-98.\n• 1999-2007: Bolton Wanderers. Won promotion to the Premier League in 2001 and led them to a League Cup final and Uefa Cup qualification.\n• 2007-2008: Newcastle. Left after just eight months in charge following a disappointing run of results.\n• 2008-2010: Blackburn. Guided club to Premier League safety in his first season before he was sacked in December 2010 with Rovers 13th.\n• 2011-2015: West Ham. Led Hammers to promotion to Premier League in 2012 but left three years later following criticism of his playing style.\n• 2015-2016: Sunderland. Appointed in October and guided the Black Cats to Premier League safety.\n• 2016: England. Appointed Three Lions boss but left by mutual consent after one match and 67 days in charge following a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to \"get around\" rules on player transfers.\n• 2016-17: Crystal Palace. Appointed in December 2016 and led the Eagles to Premier League safety.\n• 2017-18: Everton. Finished eighth with the Toffees after joining in November 2017 but left in May the following year.\n• 2020-21: West Brom. Took over from Slaven Bilic with the club 19th in the table but was unable to avoid relegation\n• None Searching for truth in the fog of war\n• None Watch as former rugby players take legal action over their brain injuries", "Home to about two million people, Gaza is 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide, an enclave bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Israel and Egypt.\n\nTensions between Gaza and Israel have recently escalated into the worst violence for several years and led the UN to warn of \"a full-scale war\".\n\nOriginally occupied by Egypt, Gaza was captured by Israel during the 1967 Middle East war. Israel withdrew its troops and around 7,000 settlers in 2005.\n\nIt is under the control of the militant Islamist group Hamas, which ejected forces loyal to the then governing Palestinian Authority (PA) after a violent rift in 2007.\n\nSince then, Israel and Egypt have restricted the movement of goods and people in and out in what they say are security measures against militants.\n\nHamas and Israel fought a brief conflict in 2014, and in May 2021 hostilities between the two sides broke out again.\n\nMany buildings have been destroyed in the recent violence\n\nThe Gaza fighting began after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem that culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. On 10 May Hamas began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes. Exchanges intensified and hostilities quickly escalated into the worst violence between Israel and Gaza since 2014.\n\nPower cuts are an everyday occurrence in Gaza. Before the latest upsurge in fighting, households in Gaza were receiving power on eight-hour rotations.\n\nPower cuts in Gaza disrupt almost all aspects of daily life\n\nThe latest violence is said to have damaged power lines and disrupted fuel supplies. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), most homes are now receiving power for only three-four hours per day.\n\nThe Strip gets most of its power from Israel together with further contributions from Gaza's only power plant and a small amount from Egypt.\n\nBoth the Gaza Power Plant (GPP) and many people's individual generators depend on diesel fuel, but supplies brought in via Israel are frequently blocked causing more disruption.\n\nSince Hamas came to power in Gaza in 2007, Egypt has largely kept its border with Gaza closed.\n\nLast year additional restrictions were imposed to try to restrict the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe Rafah crossing into Egypt and the Erez crossing into Israel were both shut on about 240 days and opened on only 125 in 2020, according to Ocha figures.\n\nEgypt has largely kept its border with Gaza closed since 2007\n\nIn 2019 about 78,000 people left Gaza via the Rafah crossing but in 2020 that fell to 25,000.\n\nIn the north, crossings into Israel at Erez also fell dramatically in 2020 - partly due to pandemic restrictions. This year about 8,000 people have left Gaza via the Erez crossing, most of them patients or people accompanying them for medical care in Israel.\n\nUntil the latest violence, traffic had begun to pick up again. Some aid convoys have since been allowed through, but otherwise crossings have remained shut.\n\nAbout 80% of the population of Gaza depends on international aid, according to the UN, and about one million people rely on daily food aid.\n\nThe blockade imposed by Israel has severely impacted movements in and out of the Strip and the ability to trade.\n\nTunnels were dug under the Egyptian border to bring in all kinds of goods and weapons\n\nTo try to get round the blockade, Hamas has built a network of tunnels which it uses to bring goods into the Strip and also as its underground command centre. Israel says tunnels are also used by militants to move around out of sight and are being targeted by air strikes.\n\nCoronavirus has also had an impact on the local economy, but it was just beginning to show signs of recovery, according to the World Bank, when the fighting broke out.\n\nGaza has one of the highest population densities in the world. According to the UN, almost 600,000 refugees in Gaza are living in eight crowded camps.\n\nOn average there are more than 5,700 people per square kilometre - very similar to the density of population in London - but that figure rises to more than 9,000 in Gaza City.\n\nIsrael declared a buffer zone along the border in 2014 to protect itself from rocket attacks and infiltrations by militants. The zone reduced the amount of land available for people to live or farm on.\n\nThe UN estimated about 140,000 houses were damaged or destroyed in the 2014 violence and it has since supported almost 90,000 families with help to rebuild their homes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rushdi Abualouf This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOcha says several hundred homes have been severely damaged in the latest fighting, but it will take some time to reveal the full extent of the damage.\n\nGaza's public health system is in a precarious state due to various reasons. Ocha says Israel and Egypt's blockade, lower health expenditure from the West Bank-based PA and internal political conflict between the PA - which has responsibility for healthcare in the Palestinian territories - and Hamas are all to blame.\n\nThe UN helps out by running 22 healthcare facilities. But a number of hospitals and clinics were damaged or destroyed in previous conflicts with Israel.\n\nPatients from Gaza needing treatment in West Bank or East Jerusalem hospitals must first get requests approved by the PA and then exit passes approved by the Israeli government - in 2019, the approval rate for patient applications to leave the Gaza Strip was 65%.\n\nOver the last few months, the health situation has been exacerbated by coronavirus.\n\nIn April, a spike in cases saw almost 3,000 a day in Gaza. There have been more than 104,000 cases since the start of the pandemic and more than 946 people have died with the virus.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the border restrictions are not only limiting access to life-saving treatment for victims of the hostilities, but they are also hampering the coronavirus response.\n\nThe WHO says it is affecting the \"critical\" vaccination programme and increases the risk of spreading the virus as people seek refuge with relatives or in emergency shelters.\n\nMore than a million people in Gaza are classed as \"moderately-to-severely food insecure\", according to the UN, despite many receiving some form of food aid.\n\nBorder crossings have been opened to allow aid convoys through, but shelling has caused some disruption to deliveries.\n\nIsraeli restrictions on access to agricultural land and fishing have reduced the amount of food Gazans can produce themselves.\n\nThey are not allowed to farm in the Israeli-declared buffer zone - 1.5km (0.9 miles) wide on the Gaza side of the border - and this has led to a loss in production of an estimated 75,000 tonnes of produce a year.\n\nIsrael imposes a fishing limit meaning Gazans can only fish within a certain distance of the shore. The UN says if the limit were lifted, fishing could provide employment and a cheap source of protein for the people of Gaza.\n\nAfter the latest upsurge in violence, Israel temporarily banned any fishing from the Gaza Strip. Over the years it has set varying limits on the fishing zone, disrupting the livelihoods of about 5,000 fishermen and related workers.\n\nMost people in Gaza suffer from a shortage of water. Tap water is salty and polluted and is not fit for drinking.\n\nWhile most Gazan households are on a piped water network, Ocha says families received water for only six-eight hours every four days in 2017 due to insufficient power. This has been reduced still further by the latest attacks.\n\nThe World Health Organization set the minimum requirement for daily water needs at 100 litres per head - to cover drinking, washing, cooking and bathing. In Gaza average consumption is about 88 litres.\n\nSewage is another problem. Although 78% of households are connected to public sewage networks, treatment plants are overloaded. Ocha says more than a hundred million litres of partially treated and raw sewage is pumped into the Mediterranean daily.\n\nA new wastewater treatment plant came into operation at the beginning of 2021 to help deal with the problem.\n\nMany children attend schools run by the UN and many of them are acting as places of shelter for people who have fled the latest shelling.\n\nAccording to the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, 64% of its 275 schools run a \"double shift\" system, with one school of students in the morning and another in the afternoon.\n\nMany people are taking refuge in UN schools from the latest shelling\n\nAn average class size was around 41 pupils in 2019.\n\nThe literacy rate for those aged 15-19 is now 99% - it has steadily increased over the past few years.\n\nAlthough only about 66% of pupils stay on at high school to complete upper secondary or the equivalent of sixth form.\n\nGaza has one of the world's youngest populations, with almost 65% of the population under 25 years old, according to the CIA Factbook.\n\nAn Ocha report from 2020 said youth unemployment was running at 70%, partly as a result of the pandemic.\n\nCorrection 28 July 2020: A previous version of this story has been amended to make clear that the Gaza Strip is still controlled by Hamas, and not the Palestinian Authority.", "The price of Bitcoin fell below $34,000 (£24,030) for the first time in three months on Wednesday, after China imposed fresh curbs on crypto-currencies.\n\nBeijing banned banks and payment firms from providing services related to crypto-currency transactions.\n\nIt also warned investors against speculative crypto trading on Tuesday.\n\nIt follows falls in Bitcoin of more than 10% last week after Tesla said it would no longer accept the currency.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, Bitcoin recovered some ground, although it was still down -10.4% at $38,131.\n\nMeanwhile, other digital currencies such as Ether, which acts as the fuel for the Ethereum blockchain network, and Dogecoin lost as much as 22% and 24% respectively.\n\nAt the same time, Tesla shares fell more than 3% on Wall Street, possibly because of the electric carmaker's exposure to Bitcoin.\n\nThe firm, owned by Elon Musk, still holds around $1.5bn worth of the crypto-currency.\n\nCrypto-currency trading has been illegal in China since 2019 in order to curb money-laundering. But people are still able to trade in currencies such as Bitcoin online, which has concerned Beijing.\n\nElon Musk said crypto-currency could \"not come at great cost to the environment\"\n\nOn Tuesday, three state-backed organisations, including the National Internet Finance Association of China, the China Banking Association and the Payment and Clearing Association of China issued a warning on social media.\n\nThey said consumers would have no protection if they were to incur any losses from crypto-currency investment transactions.\n\nThey added that recent wild swings in crypto-currency prices \"seriously violate people's asset safety\" and are disrupting the \"normal economic and financial order\".\n\nNeil Wilson of Markets.com said: \"China has for some time been putting pressure on the crypto space, but this marks an intensification - other countries might follow now as central banks make strides towards their own digital currencies.\n\n\"Until now, Western regulators have been pretty relaxed about Bitcoin, but this might change soon.\"\n\nIn March, Tesla boss Elon Musk announced unexpectedly that the electric carmaker would allow customers to buy cars using Bitcoin.\n\nBut last week, he did a U-turn and suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin because of environmental concerns.\n\nHis fears centre on Bitcoin mining - the energy-intensive process through which the digital currency is generated, using high-powered computers. It often relies on electricity generated with fossil fuels, particularly coal.\n\n\"We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel,\" Mr Musk wrote.\n\n\"Cryptocurrency is a good idea... but this cannot come at great cost to the environment.\"\n\nHe said the electric carmaker did not intend to sell any of its Bitcoin and intended to reinstate crypto-currency transactions once mining shifted to using more sustainable energy sources.\n\nAlthough the digital currency cannot be traded in China, more than 75% of Bitcoin mining around the world is done in China.\n\nFor anyone who has followed the crypto-currency scene for a while, the events of recent weeks are a familiar story.\n\nSome random event - say, a tweet from Elon Musk announcing Tesla will accept crypto-currency payments - sends Bitcoin to new highs, and people begin to say it's winning mainstream acceptance.\n\nThen another random event happens, perhaps a change of course from the Tesla tycoon. It comes tumbling down again, and talk of it going mainstream fades into the background.\n\nLast month, in a chatroom on Clubhouse (another phenomenon that seems to be swinging from boom to bust) I expressed some scepticism about crypto-currencies.\n\nUp popped a senior figure from London's thriving fintech scene: \"Rory, Rory,\" he chided me, \"crypto is becoming an accepted asset class.\"\n\nWith big City institutions taking an interest, that had a ring of truth - back in April, at least.\n\nBut this week, the weather had changed, with the Financial Times reporting \"new doubts among institutional fund managers over the future of crypto-currencies as an asset class\".\n\nMy mind went back to 2013, when I had first taken an interest in Bitcoin. In a report for Radio 4's PM programme, I had bought a pizza for 0.5 BTC, a tortuous process which had not seemed worth the £30 it cost back then - of course, at today's exchange rate, that was a £14,000 pizza.\n\nI had also written a blog post headlined \"The Bitcoin Bubble\", in which I tried to mine some lessons from a period when the price of the cryptocurrency shot up from $15 to $276 and then hurtled lower again.\n\nI ended a piece in which I compared the cryptocurrency with 17th-Century Dutch tulips or London houses in the 1980s with this thought: \"Unless and until Bitcoin can be used to buy a sandwich, or be accepted by your friends when you pay them back for a restaurant meal, then it is likely to remain just a playground for geeks and gamblers.\"\n\nEight years on, it is still virtually impossible to buy a sandwich with Bitcoin.\n\nAnd why would you want to, when there's a good chance you'll be mocked a few years later - as I've been for my transaction - for giving away an asset that goes on to soar in value?", "We need to rebuild lives in Gaza, says UN\n\nThe UN agency for Palestinian refugees - known as UNRWA - has announced a list of priorities as it switches from an emergency response to recovery in Gaza. According to AFP news agency, UNRWA's chief in Gaza, Matthias Schmale, told reporters about is three priorities in the wake of the conflict: finding and supporting those who are homeless; assessing the damage; and helping to rebuild the lives of a \"terrified, traumatised population\". Mr Schmale also expressed concern about the Covid pandemic in Gaza. The second wave there had begun to calm before the fighting erupted. \"Many of us are very worried that... we may have in fact seen the beginning of the third wave because of course precautionary measures and so on were not adhered to,\" he said. But while he said he felt an \"enormous sense of relief\" at the ceasefire, he added that the truce felt \"fragile\". \"I am convinced after being here three and a half years that we will be back in a war if the underlying causes are not addressed,\" he said.", "Firefighters at the scene on Wednesday\n\nA masked man was captured on CCTV deliberately setting fire to three vehicles outside the home of Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell.\n\nThe club earlier said Mr Lawwell and his family are \"extremely shaken\" after the blaze, which also caused extensive damage to a garage.\n\nThe alarm was raised in Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire, at about 01:00.\n\nPolice said footage shows the suspect pouring an accelerant on vehicles outside the house on Peel Road.\n\nNo one was injured as a result of the incident, which is being treated as wilful fire-raising.\n\nMr Lawwell is Celtic chief executive and due to retire next month\n\nThe suspect is described as 5ft 10in and of slim build. He was wearing black jogging trousers, a black hooded jumper with the hood up, black trainers and a face mask.\n\nOfficers said a silver or grey hatchback car was also seen near to the house at the time of the fire.\n\nDet Insp Susie Cairns said: \"This was a completely reckless act which destroyed three cars and caused significant damage to the property's garage.\n\n\"The consequences could have been so much worse.\"\n\nShe urged anyone who was in the area at the time or who has relevant dashcam footage to get in touch with officers.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service confirmed eight appliances responded to the blaze.\n\nThe road leading to Mr Lawwell's home was cordoned off after the fire\n\nMr Lawwell confirmed in January he is to retire at the end of June after 17 years at Celtic.\n\nHe has been replaced by Dominic McKay, who has already moved from Scottish Rugby to take up the post.\n\nA Celtic spokeswoman said: \"We can confirm that significant damage has been caused to Peter Lawwell's house and vehicles there, following an explosion and fire early this morning, forcing the family to leave the property.\"\n\n\"Clearly, Peter's family are extremely shaken and shocked by these terrible events, but thankfully all are safe.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Fortuna is a pipe-laying ship working on the Nord Stream 2 project\n\nThe Biden administration has waived sanctions on a company building a controversial gas pipeline between Russia and Germany.\n\nThe US also lifted sanctions on the executive - an ally of Russia's Vladimir Putin - who leads the firm behind the Nord Stream 2 project.\n\nThe move came in a report on Russian sanctions delivered to Congress by the Department of State.\n\nCritics say the pipeline is a major geopolitical prize for the Kremlin.\n\nThe project, which would take gas from the Russian Arctic under the Baltic Sea to Germany, is already more than 95% complete.\n\nThe Department of State report notes that Nord Stream 2 AG and its chief executive, Matthias Warnig, a former East German intelligence officer, engaged in sanctionable activity.\n\nBut it concludes that it is in the US national interest to waive the sanctions.\n\nThe Department of State also imposed sanctions on four Russian ships involved in the building of Nord Stream 2, though detractors said that would not be enough to stop the pipeline.\n\nPresident Joe Biden has said he opposes the $11bn (£7.8bn) project. His Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said during his confirmation hearing that he was \"determined to do whatever we can to prevent that completion\" of Nord Stream 2.\n\nOn Wednesday, America's top diplomat met his Russian counterpart at an international summit in Iceland.\n\nForeign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia and the US had \"serious differences\", but should work together \"in spheres where our interests collide\".\n\nEarlier Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said reports of the impending US sanctions waiver were \"a positive signal\".\n\nAnthony Blinken (left) and Sergei Lavrov met in Reykjavik on Wednesday\n\nAnd Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted by the state-run Tass news agency as welcoming \"a chance for a gradual transition toward the normalisation of our bilateral ties\".\n\nGerman officials also welcomed the sanctions waiver as \"a constructive step\" from the Biden administration.\n\nForeign Minister Heiko Maas told reporters: \"It's an expression of the fact that Germany is an important partner for the US, one that it can count on in the future.\"\n\nBut Yuriy Vitrenko, the chief executive of Ukraine's state-owned energy company, Naftogaz, said Kyiv would press Washington to impose sanctions to stop the pipeline.\n\nMr Vitrenko said Nord Stream was Russia's most \"dangerous geopolitical project\".\n\nThe Biden administration's decision was criticised by a member of the president's own party, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Menendez.\n\nThe New Jersey Democrat said in a statement: \"I urge the administration to rip off the Band-Aid, lift these waivers and move forward with the congressionally mandated sanctions.\"\n\nHe added that he failed to see \"how today's decision will advance US efforts to counter Russian aggression in Europe\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch who delivered the line better - Biden or Reagan?\n\nUS congressional Republicans also condemned the waiver.\n\nJim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said it was \"a gift to Putin that will only weaken the United States' leverage in the lead up to the impending Biden-Putin summit\".\n\nMr Biden will travel to Europe next month and a potential summit with the Russian president is in the works.\n\nMichael McCaul, the top-ranking House Republican on foreign affairs, said: \"If the Putin regime is allowed to finish this pipeline, it will be because the Biden Administration chose to let it happen.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is a Russian malign influence project that threatens to deepen Europe's energy dependence on Moscow, render Ukraine more vulnerable to Russian aggression and provide billions of dollars to Putin's coffers.\"\n\nWhen Mr Biden came into office he sought to draw a contrast between himself and his predecessor, Donald Trump, by vowing there would be no more \"rolling over in the face of Russia's aggressive actions\".\n\nBut analysts say the US president was reluctant to risk a trans-Atlantic rift with Germany at a time when he has been trying to reach out to European allies.\n\nThe sanctions waiver comes after cyber-criminals who the US government says were based in Russia took a major American oil pipeline offline this month, leaving thousands of petrol stations across the US south-east with fuel shortages.\n\nIt also comes after Mr Biden was lambasted in January for cancelling the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the US, citing the need to combat climate change.\n\nThat project had been forecast to generate tens of thousands of jobs.", "Beth Wankiewicz had had a low-risk pregnancy with her son Clay\n\nBeth and Dan Wankiewicz want answers about why their baby son Clay died last year, shortly after his birth at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.\n\nDespite a low-risk pregnancy, the family say Clay died from multiple skull fractures.\n\nDoncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust said \"the provision and delivery of high-quality\" care is a priority.\n\nThe BBC has found a 2016 review flagging concerns about the hospital's maternity care was never published.\n\nThe report - one of scores of unpublished reports discovered by a Freedom of Information request by BBC's Panorama programme - highlighted significant patient safety concerns.\n\nBeth Wankiewicz was admitted to hospital last July, but after a day of labour her baby had still not been born.\n\nBeth and Dan say they want answers about what happened at their son's birth\n\nWith no consultant doctor on site, a junior doctor made two attempts to deliver the baby with forceps, after getting advice on the phone.\n\nDan remembers the second attempt with forceps being much more vigorous \"which was a bit of a shock\".\n\nThe family say there was a further delay before they had a Caesarean section. Their baby had to be pushed back up the birth canal into the womb for the C-section to be performed.\n\n\"I think after about 10 minutes, we both looked at the clock, and we said it's not looking good,\" said Dan.\n\nAround 20 minutes after their son was born, despite attempts to resuscitate him, they were told he had died.\n\nThe following day they say a midwife told them she was being pressurised by other staff to say Clay had been stillborn, but she was sure he had been born alive, and she had heard a heartbeat.\n\nThe family now believe this was to avoid scrutiny and the need for a coroner's inquest, which doesn't happen with still births.\n\nBeth and Dan say Clay died with from multiple skull fractures.\n\nBeth and Dan say Clay's post-mortem shows he died of multiple skull fractures.\n\nDavid Purdue, chief nurse and deputy chief executive of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, offered sympathy to the family, and said the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch had drawn up a report into the case with findings that had been shared with the trust, the family and the coroner. He said an inquest would be held soon.\n\nA BBC investigation has now found that in 2016 a review of services by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists identified serious patient safety concerns within maternity services at the trust, but it had not been published.\n\nThe trust had asked for the review following a \"number of serious clinical incidents\".\n\nSome of the concerns were that:\n\nFollowing a 2015 maternity scandal at Morecambe Bay, in which 11 babies and one mother died, a report by Dr Bill Kirkup recommended that trusts openly report the findings of any external investigation.\n\nThe BBC showed the 2016 report to the family, who hadn't seen it before.\n\n\"My heart just dropped... reading point after point of things that resonate with us in Clay's care that had been picked up in 2016 ' said Beth.\n\n\"It was just heartbreaking to know that they knew back then\"\n\nNatalie Cosgrove, the couple's solicitor, said she had represented several families since the review, where the issues identified have been a factor.\n\nShe said: \"My concern is why those concerns have not been acted upon by the trust.\"\n\nPeter Walsh, head of the charity Action against Medical Accidents, said: \"I found it very worrying. Frankly, it's very reminiscent of reports I've seen into other trusts where the problems have become huge scandals: Morecambe Bay, Shrewsbury and Telford.\"\n\nDavid Purdue, deputy chief executive of the trust said : \"The provision and delivery of high quality maternity services is our number one priority. Following the invited report from the Royal College in 2016, we shared the executive summary, recommendations and action plans with our regulators, partners and staff and have completed all of the actions.\"\n\nIn a statement, the health regulator in England, the Care Quality Commission said: \"We liaised with the trust regarding the steps they were taking to respond to the review and address the recommendations of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists, and where we had concerns that the recommended actions were not being progressed fast enough, we called for improvements.\"\n\nMaternity services at both hospitals run by the trust are currently rated as Requires Improvement by the hospital regulator.\n\nA spokesperson for the trust said the summary, recommendations and actions had been available \"upon request\" and shared with commissioners and regulators.\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said: \"Throughout the pandemic the NHS has safely delivered thousands of babies while keeping staff and patients safe, and the NHS announcement of an additional £95 million to boost maternity services will improve women's experience further.\n\n\"All independent reviews should be made available to relevant health commissioners and regulators...and [we] expect trusts to take prompt action to address appropriate recommendations.\"", "A police officer accused of murdering a former footballer said he was \"absolutely petrified\" when he used his Taser on him.\n\nIn an interview from the time, PC Benjamin Monk said ex-Villa star Dalian Atkinson was \"absolutely livid\" when he and a colleague arrived at the scene.\n\nHe said Mr Atkinson told him \"I'm taking you to the gates of hell\" and he believed this was his intention.\n\nPC Monk, 42, is on trial for Mr Atkinson's murder in Telford.\n\nMr Atkinson, a former Aston Villa star who also played for Ipswich Town and Sheffield Wednesday, died shortly after the officers responded to calls to his father's house in Meadow Close at about 01:30 BST on 15 August, 2016.\n\nThe court previously heard Mr Atkinson had been acting strangely, shouting in the street and claiming to be the Messiah.\n\nIn his police interviews, summarised in court, PC Monk recounted how Mr Atkinson's \"face was one of utter rage\" when he opened the door.\n\n\"It was surreal, he'd got the biggest wildest eyes I'd ever seen, they were protruding from his head,\" he said. \"That was the anger simply coming from this man's face\".\n\nPC Benjamin Monk said he was \"absolutely petrified\" when attending the scene in Telford\n\nHe told officers Mr Atkinson, who he described as \"quite simply huge\", was pacing and he decided to deploy his Taser because he knew he could not outrun or overpower him.\n\n\"The bloke was towering above me, absolutely towering. His shoulders literally filled the frame of the door,\" he said.\n\nThe first discharge failed and PC Monk said Mr Atkinson then started running at him and his colleague PC Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, 31.\n\n\"I genuinely thought we had had it,\" he said.\n\nHe continued his account, saying Mr Atkinson then turned back towards the house, kicking and punching the front door, which was when PC Monk loaded a second Taser cartridge.\n\nWhen that too failed, PC Monk said Mr Atkinson told him \"I'm taking you to the gates of hell\" and he believed this was his intention.\n\nDalian Atkinson had a number of underlying health conditions including heart disease and kidney failure\n\nWhen Mr Atkinson fell to the floor after PC Monk successfully discharged a third Taser cartridge, the officer said he felt \"relief\".\n\nThe trial heard PC Monk discharged the Taser for 33 seconds - six times longer than standard. In his interviews, he said he did not know when he had taken his finger off the trigger and \"felt his brain had stopped working\".\n\nThe prosecution's case is that the force PC Monk deployed, including kicking Mr Atkinson's head forcefully, was excessive and went beyond self defence.\n\nPC Bettley-Smith, is accused of using a police baton unlawfully and striking Mr Atkinson whilst he was incapacitated.\n\nPC Monk denies murder as well as an alternative charge of manslaughter. PC Bettley-Smith denies assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\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. Boris Johnson says he is sorry for the pain the Ballymurphy victims' families have endured\n\nThe prime minister has publicly apologised to the families of the 10 people killed in Ballymurphy in 1971\n\nBoris Johnson began prime minister's questions on Wednesday by reading the names of the victims.\n\nHe went on to say that he was sorry for how the investigations were handled and for the pain endured by the families.\n\nLast week an inquest found that the victims, who were shot during an Army operation in Belfast, were \"entirely innocent\".\n\nMr Johnson told the House of Commons: \"No apology can lessen their lasting pain, I hope they may take some comfort in the answers they have secured and in knowing this has renewed the government's determination to ensure in future that other families can find answers without distress and delay.\"\n\nJohn Teggart, whose father Daniel was one of those killed in Ballymurphy, has called Boris Johnson's apology \"totally unacceptable\" and said he \"personally rejects it\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, Mr Teggart labelled Mr Johnson's apology \"totally insincere\" and said it \"again has caused annoyance to the families\".\n\nMr Teggart ruled out ever meeting the prime minister and said he \"wouldn't waste a minute of his time with him\".\n\n\"I won't be letting him annoy me anymore, I have no time for him and his feeble attempts to apologise,\" Mr Teggart said.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson's apology should have focused on \"our loved ones who were murdered\" and not how the investigation was handled.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mary Kate Quinn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary Kate Quinn, whose uncle John Laverty was killed in Ballymurphy, said the Balllymurphy families \"were not informed\" that Mr Johnson was making a statement on Wednesday in the House of Commons.\n\nIn a tweet, Ms Quinn said: \"We found out from journalists. Yet again, that was not an apology. Boris did not apologise for the killings of our loved ones.\"\n\nThe inquest examined the deaths of 10 people in Ballymurphy in 1971\n\nAmong the victims were a priest who was trying to help the wounded and a mother of eight.\n\nNine of the 10 victims were killed by the Army, the coroner said.\n\nHowever, Mrs Justice Keegan said she could not definitively rule who shot the tenth victim, former World War Two soldier John McKerr.\n\nFamilies of the victims received a written apology from Mr Johnson last week, which they said had angered them.\n\nThey said the letter was received minutes before Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis apologised in Parliament for \"the events at Ballymurphy\" in 1971.\n\nMr Lewis said the events at Ballymurphy should never have happened.\n\nMr Johnson also told Parliament that the UK government was committed to introducing legislation in the current session to address the legacy of the Troubles.\n\n\"And to introduce a fair package for veterans as well, to protect them from unfair, vexatious litigation where no new evidence has been brought forward,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe government is to bring forward legislation in the course of the next year to deal with legacy issues related to the Northern Ireland Troubles.\n\nBased on details of the plan leaked in recent weeks, it is proposed that all prosecutions prior to 1998 and related to the Troubles will, in future, be banned under a statute of limitations.\n\nSimon Hoare, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee chair, said it was right for the prime minister to apologise\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said Mr Johnson had added \"insult to injury\".\n\n\"I don't think that he has delivered anything that approximates a sincere or complete apology,\" Ms McDonald said.\n\n\"The bigger problem beyond that is that Boris Johnson and his government are determined to deliver an amnesty for British soldiers.\"\n\nSDLP leader and Foyle MP Colum Eastwood said Mr Johnson's apology was \"too little, too late\".\n\n\"I don't know why he couldn't make a proper apology to the families last week when he had many, many opportunities,\" Mr Eastwood said.\n\n\"He didn't actually apologise for their loved ones being killed by British soldiers. I just think it was frankly insulting to the victims.\"\n\nMr Eastwood said the prime minister should have met the families in Belfast.\n\nSimon Hoare, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee chair, said he had hoped the prime minister would give an apology and he was pleased that he had now done so.\n\n\"I think it was the right thing for the prime minister to do,\" Mr Hoare said.", "Covid-19 has now been overtaken by flu and pneumonia as a cause of death in Wales, latest mortality analysis shows.\n\nFor six of the past 13 months, Covid-19 was the biggest cause of death in Wales but in April it was the 18th leading cause.\n\nThere were 35 deaths due to Covid in April - 1.4% of all deaths, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showed.\n\nThis was also the largest month-on-month fall since the pandemic began.\n\nIt was a 81.5% fall compared to March.\n\nThe age standardised mortality rate was 12.6 deaths per 100,000 - the lowest since last September.\n\nHeart disease, dementia/Alzheimer's disease and strokes are the biggest causes of death - while even flu and pneumonia have now overtaken Covid, although this is still two-thirds lower than the five-year average.\n\nAbout 92% of communities across Wales experienced no deaths due to Covid at all in April.\n\nOnly Holyhead on Anglesey - with two deaths - had more than one.\n\nAnd there is one community remaining which has had no Covid deaths at all through the pandemic - Llandudno Junction South and Llasanffraid Glan Conwy.\n\nCovid accounted for 19% of all deaths in the first four months of 2021 but this was at the peak of the pandemic at the start of the year and it has shown a dramatic decline since.\n\nIt was responsible for 6.3% of all registered deaths in March; it was 22.2% in February and 35.2% in January.\n\nSeparate figures earlier this week showed so-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, are now below the five-year average for the 10th successive week.\n\nThe number of deaths involving Covid-19 was five in the latest week - the lowest total since early September.\n\nThese accounted for 0.9% of all deaths, according to the ONS.\n\nThe trend has been for a steady decline and is 92% fewer Covid deaths than registered two months ago.\n\nDuring the latest week, up to 7 May, there were no deaths in 17 out of Wales' local authority areas, including across the Aneurin Bevan, Cardiff and Vale, Hywel Dda and Powys health board areas.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Failures in England's Test and Trace system are partly responsible for a surge in the Indian variant in one of the worst affected parts of the country, a report seen by the BBC says.\n\nFor three weeks in April and May, eight local authorities in England did not have access to the full data on positive tests in their area.\n\nThe number of missing cases was highest in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire.\n\nA recent surge in infections there has been linked to the Indian variant.\n\nThe government said a Track and Trace \"software issue\" had affected a \"handful\" of places, but this had been resolved \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nThe other areas experiencing incomplete data were Blackpool, York, Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock.\n\nLabour called on ministers to \"explain what's gone wrong\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace - for which £37bn has been set aside - identifies people who have been in close contact with someone who has caught Covid.\n\nBetween 21 April and 11 May, the system only provided details of a limited number of positive cases of coronavirus to the eight local authorities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Councils should be able to see Covid data - Jeremy Hunt\n\nOn 11 May, they were told by the Department of Health and Social Care that, over that period, 734 positive tests had not been reported.\n\nAccording to a report by officials at one of the councils affected, the central Test and Trace system failed to notify its staff of cases, meaning their contacts could not be traced locally.\n\nIt says that \"the rapid spread of Indian variant cases... may be partially or largely attributable to risks in the international travel control system\", adding: \"These were exacerbated by the sporadic failure of the national Test and Trace system.\"\n\nSix of the local authorities affected have confirmed to the BBC that they experienced problems.\n\nAlthough it is thought that the people tested were given their results, local authority staff were not provided with contact-tracing information through the central system.\n\nSome 3,424 cases of the Indian variant - which is believed to spread more quickly than the Kent variant that caused the winter spike in infections - have now been identified in the UK.\n\nThe government added India to the \"red list\" of countries, from which travellers must quarantine in a hotel on return, on 23 April - two days after the problems with Test and Trace started.\n\nWhile national contact-tracing teams should take on variant cases, identifying the particular variant can take up to two weeks.\n\nIn the meantime, local authority staff are often the first to make contacts with positive cases.\n\nWhere cases went unreported, they were also in many cases unable to offer support to isolating individuals.\n\nThe Department of Health told Blackburn with Darwen Council that there were 164 cases it had been unaware of. The people affected were subsequently traced.\n\nAnother 130 cases were not reported, but, because they had passed the 10-day isolation period, could not be followed up.\n\nEven when cases were uploaded to the system on 12 May, some key information, such as phone numbers or addresses, was incomplete.\n\nFor Labour, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said it \"beggars belief\" that councils had been \"left in the dark for two weeks when we know acting with speed is vital to containing an outbreak\".\n\nHe added: \"Ministers need to explain what's gone wrong and provide local health directors with all the resources they need to push infections down.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on coronavirus, said \"grave errors\" over Test and Trace failures had \"contributed to the surge in cases of the Indian variant\".\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"NHS Test and Trace has contacted over 10 million people since the start of the pandemic, and this has had a significant impact, breaking chains of transmission and reducing the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Over the past month, we have contacted over 150,000 people to tell them to self-isolate.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"Due to a software issue, there was a delay in tracing contacts of a number of cases. This only affected a handful of local authorities and the issue was resolved as quickly as possible.\"\n\nData released by Public Health England shows there have now been 3,424 cases of the Indian variant detected - that is up by just over 2,000 on this time last week.\n\nCases are predominantly affecting the north west of England, particularly Bolton, and London, PHE said.\n\nThese numbers are going to continue growing - it is expected the variant will become dominant in the UK as scientists believe it is more infectious than the UK variant.\n\nIt's unclear by how much - currently experts are saying it could be anything between 10% to 50% more transmissible.\n\nBut what this means for infection levels and, crucially, serious illness remains to be seen.\n\nOverall infection levels remain low. Even if infection levels do rise, there is no guarantee that will translate into significant numbers of hospital cases because of the rollout of the vaccines.\n\nWhat will be crucial is just how more transmissible it is. Below 25% and the impact on hospital cases is expected to be minimal. Once you get to 40% it could become problematic.\n\nIt will be another week until scientists are able to give a confident estimate of what the true figure is.", "The baby was found in a waterway in Rough Wood Country Park, in Willenhall\n\nThe body of a baby boy has been discovered in a canal, police said.\n\nA passer-by spotted the child in a waterway in Rough Wood Country Park, Willenhall, at about 13:00 BST on Thursday, said West Midlands Police.\n\nOfficers are seeking the child's mother, who they said may need urgent medical attention.\n\n\"We're now investigating these very sad circumstances to understand exactly what has happened and if anyone has come to harm,\" the force said.\n\nPeople were stopped from entering the park while inquiries took place\n\nDet Insp Wes Martin added: \"This is a tragic investigation and our priority is to now find the baby boy's mum to make sure she is OK.\"\n\nHe urged anyone with information to get in touch.\n\nThe nature reserve was sealed off as investigations got under way.\n\nSpeculation could hinder the investigation, police said\n\nThe force urged the public not to speculate on the \"distressing\" incident, and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nThe discovery comes less than a month after a baby, thought to be only a few hours old, was found by a dog walker in an abandoned park in Birmingham.\n\nNamed George by hospital staff, he was found on 22 April at The Mounds in Kings Norton.\n\nHe is now doing well with foster carers, police said, but the search for his mother is continuing.\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. 'Disturbing' social media footage of cars being set on fire in Swansea\n\nGangs of \"yobs\" have been setting fire to cars and rolling them down a hill in Swansea in \"disturbing\" footage circulating on social media.\n\nSouth Wales Police said they attended \"large scale disorder\" in the Mayhill area of the city on Thursday evening.\n\nWelsh Parliament member Tom Giffard called the scenes \"disturbing\" as officers asked the public \"to disperse and leave the area\".\n\nOfficers believe the \"disorder\" on Waun-wen Road started as a vigil to a local person who recently died.\n\n\"What is believed to have started as a vigil to a recently deceased local resident has escalated into violence, criminal damage and a wanton disregard for public safety,\" Supt Tim Morgan said.\n\nThe \"disturbing\" scenes captured on social media happened on Waun-Wen Road in Swansea\n\nOne local resident, who did not want to be named, told the BBC the disturbance \"all started with some fireworks at around 7.30pm\".\n\n\"Police initially turned up and got out of the van to try to stop what was happening,\" he said.\n\nWhat police describe as \"large scale disorder\" started at about 19:30 BST on Thursday\n\n\"But they got pelted with rocks and then they got back in the van and left.\n\n\"We were trapped in the house with two young kids. They were really scared so I put them at the back of the house.\"\n\nSome residents have said they are leaving the area for the night as they fear a repeat\n\n\"There were loads of teenagers and they were rolling a car down the street and setting cars on fire.\n\n\"We're getting out of here tonight now and going to stay elsewhere with family just in case they come back.\"\n\nSwansea council leader Rob Stewart said the situation was \"completely unacceptable and inexcusable.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Giffard MS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Our thoughts are with the residents who have had to put up with this utterly despicable behaviour in our community,\" he said.\n\nOne family on Waun-wen Road said their 90-year-old mother had her windows smashed and was being evacuated - but did not want to be identified as they did not \"want to be targeted.\"\n\nOfficers have urged anyone involved to leave the scene \"immediately\" and said that \"those involved can expect to face robust action\".\n\n\"Post-incident investigations will also aim to identify all those concerned,\" added Supt Morgan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Simon Hart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have a number of officers at the scene working to de-escalate the situation as quickly as possible and allow other emergency service colleagues to attend to calls in the area.\n\nHe asked residents to stay indoors \"while the matter is brought to a safe conclusion.\"\n\nThe wreckage of burnt out cars litter Waun-wen Road in Mayhill\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and added: \"A tough night for the police dealing with such reckless behaviour. No excuses, police right to robustly respond.\"\n\nLocal resident Tyler Thomas has set up an online fundraising page to help the people affected by what is being described as the \"Mayhill riot\".\n\nMore than a dozen police vehicles and fire engines were on standby outside Townhill Police Station in case the violence erupted again.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Su Gorman’s husband Steve was diagnosed with hepatitis C 21 years after first receiving contaminated blood products\n\nThe health secretary has acknowledged the pain and suffering of victims of the contaminated blood scandal, saying the government would pay compensation if recommended to.\n\nMatt Hancock was facing questions at a public inquiry into what's been called the worst NHS treatment disaster.\n\nAround 3,000 people died after being given blood products containing HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nMr Hancock said he wanted \"to make sure their voices are heard\".\n\nAnd he said the government would pay compensation if the inquiry decided it should.\n\nCurrently, victims and families get financial support but have not been compensated for loss of earnings, care costs and other lifetime losses.\n\nMinisters announced a public inquiry in 2017 after decades of campaigning by victims and their families.\n\nNearly 5,000 people with the blood disorder haemophilia were infected with potentially fatal viruses after being given a clotting agent called Factor VIII.\n\nMuch of the drug was imported from the US, where prisoners and other at-risk groups were often paid to donate the plasma used to make it.\n\nVictims included dozens of young haemophiliacs at a boarding school in Hampshire who died after contracting HIV as a result.\n\nTens of thousands more victims may have been exposed to viral hepatitis through blood transfusions after an operation or childbirth.\n\nFactor VIII was often imported from the US in the 1970s and 1980s\n\nFamilies of victims of the scandal have long fought for annual support payments to be increased and full compensation to be paid.\n\nIn March ministers said that families in England who lost relatives as a result of the scandal will receive the same support payments as those in other parts of the UK.\n\nTreasury minister Penny Mordaunt said bereaved partners would automatically get a £10,000 lump sum.\n\nBut campaigners say some families have been excluded from the scheme, including children who lost parents to HIV at the time.\n\nThe UK government has now said that full compensation could be paid in the future, depending on the outcome of the inquiry.\n\nThat is likely to pave the way for much larger payments covering lifetime loss of earnings and ongoing care costs.\n\nMinisters have appointed the retired barrister Sir Robert Francis to carry out a study looking at different options for compensation, and to report back with recommendations, before the inquiry publishes its conclusions.\n\n\"This is a huge move but if they decide to base compensation on what the inquiry decides, that gives them another two or three years before they have to find a penny,\" said Su Gorman, whose husband Steve Dymond died aged 62 in December 2018 of organ failure linked to hepatitis C.\n\n\"If they really wanted to pay compensation, they could find a way of doing it which would not prejudge the inquiry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video statements were played at the start of the public inquiry in September 2018\n\nThe public inquiry, led by Sir Brian Langstaff, has been examining the circumstances surrounded the contaminated blood scandal since 2018.\n\nHundreds of people who were infected with HIV and hepatitis C or their family members have already given evidence, with hearings held at sites across the UK.\n\nThe inquiry is examining how and why the infections occurred, what was known at the time about the risks of the treatments, and whether patients were given sufficient warnings about the dangers involved.\n\nEvidence hearings are scheduled to continue into next year with a final report likely to be published in 2022 or 2023.\n\nA book of remembrance for haemophiliacs who died in the contaminated blood scandal is displayed at St Botolph's Church in the City of London\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"The infected blood tragedy should never have happened. The ongoing public inquiry was set up to establish the truth and give individuals and families the answers they rightly deserve.\n\n\"We've always been clear that those who have been affected by this tragedy should be supported by a fair and transparent support scheme focused on their welfare, providing some security and consistency.\n\n\"The government has listened to the call for parity of support across UK and in March announced a package for the whole of the UK which will bring greater uniformity to the four National support schemes.\"", "The PIP implant scandal affected about 300,000 women in as many as 65 countries\n\nWomen given faulty breast implants fear thousands of them may have to pay back compensation after visits by bailiffs warning them of legal proceedings.\n\nGerman safety body TUV Rheinland was found liable for the global PIP implant scandal in 2017 and ordered to make payouts to victims by a French court.\n\nThe firm has begun an appeal and some 13,000 victims awarded compensation have been issued legal papers.\n\nOne victim said bailiff visits had left her with anxiety and panic attacks.\n\nTUV Rheinland said it had been forced to send papers directly to victims' homes as the legal team representing the women had failed to register with the court, in compliance with French law.\n\nThe implants were manufactured by the French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) and in 2010 it emerged they had been made with substandard, industrial-grade silicone.\n\nThe scandal affected about 300,000 women in as many as 65 countries, including France, the UK, Germany, Venezuela and Brazil.\n\nSarah Higginson fears she will have to pay back thousands of pounds she received in compensation\n\nSarah Higginson, from Andover in Hampshire, was awarded an interim payout of £3,000 in 2017 for implants she had in 2008, leaving her with £2,085.48 after legal fees.\n\nThe 39-year-old said the visit by bailiffs left her suffering with anxiety and panic attacks and she feared if the appeal was successful money would have to be paid back.\n\n\"We had to wait years for the small amount of compensation we did get and that didn't even cover the cost of the surgery and now we're getting this treatment with people turning up with papers left, right and centre,\" she said.\n\n\"It is causing long term mental damage. On top of that, it's all the worry about what's inside you and the long-term health implications\".\n\nStephanie Wendy Lee from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, had the implants in 2008 and has also been served papers from the French courts.\n\nStephanie Wendy Lee said more needs to be done to help victims of the scandal\n\nShe said: \"When you actually receive this package it's terrifying.\n\n\"It's like having a court summons. You think, is a bailiff suddenly going to turn up at the house and take stuff away? Am I going to prison for money that I've been given through the courts?\"\n\nStephanie said she believed the stigma of having a cosmetic procedure affected the way people treated the victims of PIP.\n\nShe said: \"Because it's a cosmetic thing, because you've had an implant put inside your bust, the majority of people say… 'well you chose to have it done'.\"\n\nShe is now calling for more to be done to help those trying to rebuild their lives.\n\nAmanda Carter, who runs a Facebook campaign group for PIP victims, said visits by bailiffs were 'hugely concerning'\n\nAmanda Carter had PIP implants in 2002. In early 2010 she started to experience extreme pain in her right breast and found the implants were leaking silicone into her body. She later had them removed.\n\nMrs Carter, 47, from Kettering, Northamptonshire, now helps run the Official PIP Implant Campaign (OPIC) support group on Facebook.\n\nHer papers were delivered to an old address - something she said was also causing distress to other victims.\n\n\"It's been hugely concerning,\" she said. \"A lot of women are concerned that a bailiff at their door means that they can come in and take their possessions and a lot of people have presumed they are there to collect.\"\n\nIt is believed some 13,000 victims awarded compensation have been issued legal papers\n\nTUV Rheinland, which was among the bodies that had certified the implants, was found responsible for failing to detect problems with them and ordered to pay compensation.\n\nHowever, it maintains it was not responsible for what the implants were made of, only the way they were produced.\n\nJean-Claude Mas was sentenced to four years in prison in 2013 for fraud\n\nCécile Derycke, a lawyer at Hogan Lovells Paris representing TUV Rheinland in France, said the company had \"taken many steps\" to avoid sending the documentation to the claimants.\n\n\"In French law people who are defendants before the court of appeal must either register counsel with the court, or they must receive the other party's submissions through a bailiff.\n\n\"Unfortunately after more than a year of trying to avoid this - to avoid the costs and also the complexities for everyone involved - no lawyer had registered counsel for some of the claimants and so that's why TUV Rheinland didn't have any other choice but to send the documentation to some of the claimants, and the French lawyers for the claimants were duly informed that this would happen.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to reach Olivier Aumaîtr, the lawyer representing PIP victims, for comment.", "The BBC's director general has described the corporation's failures around Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Princess Diana as \"very, very serious\".\n\nAn independent inquiry by Lord Dyson, a former senior judge, found that the journalist Martin Bashir deceived the princess and her brother, Earl Spencer, and then lied about his actions to BBC managers.\n\n\"If you're an organisation that cares about truthful, honest journalism and proper practice, I think it's a very difficult read,\" Tim Davie said.", "Producers for hit Netflix show Bridgerton want to film in Windsor\n\nCouncillors have refused permission to build a film set in Windsor for hit Netflix series Bridgerton.\n\nProducers for the period drama had wanted to build a set on Crown Estate land in Sunninghill Park to use over a five-year period.\n\nDespite royal approval, The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead council rejected it as \"inappropriate development of the green belt\".\n\nThe set would have been built on land in Sunninghill Park owned by the Crown Estate\n\nThe set would have seen scaffolding with frontages used to create a London Regency square and would have been used for filming over five summers.\n\nA car park and other temporary structures for wardrobe and dining would also have been set up, the meeting was informed on Wednesday.\n\nThe council's planning officers recommended refusal for the set, near ancient woodland, saying it would cause \"harm to the rural character of the area\".\n\nThey also mentioned there was \"insufficient information\" to ensure protected species would not be adversely affected.\n\nSpeaking at the public meeting at the Maidenhead Holiday Inn, Patrick Griffin of CPRE Berkshire said the set would be \"demonstrably out of character with the area\" and be an \"encroachment into the countryside\".\n\nCouncillor Sayonara Luxton explained the application supported by the Crown Estate would not be in front of councillors without \"approval from Her Majesty\" and that the borough's local shops and hotels would also benefit.\n\nCouncillor Andrew Johnson, leader of the council, echoed her sentiments: \"The clear economic benefits of this application more than outweigh any short term potential harm to the greenbelt.\"\n\nHowever councillors voted by 7-2. to support officers' recommendation for refusal.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How did a cyber-attack lead to US petrol queues?\n\nColonial Pipeline has confirmed it paid a $4.4m (£3.1m) ransom to the cyber-criminal gang responsible for taking the US fuel pipeline offline.\n\nIts boss told the Wall Street Journal he authorised the payment on 7 May because of uncertainty over how long the shutdown would continue.\n\n\"I know that's a highly controversial decision,\" Joseph Blount said in his first interview since the hack.\n\nAccording to the firm, it carries 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel, petrol and jet fuel.\n\nChief executive Mr Blount told the newspaper that the firm decided to pay the ransom after discussions with experts who had previously dealt with DarkSide, the criminal organisation behind the attack.\n\n\"I didn't make [that decision] lightly. I will admit that I wasn't comfortable seeing money go out the door to people like this.\n\n\"But it was the right thing to do for the country,\" he added.\n\nThe US government has recommended in the past that companies do not pay criminals over ransomware attacks, in case they invite further hacks in the future.\n\nColonial Pipeline took itself offline on Friday 7 May after the cyber-attack.\n\nIn return for the Bitcoin payment, the company received a decryption tool so it could unlock the systems compromised by the hackers - although that was not enough to restart systems immediately, according to the newspaper.\n\nFears over fuel shortages spurred some customers to panic buy petrol in the United States.\n\nOperations resumed on the pipeline last week, although petrol shortages seen across states such as North Carolina and Georgia have persisted, according to data tracking firm Gas Buddy.\n\nMr Blount added that it would take months before some other business systems are recovered, and estimated that the attack would ultimately cost the company tens of millions of dollars.\n\nHe also regrets that the company has lost some degree of anonymity, having led the firm since 2017.\n\n\"We were perfectly happy having no one know who Colonial Pipeline was, and unfortunately that's not the case any more,\" he said. \"Everybody in the world knows.\"\n\nAt the time of the hack, the DarkSide criminal gang acknowledged the incident in a public statement.\n\n\"Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society,\" DarkSide wrote on its website.\n\n\"We do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for... our motives,\" the group added.", "Like many workplaces, the House of Lords introduced virtual participation in response to the pandemic.\n\nAnd - like many workplaces - the House of Lords is now debating whether to go back to its pre-pandemic style of requiring its members to physically attend.\n\nHere's a flavour of what's being said.\n\nConservative Lord Forsyth of Drumlean says the Lords face \"extinction\" if they don't return to their old ways, saying the upper chamber has faced \"a degree of mockery\" since introducing virtual proceedings.\n\nIn agreement, Tory deputy leader in the Lords Earl Howe says once social distancing rules allow, remote participation and virtual voting should \"cease\".\n\nBut, speaking on the Labour front bench, Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall says: \"Whilst the idea of reverting wholesale to the old normal is attractive I am not sure it is desirable or even possible.\n\n\"The House has invested a lot of time and money in creating some genuinely innovative systems... and we have adapted our procedures imaginatively. It would be perverse to set all that experience aside.\"\n\nConservative Lord Strathclyde says he lives in south-west Scotland and it has been \"extremely convenient\" to vote remotely.\n\nBut he adds: \"Parliament should not exist for my convenience or for anybody else's.\" (Though he said there may be special cases for virtual voting.)\n\nAnd, backing a return to physical proceedings, Conservative peer Lord Farmer says voting had become \"ridiculously easy\", noting: \"I am aware of one peer who has voted from the seat of his lawnmower.\"", "Pose actor Billy Porter has revealed he has been living with HIV for the past 14 years.\n\nThe US star was diagnosed in 2007 but said he had since \"lived with that shame in silence\".\n\nMaking it public would also have been \"another way for people to discriminate against me in an already discriminatory profession\", he explained.\n\nBut speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, he said: \"There's no more stigma - let's be done with that. It's time.\"\n\nPorter made his name on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for his role in the musical Kinky Boots in 2013.\n\nHe won an Emmy in 2019 for playing Pray Tell, an MC on the 1980s New York ballroom scene, in Ryan Murphy's acclaimed TV drama Pose. He earned Golden Globes nominations for best TV drama actor in both 2019 and 2020.\n\nPorter was on the red carpet at last week's Brit Awards in London\n\n\"I was the generation that was supposed to know better, and it happened anyway,\" he said of contracting HIV.\n\n\"The shame of that time compounded with the shame that had already [accumulated] in my life silenced me, and I have lived with that shame in silence for 14 years. HIV-positive, where I come from, growing up in the Pentecostal church with a very religious family, is God's punishment.\"\n\nHe said he told \"everybody who needed to know\", explaining: \"I was trying to have a life and a career, and I wasn't certain I could if the wrong people knew.\n\n\"It would just be another way for people to discriminate against me in an already discriminatory profession. So I tried to think about it as little as I could. I tried to block it out.\"\n\nHe said he was making it public now because \"it's time to grow up and move on because shame is destructive - and if not dealt with, it can destroy everything in its path\".\n\nHe did not even tell his mother until recently, he said. \"I was embarrassed. I was ashamed. I was the statistic that everybody said I would be.\n\n\"So I'd made a pact with myself that I would let her die before I told her. That's what I was waiting for, if I'm being honest. When we moved her into the Actors Fund Nursing Home, I was like, 'She's not going to be here long, and then I'll write my book and come out and she won't have to live with the embarrassment of having an HIV-positive child.'\n\n\"That was five years ago. She ain't going anywhere.\"\n\nHe and his sister made a plan to visit her to break the news, but he decided to do so over the phone on the last day of filming Pose, he said.\n\n\"Not two minutes into the conversation, she's like, 'What's wrong?' I said, 'Nothing.' She's like, 'Son, please tell me what's wrong.'\n\n\"So I ripped the Band-Aid off and I told her. She said, 'You've been carrying this around for 14 years? Don't ever do this again. I'm your mother, I love you no matter what. And I know I didn't understand how to do that early on, but it's been decades now.'\n\n\"And it's all true. It's my own shame. Years of trauma makes a human being skittish. But the truth shall set you free. I feel my heart releasing.\"\n\nModern treatments mean people can live long and healthy lives with HIV. \"This is what HIV-positive looks like now,\" Porter said.\n\n\"I'm going to die from something else before I die from that. My T-cell levels are twice yours because of this medication.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"This will be the first clinical study in the world to look at the impact of a booster jab\"\n\nThe public is being urged to take part in trials to find out whether a third dose of Covid vaccine could protect against new variants.\n\nAll seven vaccines the UK has ordered will be tested on working-age people and over-75s as part of a randomised trial.\n\nData on side-effects and immune responses will be gathered.\n\nThe findings will help vaccine advisers decide if re-vaccinating some people in the autumn is necessary.\n\nMore than 20 million people have been fully vaccinated - with two doses of a Covid vaccine - since the UK's vaccination programme started, but it's still not clear how long protection lasts.\n\nOffering some groups a third dose to boost protection from coronavirus ahead of winter has been suggested - but not confirmed.\n\nThe Cov-Boost study, which starts in June, will recruit 3,000 people of all ages who had their first dose in December or January, to test if this is worthwhile.\n\n\"It could be that some age groups may not need a booster and others do,\" said Prof Saul Faust, chief investigator for the trial, from the University of Southampton.\n\n\"We are not trying to say one is better than the other.\n\n\"The aim is to find out whether there should be a booster campaign and which vaccine to use,\" he said.\n\nProf Faust said he was not expecting any vaccines to be \"detrimental\" but some could cause high fevers or very sore arms, for example, which would be useful to know.\n\nThe vaccines will be trialled at 18 sites across the UK, and half doses will also be tested.\n\nThe full list of sites is: Southampton, London (University College Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and Northwick Park Harrow), Leicester, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Wrexham, Bradford, Oxford, Glasgow, Leeds, Cambridge, Birmingham, Brighton, Stockport, Liverpool and Exeter.\n\nParticipants will be asked to keep diaries of any side-effects after a third dose, which could be one of seven different Covid vaccines, and researchers will test participants' immune response after one, three and 12 months.\n\nThis involves testing their blood for antibodies to coronavirus - high levels are a sign that the body's defences are primed to fight off the virus.\n\nAll doses would be from current vaccines, designed to protect against the original form of the virus.\n\nIn addition to doses of AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna, some people will be given doses of vaccines from Novavax, Janssen, Valneva and CureVac, which are currently being trialled in large numbers of people, but have not yet been approved by the UK regulator. There will also be a control group, who will be given a dummy vaccine.\n\nEven though the study is using current vaccines, rather than vaccines which have been updated to target new variants, scientists say they expect a boost in antibodies which could be enough to protect against all circulating forms of the virus.\n\nDr Matthew Snape, associate professor of paediatrics and vaccinology at the University of Oxford, said the study was a world-first and there would be global interest in the results.\n\nAnother study, called ComCov, which is testing using different doses of vaccines for the first and second doses found that mixing doses increased mild-to-moderate symptoms after vaccination.\n\nThe Cov-Boost study, which costs £19.3 million, is being funded by the government and led by the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, as part of the National Immunisation Schedule Evaluation Consortium (NISEC).", "Paul Farrell targeted victims between 1985 and 2020, committing offences at addresses across London\n\nA victim of a former Great Ormond Street Hospital porter who sexually abused boys over decades has spoken of his \"guilt, shame and despair\".\n\nPaul Farrell, 55, pleaded guilty to 76 offences against eight victims between 1985 and 2020.\n\nA court heard that the true number of offences was \"not less than 560\" but probably \"in the thousands\".\n\nFarrell, from Camden in north London, will be sentenced following a two-day hearing and faces a lengthy jail term.\n\nHe befriended the parents of his victims and lodged with them or acted as a babysitter at addresses across the capital in order to abuse their children.\n\nProsecutor Paul Douglass told Wood Green Crown Court that Farrell's abuse included forcing one of the victims, who at the time was aged between seven and nine, to perform sex acts over a two-year period.\n\nDuring this same period, Farrell also abused the victim's younger brother, with neither sibling knowing what was happening to the other at the time.\n\nThe defendant made himself \"indispensable\" to another boy by buying him presents, giving him money and taking him to football matches, according to Mr Douglass, gifts described by the victim as \"bribes for being abused\".\n\nReading out an impact statement from the witness box, the victim told Farrell: \"I have carried this every day for the last 10 years. I want you to know that you are not going to break me. I am going to get over this and be the best man I can be for the community.\"\n\nBut his feelings were in contrast to those of the younger of the two brothers involved in the case.\n\nIn his statement, read to the court by Mr Douglass, he said: \"The last 18 months of my life have been unrecognisable and torturous.\"\n\nSince making a complaint to the police, he had felt \"guilt, shame, despair and disgust\" over what had happened, and had struggled with depression and his relationship with his family.\n\n\"I now feel hopeless, lost and disgusted at my silence that has allowed you to ruin the lives of so many innocent children,\" the victim's statement added.\n\n\"Innocent children like me and my brother will be profoundly scarred by your actions for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nFarrell worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital between 1994 and 2020\n\nMr Douglass told the court that the victims had not previously reported the abuse because they had a \"sense of shame\" of what had happened, while some feared that their parents would suffer the consequences.\n\n\"The defendant used a combination of bribes and threats which enabled him to commit serious sexual offences against the same victims, sometimes for many years,\" he said.\n\n\"He never gave his victims the slightest indication that he knew that what he was doing was wrong.\n\n\"For many of them, the sexual abuse became routine. He exerted complete control over his victims, and sometimes their families.\"\n\nFarrell worked at Great Ormond Street for 26 years. He did not target any patients there but did abuse two of his victims on the hospital site.\n\nMr Douglass said he had \"ruthlessly exploited the vulnerabilities of his victims\".\n\nHe told the hearing that the total number of offences Farrell had admitted numbered \"not less than 560 over a period of 35 years\" but that the true figure was \"likely to be in the thousands\".\n\nMr Douglass said Farrell was arrested for the first time in January last year after one of the victims saw a picture of the defendant on Facebook, which showed him around children.\n\nFarrell had previously pleaded guilty to a series of charges relating to eight complainants, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, now aged between nine and 43.\n\nThe offences, carried out between 1985 and 2020, include attempted rape, sexual assault of a child under 13 and making indecent photographs of children.\n\nA further 20 charges have been left to lie on the file.\n\nA spokeswoman for Great Ormond Street Hospital said their thoughts were with the victims of \"this horrendous abuse\".\n\nShe added: \"His actions are in direct contrast to everything we stand for as a children's hospital.\n\n\"We would like to reiterate what has been said in court; that Paul Farrell did not target children at GOSH.\n\n\"We urge anyone who has concerns about this case to call the helpline that we have set up with the NSPCC on 0800 101 996.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Martin Bashir has stepped down from his role as the BBC's religion editor, the corporation has confirmed.\n\nBashir, 58, has reported on religious affairs for the BBC since 2016, and previously worked for programmes including Panorama.\n\nThe corporation said he was leaving due to ongoing health issues.\n\nHis departure comes after questions were raised about how he secured an interview with Princess Diana for Panorama in 1995.\n\nThe deputy director of BBC News, Jonathan Munro, said: \"Martin Bashir has stepped down from his position as the BBC's Religion Editor, and is leaving the corporation.\n\n\"He let us know of his decision last month, just before being readmitted to hospital for another surgical procedure on his heart. Although he underwent major surgery toward the end of last year, he is facing some ongoing issues and has decided to focus on his health.\"\n\nHe added: \"We wish him a complete and speedy recovery.\"\n\nBashir is one of the most well-known journalists in the UK, having made news headlines for his interviews with Michael Jackson and Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nIt was during her 1995 interview with Bashir that Princess Diana admitted to having had an affair and also spoke of Prince Charles's relationship with the then Camilla Parker-Bowles.\n\n\"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,\" she told Bashir on Panorama, in a programme watched by millions globally.\n\nHowever, Bashir had recently come under scrutiny after it emerged mocked-up bank statements had been produced in an attempt to secure the interview with the princess.\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the use of the statements, but has insisted they played \"no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".\n\nBashir will not face a criminal investigation. But retired Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson has carried out an inquiry into the incident.\n\nA spokeswoman for Lord Dyson said he had concluded his investigation and that the report had been \"passed to the BBC for publication in due course\".\n\nA BBC spokesman said the report would be published \"very soon\".\n\nBashir, aged 58, had been absent from his role in recent months after contracting Covid-19 and undergoing quadruple bypass surgery.\n\nIn the first of his two most famous interviews, Princess Diana also talked frankly about her difficulties with post-natal depression and bulimia.\n\nIt made headlines around the globe and was watched by 22.8m in the UK, winning Bashir a Bafta TV award.\n\nHe was also named Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year in 1996.\n\nIn 2003, Bashir also interviewed pop singer Jackson for an ITV documentary.\n\nThe journalist asked him about reports of multiple plastic surgery and the \"baby dangling\" incident, when the star held his baby son over a balcony to show waiting fans beneath.\n\nMichael Jackson was another of Bashir's famous interviewees\n\nThe programme, for which Bashir trailed the singer for eight months, was watched by 14m viewers.\n\nBashir's career began as BBC news correspondent from 1987 to 1992. He then joined the corporation's investigative programme Panorama, and also worked on shows including Songs of Praise and Public Eye.\n\nIn a 1998 Panorama programme he interviewed Louise Woodward, the British au pair convicted of the manslaughter of Matthew Eappen, a baby she was looking after in the US.\n\nThe exclusive interview, in which she declared her innocence, was recorded after she was released from a US prison, when her conviction was reduced from murder to involuntary manslaughter.\n\nHe went on to interview Louise Woodward, the British au pair convicted in the US of involuntary manslaughter\n\nBashir also interviewed the five men suspected of killing London teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1999, having moved to ITV in 1998 to work on Tonight with Trevor McDonald.\n\nHe went on to speak to disgraced Tory peer Lord Archer, Tony Martin the Norfolk farmer who was jailed for killing a burglar and former footballer George Best, as well as making a series of documentary films about the serial killer doctor, Harold Shipman.\n\nOther interviewees included Michael Barrymore and Major Charles Ingram, also known as \"the coughing major\", infamous for his appearance on TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?\n\nIn 2004, Bashir moved to New York, where he worked on ABC News, and later MSNBC as a political commentator, where he worked until 2013.\n\nThe reporter appeared on the celebrity version of The X Factor in 2019\n\nHe quit MSNBC when he became the controversial focus of attention himself, for remarks he made about former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.\n\nHe then broadcast an apology on his show saying his remarks were \"ill-judged\".\n\nBashir returned to the UK and was appointed the BBC's Religious Affairs correspondent in 2016. In 2019, he took part in a celebrity version of ITV's X Factor, which replaced the traditional X Factor series, and was eliminated in the third week.", "The government has made a pledge to \"level up\" around the country - including in Hartlepool, which recently elected a Conservative MP for the first time since the constituency's creation\n\nThe PM's \"levelling up\" plans need to be more targeted to prevent deprived areas being \"short-changed\", say peers.\n\nBoris Johnson has made the pledge a central part of his election campaigns, promising to invest in \"every part of the UK\".\n\nBut the Lords Public Services Committee said inequality would grow if money for the NHS, schools and councils was not protected.\n\nA government spokesman said its plans would have \"a real impact\" on lives.\n\nThey also said a white paper would be published later this year to set out \"bold new policy interventions\".\n\nBut the committee said it needed to be released urgently to avoid the suggestion money is being channelled into Conservative seats - something the government denies.\n\nThe report added: \"Without full transparency and political accountability, local areas will continue to question why they have missed out on 'levelling up' funding while others have benefited.\"\n\nThe Conservatives first promised to \"level up\" the country in their 2019 election manifesto, and have used the phrase multiple times since Mr Johnson moved into No 10.\n\nThe plan involves investing in transport, skills and businesses in multiple places, from cities to rural and coastal areas, to address regional disparities in the UK.\n\nEarlier this week, the government announced the latest raft of \"levelling up\" schemes, including an £18m extension to its Opportunity Areas programme - helping young people make up lost learning time from the pandemic - and moving more civil servants out of Whitehall to work in different towns and cities.\n\nBut writing to the prime minister with its report, the committee pointed to accusations the government had favoured \"prosperous rural areas with funds ahead of deprived communities\", and said its strategy \"does not recognise high levels of deprivation in many parts of the country, including parts of London\".\n\nLabour peer Baroness Armstrong, who chairs the group, said the plan would need to be more \"holistic\" to work.\n\nShe added: \"A white paper - which should be published urgently - is welcome, but it's unclear exactly what the government wants to level up, how much its strategy will cost, how long it will take and how it plans to achieve its goals.\n\n\"The strategy will require a major change of direction if it's to achieve its admirable ambition for people in 'left-behind' areas to have the same opportunities as elsewhere in the country.\"\n\nThe committee also called on the government to work with local services and their users to set targets for improving things like life expectancy, employment, literacy and numeracy of children starting school, and the number of entrants to higher education.\n\nBoris Johnson has made a pledge to \"level up\" the UK many times since taking power in 2019\n\nBaroness Armstrong added: \"Not only places but the people who live in them should be at the heart of 'levelling up'.\n\n\"Social infrastructure and support provided by public services is at least as critical to communities as investment in roads and bridges.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We're supporting all areas of the country to level up by providing billions of pounds of new funding that will have a real impact on people's daily lives and improve their services - from health and social care to education.\n\n\"We will publish a levelling up white paper later this year, setting out bold new policy interventions to help improve livelihoods, spread opportunity and drive economic growth - all as part of our efforts to build back better from the pandemic.\"", "Mike Hill's behaviour has also been the subject of an employment tribunal claim\n\nFormer Labour MP Mike Hill breached Parliament's sexual misconduct policy, an independent panel has found.\n\nIts report concluded Mr Hill, whose resignation as MP for Hartlepool triggered a by-election, would likely have been suspended had he not quit.\n\nThe Independent Expert Panel (IEP) said it took a \"very serious view of his conduct\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has stripped Mr Hill of his right to a parliamentary pass as a former MP.\n\nMr Hill is also awaiting the outcome of an employment tribunal, with a decision expected next month.\n\nA former parliamentary worker alleges he sexually harassed and bullied her over a 16-month period, groping her and rubbing himself against her.\n\nSir Stephen Irwin, chairman of the IEP, said of Mr Hill: \"Had he remained a member of Parliament, a significant sanction would have been under consideration.\n\n\"In the light of his resignation, however, the sub-panel concluded that no available sanction met the facts of this case and the specific circumstances of the responder. They therefore did not impose or recommend a sanction.\"\n\nThe IEP upheld two complaints relating to sexual misconduct by Mr Hill, although it found a third allegation, of workplace victimisation and discrimination, unproven.\n\nHe was notified of the panel's findings on 5 March and resigned on 16 March.\n\nThe subsequent by-election, held earlier this month, was won by the Conservatives.\n\nThe panel delayed publication of its findings until the conclusion of the employment tribunal on Wednesday.\n\nProspect deputy general secretary Garry Graham has called for a review of working in Parliament\n\nIn a statement to the IEP, the victim described Mr Hill's actions as having a severe impact on her self-esteem, confidence and wellbeing.\n\nDuring an online meeting on 25 March to discuss its findings, the panel said Mr Hill told them he was \"mortified\" by their decision and had got himself \"into a stupid situation of my own making\".\n\nIt added he made \"no acknowledgment of sexual misconduct or the impact of it, and, therefore, no apology or regret for his actions\".\n\nThe panel noted Mr Hill \"expressed remorse, but only for the circumstances in which he now found himself\".\n\nProspect, a union representing staff working in Parliament, said the ruling \"raises questions over whether it is right that men who are accused of sexual misconduct are permitted to physically interact with female staff, visitors and MPs\".\n\nDeputy general secretary Garry Graham called for a review of current practices \"particularly on this issue of how women can be kept safe at work, while allegations are investigated\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None MP's accuser had described him as a 'friend'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A large UK study suggests having coronavirus around the time of birth may increase the chance of stillbirths and premature births - although the overall risks remain low.\n\nScientists say while most pregnancies are not affected, their findings should encourage pregnant women to have jabs as soon as they are eligible.\n\nThe majority are offered vaccines when they are rolled out to their age group.\n\nThe study appears in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.\n\nThe research, led by the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit, looked at data involving more than 340,000 women who gave birth in England between the end of May 2020 and January 2021.\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\nAll women were tested for the virus when they were admitted for births - whether they had symptoms or not.\n\nResearchers say a higher risk of stillbirth and prematurity, as well as a greater chance of having a Caesarean section, remained even once factors such as the mother's age, ethnicity, socio-economic background and common health conditions were taken into account.\n\nBabies born to women who tested positive were more likely to need special neonatal intensive care because they were born early and needed more support - rather than being infected with coronavirus itself.\n\nProfessor Asma Khalil, co-author of the paper, said it was important for women and healthcare workers to be aware of the potential risks.\n\nShe added: \"This study is the largest yet in England to describe the pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women who had tested positive for Covid-19 around the time of birth.\n\n\"While it is reassuring that the overall increases in the rate of stillbirth and pre-term birth remain low, this study does show that the risk of stillbirth or premature birth may be increased in women who have the infection around the time of birth.\n\n\"This highlights the importance of Covid-19 vaccination for pregnant women; it reduces the risk not just to themselves, but also to their babies.\"\n\nDr Mary Ross-Davie, from the Royal College of Midwives, agreed that vaccination was key in protecting people from the virus.\n\nShe added: \"While the increased risk of a stillbirth or pre-term birth remains low when women have Covid-19 in pregnancy, the important message here is that pregnant women, like all of us, should continue to take precautions to reduce their chances of exposure to the virus.\n\n\"This includes continuing social distancing, hand-washing and mask-wearing,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The debate over the future of running Britain's rail network flared up once more this week.\n\nWhile the government tepidly defended its system, unions and passengers united to attack it as prices were hiked again above the government's own preferred measure of inflation.\n\nEven the Department for Transport called the current model \"flawed\" as it announced that FirstGroup was to take over the running of the London Euston to Glasgow Central route.\n\nThe Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, hailed the deal as a shift to a new model for rail.\n\nBut the RMT union's general secretary, Mick Cash, described it as a \"another political fix by a government whose privatised franchise model is collapsing around their ears\".\n\nIt all comes as rail punctuality across the country languishes at a 13-year low.\n\nAnd despite growing passenger anger, fares will rise next year in line with the abandoned Retail Prices Index at 2.8%, rather than the lower Consumer Prices Index.\n\n\"The system is clearly not working, everybody agrees that it's not working,\" rail writer Christian Wolmar tells the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport maintains that privatisation has worked. It points out that passenger numbers have doubled, while the rail system has attracted £6.7bn of private investment and added 4,600 new daily services.\n\nBut the mounting criticism of the system was clearly not what the government had hoped for when it privatised the network in the 1990s.\n\nNetwork Rail, then known as Railtrack, was set up to look after the tracks, tunnels and signalling. Meanwhile, private companies could compete to run the trains.\n\nAt the time, the government hoped that those private firms would compete on most routes through a system known as \"open access\". Rather than bidding for entire lines, services themselves were on offer.\n\nIt also asked firms to bid to run subsided franchises on loss-making routes.\n\nBut that left the taxpayer to pick up the tab for all loss-making services. When the network was publicly-owned, these would have been subsidised by the profitable ones.\n\nAs a result, franchises for entire lines became the norm to stop the cornering of profitable services, and now less than 1% of passengers travel on open-access services.\n\nThe effect of that has been a lack of competition among train operators which is bad for consumers, says Professor Mark Barry from Cardiff University.\n\n\"We've got a system that was meant to bring competition to railways post-privatisation and provide some means for companies to innovate, take a risk in return to procure some value.\n\n\"The reality is though, there isn't a lot of competition on the railway - apart from the franchising system itself.\"\n\nThis might suggest that train operators are having an easy ride and raking in profit, but the opposite is often the case.\n\nAs Mr Wolmar points out, in reality rail companies have very little control over their revenues. They can introduce wi-fi on their trains and launch advertising campaigns but much of their fortune depends on factors beyond their control, such as employment levels and economic growth.\n\nFares will rise by up to 2.8% next year\n\nIn a competitive tendering environment, that can mean that the rail firms make a loss over the course of rail franchise, which typically lasts seven years.\n\nAnd that explains, in part, the failure of Stagecoach and Virgin Trains' East Coast Main Line franchise, which was handed back to the government last year.\n\nProf Barry thinks the franchising model should change so that the franchisee is not left with the revenue risk.\n\nInstead, he argues, the government should award contracts by telling the bidders how much money is available and asking them to compete on quality.\n\nHe said Transport for Wales had experimented with that model successfully.\n\nThe man charged with reviewing the franchise system, former British Airways boss Keith Williams, may have an even more radical suggestion.\n\nPunctuality on UK trains is at a 13 year low\n\nHe has said a \"Fat Controller\" type figure, independent from government, should be in charge of day-to-day operations.\n\nMr Williams has also said he believes that, in the future, rail franchises should be underpinned by punctuality and other performance-related targets.\n\nThe government launched the review after passengers in northern and southern England experienced chaos over several weeks last summer following the introduction of a new timetable.\n\nHis review of the rail system will be published this autumn.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"The recently awarded West Coast Partnership represents a decisive shift towards a new model for rail. It is a partnership supported by Keith Williams, built with the flexibility to respond to his recommendations and deliver fundamental reform to a flawed system.\n\n\"The transport secretary has asked Keith to produce his recommendations for a White Paper, with fearless proposals that will deliver a consumer focussed railway system fit for the 21st Century.\"", "Almost 23 million people saw the Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales\n\nThe BBC has postponed its broadcast of a Panorama investigation into reporter Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nPanorama was expected to examine claims that Bashir used fake bank statements to convince Diana to do the interview.\n\nThe film was due to air on BBC One on Monday but the broadcaster said it had been delayed due to a \"significant duty of care issue\".\n\nBashir left the corporation earlier this week due to ongoing health issues.\n\nA new date for the programme has not yet been confirmed.\n\nThe 58-year-old was BBC News religion editor and was seriously ill with Covid-19 when the allegations emerged late last year. He has since undergone a quadruple heart bypass and another heart operation more recently.\n\nThe decision to push back the Panorama episode comes shortly after a separate investigation into the interview - led by Lord Dyson - had concluded.\n\nThe BBC said Bashir had co-operated fully with the inquiry and would not comment publicly while that process was ongoing.\n\nLord Dyson, who was Master of the Rolls - the second most senior judge in England and Wales, had been tasked with looking into the steps Bashir and the corporation took to get the interview.\n\nHis report has been given to the BBC, which the broadcaster said would be published \"very soon\".\n\nNearly 23 million people tuned in to watch the Panorama interview, recorded 25 years ago.\n\nIn the interview, Diana famously said that \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles. At the time she was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nThe princess also talked frankly about her difficulties with post-natal depression and bulimia.\n\nDiana's son, the Duke of Cambridge, welcomed the launch of the inquiry late last year and his brother, the Duke of Sussex, reportedly also supported it.\n\nQuestions arose late last year over the interview, which was one of the most watched BBC programmes of all time and won Bashir a Bafta TV award.\n\nMartin Bashir's interview with Princess Diana for Panorama took place in November 1995\n\nDiana's brother, Earl Spencer, said Bashir had used forged bank statements to persuade the princess to do the interview.\n\nIt was reported by the Daily Mail that the statements wrongly purported to show that two senior courtiers were being paid by the security services for information on his sister.\n\nThe BBC has previously apologised for the use of the statements, but has insisted they played \"no part in her decision to take part in the interview\".\n\nIn March, police ruled out a criminal investigation into the background to the interview.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The storming of the US Capitol\n\nFormer US president Donald Trump blasted \"wayward Republicans\" after lawmakers made a rare bipartisan push to investigate the Capitol riot.\n\nWith the support of 35 Republicans, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted 252-175 to look into the events of 6 January.\n\nParty leaders had urged Republicans to oppose the bill, with Mr Trump labelling it a \"Democrat trap\".\n\nThe bill appears to lack the Republican support it needs to pass in the Senate.\n\nIt seeks to create an independent inquiry modelled on the commission that investigated the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.\n\nThe legislation establishes a 10-member body, evenly split between the two main parties, that would make recommendations by the end of the year on how to prevent any repeat of the Capitol invasion.\n\nTrump supporters stormed Congress on 6 January in a failed bid to thwart certification of President Joe Biden's victory in November's election.\n\nWednesday's vote was seen as a loyalty test to the former president for members of his party.\n\nAll 10 of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in the days after the Capitol riot for incitement of insurrection were among the 35 who voted for the commission.\n\nIn a statement after the vote, Mr Trump hit out at the \"wayward\" Republican group, saying, \"they just can't help themselves\".\n\n\"We have much better policy and are much better for the country, but the Democrats stick together, the Republicans don't,\" Mr Trump said, singling out several of his highest-profile Republican critics, including Utah Senator Mitt Romney.\n\n\"Sometimes there are consequences to being ineffective and weak,\" Mr Trump added.\n\nRepublican House Leader Kevin McCarthy dismissed the number of party defections in a weekly news conference on Thursday, saying: \"I thought it would probably be higher.\"\n\nHe added that the idea of this Democratic-led House commission was \"a lot of politics\", noting that committees in the Senate were already conducting their own inquiry.\n\nAsked if was willing to testify about a conversation he had with Mr Trump on the day of the riot, he responded, \"sure\".\n\nOn Wednesday, New York congressman John Katko, who negotiated the legislation with Democrats, said: \"This is about facts - it's not partisan politics.\"\n\nMr Katko - the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee - said \"the American people and the Capitol Police deserve answers, and action as soon as possible to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again\".\n\nBut Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, said the commission was a Democratic ruse \"to smear Trump supporters\".\n\nShortly before the vote, Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat, said on the House floor: \"We have people scaling the Capitol, hitting the Capitol Police with lead pipes across the head, and we can't get bipartisanship? What else has to happen in this country?\"\n\nBut the legislation faces dim prospects in the Senate, where the rules mean Democrats would need 10 Republicans to join them in passing it.\n\nJohn Thune, the deputy Republican leader in the upper chamber, said he was concerned the inquiry would be \"weaponised politically\" in the 2022 election cycle.\n\nMr Trump has been dividing post-presidential life between his golf clubs in Florida and New Jersey and hinting about another run for the White House in 2024.\n\nHe continues to spread unfounded claims that last year's election was stolen from him - the conspiracy theory that drove many of his supporters to Capitol Hill on 6 January.\n\nOne of them, an unarmed woman, was shot and killed by police as she tried to break into the House chamber.\n\nTwo other protesters died of heart failure in the melee and one other from an amphetamine overdose.\n\nA Capitol Police officer who tackled the protesters died of a stroke the following day. Two other officers took their own lives in the days after.\n\nThe Capitol Police union said one officer lost an eye during the attack and others sustained brain injuries.", "A brief visit by Tesla boss Elon Musk to Luton has ignited rumours that he is considering a Tesla factory in the UK.\n\nThe electric car mogul flew into Luton Airport on a private jet last weekend and stayed two days, reports say.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports that the visit coincides with a hunt by UK officials for \"a major new car plant\" location.\n\nThe secrecy around the bids has led to speculation that Mr Musk may be involved.\n\nThe Telegraph reported (behind a paywall) that regional authorities - including those in Teesside and the West Midlands - were given an unusually short 48 hours to prepare bids for a 250-hectare site, without being told what company the bid was for.\n\nThe process was run by the Office for Investment, a new government office which is designed to help smooth out discussions between the public sector and private foreign investors post-Brexit.\n\nFlight-tracking software showed that a private Gulfstream jet widely reported to belong to Mr Musk, landed at Luton Airport from California.\n\nThe plane then moved on to Germany, where Mr Musk paid a visit on Monday to the site of Tesla's large \"gigafactory\", which has been plagued by delays.\n\nHowever, neither the government nor Tesla have confirmed the speculation about Mr Musk's brief stop in the UK.\n\nIt's also not the first time Mr Musk has landed in Luton for a brief visit, fuelling such rumours - he was reported to have made a similar stop in June last year.\n\nFor Elon Musk, Luton Airport - with its private terminal for corporate jets - may be just a handy place for a brief stop on his way to inspect his German operations.\n\nBut for a UK government desperate to boost inward investment, the stopovers - and there have been several - are a vital opportunity to woo the Tesla tycoon.\n\nTwo years ago he made it clear that Brexit uncertainty was a factor in rejecting the UK and choosing Berlin as the location for Tesla's \"gigafactory\", which the company bills as \"the most advanced high-volume electric vehicle production plant in the world\".\n\nBut British officials have not given up, stressing that outside the EU those pesky state aid rules don't apply, meaning there could be substantial government funding for a factory here.\n\nNow it's still hard to see the logic for a Tesla plant just to supply the UK market - but Elon Musk has shown himself to be adept at taking advantage of government subsidies and tax breaks at home in the US, as well as in Germany. So don't rule it out quite yet.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a \"full personal apology\" to the survivors of abuse by former barrister John Smyth QC in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nSmyth, who died aged 77 in 2018, violently beat boys who attended Christian summer camps.\n\nJustin Welby said: \"I am sorry this was done in the name of Jesus Christ by a perverted version of spirituality and evangelicalism.\"\n\nIn a statement issued by Lambeth Palace, the archbishop said: \"I continue to hear new details of the abuse and my sorrow, shock and horror grows.\n\n\"The Church has a duty to look after those who have been harmed. We have not always done that well.\"\n\nHe said the Church's safeguarding team will investigate every clergyperson which they suspect \"knew and failed to disclose the abuse\".\n\nMr Welby worked in the evangelical Christian camps for public schoolboys run by Smyth, but denies any knowledge of the abuse at the time.\n\nSmyth beat teenage boys who had attended the camps, according to a secret report from 1982.\n\nThe report, by the charity Iwerne Trust which ran the camps, described Smyth's abuse against 22 young men. \"The scale and severity of the practice was horrific,\" it said.\n\nIt reported that after identifying the boys, mostly from public school Winchester College, Smyth took them to his home in Hampshire and carried out lashings with a garden cane in his shed.\n\nEight of the boys received a total of 14,000 lashes, according to the report, written by two clergymen. Two more boys received 8,000 strokes between them over three years.\n\nJohn Smyth QC was a senior member of Christian charity the Iwerne Trust in the 1970s and 1980s\n\nBoth the Iwerne Trust and Winchester College knew about the abuse in the 1980s but failed to report it to the police.\n\nSmyth subsequently moved to Zimbabwe where he continued to run holiday camps for boys. He refused to comment on the allegations before he died.\n\nAfter meeting survivors of Smyth's abuse last month, Mr Welby said the victims were \"rightly concerned that no-one appears to have faced any sanction yet, when it is clear a number of Christians, clergy and lay, were made aware of the abuse in the 1980s\".\n\nHe said they were angry Smyth was not stopped in 2013, when both the Church and Mr Welby were told about the abuse.\n\n\"By this time Mr Smyth had been out of the UK for nearly 30 years,\" Mr Welby said. \"We, the Church, were unclear as to his activities abroad or indeed to the utterly horrendous scope and extent of his actions here and overseas.\"\n\n\"I recognise the anger of the survivors and victims but having checked that the Diocese of Cape Town was informed and that the police were properly informed and involved our jurisdiction did not extend further.\"\n\nMr Welby also apologised to survivors that it had taken him so long to meet them personally.\n\nIn response, a group of survivors welcomed his statement and called for those who knew about the abuse at the time to come forward.\n\n\"We are pleased that the Archbishop of Canterbury is taking responsibility and acting as a good example for the other culpable parties involved in our story,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"It is clear a large number of individuals, clergy and lay, have known about these abuses for over 30 years.\"\n\nIn 2017, Mr Welby issued what he described as a \"general apology\" on behalf of the Church of England, \"before we understood the full horror and scope of the abuse\".\n\nThe Church of England has commissioned an independent review of its handling of allegations against Smyth, led by former director of social services Keith Makin.\n\nMr Welby said the review, which is expected to conclude in summer, would be published in full.\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by issues raised in this story, sources of support are available at the BBC Action Line. For example, you can call Samaritans free on 116 123, email them at jo@samaritans.org, or visit www.samaritans.org to find your nearest branch.", "He was best-known for his popular dark fantasy creation Berserk, which debuted as a series in 1989.\n\nIn a statement, publisher Hakusensha confirmed he died on 6 May.\n\n\"All us editors sincerely pray for his repose, expressing our deepest respect and appreciation for his work,\" the Japanese company said, adding the family had already held a private funeral.\n\nNews of his death has prompted an outpouring of grief from fans all around the world.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ベルセルク公式ツイッター This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBerserk featured a journey of revenge by a young warrior travelling through a medieval-inspired world of battles and magic.\n\nThe story was renowned for its visual storytelling, combined with some of the most eye-catching and precise art ever seen in manga.\n\nFor Koroush Khaneghah, Berserk is \"one of the most beautiful pieces of art\" he's ever seen.\n\n\"I was mesmerised by every little thing. The impact it's had on me was one of awe and wonder,\" the 26-year-old from London tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nHe feels the art is in a league of its own.\n\n\"I experienced one of the greatest stories I've ever seen, through any medium,\" Koroush says\n\n\"It was so detailed, hollow and empty like the Berserk world. It led to the dark fantasy setting which was something I hadn't encountered before.\"\n\n\"It combined the mystery and adventure I love from the fantasy world, with a brutal dark edge which made it addictive,\" he adds.\n\nThe impact of Berserk can be seen in its wider influence.\n\nAs a result of its popularity, it was adapted into an animated series, a book, animated movies as well as a video game, with multiple other games based on it.\n\n\"It was a pioneer, influenced countless anime, but the most notable for me was a game called Dark Souls,\" Koroush says.\n\nThat game is one that Koroush has spent \"over a thousand hours\" of his childhood playing.\n\n\"At some point in my life I will pivot to more artistic contributions to the world, and without a doubt, Berserk will be a major inspiration.\"\n\nAnd that's a thought shared by many fans. Many have also been gathering online to pay tribute, holding virtual memorials in video games.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Josh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmerican publisher Dark Horse Comics tweeted: \"Miura-sensei was a master artist and storyteller and we had the great privilege of publishing several of his finest works, including his masterpiece, Berserk.\"\n\n\"He will be greatly missed.\"\n\nKoroush adds: \"If I could tell him anything, it would just be that he's brilliant and thank him for sharing his brilliance with the world.\n\n\"How I'll continue to thank him is by sharing his incredible work with as many people as possible.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Rail firms are reassuring travellers major efforts have been taken to ensure their safety as services increase.\n\nTrains in England, Wales and Scotland were up to 90% of normal levels by Monday as schools reopen and people are encouraged to return to work.\n\nRail firms said anecdotal evidence suggested a slight increase in numbers but it was too soon for exact figures.\n\nWest Midlands Trains' Francis Thomas said there were \"big changes\", such as sanitising gel and one-way systems.\n\n\"If you haven't been to the railway station in the last couple of months you might find there's a one-way system at your local station, there's hand gel available and we've invested in anti-fogging machines that can spread an anti-viral on trains,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"And there's plenty of space. We reckon we can carry about 40% of normal loads before we start to breach social distancing.\"\n\nOne passenger told the BBC: \"I think you just have to get out… and then once you get out you kind of get rid of your fears.\"\n\nAnother reported there was plenty of space: \"I come in on the Chiltern Railways line into Marylebone and the trains were a lot, lot longer, and they've, barriered off certain seats. It wasn't too packed.\"\n\nJacqueline Starr, head of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said rail services were \"doing everything they can\" to reassure people travel was safe.\n\nThe group said no service was reported as \"close to social distancing capacity\".\n\nTrain operators across the country have designed the new timetable, taking into consideration potentially busy stations and parts of routes that will experience higher demand for travel by schoolchildren.\n\nWhere possible, more frequent services will be put on or extra carriages added to create more room.\n\nStaff will also be on hand to explain the rules on wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing to older children.\n\n\"Some train times will change so we're asking people to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times if possible,\" said Ms Starr.\n\nOver the coming weeks, rail bosses have a delicate balance to strike.\n\nThey want more passengers back on the network, but they don't want a flood of commuters crowding trains and stations.\n\nUp to now, passenger numbers have remained low - on average, about a third of what it was before the pandemic.\n\nThe railways are not going back to where they were before the pandemic. Some services won't return. But in places, at certain times, more capacity will be created.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government has been covering the huge cost of running the railways without passengers.\n\nSo there is also a financial incentive for ministers that passengers return.\n\nTrain companies are now working to manage passenger flows by warning people if a particular service is busy.\n\nSome modern trains, like those running on Southeastern and on Govia Thameslink, can monitor the weight load in carriages, allowing them to estimate the number of people on board.\n\nSoutheastern plans to share the data with passengers so they can avoid a specific train.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said that reducing the timetable during the coronavirus lockdown and then gradually increasing services again in phases had led to improvements in punctuality.\n\nPassengers are advised to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times\n\nIn particular, train operators and Network Rail had learned lessons about the effects of \"wear and tear\" on railway infrastructure, the effects \"knock-on delays\" caused to intensely-used routes, and the time trains take at each station.\n\n\"Before Covid one train was leaving a station at every second - we were congested. Obviously what this has allowed us to do is to look at the timetable and its resilience and to see where we can improve and increase punctuality and build and maintain that as we build back up the timetable,\" Robert Nisbet, regional director at the Rail Delivery Group, told the BBC.\n\nMr Nisbet added that the crisis had prompted another look at the way fares are structured: \"The need for reform has never been stronger, specifically when it comes to fares.\"\n\nHe said the regulations that governed fares needed changing and that talks were being held with government on this issue - including changes to make season tickets more flexible.\n\nAt the end of August, the government launched an advertising campaign encouraging people to go back to the workplace.\n\nBusiness leaders have warned of damage being done to city centres as people stay away from offices.\n\nHowever, many employers have no plans to return workers to the office.\n\nThe BBC questioned 50 big employers ranging from banks to retailers to get a sense of when they expected to ask employees to return to the office.\n\nOne of the main reasons given for the lack of a substantial return was that firms could not see a way of accommodating large numbers of staff while social distancing regulations were still in place.", "Suzanne Hughes (r) wants answers over the death of her mother Violet\n\nA woman whose mother died with Covid says a lack of basic information about her death has left her feeling \"numb\" and finding it difficult to grieve.\n\nThe 82-year-old's daughter Suzanne said she had been unable to find out if she was alone when she died, details of her treatment and her time of death.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it was \"committed to learning lessons\" from concerns raised by families.\n\nSuzanne, from Merthyr, said she wanted a Covid public inquiry to look into the way hospitals communicated with affected families.\n\nHer mother suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and kidney failure, and had been in hospital with similar symptoms before.\n\nThe following day the hospital called Suzanne to say a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) notice had been put in place for her mother.\n\nHowever, she was also told it was believed her mother could recover so an end-of-life plan was not being activated, meaning under Covid regulations Ms Hughes could not visit.\n\nShe called the hospital throughout the day and was told her mum was \"fine\" and sitting up in bed.\n\nWhen she called at about 17:20 BST, she was told Violet had tested positive for Covid-19 but was OK and being given oxygen.\n\nThen about 90 minutes later, Suzanne was called by the hospital and told to come in as her mum had deteriorated.\n\nThe health board said it was committed to learning lessons\n\nBy the time she arrived a short time later, her mother had died.\n\n\"My mum was cold, had no colour,\" said Suzanne.\n\n\"I asked what time my mother had passed away, she [a member of staff] was unable to give me that info.\n\n\"She told me the nurse that was in charge of my mother had left to go home.\n\n\"So I said surely there was some handover in regards to the information about my mother and she said, 'oh I don't know anything about it, I've just come on to the ward'.\"\n\nA time of death has still not been given, nor have details about Violet's final hours as her medical notes are blank from 14:00 onwards - other than an entry stating that Suzanne had been informed of the positive Covid test.\n\nSuzanne said not being able to get information, such as whether any treatment for coronavirus was given, was \"awful\".\n\nShe added: \"I just wanted to know certain answers to questions and it felt as if I was being forgotten.\n\n\"I didn't feel there was any dignity. There was no respect given to us as a family, nor to my mother.\n\n\"That's quite hard, that's difficult to accept.\n\n\"I just dwell on the facts. I don't know when she died, how she died and was anyone with her. I don't know anything.\n\n\"The impact is so emotional. Was my mum alone, was somebody with her? It's playing on our minds.\n\n\"I'm just thinking if they'd provided a Covid treatment maybe she would have had more time to spend with her family.\n\n\"Would she have been here today?\"\n\nGreg Dix, director of nursing and patient care at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said: \"While we are unable to comment on the circumstances of individual cases, losing a loved one is devastating for any family and our thoughts and sympathies are with them.\n\n\"We take the quality of care and treatment provided to our patients extremely seriously and apologise to anyone who feels let down by our health board or where the level of care has fallen short.\n\n\"We remain committed to learning lessons from the pandemic as well as the experiences of any patients or families who raise concerns with us so we can continually work to improve our standards of care.\"", "Protesters have been calling for several years for the statue to be removed\n\nA statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes will not be taken down, an Oxford University college has said.\n\nCalls to remove the memorial at Oriel College were reignited after a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was torn down in Bristol.\n\nA commission set up to examine the figure's future said the \"majority\" of its members supported its removal.\n\nBut Oriel College said it would not seek to move the statue due to costs and \"complex\" planning processes.\n\nCampaigners say Rhodes, a 19th Century businessman and politician in southern Africa, represented white supremacy and was steeped in colonialism and racism.\n\nHe had been a student at Oriel and left £100,000 - about £12.5m in today's money - to the college through his will in 1902. About £200,000 still remains, the commission's report found.\n\nOriel's governing body said in June last year it wished to remove the statue, a decision it said was \"backed\" by the independent commission appointed to examine its future and Rhodes' legacy.\n\nHowever, the college said after considering \"regulatory and financial challenges\" it had decided not to begin the legal process to move it.\n\nProtesters gathered in Oxford's High Street outside Oriel College in June 2020\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson tweeted the decision by the college was \"sensible and balanced\".\n\nHe added: \"We should learn from our past, rather than censoring history, and continue focussing on reducing inequality.\"\n\nThe college said the \"challenges and costs\" of removing the statue in terms of heritage and planning consent could run into years with no certainty of the outcome.\n\n\"In light of the considerable obstacles to removal, Oriel's governing body has decided not to begin the legal process for relocation of the memorials,\" a statement added.\n\n\"Instead, it is determined to focus its time and resources on delivering the report's recommendations around the contextualisation of the college's relationship with Rhodes, as well as improving educational equality, diversity and inclusion amongst its student cohort and academic community.\"\n\nAny decision to move the statue would require planning permission from Oxford City Council, Historic England and the secretary of state for local government, Robert Jenrick.\n\nThe city council's leader Susan Brown previously urged the college to apply for planning permission, but the commission noted any application would pose \"complex challenges\" since the government's policy over controversial historical figures is that they should be be \"retained and explained\".\n\nThe Cecil Rhodes statue stands on the building named after him at Oriel College\n\nMs Brown said she was \"deeply disappointed\" the college had decided to \"backtrack\" on its decision to remove the statue.\n\n\"For people in our city this was the most important action that Oriel College could have taken to show an acknowledgement of the discrimination of the past and they have failed to act,\" she said.\n\nThe council leader said she feared the measures taken by the college would \"not be enough to inspire confidence without this important symbolic step\" and added it was \"well past time for all institutions to tackle the difficult issues of colonialism and discrimination\".\n\nLord Mendoza, provost of Oriel College, said the college was \"fully aware of the impact our decision is likely to have in the UK and further afield\".\n\n\"We understand this nuanced conclusion will be disappointing to some, but we are now focused on the delivery of practical actions aimed at improving outreach and the day-to-day experience of BME students,\" he added.\n\nThe college said the majority of submissions to the inquiry backed the retention of the statue but the commission still decided to recommend its removal.\n\nIt said it would accept a number of the report's recommendations immediately.\n\nThese would include a new tutor for \"equality, diversity and inclusion\" and additional training for academic and non-academic staff in race awareness.\n\nThe governing body said it agreed to a virtual exhibition to \"provide an arena for contextualisation and explanation of the Rhodes legacy\".\n\nThe statue sits above a doorway on the front of the college's Rhodes Building, which faces Oxford's High Street.\n\nThe commission was set up after thousands of people protested to demand the statue's removal in June last year.\n\nIt led to the governors of Oriel College voting to take the Grade II*-listed figure down and the King Edward Street plaque to Rhodes, reversing the decision they made in 2016.\n\nA report had been due to be published in January but it was delayed twice due to a \"considerable volume of submissions\".\n\nThe Rhodes Must Fall campaign began in South Africa, where a Rhodes statue was removed, and was adopted in Oxford by campaigners who argued his views were incompatible with an \"inclusive culture\" at the university.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Twenty-five years ago, the BBC's Panorama programme landed a scoop rivals the world over wanted - an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales. Her son and heir to the throne, Prince William, has now launched an unprecedented attack on the corporation over that interview.\n\nThe programme, which attracted a UK audience of 23m, was a career-defining moment for reporter Martin Bashir.\n\nBut after accusations resurfaced last autumn that Bashir misled the princess to gain her trust, the BBC established an inquiry led by the former Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson. That inquiry has judged Bashir to be \"unreliable\", \"devious\" and \"dishonest.\"\n\nBashir was investigated by the BBC at the time by Tony Hall, who went on to become the BBC's director general. Hall found that Bashir was \"honest\" and an \"honourable man\". Dyson has condemned Hall's inquiry as \"flawed\" and \"woefully ineffective\".\n\nUntil now, the full story behind the scoop has remained hidden for a quarter of a century.\n\nThe interview became one of the 20th Century's seminal TV events. As the separated wife of the future king, Princess Diana spoke of adultery, palace plotting, mental and physical illness, and how Prince Charles was unfit for the job.\n\n\"Do you really think a campaign was being waged against you?\" Martin Bashir asked Princess Diana, having spent the preceding weeks amplifying the alarm bells in her head about just such a campaign. He claimed uniquely placed sources were telling him about dirty tricks by journalists, royal courtiers, the intelligence services, and even her friends.\n\nI worked on Panorama in 1995, and I had heard the rumours that Bashir had used deception to land his scoop, but nothing more. The details only began to resurface last autumn, on the 25th anniversary of the interview. The BBC released to ITV and Channel 4 some of the information journalists had been seeking for years.\n\nAt the same time, Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer disclosed that he'd kept contemporaneous notes of his meetings with Bashir, and the claims he made.\n\nLord Dyson's report represents the BBC's formal response to the allegations against Martin Bashir and the failure of Tony Hall's 1996 inquiry to get to the bottom of this affair.\n\nHowever, so serious were last autumn's renewed allegations of misconduct that the current Panorama team decided this needed to be investigated by the programme itself to restore public trust in Panorama's journalism and independence.\n\nWe've talked to almost all the witnesses who have given evidence to Lord Dyson and many more besides, including detailed testimony from Earl Spencer.\n\nLike Lord Dyson, we have also seen internal BBC documents that not only show Bashir repeatedly lied, but also acknowledge that there was a serious breach of journalistic ethics and BBC rules. And yet the BBC management board was told by Hall that he was certain Bashir had not set out to deceive, while Hall's note intended for the corporation's governing body said he was an \"honest and honourable man\".\n\nLord Dyson says: \"What Mr Bashir did was not an impulsive act done in the spur of the moment. It was carefully planned… What he did was devious and dishonest.\"\n\nThe story begins with Bashir's plan to persuade Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer that among journalists covering the \"War of the Waleses\", he had access to high-level sources with the inside story of a broad conspiracy against him and his sister.\n\nOn 24 August 1995, Bashir left a telephone message with one of Spencer's assistants: \"Not seeking interview or info\", just \"15 minutes of time to talk\". He then sent a BBC headed letter claiming to have spent the \"past three months investigating press behaviour\". In fact, Bashir had spent much of that time working on other Panorama programmes. However, his letter intimated that a dogged investigation had unearthed something big about press intrusion into the Spencer family.\n\n\"I simply [want] to share some information which I believe, may be of interest,\" he wrote, calculating Spencer would bite knowing that he had had his own battles with the media. With no response, Bashir called again on 29 August. Spencer said he could meet him in London at 18:00 for a quick drink.\n\nOn the face of it, the suddenness of Spencer's invitation to a meeting may well have taken Bashir by surprise. In order to ingratiate himself with Earl Spencer to gain access to his sister, the reporter intended to show Spencer - falsely - that his former head of security, ex-soldier, Alan Waller, was being paid regularly by Rupert Murdoch's News international and the intelligence services to spy on the Spencer family. However, Bashir didn't show this to Spencer at their first brief meeting - presumably because he hadn't yet created the \"information\".\n\nLord Dyson said he could not be certain about the precise date when this \"information\" was created. However, our own investigation suggests this happened immediately after Bashir's introductory drink with Spencer.\n\nSpencer had agreed to continue their conversation at his country estate, Althorp, two days later at 11:30 on 31 August.\n\nTo help prepare the \"information\", Bashir made an urgent call to a former colleague, Matt Wiessler, begging him to drop everything for a job that couldn't wait. The graphic designer doesn't recall the exact date except that it was at the junction of August and September. Wiessler's business partner at the time told me that Bashir called him first and remembers it being around the time of the Notting Hill Carnival, which in 1995 ended on 28 August. He says that because Bashir wanted a rushed overnight job, he couldn't do it and suggested he call Wiessler instead.\n\nBoth Wiessler and his business partner are also clear that the call came after hours. Since Spencer's diary shows he had his first meeting with Bashir on the evening of the 29th, the evidence points to Bashir having called Wiessler soon after his drink with Spencer.\n\nWiessler says Bashir came to his flat and dictated from his notebook details of what he said were two of Alan Waller's bank statements, which he claimed to have seen - £4,000 from News International on 8 March 1994, and £6,500 from a Jersey-based company called \"Penfolds Consultants\" on 4 June. Bashir didn't mention the story he was working on was about Princess Diana, only that it \"could lead to something big\" in relation to \"surveillance by MI5 or MI6\".\n\nThe designer assumed that Bashir had actually seen Waller's original bank statements. He told Bashir the job of recreating them would take all night. Wiessler says that since Bashir was due to fly somewhere the following morning, he instructed him to courier the graphics to him at Heathrow at 07:00. Presumably Bashir wanted them ready for his trip to Althorp first thing on the 31st.\n\nSpencer's note of that meeting shows that Bashir mentioned \"payments\" to Waller, which he said were regular: \"8/3/94 £4K News International £4K quarterly\" and \"4/6/94 £6.5K Penfolds, 4 payments\". \"Penfolds Consultants\", said Bashir, was a Jersey-based front company for the intelligence services.\n\nWhat had really hooked Spencer, however, was another false claim by Bashir - that the private secretary of Prince Charles, Commander Richard Aylard, was conspiring against Diana. Spencer's notes show Bashir having claimed that Aylard had been handed secretly recorded conversations and, in an apparent reference to the possibility of divorce, told journalist Jonathan Dimbleby: \"We are in the end game. Shit or bust.\"\n\nSpencer says this knocked him sideways so he called Panorama editor Steve Hewlett. Although Spencer didn't list Bashir's claims to Hewlett, he did ask him if he could be trusted. Hewlett, according to Spencer, assured him that Bashir was \"one of my best\".\n\nOn 14 September, Bashir and Spencer met again at Althorp. Bashir now ramped up his allegations: Diana's own private secretary Commander Patrick Jephson was said to be in cahoots with Aylard. Bashir produced what Spencer describes as a folded A4-sized sheet of paper purporting to show sizeable payments to both Aylard and Jephson from the intelligence services to monitor Princess Diana's movements.\n\nIn evidence to Lord Dyson, Bashir categorically denies he showed any such document to Spencer. However, Spencer noted the following comment from Bashir: \"Patrick Jephson was a gd friend of Aylard + had business connections until 1992. Non exec director of company that Aylard was on board of Financial investment co. Jephson cashed in shared +resigned in 1992.\"\n\nThis echoed Diana's well-publicised fears of a conspiracy by her estranged husband's camp at St James's Palace to discredit her.\n\nBecause Spencer could make no sense of such alleged treachery, he thought his sister should hear all this directly from Bashir, so he telephoned her to suggest that she should meet Bashir. \"Darling Carlos,\" she replied in an affectionate note shown for the first time to Panorama. Using their childhood names for each other, the note said: \"I so appreciated the contents of our telephone call this morning - it all makes complete sense to what is going on around me at this present time. 'They' underestimate the Spencer strength! Lots of luv from Duch x\"\n\nBy 1995 Diana, had come to fear she had enemies in high places and was already vulnerable and unsettled. \"I think that she was looking for reasons as to why things were as they were,\" Spencer told me.\n\nOn 19 September, Spencer introduced Bashir to Diana. During this meeting, Spencer noted some 30 claims which he attributes to Bashir, including Jephson's alleged plots against her: \"Jephson - dangerous: money. Left offshore a/c in March 1994\".\n\nBy the end of the meeting, Spencer told me he had become highly sceptical. \"I warned Diana that his stories didn't add up and apologised to her... and she said, 'Oh, don't worry, Carlos. It's nice to see you. It doesn't matter at all.' And I thought that was the last time I'd hear from or about Martin Bashir.\"\n\nBashir has claimed that most of the comments noted down by Spencer came from Diana, but Lord Dyson finds: \"I am satisfied that Mr Bashir said most, if not all, of the things that are recorded in Earl Spencer's notes.\"\n\nThe reporter gave a very different account of his dealings with Earl Spencer - and in particular the claims attributed to him - in his evidence to Lord Dyson. He denied he had said many of the things attributed to him by Earl Spencer. Despite the findings of Lord Dyson, he still stands by his account.\n\nFor Diana that encounter was just the start of numerous meetings with Bashir. As Lord Dyson says, by late summer 1995, she was \"keen on the idea of a television interview\".\n\nOn 16 September 1995, Princess Diana and Prince Charles joined Prince William for his first day at Eton College\n\nHowever, friends who met her in the run-up to the Panorama interview on 5 November observed a marked change. They were regarded as no longer trustworthy, including Jephson. \"From Martin Bashir's perspective, I was the obstacle that had to be removed,\" he told me. \"Because there was a fair chance that if I advised against her giving the interview to him that she wouldn't do it.\"\n\nDiana's friend Rosa Monckton has written that everyone knew something was wrong \"but none of us could put a finger on it\".\n\nOn 30 October, the day after Diana had secretly confirmed the interview with Bashir, she met her lawyer Lord Mishcon and described to him a series of lurid plots which she said had been hatched against her.\n\nAsked to identify her sources Diana replied only that they were \"reliable\" and included GCHQ.\n\nPrincess Diana photographed with her then private secretary Patrick Jephson\n\nIs it a coincidence that among the top-level sources, Bashir would later claim to BBC management that he had met while \"investigating\" the dirty tricks campaign against Diana, was a member of GCHQ? It was, however, unheard of for a serving intelligence officer to disclose intercepts (even assuming that Diana's communications were being intercepted, which itself seems highly dubious) to a journalist.\n\nThe key question about the BBC for both our inquiry and Lord Dyson's was: How did Bashir's machinations elude the corporation's most senior executives, all of whom had been editors and journalists for whom the first rule is to cast a sceptical eye over anything that doesn't seem to add up?\n\nThe first alarm bell that should have warned BBC management something was wrong rang in December 1995, a month after the sensational interview had been broadcast. Designer Wiessler approached current affairs bosses Tim Gardam and Tim Suter and told them that he had been unwittingly drawn into forging bank statements by Bashir.\n\nWiessler - who says he only realised a connection between the fake documents and the interview after it was broadcast - told them he had previously approached the then Panorama editor Steve Hewlett, who had assured him there was nothing to worry about. Hewlett died of cancer in 2017, and having worked closely with him, the idea that he might have colluded with Bashir in using fake bank statements is - to me - unthinkable. And nothing I have seen suggests that Hewlett did. Nonetheless, were he alive, Lord Dyson would have sought his answer to some searching questions.\n\nWhy, for example, having been first alerted to the fake bank statements shortly after transmission, had Hewlett not reported this to management?\n\nThe evidence suggests that Hewlett first learned about the fake bank statements after Wiessler faxed them to Panorama producer Mark Killick with whom he had previously worked. Killick instantly recognised the name \"Penfolds Consultants\" because the company had featured in two previous Panoramas he and Bashir had made about the business affairs of former England football manager Terry Venables. Why, puzzled Killick, should Penfolds be involved with paying an ex-employee of Earl Spencer?\n\nKillick confronted Bashir with the bank statements in the BBC canteen. The meeting was brief and acrimonious, with Bashir telling Killick it was none of his concern.\n\nKillick, along with two colleagues - former Panorama deputy editor Harry Dean and Panorama reporter Tom Mangold - went to see Hewlett on 4 December. All three also recall the editor saying it was none of their business. Dean asked him if he knew about the bank statements, and Hewlett said he couldn't remember. But as Killick left, he suggested Hewlett talk to Spencer. Despite Spencer later calling Hewlett, we have seen no evidence that either Hewlett or anyone from BBC management did ever check Bashir's version of events against Spencer's. Lord Dyson is especially critical of this failure. He says the investigation carried out by Tony Hall and Anne Sloman, a former radio current affairs producer who later became the BBC's chief political adviser, was \"flawed and woefully ineffective\".\n\nLord Dyson said it \"would have been substantially changed if they had bothered to speak to Earl Spencer\".\n\nDean recalls that Hewlett later assured him that the information on the bank statements was true. He told Dean that Venables had given up his interest in Penfolds and the name appearing in the fake bank statements was merely coincidental. That assurance seems likely to have come from Bashir himself.\n\nAt the Panorama Christmas party, former producer Peter Molloy recalls Wiessler looking very shaken as he arrived. Wiessler told Molloy his flat had been broken into, and the only thing missing appeared to be two disks containing the bank statements. When Wiessler reported his concerns to BBC management, it became clear that Hewlett had not told his line manager Tim Gardam anything about Bashir having faked bank statements. \"Tim was angry but sensible about it,\" recalled colleague Tim Suter in 2001. Hewlett told them there'd been \"nothing underhand in getting the Diana interview\".\n\nBashir was then questioned by Gardam, Hewlett and Suter. He assured them the bank statements hadn't been shown to Diana or anyone else. They couldn't have been used to persuade the princess to give an interview, he said, because the source of the information in them had been Diana herself.\n\nHowever, a note by Tim Gardam of this meeting, shows Gardam was still puzzled - why had Bashir gone to the trouble and expense of creating such authentic looking documents? He asked Bashir to seek an assurance from the Princess in writing that she'd not been shown them. The following day, a handwritten letter arrived from Kensington Palace: \"I can confirm that I was not (not is underlined twice) put under any undue pressure to give my interview. I was not shown any documents nor given any information by Martin Bashir that I was not already aware of. I was perfectly happy with the interview and I stand by it.\"\n\nDiana's letter put to rest any doubts management had that she'd been tricked or coerced. The BBC's greatest ever scoop, was safe. For now.\n\nWhat had been missed, however, was a big clue that Bashir was lying.\n\nBashir had already told Gardam in November that his first contact with Princess Diana had been in late September. This was mentioned in a \"record of events\" note by Gardam for Tony Hall. However, Gardam had also been told by Matt Wiessler that he had created the bank statements in late August/early September, some three weeks earlier.\n\nAlthough both Hewlett and BBC management had been made aware of both dates, neither appear to have spotted the obvious conflict that Diana couldn't have been Bashir's source because she and Bashir were yet to be in contact. When we highlighted this discrepancy over dates to Gardam, he acknowledged he hadn't spotted it: \"Had I done so, I would have questioned Martin Bashir about it.\" His focus, he explained, had been on Wiessler's allegation that \"the documents had been shown to the Princess of Wales in order to persuade her to give an interview\".\n\nBashir may have calculated that by naming Diana as his confidential source, BBC management would feel inhibited about checking this with her. And they never did.\n\nHe also deflected suspicion by admitting that he falsely inserted the name \"Penfolds Consultants\" as one of the two companies supposedly paying Spencer's ex-employee Alan Waller. His excuse? Although Diana had supposedly told him Waller was being paid by an intelligence services front company to spy on the Spencers, she hadn't known the name. All she had known, said Bashir, was that the company was based in Jersey. So he'd just inserted a dummy name because he knew Penfolds was based in Jersey.\n\nIn truth, Bashir must have realised he would never get away with passing off Penfolds as real because it had featured in his previous Panoramas. What Hewlett made of Bashir's volte-face over Penfolds given the former editor's earlier assurances to a sceptical Harry Dean is unclear. In Gardam's note of his interview with Bashir, he makes no reference to having been told about this contradiction which suggests Hewlett never told him.\n\nAsked by Gardam why he had compiled the graphics in the first place, Bashir said it was simply to record and file the information - an implausible reason for getting a graphic designer to work all night, paying him £250 of licence fee payers' money and getting the documents couriered to Heathrow, when jotting down the details in his notebook would have sufficed.\n\nNonetheless, however improbable this may seem today, Diana's letter appears to have reassured management. \"All could now relax for Christmas,\" said Suter at the time. \"We had had a scare, but we had got through it.\" But for Earl Spencer, the letter doesn't exonerate the BBC. \"Diana is dealing from a position of having been lied to. She didn't know that the whole obtaining of the interview was based on a series of falsehoods that led to her being vulnerable to this,\" he told me.\n\nHowever, if management thought that was the end of it, they were mistaken. On 21 March, the Mail on Sunday told Spencer they were investigating how Martin Bashir had been introduced to his sister and secured his scoop interview. In order to convince Spencer of his credentials, the newspaper alleged that Bashir had shown him bogus security service documents about bugging phones at Kensington Palace. Clearly the Mail were on to something, but were wrong about the content of the documents.\n\nDistrustful of the tabloid press, Spencer called the BBC to find out more. Spencer was put on to Hewlett and told him he had introduced Bashir to Diana \"on 19 September on the back of extremely serious allegations he had made, against various newspapers, named journalists, named senior figures at St James's Palace, and unnamed figures in the secret service\".\n\nHewlett now had a golden opportunity to question the Earl about Bashir's allegations and crucially whether he'd been shown bank statements since, unlike Spencer, Hewlett knew they were fake. It's not clear that Hewlett did ask Spencer about either point. Nonetheless, since the Mail on Sunday had mentioned forgeries, Gardam instructed Hewlett to question Bashir about this again.\n\nAgain, Bashir insisted he had not shown his forgeries to anyone, including Spencer.\n\nOn 23 March, Gardam was telephoned and doorstepped by the Mail on Sunday, so he telephoned Bashir: Had he shown the documents to Spencer? Again, Bashir denied this to both Gardam and Hewlett. Unconvinced, that afternoon, Gardam sought another assurance. Fearing imminent publication, Bashir caved in, finally admitting that he had. It had taken four attempts since December to get the truth out of Bashir.\n\nA furious Gardam warned Bashir the BBC would have to consider its position.\n\nGardam was days away from leaving the BBC. He wrote a handover note setting out all of Bashir's lies. It also records Tony Hall as having agreed with Gardam that since Bashir had \"misled us and… appeared to have acted unethically and in breach of the guidelines\" the corporation should conduct a \"full inquiry\".\n\nBut what transpired could hardly be described as a \"full inquiry\" and was compounded by misleading statements.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday had withheld publication, but by April 1996 had firmed up their story and published Bashir's fake documents. Approved by both Hall and Hewlett, the BBC issued a statement saying the documents were \"never connected in any way to the Panorama on Princess Diana\". Yet by now both knew that Bashir had admitted showing the statements to Spencer. They also knew that in a written statement, Bashir had admitted showing the documents to Spencer in order to \"foster\" his relationship with him. Therefore the documents manifestly were \"connected to the Panorama on Princess Diana\".\n\nIn fact, Lord Dyson finds that the way the BBC handled its public statements as a whole in this matter \"fell short of its high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark\".\n\nAs Anne Sloman, who had taken over as Gardam's temporary replacement, and Hall carried out their \"full inquiry\", they never appear to have worked out that Bashir's central claim - Diana was Bashir's source for the information in the fake graphics - was a lie.\n\nLike Gardam in December, neither Hall nor Sloman appear to have spotted that Diana couldn't have been Bashir's source because they hadn't met when Bashir commissioned Wiessler to do the graphics. But no such comparison appears to have been made. Lord Dyson does not hold BBC management culpable for not spotting the discrepancy in dates. He does, however, find that ahead of Bashir's first meeting with Diana on 19 September, it is \"inconceivable\" that he was \"locked in a relationship\" such that she would have been his source for the information in the graphics.\n\nThe Hall-Sloman investigation did draw up a chronology of events, which we've seen, but its focus was more about leaks from Panorama to newspapers than Bashir. Its chosen starting point was late October shortly before transmission, not late August/early September which is when management had already been told that Bashir had commissioned the graphics. Nor at any point did it say Bashir had lied.\n\nThe chronology reflected what Sloman appears to have thought about Panorama - \"a viper's nest\" seething with jealous rivalries was how she later described the atmosphere to the late Richard Lindley, himself a former Panorama reporter, for his book \"Panorama: Fifty Years of Pride and Paranoia\" published in 2002. \"All felt they had a God given right to leak to the press\" said Sloman.\n\nEarl Spencer and his wife, Karen, at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, May 2018\n\nHad Earl Spencer spoken out, his notes would have blown apart Bashir's story - and the BBC would have been confronted with one of its biggest crises. However, Spencer told me the reason he didn't was because he didn't know the BBC had launched an inquiry and Princess Diana's Panorama interview was \"seen as very controversial. And if I had gone against it while she was alive, then I didn't want to be seen to be undermining her in any way.\"\n\nMoreover, at the time, Spencer didn't know the information in the bank accounts was entirely fake, or that Bashir had told the BBC his sister was the source.\n\nAlso, the Mail on Sunday revelation quite quickly ceased to have traction. BBC press briefings that \"jealous colleagues\" were behind the paper's story had distracted from its allegation about Bashir's subterfuge, Spencer wasn't talking, and management hoped he never would. \"The Diana story is now dead, unless Spencer talks. There's no indication that he will,\" wrote Anne Sloman in an internal BBC management document a fortnight after the Mail on Sunday story.\n\nBashir had already put Diana off limits for questioning by claiming her as his source for the \"exact\" payment sums to her brother's former head of security Alan Waller. Now in conversations with management, Bashir did the same to her brother claiming it was Earl Spencer himself who was his source for Waller's bank account details - something he'd not previously mentioned.\n\nBashir had changed his story again but it seems not to have rung any alarm bells. Spencer only learned last autumn that Bashir had accused him of misusing private information and categorically denies there is any truth to it. In anger he contacted the BBC urging they hold an independent inquiry - hence Lord Dyson.\n\n\"In a credibility contest between Earl Spencer and Mr Bashir, Earl Spencer wins convincingly,\" says the former Supreme Court judge.\n\nIn Lindley's history of Panorama, Anne Sloman is quoted as saying Bashir was interviewed by Hall \"at length\", with Hall at one end of her \"grand desk\" in Broadcasting House, Bashir at the other. \"Certainly, Bashir had forged these documents. It was a stupid thing to do - it didn't get him the interview. Why he did it, God only knows.\"\n\nTo those of a more curious disposition, the circumstantial evidence pointed in only one direction: that these documents were Bashir's way of getting his foot in the door of the Spencer family. That is also the finding of Lord Dyson, who says: \"I conclude that Mr Bashir showed the fake statements to Earl Spencer before there was any contact between Princess Diana and himself.\"\n\nOn 25 April 1996, Hall reported the results of his \"personal investigation\" into Bashir to the BBC's governors, at the time the body appointed to regulate the corporation. A statement written by Hall for the governors' meeting quotes him as saying that Bashir's explanation for having commissioned the graphics was simply because \"he wasn't thinking\". Then came Hall's exoneration: \"I believe he is, even with this lapse, an honest and honourable man. He is contrite.\"\n\nHall's statement made no mention of what he already knew by that point, that Bashir had shown the fake documents to Spencer and had repeatedly lied to his editor and to senior management. At the same time, Hall refers to \"TRUST\" (which Hall spelled out in capital letters) and \"straight dealing\" as \"paramount\" BBC values.\n\nWhile Hall's statement to the governors criticised Bashir for having been \"incautious and unwise\", he assured his fellow managers he was \"certain there had been no question of Bashir trying to mislead or do anything improper with the document\" - implying nothing improper had taken place.\n\nLord Dyson comments: \"To dismiss his actions as no more than a mistake, unwise and foolish did not do justice to the seriousness of what he had done.\"\n\nAn internal document faxed three days before the board of governors meeting shows that management seem to have privately acknowledged Bashir had been in breach of journalistic ethics and BBC rules: \"Management will have to decide what action if any to take privately or publicly about Bashir, what to do about his contract and how long he should stay on Panorama.\"\n\nLord Hall told Panorama Bashir was given a \"severe reprimand\" and was placed under \"close supervision\". It is true on 4 April 1996, Tim Suter wrote a letter addressed to Bashir saying the creation of the graphics \"was in breach of BBC's guidelines on straight dealing… compounded by your failure to inform the head of department of the use made of this material when directly questioned by him. You should be in no doubt of the seriousness with which we view this nor of the reprimand that this letter represents.\"\n\nHowever, Lord Dyson finds that the letter was probably not sent to Bashir and further, that there is no record of a reprimand on his employment records. Panorama's then deputy editor Clive Edwards told me he was \"unaware of any supervisory order on Martin\".\n\n\"It is difficult to imagine how any such order could have been in force but not known to me as deputy editor, since I would have been the person to supervise such an order.\"\n\nBashir remained with the BBC until 1998, when he left to join ITV.\n\nThe most senior managers responsible for BBC journalism appear to have swallowed a whale of a story, and in a 2005 interview for the BBC's Arena documentary series to celebrate the scoop's 10-year anniversary, Tony Hall unwittingly explained why: \"Martin is the sort of interviewer who works very hard at getting into your confidence.\"\n\nIt seems to have worked on everyone - despite Tim Gardam's parting note to his management colleagues emphasising the need for the BBC to get to \"the entire\" truth of what Bashir had been up to.\n\nFor the anonymous BBC leakers without whom we would never have known about Bashir's dishonesty there was only excoriation - briefed against by the BBC to the newspapers as \"jealous colleagues\" and referred to in an internal management document as \"troublemakers.\" Because of \"this sordid saga\", says the document \"we can either go the formal disciplinary route, which needs proof and may be messy or pick off the troublemakers one by one with a stiff warning and ensure they are found work elsewhere as speedily as is practicable\".\n\nThe only named whistleblower Matt Wiessler would never again get any BBC work, Hall assured the governors. Wiessler paid a heavy price - his freelance graphics business eventually collapsed so he left London and in his own words became \"a bit of a drifter… I tried lots of other things, but at heart I was always a television current affairs guy. Hall called Martin, a 'good and honourable man'. I want him to reverse that because I'm the good and honourable man in this.\"\n\nIn response to Dyson, the BBC offered a \"full and unconditional apology\" and said it would be writing to \"a number of individuals involved\".\n\nWiessler says the least the BBC could do is include him in that list.\n\nPrincess Diana visited Argentina, shortly after the BBC interview was broadcast\n\nIn overall charge of the BBC at the time was director general John Birt. He says the revelation that the BBC \"harboured a rogue reporter on Panorama who fabricated an elaborate, detailed but wholly false account of his dealings with Earl Spencer and Princess Diana\" is a \"shocking blot on the BBC's enduring commitment to honest journalism; and it is a matter of the greatest regret that it has taken 25 years for the full truth to emerge. As the director general at the time, I offer my deep apologies to Earl Spencer and to all others affected.\"\n\nLord Dyson has little to say about how BBC governance was undermined by Hall's \"woefully ineffective\" investigation.\n\nOur own investigation sheds some light on this, however.\n\nLindley's book on 50 years of Panorama quotes Sloman as saying that she, Hall and Birt had a 90-minute meeting about Bashir but it doesn't go into detail as to what transpired. Lindley's widow let me search her attic for his original notes. I found that Sloman told Lindley: \"We concluded that faking documents had been going on as a general practice\" and that \"our business creates monsters… never did Birt express interest in covering his own back… Birt wanted to get to the bottom of the matter.\"\n\nI understand Birt has no recollection of any such meeting, but that he thinks his reference to wanting to \"get to the bottom of the matter\" refers to a meeting immediately after the Mail on Sunday revelations. What briefing Birt may have been given on the results of Hall's investigation before the boards of governors and boards of management is unclear, except that Birt is said not to have been told that Bashir had repeatedly lied. In fact, no evidence of Bashir having lied is mentioned in any of the documents written by Hall or Sloman that have surfaced.\n\nHowever, Lord Hall told Panorama that he was \"open and transparent with the director general and with colleagues on the board of management and I believe I gave them all the key facts... throughout I discharged my responsibilities in good faith\". For his part, Lord Dyson finds that Hall \"presented these facts to both the board of management and the board of governors as if they were uncontroversial\".\n\nLord Dyson continues: \"And yet he knew (but did not tell the board) that they derived from Mr Bashir's uncorroborated version of the facts and that Mr Bashir had lied on three occasions on a matter of considerable importance.\"\n\nIn a statement, Lord Hall said: \"I accept that our investigation 25 years ago into how Panorama secured the interview with Princess Diana fell well short of what was required. In hindsight, there were further steps we could and should have taken following complaints about Martin Bashir's conduct.\"\n\nHe said he was \"wrong\" to give Martin Bashir the \"benefit of doubt, basing that judgement as I did on what appeared to be deep remorse on his part\".\n\nMartin Bashir said in a statement that he had apologised then, and did so again now for asking for bank statements to be \"mocked up\".\n\nBut he reiterated that \"the bank statements had no bearing whatsoever on the personal choice by Princess Diana to take part in the interview\".\n\nHe said Lord Dyson had accepted that the princess would \"probably have agreed to be interviewed without what he describes as my 'intervention'\".\n\nAnd he said he was \"immensely proud\" of the interview, in which Princess Diana \"courageously\" talked through the difficulties she faced. He said in it, she \"helped address the silence and stigma that surrounded mental health issues all those years ago. She led the way in addressing so many of these issues.\"\n\nThe least that can be said is that Bashir tried to con everyone. Others may say Bashir told management what they too readily wanted to hear - to spare the corporation the ignominy of undermining a truly global scoop. In 2016, Bashir was rehired by the BBC as religious affairs correspondent. The announcement referred to his \"track record in enterprising journalism\" and previous experience on \"BBC religion and ethics programmes.\"\n\nHe resigned as the BBC's editor of religion before the publication of the Dyson report.\n\nThe last word must go to Panorama's editor at the time, Steve Hewlett. He too was interviewed for the BBC Arena documentary marking the 10th anniversary of Bashir's scoop. I understand Hewlett agreed to be interviewed provided he wasn't asked specifically about the forged bank statements. Instead, he was asked how Bashir met Diana.\n\nArena didn't broadcast his answer and the BBC refused to release it to us. However, we obtained a transcript which shows the normally sure-footed Hewlett seeming to stumble: \"I'm sure he told me he was going to see her… look, he's a journalist, he does his business, I don't follow him around all day, so you know, I've got a show to run… what, precisely… how he did it, to be honest I don't know.\"\n\nIf this was Hewlett's way of saying he hadn't known all the strokes Bashir had pulled before transmission, that is very likely to be true. I and others knew Hewlett to be an ethical journalist.\n\nHe continued: \"You know… he's an operator, so he manages relationships very cleverly. I don't mean…dishonestly, but he manages them cleverly.\"\n\nWas Hewlett really still convinced by 2005 that Bashir had \"managed\" his relationship with Diana \"very cleverly\" but not \"dishonestly\"?\n\nThe idea that Hewlett hadn't yet suspected that Bashir got to Diana by deceiving Spencer sits uneasily with his careful editorial eye.\n\nYet, however Bashir got his scoop, it was undeniably real and Princess Diana was, by several accounts, intent on telling her side in the War of the Waleses. At the same time, the reporter to whom Hewlett had entrusted this assignment turned out to be \"rogue\" confronting him with an acute dilemma. Did Hewlett reconcile this by deciding the authenticity of the scoop trumped an otherwise tainted process? I pose this as a question, not an allegation, because Hewlett is no longer here to answer for himself. Yet it seems he was troubled by something.\n\nIt is 2004, a late-night bar in Sydney. By chance Hewlett has bumped into a colleague Phil Craig, who had just produced a documentary about Princess Diana. They talk and they drink. Having previously worked on Panorama, Craig knew a little of the rumours. \"We were coming at this from different sides,\" he recalls \"so with Steve there was a sense of 'let's talk it all through'. I came away that night with the very strong impression that he thought there was a chance that one day the Bashir story would cause everybody a lot more trouble, that there was more to come out about the background to the interview, that there was something that hadn't gone away and was still lurking in the shadows.\"\n\nThat \"something\" turns out to be a timebomb about public trust that the BBC tried to defuse 25 years ago, but left it ticking. That bomb has now detonated.", "The \"deceitful\" way the BBC secured an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, \"substantially influenced\" its content, Prince William has said.\n\n\"It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC's failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation,\" he said.\n\n\"She was failed not just by a rogue reporter but by leaders at the BBC who looked the other way.\"\n\n\"It is my firm view that this Panorama programme holds no legitimacy and should never be aired again,\" he said.\n\nRead more: BBC's deceit to Diana damaged my parents - William", "Schools in England could lose £118m funding for poor pupils this year, the Local Government Association says.\n\nThe education department is bringing forward the annual date for counting those eligible for the pupil premium, which it says will help plan budgets.\n\nPupils who have become eligible between October 2020 and January 2021 will not now be counted until October 2021.\n\nThe government said a typical school will see \"an increase in its pupil premium allocations\" this year.\n\nAn LGA survey suggests the new move will add up to a loss of about £93m for primary schools and £25m for secondary schools.\n\nOn average, each local authority area will lose about £600,000 in primary-school pupil-premium funding alone, it estimates, based on responses from 72 out of 151 councils in England.\n\nThe money - £1,345 a year for primary pupils and £955 for secondary - pays for academic support for poorer pupils.\n\nAnd nearly 62% of schools have at least five pupils who have become eligible between October 2020 and January 2021, a previous survey, by the National Association of Head Teachers, indicates.\n\n\"Pupil premium is vital to support the government's levelling-up agenda and education recovery plans,\" Teresa Heritage, vice-chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said.\n\n\"It is imperative that the government ensures that no school loses out in receiving this vital funding this year and that no child is left behind.\"\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders General Secretary Geoff Barton said the LGA's analysis laid bare \"the scale of the funding black hole left by the government's inexplicable decision to push ahead with a change to the way pupil-premium funding is calculated, at the height of the pandemic\".\n\n\"It was clear from the outset that school budgets would be negatively impacted because the pandemic has particularly badly affected disadvantaged families and has meant the number of children qualifying for pupil premium has grown significantly.\n\n\"Excluding those who qualified for funding between October 2020 and January 2021 has left schools counting the cost.\n\n\"The government is very keen to promote its levelling up and education recovery agendas and one way it can easily demonstrate its commitment is by ensuring schools are recompensed for the pupil-premium funding they have been so cruelly denied.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Pupil premium funding is expected to increase to more than £2.5 billion next year, and per-pupil rates are unchanged - so a typical school will see an increase in its pupil premium allocations this year compared to last.\n\n\"We have provided a £14 billion increase in school funding over three years - the biggest uplift in a decade - and school leaders can target our ambitious recovery funding, worth £1.7 billion, towards supporting disadvantaged pupils.\"", "More than a million people in Northern Ireland have received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine\n\nPeople aged from 25 to 29 years are now eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine from Thursday.\n\nIt is the latest expansion of Northern Ireland's vaccination programme.\n\nAppointments are available to book online at the Health and Social Care booking website and by telephone on 0300 200 7813.\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) said vaccine supplies remain limited and there will be about 20,000 slots available weekly.\n\nThe limit is to help manage the availability of the Pfizer vaccine after regulators said under 40s should be given an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine, the DoH said.\n\nHowever anyone in that age group can still make an informed decision to have AstraZeneca.\n\nEarlier this week it was reported that more than one million people in Northern Ireland have received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nNI Health Minister Robin Swann said the announcement for the 25-29 age group was \"welcome news\" and \"further testament to the successful delivery of the vaccination programme in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"Vaccination is vital in helping us move through this pandemic and there is no doubt that there are people in Northern Ireland alive today because they have been vaccinated,\" he said.\n\n\"Next week we will see further easing of restrictions with the re-opening of licensed and unlicensed premises indoors, the remainder of tourist accommodation and the further relaxation to the rules over visiting indoors.\n\n\"This has been made possible because of the success of the vaccination programme and the majority of people acting on the public health advice.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, it was announced that surge testing and jabs would be expanded to six new areas of concern in England to combat the spread of the Indian Covid variant.\n\nEarlier this week, it was reported there had been a slight increase in the number of Indian variant cases in Northern Ireland to 16.\n\nMr Swann added:\"I know there are some younger people that think they don't need the vaccine but we have seen what this virus can do and with variants now in the mix we all need to protect ourselves and those around us.\"\n\nChief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said that by getting the vaccine, people were protecting \"not only\" themselves, but family and friends.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccine effort ramped up with the opening of a mass vaccination centre at the SSE Arena in Belfast in March\n\nThe Department of Health said that in line with the latest Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advice, \"anyone under the age of 40 can book their vaccination at a trust centre in order to receive the Pfizer-BioTech vaccine\".\n\nIt said for anyone under 40 who wishes \"to make an informed decision to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine there are slots available at the SSE Arena and at participating community pharmacies\".\n\nThe department said people making bookings \"are asked to be patient, as demand for appointments is expected to be strong\".\n\nIt said the \"ongoing roll-out of the vaccination programme will continue to be dependent on the availability of vaccine supplies\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Councillor Tony Buchanan: “Cases are rising and we are more than aware of that - they are concerning.\"\n\nCovid infection rates in East Renfrewshire are now higher than Glasgow, figures show.\n\nThe weekly case rate on 17 May reached 118.3, with Glasgow on 112.1, according to Public Health Scotland.\n\nThe rate is a key indicator of which restriction level an area should be in, with 50 cases per 100,000 set as the threshold for level three.\n\nGlasgow is currently in level three, but East Renfrewshire went down to level two on Monday.\n\nIn Moray - the other level three area - the rate is continuing to fall and on 17 May was 36.5 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nThe Scottish government is expected to review the levels assigned to each local authority on Friday.\n\nThe weekly case rate is one factor that will be considered, but others include the ability of the local NHS to cope.\n\nTony Buchanan, leader of East Renfrewshire Council, told the BBC: \"Cases are rising and we are more than aware of that - they are concerning, I don't think there is any doubt looking at these numbers.\n\n\"Within that, though, we are looking at a lot of household transmission, as opposed to wider community transmission.\"\n\nEverywhere in Scotland apart from Moray and Glasgow dropped down to lower levels of restrictions on Monday, with the rest of the mainland and Skye at level two, and some islands now at level one.\n\nThe level two restrictions allow pubs and restaurants to serve alcohol inside until 22:30, and limited numbers of people can socialise indoors.\n\nSocial distancing during meetings indoors or in private gardens is also no longer required in levels one and two.\n\nMr Buchanan said he had a \"lot of sympathy\" for businesses in East Renfrewshire who were now facing the possibility of the local authority being moved back to up level three.\n\n\"Obviously they have operated this week. All measures are in place to try and avoid transmission and we are not aware of any transmission occurring in any of our local businesses.\n\n\"It is a concern - we fully understand the position that they are in, but equally we have our public health message and we need to be concerned and ultimately save lives hopefully.\"\n\nCovid cases across Scotland have been rising over the last few weeks, with fears the surge in Glasgow is being driven by the Indian variant.\n\nThe strain is thought to spread more easily and has been found in pockets across the UK.\n\nScotland's interim deputy chief medical officer, Dave Caesar, said \"small numbers\" of the Indian variant had also been found outside Glasgow in other areas of the central belt.\n\nDr Caesar told BBC Scotland's The Nine that health officials were keeping a \"very close eye\" on the cases.\n\nHe also said that the Scottish government was \"watchful without being alarmed\" about the recent increase in infections in Glasgow and East Renfrewshire.\n\n\"It's not surprising that with a relaxation in the measures...that with increasing travel locally, with increasing mixing, with increasing reasons for us to go out and about, that we might see more transmission between people,\" he said.\n\n\"We're really keen to try to make sure we do all we can as soon as we see any signals that might suggest that transmission is creeping up.\"", "There must be a sustained focus on Northern Ireland's \"dreadful\" hospital waiting lists, a leading academic has said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has the worst waiting lists in the UK.\n\nIn April, the Department of Health estimated it could take up to 10 years to tackle the current lists.\n\nProf Deirdre Heenan, co-author of the Change or Collapse review of how to improve NI's health service, said a plan was needed to address the issue.\n\n\"I think we need to be honest with the public, to say we've lost control of this,\" she said.\n\nProf Heenan said she would like an assurance that there would be a dedicated full-time team putting an \"unrelenting focus\" on waiting lists.\n\nProf Deirdre Heenan said she believed there was no accountability when targets were missed\n\nProf Heenan, a senior associate for the independent health think-tank Nuffield Trust in London, added that there appeared to be no accountability when health and care trusts missed their targets.\n\n\"I would really like to see a group of people managing a regional waiting list coming and telling the public what they're doing, setting targets, telling us what the plans are.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, she said many people in Northern Ireland had been waiting years for treatment for conditions such as hip replacements and cataract surgery.\n\nEileen Wilson said her condition has worsened in the past year\n\nEileen Wilson, a 47-year-old mother of six, has been waiting for four years for a neurology appointment.\n\nIt is suspected she may have MS and can choke on food and has motor skill and bladder issues.\n\nShe said she hasn't heard from her hospital in four years.\n\n\"Every day is like living a battle really. I think if I had medication the symptoms would be under more control.\n\n\"I think to the NHS I'm just a name on a list, they don't see the people trying to live their lives.\n\n\"I feel my life's on hold. I have a granddaughter who's two and a half and I can't enjoy her, I just don't feel well enough.\"\n\nKevin McIvor, 36, suffers from scoliosis, a condition that causes the spine to curve abnormally and can crush internal organs.\n\nHe went to Turkey for a consultation after learning he faced \"years\" on the waiting list in Northern Ireland.\n\nMr McIvor is fundraising for surgery in Turkey.\n\n\"I received more care there [in Turkey] in that one day I was in that hospital.\n\n\"I was told I had three herniated discs, I was never told that before.\"\n\nMr McIvor said he had spent eight or nine hours in Antrim Hospital last year before being sent home.\n\n\"If they had picked up the severity of the scoliosis back then maybe I would be in a different place.\n\n\"I feel let down, the fact of the matter is that I require emergency surgery.\"\n\nMary Anderson, 65, is living with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia.\n\nShe was told she needed surgery on her ankle in June 2019, but needed a three-month review, due to her rheumatoid arthritis medication, before going onto the waiting list.\n\nThat review didn't happen until March 2020, and by then it was too late - a proper assessment could not be done due to the pandemic. She said she was now in \"limbo\".\n\n\"There's just that overwhelming sense of powerlessness. I'm stuck in constant pain,\" she said.\n\n\"It's very wearing in every sense.\n\n\"Some days I wake up and try to walk and it's very painful and other days it's not too bad but I never know day to day.\n\n\"It just becomes something that gnaws you down and leaves you feeling lost in the system.\"\n\nRoisin Curran is a 55-year-old mother of two.\n\nShe has been on tablets for a stomach complaint for two years, but has been advised to have a scope test to try to find the underlying problem.\n\nShe said she was shocked to be told she will wait at least two and a half years for the test.\n\n\"It would mean it would be five years since I'd been told I need to go on medication because of it.\n\n\" I just think it's too long to be waiting.\n\n\"The health service we have here, it's a disgrace.\"\n\nIt is not the first time we have heard from people facing long waits on waiting lists.\n\nPatients sound weary and demoralised. It is not just a case of their physical health, their mental health is affected as well.\n\nThe figures have been horrendous for a decade, if not more. We've had seven major health reports and six health ministers in that time, and very little has changed.\n\nIf you're told you are waiting six or seven years - what really does that mean?\n\nIt is a sign that the system is broken, so what are we going to do about it?\n\nThe pandemic has shone a light on the fact that when hospitals need to change, they can. Some of our hospitals and systems changed in a matter of weeks. Look at what happened with the Nightingale Hospital.\n\nUnfortunately, there doesn't seem to be the same agility, or the same desire, to change systems when it comes to other specialities across the system.\n\nBBC News NI asked the Department of Health to comment on the current waiting list difficulties and was referred to a ministerial statement, given by Health Minister Robin Swann, in the assembly on 13 April.\n\nMr Swann said he was \"absolutely determined to put this [waiting lists] right\" but described it as a \"long-term task\" that needed \"long-term, recurrent funding.\"\n\nHe told MLAs the pandemic had had a significant impact on \"our already appalling waiting lists\".\n\nIn March, the department's figures showed that almost all of NI's cancer waiting time targets were missed in the last quarter.\n\nIn December 2020, 792 people began treatment, 93.4% of them within 31 days, missing the 95% target.\n\nThere was also a breach in the target to see all urgent breast cancer referrals within 14 days.\n\nThe Department of Health has been asked for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"What we've learned from Covid is things can be done differently\"\n\nA £100m recovery plan to help the NHS recover from the pandemic has been announced by the Welsh government.\n\nThe plan details the impact of Covid-19 on the NHS and aims to rebuild services and reduce waiting times.\n\nRecord numbers of patients are waiting for hospital treatment after many faced cancellations and delays as \"exhausted\" healthcare staff tackled the pandemic.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it would still be \"a long journey\" to recovery.\n\nNHS Wales chief executive Dr Andrew Goodall said there was an \"opportunity to change for the better\".\n\nBut he warned staff were exhausted, and tackling waiting lists could take five years.\n\nWriting in the recovery plan, Dr Goodall said the response to the pandemic had \"been nothing short of incredible\".\n\n\"The NHS, and all of its social care partners including the independent and third sectors, have demonstrated their ability to do things at scale and pace,\" he said.\n\nDr Goodall warned staff were exhausted and said tackling waiting lists could take five years\n\nDr Goodall said the pandemic showed how technology and greater collaboration presented opportunities to improve the way the health and care system worked in future.\n\nThe document details the health inequalities which have been highlighted by the pandemic, including the impact on BAME communities and children who live in areas of social deprivation.\n\nIt said the recovery of services must include a focus on children's mental health, as well as practical actions to address racial inequality.\n\nIt also includes the publication of new quality statements, which set out in more detail the outcomes that should be expected for cancer and heart conditions.\n\nDemand on cancer services reduced during the pandemic, with fewer people going to see their GP with concerns about symptoms.\n\nIn the 10 months to December 2020, about 30,000 fewer people than expected in Wales were identified with suspected cancers - about 18% lower than the same period in 2019.\n\nDoctors fear people were reluctant to come forward with symptoms because of the pandemic.\n\nThe document said more would be done to encourage people to come forward, and it will develop the quality statement for cancer to address longer-term challenges.\n\nFewer people have accessed cancer services during the pandemic\n\nThe Wales Cancer Alliance said: \"Wales could soon be the only UK nation without a cancer strategy, with the Welsh government opting to publish a brief quality statement... instead of replacing its detailed cancer plan.\n\n\"This is despite stark and repeated warnings from the 20 charities in the Wales Cancer Alliance coalition that the statement does not go far enough.\n\n\"While the alliance welcomes the NHS Covid recovery plan, also published today by the Welsh government, this plan covers the immediate recovery from the pandemic and does not have the long-term vision in cancer services Wales needs.\"\n\nThe recovery plan said there was a \"fundamental need\" to change the way planned services were delivered and in order to tackle the backlog of treatments it said interim measures would require working with \"partner organisations who can provide capacity quickly.\"\n\nOther priorities noted in the recovery plan include identifying the \"hidden harms\" caused by Covid in the social care sector, increasing the collaborative working that has developed during the pandemic and recognising carers through pay, including a move towards paying the real living wage.\n\nIt also highlights the need to expand diagnostic services such as endoscopy.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, said supporting the mental health and well-being of NHS staff was important.\n\n\"If there's one lesson we should learn from the past year, it's that we must value our staff,\" she said.\n\n\"They have poured heart and soul into patient care during Covid-19, and they deserve compassionate leadership.\n\n\"This recovery plan must be backed up by action from health boards. Investment in more staff, flexible working, protected time for research and education - these things are vital.\"\n\nMr Gething said: \"The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on our health and social care system, patients and staff.\n\n\"As we emerge from the most serious stage of the pandemic, we are now in a position to set out how we can start to recover.\n\n\"This plan sets out the broad principles of recovery and more detailed actions will follow. I am making available an initial £100m now to support the first steps, but it is clear more resources will be needed to make a full recovery.\n\n\"It will be a long journey, but it is also an opportunity to transform how we deliver health and care services in the future and to tackle the health inequalities in our society that the pandemic has made even more evident.\n\n\"That is why, alongside our recovery plan, I am also pleased to announce our national clinical framework, which sets out how we see NHS clinical services developing over the next decade.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns said Labour's past \"broad approaches\" had failed to \"deliver the improvements we need to see for our people and public services in Wales\".\n\n\"Before the pandemic struck, waiting lists were already incredibly high, having doubled in the year before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"Now, one in five people in Wales sit on a waiting list, which is another public health crisis.\n\n\"Regrettably, there is still a gaping hole in dealing with the cancer backlog and Welsh Conservatives would implement a cancer recovery plan as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman, Rhun ap Iorwerth, said any plans that focused solely on \"recovery from the pandemic\" overlooked two decades of \"managed decline\".\n\nHe said healthcare in Wales needed to be \"completely transformed\", adding Plaid would recruit 1,000 doctors and 5,000 nurses and that care workers, would be \"given the same terms and conditions and pay scales as health workers\".\n\n\"Our cancer plan will speed up diagnosis and treatment, young people will be supported with their mental health and wellbeing through a network of youth welfare hubs,\" he added.\n\n\"Our NHS has to be rebuilt in a way that makes it more robust than ever.\"", "The BBC fell short of \"high standards of integrity and transparency\" over Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Princess Diana, an inquiry has found.\n\nBashir acted in a \"deceitful\" way and faked documents to obtain the interview, the inquiry said.\n\nAnd the BBC's own internal probe in 1996 into what happened was \"woefully ineffective\", it added.\n\nThe BBC and Bashir have both apologised, and the BBC has written to Princes William and Harry.\n\nThe corporation said the report showed \"clear failings\", admitting it should have made more effort to get to the bottom of what happened at the time.\n\nAs well as Diana's sons, the BBC has also written apologies to Prince Charles and Diana's brother Earl Spencer. It is also returning all awards the interview received, including a TV Bafta won in 1996.\n\nBashir said mocking up the documents \"was a stupid thing to do\" and he regretted it, but said they had had no bearing on Diana's decision to be interviewed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earl Spencer recalls introducing his sister to Martin Bashir in September 1995\n\nLord Dyson - the retired judge who led the inquiry - found:\n\nPrincess Diana's interview with Bashir for Panorama was a huge scoop for the BBC - in it, the princess famously said: \"There were three of us in this marriage.\"\n\nIt was the first time a serving royal had spoken so openly about life in the Royal Family - viewers saw her speak about her unhappy marriage to Prince Charles, their affairs, and her bulimia.\n\nBut since then Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, has questioned Bashir's tactics to get the interview.\n\nThe independent inquiry was commissioned by the BBC last year, after Earl Spencer went public with the allegations. Its findings were published on Thursday.\n\nThe earl told BBC Panorama: \"Well, the irony is that I met Martin Bashir on the 31st of August 1995 - because exactly two years later she died, and I do draw a line between the two events.\"\n\nHe said it was \"quite clear\" from when he introduced Bashir to Diana in September 1995 that \"everyone was going to be made untrustworthy, and I think that Diana did lose trust in really key people\".\n\nPatrick Jephson - Diana's former private secretary - said the interview \"destroyed remaining links with Buckingham Palace\".\n\nHe said after the interview, Diana lost \"the royal support structure that had guided and safeguarded her for so many years\" which \"inevitably made her vulnerable to people who didn't have her best interests at heart, or were unable properly to look after her\".\n\nLord Dyson found that Bashir deceived Earl Spencer by showing him forged bank statements that falsely suggested individuals - including Mr Jephson - were being paid for keeping the princess under surveillance.\n\nThe inquiry said Bashir had later lied, telling BBC managers he had not shown the fake documents to anyone.\n\nAnd it described significant parts of Bashir's account of the events of 1995 as \"incredible, unreliable, and in some cases dishonest\".\n\nThe Dyson Report shows a catalogue of moral, professional and editorial failures at the BBC in the 1990s, which occur on three main levels.\n\nFirst, the interview of the century was obtained by deception. Martin Bashir has admitted to forging bank statements. This report says he lied repeatedly to several people, including at the BBC.\n\nSecond, the investigation led by future director general Tony Hall was \"woefully ineffective\". Bashir was believed far too readily. Earl Spencer was not interviewed. Crucially, Dyson rejects the grounds given for this failure by Hall and his team.\n\nFinally, Dyson uses a phrase which he knows to be explosive. There was a \"covering up\". The origin of the cover up is not clear. But no matter: the BBC conspired, on vast scale, to deceive the public it is funded by and serves.\n\nThis report will not just injure the BBC, but scar it. And it should be granted that though it shows the historic failures of BBC journalists, it also shows the power and merit of journalism.\n\nIt is thanks to determined reporters, not least at the Daily Mail group and the Sunday Times, that we today have the first full account of the real story behind the most remarkable - and arguably consequential - interview in television history.\n\nIn a statement, Bashir apologised for mocking up the documents, but said he remained \"immensely proud\" of the interview.\n\nHe said: \"The bank statements had no bearing whatsoever on the personal choice by Princess Diana to take part in the interview.\n\n\"Evidence handed to the inquiry in her own handwriting unequivocally confirms this, and other compelling evidence presented to Lord Dyson reinforces it.\"\n\nFor the first time, Diana's note that she wrote after the interview was broadcast has been published as part of the inquiry.\n\nIn it, she wrote: \"Martin Bashir did not show me any documents, nor give me any information that I was not previously aware of.\"\n\nLord Dyson said the note had been found in November 2020 and given to BBC officials\n\nAs well as Bashir, the report also criticises the BBC over how it handled the claims about Bashir's tactics.\n\nIn 1996, the BBC carried out its own investigation which cleared Bashir, Panorama and BBC News of wrongdoing.\n\nLord Dyson said that investigation - led by then-director of news, and future director general, Lord Hall - was \"woefully ineffective\".\n\nAnd as scrutiny from the press increased, the BBC gave \"evasive\" answers to journalists' questions, he said.\n\nWhen the BBC was asked about the bank statements by journalists in March 1996, senior BBC officials - including Lord Hall - already knew Bashir had lied three times about not having shown them to Earl Spencer, the report said.\n\nBut the BBC press office told journalists that Bashir was \"an honest and honourable man\".\n\nLord Dyson said he was \"satisfied that the BBC covered up in its press logs such facts as it had been able to establish about how Bashir secured the interview\".\n\nHe said the BBC \"fell short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark\".\n\nIn a statement, Lord Hall said he was wrong to give Bashir the \"benefit of the doubt\" at the time.\n\nHe added: \"Throughout my 35-year career at the BBC, I have always acted in ways I believe were fair, impartial and with the public interest front and centre.\n\n\"While Lord Dyson does not criticise my integrity, I am sorry that our investigation failed to meet the standards that were required.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's director general Tim Davie accepts the organisation's \"multiple serious failures\"\n\nThe BBC's current director general, Tim Davie, said: \"Although the report states that Diana, Princess of Wales, was keen on the idea of an interview with the BBC, it is clear that the process for securing the interview fell far short of what audiences have a right to expect. We are very sorry for this. Lord Dyson has identified clear failings.\n\n\"While today's BBC has significantly better processes and procedures, those that existed at the time should have prevented the interview being secured in this way.\n\n\"The BBC should have made greater effort to get to the bottom of what happened at the time and been more transparent about what it knew.\n\n\"While the BBC cannot turn back the clock after a quarter of a century, we can make a full and unconditional apology. The BBC offers that today.\"\n\nBBC News understands that in a letter sent by Mr Davie to Prince Charles, Mr Davie apologised for Bashir's \"lurid and untrue claims\" about the prince, members of his staff and other members of the royal family.\n\nThe letter said the BBC accepts that Mr Bashir made the claims \"intending to play on the princess's fears, in order to arouse her interest in him, and without concern for the impact on those he maligned\".\n\nThe chairman of the corporation, Richard Sharp, said the BBC \"unreservedly accepted\" the report's findings that there were \"unacceptable failures\".\n\n\"We take no comfort from the fact that these are historic,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Lord Birt - who was BBC director general at the time of the interview - said thanks to the inquiry, \"we now know that the BBC harboured a rogue reporter on Panorama\".\n\nHe said it was a \"shocking blot on the BBC's enduring commitment to honest journalism\" and it was a matter of \"the greatest regret\" that it had taken 25 years for the truth to emerge.\n• None -Broadcast on BBC One on 20 November 1995, the interview was watched by more than 20m people\n• None -At the time Princess Diana had been separated from Prince Charles for three years and they divorced the following year\n• None - She famously told Bashir there were \"three of us\" in the marriage, referring to Camilla Parker Bowles\n\nBashir, 58, is one of the most well-known journalists in the UK.\n\nAs well as Diana, he also made headlines for his 2003 interview with the pop star Michael Jackson. He has worked for ITV and various US television networks.\n\nLast week he left the BBC, citing ongoing health issues. He had been the corporation's religion correspondent and editor since 2016.\n\nLord Grade - who was BBC chairman between 2004 and 2006 - said the BBC's \"cover-up\" had been worse than Bashir's behaviour.\n\n\"It's taken 25 years to get the truth. It raises the question in your mind, how many more cover-ups are there in the files of BBC journalism that we haven't been told about?\"\n\nFormer BBC governor Sir Richard Eyre said the board of governors would have insisted on a full inquiry if they had known about Bashir's actions.\n\n\"The fact that Bashir lied should have been made clear to us, but in my memory, it never was,\" he said. \"We can see now that the false bank statements were the lever that opened the doors to the access to Diana.\"\n\nA Panorama investigation into the interview - delayed from last week - was shown at 19:00 BST on BBC One.", "Two tigers rescued from the Tiger King zoo live at a sanctuary in Colorado\n\nFederal officials have seized 68 big cats from Jeff and Lauren Lowe, stars of the hit Netflix show Tiger King.\n\nOn Thursday, the US Justice Department announced they had confiscated the exotic animals from the couple's Tiger King Park in Oklahoma.\n\nOfficials have inspected the zoo three times since December 2020 and have issued multiple citations for failure to properly care for the animals.\n\nSeven lions, 46 tigers, 15 lion-tiger hybrids, and one jaguar were recovered.\n\nThe Lowes are both accused of violating US laws on endangered species and animal welfare.\n\nDuring government inspections, they were repeatedly cited \"for failing to provide the animals with adequate or timely veterinary care, appropriate nutrition, and shelter that protects them from inclement weather and is of sufficient size to allow them to engage in normal behaviour\", according to a news release from the Justice Department.\n\nThe couple were found to be in contempt after failing to follow court orders to hire a qualified veterinarian to ensure that the cats could receive levels of care required under the Animal Welfare Act.\n\nMany of the animals were found to have bone disorders due to calcium deficiency from eating boneless and ground meat, officials say.\n\nIn a federal affidavit, officials said the Lowes harassed government workers during inspections, with Mrs Lowe at one point threatening to kill a wildlife official.\n\n\"The statement was especially intimidating because their former Tiger King business partner is serving a prison sentence for hiring a hit man to assassinate a business rival in another state,\" the charging document states.\n\nMr Lowe is the former business partner of Joe Exotic, star of the hit show.\n\nExotic, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is currently serving a 22-year sentence for his involvement in a contract killing plot and animal abuse.", "Emily Lewis, 15, was among 12 people onboard the boat when it struck a buoy\n\nA 15-year-old girl was killed after a boat skipper performed \"high-speed manoeuvres\" and crashed during a sightseeing trip, a report has said.\n\nEmily Lewis was fatally injured in the excursion, off Southampton, on speedboat Seadogz on 22 August 2020.\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released an interim report into the crash, in which 11 other people onboard were injured.\n\n\"Immediate lessons\" could be learned, the MAIB said.\n\nEmily was a pre-booked passenger with her family on the scheduled one-hour trip, which was run by Seadogz Rib Charter Ltd, and departed from Ocean Village marina.\n\nThe crash happened during an excursion on speedboat Seadogz on 22 August 2020\n\nThe group was told to expect a fast ride with high-speed turns and the skipper put on loud music about 15 minutes into the trip, the report said.\n\n\"During the next 12 minutes Seadogz carried out high-speed manoeuvres up and down Southampton Water, zigzagging across the main channel, passing close to navigation buoys and conducting figure-of-eight turns,\" the report said.\n\nIt added the boat then crashed head-on into a navigation buoy because the skipper was \"concentrating on conducting high-speed manoeuvres in close proximity to another vessel and did not see the fixed navigational mark in time\".\n\n\"The skipper was operating single-handedly, at high speed and did not see the navigation buoy, which was directly ahead, for 10 seconds before impact,\" the report continued.\n\nThe crash caused Emily's death, while others suffered injuries including broken limbs, fractured vertebrae, dislocations and a punctured lung.\n\nThe boat was filmed hitting the navigational buoy at high speed\n\nThe MAIB said the passengers had not alerted the skipper as they approached the buoy because they had become \"accustomed to passing close by large navigation buoys at speed\".\n\nAndrew Moll, the MAIB's chief inspector of marine accidents, said: \"These rides can provide excitement, entertainment and fun, and for this reason they are popular.\n\n\"However, this dreadful accident saw nine people sustain very serious injuries and tragically cost the life of a young person.\n\n\"As the holiday season approaches, I want to remind operators that they also have a duty of care for their passengers, and safety should not be compromised in pursuit of a thrill.\"\n\nA full report will be published when the investigation is complete.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Prince William, who is left-handed, is pictured receiving his jab in his right arm\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has paid tribute to those involved in the vaccine rollout after getting his first Covid jab on Tuesday.\n\nThe 38-year old shared a photograph showing him being vaccinated by NHS staff at the Science Museum in London.\n\nHe is the latest senior royal to share having received the vaccine, following the Queen and the Prince of Wales.\n\n\"To all those working on the vaccine rollout thank you for everything you've done and continue to do,\" he tweeted.\n\nPrince William is among more than 37 million people in the UK - around 70% of the adult population - to have received their first dose, according to the government's latest statistics.\n\nPeople in England aged 34 and over are now able to book their Covid-19 jab.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the duke was given, or if the Duchess of Cambridge, 39, has received her first dose yet.\n\nMost adults under the age of 40 in the UK are being given an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine due to a link with rare blood clots.\n\nThe duke has previously spoken out in favour of Covid vaccines, hailing the \"monumental\" success of the programme and expressing his desire to have his first dose.\n\nHe contracted Covid last April, at a similar time to his father Prince Charles, and was treated by palace doctors. He was reportedly able to carry on with telephone and online engagements.\n\nIn January, it was announced that the Queen had received her Covid jab from a household doctor at Windsor Castle. Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall received theirs in February.\n\nThe progress of the vaccine rollout varies across the UK. Over-30s are eligible in Scotland, while Northern Ireland has started offering the vaccination to anyone aged over 25.\n\nIn Wales, some areas have seen almost half of those aged under 30 receive first doses.", "The government must urgently act on its pledge to extend bereavement payments to co-habiting couples, a cross-party group of MPs has said.\n\nThe group wants ministers to comply within three months of court rulings that say limiting the benefits to married couples breached human rights.\n\nA Labour MP behind the move said current rules \"punished\" the children of unmarried parents.\n\nBoris Johnson vowed last year to \"remedy\" the \"injustice\".\n\nCampaigners said around 2,000 co-habiting families a year lose out on the payments, made to individuals whose husband, wife or civil partner has died.\n\nMinisters pledged in July last year to extend the payments to cover co-habiting couples with children, but are yet to bring forward proposals.\n\nThe Department of Work and Pensions said it was \"carefully considering\" how to implement the change.\n\nBereavement Support Payment is a benefit paid to families for 18 months if a husband, wife or civil partner dies - but unmarried partners are ineligible.\n\nIt is awarded at different levels according to individual circumstances, but can rise to almost £10,000 if a couple receives child benefit.\n\nIn February 2020, the High Court found denying co-habiting parents the payments was against their human rights.\n\nIt followed a similar judgment at the Supreme Court in 2018.\n\nMPs and child poverty campaigners have been lobbying ministers since then to update the legislation to reflect the ruling.\n\nSuch a law was not included in last week's Queen's Speech - when the government set out its legislative programme for the coming year.\n\nOn Wednesday, a group of 54 MPs signed a symbolic amendment to the programme, calling on ministers to \"fully remedy\" the situation by complying with the rulings within three months.\n\nIt was later defeated by 366 votes to 265.\n\nOne of the MPs to sign the amendment, Labour's Stella Creasy, said it would support \"some of the most vulnerable people in our communities\".\n\nShe added that figures from the Child Bereavement Network showed \"every 22 minutes in this country, a child loses a mother or a father\" and risked losing their home or their family circumstances as a result.\n\nMs Creasy said: \"It's estimated 2,000 families a year who find themselves in that horrific situation - many more who will have done because of Covid - are then not eligible for financial support.\n\n\"The reason they are not eligible is something very simple. Because the state has decided that because their parents are not married those children must be pushed in to poverty.\"\n\nShe added: \"The government knows it has to remedy this situation, because otherwise we are punishing children for the decisions that their parents have made.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Work and Pensions said it was committed to extending the payments to co-habiting couples, adding: \"We understand how vital this support is to families.\n\n\"We are carefully considering the detail and implementation which we will outline in due course.\"", "The cost of a single-use plastic carrier bag in English shops has gone up from 5p to 10p.\n\nAll stores, big and small, have to apply the charge from Friday. Until now, smaller retailers were exempt.\n\nThe original 5p levy was introduced in England in 2015. Since then, the use of the bags has declined by more than 95%.\n\nCampaign group Friends of the Earth urged the government to go even further, saying the bags were part of a bigger plastic problem.\n\nThe group welcomed the scheme, but said it still had \"significant shortcomings\".\n\nCampaigners said the charge should be extended to paper carrier bags, while so-called \"bags for life\", which are designed to be reused but contain greater amounts of plastic, were posing a \"growing problem\".\n\n\"It seems that many plastic 'bags for life' are being used just once and not reused for the bag's lifetime, as is their purpose,\" said the group's plastics campaigner, Camilla Zerr.\n\n\"If ministers want to get to the root of this problem, they need to take a tougher stand against all single-use plastics.\"\n\nThe environmental group's warning has already been heeded by supermarkets including Morrisons and the Co-op, which have discontinued the sale of plastic bags for life.\n\nFriends of the Earth said the government's forthcoming Environment Bill should include \"legally binding targets\" to phase out the use of all unnecessary single-use plastic products.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family of the inventor of the plastic carrier bag says they were supposed to help protect the planet\n\nThe average person in England now buys just four single-use carrier bags a year from the main supermarkets, compared with 140 in 2014.\n\nBy extending the charge to all retailers, the government hopes the use of single-use carrier bags will fall by 70-80% in small and medium-sized businesses.\n\nEnvironment minister Rebecca Pow said: \"Everyone wants to play their part in reducing the scourge of plastic waste that blights our environment and oceans.\n\n\"The 5p bag charge has been hugely successful, but we can go further.\"\n\nShe added that the new higher charge in England would \"support the ambitious action\" the UK has already taken in its fight against plastic, \"as we build back greener\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Diana was failed not just by Martin Bashir but by leaders at the BBC, says Prince William\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has blamed BBC failings over its interview with his mother for fuelling her paranoia and worsening his parents' relationship.\n\nAfter an inquiry found the BBC fell below its standards, Prince William said he was \"most saddened\" Diana never learned she had been deceived.\n\nHe said his mother was failed \"not just by a rogue reporter\" but by BBC bosses.\n\nThe Met Police said it will assess the new report, after previously deciding against a criminal investigation.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex blamed a toxic media culture for his mother's death.\n\nIn his separate statement, Prince Harry said that the \"ripple effect of a culture of exploitation and unethical practices\" ultimately took his mother's life.\n\nHe expressed concern such practices \"are still widespread today\", adding that it was \"bigger than one outlet, one network or one publication\".\n\n\"Our mother lost her life because of this, and nothing has changed. By protecting her legacy, we protect everyone, and uphold the dignity with which she lived her life,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC has written to apologise to Princes William and Harry, as well as the Prince of Wales and Diana's brother Earl Spencer.\n\nMatt Wiessler, the graphic designer who first raised concerns about the fake documents used to secure the interview and who was later denied work by the BBC, told Radio 4's Today programme that an apology sent to him at 22:00 BST on Thursday was \"too little, too late\".\n\nHe criticised Lord Hall, who led an internal investigation at the time, and then BBC director-general Lord Birt for not apologising to him in person.\n\nIt's hard to overstate the strength of feeling expressed by William.\n\nNot just about Martin Bashir, but with the whole BBC, whom he thinks entirely failed to investigate the matter and covered up elements that were not to its liking.\n\nNote, there was no talk of drawing a line under this, there was no talk of this being a long time ago.\n\nInstead, he effectively accuses the BBC of driving his parents towards divorce and playing some part in the events that led towards his mother's death.\n\nHarry too, issued a statement, not as angry, not so pointed, instead referring, as he has before, to a \"culture of exploitation and unethical practices\".\n\nIn the past, of course, it's been Harry that's been so angry with the media, William appeared to have made his peace with it, but the second in line to the throne has launched a visceral attack on the BBC, a sign of his deep hurt and deep dismay.\n\nThe independent inquiry - by retired judge Lord Dyson - found that interviewer Martin Bashir acted in a \"deceitful\" way and faked documents to obtain his interview.\n\nThe BBC's 1996 probe led by then-head of News and Current Affairs Lord Hall into initial complaints about what happened was \"woefully ineffective\", it added.\n\nPrince William said the interview made a \"major contribution to making my parents' relationship worse\", adding it has \"since hurt countless others\".\n\n\"But what saddens me most, is that if the BBC had properly investigated the complaints and concerns first raised in 1995, my mother would have known that she had been deceived,\" he said.\n\n\"She was failed not just by a rogue reporter, but by leaders at the BBC who looked the other way rather than asking the tough questions.\"\n\nLord Dyson found that Bashir deceived Earl Spencer into introducing the journalist to his sister by showing him forged bank statements that falsely suggested individuals were being paid for keeping the princess under surveillance.\n\nPrince William said that, in his view, the deceitful way the interview was obtained \"substantially influenced what my mother said\" in response to Bashir.\n\nHe said the original Panorama interview programme had \"no legitimacy\" and should never be aired again.\n\nPrinces William (centre) and Harry (right) were children when the BBC interview was aired\n\n\"It effectively established a false narrative which, for over a quarter of a century, has been commercialised by the BBC and others,\" he said.\n\nBashir said mocking up the documents \"was a stupid thing to do\" and he regretted it, but said they had no bearing on Diana's decision to be interviewed.\n\nA note written by Diana, published in the report for the first time, said she had no regrets about the broadcast and Bashir did not show her the faked documents. It was taken by the BBC as evidence for Bashir's claims.\n\nBut Lord Dyson said the BBC should have considered the possibility that the documents were shown to her brother, Earl Spencer, and used indirectly to gain access to the princess.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the inquiry's \"devastating\" findings into the \"unfounded and wrong\" actions of senior figures at the BBC meant the government would have to consider whether the corporation's governance should be reformed.\n\nThe independent inquiry was commissioned by the BBC last year, after Earl Spencer went public with allegations about how the interview was obtained.\n\nIts findings were published on Thursday.\n\nThe earl told a new documentary by BBC Panorama: \"Well, the irony is that I met Martin Bashir on the 31st of August 1995 - because exactly two years later she died, and I do draw a line between the two events.\"\n\nHe said it was \"quite clear\" from when he introduced Bashir to Diana in September 1995 that \"everyone was going to be made untrustworthy, and I think that Diana did lose trust in really key people\".\n\nPatrick Jephson - Diana's former private secretary - said the interview \"destroyed remaining links with Buckingham Palace\" and left her vulnerable to \"people who didn't have her best interests at heart\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earl Spencer recalls introducing his sister to Martin Bashir in September 1995\n\nMr Wiessler said this inquiry should have been held in 1996 when he first raised the alarm and said there was still a culture that \"the little people\" and whistleblowers did not need to be addressed.\n\nHe said it was not a \"fitting response for the 25 years I've been waiting for people to stop calling me a forger and a leaker\".\n\nCalling for senior BBC figures at time to apologise to him in person, he said: \"Nobody has come forward. It's just weak, calculating, and quite honestly after 25 years it's nasty what they are doing - to this day.\"\n\nFormer BBC producer Mark Killick said he was told he was being removed from Panorama after raising concerns about the faked documents because \"we only want loyal people on the programme\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the report was a \"good start\" but said the BBC had created a \"culture of fear\" that may have contributed to subsequent scandals. The current leadership must make it clear that staff can \"speak truth to power without fear of losing their jobs\", he said.\n\nBashir's interview with Princess Diana for a special edition of Panorama was a huge scoop for the BBC. In it, she famously said: \"There were three of us in this marriage,\" - referring to her husband's affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.\n\nIt was the first time a serving royal had spoken so openly about life in the Royal Family - viewers saw her speak about her unhappy marriage to Prince Charles, their affairs, and her bulimia.\n\nBashir, 58, is one of the UK's best known journalists, and also made headlines for his 2003 interview with pop star Michael Jackson.\n\nLast week he left the BBC, citing ongoing health issues. He had been the corporation's religion correspondent and editor since 2016.\n\nIn a statement, Lord Hall said he was wrong to give Bashir the \"benefit of the doubt\" at the time in the internal investigation which cleared Bashir, Panorama and BBC News of wrongdoing.\n\nHe added that throughout his 35-year career at the BBC he \"always acted in ways I believe were fair, impartial and with the public interest front and centre\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's director general Tim Davie accepts the organisation's \"multiple serious failures\"\n\nThe BBC's current director general, Tim Davie, said: \"Although the report states that Diana, Princess of Wales, was keen on the idea of an interview with the BBC, it is clear that the process for securing the interview fell far short of what audiences have a right to expect.\n\n\"We are very sorry for this. Lord Dyson has identified clear failings.\"\n\nHe added that the BBC should have \"made greater effort to get to the bottom of what happened at the time and been more transparent about what it knew\".\n\nIt is understood that in a letter sent by Mr Davie to Prince Charles, the director-general apologised for Bashir's \"lurid and untrue claims\" about the prince, members of his staff and other members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe letter said the BBC accepts that Bashir made the claims \"intending to play on the princess's fears, in order to arouse her interest in him, and without concern for the impact on those he maligned\".\n\nA Panorama investigation into the interview - delayed from last week - was shown on Thursday evening on BBC One, within hours of Lord Dyson's findings being published.", "A Scottish student has described the terrifying moment he was attacked by a rare black rhino on a conservation trip in South Africa.\n\nKieran Munns was lucky to escape with a dislocated hip and severe bruising after the animal ran at a group of rangers in northern Zululand.\n\nThe 21-year-old was rammed by the 1,500kg female with her calves and trapped against a tree.\n\nAs she turned around to come back, one of her calves then trampled his leg.\n\nA keen conservationist since he discovered the WWF Save The Rhino campaign when he was nine years old, Kieran has been living in South Africa for almost two years.\n\nHis family comes from Livingston, West Lothian, and he grew up in the Midlands.\n\nOn Wednesday, he was offered the chance to be part of the rhino monitoring team in a private reserve.\n\nThe group of eight was tasked with monitoring a female black rhino that rangers had not seen for some time.\n\nThe mother was protecting her black rhino calf\n\nSpeaking from a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, he said; \"The encounter did turn ugly.\n\n\"Thankfully it was nothing more than a bang to the head from falling and my hip getting injured by being stepped on by a young calf which was with the mother black rhino.\"\n\nHe described the moment the rhino attacked and believes the animal had picked up the scent of the ranger group.\n\n\"It happened really fast. We think she was asleep in the bush and then she just came at us - fast.\n\n\"I was at the back of the group and people just scattered and started to hide because the black rhino has typically poor eyesight.\n\n\"I saw her coming and pushed two guys behind the trees. But I didn't get out of the way in time.\"\n\n\"She hit me and I was sandwiched between her and the tree,\" he said. \"I fell and she came around to hit me again and then the calf ran across my leg.\n\n\"When she was getting ready to go a third time, everyone started shouting and they ran off.\"\n\nKieran was taken to hospital by IPSS Medical Rescue who had been scrambled, along with anti-poaching units to find him.\n\nAfter popping his hip back into place, all he is left with are substantial bruises.\n\nNumbers of the endangered African black rhino have increased slightly over the past six years partly due to ambitious protection efforts against poachers.\n\nThe animals are known for their \"attack-first\" attitude when they catch an unfamiliar scent.\n\n\"They are likely to charge at anything unfamiliar and have a reputation, because of their bad eyesight, of sometimes charging into objects such as trees and rocks, mistaking them as threats.\"\n\nRescue teams and anti-poaching units were sent to help Keiran\n\nWednesday's encounter was the closest Kieran has had with a rhino. But despite being hurt, he says he cannot wait to get back out into the reserves again.\n\n\"No serious injuries have occurred and I'm making a good recovery. I still absolutely love what I do and have no negative feelings towards the innocent rhino.\n\n\"I still love and adore all animals, including the black rhino, and look forward to being back in the field as soon as I'm able.\n\n\"I was scared but I love these animals and she was only protecting her calves. It's just one of those things.\"", "The government should still invest in projects such as HS2, despite the rise in home working, Sir John said.\n\nThe government needs to keep up spending on public transport, even though its usage has plummeted during the Covid pandemic, a government adviser has told the BBC.\n\nCommuter numbers could drop by a quarter because of home working, said Sir John Armitt, head of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).\n\nBut the government should \"hold their nerve\" in case of a bounce back.\n\nThis was important for sustainability reasons, he said.\n\nSir John told the BBC that the NIC's modelling indicated there could be a continuing hit to passenger numbers of 25% from fewer commuters returning to offices after the pandemic.\n\n\"If you want to avoid congestion in the future, if you want to stick to your zero carbon, then you need to get people back on public transport.\n\n\"Therefore for the government, it's going to be a case of continuing to ensure that public transport is available, whether it's the trains or whether it's the buses, so that people can make use of it as and when they feel relaxed to do so,\" Sir John told the BBC.\n\nHe said despite their modelling, the government should \"hold their nerve\" and wait to see actual data on the return to work, and give people the opportunity to make choices over the next two or three years.\n\nAssuming changes that could materialise in the coming months were permanent, they could damage city centres, which have driven economic activity.\n\nHe said that the rise of home working and Zoom meetings did not alter the benefits of investing in high-speed rail lines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At 170m long, \"Florence\" is the largest ever tunnelling machine to be used on a UK rail project\n\nHistoric underinvestment in rail capacity remained the fundamental reason for HS2, Sir John said.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government has underpinned practically the entire rail system.\n\nThe latest figures showed there were fewer than a third of the normal level of rail journeys in the last quarter of last year.\n\nSir John also said that city centres would change as a result of new ways of working, and that \"shops and offices could be replaced to a degree by housing\" and that \"could be really beneficial\".\n\nLast week, 43 out of 50 big UK employers questioned by the BBC said they did not plan to bring staff back to the office full-time.\n\nThey said they would embrace a mix of home and office working, with staff encouraged to work from home two to three days a week.\n\nIn a report, the NIC acknowledged that the \"radical and rapid\" rise in working from home during the Covid pandemic could lead to a permanent shift to less commuting.\n\nThe NIC found that almost a third of UK workers intended to work from home more often after the pandemic than they had before.\n\nAlmost half of UK employees were doing some work from home in April 2020, while in March 2021, almost a third of employees were working from home exclusively and 12% occasionally, it said.\n\nWorkers might also seek to relocate to more suburban and rural areas, but cities remained attractive and there might not be enough suburban and rural houses to cope with demand if people wished to relocate, it added.\n\nHome-working opportunities tended to be limited to certain types of occupations, such as those that needed higher levels of qualifications, the NIC said.\n\nThis change in working patterns \"greatly reduced workers' footfall in business and commercial districts in city centres\".\n\nIn the first lockdown in March 2020, public transport use dropped by between 80% and 95%, depending on the type of transport.\n\nCycling boomed in the first lockdown, but then its uptake levelled off, while car use \"recovered almost fully\" during periods with reduced restrictions.\n\nHowever, there is no evidence of increased car ownership, \"which could indicate that people are not yet making decisions about long-term preferences\", the NIC added.", "Two Thai men working on a farm near Israel’s border with Gaza were killed on Tuesday by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants.\n\nAnother Thai farm worker, Aryae Aryi, told the BBC what it's like working under near-constant threat of attack.\n\nVideo produced by BBC Thai's Issariya Praithongyaem, edited by Kaona Pongpipat and with footage from Aryae Aryi.", "A man who had a cardiac arrest at home was saved by a defibrillator he had helped raise money for years before.\n\nDavid Pryde, 78, became unwell at his home in Llanfairfechan, Conwy county, on 28 April, and asked his wife Falmai to call an ambulance.\n\nMr Pryde had a cardiac arrest after community first responder David White, from nearby Gyffin, had arrived.\n\nThe device used to save Mr Pryde's life had been donated by the Freemasons' lodge he is a member of.\n\nMr White said Mr Pryde was \"presenting quite well\" when he arrived.\n\nBut while he was on the the phone to a doctor in the control room, grandfather Mr Pryde took a turn for the worse.\n\n\"He went bolt upright rigid and his arms came to his chest - he was in cardiac arrest,\" he recalled.\n\n\"I got him safely down to the floor and began CPR [cardiopulmonary resuscitation]. I put the pads of the defibrillator on his chest and shocked him once.\n\n\"The rest, as they say, is history. The ambulance crew arrived and I'd managed to get him back.\"\n\nRetired banker Mr Pryde was treated at Bangor's Ysbyty Gwynedd and has had a pacemaker and implantable defibrillator fitted.\n\nMr Pryde says Mr White was \"the right person in the right place at the right time\"\n\n\"I am so grateful that David was there and have met with him since to thank him personally,\" he said.\n\n\"He was the right person in the right place at the right time.\n\n\"Without his expert knowledge it would have been a very different story.\"\n\nMr White, a volunteer with 14 years of experience as a first responder, said Mr Pryde was the third person whose life he had saved using the defibrillator, including a 16-year-old boy.\n\nMr White says his defibrillator is \"a good friend to me\"\n\n\"It's a good friend to me and I'm rather fond of it,\" he added.\n\nGlyn Thomas of the Welsh Ambulance Service congratulated Mr White for his \"calmness, skill and dedication in that stressful situation\".\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. Jan Spivey and Louise Smith, two of the women affected, were delighted by the court's decision\n\nThousands of women who were victims of the PIP breast implant scandal should receive compensation, a French appeal court has decided.\n\nWomen involved in the case say they are elated and exhausted after 10 years of fighting for justice.\n\nThe court also upheld an earlier judgement finding German safety body TUV Rheinland negligent.\n\nTUV said it had acted \"diligently\", and that women must prove they had a PIP implant to be entitled to compensation.\n\nIt awarded safety certificates for faulty breast implants made by French company Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP).\n\nThe court decision could have far-reaching implications for thousands of other victims around the world.\n\nJan Spivey, one of 540 British women involved in the case, was given PIP implants after she had a mastectomy due to breast cancer.\n\nAfter hearing the decision, she said she was \"elated and exhausted\".\n\n\"It's been a very long journey,\" she said.\n\n\"We've been in and out of court, and that's been really difficult for women. We've got health issues and we've got lots of other responsibilities too - PIP has had an impact on the whole of our lives.\n\n\"It's been an inescapable issue.\"\n\nJan developed aching joints, pain and fatigue after having the implants, and once they were removed it was clear they had been leaking silicone into her body.\n\nJan Spivey suffered years of health problems after having PIP breast implants\n\n\"My PIP implants from 20 years ago are still impacting on my life and my health and my wellbeing, even today,\" Jan said.\n\n\"I think I've been angry every single day for the 20 years I've been affected by PIP.\"\n\nOlivier Aumaître, the lawyer representing Jan Spivey and around 2,700 others in the current case, said it was an historic day for the victims and for women's rights. He said the company would now have to fully compensate all the women judged to be victims.\n\n\"I'm very happy for all the women I represent who have waited for such a long time for this decision and suffered for such long periods,\" he said.\n\nBut many hundreds of women in the UK are still waiting for legal decisions on their cases and their right to compensation.\n\nOliver Thorn, lawyer with Slee Blackwell Solicitors, represents 500 women. He said many still had their breast implants in place because they did not have the money to get them replaced, and that was why they needed compensation.\n\n\"The cosmetic surgery industry as a whole needs to sit up and see what has gone on here and it's time things were changed,\" he said.\n\nThe president of The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons Mary O'Brien said the UK medicines' regulator, the MHRA, had an important role in ensuring a similar scandal over implants never happened again.\n\n\"The human cost and distress to many women and their families following surgery involving PIP implants is sobering,\" she said.\n\nPlastic surgeons supported the setting up of a breast implant registry to improve patient safety.\n\nThey advise patients to consult their surgeon if concerned about symptoms related to their implants and read all reliable sources of information before undergoing breast implant surgery for any reason.\n\nAnother woman affected by the case, Nicola Mason - who had breast implants which then ruptured - said the court decision was \"a victory, it's amazing\".\n\n\"We've waited a long time for this,\" she told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.\n\nNicola first found out about the rupture when she was pregnant, after noticing a large lump under her arm.\n\nShe said it was \"quite traumatic and there was absolutely nothing I could do\".\n\nEventually, the implants were removed but she says she has been left with a massive lump of silicone under her arm which still flares up.\n\n\"I don't think anyone knows the long-term effects,\" she says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBetween 2001 and 2010 the substandard implants were manufactured by the French company Poly Implant Prothèse or PIP.\n\nIt was liquidated in 2010 and its founder was later given a prison sentence after it emerged the implants were filled with cheap, industrial-grade silicone which was not cleared for human use.\n\nIt is estimated up to 400,000 women worldwide have received the illegal implants.\n\nLatin America was worst hit, in particular Colombia, where there are estimated to be 60,000 victims. In the UK it is thought 47,000 women are affected.\n\nThe case, known as TUV1, was the first to be brought, a decade ago, against TUV Rheinland which issued European safety certificates for the PIP implants.\n\nLawyers for the German company said they disagreed with the French court's decision for holding the company liable, \"even partly\".\n\n\"The evidence in this case clearly shows that TÜV Rheinland acted diligently, in compliance with applicable regulations,\" they said.\n\nAt no time, the company said, had it been aware that breast implants manufactured by PIP were not compliant.\n\nThe ruling is expected to have wider implications for almost 20,000 other women, half of whom are British, who are taking similar legal action in France.\n\nAlifie Jones had her implants removed last month\n\nAlifie Jones is recovering at home after having her faulty PIP breast implants removed last month.\n\nShe was finally convinced by a friend to take them out after suffering years of extreme exhaustion and debilitating pain.\n\nShe says the worst thing about it was wondering why she felt so ill all the time: \"Not knowing what it was, the mysterious illnesses, not being able to exercise. Not being vibrant, having my life, sort of stolen from me in a way.\"\n\nThe surgeon was shocked by what he found when he removed one of the implants. It had broken into multiple pieces inside her - exposing her body to an industrial-grade silicone gel.\n\n\"I can't believe they were allowed to be implanted in me. I don't know how they got through regulations.\n\n\"But I feel guilty that I messed about with my body and I put them in in the first place. But I'm angry that a human being can do that to another human being.\"\n\nDid you receive a PIP implant? 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.", "Charles Cartwright notified police after finding the items in a Worcestershire field\n\nA metal detectorist who dug up a hoard of stolen Roman and Viking treasures on his first hunt said he was delighted they were back with their owner.\n\nNovice Charles Cartwright, 43, found nearly 300 historic items buried in a field in Worcestershire.\n\nAt first he thought he had struck lucky with an incredible find - but an Aldi carrier bag they were in raised suspicions.\n\nHe later discovered they had been stolen from Shropshire in 2017.\n\nThe rightful owner, an avid collector who wanted to remain anonymous, had resigned himself to never seeing the treasures again.\n\nMr Cartwright took his metal detector out for the first time on 7 May and had been out in a field in Polfields Coppice, near Malvern, for two hours when his machine \"went crazy\".\n\nMr Cartwright said he had been looking to begin metal detecting for a number of years\n\n\"I put my spade in about a quarter of a foot and I heard it tinkle on something metal,\" he said.\n\n\"I moved it to [one] side and I saw a large silver jug, so I uncovered that, lifted it it out and it weighed a hell of a lot because it was full of water.\n\n\"Inside the jug was an Aldi plastic bag and inside that was the other 271 items.\"\n\nHe said the find had been \"exhilarating\" but seeing the plastic bag had made him realise \"this isn't quite right\" and he contacted the police.\n\nThe items, which West Mercia Police said are worth more than £5,000, also included Egyptian relics, medieval and Bronze Age pieces.\n\nThe owner of the items, who wants to remain anonymous, said he did not expect to see them returned\n\n\"You always hear stories like this, but you never get to be a part of one. So it is exciting to be part of such a happy conclusion,\" he added.\n\nThe owner, a lifelong antiques and antiquities collector, said the items had been taken when his home in Ludlow was broken into four years ago.\n\n\"As well as many item from my collection, they took out the hot water cylinder and left the water running - this didn't seem to make much sense initially - but several days of flooding left the house uninhabitable and they were able to return twice a fortnight later, break in again and search for further items,\" he said.\n\nThe found pieces were returned to him as some still had auction tickets, he said, which connected him to them.\n\nHe said it was \"wonderful\" to see the items again, which included some of his \"favourite\" pieces, and he was \"extremely grateful\" to Mr Cartwright.\n\nThe owner said he had attempted to offer Mr Cartwright a reward, which he declined, but said he hoped to meet him in the future and \"buy him a pint or two\".\n\nDet Con Tom Court said the investigation into the burglary was continuing.\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.", "French breast implants caused a health scare across Europe and South America last year.\n\nA UK report in June 2012 found the PIP implants, made from unauthorised silicone filler, had double the rupture rate of other implants.\n\nThe boss of the French company which distributed defective breast implants around the world has since been sentenced to four years in prison for fraud.\n\nAnd a German firm responsible for granting European safety certificates for the implants has been ordered by a French court to pay compensation to hundreds of women.", "The government has scrapped rail franchising and announced plans to extend support for train firms.\n\nAfter passenger numbers fell during lockdown, taxpayer money was used to plug the shortfall in ticket revenues.\n\nSo far, the bill has run to more than £3.5bn and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support will still be needed.\n\nAlthough passenger numbers have edged up since lockdown, they are still less than half pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAs a result, emergency measures to cover the losses of train firms have been extended by 18 months. They reduce the fees that can be earned by the companies but will mean that trains are still able to run, even with fewer passengers.\n\nThroughout that period ministers hope to carry out broader reforms to Britain's railways.\n\nThey will consider adopting a concessions-based system in the longer term, whereby train companies are paid a fixed fee to run services.\n\nIt marks the end of rail franchises, which have been in place since the 1990s.\n\nIn a statement, Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps said: \"The model of privatisation adopted 25 years ago has seen significant rises in passenger numbers, but this pandemic has proven that it is no longer working.\"\n\nHe said the move to a new system would end \"uncertainty and confusion about whether you are using the right ticket or the right train company\".\n\nThe government and the train companies are painting this as a good deal. But in reality, because of Covid, it's a fairly unsatisfactory scenario for all those concerned.\n\nThe taxpayer will be liable for the losses on the railways for a much longer period of time. And with the virus spreading, passenger levels might remain suppressed - so the losses could continue for some time to come.\n\nMeanwhile, train companies who operated franchises that were losing money before the pandemic, still owe money to the Department for Transport from those contracts. Although that thorny issue has been kicked down the road and the negotiations over past payments now need to be resolved by December.\n\nThe emergency deals keep them in the game but they're a metaphorical straitjacket, which make them commercially un-enticing.\n\nFor now, no train company has \"handed back the keys\", which would force the government to take on the running of a route. Doing so carries financial penalties and does nothing for a firm's reputation.\n\nInstead, all of them have, in the short-term, opted for the least bad option there is.\n\nAnd there is still no consensus within government over what the railways will look like after the pandemic so the detail on that is pretty thin.\n\nTrain companies have welcomed the plans to replace Britain's often-criticised system of rail franchising.\n\nPaul Plummer, the boss of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train firms, called for a simpler-to-use fare system.\n\nHe said: \"These transitional contracts should be a stepping-stone to a better railway.\"\n\nBut rail expert Sir Michael Holden, who used to run South West Trains, said: The big issue is, what is that something else to look like?\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that the current emergency measures were \"the worst possible arrangement to run the railways\".\n\n\"We've got the dead hand of the government on the helm... controlling all of the detailed decisions of the railway.\"\n\n\"And yet, they're still paying for public sector operators to run the railway for them.\"\n\nLabour said the government was trying to \"paper over the cracks of a broken rail system\".\n\nShadow rail minister Tan Dhesi said: \"Today's agreements mean taxpayers are set to continue paying hundreds of millions of pounds in profit to private rail companies to run the network. This is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nBut Royal Mail chairman Keith Williams, who was commissioned to carry out a review of the railways, said the companies would have to give more value under the new agreements, which represented the end of the \"complicated\" franchising arrangement.\n\nHe said they demanded \"more from the expertise and skills of the private sector\" and \"ensure passengers return to a more punctual and co-ordinated railway\".\n\nHowever, Rail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary Mick Cash claimed \"private rail companies are a waste of time and a waste of money\". He insisted that \"public ownership is the only model that works\".\n\nAnd Unite's national officer for rail Harish Patel said: \"Instead of the proposed new model which will allow privateers a renewed opportunity to feed off the taxpayer and passengers, the government should be permanently re-nationalising rail services to increase services, improve punctuality and reduce tickets prices.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Epic Games v Apple: What is going on?\n\nAfter months of hype and warring words, Epic Games is finally getting its day in court with Apple.\n\nThe trial began on Monday - and is one of the most important in Apple's history.\n\nApple boss Tim Cook will be giving evidence, the first time he's given testimony at a trial.\n\nAt stake is the future of the App Store and the amount it charges developers - a wildly lucrative money spinner for the company.\n\nThe trial got off to a slightly chaotic start. The public hearing failed at first to mute those who were listening in via phone call, meaning calls from fans for the return of Fortnite to mobiles were accidentally broadcast.\n\nThe storm began in August last year, when Epic Games laid a trap for Apple.\n\nIts hit game Fortnite implemented its own in-app payment - bypassing Apple's 30% charges.\n\nBut Epic Games was waiting for just that.\n\nIt slapped Apple with a 65-page lawsuit - and had even prepared a high production video, a spoof of Apple's iconic 1984 advert for the Apple Mac.\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 Fortnite 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\nEpic Games has for years claimed the charges imposed on it by Apple are extortionate.\n\nTheir argument is simple: that Apple's control over the App Store is anti-competitive.\n\nIt believes that developers should be able to make apps for smartphones without having to pay large sums to Apple (and to Google for Google Play purchases).\n\nSpotify, Match and Tile are just a few of the many companies that have also claimed Apple's charges are unfair.\n\nApple is estimated to have made hundreds of millions of dollars from Fortnite alone in charges.\n\nEpic Games' big argument is: if they don't want to pay, then where else do they go to sell their products?\n\nFortnite's new payment option led to the game being kicked off the App Store\n\nApple's App Store and Google's Google Play are the dominant global app stores, outside China.\n\nEpic Games has tried to sell Fortnite away from these two stores. It tried to \"sideload\" the app on Android phones - to try and avoid Google's own 30% charge. However, not enough people downloaded it away from Google Play.\n\nEpic Games' reluctant conclusion: if you want to make games for smartphones you have to be on either the App Store or Google Play.\n\nBut unwilling to lie down and accept the charges - which it calls an \"Apple Tax\" - Epic Games decided to sue Apple instead.\n\nWorryingly for Apple, many of its App Store critics come from across the political divide.\n\nIn a Senate hearing two weeks ago, Apple's Chief Compliance Officer Kyle Andeer was grilled by lawmakers. Politicians of all stripes - usually so divided on policy - were united in their attacks on Apple.\n\nDemocrats Amy Klobuchar and Richard Blumenthal and Republicans Mike Lee and Josh Hawley all took up similar lines of questioning.\n\nSenator Klobuchar said that Apple's App Store was a \"literal monopoly\".\n\nAnd on Friday the European Union announced that it was charging Apple for its behaviour on the App Store.\n\nThe key question the judge will have to answer is whether Apple's App Store is an \"essential facility\", a sort of public utility that no one company should control.\n\n\"Everybody knows that Apple is in charge of what should be public rights of way. It would be easiest if the judge just rules in favour of Epic [Games], that would fix it,\" he says.\n\nApple can afford good lawyers though. So what's Apple's defence?\n\nFirstly, Apple says it invented the App Store and as a private company it can charge what it wants.\n\nIt also says the 30% charge to developers is the industry standard for gaming, and competes not just with Google Play but with Microsoft, Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo.\n\n\"In terms of the actual split, 70/30 is pretty standard across the board. One of the things that really stands out about Epic Games' argument is that they have no complaint whatsoever. It's all very hand wavy, and very much a PR argument, not a legal one.\"\n\nApple also says that its payment system is fair to smaller developers. It says 83% of apps and 76% of games on the App Store are free - developers pay no commission.\n\nAnd they say that although their top rate charge is 30%, most developers pay no more than 15% in charges.\n\nApple argues it also oversees an App Store vetting process, making sure the Apple ecosystem isn't compromised by dodgy apps. That costs money.\n\nHowever it's thought the amount that Apple spends on this process is a tiny fraction of the amount it receives from developers. Critics like Matt Stoller also question how effective Apple's vetting procedures are.\n\n\"There are all sorts of apps that have scams that Apple doesn't catch. So their arguments about safety and security are sort of nonsense,\" he says.\n\nSo what are Apple's chances? John Gruber thinks they're good.\n\n\"I do think that on legal grounds, Apple is in a very good position. But the risk is very high because [if they lost] it would disrupt the whole business model of the app store\".\n\nMatt Stoller says that antitrust cases are notoriously hard to predict.\n\n\"Antitrust law, as it's practiced in the US, is a complete mess. So we have no idea. The law basically depends on what the judge had for breakfast.\"\n\nThe trial is expected to conclude in the last week of May. However, even if Apple wins, the fight over how Apple runs its App Store will rage on.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "US actress Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1987 romantic comedy Moonstruck, has died aged 89, her family have announced.\n\nHer brother wrote she was \"at peace\" after suffering ill health.\n\nDukakis had a long and distinguished career in theatre, both as a performer and as a director.\n\nBut in her 50s she starred in a series of hit comedies on screen, including an award-winning turn as Cher's mother in Moonstruck.\n\nThat run - in the late 1980s - also included roles in Steel Magnolias, Working Girl and Look Who's Talking.\n\nOther key roles were as a secondary school head teacher in 1995's Mr Holland's Opus and as a transgender landlady in the TV series Tales of the City, whose fourth series premiered on Netflix in 2019.\n\n\"My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City,\" Apollo Dukakis wrote on Facebook.\n\n\"After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her [husband] Louis.\"\n\nOlympia Dukakis was born in 1931 in Lowell, Massachusetts to Greek immigrants. Her cousin Michael was Democratic candidate for in the US presidential election, losing to George HW Bush.\n\nDukakis studied performing arts at Boston University, moving to New York in the late 1950s. She starred in dozens of plays on and off Broadway, as well as directing and teaching.\n\nOlympia Dukakis's breakthrough role came in the 80s with Moonstruck\n\nIn 1961 she met actor-producer Louis Zorich. She had been cast as a married woman in a play and Zorich auditioned for the part of her husband. He didn't get it - but they got married for real the following year.\n\nDukakis had several roles on the big and small screen but it was Moonstruck that propelled her to stardom and won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.\n\nPlaying an eye-rolling, interfering Italian matriarch, in one stand-out scene she tells her 37-year-old on screen daughter Cher \"your life's going down the toilet\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDespite the Oscar, and critical acclaim, she said she was taken aback, not considering the part one of her more important roles.\n\n\"All of the attention I was getting was lovely, of course, but I was more than a little confused about why it had come at this point, and with this role, which, to my mind, was not the greatest part I had ever played,\" she said.\n\nShe was nominated three times for an Emmy for her TV work - Lucky Day (1991), More Tales of the City (1998) and Joan of Arc (1999).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLooking back on her long career in a recent interview, she said she was encouraged by how things have improved for women.\n\n\"I think things are finally moving in the right direction, both for women and for minorities. We are far from reaching our goal but there's a forward movement that's real and strong,\" she told the Irish News.\n\n\"You're seeing more women as directors and decision-makers and that's a great thing. I'm happy that I've lived a long enough life so I could witness the growth that has occurred.\"", "More than 30 people will be able to mourn their loved ones at funerals in England from 17 May, under plans announced by the government.\n\nAs part of the next step of easing lockdown restrictions, ministers are set to remove the 30-person legal limit a month earlier than planned.\n\nThis means any number of mourners will be able to gather as long as the venue can comply with social distancing.\n\nEngland's next lockdown easing, stage three, is due no earlier than 17 May.\n\nDuring the pandemic, many have been forced to watch funerals from home over live-streams, making grieving harder. And those able to attend have had to do without handshakes and hugs.\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said people have made \"huge sacrifices\" - nowhere more apparent than in the \"deeply painful\" restrictions on funerals.\n\nLike so many others, the Queen had to sit alone as she bid farewell to her husband\n\nAt the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral service last month, the Queen had to sit alone in the chapel in Windsor.\n\nOnly 30 people, most of them the duke's closest family, were able to attend, in line with coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDeborah Smith, from the National Association of Funeral Directors, said she was \"very pleased\" at the planned change.\n\nAlthough some venues may not have the space to increase numbers much because of social distancing, she said \"it does mean that those larger venues can now start welcoming more mourners\".\n\n\"It just gives that little bit of choice for families who do have lots of family members and lots of close friends, that they can choose a venue that is a little bit larger.\"\n\nMr Jenrick said he would work with faith leaders and funeral home managers to introduce new arrangements to continue to keep people safe once the limit has been lifted.\n\nIn Scotland, up to 50 people can go to a funeral, with plans to extend that to 100 from 7 June. Neither Wales nor Northern Ireland has a limit on numbers, but venues can set restrictions.\n\nIn other developments, MPs are warning that curbs on foreign holidays should be kept in place to protect the UK from Covid variants.\n\nThe ban on foreign holidays is expected to be lifted for people in England from 17 May, but a cross-party group of MPs say current restrictions should be continued beyond that date.\n\nThey want the government to \"discourage all international leisure travel\", saying new variants could lead to more lockdowns and further deaths.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on coronavirus described airport arrival halls as \"a breeding ground for infection\".\n\nLib Dem MP Layla Moran, who chairs the APPG, said urgent measures were needed to better detect fake Covid test certificates, reduce overcrowding in arrival halls, and separate those arriving from countries classed as higher risk.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We introduced robust border controls to stop coronavirus variants in their tracks and every essential check we've introduced for arrivals has strengthened our defences against new mutations.\"\n\nThey said the new \"traffic-light\" system, where red is the riskiest for Covid and green the safest, would allow them to manage the risk from imported cases by varying restrictions depending on the risk of travel from a specific location.\n\nMeanwhile in Wales, two households who form a \"bubble\" are now able to meet and hug indoors. The bubble can also include someone who lives on their own.\n\nGyms, leisure centres and community centres have reopened, with exercise classes for up to 15 adults allowed. Children's indoor activities including scout groups can also meet again.\n\nThese changes had been timetabled for later in the year but were brought forward because the number of cases in Wales remains low.\n\nThe seven-day rolling case rate in Wales stands at 10.8 per 100,000 people, the lowest rate since 1 September last year.\n\nIn the UK as a whole, a further 1,671 cases were reported on Sunday, and there were 14 more deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Politics is a brutal game' - Arlene Foster speaks out after resignation\n\nArlene Foster will quit the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) when she stands down as Northern Ireland's first minister, BBC News NI understands.\n\nSources close to her said she thinks it is no longer the party she joined and it is moving in a different direction.\n\nMrs Foster is to resign as DUP leader on 28 May and end her tenure as first minister at the end of June.\n\nOn Thursday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots declared his intention to stand for the party leadership.\n\nBy Friday evening five of the party's Northern Ireland Assembly members and one of its MPs had publicly announced their support for his campaign.\n\nMrs Foster announced her resignation after about 80% of the DUP's Stormont and Westminster ranks signed a letter of no confidence in her leadership.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, she said that none of her colleagues who signed the letter of no confidence had spoken to her since then.\n\nShe also said that some of her colleagues - including some \"good friends\" - had not signed the letter.\n\nEdwin Poots is the first candidate to announce a bid to lead the DUP\n\nShe said she would wait until she stepped down as first minister before making public her decision about whether she would remain in the DUP.\n\nMrs Foster has led the DUP since December 2015.\n\nThe following month she was appointed first minister, becoming the first woman and the youngest person to hold both jobs.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson is expected to enter the DUP leadership race this weekend.\n\nEdwin Poots has been quick out of the blocks with his bid and has been building support - all of his backers so far were always likely to take his side.\n\nWhat will be key will be the floating voters among the party members entitled to have a say in this contest.\n\nIt is understood that Sir Jeffrey is confident he will get his fellow DUP MPs to support his campaign.\n\nBut he has lots of work to do to get the remainder of the Stormont ranks into his corner.\n\nIn her resignation statement on Wednesday, she said she was preparing to leave the political stage.\n\nBBC News NI understands that means not only quitting as a Stormont assembly member but severing her ties with the party she has led since December 2015.\n\nOn Thursday she informed her constituency association in Fermanagh and South Tyrone of her decision.\n\nQuestioned on Friday about whether she intended to become a member of the House of Lords, she said that was a matter for other people to determine.\n\nAsked about the future of the DUP, she wished her successor and the party well.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Foster has endured several major challenges during her time at the helm of the party, including division among members on social issues and significant recent pressure resulting from the fallout from Brexit, which the party supported.\n\nThe post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland - which have included a trade border being imposed between Great Britain and Northern Ireland - have been deeply unpopular with the party's core voters.\n\nBBC News NI understands that DUP officers will meet on Tuesday to discuss the timetable and the procedure for electing a party leader.\n\nAnnouncing his desire to succeed Mrs Foster, Mr Poots said he was looking forward to the \"engagement and the debate\" in the leadership contest.\n\nHe has secured the backing of senior Stormont assembly members, the first of which was Christopher Stalford, who said his friend had the \"experience and talents to take our country and our party forward\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers DUP politicians who have declared their support for Mr Poots include assembly members Jonathan Buckley, Paul Frew, Paul Givan, Mervyn Storey and the MP Paul Girvan.\n\nWinning the support of a majority of the party's 27 members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) will be crucial to Mr Poots' hopes of replacing Mrs Foster.\n\nOnly a small number of the DUP's membership - its MLAs and MPs - will get to vote in a leadership contest.", "Joseph Parker recovered from being knocked down in the opening 10 seconds to beat Derek Chisora on a split decision and keep alive hopes of a shot at the world heavyweight title.\n\nThe Briton floored New Zealander Parker at Manchester Arena with an overhand right to the temple.\n\nBut the former world champion turned the tide and landed combinations as the bout wore on, while Chisora tired.\n\nIt proved enough to earn a split decision 115-113 111-116 115-113.\n\nChisora, 37, felt aggrieved by the scoring and said: \"I'm beyond getting upset now. It's difficult. I train hard. I put pressure on, this is the treatment I get from boxing.\n\n\"I was bringing it. I was doing more power punches and inside work. I won't let them slow me down. I will go again. I will not let them win. They want to see me retiring but I am not yet.\"\n• None 'I decided to keep him in there' - Eubank Jr returns with win\n\nChisora had said he might withdraw from the fight because he had to walk to the ring before his opponent, a threat in keeping with the unpredictability he has served up in over 14 years as a professional.\n\nSome have questioned why he still headlines pay-per-view cards after 10 previous career defeats but the looping right hand that sent Parker to the canvas served as an instant reminder of his threat.\n\nAs always, he looked to bulldoze his opponent with constant pressure but Parker - eight years his junior at 29 - was able to build momentum as Chisora slowly faded.\n\nTo Parker's credit, facing such pressure is mentally taxing but he stood up to both the knockdown and an early onslaught before beginning to land good combinations of his own.\n\nIn the seventh a one-two followed by a three-shot flurry sent Chisora back to the ropes and pointed to his vulnerability.\n\nIn the 10th Parker followed another one-two with an eye-catching short left hook and he teed off on Chisora again in the 12th as he closed in on a 29th win from 31 outings. Only British heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte have bettered him.\n\nAsked if winning a world title for a second time is a possibility, Parker said: \"It's very achievable. I just have to get back to training. There's still a lot I can show.\n\n\"It was a very close fight. I thought it could go either way. He brought the smoke.\"\n\nThe former champion can look to bigger names but the stars at the top of the division possess natural size advantages that will make his task all the more tricky.\n\nChisora, in contrast, must search for a next move. He has shown time and again he can come up with something to go after.\n\nBBC Sport boxing correspondent Mike Costello:\"I made Parker the winner by three rounds but wouldn't mount a strong argument against the judge who favoured Chisora. It was compelling heavyweight boxing and - coming after Taylor-Jonas - just imagine a night like that with a crowd.\n\n\"Parker did well to recover so quickly from the early knockdown and for me his cleaner punching at long and mid-range was decisive. His durability and resilience were also factors and, given more time with his new trainer Andy Lee, there should be better to come.\n\n\"Chisora's reputation won't suffer in losing such a fight and the Parker camp have said there should be a rematch - not a difficult sell.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing analyst Steve Bunce: \"Should this be Derek's last fight? Can you get enough money for risking your reputation? If there is something out there where he can make the same money or close to what he made tonight, then yes.\n\n\"What I don't want to see is him reduced to third on the bill and be there as a test for somebody.\n\n\"If there's another heavyweight out there he can generate that type of money with, let him fight.\n\n\"I don't want to see Derek become an 'opponent' - he's better than that.\"\n• None A group of hackers cause mayhem in Hollywood for Sony Pictures Entertainment\n• None The Crowd Science team explores why it is a universal feeling", "The pandemic has highlighted the need for broadband for even simple things such as staying in contact with friends\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has highlighted large inequalities in society.\n\nOne that Helen Tinsley would like to see tackled is the digital divide.\n\nHelen, who is retired and from Cardiff, sees the impact on children, jobseekers, older people, as well as people in different parts of the country.\n\nAhead of the Senedd elections, we asked what people would change and Helen wants broadband for everyone.\n\nDuring the pandemic, a lot of focus has been placed on providing laptops and internet access to allow children in deprived areas to be educated from home.\n\nHowever, Helen believes this is just the tip of the iceberg, and it is an issue affecting people in every age group.\n\n\"It's not just schoolchildren, it's now important that everyone has broadband,\" she said.\n\n\"Twenty years ago, if someone had said it's important everyone has access to the web, many would have laughed and thought 'what will we use that for?'\"\n\nAfter problems, villagers in Michaelston-y-Fedw installed their own ultrafast broadband - which they claim to be the fastest in Wales\n\nPeople have gone to great lengths to secure access, with villagers in \"not spot\" Michaelston-y-Fedw, which lies between Newport and Cardiff, installing their own ultrafast broadband.\n\nProf Christopher Spry, who lives in Heol Senni in the Brecon Beacons, also had to pay to get his internet from a satellite 22,000 miles above Africa because of poor connection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: How to get visitors on to your home wi-fi easily\n\nHelen believes there are many other reasons people are deprived access - children because their parents are not able to pay for it, while older people may not have the technical know-how or understanding of the digital world to get online.\n\n\"Many can't afford it and are being left behind. It is a barrier to them progressing,\" she added.\n\nShe has let relatives sit in her garden to log on to her wi-fi so they are not using up their limited phone data, and believes sharing passwords with family members and friends could be a way of helping those on budgets or who cannot afford their own connections.\n\nHelen said: \"Maybe we should consider letting neighbours have access to our password if they are people you trust. Everyone can play their part that way.\n\n\"Some have no data on their phones and that they do have quickly runs out. The cost is so problematic for so many people.\"\n\nHowever, some experts warn against the widespread sharing of wi-fi passwords due to the increased security risks.\n\nIssues Helen has seen people struggle with due to limited internet access include them not being to apply for a driver's licence online or accessing their finances through online banking.\n\n\"For some surgeries, you are seeing a system where you have to access appointments online,\" Helen added.\n\n\"If you can't get online, you can't get an appointment.\"\n\nProf Christopher Spry has used a satellite over Africa to get internet to his Powys home in the Senni Valley\n\nAnother issue that became important as people shielded indoors during the pandemic was online shopping.\n\nHelen believes it is important all older people are able to book deliveries with supermarkets, and also, working-age people are able to browse, and apply for, jobs.\n\nShe said: \"Now we are seeing the impact on the poorest in society.\n\n\"I'm not sure how you can potentially fund it, but it's getting more and more important that we have equal access.\n\n\"The person who invented the world-wide web wanted it for everyone, with no barriers. This world we live in, everything is digitalised, so that needs to be the case now more than ever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in a rural village describe how a poor internet connection affects their lives\n\nBut Helen does not just see it as a problem dividing the better off and the poor, but also those in different parts of Wales, with it a geographical as well as digital divide.\n\nShe wants people in every county of Wales, from cities to rural, in the north and the south to have equal access.\n\n\"It's unfair if they don't,\" she said.\n\n\"As we have seen lately, if you're working remotely, it is so important.\"\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\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.", "Julia James had been working with victims of domestic abuse\n\nThe uncle of murdered PCSO Julia James has appealed on social media for help to find her killer.\n\nMichael Turnbull wrote he had loved his niece since the day she was born and called her attacker \"a monster\".\n\nMs James was found with head injuries in woodland near Dover on Tuesday. There have been no arrests and no possible motive given.\n\nIt has emerged the National Crime Agency is providing specialist support to Kent Police.\n\nOfficers continued combing woodland near Aylesham over the weekend and mourners - including her colleagues from the Kent force - continued to lay floral tributes in the village.\n\nTeams of officers have continued searching the woodland over the weekend\n\nOn Facebook, Mr Turnbull urged the public to share his post and said: \"Julia has been taken from us by some worthless, cowardly excuse for a human being for no other reason than his own sense of self gratification to justify what he did, leaving behind a family full of broken hearts and sadness.\n\n\"Please share this and let us find this monster before he can cause more grief to another family.\"\n\nHe said his niece - a daughter, mother and grandmother - was funny, kind and caring, had always seen the good in people and most of all had been \"full of love\".\n\nMourners have continued laying floral tributes, including Ms James's colleagues from the force\n\nMs James's body was found in Akholt Wood, Snowdown, a few hundred yards from her house, after she had taken her dog for a walk.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she died from blunt force trauma, but police have not commented on any potential weapon and have not said if there were signs of a struggle.\n\nJulia James' uncle said his niece had always seen the good in people\n\nAt a press conference on Friday, Assistant Chief Constable Tom Richards declined to rule out Ms James may have been killed by a stranger, someone she came across during her work, someone trying to steal her dog, or as part of a sexual assault.\n\nOfficers said they were considering \"all possible\" motives.\n\nPolice in Dover have tweeted that people in the area are advised to remain vigilant until the full circumstances of Ms James's death are established.\n\nMs James, 53, joined Kent Police in 2008 and had been working with domestic abuse victims while based in Canterbury.\n\nHer death has led to concern in the local community which is less than three miles from the village of Chillenden, where Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan were murdered in a while walking their dogs in 1996.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kent Police Dover This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been unable to leave Iran since she was first held in 2016\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said Iran's treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe \"amounts to torture\" - the strongest language the UK government has used to date.\n\nIn a BBC interview, Mr Raab said Tehran was using her in \"a cat-and-mouse game\" for diplomatic leverage, after she was sentenced to prison again.\n\nHe also said he believed she was being held illegally under international law.\n\nThe 42-year-old British-Iranian mother has been held in Iran since 2016.\n\nFollowing the foreign secretary's interview, an anonymous official cited on Iranian state TV suggested the UK had paid a £400m debt to free her - but the Foreign Office insisted its position was unchanged.\n\nIt said Iran has made the claim before, without Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe having been released. A Foreign Office spokesman said it continued \"to explore options to resolve\" the case and would not comment further while \"legal discussions\" were ongoing.\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said the family had not been updated but welcomed the signals from Tehran over the long-running dispute as \"a good sign\".\n\n\"My instinct is that it is actually a sign we are in the middle of negotiations rather than at the end of them,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But we will keep our fingers crossed - for ourselves, and all the other families caught up in this.\"\n\nThe wife of Anoosheh Ashoori, another British-Iranian serving a 10-year sentence in Iran, said she feared her husband had been forgotten. Sherry Izadi says he is being held in a prison cell with 15 other people and is suffering from Covid symptoms.\n\n\"We sincerely hope any deal includes all dual nationals, who deserve the same treatment,\" she said. \"This is a window of opportunity for the government to make a deal and, if they miss this opportunity, I'm worried he's going to rot in jail.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker from West Hampstead, served a five-year sentence for spying charges, which she has always denied, before being convicted of propaganda against the regime and sentenced to a further year in jail and one-year travel ban last month.\n\nHer husband maintains she is being used as a bargaining chip by Tehran in a dispute with the UK over an unpaid debt from the 1970s related to a military contract, and as leverage in talks over the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Raab said: \"Nazanin is held unlawfully, in my view, as a matter of international law. I think she's being treated in the most abusive, tortuous way.\n\n\"I think it amounts to torture the way she's being treated.\"\n\nHe said there was an \"obligation on Iran to release her immediately and without condition\".\n\nAsked if she was being held hostage, Mr Raab said it was difficult to argue against that characterisation.\n\n\"It is clear that she is subjected to a cat-and-mouse game that the Iranians, or certainly part of the Iranian system, engage with and they try and use her for leverage on the UK.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said her imprisonment was \"not solely\" about the debt owed by the UK for failing to deliver tanks to Iran.\n\n\"We've said that debt is something we want to have resolved,\" he said.\n\nBut he said the wider context of the forthcoming elections in Iran, which will vote in a successor to President Hassan Rouhani, and the talks in Vienna over the nuclear deal were more significant issues.\n\nMr Ratcliffe, who has not seen his wife since 2016, welcomed the foreign secretary's remarks about torture, saying they set down a \"rhetorical and legal red line\".\n\n\"This has weight in international law. All states, including Iran, have an obligation to prohibit torture,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You can't un-torture Nazanin but the government can make sure this is not happening to others.\"\n\nRichard Ratcliffe has not seen his wife for more than five years\n\nA medical assessment carried out for the human rights charity Redress found Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had post-traumatic stress disorder from her treatment in Iranian prisons and the uncertainty about her fate.\n\nShe was released in March due to the coronavirus crisis and has been living under house arrest. She has not yet been taken back to prison and plans to appeal against the latest conviction.\n\nHer daughter, Gabriella, was with her mother when she was arrested and returned to the UK in 2019 to begin school.\n\nThe six-year-old has not yet been told about her mother's latest prison sentence, with Mr Ratcliffe saying he felt it would be better to wait until she has to return to jail before breaking the news.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWelsh party leaders have clashed on the Welsh government's pandemic support for businesses in a BBC election debate.\n\nLabour's Mark Drakeford said £200m was waiting to be spent by the next first minister after the election to give firms hit by the pandemic more help.\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's Adam Price questioned why it could not have been spent before the vote on 6 May.\n\nConservative Andrew RT Davies said there was unallocated cash in Welsh government coffers.\n\nAnd Jane Dodds said the Welsh Liberal Democrats would support medium, small and micro-businesses.\n\nMeanwhile Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party's (ATWAP) Richard Suchorzewski said firms should be given rent relief to encourage them to open up.\n\nThe five appeared in the BBC Wales Leaders' Debate on Thursday evening, a week before the Welsh Parliament election on 6 May.\n\nSIGN UP FOR WALES ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\nWelsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford told the debate his government had set aside £200m \"as a down payment to go on helping businesses straight after the election\".\n\n\"Whoever is in government, whichever one of us on this platform is first minister after next Thursday, there will be proposals waiting on the desk for them to spend that money to support businesses.\"\n\nBut Mr Price questioned why Mr Drakeford was waiting until after the election.\n\nMark Drakeford said £200m was available to businesses as a \"down payment\" after the election\n\n\"Why wait?\" Mr Price said. \"In England and Scotland there have been restart grants of up to £18,000, £19,000, which will be provided to hospitality businesses and others who have had to remain closed\".\n\n\"It's a very simple reason, it's the rules don't allow it,\" Mr Drakeford said in response.\n\n\"If I was handing out cheques to businesses in Wales, Adam Price would be the first person calling foul.\"\n\nMr Price said that was not true, saying he called for a Senedd recall during the campaign and would have supported it.\n\nMr Davies said this was why he had called \"back in February for a road map out of lockdown.\n\n\"So those announcement could have been made outside of the election period and that money made available to businesses across Wales.\"\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\nJane Dodds said her party would support medium, small and micro-businesses, which she described as the \"backbone\" of the country.\n\n\"We want to freeze business rates, we want to be talking to people about what can replace those,\" she said.\n\n\"We want to go bigger, we want an economic development [plan] which looks at the whole of Wales, and how we can grow our economy and support small businesses\".\n\nAdam Price questioned why the cash for firms could not have been made available before the election\n\nLast month Plaid Cymru had called for ATWAP's Mr Suchorzewski to be dropped from the proceedings. During the debate his anti-devolution stance came under attack from his political rivals.\n\nMr Suchorzewski said the NHS in Wales had been \"totally mismanaged\" over the past 22 years.\n\nHe said that before the pandemic, five of Wales' health boards had been in special measures.\n\nMr Suchorzewski said control of the NHS should be returned to the UK government: \"There should be one NHS for all - and it should be put under the guidance of the United Kingdom government.\"\n\nMark Drakeford was asked about why he couldn't distribute the £200m set aside for supporting businesses until after the election and he said: \"The rules don't allow it - we're in an election period.\"\n\nThe time before an election - in this case the period since 25 March - is known as the \"period of sensitivity\" or \"purdah\", when there are restrictions on what ministers and civil servants are allowed to do.\n\nThe Welsh government's guidance says that during that period, in line with the ministerial code, ministers will not make announcements that \"could be construed as conferring political advantage or electoral advantage\".\n\nBut the guidance also recognises that, as a result of the pandemic, ministers \"will need to continue making important decisions\" and that \"some of these decisions may inevitably be high profile and potentially sensitive\".\n\nSo Mr Drakeford may be taking a cautious approach to the rules, especially as he could argue that supporting businesses hit by the pandemic was not a new policy initiative but an extension of an existing policy.\n\nThat led Mr Drakeford to accuse the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party of \"writing off everything our people have done over the last extraordinary 12 months\".\n\n\"As we stand here today, Wales has the lowest rate of coronavirus anywhere in the United Kingdom and our vaccination programme is the most successful of any of the four UK nations,\" he said.\n\nHe admitted the UK government had done a good job in securing the supply of vaccines, but added: \"Here in Wales, we have used that supply more effectively than anywhere else.\"\n\nAndrew RT Davies said \"if the rugby team isn't playing well you don't... pull it out of the competition\"\n\nAfter Mr Suchorzewski complained about the printing of letters in English and Welsh language for Covid-19 tests, Mr Price accused him of wanting to get rid of the Welsh language: \"They don't want to abolish our parliament they want to abolish our language as well.\"\n\nMr Davies said: \"If the rugby team isn't playing well you don't... pull it out of the competition, you change the management structure, you change the coach and you get the team performing.\"\n\nAt the other side of the constitutional debate, Mr Price said now was the time to start building towards a referendum on Welsh independence.\n\n\"By taking our future into our own hands, that's the way that we solve our problems, the solutions will never come from Westminster.\"\n\nRichard Suchorzewski said the NHS had been mismanaged under devolution\n\nAsked how Wales would have fared alone in dealing with Covid, Mr Price accused the UK government of stealing Covid tests from Wales: \"We had tests that were ready to come to Wales, they were stolen by the UK government.\"\n\n\"Rubbish,\" said Mr Davies, adding Mr Price and ATWAP would cause \"constitutional chaos... slapping on the table the independence referendum, and indeed the abolish referendum that would be required to do away with the Welsh Parliament\".\n\nResponding to a question about the row over the refurbishment of Boris Johnson's flat, the Welsh Tory Senedd leader said: \"People aren't interested in the wallpaper in Downing Street, but they are interested in how they get an appointment at a GP's surgery\".\n\nHe told the debate: \"We can have a better education system, we can have a health service that responds to waiting times. We can create an economy that lifts wages across the whole of Wales and makes a difference.\"\n\nJane Dodds said the Lliberal Democrats wanted to put \"the climate at the heart of everything\".\n\nJane Dodds said Wales should have the same level of devolution as Scotland.\n\nShe said \"we don't need independence\" and instead time should be spent on creating jobs and protecting health.\n\nShe called on voters to \"imagine\" a better Wales.\n\nMs Dodds added that the Liberal Democrats wanted to \"put the climate at the heart of everything, and would \"put recovery first\" and prioritise the economy and mental health.\n\nJamie Jenkins of Reform UK, Amelia Womack of the Green Party and Neil Hamilton from UKIP also appeared in the programme\n\nReform UK, UKIP and the Greens also took part in a three-way debate.\n\nFor Reform UK, Jamie Jenkins said his party was against further Covid lockdowns.\n\nHe claimed the majority of people now have antibodies and the successful rollout of the vaccine means restrictions are no longer necessary.\n\nFor UKIP, Neil Hamilton said: \"The idea that the Senedd in any way represents ordinary people in Wales is nonsense\".\n\nHe said Wales was the poorest part of the UK: \"We're poorer today than 22 years ago. We've had a permanent Labour government and we're going to get a Labour government again after the sixth of May, because Plaid Cymru are already cosying up to Mark Drakeford.\"\n\nAmelia Womak from the Green Party says that a vote for green jobs is a vote to \"rebuild a post pandemic Wales fit for the 21st century.\"\n\nAsked how she would rebuild the economy while guarding the environment, Ms Womak said that \"all of our recovery should have the environment at the heart of it, because it means jobs and opportunities it means training and education, and it means that we're tackling the biggest problems of our time.\"\n\nA five way debate is unlikely ever to produce an outright winner.\n\nBut it is very easy to come unstuck in this format - and the leaders avoided any big mistakes.\n\nTheir supporters will each find things to applaud and this will have given them some added momentum going into the final week of the campaign.\n\nFor undecided voters the debate gave a decent flavour of what the parties are about - what does that mean for polling day? We'll find out soon.\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", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: The British government would \"co-operate closely with counterparts in India\"\n\nA further 1,000 ventilators will be sent to help coronavirus-hit India, the UK government has announced.\n\nAs India continues to report soaring infections and record deaths, the UK's chief medical and scientific officers have also spoken with their counterparts there to offer advice.\n\nThe latest assistance is on top of a package of support announced last week.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The UK will always be there for India in its time of need.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am deeply moved by the surge of support the British people have provided to the people of India and am pleased the UK government has been able to play our part in providing life-saving assistance.\"\n\nNo 10 said Mr Johnson will hold a virtual meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to discuss deepening cooperation between the UK and India\n\nIndia recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began - 3,689 - and has become the first country to register more than 400,000 new cases in a single day.\n\nMr Modi met his health minister on Sunday morning to review the crisis.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab earlier said the UK would \"look very carefully\" at any request for vaccines from India.\n\nSome five million Oxford-AstraZeneca doses, manufactured in India and destined for the UK, have been held there while safety checks are carried out.\n\nOne scientific adviser to the government, Prof Peter Openshaw, suggested it would be appropriate to allow India to use these doses.\n\nMr Raab told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The Indian relationship is very important to us and we'd obviously want to co-operate very closely together.\"\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the UK \"can and should do more\" to help India.\n\nShe told Sky News: \"There are long and deep ties between us and India, which mean that we should step up and provide more equipment, more support.\"\n\nBritain's Indian communities, businesses and charities have led appeals for emergency oxygen and donations, as many hospitals in India see supplies run low.\n\nThe government announced last week it would send 200 ventilators, 495 oxygen concentrators and three oxygen generation units - with the first shipment arriving on Tuesday.\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser Chris Whitty and the chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance spoke to colleagues in India to provide \"advice, insight and expertise\", the government said.\n\nDowning Street confirmed NHS England will also establish a clinical advisory group led by its chief people officer Prerana Issar to support India's Covid response.", "Four astronauts have returned to Earth from the International Space Station, in what was Nasa's first night-time landing in 53 years.\n\nThey flew back in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience and splash-landed off Panama City, Florida at 02:56 EDT (07:56 BST).", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday morning. We will have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nA new trial, if successful, could mean people may not need to self-isolate if they have been in close contact with someone with Covid. The government-backed research will explore giving people daily lateral flow tests for seven days - instead of quarantining for 10 days. So long as they test negative all week, they can carry on with their lives. From 9 May, about 40,000 close contacts of people with Covid in England will be invited to take part in the study. Self-isolating means staying at home and not leaving it - not even to buy food or medicines, or for exercise. Check the current rules on self-isolation.\n\nMore than one in three deaf people have reported struggling with their mental health because of the pandemic, according to a recent report by the deafness charity SignHealth. In the video below, data analyst Chloe Norton speaks about her experience of being profoundly deaf during the Covid crisis. She says she has lost some of her independence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Social isolation, anxiety and stress are some of the most prevalent issues facing the deaf community, according to the survey\n\nBeach huts are more popular than ever, with everyone staying closer to home due to Covid restrictions. The BBC went to the seaside town of Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, which has more than 1,000 huts, to find out what's so special about these sheds by the sea. Demand is surging, with people \"panic buying\" the colourful seaside spots, locals say.\n\nCharity shops have been asking people to call and check before they drop off donations, in part due to fears of a pent-up demand to donate after England's third lockdown ended. Picking up the phone is easy, but knowing what to check might be a little bit harder. So what should you be asking yourself about your potential donations? Here are six things to check.\n\n\"I can't actually imagine it, all them people, no masks and being able to be next to each other,\" says Blossoms frontman Tom Ogden. \"It's quite surreal to be honest.\" The Stockport band will perform to a crowd of 5,000 in Liverpool later - for the first live concert in the UK since lockdown. It's part of a government pilot event and ticket-holders have to provide a negative Covid test to get in. So, why is Liverpool being used as a test site?\n\nBlossoms lead singer Tom Ogden \"can't wait\" to see the crowd at Sefton Park on Sunday\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nForeign holidays are currently banned, but could be back in the summer. Find the current travel rules 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.", "Sports Direct has finished bottom in a consumer survey of the best places to buy outdoor and sporting equipment.\n\nThe retailer, owned by Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, was criticised for its after sales service, product guarantees and Covid-19 response.\n\nThe Which? survey of 10,000 shoppers placed retailer Rohan top, followed by Sweaty Betty then Cotswold Outdoors.\n\nSports Direct said it was investing \"significant sums into improving the customer journey.\"\n\nThe shop chain said this showed in its current rating of 3.8 on consumer review website Trust Pilot.\n\n\"We value our customers' opinions,\" it added.\n\nConsumer group Which? asked shoppers - both members and the general public - to rate their experiences with the UK's biggest and best-known retailers on a variety of factors.\n\nThese included product range and quality, customer service, in-store and online experience, value for money, after sales service and stores' response to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nSports Direct propped up the list of 29 retailers with a dissatisfaction score of 65%, with shoppers giving it only two stars for after sales service and its guarantees.\n\nAlso at the bottom were Costco and Littlewoods, with scores of 67% each. Littlewoods declined to comment on the survey, and Costco could not be reached for a response.\n\nSports Direct only received two stars for its Covid-19 response, where shoppers were asked to rate stores and websites on how well they communicated pandemic-related changes such as queuing systems, social distancing, and delivery delays.\n\nWhich? said several respondents commented positively on the range of products available at Sports Direct, but the retailer received only three stars overall. Some customers singled out the retailer for having a bad returns policy.\n\nAt the other end of the list, the highest-rated shop was outdoor and travel clothing retailer Rohan, with an 87% positive score. The retailer was singled out for quality, staff helpfulness, and its guarantee.\n\nWomen's workout wear retailer Sweaty Betty came in a close second with an 82% rating, followed by Cotswold Outdoors with 79%.\n\nEle Clark, Which? money and shopping editor, said: \"Sports and outdoor equipment doesn't always come cheap, so shoppers need to be able to trust that the retailer they choose will offer both great customer service and competitive value for money.\n\n\"As we emerge from lockdown, anyone looking to buy new kit should consider how a store treats its customers, not only at the point of purchase but also if something goes wrong further down the line.\"", "The UK's largest car park operator NCP has started a court process to help it cut rents and exit contracts for unprofitable parking facilities.\n\nNCP says it has been \"deeply impacted\" by the Covid pandemic, which has seen revenues drop by 80%.\n\nIts Japanese owner Park24 has told the firm that it will withdraw funding if NCP's restructuring is unsuccessful.\n\nNCP said the court process was a \"last resort\" to safeguard the future of its business and 1,000 staff.\n\nThe firm said it had tried to agree deals with the landlords to reduce its rent burden on the 500 sites it operates. A withdrawal of funding from its owner could cause NCP to become insolvent.\n\n\"NCP has been deeply impacted since last year due to the pandemic - sales during the full lockdowns have typically been about 80% below normal levels; outside lockdown they have not grown beyond about 50% for any length of time,\" the firm said.\n\nIt added that the pandemic had \"rapidly accelerated the pace of societal change\", citing a combination of increased flexible working, traffic control measures and the rapid growth of online shopping as the reasons why fewer people were visiting cities and town centres.\n\n\"This is not a short-term problem ‒ many high streets and train stations are unlikely to ever recover their pre-pandemic footfall,\" NCP said.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium estimates that non-essential retail stores lost around £22bn in sales in 2020 due to lockdown measures, as footfall declined by 40%.\n\nHowever, after lockdown restrictions on non-essential shops lifted on 12 April, footfall across all UK shopping destinations was up 87.8% week-on-week, according to analyst Springboard, as consumers decided to treat themselves, after months of being unable to go shopping.\n\nNCP said that it had tried to make deals with its landlords to reduce its rent burden, but \"sufficient agreements\" to make the business viable had \"not been forthcoming\".\n\nThe court process is different from a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), in that landlords can be compelled to accept changes in contracts, even if they do not agree, following new insolvency legislation introduced in June.\n\nNCP estimates that 85% of its landlords support its restructuring proposal.\n\n\"Park24, NCP's major shareholder, remains supportive of its restructuring plan, but given the UK operation's ongoing losses, has stated that it will only continue funding the business if the restructuring plan is successful,\" the firm said.\n\n\"NCP remains committed to working constructively with its landlords and all of its creditors and delivering a long-term mutually beneficial outcome for them through this restructuring plan.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV captured the moment a vandal took a chainsaw to the platform\n\nConservationists hope a pair of ospreys will nest at a new site after their platform was cut down with a chainsaw.\n\nA decoy egg has also been placed on the nest as the female had laid an egg a day before the attack at Llyn Brenig, which borders Conwy and Denbighshire.\n\nBBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams said it was \"environmental vandalism of the worst kind\".\n\nCCTV cameras recorded the moment the platform was cut down and North Wales Police branded it a \"disgusting act\".\n\nIn a tweet, Rob Taylor, rural crime team manager for North Wales Police, said the force was \"pulling the stops out to try and catch the person or persons responsible for this\".\n\n\"The whole team are absolutely devastated by it and I'm sure the whole community are as well,\" he added.\n\n\"Believe me, they will receive the full force of the law.\"\n\nOspreys lay eggs in the second half of April\n\nThere are five pairs of ospreys in Wales and the birds and their eggs are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act which makes it an offence to interfere with them or their nest.\n\nAccording to the RSPB, the female osprey lays two or three eggs between one and three daily intervals in the second half of April, and incubates them for 37 days per egg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Wildlife Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams told Sunday's BBC Breakfast he hoped the birds would attempt to nest again as it was early in the season.\n\n\"What we're hoping is that by putting a dummy egg in a nearby nest, then the female will be induced to head over there and lay two, maybe even three eggs again,\" he said.\n\n\"If she leaves two eggs there and incubates those successfully, we'll be delighted, although that doesn't take away from this idiotic act of vandalism.\"\n\nThe osprey breeding support project began in 2013 at Llyn Brenig\n\nBrenig Osprey Project, a partnership with Welsh Water and North Wales Wildlife Trust, thanked the public for support following the attack on Friday night.\n\nIn a Facebook post, it said its \"priority has been to protect the birds\" and, on Saturday, it had cleared another platform the ospreys had been \"scouting out\" and had added the decoy egg.\n\n\"Our hope is that they will relocate to it within days,\" it said.\n\n\"The female may well even be ready to lay, and we think we've given her a good option.\"", "Approaching two million people have been told to self-isolate by the app\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app has told 1.7 million people in England and Wales to self-isolate to date.\n\nHealth ministers have also revealed they believe it has prevented about 600,000 cases of the disease.\n\nIn a further disclosure, internal data indicates that about 16.5 million people are currently actively using its contact-tracing tool.\n\nThat figure is 24% below the app's latest download tally, which is the government's preferred measure.\n\nThe discrepancy is likely to be down to people uninstalling the app, turning off its contact-tracing capabilities, or simply failing to have activated it in the first place.\n\nEach handset actively taking part sends a digital \"heartbeat\" once a day to the Amazon computer server involved, allowing the current usage figure to be calculated.\n\nAnd while the number of total downloads has slowly grown from 20.2 million to 21.7 million over the past two months, the number of phones pinging the server has been more or less flat.\n\nThis represents the first detailed data released about the app's use since it was made widely available to people in England and Wales in September.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland, Jersey and Gibraltar have their own separate apps.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding, executive chair of the NHS Test and Trace programme, had been under pressure to release the figures for months, and the BBC unsuccessfully attempted to obtain some of the figures via a Freedom of Information request in November.\n\nThe app could reduce the number of infections once lockdowns end and people spend more time outside their homes\n\nThe intention in releasing the data now is to reassure the public that the app can save lives, and in doing so encourage more people to both install it and follow its advice ahead of lockdowns being eased.\n\n\"People who are not following the app's instructions are risking themselves and their colleagues and their families,\" Baroness Harding told the BBC.\n\n\"The more you follow the instructions of the app, the fewer outbreaks you'll have in your workplace and the safer it will be.\"\n\nA spokeswoman added that these instructions include circumstances in which it is recommended to pause the contact-tracing function.\n\nThe app uses Bluetooth logs to retrospectively warn users if they were at high risk of contagion from someone infected with the virus, who was recently in their vicinity.\n\nAlerts can be served within 15 minutes of an infected person approving use of their positive test result. But the system's decentralised nature means neither the person who triggered the warning, nor the authorities, can identify who receives the notifications.\n\nSome anonymised data is, however, collected.\n\nFor the first time, it has been revealed that:\n\nRestaurants are among venues each to have been given a unique QR barcode\n\nScientists from The Alan Turing Institute and Oxford University worked to provide further analysis of the app's impact\n\nThey estimate that 594,000 cases have been averted because of the technology.\n\nAnd they forecast that for every additional 1% of the population that uses the app, the number of Covid cases should fall by 2.3%.\n\nThe academics have benefited from the fact that the app was retooled in October to take account of the tier system introduced at the time in England, which operated on a local authority basis.\n\nThis allowed anonymised usage data to be compared between two neighbouring council areas where the spread of the pandemic was similar, but uptake of the app differed.\n\nThe researchers took account of other factors - including poverty levels - to calculate the degree to which suppression of the virus's spread could be linked to the app.\n\nHowever, they acknowledge that they cannot be certain that usage of the app caused all of the effects being attributed to it. And while they are publishing their work, it has yet to be peer-reviewed.\n\nEven so, the firm involved in developing the app said confidence was growing that it is indeed making a difference.\n\n\"The data suggests that we have made a dent in the overall infection rate,\" Wolfgang Emmerich, chief executive of Zuhlke UK, told the BBC.\n\n\"What we really have to do now, particularly as we're preparing to come out of lockdown, is to drive that adoption rate back up and to get people to switch [the app] back on again.\"\n\nMr Emmerich also revealed that his team had put plans to extend the app to older iPhone models on the back burner, in order to prioritise other new features, but declined to say what they are.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSoon after the NHS Covid-19 app was launched last September, we learned one important piece of data - that over 20 million people had downloaded it.\n\nThat was a pretty good result compared with take-up of similar apps elsewhere, but what we didn't know until now was something far more important - did it work?\n\nNow these figures do appear to show that plenty of people have been pinged by the app and sent into isolation.\n\nMore impressively, research appears to show that in areas where take-up of the app was high, the infection spread more slowly than in places where it was lower.\n\nBut other scientists will want to drill down for themselves into whether other factors were at play in the link between high take-up and low infection rates.\n\nPlus the private nature of the app means there are some key questions that can't be answered:\n\nStill, using a Bluetooth app to trace people who might be infected with Covid-19 was always an experiment with an untested technology.\n\nAnd the scientists who have been working on this project for many months now feel they've proved that it has made a significant contribution to the fight against the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Around 5,000 fans packed into a big top in Liverpool with no masks or social distancing\n\nA pilot concert in Liverpool on Sunday saw the largest number of people to have legally crammed into such a small space in the UK since the start of the pandemic. They had a euphoric night - but a lot is riding on its success.\n\nIt's a sight that has existed only in fond, fading memories for the past 13 months, and has sometimes seemed destined to be consigned to the carefree pre-Covid age - 5,000 closely-packed music fans dancing and jumping, and singing in unison at the top of their lungs.\n\nNo masks. No social distancing. No rule of six. No risk of fines.\n\nJust having a good time with your mates, drinking beer from cardboard pint pots, queuing up for Portaloos, getting rained on - and listening to live music in a melee of strangers who are hearing, seeing and feeling the same things as you.\n\nJust like old times. And hopefully like times still to come.\n\nSunday's mini-festival in Liverpool's Sefton Park was one of the government's official trial events to research how large gatherings can safely take place again.\n\nAll ticket holders had to take a supervised lateral flow test at one of four testing centres in the city the day before, and were only allowed in if the test was negative.\n\nThey were also strongly encouraged to take more sensitive PCR tests on the day of the show and to do so again five days later, on Friday. That will be crucial to working out whether there was any spread of the virus.\n\nScientists are also studying other factors like audience movement and interaction, ventilation, duration, catering and alcohol consumption. Mysterious people with clipboards wandered around making notes.\n\nIt's all with the aim of working out how summer music festivals can go ahead after 21 June, when stage four of the government reopening roadmap will, in theory, see the end of restrictions on social contact.\n\nWhen the gates to the Sefton Park site opened at 4:30pm on Sunday, the first fans came in - ripping off their face masks with \"a sigh of relief\", as one put it.\n\nAt 5.30, before any of the bands had started, an already sizeable crowd was in front of the stage, where a DJ was spinning indie anthems. They weren't just shoulder to shoulder, but on each other's shoulders, arms aloft, cardboard pints flying as the chorus to Common People kicked in.\n\nBy 6:30, a girl was being sick on the grass next to the Filthy Vegan food van.\n\nIn the big top, the first act was on stage - Liverpool singer-songwriter Zuzu. \"Hello!\" she said, and the stimulation-starved crowd roared as if she had scored the winning goal in the Merseyside derby.\n\nLocal singer Zuzu, first on the bill, received a rapturous reception\n\n\"It was just unreal,\" she said of the experience afterwards. \"It felt like jumping out of an aeroplane. My heart was going in a big way.\n\n\"It was incredibly emotional. I tried to keep it together on stage. But during the last song I choked up, and when I came off stage, I'm not even ashamed to admit that I cried. I fully cried. It was amazing.\"\n\nThe crowd was even more pumped up by the time the headliners, chart-topping indie band Blossoms, arrived two hours later.\n\nThe pilot was supposed to test a \"normal\" gig, but the amount of pent-up energy that was released, and steam that was let off, meant the atmosphere was more heightened than was ever normal in previous years.\n\nBlossoms singer Tom Ogden had the word \"Love\" written across the front of his piano\n\n\"It was way better than normal,\" said one fan, Aneesa Habib, 19, afterwards.\n\n\"It was so crazy being back surrounded by people,\" said her friend Joby Mathew, 20. \"It was incredible. To be in the middle of everyone, just moving around, you feel like you're part of something bigger than yourself.\"\n\nFestivalgoer Jack Young, 21, said being at an event with no restrictions was \"like a weight had been lifted off everyone's shoulders\".\n\nAnother called Chloe said: \"It was nice to be in the moment. You felt alive again. We need more. I've missed it a lot.\"\n\nAlex Druce, 26, said it was like having \"a flashback to two years ago\". He added: \"It was like reverting back to the way things used to be. We've basically been like a caged animal for about two years, haven't we?\"\n\nSome concertgoers did admit they had been anxious about being in a crowd again after so long. The testing process largely proved reassuring, and its success will help determine whether we see scenes like this again soon.\n\nSunday's six-hour show followed two nightclub pilot events, which were attended by 3,000 people per night in the city on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe live music trial was staged by Reading, Leeds and Latitude promoters Festival Republic.\n\n\"We've worked really hard to do everything right behind the scenes - all the testing - to create an atmosphere that didn't feel sterile and didn't feel as though you were in a test or a pilot show or an experiment,\" managing director Melvin Benn said.\n\n\"And we've created an atmosphere that people will remember from 2019. People will think, this is what they have been missing.\"\n\nSome festivals, such as Glastonbury, have already been cancelled for this summer, while others are hanging in the balance. \"There's an awful lot of festivals riding on the success of this,\" Benn said.\n\n\"That's huge economically, but it's huge from an emotional point of view, from a human wellbeing point of view. I've seen people break down here with the emotion of seeing people again, and I fear that if we don't bring that back, that isolation that a lot of people are living through will just become unbearable.\"\n\nThe fate of the forthcoming festival season does not just hinge on being able to prove that individual events can be safe.\n\nOrganisers are also calling on the government to provide insurance in case there's another Covid spike and festivals have to be cancelled at short notice, after spending large sums on preparations.\n\n\"The truth is, unless the government provide it, there's real vulnerability for the rest of the summer,\" Benn said.\n\nHe invited arts minister Caroline Dinenage to see the set-up of the Sefton Park pilot for herself. Speaking on site, she said the insurance idea was \"still on the table\" and was \"with the Treasury\", adding: \"If we can do it, we'd like to.\"\n\nReading and Leeds, the biggest events left in this summer's calendar, are sold out. Asked whether they could happen without government insurance, Benn shrugged and gave no comment.\n\nOn stage, as Blossoms struck the opening chords of their final song Charlemagne, someone in the crowd lit a flare, more people climbed onto friends' shoulders, and more arms were raised in the air.\n\n\"We'll see you again soon,\" singer Tom Ogden promised as the tune finished, leaving the crowd to file out of the tent, and back to reality.", "Mark Drakeford is hoping to lead Welsh Labour into another five years in power\n\nWelsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford has defended his party's 22-year record in government on the NHS and education, ahead of Thursday's Senedd election.\n\nBut, he conceded cancer waiting time targets have not been met since 2008 and did not say if a commitment to cut infant class sizes had been reached.\n\nThe Welsh Tories warned of a \"managed decline\" if Labour remains in power.\n\nPlaid Cymru said re-electing a Labour-led administration would not bring a \"new Wales\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Wales programme Mr Drakeford, who is also the current first minister, said his party's \"record is a record of addressing problems\".\n\nHe pointed to improvements on unemployment and economic inactivity.\n\nBut in 2019, Wales' performance was the worst of all UK nations on the Pisa international tests, for the fifth successive time.\n\n\"Other countries in the United Kingdom went down but we were up in all three - in English, in mathematics, and in science - our movement was up,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"To characterise the Welsh education system as though it had not made, I think, enormous strides over devolution is simply to be a very partial account.\"\n\nA commitment to reduce infant class sizes was part of the deal between Labour and the Liberal Democrats when Kirsty Williams joined the last Welsh government as education minister.\n\nBut according to the Welsh government's own school census data, the average infant class size has barely improved - 25.6 in 2016 compared to 25.4 in 2020.\n\nAndrew RT Davies is targeting a first term in office for the Welsh Conservatives\n\nChallenged about the failure to meet the commitment, Mr Drakeford did not directly address the point.\n\n\"What we have managed to do is we've managed to stop the rise in infant class sizes.\n\n\"In many parts of Wales we have managed to do that [reduce class sizes].\n\n\"There are some parts of Wales where buildings, the physical layout of schools means it's very difficult to do that.\n\n\"But I think our record on infant class sizes is one of continued investment.\"\n\nThe target of at least 95% of patients diagnosed with cancer starting treatment within two months has not been met since 2008.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"In percentage terms we haven't met the target, in volume terms far more people are seen within our target times than ever before.\n\n\"And that's because working with the medical profession, we've succeeded in getting more people identified earlier, more people seen quickly, and as a result our cancer survival times in Wales at one year and at five years have improved throughout the whole of that period.\"\n\n\"Our manifesto has ambition on every single page on it - ambition for our young people, ambition for our environment,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, the leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd said the first minister had \"a very managerial style of government\".\n\n\"We can't afford just to have a managed decline of Wales continue for another five years,\" Andrew RT Davies said.\n\n\"This is about making sure that when we put that manifesto to the people of Wales, they have confidence that we can deliver the solutions that people face in their everyday lives, whether that be on the economy with jobs, whether that be in public services with waiting times, whether that be in education with catch-up, or whether it be on the environmental or infrastructure goals we've set ourselves.\"\n\nAlso speaking on Sunday Supplement, Plaid Cymru's leader Adam Price criticised what he believed was a lack of progress under successive Labour-led governments.\n\n\"Many of the goals they have set have been absolutely laudable ones - setting the target for eradicating child poverty by 2020, many of the environmental principles,\" he said.\n\n\"But the problem is with lack of progress in turning those perfectly laudable values and principles into reality for the people of Wales. That's the frustration.\n\n\"We're not going to make progress towards achieving that new Wales that we want to see if we simply re-elect a Labour-led administration again.\"\n\nCadan ap Tomos, the Liberal Democrats candidate in Ceredigion, said the party was campaigning for recovery of the health service - with an emphasis on mental health - the economy and the environment.\n\nSpeaking in Aberystwyth, he said: \"We are the only party that champions liberalism the champions freedom the rights of the individual, that isn't going to change.\"", "Boris Johnson campaigned alongside Mr Ross in the 2019 general election, visiting a distillery in Moray\n\nBoris Johnson should resign if he is found to have broken government rules over his flat renovations, the Scottish Conservative leader has said.\n\nDouglas Ross told the BBC that people expected the highest standards of those in the highest office of the land.\n\nBut the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, insisted the prime minister had followed the rules and the newspaper stories were \"gossip\".\n\nLabour said people needed to know who the prime minister was beholden to.\n\nMr Johnson has insisted he paid for a refurbishment of the Downing Street flat himself, but there are still questions over whether the costs were initially covered by party donors.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Electoral Commission - the watchdog overseeing political finances - announced an investigation into the Conservative Party's compliance with laws on political donations, having said there were \"reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence or offences may have occurred\".\n\nThe government's top civil servant Simon Case and the prime minister's newly appointed adviser on ministers' interests Lord Geidt are also looking into the issue.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Andrew Marr whether Mr Johnson should resign if he was found to have broken the ministerial code, Mr Ross said \"of course\".\n\nBut he added he would wait for the answers from the three separate investigations that are taking place.\n\nMr Ross has previously called on Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister and leader of the SNP, to step down after a majority of MSPs on a committee accused her of misleading their inquiry into the Scottish government's handling of sexual harassment complaints made against former First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab said he would not \"speculate\" on the three reviews into the work on the prime minister's flat\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr he would not \"speculate on what the outcome of the various different reviews are\".\n\n\"I think the right thing for me to do is respect the integrity of those reviews and let them run their course rather than commenting on what may or may not be found at the end of it,\" he added.\n\nHe added he trusted the Electoral Commission \"to look at these things in the right way\".\n\nMr Raab also told Sky's Sophy Ridge the prime minister would \"engage fully\" with inquiries into who initially paid for the Downing Street renovations.\n\nAnd he said he had \"no idea\" whether Conservative donors were asked to help pay for the prime minister's childcare costs.\n\nThe Sunday Times has reported that supporters of the party had been asked to foot the bill for a nanny for Mr Johnson's son.\n\nThe foreign secretary dismissed the report as \"tittle tattle\", telling Sky News: \"I can't comment on every little bit of gossip that's in the newspapers.\"\n\nResponding to the story, Downing Street said: \"The prime minister has covered the cost of all childcare.\"\n\nAlso appearing on Sky News, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"We need to know who the prime minister is beholden to, we need to know what he has promised in return.\"\n\n\"There's an arrogance at the heart of this that he seems to believe that we don't deserve to know the truth about what goes on in government.\"\n\nThe prime minister has also received criticism from the former Commons Speaker John Bercow.\n\nMr Bercow, who stepped down from the role in 2019, frequently clashed with the prime minister when he was Speaker of the House of Commons\n\nTalking to BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, Mr Bercow said of the flat row: \"First of all we don't know who paid the initial bill because the prime minister and his acolytes persisted with the refrain that he ended up picking up the bill.\n\n\"That is both true and irrelevant - we know that, we've heard it, we've got it... the point is who initially did so creating either the fact or the appearance of indebtedness and an obligation on the prime minister in the future.\"\n\nHe also accused the prime minister of demonstrating \"an insouciant, a flippant, a casual disregard for the accuracy of what he says\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster deputy leader Kirsten Oswald said Mr Johnson should publish his bank statements and all relevant documents relating to the flat renovations and donor-funded income and expenditure \"to ensure full transparency and assist inquiries and criminal investigations\".\n\nLorna Slater, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, has said she believes the UK political system is \"broken\" and politicians should be held accountable for their decisions in the midst of the pandemic and the climate crisis.\n\nScottish Lib Dem MP Christine Jardine said the prime minister was being \"rightly scrutinised\" but the SNP was not in a position to criticise, following the inquiry into the Scottish government's handling of complaints made against Alex Salmond.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Villagers decided to take matters into their own hands\n\nIn a small, leafy village midway between two cities, an internet revolution has been taking place.\n\nMichaelston-y-Fedw might be just 10 miles from Cardiff city centre and a short drive from Newport but it has always been a world away when it comes to its broadband access.\n\nIts low internet speed of 4Mbps meant it was a proper \"not spot\" where young people could not watch YouTube, the local pub struggled to take card payments and downloading a film was nearly impossible.\n\nSo fed up locals decided to take matters into their own hands and install their own ultrafast broadband.\n\nDave Schofield (second from left) and some of the other volunteers with the fibre optic cables they are laying\n\nThe local pub, village hall and church have just been connected and by autumn about 175 homes in the area will have upload and download speeds of 1Gbps - or 1,000 Mbps - some of the fastest internet speeds in the UK.\n\nWhen you drive along the lanes leading to the village, large banners proudly proclaim: \"Fastest Village in Wales.\"\n\nIt's a huge deal for its 300 residents.\n\nMeg Cope is studying journalism at university but says is unable to upload her work at home\n\nMeg Cope, 21, says her house has the slowest broadband in the village because it's at the end of the current copper line - and it's affecting her studies at Cardiff University.\n\n\"The internet is so important for my university work - I read a lot of articles and journals so I have to go into uni to download them and then come home to read them,\" she said.\n\n\"It makes me feel like I'm behind with my degree. Its's so frustrating.\n\n\"Just going online for social media, I have to use 3G and I end up using all my data and have to buy more.\"\n\nCaroline Hill and Ben Langman - with their puppy Alfie - have welcomed the new broadband\n\nBanners around the village proudly show its new status\n\nCaroline Hill and Ben Langman, who have been running the Cefn Mably Arms for the past 21 months, said the slow speeds had been hurting their business.\n\n\"It affected everything. As soon as someone came into the pub and their phone connected with the wi-fi, it would crash our debit card machine,\" said Ben.\n\n\"Trying to pay our 26 staff was difficult as it's all online banking these days. A few years ago you could do your ordering over the phone, now it's all online... It was so hard.\"\n\nBut that's all changed as the pub has just been connected to the new ultrafast Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband.\n\n\"Now you can come along and download the whole Star Wars trilogy in three minutes,\" laughed Ben.\n\nMichaelston-y-Fedw is surrounded by rolling fields and hills\n\nThey all have Dave Schofield to thank for dragging the village into the 21st Century.\n\nHe and a team of about 30 volunteers - all local villagers - decided that because nobody else was sorting out their problem, they would do it themselves.\n\nHe mentioned the idea at a village meeting, not thinking anybody would be enthusiastic, but he said everyone jumped on board.\n\nThey set up their own not for profit Community Interest Company and raised £150,000 by asking local people to buy shares in the project.\n\nThey then went about applying for every grant they could, including to the Welsh Government and Access Broadband Cymru, which offers vouchers to homes in areas that are not set to benefit from BT's Superfast Cymru project.\n\nSimilar schemes have been undertaken in England, but for Wales it was a first.\n\nFarmers and landowners readily gave permission for trenches to be dug to lay the fibre optic cables - that are thinner than a human hair - from a hub to people's homes and businesses.\n\nDigging started in the winter and volunteers hope to finish by the autumn\n\nAnd residents swotted up on the technology, pooled their skills and received training on how to lay the infrastructure.\n\nLocal contractors use machinery to dig across farmland to people's driveways. It's then up to each home owner to dig trenches to carry the fibres into their own homes, with others stepping in to help those who can't manage the work.\n\nIt has become a full time job for many of the volunteers.\n\n\"We started digging on 21 February this year when the ground was frozen solid,\" said Dave, 52, who's lived in the village for eight years.\n\n\"A few weeks later we were snowed in for three days and then we had torrential rain.\n\n\"So it's not been easy but we were all determined. And it's brought the whole community together.\"\n\nDavid Walford has been helping to dig the trenches\n\nDavid Walford, 21, stepped up to do the groundwork, digging trenches in the many fields that surround Michaelston-y-Fedw.\n\n\"I've got a drone and I take loads of videos but I've never been able to upload them. There'd be no hope of doing anything like that,\" he said.\n\n\"For the last three days I've been coming down to the village hall to finally upload all my videos to YouTube. It's amazing - you don't realise how painful it was before.\"\n\nFor many of the villagers, the project has not just been about improving internet access - it's also been about improving community relationships.\n\nJim and Carina Dunk have loved making new friends as they work on the project\n\nJim Dunk, 71, has had a home in the village for 41 years but because he was in the Merchant Navy, he travelled the world and used it only as a base.\n\n\"This is why the project meant so much to me,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the place I came back to - but apart from the village pub, I didn't know many other people. Now, I've met just about everybody as I'm one of the people who's put the routers into all the houses.\"\n\nHis wife Carina, who does the fibre splicing, added: \"In a very short space of time we've got to know a lot of people very well.\n\n\"Sometimes we're spending eight hours a day together. Before this, Jim was playing golf four times a week - now he's lucky if he gets there once. But he loves it.\"\n\nThe local church is also proud of its new internet speed\n\nThey still have much work to do. The popular Cefn Mably Farm Park will also be connected as part of the project - but first the team will have to get the wires across a river.\n\n\"We'll just use a directional drill to do it,\" added Dave - a phrase he no doubt didn't think he'd be using this time last year.\n\nThe people power behind the project has impressed many of the locals.\n\nSaskia Barnett can't wait to try her faster internet speeds at home\n\n\"They're all so clever doing it,\" said Saskia Barnett, 22, who has lived in the village all her life.\n\n\"It's such a great idea and will really make a difference for people living here.\n\n\"When you're a teenager growing up here it's really hard... My brother and I would have to time when we'd go online - when he was playing on his Xbox I wouldn't be able to watch Netflix on my laptop.\"\n\n\"Our house has just gone over to the new router. It's not up and running yet but it will be so much better. It will be so good.\"", "A British man who died in a crush at a Jewish festival in Israel was in the country to study, a family spokesman said.\n\nMoshe Bergman, from Manchester, was among 45 people killed after becoming trapped in a crowded alley on Friday.\n\nThe 24-year-old had been studying in Israel, where he lived with his wife.\n\nSpeaking on the family's behalf, Rabbi Arnold Saunders said they \"went through hell hearing rumours that he was dead, then alive, then dead\".\n\nMr Bergman had been married for about 18 months, he added.\n\nSome 150 people were also injured at the Lag B'Omer festival, near Mount Meron in northern Israel, when they became trapped in an overcrowded passageway.\n\n\"When we heard the general news [about the crush], it was bad enough because this is one of our most joyous days in our whole calendar and Meron is the focal point of it all,\" said Mr Saunders, who also represents Kersal on Salford City Council.\n\n\"The community is definitely shocked. They've rallied around the family tremendously and given them as much support as they can.\"\n\nMr Bergman's family, who live in Salford, are travelling to Israel.\n\nThe annual Lag B'Omer festival is usually marked with prayers and celebrations\n\nThe work of identifying the dead was paused for 24 hours on Friday evening to mark the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest. Funerals resumed after sunset on Saturday.\n\nThe families of those buried are beginning their week-long wakes, known in Jewish tradition as sitting shiva.\n\nNearly 100,000 mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews attended the event, which takes place at one of the holiest Jewish sites in Israel.\n\nThe Queen, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and British faith leaders sent condolences following the disaster.\n\nPrayers are also being said in synagogues for the bereaved and the injured.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The 17-year-old impressed judges with his tour-de-force performance of Prism Rhapsody\n\nTeenage percussionist Fang Zhang has been named BBC Young Musician of 2020.\n\nThe 17-year-old took the title with a virtuoso performance of Keiko Abe's marimba concerto Prism Rhapsody, which required him to play with six mallets simultaneously.\n\nHis playing \"elicited a kaleidoscope of colours and expression\" that \"deeply moved the jury\", said Angela Dixon, who chaired the judging panel.\n\nZhang's victory came a year late, after the 2020 contest was delayed by Covid.\n\nThe Chinese-born musician said he was \"honoured and delighted\" to take the title, adding he felt \"so lucky considering the talent of the other finalists\".\n\nPrevious Young Musician winners include celebrated classical musicians such as cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and violinist Nicola Benedetti.\n\nThe delayed 2020 final was held under Covid-safe conditions at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.\n\nEach of the three finalists played a full concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductor Mark Wigglesworth.\n\nZhang's competition came from 18-year-old French horn player Annemarie Federle and 19-year old oboist Ewan Millar.\n\nWigglesworth said he was impressed by all three contestants, who had \"shown a tremendous passion and determination to maintain their commitment to the competition across a year of uncertain silence\".\n\n\"They play with humility and respect but daring and personality too, encouraging all who hear them to look forward to more positive times ahead,\" he added.\n\nZhang was born in China's Henan province and has recently been studying at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester.\n\nHe has been performing around the world since he was 11 and is a member of the China Youth Percussion Orchestra.\n\nAs well as the marimba, he plays snare drum timpani and vibraphone, and has won competitions including the China Youth Percussion Competition, the New York International Percussion Competition and the Tokyo International Percussion Competition.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Helena named her daugher Mila - short for milagro, or miracle, in Spanish\n\n\"It comes with risks, but then this operation will mean I've done the best for her. In my mind there was no choice - I just had to do it.\"\n\nAfter six failed rounds of IVF, Helena had almost given up hope of having a second baby. But on her seventh attempt she became pregnant and things seemed to progress well until her 20-week scan.\n\nThere, Helena was told her daughter had spina bifida.\n\n\"It was a very large lesion on her back and half of her spine was exposed. They said that it was likely she will be paralysed, incontinent and will need a shunt to drain the fluid from her brain later on,\" Helena recalls.\n\n\"I was beside myself when they told me all the possible outcomes for having this condition and I couldn't stop crying.\n\n\"They told me the probability of her walking or moving her legs was very, very low - and that was absolutely devastating.\"\n\nWithin days, Helena was referred for tests and told she was eligible for surgery. At 23 weeks pregnant, she travelled to a specialist hospital in Belgium, which works in partnership with the NHS.\n\nA team of around 25 clinicians carried out the complex operation to repair her baby's exposed spinal cord and close the hole in her back.\n\n\"I knew if I didn't get the operation the quality of her life would be very different,\" Helena says.\n\nProf Anna David, foetal medicine consultant at University College Hospital in London, said: \"Previously the baby would have the repair to the defect after birth - but now that we can do the surgery in the womb, the defect is closed a lot earlier so it means there's less damage to the spine.\n\n\"That increases the chances of the child being able to walk and have more control over their bladder and bowel.\"\n\nHelena with her daughter Mila who underwent surgery in the womb\n\nHelena gave birth to her daughter Mila - short for milagro, or miracle, in Spanish - at University College London Hospital three months after the surgery.\n\nMila still has some fluid on her brain, but so far she is showing signs of good development.\n\n\"She can move her legs,\" says Helena, \"and she's got feeling to her toes so it's absolutely amazing\".\n\n\"I'm just so grateful to the surgeons who've done this operation because her life would look very different without it.\"\n\nSpina bifida, which affects about 1,500 pregnancies a year in the UK, prevents the spine and spinal cord developing properly.\n\nIt can lead to paralysis, bowel, bladder and kidney problems.\n\nBut if surgeons can operate at between 22 and 26 weeks of pregnancy, instead of after birth, it means a much better outcome for the baby.\n\nThe procedure involves specialists from University College London Hospitals, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium. Thirty-two babies have undergone the procedure since January 2020.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, medical director for NHS England, said it was just one example of the innovative treatments offered by the NHS.\n\n\"As well as fighting a global pandemic, the NHS continues to develop and offer these trail-blazing services and continue to be there for patients.\"\n\nKate Steele, chief executive of Shine, which offers advice and support to families affected by spina bifida and hydrocephalus, said: \"We hope that every family who might benefit from foetal surgery is given the opportunity to find out whether surgery is right for them, and that they are supported by their local service, as Helena was.\"", "Jobs, independence and debt are part of the campaigns in the final weekend of the campaign\n\nPlans for Wales' post-Covid economic recovery are being outlined by political parties on the last weekend of the Senedd election campaign.\n\nBoth the Welsh Conservatives and Welsh Labour said their focus was on creating jobs.\n\nPlaid Cymru said an independent Wales could \"realise its full potential,\" while the Welsh Liberal Democrats focused on council tax arrears.\n\nThe Welsh Parliament elections take place on Thursday 6 May.\n\nSIGN UP FOR WALES ALERTS: Get extra updates on BBC election coverage\n\nLaura Anne Jones said a government led by the Welsh Conservatives would bring fresh ideas\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives are pledging to create 65,000 new jobs if they get into power.\n\nThe party's regional candidate for South Wales East, Laura Anne Jones, said: \"Our absolute priority has to be economic recovery in Wales.\n\n\"It has to be at the forefront of everything that we're doing now - we need to invest in people, we need to invest in jobs, and we need to make sure that everyone has the support they need to really get things going again, get things moving.\"\n\nSpeaking while canvassing in Newport, she added: \"We've had 22 years now of abject failure from the Labour government, our country was in a bad shape before the pandemic… we need fresh ideas, we need a new beginning for the whole of Wales.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru says independence is the only way for Wales to \"realise its full potential\".\n\nLeader Adam Price, said \"only a credible threat of independence gives Wales leverage in London\".\n\n\"A Plaid Cymru government will mean a stronger Wales - feared and respected by Westminster not neglected and ignored. This will mean more investment and more powers.\"\n\nMr Price added: \"Scotland's experience has taught us that the prospect of independence forces Westminster to listen.\n\n\"Only by electing a Plaid Cymru government on 6 May will Wales' hand be strengthened in challenging the Tory UK government.\"\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\nCarolyn Harris, Welsh Labour's deputy leader, said the party's recovery plan included a work, education or training place to be offered to all under-25s and \"a real living wage for social care workers\".\n\nShe said: \"I'll be out across Wales every day between now and May 6th banging the drum for our Welsh Labour government.\n\n\"With every poll showing the danger that the Tories pose at this election, our message is crystal clear - if you value the things that Welsh Labour have done for you, your family and your community, you need to get out and vote for them.\"\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 Welsh Liberal Democrats want to set up a £200,000 fund to help \"the most vulnerable\" who are struggling to pay debts like council tax arrears.\n\nLeader Jane Dodds said: \"The debt bonfire would help so many residents in Wales who need support at the fraction of a cost.\n\n\"As we come out of the worst of the coronavirus pandemic one thing is clear, the pandemic exposed rife inequalities in our society.\n\n\"We know our country is disproportionately affected by debt compared to the rest of the UK, that's why we'd use this funding to free people from the economic insecurity.\"", "Retail experts in Scotland say the first week of shops reopening there has been a success, following a hard four-month lockdown.\n\nThe Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) says the country's stores have performed better than those in England and Wales since they reopened on Monday - two weeks after England.\n\nEwan Macdonald-Russell from the SRC says: \"It's been a positive start for Scotland and figures have been better than England and Wales. It was up 167% on the week before and nearly in line with what we'd have expected to have seen in 2019 before the pandemic started.\n\n\"So, it's really positive that customers have come out and we hope sales will reflect that.\"\n\nNatalie MacCallum says her venue's outdoor space was buzzing with activity Image caption: Natalie MacCallum says her venue's outdoor space was buzzing with activity\n\nNatalie MacCallum, manager of Sloans bar in Glasgow city centre, told BBC Scotland that within six minutes of its online booking system going live, it had thousands of bookings for its outdoor space.\n\n\"Hospitality has been battered over the course of the pandemic so we had no idea what to expect when bookings went live, but we have been very lucky. The customers have been just so happy to see us open,\" she says.\n\nBut, she adds: \"What would help us more is a lot of the restrictions being lifted.\"\n\nYou can read about how other businesses in Scotland are finding the easing of restrictionshere.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV captured the moment a vandal took a chainsaw to the platform\n\nA platform with an osprey nest on top has been cut down with a chainsaw.\n\nThe protected bird of prey laid its first egg a day before the nest was felled at Llyn Brenig, which borders Conwy and Denbighshire, police said.\n\nIt has been branded a \"horrific act of vandalism\" by the Brenig Osprey Project in a Facebook post.\n\nNorth Wales Police Rural Crime Team said it suspected the culprits \"possibly arrived by boat to chainsaw the platform\" on the lake.\n\n\"Wildlife crimes always have a motive and we believe the person who did this had a strong motive to rid the area of ospreys and particularly the lake,\" it tweeted.\n\nThe nesting platform was found in the lake on Saturday morning\n\nThe birds and their eggs are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act which makes it an offence to interfere with them or their nest.\n\nAccording to the RSPB, the female lays two or three eggs between one and three daily intervals in the second half of April, and incubates them for 37 days per egg.\n\nBrenig Osprey Project is a partnership with Welsh Water and North Wales Wildlife Trust.\n\nThe osprey breeding support project began in 2013 at Llyn Brenig\n\nThe trust said: \"Brenig Osprey Project partners woke up this morning to the worst possible news. Last night, at 21:42, someone took a chainsaw to the osprey nest and felled it.\n\n\"This is a fast-moving situation and we'll issue more news of the birds when we can.\"\n\nA pair of birds had been nesting on the platform\n\nWelsh Water said the situation was \"heartbreaking\" and it was working with the police to help find those responsible.\n\nIn a tweet, BBC Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams called the incident \"unbelievable\" and labelled those involved \"morons\".\n\nHe told BBC Wales it was a \"disaster\" because there were only five breeding pairs in Wales.\n\nHowever, he said it was hoped the breeding pair may lay more eggs at another nest platform.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland's retail body has hailed the first week of reopening a success after a four-month-long winter lockdown.\n\nThe Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) said Scotland had performed better than stores in England and Wales after opening the doors on Monday.\n\nLast Monday saw the return of non-essential shops, gyms and limited hospitality in Scotland, two weeks after England.\n\nHowever, businesses still want clarity on when restrictions will ease further.\n\nShoppers queued from early morning when retailers opened up on Monday.\n\nBut the big test was how shops and bars would fare over the bank holiday weekend.\n\nEwan Macdonald-Russell from the SRC said it was good news.\n\n\"Shops bars and restaurants have had a good week,\" he said. \"It's been a positive start for Scotland and figures have been better than England and Wales. It was up 167% on the week before and nearly in line with what we'd have expected to have seen in 2019 before the pandemic started.\n\n\"So, really positive that customers have come out and we hope sales will reflect that.\"\n\nCrowds came to Glasgow's Buchanan Street on the first weekend of reopening\n\nHe said shops would be hoping this trend would continue in the coming weeks.\n\nHe added: \"What we've seen in England and Wales is an initial pent-up demand for things customers haven't been able to buy. But then that seems to fall away. That would be really concerning after a difficult year.\"\n\nShops and bars have been shut for 122 days since they closed for lockdown on Boxing Day.\n\nNatalie MacCallum is manager of Sloans bar in Glasgow city centre.\n\nThe venue's outdoor space was buzzing with activity on Saturday.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland that within six minutes of its online booking system going live, it had thousands of bookings.\n\nNatalie MacCallum said customers were happy to come back to Sloans bar\n\nShe said: \"It's been amazing. We didn't know what to expect at all. It has been really busy and the weather in Scotland has not put people off either - they've been coming out.\n\n\"The staff have adapted so quickly after being off for so long. I think it's been one of our best weeks ever.\"\n\nShe did say there were concerns about making the social distancing rules work and she had wondered if people would want to be indoors at all.\n\nShe said operating in the conditions was difficult.\n\n\"Hospitality has been battered over the course of the pandemic so we had no idea what to expect when bookings went live, but we have been very lucky. The customers have been just so happy to see us open. \"\n\nBut, she added: \"What would help us more is a lot of the restrictions being lifted.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said restrictions could be eased as the most vulnerable people had been offered their first vaccine dose.\n\nBut strict distancing measures are still in place, and bars cannot sell alcohol inside.\n\n\"We have incredibly strict measures to keep people safe in shops - 2m distancing and queueing and a whole plethora of other measures. That's fine now, but we don't understand how long these are going to continue.\n\n\"Are there going to be any changes in the future? It is very hard to run a shop under these conditions and certainly to make it profitable.\"\n\nShops are not the only ones concerned about continued Covid measures.\n\nHospitality businesses reopened in Scotland on Monday, but must close indoors at 20:00\n\nA trade group of bar and nightclubs have launched a legal action against the Scottish government over restrictions on the industry.\n\nNight Time Industries Association (NTIA) Scotland announced a bid to end limits on venue capacity and opening hours.\n\nIt said the curbs were \"no longer justifiable or proportionate\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it wanted to get back to normal \"as soon as it is safely possible\" but it had to move carefully to \"ensure continued suppression of the virus\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"The Strategic Framework Business Fund provided grants to businesses that were required to close by law or to significantly change their operation due to Covid-19 restrictions from November 2020.\n\n\"Nightclubs were eligible and will have now received restart grants of up to £19,500, equivalent to more than six months support provided by SFBF every four weeks.\"\n\nIt said it was also extending rates relief for hospitality businesses and highlighted that one-off grants of up to £50,000 were available for nightclubs in October from the Covid-19 Contingency Fund.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney was booed by delegates at a GOP conference in Utah\n\nUS Senator Mitt Romney has been booed by Republicans at a convention in Utah.\n\nThe Utah senator and former presidential candidate was the only Republican to vote twice to impeach ex-President Donald Trump.\n\nAs Mr Romney took the stage at a state party convention in West Valley City, delegates shouted that he was a \"communist\" and a \"traitor\".\n\nAmid the jeering, he asked the crowd: \"So what do you think about President Biden's first hundred days?\"\n\nMr Romney added that he was \"a person who says what he thinks, and I don't hide the fact that I wasn't a fan of our last president's character issues\".\n\nHe started to say \"and I'm also no fan...\", but then had to stop speaking again because of the volume of the booing.\n\nAfter a pause, the senator asked the crowd of 2,100 delegates: \"Aren't you embarrassed?\"\n\nState party chair Derek Brown then stepped in and pleaded with everyone to \"please... show respect\".\n\nDespite this show of disapproval, a motion to censure Mr Romney for his votes to impeach Mr Trump failed narrowly. Mr Romney urged people to \"come together in strength and unity\" before leaving the stage.\n\nA moderate Republican, Mr Romney is not facing re-election to the Senate in 2022.\n\nThis incident is seen as an example of how, despite his election loss last year, Mr Trump continues to be popular within the party.\n\nA CNN poll released this week suggested 70% of Republicans still believe Mr Trump's allegations that President Joe Biden did not legitimately win the election - despite the claims being repeatedly proven to be false.\n\nMr Trump is the only president in US history to have been impeached twice.\n\nThe first time, in December 2019, was for asking Ukraine for dirt on his political opponents.\n\nThe second was for inciting a deadly storming of the Capitol on 6 January this year, after repeating his claim of electoral fraud. Before the riot, he told a crowd of supporters to \"fight like hell\".\n\nHe was acquitted at both impeachment trials.", "In what's meant to be a grown-up Western democracy surely we'd all like to think so. It doesn't pay to be naïve. Politicians, even really honest ones, regularly say things they don't quite believe.\n\nThe public knows this. We don't expect our politicians to be angels. But outright lying, in my experience, is relatively rare. It is too easily found out.\n\nOnly one senior politician still in the game has ever privately told me something that was utterly, entirely, and completely untrue. It was proved publicly to be a lie a few days later.\n\nIt's also rare for opposition parties to accuse a prime minister, on the record, of lying.\n\nWhich brings us to Boris Johnson.\n\nThe prime minister's relationship with the truth is under intense scrutiny at the moment. He is refusing to give full explanations on some issues. There are questions about how the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was initially funded, and about incendiary comments he made last autumn as England was about to enter a second lockdown.\n\nDowning Street is repeatedly denying that he has done anything wrong.\n\nIt is not the first time in Boris Johnson's long career that he has faced questions about his conduct and character. But the stakes are so much higher now. His unique way of running things - and sometimes chaotic approach to decision-making - has, sources tell me, led exasperated colleagues in No 10 to nickname him \"Trolley\".\n\n\"You think you are pushing it along a path towards your goal then suddenly it veers off disastrously,\" says one insider.\n\nIf anyone wanted to submit accurate Freedom of Information requests on government WhatsApp messages, \"you'd have to include the trolley emoji\", adds my source. No 10 declined to comment on the name.\n\nIt was Mr Johnson himself who may have coined the analogy, telling friends he was \"veering all over the place like a shopping trolley,\" over whether to back Leave or Remain, ahead of the Brexit referendum, according to the Sunday Times. He famously wrote two versions of his newspaper column, one backing Leave, the other Remain, arguing through all the options to be completely sure.\n\nSome of his allies cite this desire to argue things backwards and forwards before reaching a decision as a strength, saying: \"He challenges organisations and conventional wisdom.\"\n\nOthers have a more straightforward explanation.\n\n\"He is just sometimes unable to face the truth because he doesn't like making hard decisions,\" says one insider. Another says: \"You are never sure what the real truth of a situation is.\" Others say it is hard to get clarity and a sense of purpose, or that it is \"hard to work out where his motives begin and end\".\n\nSo what does this tell us about the prime minister's relationship with the truth?\n\nFirst, the benign interpretation of how the PM operates. One insider who knows him well says it is simply \"unfair and easy to cry 'liar', as the opposition has done\".\n\n\"He's far more complex and strategic and people don't give him credit for how calculating and clever he is.\"\n\nAnother source told me Mr Johnson has a \"genuinely selective memory\" and that \"'I choose to remember certain things or not remember others'\" is his default way of dealing with the pressures of life at No 10.\n\nFor years, it's been the case that when things get sticky, particularly with Boris Johnson's personal life or financial affairs, he refuses to engage in those conversations at all, even in private with his close aides. The message to staffers is, effectively: \"Don't ask, because I won't tell.\"\n\nOne source told me that is why, right now, life in No 10 is bound to be tense and difficult.\n\n\"Part of the problem is that these two things, his personal relationships and his financial situation are colliding. He'll be finding it very difficult, and people trying to advise him will also find that hard.\"\n\nBut is he not telling the truth?\n\nThis particular source believes that the PM may try to evade questions about matters of the home and heart, but not on political issues.\n\n\"To a degree every politician has to go out and say things they don't always agree with. He is a professional and he does that.\"\n\nThere's another layer when it comes to Mr Johnson though. And discussing his habits with many of those who have worked alongside him, his former life as a journalist is often mentioned.\n\nEven his worst enemy would acknowledge that he is a skilled wordsmith, and he regularly uses his vast range of sometimes nonsensical vocabulary to deflect, to entertain, or even ridicule. It's certainly not unusual for politicians to try to avoid answering questions that would cast them or their parties in a less than flattering light.\n\nOne of the PM's strategies, however, seems to be to bamboozle the listener with a blizzard of verbiage, suggesting agreement, but not committing to anything. Former colleagues suggest that by the time they have decoded what he actually meant, the conversation's over.\n\nAn insider told me: \"He frequently leaves people with the belief that he has told them one thing, but he has given himself room for manoeuvre,\" believing that, \"the fewer cast iron positions you hold the better, because you can always change political direction.\"\n\nThe verbal flourishes and rhetorical tricks are part of the reason why he has prospered.\n\n\"A lot of his magic has been those off-the-cuff comments, that's why a lot of the public like him,\" says an ally.\n\nHe was like an \"untamed political animal\" when he first developed his political style says another, playing with phrases as he would in his byzantine and flamboyant newspaper columns, teasing with words, presenting a character like no other politician.\n\nBut another told me it has developed into a way of shrouding what's really going on.\n\n\"I think he is an extremely shrewd and calculating character that hides it all under the costume of a performer,\" says this source.\n\nOne Brexiteer even suggests his mannerisms encourage others to be complicit: \"It's like a comedian, you are willing him on, you want it to be plausible\" - even if, according to them, it simply isn't.\n\nThat's where his personal style, according to others, tips into something much less appealing. A former minister, once close to him, told me: \"The problem is that it's becoming clearer that the PM treats facts like he treats all his relationships - utterly disposable once inconvenient.\n\n\"It's all about power. Facts, policies, people - they all get ditched if they get in the way. Whatever is necessary.\"\n\nYet what's suggested time and again is that the prime minister's attitude to the truth and facts is not based on what is real and what is not, but is driven by what he wants to achieve in that moment - what he desires, rather than what he believes. And there is no question, that approach, coupled with an intense force of personality can be enormously effective.\n\nIn his political career, Boris Johnson has time and again overturned the odds, and that's a huge part of the reason why.\n\nOne former colleague compares him to the late Steve Jobs, the hard-driving founder of tech giant Apple. Jobs was said to have a \"reality distortion field\", described by his biographer as a \"confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand\".\n\nIn other words, ordering the truth to suit his ambitions, refusing to take no for an answer, relishing proving that the impossible could be done.\n\nMr Johnson's former colleague told me: \"Is there wilful lying? I would struggle to point to a direct example. Does he recreate the truth to suit him? Yes.\"\n\nThis source, and several others, told me the prime minister has a \"deep dislike of being accused of lying\". Several sources have even suggested that during the 2016 Brexit campaign he was nervous about the now infamous promise, plastered on the side of his battle bus, to spend the £350m a week the UK sends to the EU \"to fund the NHS instead\".\n\nMr Johnson was nervous about the claim plastered across the Vote Leave battle bus, several sources say\n\nMr Johnson was conscious that every time he used this claim, it could be challenged by the fact that the £350m did not take into account the budget rebate the UK got from the EU.\n\nMr Johnson was all about \"images, emotions, he didn't want to be pinned down to a number\", says my source.\n\nHe was also understood to be unhappy about the campaign's claims about Turkey's proposed entry to the EU, and the potential impact on immigration. If you're reading this, you probably don't need a reminder of how controversial those claims were at the time. Just in case, you can read about them here and here.\n\nBut private doubts about whether the claims were convincing did not stop Mr Johnson from becoming the biggest cheerleader for leaving the EU. The rest, of course, is history.\n\nSome of those with him on the Brexit journey don't think that he was ever a true believer.\n\nA veteran Brexiteer told me: \"Boris is not one of us, but we put him there - and that is a truth he is never going to want to confront.\"\n\nForgetting the recent history, does any of this actually matter politically now? Voters don't generally consider politicians to be particularly trustworthy.\n\nBoris Johnson's reputation and popularity is certainly not based on a view that he tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but. He has what pollsters call \"authenticity\" - what you see is what you get. He's not super smooth and he doesn't pretend to be perfect.\n\nThe current allegations about his conduct, which he characteristically describes as a \"farrago of nonsense\" do not seem to be shifting public opinion much, if at all.\n\nBut just because the Conservatives can shout loudly that no one cares about this stuff, that doesn't mean that the prime minister's complicated relationship with truth can be easily dismissed. Most straightforwardly, there are several investigations now into exactly what has happened with the Downing Street flat that could trip up him and the Conservative Party.\n\nSources who told the BBC and other news organisations that Mr Johnson did say he would rather see \"bodies pile high\" than take the country into a third lockdown have said they would be prepared to testify under oath if they have to.\n\nDepending how and when those two issues unwind, there could be big trouble for Downing Street.\n\nPolitics is an extremely tough business, as Mr Johnson has been discovering of late. Huge parliamentary majorities do not protect you from personal criticism. And many of the government's current woes can, arguably, be traced back to the PM's relationship with the truth.\n\nI've been told on more occasions than I can count that Boris Johnson trusts hardly anyone, and suspects almost everyone. As one source describes it, he \"behaves in such a way that people eventually tire of him, feel let down, and behave in the way he feared they would\". The breakdown in his relationship with his former adviser Dominic Cummings is spectacular evidence of that.\n\nBut people who work alongside Mr Johnson are often kept guessing, unsure of what he really thinks.\n\nIt leaves him all powerful. His whim rules.\n\nBut it also can make it harder to achieve what he says he wants - the priorities he was elected to deliver.\n\nYet popularity matters in politics too. Despite the horrors of coronavirus, hard realities have never been part of the PM's desired script. To use one of his tactics, quoting the classics, the Greek philosopher Plato said: \"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.\"\n\nBut as one of the few people who genuinely knows Boris Johnson once told me, he is a politician who above all, wants to be loved.", "A photograph of a smiling Princess Charlotte has been released to mark her sixth birthday on Sunday.\n\nThe picture was taken by her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, this weekend in Norfolk.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nCatherine and William marked their 10th wedding anniversary on Thursday by releasing a video of Charlotte with her brothers George, seven and Louis, three.\n\nIt showed the family at a beach and toasting marshmallows near their Norfolk residence, Anmer Hall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge released a video to mark their 10th wedding anniversary\n\nIn the new photo, Charlotte is pictured outdoors wearing a dark blue short-sleeved dress with a floral design.\n\nFor her last birthday, her parents released a picture of Charlotte volunteering with the rest of the family by helping to load a van with food and delivering meals to those in need in Norfolk.\n\nShe was born at the private maternity Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, central London, at 08:34 BST on 2 May 2015, weighing 8lb 3oz.\n\nHer mother, Catherine, is a keen amateur photographer and patron of the Royal Photographic Society. Her pictures have regularly been released to mark her children's birthdays.\n\nIn another photo taken by the Duchess of Cambridge, released earlier this year, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are pictured with their great-grandchildren, including Charlotte", "The former Olympic athlete is running as a Republican candidate for California governor\n\nCaitlyn Jenner, candidate for California governor and former Olympic gold medallist, says she opposes trans girls participating in women's sports.\n\nMs Jenner, who came out as a trans woman in 2015, told a reporter: \"It just isn't fair. And we have to protect girls' sports in our schools.\"\n\nThe Republican candidate for governor gave what appeared to be an impromptu interview to the TMZ website.\n\nA number of US states are considering a ban on trans girls in women's sports.\n\nMississippi signed such a ban into law in March, although it is expected to face appeals. The Human Rights Campaign - the largest LGBT advocacy group in the US - says some 17 other states are considering similar legislation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Caitlyn Jenner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCaitlyn Jenner was one of the US's most successful athletes in the decathlon during the 1970s and won gold in the Montreal Olympics in 1976.\n\nIn recent years, she has been a household name thanks to her involvement in the hit reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Before transitioning, she was married to Kris Jenner and the pair have two daughters, Kendall and Kylie.\n\nMs Jenner, who has been described as the highest-profile American to come out as transgender, was asked for her opinion on the hot-button issue of trans athletes while out walking her dog to get a coffee.\n\n\"This is a question of fairness,\" she said. \"That's why I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls' sports in school. It just isn't fair. And we have to protect girls' sports in our schools.\"\n\nMs Jenner then took to Twitter to reiterate her stance.\n\nThe 71-year-old announced her bid to run as a Republican in the Democratic stronghold state of California two weeks ago.\n\nConfirmation of a recall election is expected after a petition against current Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, reached the number required to trigger a vote. Voters would be asked if they want Mr Newsom to stay or another candidate to take on the job.\n\nMs Jenner's views on trans athletes put her at odds with many activists in the trans community, who argue that legislation targeting trans children is dangerous and discriminatory.\n\nOn Friday, another transgender celebrity, Elliot Page, criticised the moves to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls' sports teams in some states.", "Dirty Vegan star Matt Pritchard has been rowing the Atlantic as part of a four-man crew\n\nWhile most of us have spent months locked down, Dirty Vegan Matt Pritchard has completed a row of the Atlantic.\n\nThe BBC TV chef was in a team of four crossing the ocean to raise awareness about mental health - and they reached the finish line in Antigua on Sunday.\n\nInitially setting off on the 3,200 mile trip from Lanzarote on 6 March, they had to restart from Fuerteventura a week later.\n\nThey could undertake the voyage as Covid rules allow charity events.\n\nAfter they completed the journey, Matt posted on his Instagram account: \"I'm thirsty, hungry, tired and adopted bingo wings on my arms and calf's [sic].\n\n\"Walking on land is very weird, it doesn't move. I'll be a cheap date tonight, one whiff of champagne and I'll be on my back mun.\"\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 pritchardswyd This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe trip, named Atlantic Dash, was initially halted because of seat problems, before their craft was holed during a tow to Fuerteventura.\n\nAfter Matt and crewmates Billy Taylor, Johnny Ward and Martin Heseltine had repaired the vessel they set off again.\n\nMatt earlier said progress in the trip had been \"absolutely fantastic\" and had also been \"nice to be at sea during all the craziness\" of Covid.\n\nThe sailors have enjoyed seeing dolphins, turtles and marlins and, for three weeks, they did not see another boat.\n\nBut disaster struck for Matt, who celebrated his birthday at sea, as the end of the trip neared.\n\nThe ex-pro skateboarder, from Cardiff, injured his back while rowing.\n\nThe 48-year-old said: \"I pulled my right lateral muscle rowing and, as you do, I just ignored it.\n\n\"Because at the end of the day you have no other option other than to keep rowing and get on with it.\"\n\nThe men last saw land when the left Fuerteventura in March\n\nBut after two days the pain got much worse.\n\n\"All of a sudden something went, and I was in absolute agony, and there was nothing else I could do,\" the former Dirty Sanchez star said.\n\n\"Billy said: 'You're going to have to get into the forecabin'.\"\n\nGetting in the forecabin - at the front of a boat - was also \"absolute agony.\"\n\nAfter speaking to a doctor he was advised to take painkillers they had with them.\n\n\"I've sat here, and there's loads of stuff going through my mind.\n\n\"I just feel helpless being here listening to the boys rowing.\n\n\"I want to be out there rowing with them, but I can't because I don't want to do any more damage to my lateral muscle.\"\n\nHe had hoped to be back as an oarsman within a day or two but he is still not in the best shape.\n\nAs they neared their destination of Antigua, Matt injured a muscle in his back\n\n\"I've not come all this way to lay on my arse,\" he said.\n\n\"But at the same time I have got to be sensible, because I do not want to do longer lasting damage to myself.\"\n\nBy Friday, Matt was still not rowing but was making food and doing other duties.\n\nBilly said it was \"so nice\" to see him on the mend.\n\nHe was laid up for a number of days but is now on the mend\n\n\"Matt's been up and about,\" he said.\n\n\"He's been cooking for everyone and making sure everyone has water.\n\nThe four are aiming to raise £20,000 to be split between Dean Farm Trust and men's mental health charity Humen.", "Two people have been arrested after they were found trespassing in the Royal Family's Windsor estate.\n\nA 29-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man, both from London, were found in the grounds of Royal Lodge, where the Duke of York lives, on 25 April.\n\nThames Valley Police said there was no risk to anyone on the site and they were released while inquiries continue.\n\nIt followed a separate incident at Prince Andrew's home in which a 43-year-old woman was arrested.\n\nIt was reported by the Sun newspaper that the woman gained access to the Royal Lodge estate on 19 April by saying she was visiting for lunch with the duke.\n\nThe woman was detained shortly after, but later \"de-arrested\" and further detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman declined to comment on the incidents.\n\nThe Royal Lodge is at the heart of Windsor Great Park and about 3 miles (5km) south of Windsor Castle, where the Queen and the late Duke of Edinburgh resided during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is a Grade I listed estate. It includes a country house, rebuilt in the 1930s around a cottage used as a private retreat by George IV in the 19th Century.\n\nRoyal Lodge is surrounded by acres of woodland and lawns and is home to the Duke of York\n\nThe lodge was the official Windsor residence of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, until her death in 2002 and is now used by Prince Andrew.\n\nAccording to Historic England, it is is surrounded by woodland and lawns, with a woodland garden laid out in the 1930s with assistance from Sir Eric Savill and Russell Page, and a formal terrace by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, also of the 1930s.\n\nA house has stood on or close to the site of the lodge since at the least the 1660s.\n\nSecurity protocols at royal residences were overhauled in the 1980s after an intruder woke the Queen as she slept at Buckingham Palace - the first time private royal apartments had been breached since Queen Victoria's reign.\n\nIn the morning of 9 July 1982, Michael Fagan, 31, scaled the walls of the palace and navigated his way to the monarch's bedroom just as the armed guard stationed outside changed shifts and before their replacement arrived.\n\nMr Fagan spent 10 minutes speaking to the Queen before he asked for a cigarette, allowing her to raise the alarm.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's Royalty and Specialist Protection Command is responsible for the overall security of senior royals and official residences, working in conjunction with local police forces.\n• None Royal Family tree: Charles III and the line of succession", "A police officer was punched and knocked unconscious as he responded to a report of underage drinking and Covid rule breaches at a County Tyrone bar.\n\nA second officer was then punched when he tried to detain the suspect at the premises in Fintona on Friday evening.\n\nPolice said there were about 150 people present when they entered the premises at about 18:35 BST.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was arrested for assaulting a police officer and disorderly behaviour.\n\nThe bar was issued with a warning and £1,000 fine.\n\n\"It is completely unacceptable that two of our colleagues were carrying out their duties when they were assaulted in such a nasty way. Such despicable behaviour must never be tolerated,\" said Ch Insp Johnston McDowell.\n\nThe officer who was knocked unconscious was taken to hospital as a precaution, police confirmed.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Covid-19 lockdown rules were relaxed on Friday, allowing hospitality businesses to operate outdoors.\n\nThey are required to provide table service only and must limit numbers at each table.\n\n\"Police have been working with partners, including the local council environmental health team, to carry out checks at premises to ensure our community can socialise in a safe environment,\" Mr McDowell added.\n\nHe said they would continue to speak to licensees to check they are adhering to Covid-19 public health regulations as well as alcohol licensing legislation.\n\n\"Our approach continues to centre around the four Es - engage, explain, encourage and, if necessary, enforce.\"", "A Labour MP has apologised \"unreservedly for any error he made\" by asking a constituent for prescription-only anxiety drugs.\n\nByron Long claimed to the Mail on Sunday he gave his MP Stephen Doughty up to 140 diazepam pills during up to 20 meetings at a Cardiff coffee shop.\n\nBut he said the MP did ask his \"friend\" Mr Long for \"a few spare diazepam\" once in 2019, to take ahead of a flight.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"To the best of his recollection, at the time he was panicking, had been unable to get to a GP for an appointment, and as a friend who he regularly shared confidential personal mental health worries and anxieties with, asked Byron if he had a few spare diazepam, which he had previously been prescribed for such circumstances, and taken without any issues.\n\n\"Stephen apologises unreservedly for any error he made in making this request, which was to a friend who he had shared many highly personal, trusted and mutually supportive conversations with about mental health over many years.\n\n\"In the event Stephen subsequently cancelled his trip - and did not need medication.\"\n\nPossession of diazepam, which is a Class C drug without a prescription, carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison.\n\nIt is available on prescription only and is used to treat anxiety, muscle spasms and fits.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday printed what it said was an exchange of messages between Mr Long and Mr Doughty, who is MP for Cardiff South and Penarth and Labour's shadow foreign affairs and international development minister.\n\nIn the alleged exchange, Mr Doughty invited Mr Long to his home to meet his new cat, adding: \"PS do you have any spare diazepam by any chance? I haven't been able to get to GP and need some for flying next week! X.\"\n\nEarlier on Sunday, when asked about the allegations, Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"Well, I haven't seen the article myself but I understand that Mr Doughty has provided a full explanation.\n\n\"He refutes many of the allegations that are made in that article and he explains part of why one aspect of it has some grounding is the truth, so I think it's fair that he has that opportunity to set that record straight.\"\n\nMr Doughty's spokesman added: \"Stephen has spoken openly about his own struggles about mental health. He is sad to have to reveal personal medical information in these circumstances - but feels that others talking about their mental health experiences can help destigmatise the challenges so many people go through.\n\n\"He has been prescribed medication over the last 12 years on a number of occasions, including diazepam, to deal with panic attacks and anxiety disorder, alongside talking therapies.\"", "Rome's ancient Colosseum has not had an arena floor since the 19th Century\n\nThe Italian government has approved a plan to furnish Rome's ancient Colosseum with a new floor, giving visitors the chance to stand where gladiators once fought.\n\nCulture Minister Dario Franceschini announced the project to build the wooden, retractable floor on Sunday.\n\nItalian engineering firm Milan Ingegneria won the 18.5m euro (£16.1m; $22.2m) contract to design the floor.\n\nThe floor is expected to be finished by 2023.\n\nAt present, the 2,000-year-old monument has no floor. It was removed by archaeologists in the 19th Century, exposing the underground network of tunnels where gladiators and animals were held before the Roman blood sports began.\n\nMr Franceschini said the \"extraordinary\" new floor would allow visitors to \"see the majesty of the Colosseum\" from its centre.\n\n\"It's another step forward toward rebuilding the arena, an ambitious project that will aid the conservation of the archaeological structures while getting back to the original image of the Colosseum,\" Mr Franceschini said.\n\nThe culture minister tweeted out a graphic showing an artist's impression of the new floor\n\nThe minister said cultural events could be held in the Colosseum once the floor had been restored to its former glory.\n\nMilan Ingegneria was one of 10 competitors who answered the Italian government's 2020 call for bids to design a new floor for the Colosseum.\n\nThe winning design involves installing hundreds of wooden slats that can be rotated to allow natural light and air into the underground chambers.\n\nItaly's culture ministry said the new 3,000-sq-m (32,300-sq-ft) floor would be entirely reversible, should plans for a new design be made in the future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Fleming from the BBC's Politics Europe programme reports from Rome's Colosseum\n\nThe Colosseum was the biggest amphitheatre in the Roman Empire.\n\nGladiatorial fights and other public spectacles were hosted in front of crowds of at least 50,000 people.\n\nWhile the coronavirus pandemic has limited tourism, the Colosseum remains one of Italy's most famous landmarks. Before the pandemic struck, the monument attracted about 7.6 million people in 2019.", "Joe Biden, who visited the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas as vice-president in 2013, wants a \"calibrated\" approach to the North\n\nNorth Korea has hit out at the Biden administration as it prepares to unveil its strategy for dealing with Pyongyang and its nuclear programme.\n\nThe foreign ministry said recent comments out of Washington showed President Joe Biden was intent on maintaining a \"hostile policy\".\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Biden called North Korea's nuclear programme a \"serious threat\" to global security.\n\nThe White House says he plans to take a \"calibrated\" approach to North Korea.\n\nSpokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Friday that a review of US policy had been completed and suggested Mr Biden had learned from the experience of the previous four administrations who have tried, and failed, to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programme.\n\n\"Our policy will not focus on achieving a grand bargain, nor will it rely on strategic patience,\" she said, saying that instead the US would pursue a \"calibrated practical approach that is open to and will explore diplomacy\" with North Korea while making \"practical progress\" on increasing security for the US and its allies.\n\nThe US is expected to host Japan and South Korea's national security advisers for a discussion about the review soon.\n\nIn a statement carried on state media on Sunday, North Korea's foreign ministry called President Biden comments about its nuclear programme - in a speech to Congress this week - \"intolerable\" and a \"big blunder\".\n\n\"His statement clearly reflects his intent to keep enforcing the hostile policy towards the DPRK [North Korea] as it had been done by the US for over half a century,\" said Kwon Jong-gun, of the Department of US Affairs of the Foreign Ministry.\n\nA separate foreign ministry statement said previous comments criticising North Korea's human rights situation insulted the dignity of leader Kim Jong-un and showed the US is \"girding itself up for an all-out showdown\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Biden told a joint session of Congress, marking his 100 days in office, that North Korea's nuclear programme, along with Iran's, presented \"serious threats to American security and the security of the world\".\n\nHe added: \"We are going to be working closely with our allies to address the threats posed by both of these countries through diplomacy as well as stern deterrence.\"\n\nIt is not clear to which comments on human rights the Pyongyang statement refers, but the Washington Post reports that the White House is expected to appoint a special envoy for human rights in North Korea soon.\n\nWashington says it has been trying to make diplomatic contact with North Korea since mid-February.\n\nIt played down the North's testing of short-range missiles last month, saying it was \"normal military activity\" and \"business as usual\".\n\nUntil now, Pyongyang had not acknowledged Joe Biden as the new US president.\n\nMr Biden called Mr Kim \"a thug\" during his election campaign and said North Korean nuclear disarmament had to happen before the crippling economic sanctions imposed by the US and the UN could be relaxed.\n\nShortly before Mr Biden came to office, Mr Kim gave a speech in which he described the US as his country's \"biggest enemy\" and announced ambitions to expand his nuclear arsenal. But he also added that he did not \"rule out diplomacy\".\n\nMr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, became the first US president to reach out directly to Mr Kim - meeting him three times. However, they failed to reach any agreement to either end the nuclear weapons programme or the sanctions.", "A man has been charged after three people were seriously injured in a rickshaw taxi crash.\n\nPolice were called to a report of a collision, involving the rickshaw and a car, on the West Approach Road, Edinburgh, at about 22:35 on Saturday.\n\nThree people - the rider and passengers of the rickshaw - were taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh with serious injuries.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said a 25-year-old man had been charged.\n\nHe is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday.\n\nAnyone with information, dashcam footage or private CCTV footage that could help inquiries should contact police.\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. Reporter Dan Whitworth was phoned by a fraudster and managed to record the call\n\nThe UK telecoms regulator is warning the public not to trust caller ID on their phones as it tries to help stop people becoming victims of fraud.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Money Box, Huw Saunders, a director at Ofcom, says caller ID should not be used as a means of verifying a caller's identification.\n\nFraudsters are increasingly changing their caller ID to disguise their identity, known as number spoofing.\n\n\"This problem is global in its scope,\" says Mr Saunders.\n\n\"It's an unfortunate place to be in, but the same message is being given by our counterparts in the US, Canada, France, Australia and elsewhere.\"\n\nHowever, he admits the UK is behind other countries, such as the US, in tackling the problem.\n\n\"They [the US] are ahead of the UK, but that's not an issue that can be solved overnight.\n\n\"It's going to take a few years. If you look at a comparable situation in France, for example, they now have a timetable for the implementation of a particular technical solution and that is over a three-year period.\"\n\nIn the UK, the current phone network (Public Switched Telephone Network) is being updated to a new system - Voice Over Internet Protocol, or VOIP.\n\nMr Saunders says when VOIP is fully in place, with a target date of the end 2025, the industry will be able to stop number spoofing.\n\n\"It's only when the vast majority of people are on the new technology (VOIP) that we can implement a new patch to address this problem [of spoofing].\"\n\nDespite other attempts by the telecoms industry to stop number spoofing, a recent report from industry body UK Finance suggested the number of reported cases of impersonation fraud - including spoof calls - nearly doubled last year to 40,000.\n\nHowever, the real figure is likely to be much higher, because many victims won't report fraud to their bank or building society, or even tell their family or friends, because of feelings of embarrassment or guilt.\n\nEach case can involve the theft of thousands or even tens of thousands of pounds, leaving the financial, and emotional, lives of victims ruined.\n\nOfcom describes number spoofing as people who deliberately change the telephone number and the name that is relayed as the Caller ID information.\n\nOpe Oladejo, a 21-year-old law student, had nearly £2,000 stolen from her last summer - money she'd been saving whilst working as a carer for help pay for a law course.\n\n\"The number spoofing was the most important part [of the deception],\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"At first I was a bit sceptical... but they said: 'Check the number [we're calling you on] on the back of your card'.\n\n\"I checked and it matched and that's when I let my guard down completely.\"\n\nOpe Oladejo had nearly £2,000 stolen from her by criminals who spoofed her bank's phone number\n\nBecause the criminals had convinced Ope she was speaking to her bank, they were able to get key details and information from her, which allowed them to steal the money.\n\nThankfully, the money was refunded by Ope's bank and she has been able to continue her studies, but she says the incident hit her hard.\n\n\"Emotionally it just made me really sad, I just cried a lot about it,\" she says.\n\n\"Financially, I think it made me smarter,\" adds Ope. She now ignores any phone calls that don't come from her friends and family.\n\nYou can hear more on this story from BBC Radio 4's Money Box by listening again here.", "It was at an entrance round the back of the Stretford End, away from the noise and the flares that accompanied the start of the Manchester United fans' protest at Old Trafford, that those who made it on to the pitch gained access.\n\nMost were young lads in their 20s, coming down the hill in wave after wave. But not all.\n\nThere were women and older men too. One, probably in his late 50s or early 60s, wore a green and gold scarf and woolly hat - the colours of United's first shirts when they were formed as Newton Heath in 1878, and of the original anti-Glazer protests in 2010.\n• None Football Daily podcast: All about the Man Utd protest\n\nAfter he had left the stadium compound, he remained with those waiting for the United team bus that never arrived.\n\nHe was not angry and spoke calmly to fans and media in the same area, wanting to know the latest about what was happening on the other side of the ground, or around the team hotel, where he had been earlier.\n\nThose fans, he felt, were more sinister than the ones at the stadium. But he didn't condemn them. He accepts they have a common goal. Emotions have been simmering for 16 years, so a bit of aggression is understandable, the theory went.\n\nExchanges like this - and people like that - underline the reason for what happened at Old Trafford.\n\nA large protest was expected outside the ground before the match with historic rivals Liverpool - but no-one expected fans to force their way into the stadium and on to the pitch and for the match to be postponed.\n\nIt was the third major fans protest against the club and its owners in recent days following a protest at Old Trafford last Saturday and fans entering the club's training ground at Carrington the previous Thursday.\n\nLike supporters of the other five 'big six' clubs, Manchester United's fans are angry about the European Super League proposals. They don't want it and will voice their opposition - just as fans of the other five English sides have done.\n\nWhat sets United apart is that their fans are not surprised at the actions of their owners - the US-based Glazer family.\n\nIndeed, to those fans, it merely underlines their view that the owners of their football club only care about money and that they have no affection for the world-famous 149-year-old institution they are in charge of.\n\nIf they did, the argument goes, they would never have landed the club with the enormous debt associated with their controversial £790m leveraged takeover in 2005.\n\nManchester United were a debt-free organisation when they were on the stock market prior to the Glazers buying the club. The fans believe the Glazers should have used their own money.\n\nThat debt currently stands at £455.5m, according to the club's latest accounts, which were released on 4 March, 2021. It is estimated that in general finance costs, interest and dividends, the Glazer takeover has cost United in excess of £1bn.\n\nSome fans were so annoyed by the Glazer takeover they walked away from Manchester United to form their own club. FC United have not been without their own trials and tribulations over the past few years, but the Northern Premier League outfit remain a beacon for fan ownership.\n\nAnd whilst their level of support has slipped from their early days, average attendances remain around the 2,000 mark, which put it in the top 30 non-league clubs in the entire country.\n\nOf those who remained, some kept up their opposition. Many United fans were genuinely angry when Sir Alex Ferguson used to defend the owners. The Scot repeatedly said the Glazer family backed him in the transfer market and never offered criticism.\n\nThose fans felt Ferguson's brilliance as a manager masked underlying issues around the money being invested in United's playing squad.\n\nIt is no surprise the 'green and gold' anti-Glazer campaign began in 2010, when United were experiencing a dip after three successive Premier League titles, nor that it fizzled out when Ferguson got his team playing like champions again and reached another Champions League final.\n\nBut for some, the sentiment never dimmed. Disenchantment with the Glazer stewardship of United has grown with every passing year since Ferguson retired in 2013, not just because the club's fortunes have slipped, but because despite the relative failure, tens of millions of pounds go out of the club, either directly to the family or because of the way they run United.\n\nThere is a counter-balance to this narrative.\n\nThe owners are responsible for the phenomenal rise in Manchester United's commercial revenue. They were the ones who aggressively pursued the regional approach, which every other similar sized club has followed.\n\nThe Glazers introduced a commercial plan which was different to any other club. Other than the major deals with Adidas, Chevrolet and others, they sell on a regional basis across the globe, so they have telecoms partners in USA and Canada, another in Africa, another in China. They recognised United were popular and maximised the popularity.\n\nIt can be argued, with some justification, that the Glazers are responsible for a significant proportion of United's rise in income and what they take out is only a percentage of it.\n\nUnited sources never tire of drilling home the message that the money the club raises is done to improve the playing side, whether it be through big-money signings or academy prospects.\n\nBeyond question, they have spent a lot of money on players. Whether they have bought the right ones is debatable though, and the Glazers are blamed by some for not putting the processes in place to get the recruitment right.\n\nIn recent times, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, a patron of the Manchester United Supporters Trust (Must), which has campaigned against the family, has, like Ferguson, been condemned for not criticising the owners.\n\nYet Solskjaer, when I asked him about the planned protests in the build-up to Sunday's game, said the fans' voice \"needs to be heard\".\n\nThat probably explains the wording of the club statement on Sunday night, which in addition to condemning those who put \"other fans, staff and police in danger\", also acknowledged their right to free expression and peaceful protest, in addition to highlighting their passion.\n\nIn the aftermath of the ESL's collapse, co-chairman Joel Glazer said he accepted there was a need for greater communication with supporters.\n\nThat said, he opted not to join an emergency fans forum on Friday when Must were amongst the signatories of a letter, read out to executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, stating the fans did not trust or believe the owners.\n\nIt is doubtful whether bridges between the two sides can ever be built but even securing some sort of peace, however uneasy, may not be easy to achieve.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Four astronauts splash down off the coast of Florida\n\nFour astronauts have returned to Earth from the International Space Station, in what was Nasa's first night-time landing in 53 years.\n\nThe crew - three Nasa astronauts and one from Japan's space agency Jaxa - spent almost six months in space.\n\nThey flew back in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience and splash-landed off Panama City, Florida at 02:56 EDT (07:56 BST).\n\nThey were supposed to leave the ISS earlier, but their departure was delayed due to bad weather in Florida.\n\nNasa said the crew were in good spirits after successfully landing in the Gulf of Mexico.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA's Johnson Space Center This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference after the landing, a SpaceX crew operations and resources engineer told the astronauts: \"Dragon, on behalf of Nasa and SpaceX teams, we welcome you back to planet Earth and thanks for flying SpaceX. For those of you enrolled in our frequent flier programme, you've earned 68 million miles on this voyage.\"\n\nNasa astronaut Michael Hopkins, commander of the Crew-1 mission, replied: \"It is good to be back on planet Earth. We'll take those miles. Are they transferable?\"\n\nConfirming the safe landing on Sunday morning, Nasa said the crew were given medical checks before being flown from Pensacola, Florida to Houston, Texas.\n\nThe last Nasa crew to land back on Earth at night-time was Apollo-8 - the first manned mission to the moon, which returned on 27 December 1968.\n\nThe astronauts spent six months on the ISS\n\nThis latest mission was a collaboration between Nasa and SpaceX, as part of the former's Commercial Crew programme.\n\nSpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, has become Nasa's favoured commercial space flight partner.\n\nNasa livestreamed the moment the capsule left the ISS, moved off into the dark and began its journey back to Earth.\n\nThere are still seven astronauts on the ISS, including a new crew of four people who arrived on a different SpaceX craft last week on a mission called Crew-2.\n\nAs the capsule moved off, Mr Hopkins said: \"Thanks for your hospitality. We'll see you back on Earth.\"\n\nThe astronauts - Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi - travelled into space last November on the first fully operational mission to the ISS by a vehicle made by SpaceX.\n\nThe capsule, pictured before it docked on the ISS in November, is a SpaceX vessel\n\nGlover also made history with this mission, by becoming the first black person to hold a long-duration crew assignment on the ISS.\n\nSpeaking at a remote press conference before the crew's return to Earth, he said: \"One thing that did really profoundly impact me was the very first time I got out of the seat after [the spacecraft] was safely in orbit, and I looked out the window and saw the earth from 250 miles up.\n\n\"I will never forget that moment... It wasn't about the view. It was how the view made me feel.\"\n\nIn May 2020, two US astronauts made a test mission to the ISS and stayed until July. This mission, Demo-2, was SpaceX's first astronaut mission.\n\nThat was also the first launch to the ISS from US soil since the end of the Space Shuttle programme in 2011. Since then, the US had relied the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to send astronauts to the space station.\n\nIt was also the first crewed mission run by a private company and not Nasa.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is SpaceX and why are they working with Nasa?", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United's Premier League game against Liverpool was postponed after about 200 fans broke into Old Trafford to protest against the Glazer family's ownership of the club.\n\nThe fixture was scheduled to kick off at 16:30 BST on Sunday.\n\n\"This is a collective decision from the police, both clubs, the Premier League and local authorities,\" said the Premier League.\n\nPolice said two officers had been injured during the protests.\n• None Football Daily podcast: All about the Man Utd protest\n• None Why emotions have been simmering at Old Trafford for 16 years\n\nIt is the first time a Premier League match has been postponed because of fan protests.\n\nFans had gathered outside the ground and scores of green and gold flares - the colours of United's first shirts when they were formed as Newton Heath in 1878, and of the original anti-Glazer protests in 2010 - were set off at 14:00.\n\nThe protests follow United's decision, along with five fellow Premier League clubs, to join the European Super League (ESL) last month, before subsequently all pulling out.\n\nSupporters are currently not allowed into grounds because of the coronavirus pandemic but some United fans got onto the Old Trafford pitch to protest and, even though they were removed, some then made it back onto the grass later on.\n\n\"The security and safety of everyone at Old Trafford remains of paramount importance,\" added the Premier League.\n\n\"We understand and respect the strength of feeling but condemn all acts of violence, criminal damage and trespass, especially given the associated Covid-19 breaches.\n\n\"We sympathise with the police and stewards who had to deal with a dangerous situation that should have no place in football.\"\n\nThe Football Association will be liaising with United, the Premier League and safety authorities to find out exactly what happened and the reasons for it.\n\nBoth clubs had submitted their team line-ups for the hotly anticipated fixture but neither had left their hotels to go to the ground prior to the game being called off at just after 17:35.\n\nUnited fans had also gathered at the Lowry Hotel where their side's players were staying prior to the match.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side are currently second in the Premier League and a Liverpool win on Sunday would have handed Manchester City the title for the third time in four seasons.\n\nTalks will now take place about rearranging the game.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said \"it became clear that many of those present were not intending to exercise their right to peaceful protest\" and that \"flares were let off and bottles thrown at officers\".\n\nThey added that protestors getting into the ground meant \"some United staff having to lock themselves in rooms\".\n\n\"Those in the stadium were evicted by officers but outside on the forecourt, hostility grew with bottles and barriers being thrown at officers and horses,\" said GMP.\n\n\"Two officers have been injured with one officer being attacked with a bottle and sustaining a significant slash wound to his face requiring emergency hospital treatment.\"\n\nGMP assistant chief constable Russ Jackson said: \"The behaviour displayed by those at both Old Trafford and the Lowry Hotel was reckless and dangerous.\n\n\"We have launched an investigation and we will be working closely alongside partners to ensure we establish the full circumstances surrounding the events and prosecute those responsible.\"\n\nThe chairman of Greater Manchester Police Federation, Stu Berry, said his organisation's thoughts \"are with our injured officers\" and that it \"will be seeking a review of Sunday's operational risk assessment and public order resources\" for its members.\n\n\"We witnessed appalling scenes - police officers are not punchbags for people protesting for their cause,\" he said.\n\n\"At the end of their shifts, hard-working police officers should be able to go home to their families in one piece. Not be rushed to hospital.\"\n\nBBC Sport has been told the disorder included serious clashes with police around the entrance to the Munich tunnel, which runs behind the Sir Bobby Charlton Stand at Old Trafford.\n\n\"Our fans are passionate about Manchester United, and we completely acknowledge the right to free expression and peaceful protest,\" said United.\n\n\"However, we regret the disruption to the team and actions which put other fans, staff, and the police in danger.\n\n\"We thank the police for their support and will assist them in any subsequent investigations.\"\n\nLiverpool, who were also involved in the failed attempt to join the ESL, said they were in \"full agreement\" to postpone the game.\n\n\"It is our position that public safety must be the number one factor in any such decision, with the ability to provide a secure environment for the participants, staff and officials being a particular priority,\" said the Anfield club.\n\n\"It was clearly not possible for this to be guaranteed due to a situation which escalated rapidly.\"\n\nWhy are the protests taking place?\n\nThere has been a long-standing campaign against the Glazer family since the Americans' controversial leveraged takeover of the club in 2005.\n\nRecently, Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer spoke to fans who entered the club's training ground at Carrington to protest against the owners.\n\nIn the wake of the European Super League collapsing, United co-chairman Joel Glazer said the club \"apologised unreservedly\" but the Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST) said it had \"zero trust in the owners\".\n\nOn the protests before the Liverpool game, MUST said they had been \"the culmination of 16 years since the Glazer family's acquisition of the club\".\n\nIt added: \"On the back of the indefensible ESL proposals, and an 'apology' from the Glazers which we do not accept, we need to give fans a meaningful share in the ownership of United and a meaningful voice in how it is run.\n\n\"The government now needs to act. That has to mean a process which results in fans having the opportunity to buy shares in their club - and, more to the point, no single private shareholder holding a majority ownership of our football clubs which allows them to abuse that ownership.\n\n\"The government needs to reflect the views of ordinary people who see that now is the time to reclaim the people's game.\"\n\nWhat has been the fan reaction?\n\n\"It's been pandemonium,\" United Muppetiers podcaster Mike Parrott said at Old Trafford before the game was postponed.\n\n\"I don't think it's the right thing to do. On one side, that's how protests work in that you need to send a message, but it's also not great.\n\n\"Breaking cameras, breaking glass and rushing the stadium, all these terrible things are not what Manchester United fans want to be associated with.\n\n\"They shouldn't be doing it whatsoever. I don't think this conveys a message that they want the 50+1 fan ownership, which was the original idea. It hasn't really worked in my eyes.\"\n\nAnother fan protesting at Old Trafford told BBC Sport: \"When they [the Glazers] came in 2005, the club wasn't in any debt; a few years later you're talking £400m in debt.\n\n\"You look at the stadium, it's a beautiful stadium but there is rust, it's falling apart and they just don't care at all, there's no communication with the fans.\n\n\"They said they would communicate with the fans but last week there was a supporters' community meeting, they didn't go.\n\n\"I think we are doing this in the best possible way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSlow rural broadband has prompted one man to get his internet from a satellite 22,000 miles above Africa.\n\nProf Christopher Spry, 79, who lives in Heol Senni in the Brecon Beacons, had download speeds of about 500Kbps\n\nHe runs a community website and uploads weather data and nature videos, so paid £620 for satellite broadband, which comes from over the Democratic Republic of the Congo, via Luxembourg.\n\n\"It's an astonishing technological achievement,\" he said.\n\nWhere Prof Spry lives also has sporadic 3G coverage so he researched his options and decided to invest in satellite technology.\n\nA BT spokesman said: \"Heol Senni is in scope to benefit from the scheme and work to provide access to superfast broadband to this rural community is anticipated to be completed in the early autumn.\"\n\nThe retired professor of immunology pays £420 a year for his satellite internet, which gives him download speeds of up to 28Mbps.\n\nProf Christopher Spry has worked in London and Oxford and has owned his home in Powys since 1971\n\nHis broadband signal travels about 50,000 miles from a dish in his back garden to the ASTRA 2F satellite over the Earth's equator and back, via a company in Luxembourg.\n\nCompanies such as Sky also use satellites similar to this to broadcast their TV signal.\n\n\"I'm interested in what's going on in the world, I'm a very inquisitive person, I'm asking questions all the time and I need to know so the web is a wonderful resource for all of us who need to know what's happening,\" he said.\n\nHe also pays £250 a year for BT broadband, which he uses as a backup as heavy rain or snow can block the satellite signal and leave him cut off.\n\nBut the nearest exchange is in Sennybridge - about five miles by road - so his broadband slows down when making the switch.\n\nSatellites are positioned over the equator to maintain geostationary orbit\n\n\"It really makes all the difference in the world, without it I think my life would be quite difficult up here... but it does need a satellite 24,000 miles above the surface of the earth over the Congo - it does seem ridiculous doesn't it,\" he said.\n\n\"Without broadband we're living in a dark age, so let's hope everybody can have high speed broadband soon and they'll be able to use it for whatever they want - entertainment, education, research - it's a wonderful tool for everybody.\"\n\nDespite his best efforts, nature can still throw a spanner in the works when it comes to his satellite connection: \"It's pretty adequate for most of the programmes I need so I'm a happy rabbit - the only difficulty for me is that there's a tree in the way and I have to trim that!\"\n\nBT said more than nine out of every 10 homes and businesses in Wales were able to put in an order for superfast broadband.\n\nThe Welsh Government also runs a scheme called Access Broadband Cymru which helps provide funds for satellite connectivity for properties not covered by the Superfast Cymru scheme.\n\nNearly 600 homes and businesses have taken up the option since it started in January 2016.\n\nThe UK Government announced on Sunday that homes and businesses from all parts of the UK are set to benefit from universal high speed broadband.", "Protesters skirmished with riot police during a May Day protest in Istanbul, Turkey\n\nTurkish police have arrested more than 200 people for holding unauthorised protests on May Day, which has seen rallies across the world despite the continued spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe protesters in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, were caught breaching restrictions imposed to curb a third wave of coronavirus.\n\nMarches led by workers and unions are held on 1 May every year as part of International Labour Day celebrations in many countries.\n\nThis year, the rallies took place once again against the backdrop of a pandemic that has destroyed livelihoods and upended economies worldwide.\n\nGerman riot police stepped in to break up rallies in Berlin that were deemed to be in breach of Covid-19 restrictions\n\nLabour unions traditionally lead rallies worldwide on 1 May, such as this one in Turin\n\nIn many countries, police were deployed in large numbers to deal with possible disorder and ensure coronavirus restrictions were observed.\n\nScaled-back rallies were held in Germany, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the UK, Cuba, Colombia, the Philippines, Indonesia and many other countries. Most demonstrations were peaceful.\n\nSwedish police officers take a protester into custody in Stockholm\n\nTensions were high in many cities, such as Paris, as the effects of the pandemic continue to be felt\n\nBut Turkey was among several countries where police were embroiled in May Day protests that turned violent on Saturday.\n\nThe office of Istanbul's governor said 212 people had been arrested after they broke away from marches and tried to enter Taksim Square, a symbolic area of protest.\n\nPictures showed chaotic scenes in which police used their shields to push back crowds and dragged some protesters away from the square.\n\nThe country went into its first full pandemic lockdown earlier this week, in a bid to curb a surge in infections and deaths.\n\nRiot police detained demonstrators as they attempted to march on Taksim Square in Istanbul\n\nScuffles between riot police and demonstrators broke out in the Turkish city\n\nIn France, at least 46 people were arrested in the capital, Paris, after some marchers clashed with riot police, threw stones, smashed windows and set fire to rubbish bins.\n\nFrench government agencies condemned one protester who was pictured assaulting a firefighter as they attempted to extinguish a blaze in the capital.\n\nThe Interior Ministry said more than 106,000 people marched at almost 300 rallies organised in Paris and other cities, including Lyon, Nantes, Lille and Toulouse.\n\nThe protesters voiced their opposition to government plans to change unemployment benefits and demanded economic justice.\n\nRiot police were out in force in the French capital\n\nBarricades were set alight in the streets of Paris\n\nSimilar demands were heard in Germany, where May Day protests were held nationwide despite the introduction of tougher Covid-19 rules last week.\n\nIn the capital, Berlin, thousands of police were deployed to monitor multiple demonstrations, including one organised by a group that opposes the government's coronavirus strategy.\n\nAn estimated 10,000 cyclists staged a peaceful anti-capitalist protest in the city.\n\nBut as darkness fell, the mood grew more tense as protesters set barricades alight and confronted police who were trying to enforce Covid-19 regulations at a left-wing demonstration.\n\nWorkers of the wheels united for an anti-capitalist protest in Berlin\n\nLarge crowds were seen in Berlin, where protests were held in defiance of Covid-19 restrictions\n\nGerman police were pictured dragging some protesters away in the capital\n\nBerlin police broke up a left-wing demonstration, prompting a reaction from some protesters\n\nCoronavirus was on the agenda in Indonesia as well.\n\nAt one rally, protesters in the capital of Jakarta laid mock graves on the street to symbolise the human toll of the pandemic.\n\nMock graves were laid in the street at one May Day rally in Indonesia\n\nRallies were held in multiple cities across Indonesia\n\nLabour Day celebrations were unusually muted in Cuba, where workers gather for large events to commemorate the communist revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959.\n\nBut for the second year running, Cuba called off its May Day march though Havana's Plaza de la Revolution Square, as the country battles Covid-19 and an economic crisis.\n\nInstead, a small number of national leaders gathered at largely empty public spaces, while citizens were urged to celebrate at home.\n\nCuba's May Day celebrations had little of the usual pomp and circumstance\n\nLabour Day is one of the biggest events of the year in Cuba\n\nIn Brussels, Belgium's capital, officers trying to clear a dance rave from a park used water cannon, pepper spray and batons as some of the partygoers pelted them with eggs.\n\nDuring the commotion, one demonstrator was knocked unconscious after they were struck by a water cannon truck, local media said.\n\nDubbed La Boum 2 (The Party 2), the event was a sequel to a fake concert that drew thousands of people after it was announced on social media as an April Fools' Day joke.\n\nPolice used water cannon to clear the park of revellers in Brussels\n\nThe Brussels event was organised in part as a protest against the government's coronavirus measures\n\nMeanwhile, a proposed law that would give police extra powers to curb protests was one of the main subjects of grievance at protests in the UK.\n\nHundreds gathered in London to protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill, which activists fear would be used to curb dissent.\n\nThe \"Kill the Bill\" protest saw thousands of demonstrators march through London\n\nSome protesters set off red flares during the London march against the policing bill", "Some Covid-19 safeguards will need to remain in place beyond June when the roadmap out of lockdown is due to end, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nDominic Raab told the BBC no decisions have been made, but it could involve some use of social distancing or masks.\n\nUnder the government's roadmap, all legal restrictions on social contact in England are due to end on 21 June.\n\nMr Raab said the UK was \"in a good position\" to \"get life back as close to normal as possible\".\n\nThe foreign secretary told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"But there will still need to be some safeguards in place.\"\n\nHe said the government had not yet made a decision on vaccinating secondary school children.\n\n\"That's one of the tools, one of the options that we'll look at. No decisions have been made,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday, a further 14 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported - and 1,671 more cases.\n\nThe progress on vaccination means the UK is in \"a good position\" to end almost all restrictions on 21 June, but the final decision will be based on the evidence, the foreign secretary said.\n\nIt comes as the government begins a trial of daily lateral flow tests for people who have come into close contact with someone with Covid, which if successful could spell an end to the requirement to self-isolate.\n\nFrom 9 May, about 40,000 close contacts of people with Covid in England will be invited to take part in the study.\n\nThey will have to test themselves each morning for seven days but will be exempt from the legal requirement to quarantine as long as the result is negative and they do not show any symptoms.\n\nBetween May 2020 and April 2021 in England, more than 6.7 million close contacts were reached and told to self-isolate, NHS Test and Trace data shows.\n\nBut research found low numbers of people had followed the self-isolation rules in full. Those less likely to self-isolate include men, younger people, parents with young children, working-class backgrounds, people in financial hardship and key workers.\n\nWith international travel due to resume in the next stage out of lockdown on 17 May, Mr Raab also said the traffic light system detailing the risk level of travelling to each destination is \"coming shortly\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Openshaw: \"It's too early to declare victory and to drop our guard\"\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, an immunologist who advises the government, said people would be able to go on holiday this summer \"within limits\".\n\nBut he said: \"I would absolutely say it is too early to declare victory and to drop our guard.\n\n\"We do know that this infection has a tendency to come back again and we need to use this time to be absolutely sure we have got every precaution in place to stop further outbreaks.\"\n\nHe said the use of lateral flow tests was \"contentious\" among scientists but that he believed they would help to find the people who are \"most prone to spreading disease\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Raab said he would \"always look very carefully at any request\" to help as India deals with its record surge of Covid cases, which is overwhelming hospitals.\n\nBut asked if the UK should pause the vaccination of younger, less vulnerable people to send doses abroad, the foreign secretary said he has not received any request from India \"on that specific issue\".\n\nHe said the government was supporting vaccination worldwide with the billion doses that the UK is contributing to the World Health Organization's Covax programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 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